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CHAP. XXV.
'Tis a point settled,—and I mention it for the comfort of [1]Confucius, who is apt to get entangled in telling a plain story—that provided he keeps along the line of his story,—he may go backwards and forwards as he will,—'tis still held to be no digression.
This being premised, I take the benefit of the act of going backwards myself.
CHAP. XXVI.
Fifty thousand pannier loads of devils—(not of the Archbishop of Benevento's,—I mean of Rabelais's devils) with their tails chopped off by their rumps, could not have made so diabo-
- ↑ Mr. Shandy is supposed to mean ***** *** ***, Esq; member for ******,—and not the Chinese Legislator.
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