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THE
LIFE and OPINIONS
OF
TRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.
CHAP. I.
I Wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;–that not only the production of a rational Being was concern’d in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body,
Vol. I.
A
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