BABIES. 'Babies do not want to hear about babies,' iv. 8, n. 3.
BAITED. 'I will not be baited with _what_ and _why_,' iii. 268.
BANDY. 'It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign,' ii. 35.
BARK. 'Let him come out as I do and bark,' iv. 161, n. 3.
BARREN. 'He was a barren rascal,' ii. 174.
BAWDY. 'A fellow who swore and talked bawdy,' ii. 64.
BAWDY-HOUSE. 'Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house,
is a receiver of stolen goods,' iv. 26.
BEAST. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being
a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
BEAT. 'Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has _beat_; he may
have been _beaten_ before,' ii. 210.
BEATEN. 'The more time is beaten, the less it is kept' (Rousseau), iv.
283, n. 1.
BELIEF. 'Every man who attacks my belief ... makes me uneasy; and I
am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 10.
BELIEVE. 'We don't know _which_ half to believe,' iv. 178.
BELL. 'It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him' (Burke), iv. 27.
BELLOWS. 'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she
is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.
BELLY. 'I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly
mind anything else,' i. 467.
BENEFIT. 'When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it
does for her, I will go to your benefit too,' ii. 330.
BIG. 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little
matters,' i. 471.
BIGOT. 'Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,' v. 120.
BISHOP. 'A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,' iv. 75;
'I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,' iv. 274;
'Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a
bishop,' iv. 13;
'Dull enough to have been written by a bishop' (Foote), ib. n. 3.
BLADE. 'A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,' v. 439, n. 2.
BLAZE. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
BLEEDS. 'When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his
country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,' i. 394.
BLOOM. 'It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been
seen before by anybody,' i. 185.
BLUNT. 'There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion' (Sir
M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.
BOARDS. 'The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon _boards_'
(Garrick), ii. 465.
BOLDER. 'Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never
were brought together,' iv. 13.
_Bon-mot_. 'It is not every man that can carry a _bon-mot_'
(Fitzherbert), ii. 350.
BOOK. 'It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is
concealed behind the door,' i. 396;
'You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have
entertainment from a book,' iii. 385;
'Read diligently the great book of mankind,' i. 464;
'The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,'
iv. 8, n. 3;
'The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more
pain than pleasure in it,' iv. 218;
'It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much
as his book will hold,' ii. 237.
BOOKSELLER. 'An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,'
iii. 434.
BORN. 'I know that he was born; no matter where,' v. 399.
BOTANIST. 'Should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn
myself into a reptile,' i. 377, n. 2.
BOTTOM. 'A bottom of good sense,' iv. 99.
BOUNCING. 'It is the mere bouncing of a school-boy,' ii. 210.
BOUND. 'Not in a _bound_ book,' iii. 319, n. 1.
BOW-WOW. 'Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary
were it not for his bow-wow way' (Lord Pembroke), ii. 326, n. 5.
BRAINS. 'I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.
BRANDY. 'He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy,' iii. 381;
'Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him,'
iii. 381.
BRASED. 'He advanced with his front already brased,' v. 388, n. 2.
BRAVERY. 'Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing,' iv. 395.
BRENTFORD. 'Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?' iv. 186.
BRIARS. 'I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and
thorns still hang about me' (Marshall), iii. 313.
BRIBED. 'You may be bribed by flattery,' v. 306.
BRINK. 'Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,'
ii. 241, n. 1.
BROTHEL. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a
brothel,' iii. 25.
BRUTALITY. 'Abating his brutality he was a very good master,'
ii. 146.
BUCKRAM'D. 'It may have been written by Walpole and _buckram'd_
by Mason' (T. Warton), iv. 315.
BULL. 'If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, "Here am
I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater
felicity?"' ii. 228.
BULL'S HIDE. 'This sum will...get you a strong lasting coat supposing
it to be made of good bull's hide,' i. 440.
BURDEN. 'Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of
himself,' v. 358, n. 1.
BURROW. 'The chief advantage of London is that a man is always so
near his burrow' (Meynell), iii. 379.