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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. TO my uncle Mr. Toby Shandy do I ftand indebted for the preceding anecdote, to whom my father, who was an excellent natural philofopher, and much given to clofe reafoning upon the fmalleft matters, had oft, and heavily, complain'd of the injury but once more particularly, as my uncle Toly well re- member'd, upon his obferving a moft unaccountable obliqaity, (as he call'd it) in my manner of'fetting up my top, and juftifying the principles upon which I had done it, ?the old gentleman mook his head, and in a tone mort expreffive by half of forrow than reproach, ?he faid his heart all along foreboded, and he faw it verified in this, and from a tliou- fand other obfervationa he had made up- A 4 onon me, That I fhould neither think nor act like any other man's child: But alas continued he, fhaking his head a fecond time, and wiping away a tear which was trickling down his cheeks, Mylriftram's misfortunes began nine months before ever he came into the world. My mother, who was fitting by, look'd up, ?but fhe knew no more than, her backfide what my father meant, ?but my uncle, Mr. Toby Shandy, who had been often informed of the affair, ?un-. derftood him very well. C H A P. IV., I Know there are readers in the world, as well as many other good people in it, who are no readers at all, ?who find themfelves ill at eafe, unlefs they are let into the whole fecret from firft to laft, of every thing which concerns you. It is in pure compliance with this humour of theirs, and from a backwardnefs in my nature to difappoint any one foul living, that I have been fo very particular already. As my life and opinions are likely to make fome noife in the world., and, if I conjecture right, will take in all ranks, profeilions, and denominations of men whatever, ?be no l
| ISBN-13 | 9780217123846 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217123848 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $4.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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