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A NEW EDITION, WITH APPENDIX, CONTAINING SEVERAL Unpublished
LETTERS, &c.

EDITED BY

JAMES P. BROWNE, M.D.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

BICKERS AND SON, 1, LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C.
H. SOTHERAN AND CO., 136, STRAND.

1873.

LONDON

PRINTED BY W. WILFRED HEAD, PLOUGH COURT, FETTER LANE, E.C.

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Si quis calumnietur levius esse quam decet theologum, aut mordacius quam deceat Christianum-non Ego, sed Democritus dixit.

ERASMUS.

Si quis Clericus, aut Monachus, verba joculatoria, risum moventia, sciebat, anathema esto. SECOND COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE.

VOL. VI. ORIG. EDIT.

THE

LIFE AND OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENT.

CHAPTER I.

-WE'LL not stop two moments, my dear Sir;-only, as we have got thro' these five volumes* (do, Sir, sit down upon a set, they are better than nothing), let us just look back upon the country we have pass'd through.

What a wilderness it has been! and what a mercy that we have not both of us been lost, or devoured by wild beasts in it!

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Did you think the world itself, Sir, had contained such a number of Jack Asses ?How they view'd and review'd us, as they passed over the rivulet at the bottom of that little valley!—and when we climbed over that hill, and where just getting out of sight, -good God! what a braying did they all set up together!

-Prithee, Shepherd, who keeps all those Jack Asses ? ***

VOL. II.

* Seven, according to the original edition.

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