The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. In Two Volumes, Band 1R. and J. Dodsley, ... and W. Johnston, 1759 - 165 Seiten |
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... reason to applaud themselves ; and the knowledge which they had , and which you wanted , they might as effectually have fhewn by warn- ing , as betraying you . " " Pride , faid Imlac , is feldom de- licate , it will please itself with ...
... reason to applaud themselves ; and the knowledge which they had , and which you wanted , they might as effectually have fhewn by warn- ing , as betraying you . " " Pride , faid Imlac , is feldom de- licate , it will please itself with ...
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... reason , it is commonly obferved that the early writers are in poffeffion of nature , and their followers of art : that the first excel in ftrength and invention , and the latter in elegance and refinement . " I was defirous to add my ...
... reason , it is commonly obferved that the early writers are in poffeffion of nature , and their followers of art : that the first excel in ftrength and invention , and the latter in elegance and refinement . " I was defirous to add my ...
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... ; knowledge will always predomi- nate over ignorance , as man governs the other animals . But why their know- ledge is more than ours , I know not what rea- reason can be given , but the unfearchable will of ABISSINIA . 73.
... ; knowledge will always predomi- nate over ignorance , as man governs the other animals . But why their know- ledge is more than ours , I know not what rea- reason can be given , but the unfearchable will of ABISSINIA . 73.
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A Tale. In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. reason can be given , but the unfearchable will of the Supreme Being . " " When , faid the prince with a figh , fhall I be able to visit Palestine , and min- gle with this mighty confluence of na ...
A Tale. In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. reason can be given , but the unfearchable will of the Supreme Being . " " When , faid the prince with a figh , fhall I be able to visit Palestine , and min- gle with this mighty confluence of na ...
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... reason and religion . " " Thefe , faid the prince , are Euro- pean diftinctions . I will confider them another time . What have you found to be the effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is so much ...
... reason and religion . " " Thefe , faid the prince , are Euro- pean diftinctions . I will confider them another time . What have you found to be the effect of knowledge ? Are those nations happier than we ? " " There is so much ...
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Seite 66 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified ; no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley. I observed with equal care the crags of the rock and the pinnacles of the palace. Sometimes I wandered along the mazes of the rivulet, and sometimes watched the changes of the summer clouds.
Seite 8 - They then closed up the opening with marble, which was never to be removed but in the utmost exigencies of the kingdom ; and recorded their accumulations in a book, which was itself concealed in a tower, not entered but by the emperor, attended by the prince who stood next in succession.
Seite 41 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Seite 14 - I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Seite 145 - ... consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct; they obey their guide, and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the...
Seite 41 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital...
Seite 137 - 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." "To him that lives well," answered the hermit, "every form of life is good ; nor can I give any other rule for choice, than to remove from all apparent evil.
Seite 4 - From the mountains on every side, rivulets descended that filled all the valley with verdure and fertility, and formed a lake in the middle inhabited by fish of every species, and frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Seite 13 - ... at rest. I am hungry and thirsty like him, but when thirst and hunger cease I am not at rest ; I am, like him, pained with want, but am not, like him, satisfied with fulness.
Seite 42 - In a year the wings were finished; and on a morning appointed the maker appeared furnished for flight on a little promontory. He waved his pinions a while to gather air, then leaped from his stand, and in an instant dropped into the lake. His wings, which were of no use in the air, sustained him in the water, and the prince drew him to land, half dead with terror and vexation.