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# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fawcett, Frederick

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​Fawcett, Frederick, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Madras (retired); b. 1853; joined service as Inspector of Police, 1878; Assistant Supdt, of Police, 1879; Special Assistant Supdt. 1880; on special duty for prosecuting an Inspector in Rajahmundry, from 28th October to 22nd December 1880; in charge of the Offiice of Superintendent, Kistna, 1883; Assistant Superintendent 1st grade (re-organisation), 1892; Superintendent of Police 1893; Superintendent of Police, and Assistant with the Government of Madras, 1899; Superintendent, Railway Police, Madras, 1899; on special duty as Member of Police Commission, from 1st August 1902; Acting Deputy Inspector General of Police, 1903; again on special duty under the General Superintendent, Thagiand Dacoity, 1908-05; confirmed as Deputy Inspector-General of Police, 1905; retired, 1912. Publications: articles in the journal of the Anthropological Institute; Man; Notes on some of the people of Malabar; Nayars of Malabar (included in Madras Govt. Museum Bulletins, vol. III Nos. 1 and 3). Address: c/o India Office, London.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fausboll, Michael Viggo

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​Fausboll, Michael Viggo; s. of Rev. Christian Nissen Fausboll; b. 1821, in Jutland; educ; at a Latin Grammar School, Aarhus; and at Copenhagen University; studied Oriental languages under N. L. Westergaard (q.v.); University Gold Medallist, 1843; Assistant Librarian at the University Library, Copenhagen, 1871-78; Professor of Indian Philology and Sanskrit at that University, 1878 1902; Member of Royal Danish Society of Sciences, 1876; Bopps Prizeman, 1888; Hon. M.R.A S., 1890; Commander of the Order of Dannebrog, and possessor of the ​Silver Cross of that Order; founded the study of Pali in Europe, and is Kumaras the “Father of Pali study”. Publications: Dhammapadani, 1855; the Suttanipata, 1-2, 1885-94; the Jataka, 1-7, 1877 97; and An Indian Mythology according to the Mahabharata, 1902.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fenn, Col Ernest Harrold

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​Fenn, Col Ernest Harrold. C.I.E. (1894), Royal Army Medical Corps, (retired), s. of T.H. Fenn of Nayland, Colchester; b. 1850; educ; Sherborne School; Joined Army Medical Corps, 1875; served in Afghan War, 1879-80; accompanied Lord Roberts to Kandahar; present at battle of Kandahar (despatches, medal and clasp, bronze star); joined Granadier Guards, 1881; Soudan Compaign, 1885; accompanied Sir Mortimer Darand to Cabul, 1893; Was on the Staff of Lord Lansdowne, Viceroy and Governor-General, India, 1881-94; was on the Staff of Lord Curzon, India, 1898-1903 (Durbar medal); retired, 1907. Address: c/o India Office, London. Club: Naval and Military.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fatehpur, Nawab of

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​Fatehpur, Nawab of, (see Ali Husain Khan.)
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fatehsinhji Motisinhji, Shri Maharawal, Raja of Chota Udaipur

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​Fatehsinhji Motisinhji, Shri Maharawal, Raja of Chota Udaipur, (See Chota Udaipur, Raja of.) in the appendix.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fell, Godfrey Butler Hunter

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​Fell, Godfrey Butler Hunter, C.I.E. (1909), Secretary to Government of Burma; b. 1872; educ: Eton; and Magdalen College, Oxford; joined service in Burma 1894; Assistant Commissioner, 1895; Personal Assistant to Chief Commissioner, 1897; Private Secretary to Lieutenant Governor, the same year; Under Secretary to Government, 1899; again Private Secretary to Lieutenant-Governor, 1903; Deputy Secretary, Government of India (Home Deptt), 1906-09; m. Janet Comilla, o.d. of General Sir D. McLeod; Secretary to Government of Burma, since 1910. Address: Pegu, Rangoon, Burma, cluds: East India United Service, Leandor.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Ferard, Henry Cecil

