----Then it can be out of nothing in the whole world, quoth my uncle _Toby_, in the simplicity of his heart, --but MODESTY. --My sister, I dare say, added he, does not care to let a man come so near her ****. I will not say whether my uncle _Toby_ had completed the sentence or not; ----'tis for his advantage to suppose he had, ----as, I think, he could have added no ONE WORD which would have improved it.
If, on the contrary, my uncle _Toby_ had not fully arrived at the period's end, --then the world stands indebted to the sudden snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe for one of the neatest examples of that ornamental figure in oratory, which Rhetoricians stile the _Aposiopesis_. ----Just Heaven! how does the _Poco piu_ and the _Poco meno_ of the _Italian_ artists; --the insensible MORE OR LESS, determine the precise line of beauty in the sentence, as well as in the statute! How do the slight touches of the chisel, the pencil, the pen, the fiddle-stick, _et ctera_, --give the true swell, which gives the true pleasure! --O my countrymen; --be nice; --be cautious of your language; --and never, O! never let it be forgotten upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.

'Then it can only be out of Modesty,' quoth my uncle Toby, in the simplicity of his heart. 'I dare say she does not care to let a man come so near her ****.'
I will not say whether my uncle Toby had completed the sentence or not; but if he had not fully arrived at its end, - then the world stands indebted to the sudden snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe for one of the neatest examples of that ornamental figure in oratory, the Aposiopesis. How the slight touches of the chisel, the pencil, the pen, the fiddle-stick, et cetera, give true pleasure! - O my countrymen - be cautious of your language; and never, O! never forget upon what small particles your eloquence and your fame depend.
