How the duce should there— Trim? cried my uncle Toby ; for Bohemia being totally inland, it could have happen’d no otherwise⸺It might, said Trim , if it had pleased God⸺
My uncle Toby never spoke of the being and natural attributes of God, but with diffidence and hesitation⸺
⸺I believe not, replied my uncle Toby , after some pause⸺for being inland, as I said, and having Silesia and Moravia to the east; Lusatia and Upper Saxony to the north; Franconia to the west; Bavaria to the south; Bohemia could not have been propell’d to the sea without ceasing to be Bohemia ⸺nor could the sea, on the other hand, have come up to Bohemia , without overflowing a great part of Germany , and destroying millions of unfortunate inhabitants who could make no defence against it⸺Scandalous! cried Trim —Which would bespeak, added my uncle Toby , mildly, such a want of compassion in him who is the father of it⸺that, I think, Trim ⸺the thing could have happen’d no way.
The corporal made the bow of unfeigned conviction; and