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under that of my christian name—had he not been rescued out of it as he was out of that, by a fresh evil—the misfortune of my brother Bobby's death.
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?—from sorrow to sorrow?—to button up one cause of vexation!—and unbutton another!
CHAP. XXXII.
From this moment I am to be considered as heir-apparent to the Shandy family—and it is from this point properly, that the story of my Life and my Opinions sets out; with all my hurry and precipitation I have but been
