210.
BEATEN. 'The more time is beaten, the less it is kept' (Rousseau), iv.
283, n. 1.
BELIEF. 'Every man who attacks my belief ... makes me uneasy; and I
am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 10.
BELIEVE. 'We don't know _which_ half to believe,' iv. 178.
BELL. 'It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him' (Burke), iv. 27.
BELLOWS. 'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she
is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.
BELLY. 'I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly
mind anything else,' i. 467.
BENEFIT. 'When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it
does for her, I will go to your benefit too,' ii. 330.
BIG. 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little
matters,' i. 471.
BIGOT. 'Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,' v. 120.
BISHOP. 'A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,' iv. 75;
'I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,' iv. 274;
'Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a
bishop,' iv. 13;
'Dull enough to have been written by a bishop' (Foote), ib. n. 3.
BLADE. 'A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,' v. 439, n. 2.
BLAZE. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
BLEEDS. 'When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his
country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,' i. 394.
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