A Sentimental Journey

By Laurence Sterne

Book Overview

" When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honour for the humanity of his temper, I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation. No said I the Bourbon is by no means a cruel race: they may be misled, like other people; but there is a mildness in their blood. As I acknowledged this, I felt a suffusion of a finer kind upon my cheek more warm and friendly to man, than what Burgundy (at least of two livres a bottle, which was such as I had been drinking) could have produced. Just God said I, kicking my portmanteau aside, what is there in this world's goods which should sharpen our spirits, and make so many kind- hearted brethren of us fall out so cruelly as we do by the way?..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BWPKMMF2
• ISBN13: 9791041945283
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Culturea
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"