Revenge and malice were as two violent oppugners on the one side; but honesty, religion, fear of God, withheld him on the other.
It is for the same reason, that is, because 'tis all comprehended in Slawkenbergius, that I say nothing likewise of Scroderus (Andrea) who all the world knows, set himself to oppugn Prignitz with great violence, ---- proving it in his own way, first logically, and then by a series of stubborn facts - Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, volume III, page 180, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761.