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Sterne's Plagiarisms

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Day
21
Month
June
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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The following instance of S terne 's unblushing "conveying" has not, I think, been hitherto recorded. In "Tristram Shandy," volume 1, chapter 12, is the following well known passage : "When to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to piek np sticks enongh from any thicket where it has strayed to make a fire to offer it np with." In the introdnetion to "Baconiana, " London, 1679, T. T. - i. e., Dr. Thomas Teuison, in comment on Bacon's words to King James, "I wish that as I am the first, so I may be the last of sacrifices in yonr times, ' ' writes as follows (page 16): "And -when from private Appetite, it is resolv'd that a Creature shall be sacrifleed; it is easie to piek up sticks enough, from any Thicket whither it hath straied, to make a Pire to offer it With." There could not be a more audacions

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