A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne - When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France’s health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honour for the humanity of his temper,—I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation.—No—said I—the Bourbon is by no means a cruel race: they may be misled, like other people; but there is a ...