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​Ferard, Henry Cecil, B.A.; C.I.E. 1898; Commissioner, Jhansi, U.P.; b. Ascot, 1864; 3rd s. of late Chas. C. Ferard of Ascot Place, Winkfield, Berkshire; educ: Eton; University College, Oxford; entered I.C.S. 1885, and served in U.P. as Assistant Mag. and Collector, and Assistant Commissioner; Joint Mag, 1893; Deputy Commissioner, 1896; worked in the Indian Famine, 1897-98; Collector and Mag., Allahabad, 1898. Address: Muttra, U.P., India. Club: East India United Service.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fatehsingh Shahji Raja Bhonsle

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​Fatehsingh Shahji Raja Bhonsle, also known as Srimant Bapu Sahib Meherban, Raja of Akalkot (See Akalkot, Raja of; in the appendix.)
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Fazubhoy, Visram

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​Fazubhoy, Visram; See Visram, Fazulbhoy.
# The Iliad of Homer in English Hexameter Verse

THE
ILIAD OF HOMER,
IN
English Hexameter Verse.
BY
J. HENRY DART, M.A.,
OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Author of "THE EXILE OF ST. HELENA."—Newdigate, 1838.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
MDCCCLXV.
LONDON:
WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTER, 37, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR.
* Preface
* List of Proper Names
* Book 1
* Book 2
* Book 3
* Book 4
* Book 5
* Book 6
* Book 7
* Book 8
* Book 9
* Book 10
* Book 11
* Book 12
* Book 13
* Book 14
* Book 15
* Book 16
* Book 17
* Book 18
* Book 19
* Book 20
* Book 21
* Book 22
* Book 23
* Book 24
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# The Lammy/Chapter 3

GOW'S FAREWEEL TO WHISKY.
You've surely heard o' famous Neil, The man that played the fiddle weel; I wat he was a canty chiel, And dearly lo'ed the Whisky. O. And ay since hs wore tartan trews, He dearly lo'ed the Athole brose, And wae was he you may suppose, To play fareweel to Whisky, o.
Alake! quoth Neil I'm frail an' auld, And find my bluid grow unco cauld, I think 'twad make me blythe and bauld, A wee drap Highland Whisky, O.
Yet the doctors they do a' agree, That whisky s no the thing for me: Saul quoth Neil 'twil spoil my, glee, Should they part me and Whisky, O.
Tho' I can baith get wine aad ale, And find my head and fingers hale, I'll be content cho' legs should fail, To play fareweel to Whisky, O. But still l think on auld langsyne, When Paradise our friends did tyne, Because something ran in their mind, Forbid, like Highland Whisky, O.
Come a' ye pow'rs of music come, I find my heart grows unco glum, My fiddle strings wili no play bum, To say fareweel to Whisky. O. Yet I'll tak my fiddle in my hand, And screw the strings up while they'll stand, To mak a lamentation grand, On gude auld Highland Whisky, O.
# The Lammy/Chapter 1

THE LAMMY.
Whare hae ye been a’ day, My boy Tammy? Whare hae ye been a’ day, My boy Tammy? I've been by burn and flowery brae, Meadow green and mountain grey, Courting o' this young thing, Just new come frae her mammy.
And whare gat ye that young thing, My boy Tammy?
I gat her down on yonder howe, Smiling on a broomy knowe, Herding a wee lamb and ewe, For her poor mammy.
What said ye to the bonny bairn, My boy Tammy? I praised her een sae bonny blue, Her dimpled cheek and bonnie mou, I prie'd it aft, as ye may trow——— She said she'd tell her mammy.
​I held her to my beating heart! My young, my smiling lammie! I hae a house it cost me dear, I've wealth o'plenishing and gear; Ye'se get it a' war't ten times mair, Gin ye will leave yonr mammy.
We’ll tak her hame and make her fain, My ain kind-hearted lammie! We'll gi'e her meat, we'll gie her claise, Well be her comfort a' her days; The wie thing gies her hand and says, There gang and ask my mammy,
Has she been to the kirk wi' thee, My boy l'ammy?
She has been to tbe kirk wi' me, And the tear was in her e'e- But oh she's but a young thing, Just come frae her mammy.
# The Lamp-Lighter

