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The following strikes me as an excellent example. And what less trite except to tritical tastes and intellects than this letter? Sept. 18. 1784. My dear Friend, Following your good example, I lay before me a sheet of my largest paper. It was this moment fair and unblemished but I have begun to blot it, and having begun, am not likely to cease till I have spoiled it.
That the governor of Dendermond paid his obsequies all military honours, and that Yorick, not to be behind-hand paid him all ecclesiastic for he buried him in his chancel: And it appears likewise, he preached a funeral sermon over him I say it appears, for it was Yorick's custom, which I suppose a general one with those of his profession, on the first leaf of every sermon which he composed, to chronicle down the time, the place, and the occasion of its being preached: to this, he was ever wont to add some short comment or stricture upon the sermon itself, seldom, indeed, much to its credit: For instance, This sermon upon the Jewish dispensation I don't like it at all; Though I own there is a world of Water-Landish knowledge in it; but 'tis all tritical, and most tritically put together.
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