 and to be made prioress of the order: she was weary of
expectation and disgust, and would gladly be fixed in some unvariable state.
    The princess thought, that of all sublunary things, knowledge was the best:
she desired first to learn all sciences, and then purposed to found a college of
learned women, in which she would preside, that, by conversing with the old, and
educating the young, she might divide her time between the acquisition and
communication of wisdom, and raise up for the next age models of prudence, and
patterns of piety.
    The prince desired a little kingdom, in which he might administer justice in
his own person, and see all the parts of government with his own eyes; but he
could never fix the limits of his dominion, and was always adding to the number
of his subjects.
    Imlac and the astronomer were contented to be driven along the stream of
life without directing their course to any particular port.
    Of these wishes that they had formed they well knew that none could be
obtained. They deliberated a while what was to be done, and resolved, when the
inundation should cease, to return to Abissinia.
 

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