411.
AMBITION. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a
wag,' iv. 1, n. 2.
AMERICAN. 'I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,'
iii. 290.
AMUSEMENTS. 'I am a great friend to public amusements,' ii. 169.
ANCIENTS. 'The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and
failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded'
(Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.
ANGRY. 'A man is loath to be angry at himself,' ii. 377.
ANTIQUARIAN. 'A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,' iii. 278.
APPLAUSE. 'The applause of a single human being is of great
consequence,' iv. 32.
ARGUES. 'He always gets the better when he argues alone' (Goldsmith),
ii. 236.
ARGUMENT. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged
to find you an understanding,' iv. 313;
'Nay, Sir, argument is argument,' iv. 281;
'All argument is against it; but all belief is for it,' iii. 230;
'Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow' (Boyle), iv. 282.
ASINUS. 'Plus negabit unus asinus in una hora quam centum philosophi
probaverint in centum annis,' ii. 268, n. 2.
ASPIRED. 'If he aspired to meanness his retrograde ambition was
completely gratified,' v. 148, n. 1.
ATHENIAN. 'An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,' i. 73.
ATTACKED. 'I would rather be attacked than unnoticed,' iii. 375.
ATTENTION. 'He died of want of attention,' ii. 447.
ATTITUDENISE.
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