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LIFE. 'A great city is the school for studying life,' iii. 253;'His life was marred by drink and insolence,' iv. 161, n. 4;'It is driving on the system of life,' iv. 112;'Life stands suspended and motionless,' iii. 419;'The tide of life has driven us different ways,' iii. 22.LIGHTS. 'Let us have some more of your northern lights; these aremere farthing candles,' v. 57, n. 3.LIMBS. 'The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,' iii.38, n. 6.LINK. 'Nay. Sir, don't you perceive that _one_ link cannot clank,'iv. 317.LITTLE. 'It must be born with a man to be contented to take upwith little things,' iii. 241.LOCALLY. 'He is only locally at rest,' iii. 241.LONDON. 'A London morning does not go with the sun,' iv. 72;'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life,' iii. 178.LORD. 'His parts, Sir, are pretty well for a Lord,' iii. 35;'Great lords and great ladies don't love to have their mouthsstopped,' iv. 116;'A wit among Lords': See below, WITS.LOUSE. See above, FLEA.LOVE. 'It is commonly a weak man who marries for love,' iii. 3;'Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book,' ii. 53;'You all pretend to love me, but you do not love me so well asI myself do,' iv. 399, n. 6.LUXURY. 'No nation was ever hurt by luxury,' ii. 218.LYING. 'By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him, butall comfort in his conversation,' iv. 178.M.MACHINE. 'If a man would rather be the machine I cannot argue withhim,' v. 117.MADE DISH. 'As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it wasa wretched attempt,' i. 469.MADHOUSES. 'If you should search all the madhouses in England, youwould not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense,' iv.170.MADNESS. 'With some people gloomy penitence is only madnessturned upside down,' iii. 27.MANKIND. 'As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,' iv. 239.MANY. 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,' i. 396.MARKET. 'A horse that is brought to market may not be bought,though he is a very good horse,' iv. 172;'Let her carry her praise to a better market,' iii. 293.MARTYRDOM. 'Martyrdom is the test,' iv. 12.MAST. 'A man had better work his way before the mast than readthem through,' iv. 308.MEAL. 'He takes more corn than he can make into meal,' iv. 98.MEANLY. 'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been asoldier, or not having been at sea,' iii. 265.MEMORY. 'The true art of memory is the art of attention,' iv. 126,n. 6.MEN. 'Johnson was willing to take men as they are' (Boswell), iii. 282.MERCHANT. 'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i.491, n. 3.MERIT. 'Like all other men who have great friends, you begin tofeel the pangs of neglected merit,' iv. 248.MERRIMENT. 'It would be as wild in him to come into company withoutmerriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without hispistols,' iii. 389.MIGHTY. 'There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,' i. 422.MILK. 'They are gone to milk the bull,' i. 444.MILLIONS. 'The interest of millions must ever prevail over that ofthousands,' ii. 127.MIND. 'A man loves to review his own mind,' iii. 228;'Get as much force of mind as you can,' iv. 226;'He fairly puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179;'The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embraceequally great things and small,' iii. 334;'They had mingled minds,' iv. 308;'To have the management of the mind is a great art,' ii. 440.MISER. 'He has not learnt to be a miser,' v. 316.MISERY. 'It would be misery to no purpose,' ii. 94;'Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourseto the mention of it,' iv. 31.MISFORTUNES. 'If a man _talks_ of his misfortunes, there is somethingin them that is not disagreeable to him,' iv. 31.MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319.MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be aa republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257.MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182;'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19;'_Perhaps_ the money might be _found_, and he was _sure_ thathis wife was _gone_,' iv. 319;'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employedthan in getting money,' ii. 323;'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400.MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199.MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after havingbeen in the pillory,' iii. 315.MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,'ii. 230.MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460.MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only bymurder,' v. 93, n. 4.N.NAMES. 'I do not know which of them calls names best,' ii. 37;'The names carry the poet, not the poet the names,' iii. 318.NAP. 'I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had abad night, and then the nap takes me,' ii. 407.NARROWNESS. 'Occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness'(Boswell), iv. 191.NATION. 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life,'v. 109, n. 6.NATIONAL. 'National faith is not yet sunk so low,' iv. 21.NATIVE PLACE. 'Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerablein his native place,' ii. 141.NATURE. 'All the rougher powers of nature except thunder were inmotion,' iii. 455;'You are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know thata man may be very sincere in good principles without having goodpractice,' v. 359;'Nature will rise up, and, claiming her original rights, overturna corrupt political system,' i. 424.NECESSITY. 'As to the doctrine of necessity, no man believes it,'iv. 329.NECK. 'He gart Kings ken that they had a _lith_ in their neck'(Lord Auchinleck), v. 382, n. 2;'On a thirtieth of January every King in Europe would rise with acrick in his neck' (Quin), v. 382, n. 2;'If you have so many things that will break, you had betterbreak your neck at once, and there's an end on't,' iii. 153.NEGATIVE. 'She was as bad as negative badness could be,' v. 231.NEVER. 'Never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannothave it,' iv. 205.NEW. 'I found that generally what was new was false' (Goldsmith),iii. 376.NEWSPAPERS. 'They have a trick of putting everything into thenewspapers,' iii. 330.NICHOLSON. 'My name might originally have been Nicholson,' i. 439.NINEPENCE. See DRAW.No. