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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 will...get 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.
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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.