...to "Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust, admire,/the teachers of morality : they d i :.! course like angels, but they live like men./ Rasselas, who...not conceive how any man could reason so forcibly witKout FeeKngjthe cogency of his own arguments, paid his visit in a few days, and was denied admission....

...this point about the philosopher is made by Imlac in conversation with his student: "Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality:...they discourse like angels, but they live like men" (R 18.50-51). And we know that the prince has begun to understand Imlac's point even before the end...

..."fixed opinions" or "established 21. Rasselas 81. See also Imlac's words :"Be not too hasty, said Imlac, to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like rnen" (80). 22. Rasselas 95. 23. See Wassermann, "Johnson's Rasselas" 22-23. 24. See Thomas Preston,...

...my future guide: I will learn his doctrines and imitate his life.' 'Be not too hasty," said Imlac, 'to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality:...they discourse like angels, but they live like men' " (xviii, p. 74). Sure enough, as the narrative proceeds, Rasselas returns to find the stoic in abject...

...without feeling the cogency of his own arguments, paid his vint in a few days, and was denied admiffion. He had now learned the power of money, and made his...gold, to the inner apartment ; where he found the philofopher, in a room half darkened, with his eyes mifty, and his face pale. ' Sir, faid he, you are...