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Date: 1760-7
The gifts and endowments of wit and judgment may "be poured down warm as each of us could bear it,--scum and sediment an' all; (for I would not have a drop lost) into these veral receptacles, cells, cellules, domiciles, dormitories, refectories, and spare places of our brains,--in such sort, that...
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1760-7
"I would not, brother Toby, continued my father,--I declare I would not have my head so full of curtins and horn-works."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)