T H E
Lamp-Lighter.
to which are added,
SWEET JEAN OF TYRONE.
SAILOR JACK.
ANSWER TO SAILOR JACK.
MY SLAVE AT LAST.
GLASGOW,
PRINTED BY J. & M. ROBERTSON,
SALTMARKET, 1803.
* The Lamp-Lighter
* Sweet Jean of Tyrone
* Sailor Jack
* Answer to Sailor Jack
* My Slave at Last
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# The Lammy

The Lammy;
To which are added,
The Soldiers return.
Gow's fareweel to Whisky.
Gloomy Winter's now awa.
STIRLING:
Printed by W. Macnie,
1823.
* The Lammy
* The Soldiers Return
* Gow's fareweel to Whisky
* Gloomy Winter's now awa
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# The Lamp

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# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Landor, A. Henry Savage

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​Landor, A. Henry Savege, F.R.I., F.R.G.S., Artist, and Explorer; 2nd s. of Charles Savege Landor; b. in Florence; educ: Licco Dante, Institute Tecnico, Florence; also in Paris; travelled extensively in the East visiting Japan, China, Corea, South Mangolia, Tibet, India, Nepal, Yezzo, the Kurile Islands, Phillippine Islands, Sulu Archipelago, Persia, Beluchistan, America, Australia, Egypt, Panama, etc.; is the first European to find both sources of the Brahmaputra and locate their exact position; set at rest the problem that no range higher than the Himalayas existed; explored the Central Mindanayo Island; is unmatched in mountaineering, having reached 23,490 feet on Mount Lumpa in Nepal, 1889; is the first to discover the “White Tribe” (mansakas); accompanied the allied troops on the march to Pekin; is the first Anglo-Saxon to enter the Forbidden City on the day of Allies’ entry; travelled from Russia to Calcutta, 190i; was cruising in the Sulu Archippellagoes and in the Phillippines for nearly a year, and visited many miner Islands; crossed Africa in its widest part travelling a distance of 8,500 miles and ending his journey at the most westerly point of that continent, 1906, Publications: Alone with the hairy Ainu, or 3,800 miles on a Pack-saddle; Corea or the land of the morning calm; In the Forbidden Land; the Gems of the East; An Explorer’s Adventures in Tibet, etc. Address; c/o Grindly and Co., 54, Parliament Street; Calappaino Empoliper, Vinci, Italy. Clubs: Grosvenor, Aero.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lane, Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam

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​Lane, Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam, I.M.S., Inspector-General of Prisons, Nagpur, C.P., India; b. at Antigua, West Indies, 1866; educ: Christ’s Hospital, London; proceeded to Germany and joined the Nuenheim College, Heidelberg; returned to England and was attached to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, as a student; joined the I.M.S., 1888; served for some time at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; arrived in India and was posted to Station Hospital, Allahabad, 1889; transferred to the Military and was placed in Medical charge of XI P.W.O., Bengal Lancers, now XI (King Edward’s Old) Bengal Lancers; transferred to the 45th Sikhs, 1890; served with the Hazra Field Force, 1891; served with other regiments and was in charge of A. 20 Native Field Hospitals; served with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895; attached to the base Hospital (No. 4 Native General Hospital), Nowshera, during the whole of the Frontier Expedition; Civil Surgeon and Superintendent, Central Jail, Montgomery, 1899; services placed temporarily at the disposal of the Punjab Government, 1902; transferred to C.P., and posted as Officiating Superintendent, Central Jail, Jubbalpore, 1903; appointed as Inspector General of Prisons, 1905; holds the Hazra medal and clasp, and the Waziristan clasp, and the Chitral medal and clasp. Address: Nagpur, C.P., India.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lang, Colonel Arthur Moffat

