 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 107by John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 268 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...rose up and departed with the air of a man that had co\ operated with the present system. CHAP. CHAP. XXIII. The prince and his sister divide between them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 256 pages
...soon found that this was one of the sages whom jia shnnlH nnrlprsf-an.d less jis he hearjijiimjojiger. He therefore bowed and was silent, and the philosopher,...a man that had cooperated with the present system. CHAP. CHAP. XXIII. The prince and his sister divide between them the work of observation. RA SSELAS... | |
 | Herbert Read - 1928 - 260 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. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas. The renewal, or perhaps the improvement, of my English life was embittered... | |
 | 1930 - 328 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. CHAPTER XXIII THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION RASSELAS returned... | |
 | 1907 - 506 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. [TO BE CONTINUED.] WHAT YOU WILL. (For the Improvement Era) You're starting out on a journey, my boy,... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 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. (88-89) Besides parodying Clarke, Johnson also satirizes here a certain strain of Stoic philosophy:... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 2009 - 134 pages
...22, gives the right picture of what his philosophy amounts to in action. ('The philosopher, supposing the rest vanquished, rose up and departed with the...man that had co-operated with the present system.') 4 See Appendix. 5 Analects of Confucius, xv. 39. 6 Eth. Nic. 1095 B, 1 140 B, 1 1 5 1 A. 7 John 7:49.... | |
 | Michael Prince - 1996 - 316 pages
...effects . . ." (xxii, p. 88). But this is gibberish to Rasselas, and he leaves convinced that "this was one of the sages whom he should understand less as he heard him longer." Rasselas has become a skeptical young man, traveling from assembly to assembly, judging the relative... | |
 | 1884 - 862 pages
...general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.' The prince soon found that thid was one of the sages whom he should understand less...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... | |
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