TABLE. 'Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers
and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he'd wish to
creep under the table,' iii. 265;
'As to the style, it is fit for the second table,' iii. 31.
TAIL. 'If any man has a tail, it is Col,' v. 330;
'I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that?
why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' iii. 268.
TAILS. 'If they have tails they hide them,' v. 111.
TALK. 'Solid talk,' v. 365:'
There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,' iii. 186, n. 3;
'Well, we had good talk,' ii. 66;
'You may talk as other people do,' iv. 221.
TALKED. 'While they talked, you said nothing,' v. 39.
TALKING. 'People may come to do anything almost, by talking of it,'
v. 286.
TALKS. 'A man who talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man
who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,' iii. 247.
TASKS. 'Never impose tasks upon mortals,' iii. 420.
TAVERN. 'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 452,
n. 1.
TEACH. 'It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than
what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452.
TEA-KETTLE. 'We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle
here with the roaring of the ocean,' ii. 86, n. i.
TELL. 'It is not so; do not tell this again,' iii. 229;
'Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,' iv. 191.
TENDERNESS. 'Want of tenderness is want of parts,' ii. 122.
TERROR. 'Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,' iv.
253, n. 4.
TESTIMONY. 'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow'
(Boyle), iv. 281.
_Tête-à-tête._ 'You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or
you will be a _tête-à-tête_ man all your life,' iii. 376.
THE. 'The tender infant, meek and mild,' ii. 212, n. 4.
THEOLOGIAN. 'I say, Lloyd, I'm the best theologian, but you are the
best Christian,' vi. liv.
THIEF. See SLUT.
THINK. You may talk in this manner,....but don't _think_ foolishly,'
iv. 221;
'To attempt to think them down is madness,' ii. 440.
THOUGHT. 'Thought is better than no thought,' iv. 309.
THOUSAND. 'A man accustomed to throw for a thousand pounds, if
set down to throw for sixpence, would not be at the pains to count
his dice,' iv. 167.
_Tig._ 'There was too much _Tig_ and _Tirry_ in it,' ii. 127, n. 3.
TIMBER. 'Consider, Sir, the value of such a piece of timber here,' v.
319.
TIME. 'He that runs against time has an antagonist not subject to
casualties,' i. 319, n. 3.
TIMIDITY. 'I have no great timidity in my own disposition, and am no
encourager of it in others,' iv. 200, n. 4.
TIPTOE. 'He is tall by walking on tiptoe,' iv. 13, n. 2.
TONGUE. 'What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity? Or
what more than to hold your tongue about it?' iv. 71.
TOPICS. See SICK.
TORMENTOR. 'That creature was its own tormentor, and, I believe,
its name was Boswell,' i. 470.
TORPEDO. 'A pen is to Tom a torpedo; the touch of it benumbs his
hand and his brain,' i. 159, n. 4.
TOSSED. 'You tossed and gored several persons' (Boswell), ii. 66;
iii. 338
TOWERING. 'Towering in the confidence of twenty-one,' i. 324.
TOWN. 'The town is my element,' iv. 358.
TOWSER. 'As for an estate newly acquired by trade, you may give it,
if you will, to the dog Towser, and let him keep his own name,' ii. 261.
TRADE. 'A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind; but
there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind, v. 328;
'This rage of trade will destroy itself,' v. 231.
TRADESMEN. 'They have lost the civility of tradesmen without acquiring
the manners of gentlemen,' ii. 120.
TRAGEDY. 'I never did the man an injury; but he would persist in
reading his tragedy to me,' iv. 244, n. 2.
TRANSLATION. 'Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good
translation,' iii. 373.
TRANSMITTER. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i.
166, n. 3.
TRAPS. 'I play no tricks; I lay no traps,' iii. 316.
TRAVELLERS. 'Ancient travellers guessed, modern measure,' iii. 356;
'There has been, of late, a strange turn in travellers to be
displeased,' iii. 236.
TRAVELLING. 'When you set travelling against mere negation, against
doing nothing, it is better to be sure,' iii. 352.
TRICKS. 'All tricks are either knavish or childish,' iii. 396.
TRIM. 'A mile may be as trim as a square yard,' iii. 272.
TRIUMPH. 'It was the triumph of hope over experience,' ii. 128.
TRUTH. 'I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of
truth,' iv. 65;
'Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every
other man has a right to knock him down for it,' iv. 12;
'Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he
must either hurt the person by telling the truth, or hurt himself
by telling what is not truth,' iii. 320;
'Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,' v. 42.
TUMBLING. 'Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the Bar into
the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling
upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he
should walk on his feet,' ii. 48.
TURN. 'He had no turn to economy' (Langton), iii, 363, n. 2.
TURNPIKE. 'For my own part now, I consider supper as a turnpike
through which one must pass in order to get to bed' (Boswell or
Edwards), iii. 306.
TURNSPIT. 'The fellow is as awkward as a turnspit when first put
into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,' iv. 411.
TYRANNY. 'There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny,' ii. 170.