The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... against an evil hour that it is not the prostitution of wealth upon the paffions , or the parting with it at all , that conftitutes happiness - but that it is the keeping it to- gether , and the HAVING and HOLDING it faft to him and his ...
... against an evil hour that it is not the prostitution of wealth upon the paffions , or the parting with it at all , that conftitutes happiness - but that it is the keeping it to- gether , and the HAVING and HOLDING it faft to him and his ...
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... against this rhetoric ; I would choose rather for a moment to go on with the allegory , and fay we are travellers , and , in the most affecting sense of that idea , that like travellers , though upon business of the laft and nearest ...
... against this rhetoric ; I would choose rather for a moment to go on with the allegory , and fay we are travellers , and , in the most affecting sense of that idea , that like travellers , though upon business of the laft and nearest ...
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... against them , that pleasure should easily corrupt or foften them ; -that it would be hard to fuppofe , of the great multitudes which daily throng and prefs into this houfe of feafting , but that num- bers come out of it again , with ...
... against them , that pleasure should easily corrupt or foften them ; -that it would be hard to fuppofe , of the great multitudes which daily throng and prefs into this houfe of feafting , but that num- bers come out of it again , with ...
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... against it , not only as reafon requires , but in reve- rence to this feafon * , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbearance and felf - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the reftraints upon plea- fure and ...
... against it , not only as reafon requires , but in reve- rence to this feafon * , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbearance and felf - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the reftraints upon plea- fure and ...
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... against them is now piteoufly borne down at the laft - overwhelmed with a cruel blow which no fore- caft or frugality could have prevented.O GOD ! look upon his afflictions - Behold him distracted with many forrows , furrounded with the ...
... against them is now piteoufly borne down at the laft - overwhelmed with a cruel blow which no fore- caft or frugality could have prevented.O GOD ! look upon his afflictions - Behold him distracted with many forrows , furrounded with the ...
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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...