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"What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we enquire, the less we can resolve. Surely he is most likely to please him self that has no other inclination to regard."
CHAP. XXVII.
Disquisition upon greatness.
THE conversation had a short pause. The prince, having considered his sister's observations, told her, that she had surveyed life with prejudice, and supposed misery where she did not find it. "Your narrative, says he, throws yet a darker gloom upon the prospects of futurity: the predictions of Imlac were but faint sketches of the evils painted by Nekayah. I have been
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