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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: could not be known. Thus every year produced new scenes of
delight, and new competitors for imprisonment.
The palace stood on an eminence, raised about thirty paces above
the surface of the lake. It was divided into many squares or
courts, built with greater or less magnificence according to the
rank of those for whom they were designed. The roofs were turned
into arches of massive stone, joined by a cement that grew harder
by time, and the building stood from century to century, deriding
the solstitial rains and equinoctial hurricanes, without need of
reparation.
This house, which was so large as to be fully known to none but
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