The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia. With a complete vocabulary compiled by E. Amthor1846 |
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... knowledge of the ways of men . His wish still continued , but his hope grew less . He ceased to survey any longer the walls of his prison , and speared to search by new toils for interstices which he knew could not be found , yet ...
... knowledge of the ways of men . His wish still continued , but his hope grew less . He ceased to survey any longer the walls of his prison , and speared to search by new toils for interstices which he knew could not be found , yet ...
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... knowledge of the me- chanic powers , who had contrived many engines both of use and recreation . By a wheel , which the stream turned , he forced the water into a tower , whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace ...
... knowledge of the me- chanic powers , who had contrived many engines both of use and recreation . By a wheel , which the stream turned , he forced the water into a tower , whence it was distributed to all the apartments of the palace ...
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... knowledge , and that only ig- norance and idleness need crawl upon the ground . “ This hint rekindled the prince's desire of passing the moun- tains ; having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that ...
... knowledge , and that only ig- norance and idleness need crawl upon the ground . “ This hint rekindled the prince's desire of passing the moun- tains ; having seen what the mechanist had already performed , he was willing to fancy that ...
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... knowledge passes silently away , and is very little diversified by events . To talk in public , to think in soli- tude , to read and to hear , to inquire and answer inquiries , is the business of a scholar . He wanders about the 21.
... knowledge passes silently away , and is very little diversified by events . To talk in public , to think in soli- tude , to read and to hear , to inquire and answer inquiries , is the business of a scholar . He wanders about the 21.
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... knowledge , and felt the pleasure of intelligence and the pride of invention , I began silently to despise riches , and determined to disappoint the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty ...
... knowledge , and felt the pleasure of intelligence and the pride of invention , I began silently to despise riches , and determined to disappoint the purpose of my father , whose grossness of conception raised my pity . I was twenty ...
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Стр. 3 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
Стр. 85 - 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 prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Стр. 115 - 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.
Стр. 28 - ... it received by accident at first: or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images.
Стр. 29 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances...
Стр. 58 - My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Стр. 29 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw everything 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.
Стр. 16 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanick sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that, instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Стр. 32 - 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.
Стр. 33 - There is so much infelicity," said the poet, " in the world, that scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative 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, whhout knowing why, we always rejoice when...