The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... thought fo - but Abraham knew other- wife : And the grounds of the determination , I have explained already , fo fhall proceed to draw fome other conclufions , and leffons from the parable . And first , our SAVIOUR might further intend ...
... thought fo - but Abraham knew other- wife : And the grounds of the determination , I have explained already , fo fhall proceed to draw fome other conclufions , and leffons from the parable . And first , our SAVIOUR might further intend ...
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... thoughts of death fo bitter ? If thou haft children , -I affirm it , the bitterness of death lay there ! -if ... thought , -who made thy cup to overflow ? Was it not a friend of confolation Vol . VI . B who ftepped in , -faw thee ...
... thoughts of death fo bitter ? If thou haft children , -I affirm it , the bitterness of death lay there ! -if ... thought , -who made thy cup to overflow ? Was it not a friend of confolation Vol . VI . B who ftepped in , -faw thee ...
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... fhould not be in the power of every one who thought fit - to chaftife me - My other in- firmities ,, however unworthy of me , at leaft will not incommode me : -fo little difcountenance do I fee given 30 SERMON XXIV .
... fhould not be in the power of every one who thought fit - to chaftife me - My other in- firmities ,, however unworthy of me , at leaft will not incommode me : -fo little difcountenance do I fee given 30 SERMON XXIV .
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... thought of . Let us pafs on to the pretences of learning , & c . & c . If thou haft a little , thou wilt be proud of it in course if thou haft much , and good fenfe along with it , there will be no reafon to dispute against the pas fion ...
... thought of . Let us pafs on to the pretences of learning , & c . & c . If thou haft a little , thou wilt be proud of it in course if thou haft much , and good fenfe along with it , there will be no reafon to dispute against the pas fion ...
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... thoughts up to the art and wif- dom of the great Creator , fomething may be allowed it , and fomething to the embellishments which fet it off ; and yet , when the whole apology is read , it will be found at laft , that Beauty , like ...
... thoughts up to the art and wif- dom of the great Creator , fomething may be allowed it , and fomething to the embellishments which fet it off ; and yet , when the whole apology is read , it will be found at laft , that Beauty , like ...
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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.