 I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. 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.  History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia - الصفحة 18بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 179عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...good ; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness that he has received." "If " If men were all virtuous, returned the artist, I should...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...Why, said Rasselas, should you envy others so great an advantage? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good ; every man has owed much to others,...ought to repay the kindness that he has received." "If ' , i , ,<• " If men were all virtuous, returned the • A artist, I should with great alacrity teach... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...Rasselas, should you envy others /y^^. so great an advantage? j All skill ought to be I exerted for universal good:/ every man has owed much to others,...ought to repay the kindness that he has received." ^^£~J3aSfl__5Keie-,JalL.Y}rtuous>, returned the artist, I should with great alacrity teach them all... | |
 | 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 506
..."Why," said Rasselas, "should you envy others so great an advantage? All skill ought to be exerted for universal good; every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness he has received." "If men were all virtuous," returned the artist, "I should with great alacrity teach... | |
 | Laurence Goldstein - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...the "artist" in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, who explains to the Prince: If men were all virtuous ... I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly....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,... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...into the wrong hands and warning the prince how dangerous this would be, he swears him to secrecy: If men were all virtuous, returned the artist, I should...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,... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...new technology to be universally accessible. Such plans are criticized by the artist as dangerous: " 'If men were all virtuous,' returned the artist, 'I...what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure inTropicopolitans vade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds... | |
 | André Gide - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground"; and a little further: "If men were all virtuous I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly....what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky?" 1S 12 Bromical, manufactured by Theraplix in Paris, is... | |
 | Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...p. 127 - on the reaction of the Greeks to the Roman victory over their former Macedonian overlords. 'If men were all virtuous', returned the artist, 'I...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,... | |
 | Michael Waller, Kyril Drezov, Bülent Gökay - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...victorv over their former Macedonian overlords. '1f men were all virtuous', returned the artist. '1 should with great alacrity teach them all to fly....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,... | |
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