The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... because they are not . SERMON X. p . 185 . Job's Account of the Shortnefs and Troubles of Life , confidered . JOB XIV . I , 2 . Man that is born of a woman , is of few days , and full of trouble : -He cometh forth like a flower , and is ...
... because they are not . SERMON X. p . 185 . Job's Account of the Shortnefs and Troubles of Life , confidered . JOB XIV . I , 2 . Man that is born of a woman , is of few days , and full of trouble : -He cometh forth like a flower , and is ...
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... because the 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 ...
... because the 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 ...
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... because in his way he had haftily fnatch- ed at some little fugacious pleasures , merely do tweeten this uneafy journey of ke , and reconcile him to the ruggedness of the road , and the many hard juftlings he is fire to meet with ...
... because in his way he had haftily fnatch- ed at some little fugacious pleasures , merely do tweeten this uneafy journey of ke , and reconcile him to the ruggedness of the road , and the many hard juftlings he is fire to meet with ...
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... because our fuf- ferings are apt to put us in mind of our fins , but that by the check and interrup- tion which they give to our pursuits , they allow us what the hurry and bustle of the world too often deny us , -and that is , a little ...
... because our fuf- ferings are apt to put us in mind of our fins , but that by the check and interrup- tion which they give to our pursuits , they allow us what the hurry and bustle of the world too often deny us , -and that is , a little ...
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... because it is a pleasure to look into a good mind , and trace out as far as one is able , what paffes within it on fuch oc- cafions , I fhall beg leave for a moment to state an account of what was likely to pass in his , and in what ...
... because it is a pleasure to look into a good mind , and trace out as far as one is able , what paffes within it on fuch oc- cafions , I fhall beg leave for a moment to state an account of what was likely to pass in his , and in what ...
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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.