 By what means,' said the prince, 'are the Europeans thus powerful? Or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 577edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1910 - 548 pages
...to-day, and he seized upon it with avidity. He pointed out to me the following remarkable passage : " By what means (said the Prince) are the Europeans...coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws Cor. et Ad.— After line 1 1, read :— "TO MR. PERKINS. " SIR, — However often I have seen you,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 180 pages
...powerful; or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their Coasts, plant colonies in...wind that carries them back would bring us thither." " They_are more powerful, j>h-Ljthan we," answered Imlac, "because they are wjser. Knowledge will always... | |
 | Arthur Machen - Folklore - 1924 - 238 pages
..."are the Europeans thus powerful; or why, since they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade and conquest, cannot the Asiaticks and Africans invade...wind that carries them back would bring us thither." The puzzle is addressed to the sage, Imlac, the prince's philosophic counsellor. Imlac, with some circumlocution,... | |
 | Arthur Machen - Folklore - 1924 - 240 pages
...best seller "Rasselas," by the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, is speaking: "By what means," said the Prince, "are the Europeans...they can so easily visit Asia and Africa for trade and conquest, cannot the Asiaticks and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 268 pages
...convenience and pleasure ; and whatever their own climate has denied them is supplied by their commerce." " By what means, said the prince, are the Europeans...invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and gTve~laws to their natural princes? The same wind that carries them back would bring us thither." v... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pages
...convenience and pleasure; and whatever their own climate has denied them is supplied by their commerce." "By what means," said the prince, "are the Europeans...powerful; or why, since they can so easily visit Asia or Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...power Rasselas replies with a question about the direction of world history: "'By what means . . . are the Europeans thus powerful? Or why, since they...Asia and Africa for trade or conquest, cannot the Asiatics and Africans invade their coasts, plant colonies in their ports, and give laws to their natural... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 444 pages
...story of his life, Rasselas, as African prince, naively asks Imlac the reason for European power: " 'By what means,' said the prince, 'are the Europeans...wind that carries them back would bring us thither' " (46-47). Rasselas's question is similar to the one of technology that he posed to the artist. Imlac... | |
 | Mohja Kahf - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 228 pages
...decline in Muslim power, so that Samuel Johnson's Abyssinian Prince Rasselas can ask "By what means . . . are the Europeans thus powerful? or why, since they...their ports, and give laws to their natural princes? This same wind that carries them back would bring us thither." That wind may have blown in both directions... | |
 | Niall Ferguson - History - 2004 - 400 pages
...practice? What follows will, I hope, enable the reader to decide. EMPIRE 1 WHY BRITAIN? By what means are the Europeans thus powerful; or why, since they...wind that carries them back would bring us thither. Samuel Johnson, Rasselas In December 1663 a Welshman called Henry Morgan sailed five hundred miles... | |
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