Author: Laurence Sterne

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781230020792

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...father knew it, --and was no less surprized than-he was disappointed with my uncle's fortuitous-solution.., -Do you understand the theory of that affair P_ re-pliedrmy father.., Not_I, quoth my uncle.;what. you = talk-_about P 4;----But_ you have some ideas, said my father, of No ' H'.-g V. P"-"No more than/my horse, replied my uncle Toby. ' '-' ' 'Gracious Heaven! cried my father, looking upwards, and clasping his two hands together, --there is a worth in thy honest ignorance, brother Toby;--;f 'twere almost a pity to exchange it for a knowledge-l-----But I'll tell thee.., . To understand whatTime is aright, without which we never can comprehend Infinity, insomuch as one is a portion of the other, ----we ought seriously ' to sit down and consider what idea it is we have of duration, so as to give a satisfactory account how we Iohme byit. What is that to any body? quoth my uncle Toby. " For if you will turn your eyes-"-'" inwards upon your mind," continued my father, " and observe attentively, you will perceive, brother, '" that whilst you and I are talking together, and ""-thinking, and smoking our pipes, or whilst we " receive successively ideas in our minds, we know " that we do exist; and so we estimate the exist" ence, or the continuation of the existence of our'" selves, or any thing else, commensurate to the l"''succession of any ideas in our minds, the duration """of ourselves, or any such other thing co-existing "' with our thinking;--and so, according to that ' "' pre'-conceived ' cried 'my uncle Toby. _ 'Tis owing to this, replied my...