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" 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 vanquished, rose up and departed with the air of... "
The Mid-eighteenth Century - Page 107
by John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 387 pages
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Witnesses to the Unseen, and Other Essays

Wilfrid Ward - 1893 - 358 pages
...him longer. He therefore bowed and was silent ; and the philosopher, supposing him satisfied, . . . rose up and departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the present system." To sum up, then, the contrast between Positivism and Religion under Mr. Harrison's three heads —...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 702 pages
...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...man that had co-operated with the present system. (From the Same.) THE LOSS OF A FRIEND " SINCE Pekuah was taken from me " said the princess, " I have...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...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...man that had co-operated with the present system. (From the Same.) THE LOSS OF A FRIEND " SINCE Pekuah was taken from me " said the princess, " I have...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 668 pages
...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...man that had co-operated with the present system. (From the Same.) THE LOSS OF A FRIEND " SINCE Pekuah was taken from me " said the princess, " I have...
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History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 256 pages
...general disposition and tendency of the present system of things." 25 The prince soon found that this was one of the sages whom he should understand less...vanquished, rose up and departed with the air of a man 30 that had co-operated with the present system. CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN...
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History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pages
...general disposition and tendency of the present system of things." 25 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 w^ silent; and the philosopher, supposing him_satisfiedjpid the rest vanquished, rose~up^n"d de^arted~with...
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History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson - 1898 - 228 pages
...of all is the philosopher who discourses on the happiness of a life led according to nature, and who 'departed with the air of a man that had co-operated with the present system V 1 Post, p. 54. 'Post,?. 157. 3 Post, p. 108. ' Post,?. 92. Is the picture that Johnson here draws...
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English Men of Letters: Pope, by Leslie Stephen, 1900; Johnson by Leslie ...

1900 - 674 pages
...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." Here, finally, is a characteristic reflection upon the right mode of meeting sorrow. " The state of...
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Periods of European Literature, Volume 9

1902 - 414 pages
..." conte philosophique " in English. That Johnson thought of placing his characters in Abyssinia may have been due to the fact that, a quarter of a century...who form their opinion on such matters by casting Hixstyh. / J ° up and comparing the number of words of Anglo-Saxon and of Latin origin which an author...
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The Mid-eighteenth Century, Volume 9, Part 1

John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 412 pages
..." conte philosophique " in English. That Johnson thought of placing his characters in Abyssinia may have been due to the fact that, a quarter of a century...who form their opinion on such matters by casting Bis style. 5 . , , n up and comparing the number or words of Anglo-Saxon and of Latin origin which...
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