The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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Laurence Sterne. being printed ; they have been haftily written , and carry the marks of it along with them . - This may be no recommendation ; -I mean it however as fuch ; for as the Sermons turn chiefly upon philanthropy , and those ...
Laurence Sterne. being printed ; they have been haftily written , and carry the marks of it along with them . - This may be no recommendation ; -I mean it however as fuch ; for as the Sermons turn chiefly upon philanthropy , and those ...
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... carry us to this haven of rest where we would be - that fure haven , where true joys are to be found , which will at length not only answer all our expectations - but fatisfy the most un- bounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The ...
... carry us to this haven of rest where we would be - that fure haven , where true joys are to be found , which will at length not only answer all our expectations - but fatisfy the most un- bounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The ...
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... carry it into execu- tion too . This we will not fuppofe to be the cafe - nor let us even imagine the house of feafting to be fuch a fcene of in- temperance and excefs , as the house of feafling does often exhibit - but let us take it ...
... carry it into execu- tion too . This we will not fuppofe to be the cafe - nor let us even imagine the house of feafting to be fuch a fcene of in- temperance and excefs , as the house of feafling does often exhibit - but let us take it ...
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... expose it to fo unequal a chance , where the best he can hope is to return fafe with what treafure he carried out - but where , pro- bably , he may be fo unfortunate as to lofe it all be loft himself , and undone for 322 MON.
... expose it to fo unequal a chance , where the best he can hope is to return fafe with what treafure he carried out - but where , pro- bably , he may be fo unfortunate as to lofe it all be loft himself , and undone for 322 MON.
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... carry us farther ? -- and from confidering , what we are what kind of world we live in , and what evils befal us in it , how natu- rally do they fet us to look forwards at what poffibly we shall be ? -for what kind of world we are ...
... carry us farther ? -- and from confidering , what we are what kind of world we live in , and what evils befal us in it , how natu- rally do they fet us to look forwards at what poffibly we shall be ? -for what kind of world we are ...
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