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​Lang, Colonel Arthar Moffat, C.B., 1908, R.E. (retired); e.s. of Arthur Lang, I.C.S., of West Hill; b. 1832; edtic: Rugby; Cheltenham; and the Military College at Addiscombe; joined Army, 1852; was thrice married; served in Indian Mutiny, 1857-58 (despatches 4 times, medal, 3 clasps); became Colonel, 1881; held appointments in both Military and Civil branches of the P.W.D.; was Principal, Engineering College, Roorki; Deputy Inspector-General for Fortifications; was Chief Engineer in Beluchistan, Burma, and the N W. Provinces; retired, 1889. Address: Box Grove Lodge, Guildford, Surrey.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lascelles, Hon Sir Alfred George

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​Lascelles, Hon Sir Alfred George, B.A., Retired Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Ceylon; 2nd s. of 3rd Earl Harwood; b. 1857; educ: University College, Oxford; B.A., 1881; called to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1885; K.C. Ceylon, 1902-1911; Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Ceylon, 1911-1914; m. Isabel Carteret. d. of late Francis John Thyme (M. Bath Covs) 1911. Address: Colombo, Ceylon.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lane, Colonel Clayton Turner

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​Lane, Colonel Clayton Turner, C.I.E (1895), J.P., Indian Army (retired); 3rd s. of late James Lane of Knockeevan, ​Camberley; b. 1842; educ: privately; joined Indian Army as Ensign in Bengal, 1858; m. Nicholas Arbuthnot, d. of late William Allardyce of Aberdeen; transferred to the Punjab Police as Assistant Superintendent; became Superintendent, 1863; transferred to Berar, 1865; Inspector General of Police, Hyderabad Assigned Districts; 1877; Deputy Commissioner, 1895; retired, 1896. Address: Downfold, Guildford.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lanman, Charles Rockwell

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​Lanman, Charles Rockwell; b. at Norwich, Connecticut; s, of Peter Lanman; educ: at the Norwich Free Academy, 1867; at Yale, 1871; studied Sanskrit and linguistic science under Whitney till 1873; proceeded to Germany and studied at Berlin, Tubingan, and Leipzig: called to the John Hopkins University at Baltimore, 1876; called to the Harvard University, Cambridge; Professor of Sanskrit; Massadhusetts, 1880; Secretary, American Philological Association, 1879-84; President of the same Association, 1882-90; Corresponding Secretary, American Oriental Society, 1884-94; Vice-President and Joint-Editor of its Journal, 1894-1905; travelled in India for collecting Sanskrit and Prakrit ​books, etc., for Harbard University, 1888-89; Honorary Member of the A.S.B., 1898; Member, Royal Asiatic Society, 1902; Foreign Member, Royal Bohemien Society of Sciences, 1897; lectured at the J. Hopkin’s University on the poetry of India, 1897; lectured at Boston, on Indian Literature, 1898; LL.D, at Yale. 1902; is editing, with the help of other scholars, the “Harvard Oriental Series” published by Harvard University, which has raised 10 volumes of important Sanskrit works such as the Jatakaraala, Buddhism, Karpura Manjani, Bhrad-Devata, Atharva Yeda, a vedic concordance, Visudi-Maga, Panchatantra. Sakuntala, Brahmins, and oteur works. Recretion: Walking, Swimming, Diving and Rowing. Address: 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge, Mass.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lane, Major-General Charles Stuart

