The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... with a heart much at cafe , upon the protection of the hu- mane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for which I beg leave to return them thanks thanks . CONTENTS . SERMON I. p . 3 . Inquiry after PREFACE .
... with a heart much at cafe , upon the protection of the hu- mane and candid , from whom I have received many favours , for which I beg leave to return them thanks thanks . CONTENTS . SERMON I. p . 3 . Inquiry after PREFACE .
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... has long been banished from noife and tumults , where there was no reft found for her , and was fled into folitude far from all commerce of the world ; and in a word , if he would find her , he must leave this bufy and ' in- 6 I. SERMON.
... has long been banished from noife and tumults , where there was no reft found for her , and was fled into folitude far from all commerce of the world ; and in a word , if he would find her , he must leave this bufy and ' in- 6 I. SERMON.
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Laurence Sterne. her , he must leave this bufy and ' in- triguing fcene , and go back to that peaceful scene of retirement and books , from which he firft fet out . In this circle too often does a man run , tries all experiments , and ...
Laurence Sterne. her , he must leave this bufy and ' in- triguing fcene , and go back to that peaceful scene of retirement and books , from which he firft fet out . In this circle too often does a man run , tries all experiments , and ...
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... leave little impreflion where the imagination was already heated with great 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 ...
... leave little impreflion where the imagination was already heated with great 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 ...
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... Leave him to himteli a few years , till the edge of appetite is worn down - and you will fearce know him again . You will find him entered into engagements , and fetting up for a man of bulinefs and conduct , talking of no other ...
... Leave him to himteli a few years , till the edge of appetite is worn down - and you will fearce know him again . You will find him entered into engagements , and fetting up for a man of bulinefs and conduct , talking of no other ...
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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.