Oriental Tales for the Entertainment of Youth Selected From the Most Eminent
Oriental Tales for the Entertainment of Youth Selected From the Most Eminent
Hodder Edwin
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59 condition, who art doomed to the perpetual tor- ments of unsatisfied desire, and who hast no amusement in thy power that can with- hold thee from thy own reflections! They tell thee that thou art wise, but what does wisdom avail with poverty? None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to ...him- self by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich. Full of his new resolution, he shut himself in his chamber for six months, to deliberate how he should grow rich ; he sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India, and sometimes resolved to dig for diamonds in the mines of Golconda. One day, after some hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion, sleep insensibly seized him in his chair; he dreamed that he was ranging a desart coun- try, m search of some one that might teach him 60 ORIENTAL TALES.
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