The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1775 |
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Pàgina 12
... reflections upon the infufficiency of most of our enjoyments towards the attainment of happiness , upon fome of the most received plans on which ' tis generally fought . The The examination of which will lead us up to the 12 SERMON I.
... reflections upon the infufficiency of most of our enjoyments towards the attainment of happiness , upon fome of the most received plans on which ' tis generally fought . The The examination of which will lead us up to the 12 SERMON I.
Pàgina 14
... reflection upon the emptiness of human pleasure , and of the vanity of vanities which discovers itself in all the purfuits of ... reflections , however juft in themselves and and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world 24 SERMON I.
... reflection upon the emptiness of human pleasure , and of the vanity of vanities which discovers itself in all the purfuits of ... reflections , however juft in themselves and and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world 24 SERMON I.
Pàgina 35
... reflection , which is all that most of us want to make us wifer and better men ; -that at certain times it is fo neceffary a man's mind fhould be turned towards itself , that rather than want occafions , he had bet- ter purchase them at ...
... reflection , which is all that most of us want to make us wifer and better men ; -that at certain times it is fo neceffary a man's mind fhould be turned towards itself , that rather than want occafions , he had bet- ter purchase them at ...
Pàgina 43
... reflection , it will forcibly carry him fometimes whither he would not - like the unclean spirit , in the pa- rent's fad description of his child's case , which took him , and oft - times caft him into the fire to destroy him , and ...
... reflection , it will forcibly carry him fometimes whither he would not - like the unclean spirit , in the pa- rent's fad description of his child's case , which took him , and oft - times caft him into the fire to destroy him , and ...
Pàgina 49
... reflections of this ferious caft , how infenfibly do the thoughts carry usfarther ? -and from confidering , what we are what kind of world we live in , and what evils befal us in it , how natu- rally do they set us to look forwards at ...
... reflections of this ferious caft , how infenfibly do the thoughts carry usfarther ? -and from confidering , what we are what kind of world we live in , and what evils befal us in it , how natu- rally do they set us to look forwards at ...
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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.