

Transcribed from the 1889 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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                       CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

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                                 RASSELAS
                           PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA


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                                    BY

                          SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

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                       CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
                        LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE.
                                  1889.




INTRODUCTION.


RASSELAS was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was
fifty.  He had written his _London_ in 1738; his _Vanity of Human Wishes_
in 1740; his _Ramb