The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

To those who call vexations, vexations, as knowing what they are, there could not be a greater, than to be the best part of a day at Lyons, the most opulent and flourishing city in France, enriched with the most fragments of antiquity -- and not be able to see it. To be withheld upon any account, must be a vexation; but to be withheld by a vexation -- -- -must certainly be, what philosophy justly calls