The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. YorickJohn Wyeth., 1805 - English literature |
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... suppose it is needless to inform the public , that the reason for printing these sermons , arises altogether from the favor- able reception which the sermon given as a sample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY met with from the world . - That ...
... suppose it is needless to inform the public , that the reason for printing these sermons , arises altogether from the favor- able reception which the sermon given as a sample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY met with from the world . - That ...
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... suppose to be the case - nor let us even imagine the house of feasting to be such a scene of intemperance and excess , as the house of feasting does often exhibit ; -but let us take it from one as little exceptionable as we can where ...
... suppose to be the case - nor let us even imagine the house of feasting to be such a scene of intemperance and excess , as the house of feasting does often exhibit ; -but let us take it from one as little exceptionable as we can where ...
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Laurence Sterne. mised to bring intemperance into this scene - or to suppose such an excess in the gratification of the appetites , as shall ferment the blood , and set the desires in a flame : -Let us admit no more of it , therefore ...
Laurence Sterne. mised to bring intemperance into this scene - or to suppose such an excess in the gratification of the appetites , as shall ferment the blood , and set the desires in a flame : -Let us admit no more of it , therefore ...
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... suppose , of the great multitudes which daily throng and press into this house of Feasting , but that numbers come out of it again with all the innocence with which they entered ; -and that , if both sexes are included in the ...
... suppose , of the great multitudes which daily throng and press into this house of Feasting , but that numbers come out of it again with all the innocence with which they entered ; -and that , if both sexes are included in the ...
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... suppose , who cannot well do otherwise , and whose condition and situation in life unavoid- ably force them upon it - yet we may be allowed to describe this fair and flattering coast - we may point out the unsuspecting dangers of it ...
... suppose , who cannot well do otherwise , and whose condition and situation in life unavoid- ably force them upon it - yet we may be allowed to describe this fair and flattering coast - we may point out the unsuspecting dangers of it ...
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Page 353 - Saul, 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 248 - AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Page 44 - 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 429 - 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 296 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 324 - But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man : for he knew what was in man.
Page 89 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 315 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 344 - But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 248 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.