The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coast -- a man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad -- -- -and I never gave a peep into Rochester church, or took notice of the dock of Chatham, or visited St. Thomas at Canterbury, though they all three laid in my way -- -- -

-But mine, indeed, is a particular case -- -- -