ATTORNEY. 'Now it is not necessary to know our thoughts to tell that
an attorney will sometimes do nothing,' iii. 297;
'He did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he
believed the gentleman was an attorney,' ii. 126.
AUCTION-ROOM. 'Just fit to stand at the door of an auction-room with a
long pole, and cry "Pray gentlemen, walk in,"' ii. 349.
AUDACITY. 'Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,' ii. 292, n. 1.
AUTHORS. 'Authors are like privateers, always fair game for one another,'
iv. 191, n. 1;
'The chief glory of every people arises from its authors,' v. 137, n. 2.
AVARICE. 'You despise a man for avarice, but do not hate him,' iii. 71.
B.
BABIES. 'Babies do not want to hear about babies,' iv. 8, n. 3.
BAITED. 'I will not be baited with _what_ and _why_,' iii. 268.
BANDY. 'It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign,' ii. 35.
BARK. 'Let him come out as I do and bark,' iv. 161, n. 3.
BARREN. 'He was a barren rascal,' ii. 174.
BAWDY. 'A fellow who swore and talked bawdy,' ii. 64.
BAWDY-HOUSE. 'Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house,
is a receiver of stolen goods,' iv. 26.
BEAST. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being
a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
BEAT. 'Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has _beat_; he may
have been _beaten_ before,' ii. 210.
BEATEN. 'The more time is beaten, the less it is kept' (Rousseau), iv.
283, n. 1.
BELIEF. 'Every man who attacks my belief ... makes me uneasy; and I
am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 10.
BELIEVE. 'We don't know _which_ half to believe,' iv. 178.
BELL. 'It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him' (Burke), iv. 27.
BELLOWS. 'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she
is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.
BELLY. 'I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly
mind anything else,' i. 467.
BENEFIT. 'When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it
does for her, I will go to your benefit too,' ii. 330.
BIG. 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little
matters,' i. 471.
BIGOT. 'Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,' v. 120.
BISHOP. 'A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,' iv. 75;
'I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,' iv. 274;
'Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a
bishop,' iv. 13;
'Dull enough to have been written by a bishop' (Foote), ib. n. 3.
BLADE. 'A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,' v. 439, n. 2.
BLAZE. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
BLEEDS. 'When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his
country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,' i. 394.
BLOOM. 'It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been
seen before by anybody,' i. 185.
BLUNT. 'There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion' (Sir
M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.
BOARDS. 'The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon _boards_'
(Garrick), ii. 465.
BOLDER. 'Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never
were brought together,' iv. 13.
_Bon-mot_. 'It is not every man that can carry a _bon-mot_'
(Fitzherbert), ii. 350.
BOOK. 'It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is
concealed behind the door,' i. 396;
'You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have
entertainment from a book,' iii. 385;
'Read diligently the great book of mankind,' i. 464;
'The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,'
iv. 8, n. 3;
'The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more
pain than pleasure in it,' iv. 218;
'It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much
as his book will hold,' ii. 237.
BOOKSELLER. 'An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,'
iii. 434.
BORN. 'I know that he was born; no matter where,' v. 399.
BOTANIST. 'Should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn
myself into a reptile,' i. 377, n. 2.
BOTTOM. 'A bottom of good sense,' iv. 99.
BOUNCING. 'It is the mere bouncing of a school-boy,' ii. 210.
BOUND. 'Not in a _bound_ book,' iii. 319, n. 1.
BOW-WOW. 'Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary
were it not for his bow-wow way' (Lord Pembroke), ii. 326, n. 5.
BRAINS. 'I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.
BRANDY. 'He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy,' iii. 381;
'Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him,'
iii. 381.
BRASED. 'He advanced with his front already brased,' v. 388, n. 2.
BRAVERY. 'Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing,' iv. 395.
BRENTFORD. 'Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?' iv. 186.
BRIARS. 'I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and
thorns still hang about me' (Marshall), iii. 313.
BRIBED. 'You may be bribed by flattery,' v. 306.
BRINK. 'Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,'
ii. 241, n. 1.
BROTHEL. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a
brothel,' iii. 25.
BRUTALITY. 'Abating his brutality he was a very good master,'
ii. 146.
