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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
NEVER poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication, than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retird thatchd house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life. I humbly beg, Sir, that you will honour this book, by taking it(not under your Protection,it must protect itself, but)into the country with you; where, if I am ever told, it has made you smile; or can conceive it has beguiled you of one moments painI shall think myself as happy as a minister of state;perhaps much happier than any one (one only excepted) that I have read or heard of. I WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considerd how much depended upon what they were then doing;that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.Believe me, good folks, this is not so inconsiderable a thing as many of you may think it;you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son, &c. &c.and a great deal to that purpose:Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a mans sense or his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity, and the different tracks and trains you put them into, so that when they are once set a-going, whether right or wrong, tis not a half-penny matter,away they go cluttering like hey-go mad; and by treading the same steps over and over again, they presently make a road of it, as plain and as smooth as a garden-walk, which, when they are once used to, the Devil himself sometimes shall not be able to drive them off it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 1079
Author: Sterne, Laurence
Release Date: Oct 1, 1997
Format: eBook
Language: English
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