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 iii
... never given the subject a thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on ...
... never given the subject a thought . If his topics are worn threadbare , so are hundreds more on which commentaries , and dissertations without number , still ap- pear and are read with avidity . Besides , persons writing or speaking on ...
Pàgina 5
... 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 breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within ...
... 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 breath in- haled by the Spirit of the deep , to draw us : within ...
Pàgina 34
... never watch the sleep of innocence , of infancy ? you may fancy the senses wrapped in threads of gossamer . Contrast with this , the oppress- ed , but half - forgetful night - heaviness , I can call it by no other name , of some of ...
... never watch the sleep of innocence , of infancy ? you may fancy the senses wrapped in threads of gossamer . Contrast with this , the oppress- ed , but half - forgetful night - heaviness , I can call it by no other name , of some of ...
Pàgina 40
... never been directed to the cultivation of that knowledge , which the brute from his organization can never attain . And I think we may safely as- sume , as a self - evident truth , that is , a truth rushing with overwhelming weight and ...
... never been directed to the cultivation of that knowledge , which the brute from his organization can never attain . And I think we may safely as- sume , as a self - evident truth , that is , a truth rushing with overwhelming weight and ...
Pàgina 43
... never had , nor by any possibility can have any connexion , or reference with the fixed principles of Reason and Nature : which causes the system itself to heave and boil with action and re - action , like the crater of THE CITIZEN OF ...
... never had , nor by any possibility can have any connexion , or reference with the fixed principles of Reason and Nature : which causes the system itself to heave and boil with action and re - action , like the crater of THE CITIZEN OF ...
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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...