BUCKRAM'D. 'It may have been written by Walpole and _buckram'd_
by Mason' (T. Warton), iv. 315.
BULL. 'If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, "Here am
I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater
felicity?"' ii. 228.
BULL'S HIDE. 'This sum t you a strong lasting coat supposing
it to be made of good bull's hide,' i. 440.
BURDEN. 'Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of
himself,' v. 358, n. 1.
BURROW. 'The chief advantage of London is that a man is always so
near his burrow' (Meynell), iii. 379.
BURSTS. 'He has no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions,' iv. 27
BUSINESS. 'It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by
one man, if he will make a business of it' (Franklin), iv. 97 n. 3.
Buz. 'That is the buz of the theatre,' v. 46.
C.
CABBAGE. 'Such a woman might be cut out of a cabbage, if there was
a skilful artificer,' v. 231.
CALCULATE. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and
when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.
CANDLES. 'A man who has candles may sit up too late,' ii. 188.
CANNISTER. 'An author hunted with a cannister at his tail,' iii. 320.
CANT. 'Clear your mind of cant,' iv. 221;
'Don't cant in defence of savages,' iv. 308;
'Vulgar cant against the manners of the great,' iii. 353.
CANTING. 'A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the
last,' iii. 270.
CAPITULATE. 'I will be conquered, I will not capitulate,' iv. 374.
CARD-PLAYING. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing,'
iii. 23;
'It generates kindness and consolidates society,' v. 404.
CARROT. 'You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot,' ii.
439.
CAT. 'She was a speaking cat,' iii. 246.
CATCH. 'God will not take a catch of him,' iv. 225.
CATCHING. 'That man spent his life in catching at an object which he
had not power to grasp,' ii. 129.
CATEGORICAL. 'I could never persuade her to be categorical,' iii. 461.
CAUTION. 'A strain of cowardly caution,' iii. 210.
CAWMELL. 'Ay, ay, he has learnt this of Cawmell,' i. 418.
CENSURE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323.
CHAIR. 'He fills a chair,' iv. 81.
CHARACTER. 'Ranger is just a rake, a mere rake, and a lively young
fellow, but no _character_ ii. 50;
'Derrick may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but
the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over,' i. 394;
'The greater part of mankind have no character at all,' iii. 280, n. 3.
CHARITY. 'There is as much charity in helping a man down-hill as in
helping him up-hill,' v. 243.
CHEERFULNESS. 'Cheerfulness was always breaking in' (Edwards), iii. 305.
CHEQUERED. 'Thus life is chequered,' iv. 245, n. 2.
CHERRY-STONES. 'A genius that could not carve heads upon cherry-stones,'
iv. 305.
CHIEF. 'He has no more the soul of a chief than an attorney who has
twenty houses in a street, and considers how much he can make by
them,' v. 378.
CHILDISH. 'One may write things to a child without being childish'
(Swift), ii. 408, n. 3.
CHIMNEY. 'To endeavour to make her ridiculous is like blacking the
chimney,' ii. 336.
CHUCK-FARTHING. 'A judge is not to play at marbles or at chuck-farthing
in the Piazza,' ii. 344.
CHURCH. 'He never passes a church without pulling off his hat,' i. 418;
'Let me see what was once a church,' v. 41.
CITIZEN. 'The citizen's enlarged dinner, two pieces of roast-beef
and two puddings,' iii. 272.
CIVIL. 'He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it,'
iii. 183
CIVILITY. 'We have done with civility,' iii. 273.
CLAIMS. 'He fills weak heads with imaginary claims,' ii. 244.
CLAPPED. 'He could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to
be clapped on the back by Tom Davies' (Beauclerk), ii. 344.
CLARET. 'A man would be drowned by claret before it made him drunk,'
iii. 381; iv. 79;
'Claret is the liquor for boys,' iii. 381.
CLEAN. 'He did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for
it,' i. 397.
CLEANEST. 'He was the cleanest-headed man that he had met with,'
v. 338.
CLERGYMAN. 'A clergyman's diligence always makes him venerable,'
iii. 438.
CLIPPERS. 'There are clippers abroad,' iii. 49.
