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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.
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