Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleF.C. and J. Rivington and 6 others, 1816 - 205 Seiten |
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... endeavoured to make others pleased with the state of which he him- self was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , 14 RASSELAS .
... endeavoured to make others pleased with the state of which he him- self was weary . But pleasures never can be so multiplied or continued , as not to leave much of life unemployed ; there were many hours , 14 RASSELAS .
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... leave vultures and eagles behind him , and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince . In a year the wings were finished , and , on a morning appointed , the maker appeared fur- nished for flight on a little promontory : he ...
... leave vultures and eagles behind him , and the contagion of his confidence seized upon the prince . In a year the wings were finished , and , on a morning appointed , the maker appeared fur- nished for flight on a little promontory : he ...
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... leave the happy valley by the first opportunity . His imagination was now at a stand ; he had no prospect of entering into the world ; and , notwithstanding all his endeavours to support himself , discontent by degrees preyed upon him ...
... leave the happy valley by the first opportunity . His imagination was now at a stand ; he had no prospect of entering into the world ; and , notwithstanding all his endeavours to support himself , discontent by degrees preyed upon him ...
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... be done without the help of Euro- pean refinements , which appear by their effects to be rather specious than useful . Let us leave them , and pursue our journey . " " From Palestine , " said Imlac , " I E 2 RASSELAS . 51 CHAP. XII. ...
... be done without the help of Euro- pean refinements , which appear by their effects to be rather specious than useful . Let us leave them , and pursue our journey . " " From Palestine , " said Imlac , " I E 2 RASSELAS . 51 CHAP. XII. ...
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... leave the valley with them ; and that , in the mean time , she should watch lest any other straggler should , by chance or curiosity , follow them to the mountain . At length their labour was at an end ; they saw light beyond the ...
... leave the valley with them ; and that , in the mean time , she should watch lest any other straggler should , by chance or curiosity , follow them to the mountain . At length their labour was at an end ; they saw light beyond the ...
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Abyssinia afford afraid amuse answered Imlac Arab astronomer attention Bassa began Cairo cavern CHAP choice companions condition considered continued conversation curiosity danger delight desire dreadful easily endeavoured enjoy enquire entered envy escape evil expect eyes fancy father favour favourite fear felicity folly happy valley hear heard hermit hope hope and fear human imagination inhabitants kayah knowledge kuah labour lady Leicestershire lence less live looked maids mankind marriage ment mind misery mountains nature Nekayah ness never Nile observed once opinion palace Palestine passed passions Pekuah Persia pleased pleasure poet possessed prince princess Pyramid Rasselas reason Red Sea resolved rest retired retreat returned rich rience sage SAMUEL JOHNSON shewed silent solitude sometimes soon sorrow sound of music Stourbridge suffer suppose surely thing thou thought tion travelled virtue weary wise wonder youth
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Seite 125 - I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Seite 33 - Inconsistencies," answered Imlac, "cannot both be right, but, imputed to man, they may both be true. Yet diversity is not inconsistency. My father might expect a time of greater security. However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Seite 122 - There is no part of history so generally Useful as that which relates to the progress of the human mind, the gradual improvement of reason, the successive advances of science, the vicissitudes of learning and ignorance, which are the light and darkness of thinking beings, the extinction and resuscitation of arts, and the revolutions of the intellectual world.
Seite 86 - I do not now wonder that your reputation is so far extended ; we have heard at Cairo of your wisdom, and came hither to implore your direction for this young man and maiden in the choice of life. :'
Seite 71 - The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating.
Seite 49 - There is so much infelicity," said the poet, " in the world, that scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the coiriparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure, as is confessed by the natural desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction ; and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when...
Seite 92 - To live according to nature is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things." The prince soon found that this was one of the sages whom he should understand less as he heard him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent; and the philosopher, supposing him satisfied and the rest...
Seite 47 - They are more powerful, Sir, than we, (answered Imlac,) because they are wiser. Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is more than ours, I know not what reason can be given, but the unsearchable will of the Supreme Being.
Seite 45 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Seite 2 - According to the custom which has descended from age to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone, Rasselas was confined in a private palace with the other sons and daughters of Abyssinian royalty till the order of succession should call him to the throne.