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Seite 22 - ... of desire, without judgment, without foresight, without inquiry after conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment?
Seite 31 - It seems to me," said Imlac, that " while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live.
Seite 4 - ... prudence : the youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance. The young man, who intends no ill, believes that none is intended, and therefore acts with openness and...
Seite 127 - ... to abstract my thoughts from hopes and cares, which, though reason knows them to be vain, still try to keep their old possession of the heart; expect, with serene humility, that hour which nature cannot long delay; and hope to possess, in a better state, that happiness which here I could not find, and that virtue which here I have not attained.
Seite 41 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Seite 118 - He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty cannot bestow.
Seite 41 - If all your fear be of apparitions, said the prince, I will promise you safety : there is no danger from the dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, 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 perhaps...
Seite 162 - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.
Seite 165 - ... the parts of government with his own eyes; but he could never fix the limits of his dominion, and was always adding to the number of his subjects.
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| Titel | The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. In Two Volumes, Band 2 Band 2 von The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale, Samuel Johnson The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. In Two Volumes, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor/in | Samuel Johnson |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | R. and J. Dodsley, ... and W. Johnston, 1759 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Juli 2007 |
| Länge | 165 Seiten |
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