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_“ Now Ambrofe Pareus convinced my Father 
‘“‘ that the true and efficient caufe of what had 
‘“‘ engaged fo much the attention of the world, 
** and upon which Prignitz and Scroderus had wafted 
_* fo much learning and fine parts —was neither this 
‘“ nor that—but that the length and goodnefs of the 
** nofe, was owing fimply to the foftnefs ‘and flac- 
‘“* cidity of the nurfe’s breaft—as the flatnefs and 
*« fhortnefs of puifne nofes was, to the firmnefs and 
** elaftic repulfion of the fame organ of nutrition 
** in the heal and lively—which, though happy 
‘** for the woman, was the undoing of the child, 
** inafmuch as his nofe was fo fnubbed, fo rebuffed, 
** fo rebated, and fo refrigerated thereby, as never 
“« to arrive ad menfuram fuam legitimam;—but that 
in cafe of the flaccidity and foftnefs of the nurfe 
*‘ or mother’s breaft—by finking into it, quoth 
‘¢ Pareus, as into fo much butter, the nofe was 
‘© comforted, nourifhed, &c.”* ‘ 
‘«« ___ the caufes of fhort and long nofes, There 
“‘ isno caufe but one, replied my uncle Toby,— 
“« why one man’s nofe is longer than another's, but 
*« becaufe that God pleafes to have it fo. That is 
*« Grangoufier’s folution, faid my Father.—’Tis 
‘he, continued my Uncle Toby, looking © up, 
** and not regarding, my father’s interruption, who 
makes us all, and frames and puts us together, in 
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* Triftram Shandy, vol, iii, chap. 3% 
