 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...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Sivu 36tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 184 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 176 sivua
...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 happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sivua
...fecurity. A flight of northern favages might hover in the wind, and light at once with jrrefiftible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 sivua
...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 happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that iwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sivua
...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 happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that /warm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 sivua
...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...this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode of happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 sivua
...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... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 540 sivua
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 sivua
...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 happinefs, might be violated by the fudden defcent of fome of the naked nations that fwarm on the coaft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 sivua
...might hover in the wind, and light with irresistable violence upon the capital of a fruitful region. Even this valley, the retreat of princes, the abode...the sudden descent of some of the naked nations that swam} on the coast of the southern sea." The prince promised secrecy, and waited for the performance,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sivua
...through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light...sea." The prince promised secrecy, and waited for performance, not wholly hopeless of success, visited the work from time to time, observe progress,... | |
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