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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: hours, thou lost as many quarts of blood; and hadst thou lost as much more,
did not the faculty tell thee--it would have amounted to a gallon?--
Chapter 4.XXXI.
--But for heaven's sake, let us not talk of quarts or gallons--let us take
the story straight before us; it is so nice and intricate a one, it will
scarce bear the transposition of a single tittle; and, somehow or other,
you have got me thrust almost into the middle of it--
--I beg we may take more care.
Chapter 4.XXXII.
My uncle Toby and the corporal had posted down with so much heat and
precipitation, to take possession of the spot of ground we have so often
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