The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne (short novels to read .txt) 📖

Chinese Legislator. ↩

Χαλεπῆς νόσου, καὶ δυσιάτου ἀπαλλαγὴν, ἣν ἄνθρακα καλοῦσιν.

Philo.

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Τὰ τεμνόμενα τῶν ἐθνῶν τολυγονώτατα, καὶ πολυανθρωπότατα εἶναι.

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Καθαριότητος εἵνεκεν.

Bochart.

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Ὁ Ἶλος, τὰ αἰδοῖα περιτέμνεται, ταὐτὸ ποιῆσαι καὶ τοὺς ἅμ’ αυτῷ συμμάχους καταναγκάσας.

Sanchuniatho.

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Nous aurions quelque interêt, says Baillet, de montrer qu’il n’a rien de ridicule s’il étoit veritable, au moins dans le sens énigmatique que Nicius Erythræus a tâché de lui donner. Cet auteur dit que pour comprendre comme Lipse, il a pû composer un ouvrage le premier jour de sa vie, il faut s’imaginer, que ce premier jour n’est pas celui de sa naissance charnelle, mais celui au quel il a commencé d’user de la raison; il veut que ç’ait été à l’âge de neuf ans; et il nous veut persuader que ce fut en cet âge, que Lipse fit un poëme.⁠⸺⁠Le tour est ingénieux, etc. etc. ↩

Vid. Pellegrina. ↩

Vid. Book of French post roads, page 36, edition of 1762. ↩

Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, etc. etc. etc. ↩

Non orbis gentem, non urbem gens habet ullam⁠⸺⸺⁠⸺⸺⁠ulla parem. ↩

The same Don Pringello, the celebrated Spanish architect, of whom my cousin Antony has made such honourable mention in a scholium to the Tale inscribed to his name. —Vid. p. 129, small edit. ↩

Vid. book 6, chapter 40. ↩

Vid. Pope’s Portrait. ↩

Rodope Thracia tam inevitabili fascino instructa, tam exactè oculus intuens attraxit, ut si in illam quis incidisset, fieri non posset, quin caperetur.

⸺⁠I know not who.

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This will be printed with my father’s Life of Socrates, etc. etc. ↩

Mr. Shandy must mean the poor in spirit; inasmuch as they divided the money amongst themselves. ↩

He lost his hand at the battle of Lepanto. ↩

This must be a mistake in Mr. Shandy; for Graaf wrote upon the pancreatick juice, and the parts of generation. ↩

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