The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author, Volume 4William Durell, 1813 - English literature |
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... doubt , numbers of all ages escape unhurt , and get off this dangerous sea without shipwreck . Yet are they not to be reckoned amongst the most fortu- nate adventurers ; -and though one would not abso- lutely prohibit the attempt , or ...
... doubt , numbers of all ages escape unhurt , and get off this dangerous sea without shipwreck . Yet are they not to be reckoned amongst the most fortu- nate adventurers ; -and though one would not abso- lutely prohibit the attempt , or ...
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... doubt some such train of reflections as these would rise in his mind : - " Good God ! what a spectacle of " misery do I behold ! —a man stripped of his " raiment , wounded , -lying languishing before " me upon the ground , just ready to ...
... doubt some such train of reflections as these would rise in his mind : - " Good God ! what a spectacle of " misery do I behold ! —a man stripped of his " raiment , wounded , -lying languishing before " me upon the ground , just ready to ...
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... doubt , found so much rea- son to be contented . It is not an easy matter to be severe , where there is such an impulse to be kind , ➡or to efface at once all the tender impressions in favour of so old a friend , which disabled us from ...
... doubt , found so much rea- son to be contented . It is not an easy matter to be severe , where there is such an impulse to be kind , ➡or to efface at once all the tender impressions in favour of so old a friend , which disabled us from ...
Page 52
... doubt make a wide difference betwixt his case and the party's which he condemns . What other man speaks so often and vehemently against the vice of pride , sets the weakness of it in a more odious light , or is more hurt with 52 SERMON IV .
... doubt make a wide difference betwixt his case and the party's which he condemns . What other man speaks so often and vehemently against the vice of pride , sets the weakness of it in a more odious light , or is more hurt with 52 SERMON IV .
Page 62
... doubt , she had long fenced against this tragi- Ical event with all the thrifty management which self - preservation and parental love could inspire ; full , no doubt , of cares and many tender apprehen- sions , lest the slender stock ...
... doubt , she had long fenced against this tragi- Ical event with all the thrifty management which self - preservation and parental love could inspire ; full , no doubt , of cares and many tender apprehen- sions , lest the slender stock ...
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