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C H A P IX
26 C H A P. IX ——N OW this is the most puzzled skein of all——for in this last chapter, as far at least as it has help’d me through Auxerre, I have been getting forwards in two different journies together, and with the same dash of the pen—for I have got entirely out of Auxerre in this journey which I am writing now, and I am got half way out of Auxerre in that which I shall write hereafter——There is but a certain degree of perfection in every thing; and by pushing at something beyond that, I have brought myself into such a situation, as no traveller ever stood before me; for I am this moment walking across the market-place of Auxerre with my father and my uncle Toby, in our way back to dinner——and I am this moment also entering Lyons with my post-chaise broke into a thousand pieces—and I am moreover this moment in a handsome pavil- 27 lion built by Pringello , upon the banks of the Garonne, which Mons. — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
C H A P II
C H A P. II T HE abbess of Andoüillets, which if you look into the large set of provincial maps now publishing at Paris, you will find situated amongst the hills which divide Burgundy from Savoy, being in danger of an Anchylosis or stiff joint (the sinovia of her knee becoming hard by long matins), and having tried every remedy——first, prayers and thanksgiving; then invocations to all the saints in heaven promiscuously——then particularly to every saint who had ever had a stiff leg before her——then touching it with all the reliques of the convent, principally with the thigh-bone of the man of Lystra, who had been impotent from his youth——then wrap- 4 ping it up in her veil when she went to bed—then cross-wise her rosary—then bringing in to her aid the secular arm, and anointing it with oils and hot fat of animals——then treating it with emollient and resolving fomentations——then with poultices of marsh-mallows, mallows, bonus Henricus, white lillies and fenugreek—then taking the woods, I mean the smoak of ’em, holding her scapulary across her lap——then decoctions of wild chicory, water-cresses, chervil, sweet cecily and cochlearia——and nothing all this while answering, was prevailed on at last to try the hot-baths of Bourbon ——so having first obtained leave of the visitor-general to take care of her existence—she ordered all to be got ready for her journey: a novice of the convent of about seventeen, who had been troubled with a whitloe in her middle finger, by sticking it constantly into the abbess’s cast poultices, &c.—had gained such an interest, that overlooking a sciatical old nun, who might have 5 been set up for ever by the hot-baths of Bourbon, Margarita, the little novice, was elected as the companion of the journey. — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
C H A P. II I N the case of knots, —by which, in the first place, I would not be understood to mean slip-knots—because in the course of my life and opinions—my opinions concerning them will come in more properly when I mention the catastrophe of my great uncle Mr. Hammond Shandy, —a little man,—but of high fancy:—he rushed into the duke of Monmouth ’s affair:——nor, secondly, in this place, do I mean that particular species of knots called bow-knots;—there is so 3 little address, or skill, or patience required in the unloosing them, that they are below my giving any opinion at all about them.—But by the knots I am speaking of, may it please your reverences to believe, that I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, made bona fide, as Obadiah made his;——in which there is no quibbling provision made by the duplication and return of the two ends of the strings thro’ the annulus or noose made by the second implication of them—to get them slipp’d and undone by.——I hope you apprehend me. — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
carriages had all passed in
When the carriages had all passed in, the crowd, carrying Pétya with it, streamed forward into the Krémlin Square which was already full of people. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Christians have a particular instruction concerning this connection, for they know that the Divine justice embraces this society and juncture of body and soul, even to the making the body capable of eternal rewards; and that God has an eye to the whole man’s ways, and wills that he receive entire chastisement or reward according to his demerits or merits. — from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
5 Moreover, the subject of this inquiry is the common property of all philosophers; for who would presume to call himself a philosopher, if he did not inculcate any lessons of duty? — from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
This is followed by the narrative of Mrs. Hasty, wife of the captain, herself a participant in the scene, and so overwhelmed by grief at her husband's loss, and that of friends she had learned so much to value, that she has since faded from this life. — from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller
The high character of Pole for virtue and humanity; the great regard paid him by the Catholic church, of which he had nearly reached the highest dignity on the death of Paul III.;[v*] the queen’s affection for the countess of Salisbury, his mother, who had once been her governess; the violent animosity to which he had been exposed on account of his attachment to the Romish communion; all these considerations had a powerful influence on Mary. — from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C.
From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
clasping hers and patting it
They say—they say—they will—" He put his hands over hers, clasping hers and patting it, "My dear," he said, "I thought you would wait for me; I told you to wait. — from The Blind Man's Eyes by William MacHarg
curiosity had a part in
Perhaps curiosity had a part in the interest; at least when Marion had sung for some time, he said suddenly:— "That is enough for the present. — from Fairy Gold by Christian Reid
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