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... ftrongly upon it , and lay us juftly under fo many restraints , that we are every hour facrificing something to fo- ciety , in return for the benefits we receive from it . To To illustrate this , let us take a short fur- SERMON II VII .
... ftrongly upon it , and lay us juftly under fo many restraints , that we are every hour facrificing something to fo- ciety , in return for the benefits we receive from it . To To illustrate this , let us take a short fur- SERMON II VII .
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Laurence Sterne. To illustrate this , let us take a short fur- vey of the life of any one man , ( not liable to great exceptions , but such a life as is common to most ) let us examine it merely to this point , and try how far it will an ...
Laurence Sterne. To illustrate this , let us take a short fur- vey of the life of any one man , ( not liable to great exceptions , but such a life as is common to most ) let us examine it merely to this point , and try how far it will an ...
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... short- nefs of life , and inftability of human af- fairs , than Job was , who had himself wa- ded through fuch a fea of troubles , and in his paffage had encountered many viciffitudes of ftorms and funfhine , and by turns had felt both ...
... short- nefs of life , and inftability of human af- fairs , than Job was , who had himself wa- ded through fuch a fea of troubles , and in his paffage had encountered many viciffitudes of ftorms and funfhine , and by turns had felt both ...
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... of it again , and are all dead in so short a space as the first seventeen years . ' 99 These reflections may be fufficient to illuftrate the first part of Job's declaration , " That " That man is of few days . " Let SERMON X. 69.
... of it again , and are all dead in so short a space as the first seventeen years . ' 99 These reflections may be fufficient to illuftrate the first part of Job's declaration , " That " That man is of few days . " Let SERMON X. 69.
Page 145
... short remark , -- that they who are perfuaded to be thus virtu- ous by proxy , and will prove the goodnefs of their works only by deputies , --- will have no reason to complain against God's juf- tice , --- if he suffers them to go to ...
... short remark , -- that they who are perfuaded to be thus virtu- ous by proxy , and will prove the goodnefs of their works only by deputies , --- will have no reason to complain against God's juf- tice , --- if he suffers them to go to ...
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