Abridge.
_Passage in Bishop Butler._--In Bishop Butler's sermon "Upon the Government
of the Tongue" occurs the following passage:
"There is in some such a disposition to be talking, that an offence of
the slightest kind, and such as would not raise any other resentment,
yet raises, if I may so speak, the resentment of the tongue, puts it
into a flame, into the most ungovernable motions. _This outrage, when
the person it respects is present, we distinguish in the lower rank of
people by a peculiar term._"
Now I should be glad if any one could offer a conjecture as to the Bishop's
meaning in this last sentence? I have shown it to several people, but no
one has been able to think of this "peculiar term."