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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... knowledge of their language , and some acquaintance with their customs , so dif- ferent from ours . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its ...
... knowledge of their language , and some acquaintance with their customs , so dif- ferent from ours . My repeated conferences with the persons sent by them to supersede our ancient religious belief , and to propagate their own in its ...
Pàgina 3
... knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses to ...
... knowledge of the stranger , and build cities like his ? Am not I made as one of them ? Surely the European and the Horse , the Indian and the Elk , sprung from one common Cause ? They tell me of things which my soul refuses to ...
Pàgina 9
... knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion , virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself , L ...
... knowledge damped and mortified : if des- cription thus daunts me , what must I expect to feel when drawn within the vortex itself ? Are religion , virtue , honour , empty sounds without a meaning ? If so , how have I deceived myself , L ...
Pàgina 17
... knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its fall . Rather let us fervently hope its fall will not be precipitate— that it will not fall ...
... knowledge , which batter it forlorn on all sides . Happy are they who escape crush and suffocation from the rubbish which will accompany its fall . Rather let us fervently hope its fall will not be precipitate— that it will not fall ...
Pàgina 24
... knowledge , until the hour of death , man busies himself in searching for a something for which his primitive organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which ...
... knowledge , until the hour of death , man busies himself in searching for a something for which his primitive organization imperiously bids him seek ? that object which he thus instinctively seeks to acquire , is the maximum for which ...
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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...