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 16
... society : that unequal dis- tribution followed man considered as a grega- rious animal , as a necessitous consequent : " " Then , " said L , " I think they lied . But let us hear who told you so ; were they fools , or bigots , or a ...
... society : that unequal dis- tribution followed man considered as a grega- rious animal , as a necessitous consequent : " " Then , " said L , " I think they lied . But let us hear who told you so ; were they fools , or bigots , or a ...
Pàgina 30
... society which owns them as members is founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality tolerated ? now we are come " Ah ! " said ...
... society which owns them as members is founded on inequality , as a pri- mordial base . But if inequality is found to be the parent of ignorance , and ignorance of unhappiness , why is inequality tolerated ? now we are come " Ah ! " said ...
Pàgina 43
... society ; and , be it known to you the latter is asserted to exist in absolute purity in this very city ; and of our having seen to - day an exhibition of glaring contrasts , and heard a clash of jarring ex- tremes ; of having witnessed ...
... society ; and , be it known to you the latter is asserted to exist in absolute purity in this very city ; and of our having seen to - day an exhibition of glaring contrasts , and heard a clash of jarring ex- tremes ; of having witnessed ...
Pàgina 45
... society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed . I shall not attempt to retrograde ...
... society has been hitherto framed ; it will be necessary to go back a good way , and notice with as much perspicuity as the subject will admit , the great changes to which our globe has been exposed . I shall not attempt to retrograde ...
Pàgina 71
... society . And thus would appear to have been formed the different languages of man , and their several dialects or variations ; many are compounds of the two , modes used by conquerors and the conquered . We will wish each other " good ...
... society . And thus would appear to have been formed the different languages of man , and their several dialects or variations ; many are compounds of the two , modes used by conquerors and the conquered . We will wish each other " good ...
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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...