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 DICTA PHILOSOPHI

��Abilities Cock-boats.

��ABILITIES. ' His abilities are just suffi cient, Sir, to enable him to select the black hairs from the white ones for the use of the periwig-makers,' ii. 316.

ABSTINENCE. ' Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult,' ii. 197.

ABUSE. 'Let us hear, Sir, no general abuse ; the law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public,' i. 223.

APPETITE. * Whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake at least is not the slave of gross appetite,' i. 251. 'A man who rides out for an appetite consults but little the dignity of human nature,' ii. 10.

ARGUMENT. ' You have nothing to do with the motive of counsel, but you ought to weigh their argument,' ii. 409.

AUTHOR. ' The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book,' ii. 310.

B.

BELLY. As if one could fill one's belly with hearing soft murmurs or looking at rough cascades,' i. 323.

BLACKAMOOR. 'A talking blackamoor were better than a white creature who adds nothing to life, and by sitting down before one thus desperately silent

��takes away the confidence one should have in the company of her chair if she were once out of it,' i. 289.

BLEMISHES. ' No man takes upon himself small blemishes without supposing that great abilities are attributed to him,' ii. 153.

BOOK. ' A man may hide his head in a hole ; he may go into the country, and publish a book now and then which nobody reads, and then complain he is neglected,' i. 315. ' Books without the knowledge of life are useless ; for what should books teach but the art of living?' i. 324.

BREAD-SAUCE. ' A Brussels trimming is like bread-sauce; it takes away the glow of colour from the gown and gives you nothing instead of it,' i. 338.

BUSINESS. ' Fix on some business where much money may be got and little virtue risked,' i. 314.

��CAP. ' When she wears a large cap I can talk to her,' i. 338.

CATILINE. 'He talked to me at club one day concerning Catiline's con spiracyso I withdrew my attention and thought about Tom Thumb,' i. 203.

COCK-BOATS. I have sailed a long and painful voyage round the world of the English language; and does he now send out two cock-boats to tow me into harbour ? ' i. 405.

��i In this Concordance are not included those of Johnson's sayings which have been already given in the Dicta Philosophi at the end of the sixth volume c

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