The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 3
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TO those who call vexations, vexations, as knowing what they are, there could not be a greater, than to be the best part of a day at Lyons, the most opulent and flourishing city in France, enriched with the most fragments of antiquity — and not be able to see it. To be withheld upon any account, must be a vexation ; but to be withheld by a vexation must certainly be, what philosophy justly calls VEXATION UPON VEXATION.
I had got my two dishes of milk coffee (which by the bye is excellently good... for a consumption, but you must boil the milk and coffee together — otherwise 'tis only coffee and milk) — and as it was no more than eight in the morning, and the boat did not go off till noon, I had time to see enough of Lyons to tire the patience of all the friends I had in the world with it.
I will take a walk to the cathedral, said I, looking at my list, and see the wonderful mechanism of this great clock of Lippius of Basil, in the first place Now, of all things in the world, I understand the least of mechanism 1 have neither genius, or taste, or fancy — and have a brain so entirely unapt for every thing of that kind, that I solemnly declare I was never yet able to comprehend the principles of motion of a 90 THE LIFE AND OPINIONS squirrel cage, or a common knife-grinder's wheel — tho' I have many an hour of my life look'd up with great devotion at the one — and stood by with as much patience as any christian ever could do, at the other I'll go see the surprising movements of this great clock, said I, the very first thing I do : and then I will pay a visit to the great library of the Jesuits, and pro- cure, if possible, a sight of the thirty volumes of the general history of China, wrote (not in the Tartarean, but) in the Chinese language, and in the Chinese char- acter too.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
TO those who call vexations, vexations, as knowing what they are, there could not be a greater, than to be the best part of a day at Lyons, the most opulent and flourishing city in France, enriched with the most fragments of antiquity — and not be able to see it. To be withheld upon any account, must be a vexation ; but to be withheld by a vexation must certainly be, what philosophy justly calls VEXATION UPON VEXATION.
I had got my two dishes of milk coffee (which by the bye is excellently good... for a consumption, but you must boil the milk and coffee together — otherwise 'tis only coffee and milk) — and as it was no more than eight in the morning, and the boat did not go off till noon, I had time to see enough of Lyons to tire the patience of all the friends I had in the world with it.
I will take a walk to the cathedral, said I, looking at my list, and see the wonderful mechanism of this great clock of Lippius of Basil, in the first place Now, of all things in the world, I understand the least of mechanism 1 have neither genius, or taste, or fancy — and have a brain so entirely unapt for every thing of that kind, that I solemnly declare I was never yet able to comprehend the principles of motion of a 90 THE LIFE AND OPINIONS squirrel cage, or a common knife-grinder's wheel — tho' I have many an hour of my life look'd up with great devotion at the one — and stood by with as much patience as any christian ever could do, at the other I'll go see the surprising movements of this great clock, said I, the very first thing I do : and then I will pay a visit to the great library of the Jesuits, and pro- cure, if possible, a sight of the thirty volumes of the general history of China, wrote (not in the Tartarean, but) in the Chinese language, and in the Chinese char- acter too.
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