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��Buckinger had no hands, and he wrote his name with his toes at Charing Cross for half a crown apiece ; that was a new manner of writing,' i. 419.

MANUSCRIPT. ' Praise is the tribute which every man is expected to pay for the grant of perusing a manu script,' ii. 192.

MARRY. ' A man should marry first, for virtue ; secondly, for wit ; thirdly, for beauty ; and fourthly, for money,' ii. 8.

MEAN. ' Sir, if you mean nothing, say nothing,' ii. 400.

MEAT. ' What signifies going thither ? There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,' ii. 14.

MIRROR. 'They see men who have merited their advancement by the ex ertion and improvement of those talents which God had given them ; and I see not why they should avoid the mirror,' i- 349-

MIRTH. ' The size of a man's under standing may always be justly measured by his mirth,' i. 345.

MONKEY. ' Let him be absurd, I beg of you ; when a monkey is too like a man, it shocks one,' i. 204.

MONEY. ' Why, the men are thinking on their money, I suppose, and the women are thinking on their mops,' i. 253.

Music. ' Music excites in my mind no ideas, and hinders me from contem plating my own,' ii. 103 ; ' Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice,' ii. 301. 'Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible,' ii. 308.

MYSTERY. ' Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off,' ii. i.

O.

OCEAN. 'Never mind it, Sir ; perhaps your friend spells ocean with an s,' ii. 404.

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PAINTING. ' I had rather see the por trait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world,' ii. 15.

��PHLEBOTOMISED. ' You might as well bid him tell you who phlebotomised Romulus,' i. 294.

PLANTS. ' He who plants a forest may doubtless cut down a hedge ; yet I could wish, methinks, that even he would wait till he sees his young plants grow,' i. 345.

POKER. ' Why yes, Sir, they '11 do any thing, no matter how odd or desperate, to gain their point ; they '11 catch hold of the red-hot end of a poker sooner than not get possession of it,' ii. 397.

PULSE. ' This man has a pulse in his tongue,' ii. 1 8.

PUPPY. ' When in anger my mother called me a puppy, I asked her if she knew what they called a puppy's mother,' i. 163.

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RATTLE-BOX. 'There certainly is no harm in a fellow's rattling a rattle- box ; only don't let him think that he thunders,' i. 286.

RELIGION. ' A principle of honour or fear of the world will many times keep a man in decent order ; but when a woman loses her religion she, in general, loses the only tie that will restrain her actions,' ii. 309.

RESENTMENT. ' The cup of life is surely bitter enough without squeezing in the hateful rind of resentment,' i. 246.

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SCONCED. ' Sir, you have sconced me twopence for non-attendance at a lec ture not worth a penny,' i. 164.

SCOTLAND. 'I give you leave to say, and you may quote me for it, that there are more gentlemen in Scotland than there are shoes,' ii. 77.

SCOUNDREL. ' It is so very difficult for a sick man not to be a scoundrel,' i. 267; 'Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam ; with a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete rascal,' ib. ; 'A man is a scoundrel that is afraid of anything,' ii. 4 ; 'Who-

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