Post.

POST. 'Sir, I found I must have gilded a rotten post,' i. 308, 1. 2. POSTS. If you have the best posts we will have you tied to them and

whipped,' v. 332.

POUND. 'Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms and consider any single atom; it is to be sure good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church,' i. 509.

POVERTY. 'When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty,' i. 511.

POWER. 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have-Power' (Boulton), ii. 526.

PRACTICE. 'He does not wear out his principles in practice' (Beauclerk), iii. 320.

PRAISE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 368; 'I know nobody who blasts by praise as you do,' iv. 94; 'Praise and money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind,' iv. 279; 'There is no sport in mere praise, when people are all of a mind,' v. 311.

PRAISES. 'He who praises everybody

praises nobody,' iii. 256, n. 1.

PRANCE. 'Sir, if a man has a mind to prance he must study at Christ Church and All Souls,' ii. 77, n. I. PRECEDENCY. See above, FLea. PRE-EMINENCE. 'Painful pre-eminence' (Addison), iii. 94, n. 2. PREJUDICE. 'He set out with a prejudice against prejudices,' ii. 58. PRESENCE. 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive,' ii.

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540; Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,' i. 529.

PRIG. 'Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,' iii. 277; 'What! a prig, Sir?' 'Worse, Madam, a Whig. But he is both,' iii. 334.

PRINCIPLES. 'Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 409. PROBAbilities. 'Balancing probabilities,' iv. 15.

PRODIGALITY. See above, PARSI

RAGE. 'He has a rage for saying something when there is nothing to be said,' i. 381.

RAGS. 'Rags, Sir, will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it,' iv. 360. RAINED. 'If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand,' iii. 392. RASCAL. 'I'd throw such a rascal into the river,' i. 543; 'With a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete rascal,' iii. 1; 'Don't

be afraid, Sir, you will soon make a very pretty rascal,' iv. 231-2; 'Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal than accused of deficiency in the graces,' iii. 63. RASCALS. 'Sir, there are rascals in all countries,' iii. 371.

RATIONALITY, 'An obstinate rationality prevents me,' iv. 334. RATTLE. 'The lad does not care for the child's rattle,' ii. 16.

READ. 'We must read what the world reads at the moment,' iii. 378. REAR. 'Sir, I can make him rear,'

iv. 34. REASON.

'You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four,' iii. 426. REBELLION.

'All rebellion is natural

to man,' v. 449. RECIPROCATE. 'Madam, let us reciprocate,' iii. 463.

RECONCILED. 'Beware of a reconciled enemy' (Italian proverb), iii. 123. REDDENING. 'It is better she should be reddening her own cheeks than blackening other people's characters,' iii. 53.

Repairs.

REPAIRS.There is a time of life, Sir, when a man requires the repairs of a table,' i. 544, n. I. REPEATING. 'I know nothing more offensive than repeating what one knows to be foolish things, by way of continuing a dispute, to see what a man will answer,' iii. 398. REPUTATION. 'Jonas acquired some reputation by travelling abroad, but lost it all by travelling at home,' ii.

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RESENTMENT. 'Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury,' iv. 423. RESPECTED. 'Sir, I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen; they told me none of these things,' iii. 9.

REVIEWERS. 'Set Reviewers at defiance,' v. 312; 'The Reviewers will make him hang himself,' iii. 356. RICH. 'It is better to live rich than to die rich,' iii. 345. RIDICULE. 'Ridicule has gone down before him,' i. 456; 'Ridicule is not your talent,' iv. 387. RIDICULOUS. See CHIMNEY.

RIGHT. Because a man cannot be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?' iii. 466; 'It seems strange that a man should see so far to the right who sees so short a way to the left,' iv. 23. RISING. 'I am glad to find that the man is rising in the world,' ii. 178,

22. I. Rock. 'It is like throwing peas against a rock,' v. 32; 'Madam, were they in Asia I would not leave the rock,' v. 254.

Rocks. 'If anything rocks at all,

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they say it rocks like a cradle,' iii. 154.

ROPE DANCING. 'Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dancing,' ii. 504.

ROTTEN. 'Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him,' ii. 241; Then your rotten sheep are mine,' v. 56. ROUND. 'Round numbers are always false,' iii. 256, n. 5. RUFFIAN. 'I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian,'

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cording to causes and effects, no other wear could at that time have been chosen,' iv. 219.

SCHEME. 'Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment,' i. 384,

22. I.

SCHEMES. 'It sometimes happens that men entangle themselves in their own schemes,' iii. 439; 'Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things,' ii. 118. SCHOOLBOY. 'A schoolboy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy, but it is no treat for a man,' ii. 146.

SCHOOLMASTER. You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill,' ii. 101. SCOTCH. 'I'd rather have you whistle a Scotch tune,' iv. 129; 'Scotch conspiracy in national falsehood,' ii. 339; 'Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 89; 'Why, Sir, all barrenness is comparative. The Scotch would not know it to be barren,' iii. 88. SCOTCHMAN. 'Come, gentlemen, let

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he should not be,' &c., iv. 113; 'Why, Sir, I should not have said of Buchanan, had he been an Englishman, what I will now say of him as a Scotchman,-that he was the only man of genius his country ever produced,' iv. 214; 'You would not have been so valuable as you are had you not been a Scotchman,' iii. 395. SCOTCHMEN. 'Droves of Scotchmen would come up and attest anything for the honour of Scotland,' ii. 356; 'I shall suppose Scotchmen made necessarily, and Englishmen by choice,' v. 53; 'It was remarked of Mallet that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend,' ii. 182, n. 4; 'We have an inundation of Scotchmen' (Wilkes), iv. 117. SCOTLAND.

'A Scotchman must be

a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth' ii. 356, n. I; v. 443, n. 2; 'Describe the inn, Sir? Why, it was so bad that Boswell wished to be in Scotland,' iii. 59; 'If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds, what remains for all the rest of the nation?' iv. 117; 'Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people,' i. 341, n. 3; 'Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England,' iii. 282; 'Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland,' ii. 86; Things which grow wild here must be cultivated with great care in Scotland. Pray, now, are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfection?' ii. 89; 'Why so is Scotland your native place,' ii. 60.

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