 | Laurence Sterne, David Herbert - Authors, English - 1872 - 512 pages
...first will serve the bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly, of the two, the more known ; and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant.' Whatever spiritual good they did the renders of them, these Sermons certainly advanced their preacher's... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1873 - 378 pages
...will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly, of the two, the more known ; — and the second will ease the minds of those who see...and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest WHS meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 pages
...known ;" but, fearing the censure of the world, he added a second title-page with his own name,. " to ease the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest is meant." All this did not free Sterne from much severe criticism. — ED. 1768, at his lodgings in... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1882 - 500 pages
...first will serve the bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly, of the two, the more known ; and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant.' Whatever spiritual good they did the readers of them, these Sermons certainly advanced their preacher's... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - Eighteenth century - 1902 - 616 pages
...purpose of the bookseller " ; the second, with the real name of the author, to " ease," he said, " the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant."1 Though he might think it prudent to insert this saving sentence, he had been careful, when... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 424 pages
...first will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; — and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Sermons, English - 1904 - 438 pages
...first will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; — and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 432 pages
...first will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; — and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 802 pages
...first will serve the Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; - and the second will ease the minds of those who see...danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1906 - 402 pages
...eagerly looked for. For the sermon which Corporal Trim had read and commented on so admirably, and had been preached before the 'judges of assize,' had struck...the marks of haste with them, as evidence of their coining ' more from the heart than the head,' he prays to God it may do the world the service he wishes,... | |
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Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; - and the second will ease the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant. 
