Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

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s own profession, when then Prince cried out: "Enough! thou hast convinc

id Imlac, "is inde

ll at present hear no more of his labours. Tell

wledge, whose armies are irresistible, and whose fleets command the remotest parts of the globe. When I compared these men with the natives of our own kingdom and those that surround us, they appeared almost another order of beings. In their countr

a and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coast, plant colonies in the

lways predominate over ignorance, as man governs the other animals. But why their knowledge is mo

all arrive, let me fill up the time with such representations as thou canst give me. I am not ignorant of the motive that assembles such numbers in th

Palestine; for many numerous and learned sects in Europe concur to

ed with diversity of opinions; it will be too long to hear the argume

, since men go every day to view the fields where great actions have been performed, and return with stronger impressions of the event, curiosity of the same kind may naturally dispose us to view that country whence our religion had its beginning, and I believe no man surveys those awful scenes without some confirmation of holy resolutions. That the Supreme Being may be more easily propitiated in one place than

ll consider them another time. What have you found to be t

ssed 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, wi

They have engines for the despatch of many laborious works, which we must perform by manual industry. There is such communication between distant places that one friend can hardly be said to be absent from another. Their policy remo

se conveniences, of which I envy none so much as the facili

, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state