Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… as the Baron d’Holbach’s – also frequented by David Hume or Edward Gibbon – talking to David Garrick of the ‘unexpected honours I have met with here’. 10 He adds: ‘Tristram was almost as much known here as in London, at least among your men … in a dialogue between Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim, in the final volume of Tristram Shandy : ‘Why then, an’ please your honour, is a black wench to be used worse than a white one? / I can give no reason, said my uncle Toby—— / ——Only, cried …
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