COAT. 'A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not
find his way thither the sooner in a grey one,' iii. 188, n. 4.
COCK. 'A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution,' ii. 334.
COCK-FIGHTING. 'Cock-fighting will raise the spirits of a company,'
iii. 42.
COMBINATION. 'There is a combination in it of which Macaulay is
not capable,' v. 119.
COMEDY. 'I beg pardon, I thought it was a comedy' (Shelburne),
iv. 246, n. 5;
'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233.
COMMON--PLACES. 'Criticism disdains to chase a school-boy to his
common-places,' iv. 16, n. 4.
COMPANY. 'A fellow comes into _our_ company who is fit for _no_
company,' v. 312;
'The servants seem as unfit to attend a company as to steer a
man of war,' iv. 312.
COMPARATIVE. 'All barrenness is comparative,' iii. 76.
COMPLETES. 'He never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57.
CONCENTRATED. 'It is being concentrated which produces high
convenience,' v. 27.
CONCENTRATES. 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be
hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.
CONCLUSIVE. 'There is nothing conclusive in his talk,' iii. 57.
CONE. 'A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone,' iii. 283.
CONGRESS. 'If I had bestowed such an education on a daughter, and
had discovered that she thought of marrying such a fellow, I would
have sent her to the Congress,' ii. 409.
CONSCIENCE. 'No man's conscience can tell him the right of another
man,' ii. 243.
CONTEMPT. 'No man loves to be treated with contempt,' iii. 385.
CONTEMPTIBLE. 'There is no being so poor and so contemptible who
does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more
contemptible,' ii. 13.
CONTRADICTED. 'What harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?'
iv. 280.
CONVERSATION. 'In conversation you never get a system,' ii. 361;
'We had talk enough, but no conversation,' iv. 186.
COUNT. 'He had to count ten, and he has counted it right,' ii. 65;
'When the judgment is so disturbed that a man cannot count,
that is pretty well,' iv. 176.
COUNTING. 'A man is often as narrow as he is prodigal for want of
counting,' iv. 4, n. 4.
COUNTRY. 'They who are content to live in the country are fit for the
country,' iv. 338.
Cow. 'A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of
a garden,' ii. 187;
'My dear Sir, I would confine myself to the cow' (Blair), v. 396, n. 4;
'Nay, Sir, if you cannot talk better as a man, I'd have you bellow
like a cow,' v. 396.
COWARDICE. 'Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace,' iii. 326;
'Such is the cowardice of a commercial place,' iii. 429.
COXCOMB. 'He is a coxcomb, but a satisfactory coxcomb'(Hamilton),
iii. 245, n. i;
'Once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb,' ii. 129.
CRAZY. 'Sir, there is no trusting to that crazy piety,' ii. 473.
_Credulite_. 'La Credulite des incredules' (Lord Hailes), v. 332.
CRITICISM. 'Blown about by every wind of criticism,' iv. 319.
CROSS-LEGGED. 'A tailor sits crosslegged, but that is not luxury,' ii. 218
CRUET. 'A mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet,' v. 269.
_Cui bono_. 'I hate a _cui bono_ man' (Dr. Shaw), iv. 112.
CURE. 'Stay till I am well, and then you shall tell me how to cure
myself,' ii. 260.
CURIOSITY. 'There are two objects of curiosity-the Christian world
and the Mahometan world,' iv. 199.
D.
DANCING-MASTER. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners
of a dancing-master,' i. 266.
DARING. 'These fellows want to say a daring thing, and don't know
how to go about it,' iii. 347.
DARKNESS. 'I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total
darkness, and sent him a set' [of the _Ramblers_], iv. 90.
DASH. 'Why don't you dash away like Burney?' ii. 409.
DEATH. 'If one was to think constantly of death, the business of
life would stand still,' v. 316;
'The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death,' ii. 93;
'We are getting out of a state of death,' ii. 461;
'Who can run the race with death?' iv. 360.
DEBATE. 'When I was a boy I used always to choose the wrong side of
a debate,' i. 441.
DEBAUCH. 'I would not debauch her mind,' iv. 398, n. 2.
DEBAUCHED. 'Every human being whose mind is not debauched will