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​Lane, Major-General Charles Stuart, C.B., (1907), Late of the Indian Army; s. of late Richard Lane; b. 1831; educ: privately; m. Anne Josephene, d. of Rev. R. B. Boys, 1852; joined the Indian Army and served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 (Medal with two clasps); served in Bhutan Expedition, 1863; Afghan War, 1858-79 (Despatches, Medal); retired, 1882. Address: 24, Cromwell House, Nightingale Road, South-Sea.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice

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​Lansdowne, 5th Marquiss of Great Britain, (1784), Henry Chas Keath Petty Fitz Maurice, K.G., P.C, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.G.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D.; e.s. of 4th Marquiss; b. 1845; succeeded father, 1866; m. Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, C.I., d. of 1st Duke of Abercorn, 1869; Lord of Treasury, 1869-72; Under Secretary for War, 1872 74; Under-Secretary for India, 1880; Governor-General, Canada, 1883-88; Governor-General, India, 1838-93; Secretary for War, 1S95-1900; Foreign Secretary, 1900-05; succeeded mother, 1895; Trustee, National Gallery, since 1894; Lord Lieutenant of Wilts, since 1896; owns 143,000 acres of land; heir and s. of Earl of Herry. Address: Lansden House, Berkley Square. W; Bowood Park, Calne, Wiltshire; Meikleour, Perthshire; Derreen, Kenmare, Kerry. Clubs: Athenæum, Reform, Brooke’s.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Lambert, Sir John

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​Lambert, Sir John, K.C.I.E.,(1893), I.C.S., (retired); s. of Rev. A. L. Lambert; b. 1838; m. Annie, d. of Lieutenant-General F. D. Atkinson, 1869; joined service in the Bengal Police as Assistant Superintendent, 1863; became District Superintendent; official visitor of Jail and Lunatic Asylums, 1872; Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, 1874; transferred to Foreign Department, 1882-84; acting Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, 1885-86; confirmed, 1889; Member, Legislative Council, Bengal, 1892-95; retired, 1897. Address: 81, Harcourt Terrace, S.W. Club: Oriental.
# The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Landon, Perceval

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​Landon, Perceval, B.A., Bar.-at law, Journalist and Author; b;. 1869; s. of late Rev. Edward Henry Landon; educ: Hertford College, Oxford; called to Bar (Inner Temple), 1895; Secretary, Oxford Union Society, 1891; Special Correspondent for the Times, S.A. War, 1889-1900; joint editor of the ‘Friend’, Bloemfontein; Private Secretary to Governor of New South Wales, 1900; Special Correspondent of the ‘Daily Mail’, during Delhi Durbar, 1903; Special Correspondent of ‘The Times’, in the expedition to Lhasa, 1903-04; Special Correspondent to the Daily Telegraph during Prince of Wales’ visit to India, 1905-06; Persia, India and Nepal, 1908; Russian Turkestan, 1909; and Egypt and Soudan, 1910; is on the staff of Daily Telegraph; has travelled in several parts of the world. Publications; Heliotropes, 1903; Lhasa, 1905; Under the Sun, 1906; The story of the Indian Mutiny, 1907; Rev. Edges, 1908; The House Opposite; For the Soul of the King (translated from the French), 1909; Address: 83, Charlwood Street, S.W. Club: Beefsteak.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 14

CHAP. XIV.
The Fates, who certainly all foreknew of these amours of widow Wadman and my uncle Toby, had, from the first creation of matter and motion (and with more courtesy than they usually do things of this kind) established such a chain of causes and effects hanging so fast to one another, that it was scarce possible for my uncle Toby to have dwelt in any other house in the world, or to have occupied any other garden in Christendom, but the very house and garden which join'd and ​laid parallel to Mrs. Wadman's; this, with the advantage of a thickset arbour in Mrs. Wadman's garden, but planted in the hedge-row of my uncle Toby's put all the occasions into her hands which Love-militancy wanted; she could observe my uncle Toby's motions, and was mistress likewise of his councils of war; and as his unsuspecting heart had given leave to the corporal, through the mediation of Bridget, to make her a wicker gate of communication to enlarge her walks, it enabled her to carry on her approaches to the very door of the sentry-box; and sometimes out of gratitude, to make the attack, and endeavour to blow my uncle Toby up in the very sentry box itself.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 17

