The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... purpose , do you imagine , has God made us ? for the focial fweets of the well - watered vallies , where he has planted us , or for the dry and difinal defert of a Sierra Morena ? are the fad accidents of life , and the uncheery hours ...
... purpose , do you imagine , has God made us ? for the focial fweets of the well - watered vallies , where he has planted us , or for the dry and difinal defert of a Sierra Morena ? are the fad accidents of life , and the uncheery hours ...
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... purpose but the enjoy- ment and mutual entertainment of each other , which we will fuppofe fhall arise from no other pleasures but what cuftom authorises , and religion does not abfo- lutely forbid . Before we enter - let us examine ...
... purpose but the enjoy- ment and mutual entertainment of each other , which we will fuppofe fhall arise from no other pleasures but what cuftom authorises , and religion does not abfo- lutely forbid . Before we enter - let us examine ...
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... commerce will naturally excite . In this difpofition , thus wrought upon beforehand and al- ready improved to this purpose , -take notice how mechanically the thoughts and fpirits rife - how foon and infenfibly they are 28 SERMON I.
... commerce will naturally excite . In this difpofition , thus wrought upon beforehand and al- ready improved to this purpose , -take notice how mechanically the thoughts and fpirits rife - how foon and infenfibly they are 28 SERMON I.
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... purpose but the enjoy- ment and mutual entertainment of each other , which we will fuppofe fhall arise from no other pleasures but what custom authorises , and religion does not abfo- lutely forbid . Before we enter let us examine ...
... purpose but the enjoy- ment and mutual entertainment of each other , which we will fuppofe fhall arise from no other pleasures but what custom authorises , and religion does not abfo- lutely forbid . Before we enter let us examine ...
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... many a man will do a cruel act , who at the fame time will blufh to look you in the face , and is forced to turn aside be- fore he can have a heart to execute his purpose , T Inconfiftent creature that a man is ! who at that 56 SERMON III.
... many a man will do a cruel act , who at the fame time will blufh to look you in the face , and is forced to turn aside be- fore he can have a heart to execute his purpose , T Inconfiftent creature that a man is ! who at that 56 SERMON III.
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