Comments on Sterne. 75 
Sentimental Journey, to that of Jacob with his 
Avarice and his Honour, in the -firft part of the 
Payfan Parvenu, will perceive a near refemblance. 
It would be cruel to infert the French declama'‘ion. 
A fhorter paffage from the fame work will thew that 
the Shandean manner is very fimilar to that of 
Marivaux. 
Le Directeur avoit laiffé parler I’aineé fans l’inter- 
rompre, & fembloit meme un peu pique de, l’obfti- 
nation de l'autre. 
Prenant pourtant un air tranquille et benin: ma 
chere Demoifelle, ecoutez moi, dit il a _ cette 
cadette; vous favez avec quelle affection particuliere 
je vous donne mes confeils a toutes deux. 
_ Ces derniers paroles, a toutes deux, furent par- 
tagées, de facon que la Cadette en avoit pour le 
moins les trois quarts & demi pour elle, et ce ne fut 
meme que reflexion fubite, qu'il .en donna le 
refte a l’aineé.f 
The curious hypothefis refpecting- Chriftian names, 
contains a jutt fatire on what was once a popular 
fuperftition, and even cherifhed by the learned. 
Ka Pafquier, 
+ Compare alfo the firft Converfation with Me. Freval, 
in the Payfan Parvenu, with a fcene in the Sentimental 
Journey. Wherever Sterne picked up his Fragment, as 
he calls it, in the Sentimental Journey, on the power of 
Love, it is evidently ill-copied from the exordium of 
Lucian’s admirable eflay on the method of writing Hif- 
tory. 
+ Payfan Parvenu, Partie, 2me. 
