The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Dear Yorick, said my father, smiling (for Yorick had broke his rank with my uncle Toby in coming through the narrow entry, and so had stepped first into the parlour) -- this Tristram of ours, I find, comes very hardly by all his religious rites.

-- Never was the son of Jew, Christian, Turk, or Infidel initiated into them in so oblique and slovenly a manner.