The Student's Assistant or Learner's First Guide to English Language (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ... could never make it succeed more than once in 1 For, pendant. 2 Aspre, petite monnaie d'argcnl valant environ neuf deniers. twenty-four hours. This trifling sura was enough to make his mother and himself subsist very comfortably: There was a time when they would have desired no more to be happy; but k was not considerable enough to change their fortune. It is always dangerous for the imagination to fix upon tbe idea of ' riches. The sight of what he believed he should possess, the projects hehad formed for the employment of it, all these things had left such profound traces in the mind of Abdallah, that nothing could efface them. Therefore, seeing the small advantage he drew from the candlestick, he resolved to carry it back to the Dervise, in hopes that he might obtain of him the treasure he had seen, or at least find again the riches which had vanished from his sight, by restoring to him a thing for which he testified so earnest a desire. He was so fortunate as to remember his name, and that of the city where he inhabited. He departed therefore immediately for Magreby, carrying with him his candlestick, which he lighted every night, and by that means furnished himself with what was necessary on the road, without being obliged to implore the assistance and compassion of the faithful. When he arrived at Magreby, his first care was to enquire in what house, or in what 1 To fix upon the idea of, ie porter toute son allention a. convent Abounadar lodged; he was so well known that every body told him his habitation. He repaired thither directly, and found fifty porters, who kept the gate of his house, hav ing each a staff with a head ' of gold in his hand: the court of his palace was filled with slaves and domestics: in fine, the residence of a prince could no...