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THE

WORKS

OF

LAURENCE STERNE,

COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

CONTAINING

1. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF III. SERMONS. IV. LETTERS.

TRISTRAM SHANDY.

V. THE FRAGMENT.

VI. THE KORAN.

H. A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
THROUGH FRANCE AND ITA- VII. HISTORY OF A GOOD WARM

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PRINTED BY J. TURNBULL, ANCHOR-CLOSE,
FOR GRAY, MAVER, & CO. BOOKSELLERS, GLASGOW.

E. a. Barthes

6-12-40

8v,

PREFACE.

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1

THE Sermon which gave rise to the publication of these having been offered to the world as a Sermon of Yorick's, I hope the most serious reader will find nothing to offend him, in my continuing the vo lumes under the fame title: lest it should be other. wife, I have added a second title-page with the real name of the Author the first will serve the bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known; and the second will ease the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant.

I suppose it is needless to inform the Public, that the reason of printing these Sermons arises altogether from the favourable reception which the Sermon given as a sample of them in TRISTRAM SHANDY met with from the world. That Sermon was printed by itself some years ago, but could find neither purchafers nor readers; so that I apprehended little hazard from a promise I made upon its republication, "That if the Sermon was liked, these should be al"fo at the world's service; which, to be as good as my word, they here are; and I pray to God, they Vol. V.

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