Had the same great reasoner looked on, as my father illustrated his systems of noses, and observed my uncle _Toby's_ deportment--what great attention he gave to every word--and as oft as he took his pipe from his mouth, with what wonderful seriousness he contemplated the length of it----surveying it transversely as he held it betwixt his finger and his thumb------then fore-right------then this way, and then that, in all its possible directions and foreshortenings------he would have concluded my uncle _Toby_ had got hold of the _medius terminus_, and was syllogizing and measuring with it the truth of each hypothesis of long noses, in order, as my father laid them before him. 
Had the same great reasoner looked on, as my father illustrated his systems of noses, and observed my uncle Toby's deportment - what great attention he gave to every word - and with what wonderful seriousness he contemplated his pipe, holding it this way and that - he would have concluded that my uncle Toby had got hold of the medius terminus, and was comparing and measuring with it the truth of each hypothesis of long noses, as my father laid them before him.
