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... persons are eligible to the scholarships . The will requires that this announce- ment shall be made in every book added to the Library under its provisions . THE CITIZEN OF NATURE , IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. HENRY BRIGHT , JR . ,
... persons are eligible to the scholarships . The will requires that this announce- ment shall be made in every book added to the Library under its provisions . THE CITIZEN OF NATURE , IN A SERIES OF LETTERS. HENRY BRIGHT , JR . ,
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... My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
... My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its stead , had also great weight B in hastening my decision ; for although my heart , THE ...
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... persons who na- vigated our vessel declared ; but to my simple 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 ...
... persons who na- vigated our vessel declared ; but to my simple 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 ...
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... persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I fear " they lied , and they knew they lied ...
... persons open wide their mouths for the cram of nonsensical garbage , and are crammed to the tongue accordingly : if your informants belong to that class , I pity them ; if they knew better , I fear " they lied , and they knew they lied ...
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... persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night ...
... persons , and converse with those whose appearance and voice seem fa- miliar to me , though how , I cannot tell : I can only try to account for the phenomenon , by supposing I have seen figures like them in the visions of the night ...
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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...