The Sadducee, or, a review of some pamphlets lately published on important subjects / [Yorick].

  • Laurence Sterne
Date:
1819
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    & Itch, have hitherto proved ineffectual. We majf observe by the way, that there are many symptoms in common with the itch and this disease, as the disposition it has to be tickled, and as Hudibras has observed on another occasion in rhyme. As if divinity had catched, The Itch on purpose to be scratched. t In the year of our Lord 1819, of his Majesty’s reign 59, from the celebrated Jubilee 9, in the year of the rise and progress of the New College 30, and of the decline and fall of the old --, this epidemic first appeared. It was at that important period the first of August, a time of Jubilee exta- tic, when each exulting individual looking into his own breast, sees there “ lacquered and shining” M. D. engraved on every atom of the heart. Such a time forms, in the annals of many, an sera which seldom or never returns, to march off with cypress and laurels, to look with piteous contempt on the humble brethren of the creation, still gro¬ velling in misery, and looking with green-eyed jea¬ lousy on these paragons of science. The conside¬ ration of these things is, I repeat, sufficient to stir up the latent caloric of their sotils, to make them bid adieu to the winter of their discontent, and to send them in a Berwick smack bound direct for London. There are a second species who deserve to be mentioned, and who are classed under the title of