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Comments On Sterne.
proof of this remark . About the time when Sterne wrote , it was not forgotten indeed , that the physiognomy of the Nose had been a kind of fashionable subject among Philosophers ; but little was written , and little remains on the controversy , and what Sterne gives us , is founded on the following passage of Rabelais : " Pourquoy ; " dit Gargantua , est ce que frere Jean a si beau nez ? Parce (
re" pondit Grangousier ) qu ' ainsi Dieu l ' a voulu , lequel nous fait en " telle forme , & telle fin , selon son divin abitre , que fait , un po-* ' tier ses vaisseaux . Par ce ( dit Ponocrates ) qu'il fut des premiers " a la foiredes nez . II print de plusbeaux & des plus grands . Trut " avant ( dit le moine ) selon la vraye Philosophie Monastique , c ' est , « par ce que ma Nounice avoit les tetins moiets , en l ' allaictant , mon tc
nez y enfondroit comme en beurre , et la s ' eslevoit et croissoit " comme la paste dedans la mets . Les durs tetins des Nourrices " font les en fans camus . Mais gay , gay , ad formam nasi cognos" citur ad te levavi * . " " Now Ambrose Parous convinced my father that the true and " efficient cause of what h ; sd engaged so much the attention of the " world , and upon which Prignitz and Scroderus had wasted so " much learning and fine parts—was neither this nor that—but that " the length and goodness of the nose , was owing simply to the
" softness and fiaccidity of the nurse ' s breast—as the flatness and " shortness of puisne noses was , to the firmness andelastic repulsion * ' of the same organ of nutrition in the heal and lively—which , " though happy for the woman , was the undoing of the child , inas" much as his nose was so snubbed , so rebuffed , so rebated , and so re" frigerated thereby * -, as never to arrive ad mensuram suam legiti" mam —but that in case of the fiaccidity and softness of the
; nurse " or mother ' s breast—by sinking into it , quoth Parasus , as into so . * ' much butter , the nose was comforted , nourished , & c . f " " the causes of short and long noses . There is no cause but " one , replied my uncle Toby , —vvhy one man ' s nose is longer than " another ' s , but because that God pleases to have it so . That is " Grangousier ' s solution , said my father . — 'Tis he , continued my uncle
" Toby , looking up , and not regarding my father ' s interrup" tion , who makes us all , and frames and puts us together , in such " forms and proportions , and for such ends , as is agreeable to his in-. " finite wisdom . §" I wish Sterne had known enough of Tah ' acotius to have done him justice , on the subject of noses . The practice of that extraordinary man , which has been obscured by misplaced raillery , and the imputation of follies entirely foreign to his method , deserves to be better known . f It was both rational and successful ; and it is a
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Comments On Sterne.
proof of this remark . About the time when Sterne wrote , it was not forgotten indeed , that the physiognomy of the Nose had been a kind of fashionable subject among Philosophers ; but little was written , and little remains on the controversy , and what Sterne gives us , is founded on the following passage of Rabelais : " Pourquoy ; " dit Gargantua , est ce que frere Jean a si beau nez ? Parce (
re" pondit Grangousier ) qu ' ainsi Dieu l ' a voulu , lequel nous fait en " telle forme , & telle fin , selon son divin abitre , que fait , un po-* ' tier ses vaisseaux . Par ce ( dit Ponocrates ) qu'il fut des premiers " a la foiredes nez . II print de plusbeaux & des plus grands . Trut " avant ( dit le moine ) selon la vraye Philosophie Monastique , c ' est , « par ce que ma Nounice avoit les tetins moiets , en l ' allaictant , mon tc
nez y enfondroit comme en beurre , et la s ' eslevoit et croissoit " comme la paste dedans la mets . Les durs tetins des Nourrices " font les en fans camus . Mais gay , gay , ad formam nasi cognos" citur ad te levavi * . " " Now Ambrose Parous convinced my father that the true and " efficient cause of what h ; sd engaged so much the attention of the " world , and upon which Prignitz and Scroderus had wasted so " much learning and fine parts—was neither this nor that—but that " the length and goodness of the nose , was owing simply to the
" softness and fiaccidity of the nurse ' s breast—as the flatness and " shortness of puisne noses was , to the firmness andelastic repulsion * ' of the same organ of nutrition in the heal and lively—which , " though happy for the woman , was the undoing of the child , inas" much as his nose was so snubbed , so rebuffed , so rebated , and so re" frigerated thereby * -, as never to arrive ad mensuram suam legiti" mam —but that in case of the fiaccidity and softness of the
; nurse " or mother ' s breast—by sinking into it , quoth Parasus , as into so . * ' much butter , the nose was comforted , nourished , & c . f " " the causes of short and long noses . There is no cause but " one , replied my uncle Toby , —vvhy one man ' s nose is longer than " another ' s , but because that God pleases to have it so . That is " Grangousier ' s solution , said my father . — 'Tis he , continued my uncle
" Toby , looking up , and not regarding my father ' s interrup" tion , who makes us all , and frames and puts us together , in such " forms and proportions , and for such ends , as is agreeable to his in-. " finite wisdom . §" I wish Sterne had known enough of Tah ' acotius to have done him justice , on the subject of noses . The practice of that extraordinary man , which has been obscured by misplaced raillery , and the imputation of follies entirely foreign to his method , deserves to be better known . f It was both rational and successful ; and it is a