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    stop all foot-paths , and force them into % \ ip hard rQa 4 s , There may be also another reading . Tney—t . e . t ^ e ^ ri ^ tpcrftts—h ^ ye cut the grass frpjn under their own feet , i ? i losing tj ^ e affection s of the people . He paid through the nose . This refers to pert ^ ifl caricatures which sell so ^ v ell owing to the preposterous enlargement of the most prominent feature of the $ ace . He paid , —L e . was

    profitable , owing to the nose . To pad [ the hoof . This phrase is tajten from \\ ie i ^ ode of walking practised oy the Irishmen , or Paddies , who come over so abundantly in harvest tifnp . He was as busy as a hen with Qpe chicken . What can the author mean by his remarks , } t ia said in ridicule of some one who is employing himself gravely in something essentially unimportant ; one who ^ is treating a trumpery business with an air of

    importance ; one Who is making much ado about nothing . ' To call over the \ oals . J ) oes this allude to the wish of so many persons to have the great ceai-owner , Lord Durham , as a minister ? A Mother Carey ' s chicken . There was once a Mother Carey on the pension list , and she had many pretty chickens . Raw head and bloody bones . Raw heads are quite coirimon in the legislature and many public employments . Bloody bones are becoming scarce since people have grown t \ xed of war .

    It is all moonshine . A great patriot * but at elbows once wished to borrow money of Sir Francis Burdett . The w ? iry JJaronet referred him to Hprne Tooke to get his securities examined . Home Tooke pondered for a long Uine over the deeds , said to be vouchers for West Indian property , jiis eyes grew more and more critical , and a sarcastic grin took possession of liis countenance . The ehraged borrower at last cabled ouk ' Wto * k Sir , do you think it all moonshine ? ' c Mpqnshiixe ! ' repUe ^ TooHe . ' By , Sir , it is not even starshine . *

    A son of a gun . i \ g V ^ military character . His satellites are only sons ofW Ancient Pistol , In my books . The author says , ' to be a ftiY'QUl'ite of the person who uses the expression . * This is not the sense ii ^ w ^ iiclji the nobility ' s tradesmen understand the phrase . Buy-bear . A mutually bestowed tit ^ e vyhich Sir Edw ar d

    Sugden and the Chancellor divide between them . livelihood . This cannot fcy pciswbility ine ^ ^ . ny thing but the author of the Comic Annual . Old Harry . ' A bad influence to be under tt \ e power of a treacherous superiority for the subordinates / The author is very

    quaint and concise at a definition . B y the Jjord ^ Hqrry . ^ hjs ifi | i ^ j o $ tfc whi yh is no ^ v falling i « t 0 desuetude , as little more is to b ^ got by it . Reafi ]/ cut qfffjd dry . tyteaii ^ a \ knfa sp ^ b , dry ^ uoug h i aud people » t $ a ^ rtcufjj , ta 91 ^ ^

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    782 Preface to the New BelleudenM * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 782, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/36/