ction of that particular species of
surprize, when a man in looking into a drawer, finds more of a thing
than he expected.--Humph! replied my uncle Toby. Dr. Slop, who had an
ear, understood my uncle Toby as well as if he had wrote a whole volume
against the seven sacraments.--Humph! replied Dr. Slop, (stating my
uncle Toby's argument over again to him)--Why, Sir, are there not seven
cardinal virtues?--Seven mortal sins?--Seven golden candlesticks?--Seven
heavens?--'Tis more than I know, replied my uncle Toby.--Are there
not seven wonders of the world?--Seven days of the creation?--Seven
planets?--Seven plagues?--That there are, quoth my father with a most
affected gravity. But prithee, continued he, go on with the rest of thy
characters, Trim.)

'Another is sordid, unmerciful,' (here Trim waved his right hand) 'a
strait-hearted, selfish wretch, incapable either of private friendship
or public spirit. Take notice how he passes by the widow and orphan in
their distress, and sees all the miseries incident to human life without
a sigh or a prayer.' (An' please your honours, cried Trim, I think this
a viler man than the other.)

'Shall not conscience rise up and sting him on such occasions?--No;
thank God there is no occasion, I pay every man his own;--I have no
fornication to answer to my conscience;--no faithless vows or promises
to make up;--I have debauched no man's wife or child; thank God, I am
not as other men, adulterers, unjust, or even as this libertine, who
stands before me.

'A third is crafty and designing in his nature. View his whole
life;--'tis nothing but a cunning contexture of dark arts and
unequitable subterfuges, basely to defeat the true intent of
all laws,--plain dealing and the safe enjoyment of our several
properties.--You will see such a one working out a frame of little
designs upon the ignorance and perplexities of the poor and needy
man;--shall raise a fortune upon the inexperience of a youth, or the
unsuspecting temper of his friend, who would have trusted him with his
life.

'When old age comes on, and repentance calls him to look back upon this
black account, and state it over again with his conscience--Conscience
looks into the Statutes at Large;--finds no express law broken by what
he has done;--perceives no penalty or forfeiture of goods and chattels
incurred;--sees no scourge waving over his head, or prison opening his
gates upon him:--What is there to affright his conscience?--Consc