The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... feemed to him but a few days , for " the love he had to her , " - strike those out of the number - all his other days ... feems a contexture of mifery : -one evil fo rifes out of another , and the whole plan and ex- ecution of the piece ...
... feemed to him but a few days , for " the love he had to her , " - strike those out of the number - all his other days ... feems a contexture of mifery : -one evil fo rifes out of another , and the whole plan and ex- ecution of the piece ...
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... feemed to him but a few days , for " the love he had to her , " - strike those out of the number all his other days ... feems a contexture of mifery : -one evil fo rifes out of another , and the whole plan and ex- ecution of the piece ...
... feemed to him but a few days , for " the love he had to her , " - strike those out of the number all his other days ... feems a contexture of mifery : -one evil fo rifes out of another , and the whole plan and ex- ecution of the piece ...
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... feems rather to be giving a hiftory of his fufferings , than a fyftem of them , in contradiction to that of the Gop of Love . Look upon the world he has given us , — obferve the riches and plenty which flows in every channel , not only ...
... feems rather to be giving a hiftory of his fufferings , than a fyftem of them , in contradiction to that of the Gop of Love . Look upon the world he has given us , — obferve the riches and plenty which flows in every channel , not only ...
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... feems to have been the fnare the rich man had fallen into - and poffibly , had he fared lefs fumptuoufly , he might have had more cool hours for reflection , and been better disposed to have conceived an idea of want , and to have felt ...
... feems to have been the fnare the rich man had fallen into - and poffibly , had he fared lefs fumptuoufly , he might have had more cool hours for reflection , and been better disposed to have conceived an idea of want , and to have felt ...
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... feems to ftand pretty neuter : if you are extravagant or in- temperate , you are looked upon as the greatest ene " my to yourself , —or , if an enemy to the public - at least , you are fo remote a one to each individual , that no one ...
... feems to ftand pretty neuter : if you are extravagant or in- temperate , you are looked upon as the greatest ene " my to yourself , —or , if an enemy to the public - at least , you are fo remote a one to each individual , that no one ...
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Page 65 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 135 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 130 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 215 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page iv - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 130 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him, and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth ; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear ; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 71 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 196 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul...
Page 8 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him: and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.