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
... speaking on the same points , must of necessity , often stumble over the same ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is considered his incidents ...
... speaking on the same points , must of necessity , often stumble over the same ideas ; he can therefore hope to be original on but few advance- ments , and those only of minor import- ance ; especially when it is considered his incidents ...
Pàgina 13
... voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ignorance , that voice which soon shall speak loud as the trumpet's sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 13.
... voice whose still small whispers you yet scarce hear through the mist of ignorance , that voice which soon shall speak loud as the trumpet's sound ; through the bright medium of know- ledge , THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 13.
Pàgina 15
... speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all times ; and will continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara ...
... speak more plainly , that virtue is virtue , and vice is vice , in all places and at all times ; and will continue to be so to all eternity . " " I begin to perceive , ” said I , " that I have yet much to learn : I find I know compara ...
Pàgina 16
... speak from sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN ...
... speak from sheer ignorance , or because , knowing better , they wished the present system to continue ? I hope to convince you shortly , how by far the greater portion of mankind glide down the stream of existence after 16 THE CITIZEN ...
Pàgina 31
... - stanter , by way of timely preventive : Be quiet , ' say they , waving off the crowd ; ' thus it has always been , and thus it must be . ' That remains to be seen . " LETTER VI . WHILE he was yet speaking , we THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 31.
... - stanter , by way of timely preventive : Be quiet , ' say they , waving off the crowd ; ' thus it has always been , and thus it must be . ' That remains to be seen . " LETTER VI . WHILE he was yet speaking , we THE CITIZEN OF NATURE . 31.
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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...