The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... happiness . When this point was made out and the alarms from interest got over , the spectre might address himself to the other paffions - In doing this , he could but give us the most engaging ideas of the perfec- tions of GOD , or ...
... happiness . When this point was made out and the alarms from interest got over , the spectre might address himself to the other paffions - In doing this , he could but give us the most engaging ideas of the perfec- tions of GOD , or ...
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... happiness , -in compliance with the world , and on a fuppofition that the pof- feffion of riches must make us happy , when the very purfuit of them fo warms our imaginations , that we ftake both body and foul upon the event , as if they ...
... happiness , -in compliance with the world , and on a fuppofition that the pof- feffion of riches must make us happy , when the very purfuit of them fo warms our imaginations , that we ftake both body and foul upon the event , as if they ...
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... happiness but good eat- ing and drinking , bid him tafte and fee how good God is there is not an invitation in all nature would confound him like it . • In a word , a man's mind must be like your pro- pofition , before it can be ...
... happiness but good eat- ing and drinking , bid him tafte and fee how good God is there is not an invitation in all nature would confound him like it . • In a word , a man's mind must be like your pro- pofition , before it can be ...
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... happiness and profpe- rity - What reafon does this view furnifh you for Pride ? how many does it fuggeft to mortify and . make you afhamed ? -Well might the fon of Sirach say in that farcaftical remark of his upon it , That PRIDE was ...
... happiness and profpe- rity - What reafon does this view furnifh you for Pride ? how many does it fuggeft to mortify and . make you afhamed ? -Well might the fon of Sirach say in that farcaftical remark of his upon it , That PRIDE was ...
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... happiness in their hands , they can neither compound or ufe them : How fhould they ? the goad is ever in their fides , and fo hurries them on from one expectation to another , as to leave them no reft day or night . Humility , therefore ...
... happiness in their hands , they can neither compound or ufe them : How fhould they ? the goad is ever in their fides , and fo hurries them on from one expectation to another , as to leave them no reft day or night . Humility , therefore ...
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Page 65 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 135 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 130 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 215 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page iv - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 130 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him, and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth ; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear ; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 71 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
Page 196 - And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul...
Page 8 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him: and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.