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... thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain these men from leaving the country they profess to admire so much ! Are they come to learn happiness from the Cherokees ? As I one day drew near ...
... thought I , that the arts and the laws they boast of , are not pleasing enough to restrain these men from leaving the country they profess to admire so much ! Are they come to learn happiness from the Cherokees ? As I one day drew near ...
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... thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between ...
... thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those who vaunt their superiority over the Red Chil- dren ; I will solve the mystery of the mani- fest contradiction between ...
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... thought of sinking through the surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a ...
... thought of sinking through the surface to a fathomless depth had never occurred to me : and if my canoe upset , confidence in swimming enabled me to pass its greatest width . But now , I fancied the wind which bore us along sounded as a ...
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... thought I saw on him symptoms of melancholy irritation . In the evening of the day before our landing , a day which had been to him one of increased abstraction and silence , we were near each other ; I marked the dejection of his ...
... thought I saw on him symptoms of melancholy irritation . In the evening of the day before our landing , a day which had been to him one of increased abstraction and silence , we were near each other ; I marked the dejection of his ...
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... voice of consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... voice of consci- ence to a key note , or fundamental sound , to act as a generator , or pivot , to an universal har- mony of thought and action . It has been said , that good and evil are relative terms ; or , 14 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...