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i. 166.NON-ENTITY. 'A man degrading himself to a non-entity,' v. 277.NONSENSE. 'A man who talks nonsense so well must know that heis talking nonsense,' ii. 74;'Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense,' ii. 78.NOSE. 'He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose,at the head of his army,' ii. 229.NOTHING. 'Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest stateof a degraded mind,' iv. 352;'Sir Thomas civil, his lady nothing,' v. 449.NOVELTIES. 'This is a day of novelties,' v. 120.NURSE. 'There is nothing against which an old man should be somuch upon his guard as putting himself to nurse,' ii. 474.O.OBJECT. 'Nay, Sir, if you are born to object I have done with you,' v.151.OBJECTIONS. 'So many objections might be made to everything, thatnothing could overcome them but the necessity of doing something,'ii. 128;'There is no end of objections,' iii. 26.OBLIVION. 'That was a morbid oblivion,' v. 68.ODD. 'Nothing odd will do long,' ii. 449.ON'T. 'I'll have no more on't,' iv. 300.OPPRESSION. 'Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a speciesof oppression,' v. 82, n. 2.ORCHARD. 'If I come to an orchard,' &c., ii. 96.OUT. 'A man does not love to go to a place from whence he comesout exactly as he went in,' iv. 90.OUTLAW. 'Sir, he leads the life of an outlaw,' ii. 375.OUT-VOTE. 'Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them,'iii. 234.OVERFLOWED. 'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii. 122.OWL. 'Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owlupon day,' iv. 312.P.PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread,I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not havenoticed you,' iv. 320.PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of beinga man,' ii. 435, n. 7.PAINTED. 'Hailes's _Annals of Scotland_ have not that painted formwhich is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because onecottage is burning,' ii. 90.PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not _pamper_ them,' iv. 133.PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time andspace pant,' iv. 25.PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, butthe potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice'(Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbersand assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchednessof parsimony,' iii. 317.PARSONS. 'This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,' iv. 76.PATRIOTISM. 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' ii. 348.PATRIOTS. 'Patriots spring up like mushrooms' (Sir R. Walpole), iv.87, n. 2;'Don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87.PATRON. 'The Patron and the jail,' i. 264.PECCANT. 'Be sure that the steam be directed to thy _head,_ for_that_ is the _peccant_ part,' ii. 100.PEGGY. 'I cannot be worse, and so I'll e'en take Peggy,' ii. 101.PELTING. 'No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting mewith pamphlets,' ii. 308.PEN. 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand,or more wise when he had,' iv. 29.PEOPLE. 'The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminishedtheir people,' v. 300.Per. _'Per mantes notos et flumina nota,'_ i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.PERFECT. 'Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,'iv. 338.PERISH. 'Let the authority of the English government perish ratherthan be maintained by iniquity,' ii. 121.PETTY. 'These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,' i. 498.PHILOSOPHER. 'I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but Idon't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in' (O. Edwards),iii. 305.PHILOSOPHICAL. 'We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,....but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,' v. 328._Philosophus. 'Magis philosophus quam Christianus,'_ ii. 127.PHILOSOPHY. 'It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of thetime to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,' v. 114, n. 1.PICTURE. 'Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I knownot if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctanceto sit for a picture,' iv. 4.PIETY. 'A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'llbeat you all at piety,' iv. 289.PIG. 'Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,'iv. 373;'It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull himback by the tail,' v. 355.PILLOW. 'That will do--all that a pillow can do,' iv. 411.PISTOL. 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with thebutt end of it' (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.PITY. 'We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,'iii. 11.PLAYER. 'A player--a showman--a fellow who exhibits himself for ashilling,' ii. 234.PLEASANT. 'Live pleasant' (Burke), i. 344.PLEASE. 'It is very difficult to please a man against his will,' iii. 69.PLEASED. 'To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, isdoing a very great thing,' iii. 328.PLEASING. 'We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,' ii. 22.PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327;'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176;'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,'iii. 250;'When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,' iii. 131._Plenum._ 'There are objections against a _plenum_ and objectionsagainst a _vacuum_; yet one of them must certainly be true,' i. 444.PLUME. 'This, Sir, is a new plume to him,' ii. 210.POCKET. 'I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,' v. 145.POCKETS. See above under IMMORTALITY.POETRY. 'I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,' v. 35;'There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,' iii. 374.POINT. 'Whenever I write anything the public _make a point_ to knownothing about it' (Goldsmith), iii. 252.POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple offellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybodythat stood in the way,' iii. 264.POLITENESS. 'Politeness is fictitious benevolence,' v. 82.POOR. 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test ofcivilization,' ii. 130;'Resolve never to be poor,' iv. 163.PORT. 'It is rowing without a port,' iii. 255.See CLARET.