The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: too--for the end of an osier which had started out from the contexture of
the ass's panier, had caught hold of my breeches pocket, as he rush'd by
me, and rent it in the most disastrous direction you can imagine--so that
the
Out upon it! in my opinion, should have come in here--but this I leave to
be settled by
The
Reviewers
of
My Breeches,
which I have brought over along with me for that purpose.
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