_Zeno_, _Cleanthes_, _Diogenes Babylonius_, _Dionysius_, _Heracleotes_, _Antipater_, _Pantius_, and _Posidonius_ amongst the _Greeks_; ----_Cato_ and _Varro_ and _Seneca_ amongst the _Romans_; ----_Pantonus_ and _Clemens Alexandrinus_ and _Montaigne_ amongst the Christians; and a score and a half of good, honest, unthinking _Shandean_ people as ever lived, whose names I can't recollect, --all pretended that their jerkins were made after this fashion, --you might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creased, and fretted and fridged the outside of them all to pieces; ----in short, you might have played the very devil with them, and at the same time, not one of the insides of them would have been one button the worse, for all you had done to them.

Zeno, Cleanthes, Diogenes Babylonius, Dionysius, Heracleotes, Antipater amongst the Greeks; Cato, Varro and Seneca amongst the Romans; Pantaeonus, Clemens Alexandrinus and Montaigne amongst the Christians; and a score of good, honest, unthinking Shandean people, whose names I can't recollect, - all pretended that their jerkins were made this way; - you might have rumpled and crumpled the outside of them all to pieces; you might have played the very devil with them, yet not one of the insides would have been one button the worse.
