 | Several Hands - 1766 - 596 Seiten
...neck and kijjed him. * Great is the power of eloquence : but never is it fo great as when it pltaJs along with nature, and the culprit is a child ftrayed...from his duty, and returned to it again with tears : Cafoif.s may fettle the point as they will : But what could a parent fee moie in the account, than... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 256 Seiten
...words —he fell upon his neck and kiffed him. Great is the power of eloquence: but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the...child ftrayed from, his duty, and returned to it again wiih tears: dafuilis may fettle the point as they will : but •what could a parent fee more in the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1767 - 308 Seiten
...words — h: fell upon his neck and kiffed him. Great is the power of eloquence : but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child ftraycd from his duty, and returned to it again with tears: Cafuifts may fe-ttle the point as they... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1776 - 198 Seiten
...words — he fell upon hii-neck andkijjed him, Great is the power of eloquence.; but never as it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the..."more in the account, than the natural one, of an ingenuous heart too open for the world,— fmitten with ftrong fenfations of pleafures, and fuffered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 Seiten
...SERMON xv. p. I2. ELOQUENCE ELO Q_U ENC Ea' /""lREAT is the power of eloquence; but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child (frayed- from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. SERMOX XX. P. IOI GENEROSITY. ENEROSITY... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1784 - 292 Seiten
...i-Jl GREAT is the power of ; eloquence ; but never is it fqgreat as when it pleads along with nutuie, and the culprit is a child ftrayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.-. .r--. . T- - .; --.,.. .; • SERMON xx. P. 1OH. ' _ *»*- wv -*•-..: J w -.• ; . . _ - .« -7... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1790 - 390 Seiten
...fubjeft. sERM. xv. P. I2ELOQUENCE, ELO QJJ ENC E. REAT is the power of eloquence ; but never f* it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the...from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. ICftM, xx, I'. 101* GENEROSITY. ENEROSITY forrows as much for the overmatch, ed, as Pity herfelf does.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1799 - 392 Seiten
...chances to wine;. our life is fubjcct. SERM. xv. r. RE AT is the power of eloquence; <>trt never 1s it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, ' and the...from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. SERM. xX. P. 1OI. ] GENEROSITY. ; ENEROSITY forrows as much for the overmatched, as Pity herfelf does.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 476 Seiten
...'* he fell upon his neck, and « kiflTed him." Great is the pc-Wer of eloquence; but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with Nature, and the...from his duty, and returned to it again with tears. Cafuifls may fettle the point as they will; but what could a parent fee more in the account than the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 306 Seiten
...words — Jje fell upon bis neck and kiffed him, Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it fo great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child flrayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears : Cafuifls may fettle the point -as they... | |
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Great is the power of eloquence: but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears... 
