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 10
... reduce the explanations of passing events , which I will endeavour to delineate with fidelity . " Here our conversation ended : I have hastened to transmit it entire to thee . LETTER III . London . I SHALL address you no 10 THE CITIZEN ...
... reduce the explanations of passing events , which I will endeavour to delineate with fidelity . " Here our conversation ended : I have hastened to transmit it entire to thee . LETTER III . London . I SHALL address you no 10 THE CITIZEN ...
Pàgina 13
... reduce to the standard of truth , your explanations , your arguments ; some sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in ...
... reduce to the standard of truth , your explanations , your arguments ; some sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in ...
Pàgina 14
... reduce the 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 ...
... reduce the 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 ...
Pàgina 19
... can work hard : it is about the same with us bipeds . We will then walk out and look about us , it is time to shew you theory reduced to practice besides , there is an old and true THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 19 LETTER IV. ...
... can work hard : it is about the same with us bipeds . We will then walk out and look about us , it is time to shew you theory reduced to practice besides , there is an old and true THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 19 LETTER IV. ...
Pàgina 35
... by pas- sages now seemingly narrow , along which an endless succession of human beings , reduced to an insignificant size from the distance , poured in all directions , like ants in the paths of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 35.
... by pas- sages now seemingly narrow , along which an endless succession of human beings , reduced to an insignificant size from the distance , poured in all directions , like ants in the paths of THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 35.
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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...