The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Volumen2

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J. Dodsley, 1767

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Página 112 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Página 162 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Página 127 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Página 119 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Página 95 - But you will send an able pilot with your son a scholar. If wisdom can speak in no other language but Greek or Latin, you do well or if mathematics will make a man a gentleman,— or natural...
Página 240 - 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...
Página 5 - There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and illwill : a word, — a look, which at one time would make no impression at another time wounds the heart ; and like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
Página 89 - How shall the youth make his father comprehend, that he was cheated at Damascus by one of the best men in the world ; that he had lent a part of his substance to a friend at Nineveh, who had fled off...
Página 234 - 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.
Página 139 - And he faid unto him, If they hear not Mofes and the Prophets, neither will they be perfuaded, though one rofe from the dead.

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