 Consider that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same." "What comfort," said the mourner, "can truth and reason afford me? Of what effect are they now, but to tell me that my daughter will not be restored?  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 52by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me ? of what effeft are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored?" The prince, whofe humanity would not fuffer him to infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 490 pages
...are always the fame. What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me? Of what effect are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored ? Uaflelas, whofe humanity would not fuller him to infult mifery with reproof, went away convinced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...always the fame." ** What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me ? of what effecT: are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not bereftored?" " The prince, whofe humanity would not fuffer him to infult mifery with reproof, went... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me? of what effect are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored ?" The prince, whofe humanity would not fuffer him to infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me? of what effecT: are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored ?" The prince, whofe humanity would not fuffer him to infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me? of what effect are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored ?" The prince, whofe humanity would not fufFer him to infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | 1788 - 778 pages
...• fame.'—' What comfort," faid the mourner, ' can truth and rcafon afford • me ? of what effefl are they now, but ' to tell me, that my daughter will not • bereftureJi' The piincc, whofe humanity would not fuffcr him to infult roilèry with reproof, went... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort," faid the mourner, " can truth and reafon afford me ? of what effe<5t are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be reftored ?" The prince, whofe humanity would not fuffer him to infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...always the fame." " What comfort, faid the mourner, can truth and reafon afford me ? of what effect are they now, but to tell me, tha,t my daughter will not be reftored ?" The prince, whofe humanity would no.t fuffer him tq infult mifery with reproof, went away... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1800 - 410 pages
...the fame." "What M comfort," faid the mourner, " can Truth and Reafon afford " me ? Of what effect are they now, but to tell me that my " daughter will not be reftored ?" This illuftration of the inef. ficary of philofophy, to counteract or fubdue the fenfibilities... | |
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