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The works of Laurence Sterne ... / with a life of the author, written by himself.

  • Laurence Sterne
Date:
1803
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    be no recommendation;—I mean it however as fuch ; tor as the Sermons turn chiefly upon philanthropy, and thofe kindred virtues to it, upon which hang all the law and the prophets* I truft they will be no lefs felt, or worfe re- ceived, for the evidence they bear, of proceeding more from the heart than the head. I have no¬ thing to add, but that the reader, upon old and beaten fubjects, muft not look for many new thoughts—’tis well if he has new language in three or four paffages ; where he has neither the one nor the other, I have quoted the author I made free with.—There are feme other paffages where I fufpeci I may have taken the fame li¬ berty,—but ’tis only fufpicion, for I do not remember it is fo, otherwife I fhould have re¬ ft ore d them to their proper owners; fo that 1 put in here more as a general faving than from a confcioufneft of having much to anfwer for upon that fcore. In this however, and every thine* elfe which I offer or lhall offer to the world, I reft, with a heart much at eafe, upon the protection of the humane and candid, from whom 1 have received many favours, for which I beg leave to return them thanks——thanks.