 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...  The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes - Seite 41von Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 165 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Rhys Roberts - 1916 - 160 Seiten
...scenes towards the end of The Birds ; (2) by Johnson in Rasselas : " If men were all virtuous, 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... | |
 | Edward Adolf Sonnenschein - 1917 - 450 Seiten
...Douglas' daughter been his son. SCOTT. 11. 'If all men were virtuous,' returned the artist, ' 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...repay the kindness that he has received." 95 "If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 Seiten
...repay the kindness that he has received." 95 "If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "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... | |
 | 1919 - 762 Seiten
...you envy others so great an advantage?" "If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 Seiten
...repay the kindness that he has received.' ' If men were all virtuous, returned the artist, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 260 Seiten
...the kindness that he has received." ^^£~J3aSfl__5Keie-,JalL.Y}rtuous>, returned the artist, 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 a Against an army sailing... | |
 | 1907 - 506 Seiten
...to repay the kindness he has received." "If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "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... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - 302 Seiten
..."artist" in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, who explains to the Prince: If men were all virtuous ... 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... | |
 | André Gide - 2000 - 374 Seiten
...and idleness need crawl upon the ground"; and a little further: "If men were all virtuous 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?" 1S 12 Bromical, manufactured... | |
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