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If I was not morally sure that the reader must be out of all patience for my uncle Toby's character, -- -- -I would here previously have convinced him that there is no instrument so fit to draw such a thing with, as that which I have pitch'd upon.
A man and his Hobbyhorse, though I cannot say that they act and react exactly after the same manner in which the soul and body do upon each other: Yet doubtless there is a communication between them of some kind; and my opinion rather is, that there is something in it more of the manner of electrified bodies, -- and that, by means of the heated parts of the rider, which come immediately into contact with the back of the Hobbyhorse, -- by long journeys and much friction, it so happens, that the body of the rider is at length fill'd as full of Hobbyhorsical matter as it can hold; -- -- -so that if you are able to give but a clear description of the nature of the one, you may form a pretty exact notion of the genius and character of the other.