Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A TaleF.C. and J. Rivington and 6 others, 1816 - Всего страниц: 205 |
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... misery with reproof , went away convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound , and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences . CHAP . XIX . A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE . HE was still eager upon the same enquiry ; and ...
... misery with reproof , went away convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound , and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences . CHAP . XIX . A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE . HE was still eager upon the same enquiry ; and ...
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... and feeling that my vigour was beginning to decay , I resolved to close my life in peace , having found the world full of snares , discord , and misery . I had once escaped from the pursuit of the enemy by the shelter 86 RASSELAS .
... and feeling that my vigour was beginning to decay , I resolved to close my life in peace , having found the world full of snares , discord , and misery . I had once escaped from the pursuit of the enemy by the shelter 86 RASSELAS .
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... misery ; yet , when the same state is again at a distance , imagination paints it as desira- ble . But the time will surely come , when desire will be no longer our torment , and no man shall be wretched but by his own fault . " " This ...
... misery ; yet , when the same state is again at a distance , imagination paints it as desira- ble . But the time will surely come , when desire will be no longer our torment , and no man shall be wretched but by his own fault . " " This ...
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... misery where she did not find it . " Your narrative , " says he , " throws yet a darker gloom upon the pro- spects of futurity : the predictions of Imlac were but faint sketches of the evils painted by Nekayah . I have been lately ...
... misery where she did not find it . " Your narrative , " says he , " throws yet a darker gloom upon the pro- spects of futurity : the predictions of Imlac were but faint sketches of the evils painted by Nekayah . I have been lately ...
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... misery of a famine , and not much distinguished in the fury of a faction ; they sink together in a tempest , and are driven together from their country by invaders . All that virtue can afford is quietness of conscience , a steady ...
... misery of a famine , and not much distinguished in the fury of a faction ; they sink together in a tempest , and are driven together from their country by invaders . All that virtue can afford is quietness of conscience , a steady ...
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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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Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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. :'
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.