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... faculties all was new and wonderful . When the shores faded from the sight , and we en- tered on an expanse which seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan before the gale , I felt an emotion of terror to which my bosom had been ...
... faculties all was new and wonderful . When the shores faded from the sight , and we en- tered on an expanse which seemed boundless , as we shot like a swan before the gale , I felt an emotion of terror to which my bosom had been ...
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... faculties of man are enlightened by the immeasurable brightness of science , by which he learns his real place among the powers of matter and motion , he will or will not , be enabled to reduce the voice of consci- ence to a key note ...
... faculties of man are enlightened by the immeasurable brightness of science , by which he learns his real place among the powers of matter and motion , he will or will not , be enabled to reduce the voice of consci- ence to a key note ...
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... faculties are enchained . " - " No wonder , " said he , " so were mine once ; but I have long since learned to soar above first impressions , they are sel- dom correct , and always need accurate weigh- ing . I am no longer bewildered ...
... faculties are enchained . " - " No wonder , " said he , " so were mine once ; but I have long since learned to soar above first impressions , they are sel- dom correct , and always need accurate weigh- ing . I am no longer bewildered ...
Page 91
... faculties of his body and mind , and blunt that acumen of intellect which should constitute his glory . Certainly , his teeth and stomach are well able to masticate and digest flesh , he may well be defined as both carnivorous and fru ...
... faculties of his body and mind , and blunt that acumen of intellect which should constitute his glory . Certainly , his teeth and stomach are well able to masticate and digest flesh , he may well be defined as both carnivorous and fru ...
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... faculties benumbed with intensic fatigue . We have just seen him ; in a few hours his stupor will pass away , he will wake sick in body and mind , to misery more acute , more destitute than before . 132 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... faculties benumbed with intensic fatigue . We have just seen him ; in a few hours his stupor will pass away , he will wake sick in body and mind , to misery more acute , more destitute than before . 132 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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Page 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Page 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...