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Page 159
... Uncle Toby's Benevolence - STERNE . MY uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries -- not from want of courage . I have told you , in a former chap- ter , that he was a man of courage ; and I will add here . that , where just occasions ...
... Uncle Toby's Benevolence - STERNE . MY uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries -- not from want of courage . I have told you , in a former chap- ter , that he was a man of courage ; and I will add here . that , where just occasions ...
Page 160
... uncle Toby , rising from his chair , and going a- cross the room with the fly in his hand - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head : Go , says he , lifting up the sash , and o- pening his hand as he spoke , to let it escape - go , poor devil ...
... uncle Toby , rising from his chair , and going a- cross the room with the fly in his hand - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head : Go , says he , lifting up the sash , and o- pening his hand as he spoke , to let it escape - go , poor devil ...
Page 189
... uncle To- by was one evening getting his supper , with Trim sitting behind him , at a small sideboard - 1 say sitting - for in consideration of the corporal's lame knee ( which some- times gave him exquisite pain ) -when my uncle Toby ...
... uncle To- by was one evening getting his supper , with Trim sitting behind him , at a small sideboard - 1 say sitting - for in consideration of the corporal's lame knee ( which some- times gave him exquisite pain ) -when my uncle Toby ...
Page 190
... uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen tleman's health in a glass of sack thyself - and take a couple of bottles with my service , and tell him he is hear- tily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they will do him good ...
... uncle Toby ; and thou shalt drink the poor gen tleman's health in a glass of sack thyself - and take a couple of bottles with my service , and tell him he is hear- tily welcome to them , and to a dozen more , if they will do him good ...
Page 191
... uncle Toby ; but I am not at rest in my mind , Trim , since the account the land- lord has given me - I wish I had not known so much of this affair - added by uncle Toby - or that I had known more of it : -How shall we manage it ? Leave ...
... uncle Toby ; but I am not at rest in my mind , Trim , since the account the land- lord has given me - I wish I had not known so much of this affair - added by uncle Toby - or that I had known more of it : -How shall we manage it ? Leave ...
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