The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... last - in utter defpair of ever accomplishing what he wants - nor knowing what to trust to after fo many disappointments ; or where to lay the fault , whether in the incapacity of his own nature , or the infufficiency of the enjoyments ...
... last - in utter defpair of ever accomplishing what he wants - nor knowing what to trust to after fo many disappointments ; or where to lay the fault , whether in the incapacity of his own nature , or the infufficiency of the enjoyments ...
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... defigns of a fordid mind , fet upon faving and fcraping up all he has injudiciously spent . In this last stage - behold him a poor trembling wretch , fhut up from all man- VOL . VI , с dy I acutir and Jerve prer of rû ? མཆོན SERMON Í . 17.
... defigns of a fordid mind , fet upon faving and fcraping up all he has injudiciously spent . In this last stage - behold him a poor trembling wretch , fhut up from all man- VOL . VI , с dy I acutir and Jerve prer of rû ? མཆོན SERMON Í . 17.
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... last and nearest concern to us , we may furely be allowed to amufe ourselves with the na- tural or artificial beauties of the coun- try we are paffing through , without re- proach of forgetting the main errand we are fent upon ; and if ...
... last and nearest concern to us , we may furely be allowed to amufe ourselves with the na- tural or artificial beauties of the coun- try we are paffing through , without re- proach of forgetting the main errand we are fent upon ; and if ...
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... last . Upon what principle it happens thus , I have endeavoured to lay open in the firft part of this difcourfe ; which I con- clude with a serious exhortation to strug- gle against them : which we can only hope to do , by converfing ...
... last . Upon what principle it happens thus , I have endeavoured to lay open in the firft part of this difcourfe ; which I con- clude with a serious exhortation to strug- gle against them : which we can only hope to do , by converfing ...
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... last e of the chapter . Now by this I that thou art a man of God , and : the word of the Lord in thy mouth is Beldes , as he was an inhabitant of Zarephath ( or , as it is called by St. L , Sarepta , fubject to Sidon , the cropolis of ...
... last e of the chapter . Now by this I that thou art a man of God , and : the word of the Lord in thy mouth is Beldes , as he was an inhabitant of Zarephath ( or , as it is called by St. L , Sarepta , fubject to Sidon , the cropolis of ...
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Page 19 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 1 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 23 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 8 - Ambition takes him by the hand and carries him into the world, shows him all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them, — points out the many ways of advancing his fortune and...
Page 158 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 47 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Page 61 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 46 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.