The Posthumous Works of Laurence Sterne: ...T. Cadell, 1794 - 216 Seiten |
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Seite 62 - ... which were directed always to be left with the memorandums. The writing to be paid for on the delivery; according to the nature, extent , or importance of the fubjects.
Seite 174 - Huchefon, in his philofophic treatife on beauty , harmony , and order, plus's and minus's you to heaven or hell, by algebraic equations — fo that none but an expert mathematician can ever be able to fettle his accounts with St. Peter— and perhaps St. Matthew, who had been an officer in the cuftoms, muft be called in to audite them.
Seite 101 - But as monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression ; so there are certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, — who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again ; and may more properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap, a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.
Seite 93 - The difficulties we apprehend, more than thofe we find, in an attempt of this kind, as well as in the ftrife with all our paffions, is the only thing that prevents philofophy and virtue from being commonly attainable in general life. What makes the difference between a chafle woman and and a frail one ? The one had ftruggled and the other not.
Seite 189 - Mahomet to follow her hufband ; the other was willing to embrace the fpoufe fhe had recovered. United by the ties of matrimonial love, we had when living but one nuptial bed, and in our death only one marble covers us.
Seite 180 - So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble : he delivereth them out of their diftrefs.
Seite 37 - Maje/ty to decency again. She might have loft her life by her minifterial magna charta of precedent. This' adventure of mine was the firft thing that ever involved me in debt. I was obliged to borrow two hundred pounds, beyond my own currency, upon this occafion. I had no fufficient fecurity to proffer. But Captain...
Seite 149 - I think that a perfon may as well be afleep —for they can be only faid to dream — who read any thing, but with a view of improving their morals, or regulating their conduct. 152. Nothing in this life, after health and virtue, is more...
Seite 117 - Let us then live fo, as to maks it only a continuation of it, by the uniform practice of charity, benevolence and religion, which are to be the exercifes of the next life unlefs we are to be as idle and worthlefs there, as the gods of Lucretius.
Seite 147 - And as the blending of the former creates the union of body, fo is all virtue produced by the balancing or commixing of the feveral affections and propenfities of the foul. As our bodies are formed of clay, fo are even our virtues made up of meannefs or vice.