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The Life And Opinions Of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman Volume . 2
The Life And Opinions Of Tristam Shandy Gentleman Volume 2 Author:Laurence Sterne This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1792 Excerpt: ...my way--But mine, indeed, is a particular case So without arguing the matter further with Thomas 0' Becket, or any one else---I skipped in... more »to the boat, and in five minutes we got under sail, and scudded away like the wind. ' Pray captain, quoth I, as Iwas going down into the cabin, is a man never overtaken by Death on this Vpafsage? X hy, there is not time for a man to be fick in it, replied he-What'a cursed lyar! for Iam as fick as a horse, quoth I, already-what a brain!-down! upside-hey-day! the cells are broke loose one int5,another,' and the blood and the lymph, and the nervous juices, with the fix'd and volatile salts, are all jumbled into one massgood g-! every thing turns round in it like a thousand whirlpools-I'd give a shilling to know if I ihan't write the clearer for it. i. CHAP. IV.. " NOW before I quit Calais," a travel-writer would say, " It would not be amiss to give some account of it. "-Now I think it very much amiss--that a man cannot go quietly through! a town, and let it alone, when it does not meddle with him, but that he must be turning about and drawing his pen at every kennel he crosses over, merely, 0' my conscience, for the sake of drawing it; because, if we may judge from what has been wrote of these things, by all who have wrote and gall0p'd-or who have gallop'd and wrote, which is a different way still; or who, for more expedition than the rest, have wrote galloping, which is the way I do at present-from the great Addison, who did it with his satchel of school-books hanging at his a-, and.gallging his beast's crupper at every stroke-there is not a galloper of us all who might not have gone on ambling quietly in his own ground (in case he had any) and have wrote all he had to write, dry-shod, as well as 1'10t. ...« less