Date: 1768
"And is all this to be lighted up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four louisd'ors, which is the most I can be overreach'd in?"
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)
Date: 1768
"I got my dinner; and after I had enlightened my mind with a bottle of Burgundy, I at it again--and after two or three hours pouring upon it, with almost as deep attention as ever Gruter or Jacob Spon did upon a nonsensical inscription, I thought I made sense of it."
preview | full record— Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)