The Sermons of Mr. Yorick ...J. Dodsley, 1776 |
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... was buried ; Buried no doubt in triumph , with all the ill- timed pride of funerals , and empty decorations , which worldly folly is apt to prostitute upon thofe occafions . But this was the laft vain fhow ; the utter 4 SERMON VIII . 15.
... was buried ; Buried no doubt in triumph , with all the ill- timed pride of funerals , and empty decorations , which worldly folly is apt to prostitute upon thofe occafions . But this was the laft vain fhow ; the utter 4 SERMON VIII . 15.
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... doubt , too often , upon the pride of Plato's man- tle , with as great a pride of our own ; yet on the whole the remark has more fpleen than truth in it ; there being thousands , ( if any evidence is to be allowed ) of the most ...
... doubt , too often , upon the pride of Plato's man- tle , with as great a pride of our own ; yet on the whole the remark has more fpleen than truth in it ; there being thousands , ( if any evidence is to be allowed ) of the most ...
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... we confider him as ftand- ing alone , no doubt , in fuch a cafe he will be overpowered and trampled upon by his oppofer ; - but if we confider the meek and lowly man , as he is fenced and guarded by the love , the yo SERMON X.
... we confider him as ftand- ing alone , no doubt , in fuch a cafe he will be overpowered and trampled upon by his oppofer ; - but if we confider the meek and lowly man , as he is fenced and guarded by the love , the yo SERMON X.
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... given it . But tho ' reafon , you'll fay , could not overthrow thefe popular mistakes , yet it faw the folly of them , and was at all times able to difprove then . No doubt it was ; and it is certain too 108 SERMON XI .
... given it . But tho ' reafon , you'll fay , could not overthrow thefe popular mistakes , yet it faw the folly of them , and was at all times able to difprove then . No doubt it was ; and it is certain too 108 SERMON XI .
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Laurence Sterne. No doubt it was ; and it is certain too , that the more diligent inquirers after truth , did not in fact fall into thefe abfurd notions , which , by the way , is an obfervation more to our purpose than theirs , who ...
Laurence Sterne. No doubt it was ; and it is certain too , that the more diligent inquirers after truth , did not in fact fall into thefe abfurd notions , which , by the way , is an obfervation more to our purpose than theirs , who ...
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Page 170 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 184 - 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 150 - Tis all nature can bear. — Good GOD ! see how it keeps his weary soul hanging upon his trembling lips, willing to take its leave, but not suffered to depart. Behold the unhappy wretch led back to his cell...
Page 185 - FOR our converfation is in heaven ; from whence alfo we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jefus Chrift ; who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafhioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to fubdue all things unto Himfelf.— From tfc Epijile.
Page 139 - BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT HATH NOT SLIPPED WITH HIS MOUTH, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins. Blessed is he whose conscience hath not condemned him, and who is not fallen from his hope in the Lord.
Page 3 - And he faid unto him, If they hear not Mofes and the prophets, neither will they be perfuaded, though one rofe from the dead.
Page 185 - Chrift, who fhall change our vile body, that it may be fafliioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to fubdue all things unto him. — It is obfervable, that St. Peter reprefents the ftate of Chriftians, under the fame image of ftrangers on earth, whofe city and proper home is heaven : — he makes ufe of that relation of citizens of heaven, as a ftrong argument for a pure and holy life...