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THE

LIFE and OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.


CHAP. I.

I call all the powers of time and chance, which severally check us in our careers in this world, to bear me witness, that I could never yet get fairly to my uncle Toby's amours, till this very moment, that my mother's curiosity,as