The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman coverCHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 34

BOOK V

CHAPTER XXXIV

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With two strokes, the one at Hippocrates, the other at Lord Verulam, did my father achieve it.
The stroke at the prince of physicians, with which he began, was no more than a short insult upon his sorrowful complaint of the Ars longa, -- and Vita brevis.