The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... thing elfe , which I offer , or fhall offer to the world , I reft , with a heart much at cafe , upon the protection of the hu- mane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for which I beg leave to return them thanks thanks ...
... thing elfe , which I offer , or fhall offer to the world , I reft , with a heart much at cafe , upon the protection of the hu- mane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for which I beg leave to return them thanks thanks ...
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Laurence Sterne. But the mischief has been , that though fo many good things have been faid , they have generally had the fate to be con- fidered either as the overflowings of dif- guft from fated appetites which could no longer relish ...
Laurence Sterne. But the mischief has been , that though fo many good things have been faid , they have generally had the fate to be con- fidered either as the overflowings of dif- guft from fated appetites which could no longer relish ...
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... things , through the different stages of his life - as will admit of no expli- cation , but this , that he finds no reft for the fole of his foot , on any of the plans where he has been led to ex- pect it . The moment he is got loofe ...
... things , through the different stages of his life - as will admit of no expli- cation , but this , that he finds no reft for the fole of his foot , on any of the plans where he has been led to ex- pect it . The moment he is got loofe ...
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... may begin to look forwards . -That it becomes a man of character and confequence to lay afide childish things , to take care of his interefts , to eftablish the fortune of his family , and 害 11 E te zove of ad 1 ww to SERMON I. 13.
... may begin to look forwards . -That it becomes a man of character and confequence to lay afide childish things , to take care of his interefts , to eftablish the fortune of his family , and 害 11 E te zove of ad 1 ww to SERMON I. 13.
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... thing he had tried ; like the chemist's projections , all had ended in smoke , or what was worse , in vanity and vexation of fpirit : the conclufion of the whole matter was this - that he advises every man who would be happy , to fear ...
... thing he had tried ; like the chemist's projections , all had ended in smoke , or what was worse , in vanity and vexation of fpirit : the conclufion of the whole matter was this - that he advises every man who would be happy , to fear ...
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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.