The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... are , and I pray to God , they may do it the fervice I wish . I have little to fay in their behalf , except this , that not one of them was compofed with any thoughts of being printed ; they have been haftily written , and PREFACE .
... are , and I pray to God , they may do it the fervice I wish . I have little to fay in their behalf , except this , that not one of them was compofed with any thoughts of being printed ; they have been haftily written , and PREFACE .
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... to the difcovery of this great end of all his wishes ? He is told by one to fearch for it among the more gay and youthful plea- fures of life , in fcenes of mirth and fprightlinefs where happiness ever pre- fides , and is ever B 2.
... to the difcovery of this great end of all his wishes ? He is told by one to fearch for it among the more gay and youthful plea- fures of life , in fcenes of mirth and fprightlinefs where happiness ever pre- fides , and is ever B 2.
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... 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 , Who will fhew us any " good ? " - To make fome ...
... 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 , Who will fhew us any " good ? " - To make fome ...
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... wishes ! This is the full force of the wife man's declaration . - But to do farther juftice to his words , I will endeavour to bring the fubject ftill nearer . - For which pur- pofe , it will be neceffary to stop here , and take a ...
... wishes ! This is the full force of the wife man's declaration . - But to do farther juftice to his words , I will endeavour to bring the fubject ftill nearer . - For which pur- pofe , it will be neceffary to stop here , and take a ...
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... wish , when he beheld me wounded and half - dead , that he fhould fhut up his bowels of " compaffion from me , and double the weight of my miferies by paffing by and leaving them unpitied ? -But I am a ftranger to the man ; -be it fo ...
... wish , when he beheld me wounded and half - dead , that he fhould fhut up his bowels of " compaffion from me , and double the weight of my miferies by paffing by and leaving them unpitied ? -But I am a ftranger to the man ; -be it fo ...
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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.
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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.