The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... wife , I have added a fecond title - page with the real name of the Author - the firft will ferve the book- feller's purpose , as Yorick's name is poffibly of the two the more known ; -and the fecond will ease the minds of those who see ...
... wife , I have added a fecond title - page with the real name of the Author - the firft will ferve the book- feller's purpose , as Yorick's name is poffibly of the two the more known ; -and the fecond will ease the minds of those who see ...
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... wife . JOB II . IO . What ! Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? SERMON XVI . p . 192 . The Character of Shimei . 2 SAMUEL XIX . 21. ift Part . But Abishai faid , Shall not Shimei be put to ...
... wife . JOB II . IO . What ! Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? SERMON XVI . p . 192 . The Character of Shimei . 2 SAMUEL XIX . 21. ift Part . But Abishai faid , Shall not Shimei be put to ...
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... wife . JOB II . 10 . What ! -Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? SERMON XVI . p . 192 . The Character of Shimei . 2 SAMUEL XIX . 21. 1ft Part . But Abishai faid , Shall not Shimei be put to ...
... wife . JOB II . 10 . What ! -Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil also ? SERMON XVI . p . 192 . The Character of Shimei . 2 SAMUEL XIX . 21. 1ft Part . But Abishai faid , Shall not Shimei be put to ...
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... wife man's rea- foning upon it for that is the end of all men , and the living will lay it to his heart : forrow is better than laughter for a crack - brain'd order of Carthufian monks , I grant , but not for men of the world : For what ...
... wife man's rea- foning upon it for that is the end of all men , and the living will lay it to his heart : forrow is better than laughter for a crack - brain'd order of Carthufian monks , I grant , but not for men of the world : For what ...
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... wife man's declaration . -But to do farther juftice to his words , I will en- deavour to bring the fubject ftill nearer . - For which purpose , it will be neceffary to ftop here , and take a tranfient view of the two places here ...
... wife man's declaration . -But to do farther juftice to his words , I will en- deavour to bring the fubject ftill nearer . - For which purpose , it will be neceffary to ftop here , and take a tranfient view of the two places here ...
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Page 29 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 18 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 239 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 122 - If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Page 1 - 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 91 - 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 29 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...
Page 103 - Man that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one.
Page xiii - 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 ix - 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...