BEAUTIES OF STERNE; including all his PATHETIC TALES, and moft diftinguished OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE. SELECTED FOR THE HEART OF SENSIBILITY. Dear Senfibility! fource inexhaufted of all that's precious in our joys, or coftly in our forrows! thou! chaineft thy Martyr down upon his bed of ftraw !---and 'tis thou who lifts him up to Heaven!---Eternal fountain of our feelings!tis here I trace thee. S. JOURNEY, P. 226. THE EIGHTH EDITION, DUBLIN: Frinted by S. COLBERT, No. 136, Capel-freet, oppofite Abbey-street. 1784 ADVERTISEMENT. IT is neceffary to acquaint the Reader, that the references in this Volume are marked from the laft elegant London Edition of Mr. Sterne's Works in ten volumes. Price two Guineas. IMPERIAL MAJESTY JOSEPH THE SECOND, EMPEROR OF GERMANY. SIR, W the writings of one of the firft orna THEN I compiled this little volume from ments of Britain and of human genius, I did not look out long for a protector for the inestimable treasure. To whom, faid all the powers of Feeling, kindling within me-To whom should these pages that breathe the fpirit of humanity in fuch a fupereminent degree be addreffed, but to that illuftrious Monarch whofe benignity and unparalelled philanthropy has given a charm to every enlightened quarter of the universe ! When your Majefty retires from the bufy fcenes of Royalty, to commune with nature and her eminent works, of which study your distinguished actions fpeak you an admirable profici a 2 ent, |