The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... fuffer thefe hardships in a world which thou- haft made ? is it for thy honour , that one man fhould eat the bread of fulness and fo many of his own- ftock and lineage eat the bread of forrow ? -That- this man fhould go clad in purple ...
... fuffer thefe hardships in a world which thou- haft made ? is it for thy honour , that one man fhould eat the bread of fulness and fo many of his own- ftock and lineage eat the bread of forrow ? -That- this man fhould go clad in purple ...
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... fuffer inferiors to take my ho- nours ? Yes ; for that , fays our SAVIOUR , is the road to it : For when he that bade thee cometh , he will Say to thee , Friend , go up higher ; then shalt thou have worship in the prefence of them who ...
... fuffer inferiors to take my ho- nours ? Yes ; for that , fays our SAVIOUR , is the road to it : For when he that bade thee cometh , he will Say to thee , Friend , go up higher ; then shalt thou have worship in the prefence of them who ...
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... fuffer the exultations of an in- folent temper to efcape the abafement , or the de-- portment of a humble one to fail of the honour , which each of their characters do deserve . " In other vitious exceffes which a man commits , the ...
... fuffer the exultations of an in- folent temper to efcape the abafement , or the de-- portment of a humble one to fail of the honour , which each of their characters do deserve . " In other vitious exceffes which a man commits , the ...
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... fuffer fo much from the overflowings of it in others , as to make the literal accomplishment of the text a com- mon intereft and concern in which they are gene- rally fuccefsful , the nature of the vice being fuch , as not only to tempt ...
... fuffer fo much from the overflowings of it in others , as to make the literal accomplishment of the text a com- mon intereft and concern in which they are gene- rally fuccefsful , the nature of the vice being fuch , as not only to tempt ...
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... fuffer by them - But here if I exalt myself , I have no profpect of efcaping with this vice I ftand fwoln up in every body's way , and muft unavoidably be thruft back whichever way I turn , whatever step I take under the direction of ...
... fuffer by them - But here if I exalt myself , I have no profpect of efcaping with this vice I ftand fwoln up in every body's way , and muft unavoidably be thruft back whichever way I turn , whatever step I take under the direction of ...
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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.