The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at HomeJ. Johnson, 1823 - 238 pàgines |
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Pàgina 5
... earth ? While traversing our woods , the 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 ...
... earth ? While traversing our woods , the 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 ...
Pàgina 8
... earth stamping on the necks of prostrate fellow- men : you will , as your intellects expand with daily exercise , see the debasing fetters of su- perstition and slavery binding reason , the only attribute by which man is distinguished ...
... earth stamping on the necks of prostrate fellow- men : you will , as your intellects expand with daily exercise , see the debasing fetters of su- perstition and slavery binding reason , the only attribute by which man is distinguished ...
Pàgina 41
... Earth's surface ; such surface must , and does , necessarily con- stitute a joint fund , a common stock , from whence every individual by the rights inse- parably annexed to his being , shall procure just so much food as shall suffice ...
... Earth's surface ; such surface must , and does , necessarily con- stitute a joint fund , a common stock , from whence every individual by the rights inse- parably annexed to his being , shall procure just so much food as shall suffice ...
Pàgina 42
... Earth's surface are unfertile , that is , do not bear as indigenous , any wholesome food , or will not bear such without recourse to artifice , to cultivation , and in many instances will not produce it then : and that as man , from or ...
... Earth's surface are unfertile , that is , do not bear as indigenous , any wholesome food , or will not bear such without recourse to artifice , to cultivation , and in many instances will not produce it then : and that as man , from or ...
Pàgina 50
... you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
... you have . " ) He con- tinues ; " You must know I am an inhabitant of the Earth , or rather was so , and should not wonder if this was our moon ; don't I look blue ? " - " Why , yes , rather 50 THE CITIZEN OF NATURE .
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acquire action animal artificial assert Atheist become believe blood cause certainly chimney sweeper civil clothing common conscience consequence Deism Deist dreadful earth emotion endeavour enjoyment enquiry equality equipoise eternity evil existence eyes faculties fancy father fear feeling fool founded free agency fresh genus Gil Blas give hand happiness heal-all hear heart hope human idea ignorance instance intellect knowledge labour latter laws ledge listen look luxuries marriage Maurepas mean ment mental middle men mind misery mode nation natural justice natural law Nature necessity never observe once pain Paradise Lost perhaps persons philanthropy pleasure possession present principles proof reason receive revelation sense slavery sort soul sounds speak species surface tell term thee Theocracy things thou thought timation tion true truth tural turn unnatural virtue Whigs
Passatges populars
Pàgina 221 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 162 - 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...