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I find the spirit of patriotism so strong in me every time I see them, that I look on them as the greatest blockheads in nature; and, to say truth, the compound of booby and _petit maître_ makes up a very odd sort of animal."

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The blockheads have gone on negotiating with me just long enough to enable Grant to bring all his army up to this point.

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If God has not blessed you with the talent of rhiming, make use of my poor stock and welcome; let your verses run upon my feet, and for the utmost refuge of notorious blockheads, reduced to the last extremity of sense, turn my own lines against me, and in utter despair of my own satire, make me satirize myself.'

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Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor, But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war.

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Shadwell, after all, was very far from being the blockhead these references imply.

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[173] The Dutch word _knol_ signifies both a turnip and a blockhead.

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"The blockheads!

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; the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope]; to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound" [Churchill].

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bull head, dunderhead, addlehead † , blockhead, dullhead † , loggerhead, jolthead † , jolterhead † , beetlehead † , beetlebrain, grosshead † , muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead † ; numbskull, thickskull † ; lackbrain † , shallowbrain † ; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit † ; dunderpate † ; lunkhead sawney [U.S.] , gowk † ; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.] ; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.

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; the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read [Pope]; to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound [Churchill].

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bull head, dunderhead, addlehead † , blockhead, dullhead † , loggerhead, jolthead † , jolterhead † , beetlehead † , beetlebrain, grosshead † , muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead † ; numbskull, thickskull † ; lackbrain † , shallowbrain † ; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit † ; dunderpate † ; lunkhead sawney [U.S.] , gowk † ; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.] ; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.

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block of buildings: - abode 189 N. block out: - preparation 673 V. - form 240 V. block printing: - printing 591 N. block the way: - hindrance 706 V. block up: - hindrance 706 V. - closure 261 V. block: - size 192 N. - scourge 975 N. - hindrance 706 V. - hindrance 706 N. - fool 501 N. - hardness 323 N. - support 215 N. - counteraction 179 V. - density 321 N. blockade: - hindrance 706 N. - closure 261 V. - closure 261 N. - restraint 751 N. blockhead: - fool 501 N. blockhouse: - defense 717 N. blockish: - imbecility folly 499 Adj.

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People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed--a knife--a purse--and a dark lane.

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We are illegal blockheads; so thoroughly without law, that we don't know even if we have a right to be blockheads; and our mind is made up--that the first man drawn from the oven of coronation at Rheims, is the man that is baked into a king.

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Beside the chances that M. Hordal might be a gigantic blockhead, it is notorious that what small matter of spelling Providence had thought fit to disburse amongst man in the seventeenth century, was all monopolized by printers: in France, much more so.]

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I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead.

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It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.

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Thus the nation, more and more, with ever-increasing rapidity, declined in bodily, and of course spiritual, quality, until the _end_ was reached, and Nature swallowed up the weaklings whole; and thus war, which to the modern state is at worst the blockhead and indecent _affaires d'honneur_ of persons in office--and which, surely, before you and I die will cease altogether--was to the ancient a genuine and remorselessly fatal scourge.

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That's the way to publish, White-Jacket," turning to me--"fire it right into 'em; every canto a twenty-four-pound shot; _hull_ the blockheads, whether they will or no.

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So, too, in intercourse with others, every man shows a decided preference for those who resemble him; and a blockhead will find the society of another blockhead incomparably more pleasant than that of any number of great minds put together.

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It is just so with theories; through the blind confidence of the blockheads who broach them, their absurdity reaches such a pitch that at last it is obvious even to the dullest eye.

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In the same way, if you can imagine--_per impossible_--a large company of very intelligent and clever people, amongst whom there are only two blockheads, these two will be sure to be drawn together by a feeling of sympathy, and each of them will very soon secretly rejoice at having found at least one intelligent person in the whole company.

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So you will see that, in dealing with fools and blockheads, there is only one way of showing your intelligence--by having nothing to do with them.

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It is just the same in other things; in learning to write and speak Latin, a man will forget the grammatical rules; it is only by long practice that a blockhead turns into a courtier, that a passionate man becomes shrewd and worldly-wise, or a frank person reserved, or a noble person ironical.

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So the mistress complained at once to the town bailiff and to the priest: well, they brought the blockhead round.

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Kiss the dear lady's hand, you blockhead!

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you old blockhead!

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Ask forgiveness, you blockhead!

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Although he is a blockhead, he has some sense.

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That's the trouble; men like me, merchants, blockheads, understand nothing; and this just serves the turn of such leeches as you.

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Yes, good God, she's marrying beneath her; some blockhead will be butting in--a blockhead, the son of a blockhead!

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What do you mean by blockhead?

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You blockhead, you ignorant lout!

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What kind of a blockhead am I, that I should do anything so rude?

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Go along, you blockhead!

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Off to prison with him, the old blockhead!

