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Speaking for myself, I have always held that the most perfect reproductions of nature are those which can be selected any day, under any condition of light, direct from the several objects themselves, without arrangement and fore-shortenings or twistings to the right and to the left.
And to support my eight children, and my wife, and myself, what have I in this world," cried he, striding suddenly with colossal firmness upon his sturdy legs, and raising to heaven arms which looked like fore-shortenings of the limbs of Hercules; "what have I in this wide world but these four bones?" No provocation could have worked up a phlegmatic English countryman to this pitch of eloquence.
Had the same great reasoner looked on, as my father illustrated his systems of noses, and observed my uncle Toby's deportment what great attention he gave to every word and as oft as he took his pipe from his mouth, with what wonderful seriousness he contemplated the length of it surveying it transversely as he held it betwixt his finger and his thumb then fore-right then this way, and then that, in all its possible directions and fore-shortenings he would have concluded my uncle Toby had got hold of the medius terminus, and was syllogizing and measuring with it the truth of each hypothesis of long noses, in order, as my father laid them before him.
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