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... sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , " No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good man would contemplate ...
... sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself . L , looking at me for a second or two , replied , with a benignant smile , " No , that would be indeed a dreadful state of things , which every good man would contemplate ...
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... sound to your raw notions , ( such they must of necessity be , ) I am so far from being satisfied with my situation , that at this moment I am penetrated with profound regret at holding the rank I do . " - " Indeed ! " said I , " then ...
... sound to your raw notions , ( such they must of necessity be , ) I am so far from being satisfied with my situation , that at this moment I am penetrated with profound regret at holding the rank I do . " - " Indeed ! " said I , " then ...
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... that voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ignorance , that voice which soon shall speak loud as the trumpet's sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 13.
... that voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ignorance , that voice which soon shall speak loud as the trumpet's sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 13.
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Henry Horne (jr). sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , that , and that only , must be your monitor and ... sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that ...
Henry Horne (jr). sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , that , and that only , must be your monitor and ... sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that ...
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... sounds , expressive of those , intelligible to their own species ) ; but of entering into new and compound relations with his genus , through the medium of sounds , infinitely modified from peculiar organic struc- ture ; and by which he ...
... sounds , expressive of those , intelligible to their own species ) ; but of entering into new and compound relations with his genus , through the medium of sounds , infinitely modified from peculiar organic struc- ture ; and by which he ...
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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...