The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... expectations - but fatisfy the most un- bounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The words thus opened , naturally reduce the remaining part of the dif- courfe under two heads . - The firft part of the verfe " there be many that fay ...
... expectations - but fatisfy the most un- bounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The words thus opened , naturally reduce the remaining part of the dif- courfe under two heads . - The firft part of the verfe " there be many that fay ...
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... expectations of future happinefs ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the world , fo feldom stop a man in the purfuit of the object of his defire , or give him half the conviction , that the poffeffion of ...
... expectations of future happinefs ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the world , fo feldom stop a man in the purfuit of the object of his defire , or give him half the conviction , that the poffeffion of ...
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... expectations of happiness , ' twas well if you efcaped without pain.- That in every experiment he has tried , he had found more bitter than fweet , and for the little pleasure one could snatch- it too often left a terrible fting behind ...
... expectations of happiness , ' twas well if you efcaped without pain.- That in every experiment he has tried , he had found more bitter than fweet , and for the little pleasure one could snatch- it too often left a terrible fting behind ...
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... expectations of happiness from the poffeffion of riches- " Let me try whether I fhall not meet " with it in the fpending and fashion- " able enjoyment of them . " Behold ! I will get me down , and make me great works , and build me ...
... expectations of happiness from the poffeffion of riches- " Let me try whether I fhall not meet " with it in the fpending and fashion- " able enjoyment of them . " Behold ! I will get me down , and make me great works , and build me ...
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... expectation of it is built upon a rock whofe foundations . are as deep as thofe of heaven and hell . And though in our pilgrimage through this world - fome of us may be fo for- tunate as to meet with fome clear foun- tains by the way ...
... expectation of it is built upon a rock whofe foundations . are as deep as thofe of heaven and hell . And though in our pilgrimage through this world - fome of us may be fo for- tunate as to meet with fome clear foun- tains by the way ...
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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 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 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.
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.