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    He left fio stone unturned . Alluding to the propensities of Mr . Mac Ada | j > . A cat may look at a king . She must be sadly ^ t 3 logs fpr something to do .

    Long run . Thp run of Long YfelletXey frpn * his creditors . He looked as if butter ippw / ij not rn ? U in ^ if mouth . ThU refers to Lord Henley at the Middlesex election . To bamboozle . Writing to the king by this night ' s post . Blackguard *} . There was a volunteer regiment of them known in Buonaparte ' s days as The Devil ' s Qvyn /

    Gentleman . Few persons ' can Ipe founcLto agree m their definition of this word . If you q , sk a cab-driyer he will tell you , I calls a man a gemman wot pays me th e sfyUUng and never asks for the four-pence change . ' An innkeeper says a man ' real gentlerjiai } who calls for every thing in the house and out of the house and never so much as looks at the charges , except the

    last line , and then g ives him a guinea for his waiters to apportion as he may think prpper . Ordinary women call a man a gentleman who grudges no expense , either for his own pr otfrer people ' s wives or aaugnters . Those a little more aspiring think no one can be a gentleman who has not a certain rank . Still farther on

    he must be undeniably dedicate in his person ,, though his mind be polluted as a common sewer . The nearest definition I have ever heard , i . e . the most philosophic ^ was by a fair girl who spoke from the fulness of an inspired heart : * a human being combining

    a woman ' s tenderness with a man s courage . Upon this principle , and it is not controvertible , the foundling of a parish may have as much claim to the name of gentleman as the descendant of a line of kings . I do not enter into the definition of tenderness , and courage , but they are words of high import , when distinguished from the counterfeits which have been passed off for them , mawkishness and brutality .

    Our author is severe enough in Popular Phrases . In his Nursery Rhymes , he goes still further . The church find the law are as fruitful themes for him as tailors , and shoemakers , and other operative mechanics were to the Spanish satirist Quevedo .. Who would have expected that our innocent old rhyme

    * Diccory diccory dock / could have contained such pungent matter as the fallowing ? The priest is supposed to be speaking to the peasant , the tat rector to tha foolisn farmer . * Thick headed dolt , you dolt , bring out what you have fb ? our use , TVe churchman is in want of a fresh supply of proviaians \ ^ Tbe cbu » ck » ma * got at oncQ what he demanded With such hardy impudence ^ Hunt you hear ! the churchman tella you prctmioi ^ are ahors w ith ki&ft » Bring out at wee , you 4 olt , aU whajf fe % wJ <* % sq impujtatfl *

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    Preface to the tfew JBetteudentt * . 783

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 783, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/37/