The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

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YE who liften with credulity to the whifpers of fancy, and purfue with eagernefs the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promifes of youth, and that the deficiencies of the prefent day will be fupplied by the morrow ; attend to the hiftory of Raffelas prince of Abiffinia.