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Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

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Our lot, in this sense, may improve; but we do not ask much of it if we are inwardly rich: on the other hand, a fool remains a fool, a dull blockhead, to his last hour, even though he were surrounded by houris in paradise.

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Now _will without intellect_ is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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And if ever we have had an opportunity of seeing how the greatest of men will meet with nothing but slight from half-a-dozen blockheads, we shall understand that to lay great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor.

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"No; the obstinate blockhead will not consent!"

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Doubtless philosophers will be able to explain how it must necessarily be so, but pending the full extension of the ' priori method, which will show that only blockheads could expect anything to be otherwise, it does seem surprising that Heloisa should be disgusted at Laura's attempts to disguise her age, attempts which she recognises so thoroughly because they enter into her own practice; that Semper, who often responds at public dinners and proposes resolutions on platforms, though he has a trying gestation of every speech and a bad time for himself and others at every delivery, should yet remark pitilessly on the folly of precisely the same course of action in Ubique; that Aliquis, who lets no attack on himself pass unnoticed, and for every handful of gravel against his windows sends a stone in reply, should deplore the ill-advised retorts of Quispiam, who does not perceive that to show oneself angry with an adversary is to gratify him.

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I felt the weight of learning that; for I was a blockhead, _and pushed above my parts_.

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Had I not, like a blockhead, revealed to thee, as I went along, the secret purposes of my heart, but had kept all in till the event had explained my mysteries, I would have defied thee to have been able, any more than the lady, to have guessed at what was to befall her, till it had actually come to pass.

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"Come to me my dear Lycias," (saith Musaeus in [5419]Aristaenetus) "come quickly sweetheart, all other men are satyrs, mere clowns, blockheads to thee, nobody to thee."

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"Whilst these blockheads avoid one fault, they fall into its opposite."

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Why, blockhead, are you mad?

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One could perhaps discriminate from behind between a blockhead, a fool and a man of genius.

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The blockhead would be discerned by the torpidity and sluggishness of all his movements: folly sets its mark upon every gesture, and so does intellect and a studious nature.

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* * * * * A person of phlegmatic disposition who is a blockhead, would, with a sanguine nature, be a fool.

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[aa]Of all the griefs, that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

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From meaner minds though smaller fines content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dang'rous parts, he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let art and genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep.

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It is telling the maimed soldiers of the Invalides, "You are but blockheads and brigands.

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"Blockhead!"

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"Blockhead!"

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Many Blockheads in the Trade are making fortunes; and did we not succeed as well as they, I think it must be imputed only to ourselves.

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As it is, he occasions me continual annoyance; he is the most punctilious blockhead in the world.

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The French people seem sunk in apathy and to wish for peace at any rate; nothing but the most extreme provocation will induce them to take up arms; but then, if they once do so, woe to the _Chambre Introuvable_, as the present Chamber of Deputies is called; certainly such a set of venal, merciless and ignorant bigots and blockheads never were collected in any assembly.

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donkeys, buffaloes, oxen, fools, blockheads, numskulls, and foxes!

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One child can learn an object as quick as another, so that we may have many children that can tell the name of different subjects, and even the names of all the geometrical figures, who do not know all the letters in the alphabet; and I have had children, whom one might think were complete blockheads, on account of their not being able to learn the alphabet so quickly as some of the other children, and yet those very children would learn things which appeared to me ten times more difficult.

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Cicero, in order to accomplish his Son in that sort of Learning which he designed him for, sent him to Athens, the most celebrated Academy at that time in the World, and where a vast Concourse, out of the most Polite Nations, could not but furnish a young Gentleman with a Multitude of great Examples, and Accidents that might insensibly have instructed him in his designed Studies: He placed him under the Care of Cratippus, who was one of the greatest Philosophers of the Age, and, as if all the Books which were at that time written had not been sufficient for his Use, he composed others on purpose for him: Notwithstanding all this, History informs us, that Marcus proved a meer Blockhead, and that Nature, (who it seems was even with the Son for her Prodigality to the Father) rendered him incapable of improving by all the Rules of Eloquence, the Precepts of Philosophy, his own Endeavours, and the most refined Conversation in Athens.

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The Story of Clavius [2] is very well known; he was entered in a College of Jesuits, and after having been tryed at several Parts of Learning, was upon the Point of being dismissed as an hopeless Blockhead, till one of the Fathers took it into his Head to make an assay of his Parts in Geometry, which it seems hit his Genius so luckily that he afterwards became one of the greatest Mathematicians of the Age.

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I should have gone to him myself, if I had not been a Blockhead; a very great Man!

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"No man but a blockhead," said Johnson, "ever wrote except for money."

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In the latter case, or where a vein of sarcasm or irony is resorted to, the ridicule is not barbed by some allusion (false or true) to private history; the object of it has brought the infliction on himself by some literary folly or political delinquency which is referred to as the understood and justifiable provocation, instead of being held up to scorn as a knave for not being a tool, or as a blockhead for thinking for himself.

