The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1775 |
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Pàgina 12
... expectations- but fatisfy the most unbounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The words thus opened , naturally reduce the remaining part of the dif courfe under two heads . -The firft part of the verse " there be many " that fay , Who ...
... expectations- but fatisfy the most unbounded of our wishes for ever and ever . The words thus opened , naturally reduce the remaining part of the dif courfe under two heads . -The firft part of the verse " there be many " that fay , Who ...
Pàgina 15
... expectations of future happiness ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the world , fo feldom ftop a man in the purfuit of the object of his defire , or give him half the conviction , that the poffeffion of ...
... expectations of future happiness ; and that the best lectures that have been read upon the vanity of the world , fo feldom ftop a man in the purfuit of the object of his defire , or give him half the conviction , that the poffeffion of ...
Pàgina 17
... expectation . Obferve what impreffions are made upon his fenfes , by diverfions , mufic , drefs , and beauty - and how his fpirits are upon the wing , flying in pur- fuit of them ; that you would think he could never have enough ...
... expectation . Obferve what impreffions are made upon his fenfes , by diverfions , mufic , drefs , and beauty - and how his fpirits are upon the wing , flying in pur- fuit of them ; that you would think he could never have enough ...
Pàgina 18
... expectations of happiness , ' twas well if you escaped without pain.- That in every experiment he had tried , he had found more bitter than sweet , and for the little pleasure one could fnatch- it too often left a terrible fting behind ...
... expectations of happiness , ' twas well if you escaped without pain.- That in every experiment he had tried , he had found more bitter than sweet , and for the little pleasure one could fnatch- it too often left a terrible fting behind ...
Pàgina 21
... expectations of happiness from the poffeffion of riches-- " Let me try whether I fhall not meet " with it , in the spending and fashion- " able enjoyment of them . " Behold ! I will get me down , and make me great works , and build me C ...
... expectations of happiness from the poffeffion of riches-- " Let me try whether I fhall not meet " with it , in the spending and fashion- " able enjoyment of them . " Behold ! I will get me down , and make me great works , and build me C ...
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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick [i.e. Laurence Sterne] ... A New Edition, Volum 1 Laurence Sterne Visualització completa - 1780 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 19 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Pàgina 92 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Pàgina 27 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Pàgina 107 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.
Pàgina 116 - And Elijah said unto her, fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first and bring it unto me and after make for thee and for thy son.
Pàgina 92 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Pàgina 37 - ... when music likewise hath lent her aid, and tried her power upon the passions, — when the voice of singing men and the voice of singing women with the sound of the viol and the lute have broke in upon his soul, and in some tender notes have touched the secret springs of rapture...
Pàgina 156 - ... upon his breaft, faying' GOD be merciful to me a finner. I tell you, adds our SAVIOUR, this man went down to his houfe juftified rather than the other.
Pàgina 5 - Ambition takes him by the hand and carries him into the world, shows him all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them, — points out the many ways of advancing his fortune and...
Pàgina 123 - LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.