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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: effects to be rather specious than useful. Let us leave them and
pursue our journey."
"From Palestine," said Imlac, "I passed through many regions of
Asia; in the more civilised kingdoms as a trader, and among the
barbarians of the mountains as a pilgrim. At last I began to long
for my native country, that I might repose after my travels and
fatigues in the places where I had spent my earliest years, and
gladden my old companions with the recital of my adventures. Often
did I figure to myself those with whom I had sported away the gay
hours of dawning life, sitting round me in its evening, wondering
at my tales and listening to my counsels.
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