TO WHICH ARE ADDED SEVERAL PIECES Complete in four Volumes. 4 VOLUME the FIRST and SECOND. VIENNA: Printed for R. SAMMER, Bookseller. OME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MR. STERNE. LAURENCE STERNE was the fon of an Irish officer, and born at Clonmel in the fouth of Ireland November 24 th, 1713, a few days after his mother arrived from Dunkirk. His father, Roger Sterne, Lieutenant in Handafide's regiment in Ireland, was married to Agnes Hebert, widow of a captain of a good family. His greatgrandfather was an Archbishop, and his uncle a Prebendary of our Cathedrals. Mr. Sterne, when yet a boy, had a wonderful efcape in falling through a millrace, whilft the mill was going, and of being taken up unhurt. In 1721, he was fixed at fchool near Halifax, where he |