The Works of Laurence Sterne ...J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... imagine , has God made us ? for the focial fweets of the well - watered vallies , where he has planted us , or for the dry and difmal defert of à Sierra Morena ? Are the fad accidents of life , and the uncheery hours which perpetually ...
... imagine , has God made us ? for the focial fweets of the well - watered vallies , where he has planted us , or for the dry and difmal defert of à Sierra Morena ? Are the fad accidents of life , and the uncheery hours which perpetually ...
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... imagine the house of feasting to be fuch a fcene of intemperance and ex- cefs as the house of feasting does often exhi- bit ; but let us take it from one , as little ex- ceptionable as we can , -where there is , or at least appears ...
... imagine the house of feasting to be fuch a fcene of intemperance and ex- cefs as the house of feasting does often exhi- bit ; but let us take it from one , as little ex- ceptionable as we can , -where there is , or at least appears ...
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... enemy , and more likely to rejoice at the evils which have fallen upon me , than to ftretch forth a hand to fave ' me from them ! ' " < < C 6 6 6 6 " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the ' Tis 36 SERMON III .
... enemy , and more likely to rejoice at the evils which have fallen upon me , than to ftretch forth a hand to fave ' me from them ! ' " < < C 6 6 6 6 " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the ' Tis 36 SERMON III .
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Laurence Sterne. " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the actions of generous and compaffionate tempers baffle ... imagine that it was mechanical , but that there was a fettled principle of humanity and goodness D 3 which which ...
Laurence Sterne. " Tis no unnatural foliloquy to imagine ; but the actions of generous and compaffionate tempers baffle ... imagine that it was mechanical , but that there was a fettled principle of humanity and goodness D 3 which which ...
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... imagine the good Sa- maritan was influenced by fome fuch thoughts as thefe , from the uncommon generofity of his behaviour , which is reprefented by our Saviour operating like the warm zeal of a brother , D4 mixed mixed with the ...
... imagine the good Sa- maritan was influenced by fome fuch thoughts as thefe , from the uncommon generofity of his behaviour , which is reprefented by our Saviour operating like the warm zeal of a brother , D4 mixed mixed with the ...
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Page 35 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 12 - 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 48 - 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 401 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk ? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus...
Page 42 - 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. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
Page 66 - And Elijah took the 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 415 - O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God : for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
Page 273 - 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 viii - 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 62 - Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth la truth.