The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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Laurence Sterne. tioufly lays it up against an evil hour : that it is not the proftitution of wealth upon the paffions , or the parting with it . at all , that conftitutes happiness - but that it is the keeping it together , and the ...
Laurence Sterne. tioufly lays it up against an evil hour : that it is not the proftitution of wealth upon the paffions , or the parting with it . at all , that conftitutes happiness - but that it is the keeping it together , and the ...
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... against this rhetoric ; I would chufe rather for a moment to go on with the allegory , and fay we are travellers , and , in the most affecting fenfe of that idea , that like tra- vellers , though upon business of the last and nearest ...
... against this rhetoric ; I would chufe rather for a moment to go on with the allegory , and fay we are travellers , and , in the most affecting fenfe of that idea , that like tra- vellers , though upon business of the last and nearest ...
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... against them , that pleasure should eafily 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 numbers come out of it again , with all ...
... against them , that pleasure should eafily 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 numbers come out of it again , with all ...
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... against it , not only as reafon requires , -but in reverence to this feafon * , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbear- ance and self - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the reftraints upon plea- fure and ...
... against it , not only as reafon requires , -but in reverence to this feafon * , wherein our church exacts a more particular forbear- ance and self - denial in this point , and thereby adds to the reftraints upon plea- fure and ...
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... against them - is now piteouf- ly borne down at the laft - overwhelmed with a cruel blow which no forecast or frugality could have prevented . - O GOD ! look upon his afflictions - Behold him distracted with many forrows , furround- ed ...
... against them - is now piteouf- ly borne down at the laft - overwhelmed with a cruel blow which no forecast or frugality could have prevented . - O GOD ! look upon his afflictions - Behold him distracted with many forrows , furround- ed ...
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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.
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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.
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Page 47 - 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.
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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.