L IF E AND OPINIONS O F TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. Dixero fi quid fortè jocosius, hoc mihi juris HOR. Si quis calumnietur levius effe quam decet theologum, aut mordacius quam deceat Chrif tianum----non Ego, fed Democritus dixit.---ERASMUS. VO L. VI. LONDON: Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DEHONDT, in the Strand, MDCCLXII. LIFE and OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent. CHAP. I. WE E'LL not ftop two moments, my dear Sir,-only, as we have got thro' these five volumes, (do, Sir, fit down upon a fet-they are better than nothing) let us just look back upon the country we have pass'd through.. What a wilderness has it been! and what a mercy that we have not both |