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that righteous sentence which will be pronounced upon thee hereafter by that Being, to whom thou art finally to give an account of thy actions. > > “ Blessed is the man , indeed, then, as the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus expresses it, who is not pricked with the multitude of his sins: Blessed is the man whose heart hath not condemned him; whether he be rich, or whether he be poor, if he have a good heart (a heart thus guided and informed) he shall at all times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen that sit above upon a tower on high .”⁠—[A tower has no strength, quoth my uncle Toby , unless ’tis flank’d.]⁠—“In the darkest doubts it shall conduct him safer than a thousand casuists, and give the state