The Works of Laurence Sterne, Volume 8

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Page 160 - I can answer for those two. It is a subject which works well, and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past — I told you my design in it was to teach us to love the world and our fellow-creatures better than we do — so it runs most upon those gentler passions and affections, which aid so much to it.
Page 207 - This nobleman is an old friend of mine. You know he was always the protector of men of wit and genius; and has had those of the last century, Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Prior, &c., &c., always at his table.
Page 138 - Hills) can produce — with a clean cloth on my table — and a bottle of wine on my right hand to drink your health. I have a hundred hens and chickens about my yard — and not a parishioner catches a hare, or a rabbit or a trout, but he brings it as an offering to me.
Page 208 - I say, is a prodigy; for at eighty-five he has all the wit and promptness of a man of thirty. A disposition to be pleased, and a power to please others, beyond whatever I knew : added to which, a man of learning, courtesy, and feeling.
Page 4 - We will build, and we will plant, in our own way— simplicity shall not be tortured by art — we will learn of nature how to live — she shall be our alchymist, to mingle all the good of life into one salubrious draught.
Page 128 - The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience. A little reading and writing I got by unwearied application.
Page 67 - s family greet you with mine ; — we are much together, and never forget you. — Forget me not to the Baron, and all the circle, — nor to your domestic circle. I am got pretty well, and sport much with my uncle Toby in the volume I am now fabricating for the laughing part of the world ; — for the melancholy part of it I have nothing but my prayers...
Page 207 - Lord toasted your health three different times; and now he is in his eighty-fifth year, says he hopes to live long enough to be introduced as a friend to my fair Indian disciple, and to see her eclipse all other nabobesses as much in wealth, as she does already in exterior and (what is far better) in interior merit.
Page 129 - Consider slavery — what it is — how bitter a draught and how many millions are made to drink of it." — Of all my favourite authors not one has drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black brethren — excepting yourself, and the humane author of Sir Geo.
Page 129 - Consider how great a part of our species in all ages down to this have been trod under the feet of cruel and capricious tyrants, who would neither hear their cries nor pity their distresses. Consider slavery, what it is, how bitter a draught, and how many millions are made to drink of it.

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