The Works of Laurence Sterne ...W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, G. Kearsley, T. Lowndes, G. Robinson, 1780 |
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... doubt much better principled . by the advantages on which I enlarged above , in his commerce and obfervation with his Lord and Mafter , -yet it ap- ' pears to have been an early and dif- tinguishing part of his character . - An inftance ...
... doubt much better principled . by the advantages on which I enlarged above , in his commerce and obfervation with his Lord and Mafter , -yet it ap- ' pears to have been an early and dif- tinguishing part of his character . - An inftance ...
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... doubt as honeft a one that is , both as juft in the matter , and as fincere in the intention , as ever was made by any of mankind ; -his charac- ter not suffering us to imagine he made it in a braving diffimulation : -no ; -for he ...
... doubt as honeft a one that is , both as juft in the matter , and as fincere in the intention , as ever was made by any of mankind ; -his charac- ter not suffering us to imagine he made it in a braving diffimulation : -no ; -for he ...
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... .. And he faid , -O my GoD , I am afhamed , and blufh to lift up my face to thee , my GOD . - No doubt the holy man was confounded to look back upon " that long feries of fo many of God's un- deferved 42 SERMON XXXII .
... .. And he faid , -O my GoD , I am afhamed , and blufh to lift up my face to thee , my GOD . - No doubt the holy man was confounded to look back upon " that long feries of fo many of God's un- deferved 42 SERMON XXXII .
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... doubt , reflected at the fame time , that , befides this instance of God's goodness in first favouring their miraculous escape , a feries of fucceffes , not to be accounted for from fecond causes , and the natural courfe of events , had ...
... doubt , reflected at the fame time , that , befides this instance of God's goodness in first favouring their miraculous escape , a feries of fucceffes , not to be accounted for from fecond causes , and the natural courfe of events , had ...
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... doubt have done amiss , and greatly provoked GoD by their vio- lence ; but if our own iniquities , like theirs , are increafed over our heads- if fince the days of our fathers we have been in great trefpafs ourselves unto this day ...
... doubt have done amiss , and greatly provoked GoD by their vio- lence ; but if our own iniquities , like theirs , are increafed over our heads- if fince the days of our fathers we have been in great trefpafs ourselves unto this day ...
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Page 83 - 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 82 - 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 16 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk ? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus...
Page 170 - That to fear GOD, and keep his commandments, is the whole duty of man...
Page 218 - 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 225 - 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 80 - For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish.
Page 98 - Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Page 60 - Solomon's account in the text, — that becaufe fentence againft an evil work is not executed fpeedily, therefore the hearts of the fons of men are fully fet in them to do evil.