The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... Nature tells the parent , there can be no error on the fide of affection ? but we forget , when nature pleads for one , fhe pleads for every child alike , -and why is not her voice to be heard ? Solomon fays , Op- preffion will make a ...
... Nature tells the parent , there can be no error on the fide of affection ? but we forget , when nature pleads for one , fhe pleads for every child alike , -and why is not her voice to be heard ? Solomon fays , Op- preffion will make a ...
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... Nature was in her gayeft humour . -Every thing has two views . Jacob , and Job , and Solomon , gave one fection of ... natural pleafures are bur- A 6 SERMON XXII . II.
... Nature was in her gayeft humour . -Every thing has two views . Jacob , and Job , and Solomon , gave one fection of ... natural pleafures are bur- A 6 SERMON XXII . II.
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... natural pleafures are bur- dens , and who fly from joy ( as thefe fplenetic and morofe fouls do ) as if it was really an evil in itself . If there is an evil in this world , ' tis forrow and heaviness of heart . - The lofs of goods , of ...
... natural pleafures are bur- dens , and who fly from joy ( as thefe fplenetic and morofe fouls do ) as if it was really an evil in itself . If there is an evil in this world , ' tis forrow and heaviness of heart . - The lofs of goods , of ...
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... rational pleasure to be given up ; - -no natural endearment to be torn from-- In a word , he would tell us , We had nothing to part with but what was not for our interes to keep and that was our Vices ; which brought 14 SERMON XXIII .
... rational pleasure to be given up ; - -no natural endearment to be torn from-- In a word , he would tell us , We had nothing to part with but what was not for our interes to keep and that was our Vices ; which brought 14 SERMON XXIII .
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... nature , and the refinement of human happiness . When this point was made out and the alarms from interest got over , the spectre might address himself to the other paffions - In doing this , he could but give us the most engaging ideas ...
... nature , and the refinement of human happiness . When this point was made out and the alarms from interest got over , the spectre might address himself to the other paffions - In doing this , he could but give us the most engaging ideas ...
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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.