The Sermons of Mr. YorickR. and J. Dodsley, 1760 - 238 pages |
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... offer'd to the world as a fermon of Yo- rick's , I hope the most feri- ous reader will find nothing to offend him , in my conti- nuing these two volumes under the fame title left it fhould be otherwife , I have added a fecond title page ...
... offer'd to the world as a fermon of Yo- rick's , I hope the most feri- ous reader will find nothing to offend him , in my conti- nuing these two volumes under the fame title left it fhould be otherwife , I have added a fecond title page ...
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Laurence Sterne. in this however , and every thing else , which I offer , or shall offer to the world , I reft , with a heart much at eafe , upon the protection of the humane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for ...
Laurence Sterne. in this however , and every thing else , which I offer , or shall offer to the world , I reft , with a heart much at eafe , upon the protection of the humane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for ...
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Laurence Sterne. great idol of human worthip to which fo much incenfe is offered up every day . The epicure , though he easily rectifies fo grofs a mistake , yet at the fame time he plunges him , if poffible , into a greater ; for ...
Laurence Sterne. great idol of human worthip to which fo much incenfe is offered up every day . The epicure , though he easily rectifies fo grofs a mistake , yet at the fame time he plunges him , if poffible , into a greater ; for ...
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... offered upon the occafion . Now if we take a furvey of the life of man from the time he is come to rea- fon , to the latest decline of it in old age , -we fhall find him engaged , and gene- rally hurried on in fuch a fucceffion of ...
... offered upon the occafion . Now if we take a furvey of the life of man from the time he is come to rea- fon , to the latest decline of it in old age , -we fhall find him engaged , and gene- rally hurried on in fuch a fucceffion of ...
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... as the cafe will well let them fo that in the hardest acts a man fhall be guilty of , he has fome motives true or falfe always ready to offer , either to fatisfy himself or the world , world , and , God knows , too often to 60 SERMON III .
... as the cafe will well let them fo that in the hardest acts a man fhall be guilty of , he has fome motives true or falfe always ready to offer , either to fatisfy himself or the world , world , and , God knows , too often to 60 SERMON III .
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Page 88 - 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 88 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : 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 meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 19 - 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 103 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Page 24 - 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 5 - 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...
Page 120 - And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
Page 127 - I pray thee let this child's soul come into him again; and. the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived: and Elijah took the 28 child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth...
Page 1 - Who will show us any good ? Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.