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... Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale - Page 92by Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pages
...therefore bowed and was filent, and the philofopher, fuppofing him fatisfied, and the reft vanquifhed, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the prefent fyfterru . L 2 CHA P. CHAP. XXIII. The prince and his filler divide between them the work of... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 pages
...bowed' and was filcnt, and the philofophcr, fuppofing him fatiffied, and the reft vanquished, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the prefent fyftem.' In the charafler of this faec, the writer intends to expofe the abfurdity of the Epicurean... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...bowed and was filent, and the philofopher, fuppofing him fatisfied, and the reft vanquiflied, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the prefent fyftem. VOL. XI. F R THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...bowed and was filent, and the philofopher, fuppofing him fatisfied, and the reft vanquiflied, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the prefent fyftem. VOL. XI. Tf CHAP. XXIII. THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...bowed and was filent, and the philofopher, fuppofing him fatisfied, and the reft vanquiflied, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the prcfent fyftem. R CHAP. XXIII. THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN • THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...bowed and was filent, and the philofopher, . fuppofing him fatisfied, and the reft vanquilhed, rofe up and departed with the air of a man that had co.operated with the prefent fyfterru • THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION. "OASSELAS... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...heard him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent, and the philosopher, supposing him satislied, and the rest vanquished, rose UP and departed with...man that had co-operated with the present system. t CHAP. XXHI. THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIV*IDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION. RASSELAS returned... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...things." The prince soon found that this was one of the sages whom he should understand less as be heard him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent,...vanquished, rose up and departed with the air of a man lint had co-operated with the present system. CHAP. XXIII. The Prince and his sister divide between... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...rest of mankind, am desirous at felicity, my closest attention has been fixed upon your discourse : I doubt not the truth of a position which a man so...co-operated with the present system. CHAP. XXIII. IKK PRIKCE AND HIS SISTKH. DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE \VORK OF OBSERVATION. RASSELAS returned home full... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...one of the Sages whom he should understand less as he heard him longer. He therefore bowed and \vas silent, and the philosopher, supposing him satisfied,...co-operated with the present system. CHAP. XXIII. THE PRINCE A\TD HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETVTEEV THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION. RASSELAS returned home full of reflections,... | |
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