The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... first and strongest defire of his nature ; -in every ftage of his life , he fearches for it as for hid treasure ; -courts it under a thousand different shapes , and , though perpetually disappointed , ftill perfifts - runs after and ...
... first and strongest defire of his nature ; -in every ftage of his life , he fearches for it as for hid treasure ; -courts it under a thousand different shapes , and , though perpetually disappointed , ftill perfifts - runs after and ...
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... first part of the verfe-- " There be many that fay , " Who will show us any good ? " - -To make fome reflections upon the infufficiency of most of our en- joyments towards the attainment of happiness , upon fome of the most received ...
... first part of the verfe-- " There be many that fay , " Who will show us any good ? " - -To make fome reflections upon the infufficiency of most of our en- joyments towards the attainment of happiness , upon fome of the most received ...
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... first thoughts are generally full of the mighty happiness which he is going to enter upon , from the free enjoyment of the pleafures in which he fees others of his age and fortune engaged . In confequence of this - take notice , how his ...
... first thoughts are generally full of the mighty happiness which he is going to enter upon , from the free enjoyment of the pleafures in which he fees others of his age and fortune engaged . In confequence of this - take notice , how his ...
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... first in view . When he has got thus far - if he is a plain and fincere man , he will make no scruple to acknow- ledge truly , what alteration he has found in himself . -If you afk him he will tell you , that his ima- gination painted ...
... first in view . When he has got thus far - if he is a plain and fincere man , he will make no scruple to acknow- ledge truly , what alteration he has found in himself . -If you afk him he will tell you , that his ima- gination painted ...
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... first intended , run into expences which have entangled his fortune , and brought himself into fuch difficulties as to make way for the laft experi- ment he can try - and that is , to turn mifer , with no happiness in view but what is ...
... first intended , run into expences which have entangled his fortune , and brought himself into fuch difficulties as to make way for the laft experi- ment he can try - and that is , to turn mifer , with no happiness in view but what is ...
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Page 29 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 18 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 239 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 122 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Page 1 - 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 91 - 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 29 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...
Page 103 - Man that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one.
Page xiii - 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 ix - 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...