The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

-- -- No, -- I think I have advanced nothing, replied my father, making answer to a question which Yorick had taken the liberty to put to him, -- I have advanced nothing in the Tristra-pedia, but what is as clear as any one proposition in Euclid.

-- Reach me, Trim, that book from off the scrutoir: -- -- -it has ofttimes been in my mind, continued my father, to have read it over both to you, Yorick, and to my brother Toby, and I think it a little unfriendly in myself, in not having done it long ago: -- -- -shall we have a short chapter or two now, -- and a chapter or two hereafter, as occasions serve; and so on, till we get through the whole? My uncle Toby and Yorick made the obeisance which was proper; and the corporal, though he was not included in the compliment, laid his hand upon his breast, and made his bow at the same time.