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A man describes his birth and upbringing through the adventures of his family.

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contre l’esperance de ceux qui se seroient servis du même moyen, il seroit nécessaire de les baptiser sous condition; & en cela le Conseil se conforme à tous les rituels, qui en autorisant le baptême d’un enfant qui fait paroître quelque partie de son corps, enjoignent néantmoins, & ordonnent de le baptiser sous condition, s’il vient heureusement au

Mr. Tristram Shandy’s compliments to Messrs. Le Moyne , De Romigny , and De Marcilly ; hopes they all rested well the night after so tiresome a consultation.⁠—He begs to know, whether after the ceremony of marriage, and before that of consummation, the baptizing all the Homunculi at once, slapdash, by injection , would not be a shorter and safer cut still; on condition, as above, That if the Homunculi do well, and come safe into the world after this, that each and every of them shall be baptized again ( sous condition )⁠⸺⁠And provided, in the second place, That the thing can be done, which Mr. Shandy apprehends it may, par le moyen d’une petite canulle , and sans faire aucun tort au père .

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