The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...J. Turnbull, 1803 |
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... fufficient on that score , to have taken warning : and yet we find that he fell into the fame fuare of partiality to that child in his old age , which his mother Re- bekah had shown to him in hers , for Ifrael loved Jofeph more than all ...
... fufficient on that score , to have taken warning : and yet we find that he fell into the fame fuare of partiality to that child in his old age , which his mother Re- bekah had shown to him in hers , for Ifrael loved Jofeph more than all ...
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... of which I have not time to enlarge cn , and therefore fhall fay no more upon this argument than this , - that , was there no other , yet the bad company this 包 vice is generally found in , would be fufficient by 34 SERMON XXIV .
... of which I have not time to enlarge cn , and therefore fhall fay no more upon this argument than this , - that , was there no other , yet the bad company this 包 vice is generally found in , would be fufficient by 34 SERMON XXIV .
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... fufficient by it- felf to engage a man to avoid it . Thus much for the moral confiderations upon this fubject ; a great part of which , as they illuftrate chiefly the inconveniences of Pride in a focial light , may feem to have a ...
... fufficient by it- felf to engage a man to avoid it . Thus much for the moral confiderations upon this fubject ; a great part of which , as they illuftrate chiefly the inconveniences of Pride in a focial light , may feem to have a ...
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... fufficient reafon to be- lieve it was fo .. No doubt , there is fufficient room for amendment in the Chriftian world ; and we may be faid to be a very corrupt and bad generation of men , confidering what motives we have , from the ...
... fufficient reafon to be- lieve it was fo .. No doubt , there is fufficient room for amendment in the Chriftian world ; and we may be faid to be a very corrupt and bad generation of men , confidering what motives we have , from the ...
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... fufficient provifion against the wickedness of the world , the short and true anfwer is this , That there . can be none . It is fufficient to leave us without excafe , that the excellency of this inftitution , in its doctrine , its pre ...
... fufficient provifion against the wickedness of the world , the short and true anfwer is this , That there . can be none . It is fufficient to leave us without excafe , that the excellency of this inftitution , in its doctrine , its pre ...
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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.