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THE
HISTORY
OF
RASSELAS,
PRINCE of ABISSINIA.
CHAP. I.
Description of a palace in a valley.
YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficien-
Vol. I.
B
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