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Jenson society, Printed for members only, 1904

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xxxv. oldal - He will march, said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed with one shoe off. An' please your Honour, said the Corporal, he will never march, but to his grave. He shall march, cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advancing an inch, — he shall march to his regiment.
xxix. oldal - The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up : — If I am alive I shall be glad to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me.
132. oldal - Toby's deportment — what great attention he gave to every word — and as oft as he took his pipe from his mouth, with what wonderful seriousness he...
xxxvii. oldal - True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.
39. oldal - Great Apollo! if thou art in a giving humour - give me - I ask no more, but one stroke of native humour, with a single spark of thy own fire along with it - and send Mercury, with the rules and compasses, if he can be spared, with my compliments to - no matter.
215. oldal - ... and the transactions and opinions of it to take up as much description — And for what reason should they be cut short? as at this rate I should just live 364 times faster than I should write — It must follow, an...
xxi. oldal - Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine ; they are the life, the soul of reading ! take them out of this book, for instance, — you might as well take the book along with them; — one cold eternal winter would reign in every page of it : restore them to the writer; — he steps forth like a bridegroom ; — bids Allhail ; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
35. oldal - in his thighs, in his genitals," (my father shook his head) "and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet, and toenails! "May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of his members, from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no soundness in him ! "May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his Majesty...
xxxiv. oldal - Go — says he, one day at dinner, to an over-grown one which had buzzed about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner time, — and which after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him; — I'll not hurt thee...
xxxv. oldal - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.

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