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 I am not obliged, Sir, as Dr. Johnson observed on a similar occasion, to furnish you with an understanding.

I fear, Sir, you would have some difficulty in furnishing me with such an article from your own stock.

'Sdeath, Sir, do you question my understanding?

I only question, Sir, where I expect a reply; which, from things that have no existence, I am not visionary enough to anticipate.

I beg leave to observe, Sir, that my language was perfectly perspicuous, and etymologically correct; and, I conceive, I have de-