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they had followed the nuns of saint Ursula's example.—In the hurry and confusion every thing had been in the night before, the bakers had all forgot to lay their leaven—there were no butter'd buns to be had for breakfast in all Strasburg—the whole close of the cathedral was in one eternal commotion—such a cause of restlessness and disquietude, and such a zealous inquiry into the cause of that restlessness, had never happened in Strasburg, since Martin Luther, with his doctrines, had turned the city up-side down.
If the stranger's nose took this liberty of thrusting itself thus into the dishes[E 1] ofreligious
- ↑ Mr Shandy's compliments to orators—is very sensible that Slawkenbergius has here changed his metaphor—which he is very guilty of;—that as a translator, Mr. Shandy has all along done what he could to make him stick to it—but that here 'twas impossible.
