Sermons: By Laurence Sterne, ...Joseph Wenman, 1785 |
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... intereft by undermining others . - The paths of virtue are plain and straight , fo that the blind , perfons of the meanett capacity ,. fhall not err . - Dishonesty requires skill to conduct it , and as great art to conceal- what ' tis ...
... intereft by undermining others . - The paths of virtue are plain and straight , fo that the blind , perfons of the meanett capacity ,. fhall not err . - Dishonesty requires skill to conduct it , and as great art to conceal- what ' tis ...
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... intereft , the upright and honeft man ftands much fairer for preferment , and much more likely to be employed in all things when fidelity is wanted - for all men , however the cafe ftands with them- felves , they love at least to find ...
... intereft , the upright and honeft man ftands much fairer for preferment , and much more likely to be employed in all things when fidelity is wanted - for all men , however the cafe ftands with them- felves , they love at least to find ...
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... so ab- furd , as to deny it ferved our best and our laft intereft , -when the little interests of this life were at an end - upon which con- fideration we fhould always lay the great weight which it B 3 SERMON XXVIII . 13 -- ...
... so ab- furd , as to deny it ferved our best and our laft intereft , -when the little interests of this life were at an end - upon which con- fideration we fhould always lay the great weight which it B 3 SERMON XXVIII . 13 -- ...
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... intereft , and reputation , -one who was defcended from a tribe of Ifrael , deeply killed in the profeffions , and zealous in the obfervations of the firaiteft fect of that re- ligion ; who had their tencts inftilled into him from his ...
... intereft , and reputation , -one who was defcended from a tribe of Ifrael , deeply killed in the profeffions , and zealous in the obfervations of the firaiteft fect of that re- ligion ; who had their tencts inftilled into him from his ...
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... intereft , and rendered them as firm in the defence of it , as eminent in its ex- ample . But if you examine the fact , you will almost find it a teft of a politer edu- cation , and mark of more fhining parts , to know nothing , and ...
... intereft , and rendered them as firm in the defence of it , as eminent in its ex- ample . But if you examine the fact , you will almost find it a teft of a politer edu- cation , and mark of more fhining parts , to know nothing , and ...
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