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 17
... possession of the privileges you have noticed , ought to join in the necessity of inequality , if I wished that system to last , or sincerely believed it to have truth for its foundation , will endeavour to prove that it is founded on ...
... possession of the privileges you have noticed , ought to join in the necessity of inequality , if I wished that system to last , or sincerely believed it to have truth for its foundation , will endeavour to prove that it is founded on ...
Pàgina 43
... possession in one man , of absolute destitution in another ; what shall we be bound to declare ? to what solemn conclusion are we drawn ? to the proof of what existences do all these things tend ? to this , and nothing else — that the ...
... possession in one man , of absolute destitution in another ; what shall we be bound to declare ? to what solemn conclusion are we drawn ? to the proof of what existences do all these things tend ? to this , and nothing else — that the ...
Pàgina 80
... possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered fruit where he pleased ...
... possession of the cattle over which he claimed ownership , and which were also increasing daily , there would cease to be room for all . And the art of tillage being forgot or unknown , that if every man gathered fruit where he pleased ...
Pàgina 82
... possessions aforesaid were confirmed to the possessors , with powers of devise to children ; and in the absence of that disposition , a power was given to children to succeed to this patrimony to the exclusion of strangers . Here we ...
... possessions aforesaid were confirmed to the possessors , with powers of devise to children ; and in the absence of that disposition , a power was given to children to succeed to this patrimony to the exclusion of strangers . Here we ...
Pàgina 83
... possessed hereditary wealth , that is , extent of surface , with the edifices and stock thereon , had at first received their wages in kind ; they had merely fed , and worn the clothing be- stowed by their lords as a remuneration for ...
... possessed hereditary wealth , that is , extent of surface , with the edifices and stock thereon , had at first received their wages in kind ; they had merely fed , and worn the clothing be- stowed by their lords as a remuneration for ...
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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...