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 - Pagina 52de Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
| Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...• 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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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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