The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman/Volume 5

by Laurence Sterne

THE

LIFE

AND

OPINIONS

OF

TRISTRAM SHANDY,
Gentleman.

 

Dixero si quid fortè jocosius, hoc mihi juris
Cum venia dabis.———Hor.

—Si quis calumnietur levius esse quam decet
theologum, aut mordacius quam deceat
Christianum—non Ego, sed Democritus dixit.—
Erasmus.

VOL. V.

 

LONDON:

Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt,
in the Strand. M.DCC.LXII.

To the Right Honourable

JOHN,

Lord Viscount SPENCER.

 

My Lord,

I humbly beg leave to offer you these two Volumes; they are the best my talents, with such bad health as I have, could produce:—had providence granted me a larger stock of either, they had been a much more proper present to your Lordship.

I beg your Lordship will forgive me, if, at the same time I dedicate this work to you, I join Lady Spencer, in the liberty I take of inscribing the story of Le Fever in the sixth volume to her name; for which I have no other motive, which my heart has informed me of, but that the story is a humane one.

 

I am,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's
Most devoted,
And most humble Servant,
Laur. Sterne.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• 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.
• Chapter XXXVI.
• Chapter XXXVII.
• Chapter XXXVIII.
• Chapter XXXIX.
• Chapter XL.
• Chapter XLI.
• Chapter XLII.
• Chapter XLIII.