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Your sudden and unexpected arrival, quoth my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Dr. Slop (all three of them sitting down to the fire together, as my uncle Toby began to speak) -- instantly brought the great Stevinus into my head, who, you must know, is a favourite author with me.
-- Then, added my father, making use of the argument Ad Crumenam, -- I will lay twenty guineas to a single crown-piece (which will serve to give away to Obadiah when he gets back) that this same Stevinus was some engineer or other, -- or has wrote something or other, either directly or indirectly, upon the science of fortification.