CHAP. XVII.
These attacks of Mrs. Wadman, you will readily conceive to be of different kinds; varying from each other, like the attacks which history is full of and from the same reasons. A general looker on, would scarce allow them to be attacks at all—or if he did, would confound them all together—but I write not to them: it will be time enough to be a little more exact in my descriptions of them, as I come up to them, which will not be for some chapters; having nothing more to add in this, but that in a bundle of original papers and drawings which my father took care to roll up by themselves, there is a plan of ​Bouchain in perfect preservation (and shall be kept so, whilst I have power to preserve any thing) upon the lower corner of which, on the right hand side, there is still remaining the marks of a snuffy finger and thumb, which there is all the reason in the world to imagine, were Mrs. Wadman's; for the opposite side of the margin, which I suppose to have been my uncle Toby's, is absolutely clean: This seems an authenticated record of one of these attacks; for there are vestigia of the two punctures partly grown up, but still visible on the opposite corner of the map, which are unquestionably the very holes, through which it has been pricked up in the sentry-box———
By all that is priestly! I value this precious relick, with it's stigmata and ​pricks, more than all the relicks of the Romish church—always excepting, when I am writing upon these matters, the pricks which enter'd the flesh of St. Radagunda in the desert, which in your road from Fesse to Cluny, the nuns of that name will shew you for love.
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8

THE
LIFE
AND
OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gentleman.
VOL. VIII.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, in the Strand. MDCCLXV.
* Chapter I.
* Chapter II.
* Chapter III.
* Chapter IV.
* Chapter V.
* Chapter VI.
* Chapter VII.
* Chapter VIII.
* Chapter IX.
* Chapter X.
* Chapter XI.
* Chapter XII.
* Chapter XIII.
* Chapter XIV.
* Chapter XV.
* Chapter XVI.
* Chapter XVII.
* Chapter XVIII.
* Chapter XIX.
* Chapter XX.
* Chapter XXI.
* Chapter XXII.
* Chapter XXIII.
* Chapter XXIV.
* Chapter XXV.
* Chapter XXVI.
* Chapter XXVII.
* Chapter XXVIII.
* Chapter XXIX.
* Chapter XXX.
* Chapter XXXI.
* Chapter XXXII.
* Chapter XXXIII.
* Chapter XXXIV.
* Chapter XXXV.
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# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 12

CHAP. XII.
—"Not touch it for the world" did I say———
Lord, how I have heated my imagination with this metaphor!
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 8/Chapter 1

THE
LIFE and OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.
CHAP. I.
——— But softly—for in these sportive plains, and under this genial sun, where at this instant all flesh is running out piping, fiddling, and dancing to the vintage, and every step that's taken, the judgment is surprised by the imagination, I defy, notwithstanding ​all that has been said upon straight lines in sundry pages of my book—I defy the best cabbage planter that ever existed, whether he plants backwards or forwards, it makes little difference in the account (except that he will have more to answer for in the one case than in the other)—I defy him to go on cooly, critically, and canonically, planting his cabbages one by one, in straight lines, and stoical distances, especially if flits in petticoats are unsew'd up—without ever and anon straddling out, or sidling into some bastardly digression—In Freeze-land, Fog-land and some other lands I wot of—it may be done———
But in this clear climate of fantasy and perspiration, where every idea, ​sensible and insensible, gets vent—in this land, my dear Eugenius—in this fertile land of chivalry and romance, where I now sit, unskrewing my ink-horn to write my uncle Toby's amours, and with all the meanders of Julia's track in quest of her Diego, in full view of my study window—if thou comest not and takest me by the hand———
What a work is it likely to turn out!
Let us begin it.