The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself1803 |
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... falling amongst thieves , left in the greatest distress imaginable , till by chance a Samaritan , an utter stranger ... falls from it . A certain man , fays our SAVIOUR , went down from Jerufalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves , who ...
... falling amongst thieves , left in the greatest distress imaginable , till by chance a Samaritan , an utter stranger ... falls from it . A certain man , fays our SAVIOUR , went down from Jerufalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves , who ...
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... falls from it , of exhorting you , as our SAVIOUR did the lawyer upon it , to go and do fo likewife ; but I have been fo copious in my reflections upon the story itself , that I find I have infenfibly incorporated into them almost all ...
... falls from it , of exhorting you , as our SAVIOUR did the lawyer upon it , to go and do fo likewife ; but I have been fo copious in my reflections upon the story itself , that I find I have infenfibly incorporated into them almost all ...
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... fall , and will almost neceffarily be connected - Tell me therefore of a compaffionate man , you represent to me a man of a thousand other good qualities - on whom I can de- pend - whom I may fafely truft with my wife - my children , my ...
... fall , and will almost neceffarily be connected - Tell me therefore of a compaffionate man , you represent to me a man of a thousand other good qualities - on whom I can de- pend - whom I may fafely truft with my wife - my children , my ...
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... dangerous and delufive , and which the more guarded perpetually fall into from the judgments they make of different vices , according to their age and com- plexion , and the various ebbs and flows of their 46 SERMON IV .
... dangerous and delufive , and which the more guarded perpetually fall into from the judgments they make of different vices , according to their age and com- plexion , and the various ebbs and flows of their 46 SERMON IV .
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... falls , who would not pity him ? who , that had power to do it , would not befriend and raise him up ? or could the most barbarous temper offer an infult to his distress without pain and reluctance ? So that it is almost a wonder that ...
... falls , who would not pity him ? who , that had power to do it , would not befriend and raise him up ? or could the most barbarous temper offer an infult to his distress without pain and reluctance ? So that it is almost a wonder that ...
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Page 77 - 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 71 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 37 - 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 26 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was ; and when he saw him he had compassion on him...
Page 203 - Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power : help us, O LORD our God ; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God ; let not 'man prevail against thee.
Page 37 - 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 138 - 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 223 - BLESSED Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning ; grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Page 128 - 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 9 - 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.