Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the... "
The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ... - Page 19
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
Full view - About this book

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...fecrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopeleff lefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time to time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked...
Full view - About this book

The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft of the fouthern.fea." The prince promifed fccrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopelefs of...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that iwarm on the coaft of the fouthern fea." The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance,...
Full view - About this book

The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that /warm on the coaft of the fouthern fea." The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance,...
Full view - About this book

The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 23

English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...once with irreliftiblc violcnceupon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them. Evun this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the В г RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABIS5INIA. ' fudden dcfcent of fome of the naked the wiM beads and the tame...
Full view - About this book

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time tor time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happineis, might be violated by the fudden defcent of foine of the naked nations that fwarm on the...
Full view - About this book

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It ..., Volume 3

George Adams - Science - 1794 - 540 pages
...fecurity ; a flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.' " The prince promifed fecrecy, and waited for the performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs; he vilitedthe...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...performance, not wholly hopelefs of fuccefs. He vifited the work from time to time, obferved its progrefs, and remarked many ingenious contrivances to facilitate...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happiness, might be violated by the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swarm on the coast...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF