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 the advantage, when he sees the Pyramids.

Now every word of this, quoth my uncle Toby, is Arabick to me.—I wish, said Yorick, 'twas so, to half the world.

—, continued my father, circumcised his whole army one morning.—Not without a court martial? cried my uncle Toby.—Though the learned, continued he, taking no notice of my uncle Toby's remark, but turning to Yorick,—are greatly divided still who Ilus was;—some say Saturn;—some the supream Being;—others, no more than a brigadier general under Pharoah neco.—Let him be who he will, said my uncle Toby, I know not by what article of war he could justify it.