The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... SAVIOUR reprefents a scene , in which , by a kind of contrast , two of the most op- pofite conditions that could be brought together from Human life , are paffed before our imaginations . . The one , a man exalted above the level of man ...
... SAVIOUR reprefents a scene , in which , by a kind of contrast , two of the most op- pofite conditions that could be brought together from Human life , are paffed before our imaginations . . The one , a man exalted above the level of man ...
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... SAVIOUR might further intend to discover to us by it , the dangers to which great riches naturally expofe mankind , agreeably to what is elsewhere declared , how hardly fhall they who have them , enter into the kingdom of Heave » . The ...
... SAVIOUR might further intend to discover to us by it , the dangers to which great riches naturally expofe mankind , agreeably to what is elsewhere declared , how hardly fhall they who have them , enter into the kingdom of Heave » . The ...
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... SAVIOUR , in acts of benevolence , as well as every thing else , should govern us ; -That whatsoever ye would that men fhould do to you , do ye alfo unto them . Haft thou ever laid upon the bed of languishing , or laboured under a ...
... SAVIOUR , in acts of benevolence , as well as every thing else , should govern us ; -That whatsoever ye would that men fhould do to you , do ye alfo unto them . Haft thou ever laid upon the bed of languishing , or laboured under a ...
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... SAVIOUR's to Humility , addreffed by way of inference from what he had faid in the three foregoing verses of the chapter : where , upon entering into the house of one of the chief Pha- rifees to eat bread , and marking how small a ...
... SAVIOUR's to Humility , addreffed by way of inference from what he had faid in the three foregoing verses of the chapter : where , upon entering into the house of one of the chief Pha- rifees to eat bread , and marking how small a ...
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... SAVIOUR , fit not down . in the highest room , left a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him , come and fay to thee , -Give this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room ...
... SAVIOUR , fit not down . in the highest room , left a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him , come and fay to thee , -Give this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room ...
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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.