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This may be no recommendation ; - I mean it however as such ; for as the
Sermons turn chiefly upon philanthropy , and those kindred virtues to it , upon
which hang all the law and the prophets , I trust they will be no less felt , or worse
received ...
This may be no recommendation ; - I mean it however as such ; for as the
Sermons turn chiefly upon philanthropy , and those kindred virtues to it , upon
which hang all the law and the prophets , I trust they will be no less felt , or worse
received ...
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So that ' tis no great wonder , if the greatest part of such reflections , however just
in themselves and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to
leave little impresion where the imagination was already heated with great ...
So that ' tis no great wonder , if the greatest part of such reflections , however just
in themselves and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to
leave little impresion where the imagination was already heated with great ...
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And here , to be as fair and candid as possible in the description of this , we will
not take it from the worst originals , such as are opened merely for the sale of
virtue , and so calculated for the end , that the disguise each is under , not only
gives ...
And here , to be as fair and candid as possible in the description of this , we will
not take it from the worst originals , such as are opened merely for the sale of
virtue , and so calculated for the end , that the disguise each is under , not only
gives ...
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It is not neceffary , as I premici , to bring intemperance into this scene — or to
suppose such an excess in the gratification of the appetites , as shall ferment the
blood and set the desires in a flame : - Let us admit no more of it , therefore , than
...
It is not neceffary , as I premici , to bring intemperance into this scene — or to
suppose such an excess in the gratification of the appetites , as shall ferment the
blood and set the desires in a flame : - Let us admit no more of it , therefore , than
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Here , then , let us turn aside from this gay scene ; and suffer me to take you with
me for a moment to one much fitter for your meditation . Let us go into the house
of mourning , made so by such afflictions as have been brought in , merely by the
...
Here , then , let us turn aside from this gay scene ; and suffer me to take you with
me for a moment to one much fitter for your meditation . Let us go into the house
of mourning , made so by such afflictions as have been brought in , merely by the
...
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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 50 - 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 50 - 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 1 - 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 23 - 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 8 - 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 158 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 49 - 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 61 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 46 - As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
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| Title | The Works of Laurence Sterne ... Volume 6 of The Works of Laurence Sterne, Laurence Sterne |
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| Publisher | W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Oct 2005 |
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