"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired."
[Rasselas] The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes
At least 37 entries in the ESTC (1759, 1760, 1766, 1768, 1775, 1777, 1783, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, 1800).<br>
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See <u>The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. In Two Volumes.</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley; and W. Johnston, 1759). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T139510">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;
&lt;<a href="http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/rasselas.html">Link to Jack Lynch's online edition</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia</u>, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford: OUP, 2009). 