Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleF.C. and J. Rivington and 6 others, 1816 - 205 Seiten |
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... seen the miseries of the world , you would know how to value your present state . " " Now , " said the prince , " you have given me something to desire ; I shall long to see the miseries of the world , since the sight of them is ...
... seen the miseries of the world , you would know how to value your present state . " " Now , " said the prince , " you have given me something to desire ; I shall long to see the miseries of the world , since the sight of them is ...
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... seen ; to place himself in various conditions ; to be en- tangled in imaginary difficulties , and to be engaged in wild adventures ; but his benevo- lence always terminated his projects in the relief of distress , the detection of fraud ...
... seen ; to place himself in various conditions ; to be en- tangled in imaginary difficulties , and to be engaged in wild adventures ; but his benevo- lence always terminated his projects in the relief of distress , the detection of fraud ...
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... seen the sun rise and set for twenty months , an idle gazer on the light of heaven in this time the birds have left the nest of their mother , and committed them- selves to the woods and to the skies ; the kid has forsaken the teat ...
... seen the sun rise and set for twenty months , an idle gazer on the light of heaven in this time the birds have left the nest of their mother , and committed them- selves to the woods and to the skies ; the kid has forsaken the teat ...
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... seen but a small part of what the mecha- nic sciences can perform . I have been long of opinion , that instead of the tardy convey- ance of ships and chariots , man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are ...
... seen but a small part of what the mecha- nic sciences can perform . I have been long of opinion , that instead of the tardy convey- ance of ships and chariots , man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are ...
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... seen before . I therefore entered a ship bound for Surat , having left a letter for my father , declaring my intention . " 66 CHAP . IX . THE HISTORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED D 2 RASSELAS . 35 eye on the expanse of waters, my heart bound- ...
... seen before . I therefore entered a ship bound for Surat , having left a letter for my father , declaring my intention . " 66 CHAP . IX . THE HISTORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED D 2 RASSELAS . 35 eye on the expanse of waters, my heart bound- ...
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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.