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This chapter is intended as a general and miscellaneous illustration of some of Sterne’s uses of the idea of design in Tristram Shandy, seen in the light of the background suggested in the previous chapter.
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John Locke, Essay (1690, ed. Nidditch, Oxford, 1975), Book II, ch. xi, p. 161.
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Stephen Werner, Diderot’s Great Scroll: Narrative Art in Jacques le Fataliste (Banbury Oxon., 1975), p. 97.
TS, p. 1: Work translates as ‘It is not actions themselves, but opinions concerning actions, which disturb men’. Michel de Montaigne, Essay. (1580), trans, in three books by C. Cotton, Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne (1693), p. 401. The epigram is from Epictetus’s Encheiridion Chapter 5. It appears in TS in Greek.
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Loveridge, M. (1982). Breaking Patterns: Analogy and Proportion. In: Laurence Sterne and the Argument about Design. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05600-2_5
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