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their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."

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Blockheads who were not troubled with an idea once a fortnight, and who could neither write nor speak their mother English decently, had undertaken to expound things which never happened in dialects which nobody understood.

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I promise to cease all intercourse with a blasphemous blockhead named John M. Riley, who has been the human cause of my downfall.

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Why, to puncture the skin of blockheads and blasphemers like you, and suck the last drop of blood from their veins.

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We do not admit, that, because a man has published a volume or a picture, he has published himself, excommunicated his soul from the sanctuary of privacy, and made his life as common as a tavern-threshold to every blockhead in the parish,--or that any Pharisee who kept carefully to windward of his virtues, out of the way of infection, has thereby earned the right to mismoralize his failings after he is dumbly defenceless.

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"Blockhead!" shouted Sally.

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"Nash, you blockhead!"

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Wise men ne'er cut their names on doors or rock-heads, But leave the task to scribblers and to blockheads; Pert, trifling folks, who, bent on being witty, Scrawl on each post some fag-end of a ditty, Spinning, with spider's web, their shallow brains, O'er wainscots, borrowed books, or window panes.

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The men blundered in their exercise; the baron blundered in his English; his French and German were of no avail; he lost his temper, which was rather warm; swore in all three languages at once, which made the matter worse, and at length called his aide to his assistance, to help him curse the blockheads as it was pretended--but no doubt to explain the manoeuvre.

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"You will think me an awful blockhead, but I don't perceive anything singular in a cigar manufacturer sending a sample cigar."

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Look at the prize essays you wrote when you were a boy at school; look even at your earlier prize essays written at college (though of these last I have something to say hereafter); look at the letters you wrote home when away at school or even at college, especially if you were a clever boy, trying to write in a graphic and witty fashion; and if you have reached sense at last, (which some, it may be remarked, never do,) I think you will blush even through the unblushing front of manhood, and think what a terrific, unutterable, conceited, intolerable blockhead you were.

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There is no divine promise, that, if a reckless blockhead leaves his children to starve, they shall not starve.

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The comical sketch of their rhetoric in "Salmagundi" is literally true:--"Every day have these slangwhangers made furious attacks on each other and upon their respective adherents, discharging their heavy artillery, consisting of large sheets loaded with scoundrel, villain, liar, rascal, numskull, nincompoop, dunderhead, wiseacre, blockhead, jackass."

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So into the yard went "Olivante de Laura, the nonsensical old blockhead," "rough and dull Florismart of Hyrcania," "noble Don Platir," with nothing in him "deserving a grain of pity," Bernardo del Carpio, and Roncesvalles, and Palmerin de Oliva.

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We ourselves have frequently descended to make ourselves merely the most agreeable man in the world, till we unfortunately discovered that the blockheads who could not comprehend us when we were serious, were still farther from understanding the ineffable beauty of our nonsense; so that in both cases we were the sufferers.

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The blockhead has been imposed upon, and should have known his company better."

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Then, turning to some gentlemen present there, he added that Francia was "a blockhead."

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The blockhead did not seem to understand that he was lost more certainly than I. I writhed back in the darkness, and seizing him by the throat, I struck him twice with my iron bar.

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It has never occurred to him that there is a difference between assertion and demonstration, that a rumour does not always prove a fact, that a single fact, when proved, is hardly foundation enough for a theory, that two contradictory propositions cannot be undeniable truths, that to beg the question is not the way to settle it, or that when an objection is raised, it ought to be met with something more convincing than "scoundrel" and "blockhead."

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Every man is, according to Mr. Hunt, a dull potato-eating blockhead--of no greater value to God or man than any ox or dray-horse--who is not an admirer of Voltaire's _romans_, a worshipper of Lord Holland and Mr. Haydon and a quoter of John Buncle and Chaucer's Flower and Leaf.

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Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

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From meaner minds though smaller fines content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent, 170 Mark'd out by dangerous parts he meets the shock, And fatal Learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let Art and Genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads!

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But if a Protestant came that was a blockhead and ignorant, the place would be open to him.

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A word before you go--Take warning by me--avoid that same serpent, wisdom--Pray to the Saints to make you a blockhead--Never send your boys to school--For Heaven knows, a poor man that will live honest, and die in his bed, ought to have no more scholarship than a parson, and no more brains than your jackass.

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What have you done!--Long will I not survive you!--And I was upon the point of drawing my sword to dispatch myself, when I discovered--[What an unmanly blockhead does this charming creature make me at her pleasure!]

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"No, blockhead!"

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That a garret will make every man a wit, I am very far from supposing; I know there are some who would continue blockheads even on the summit of the Andes, or on the peak of Teneriffe.

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Begone, ye blockheads, Heraclitus cries, And leave my labours to the learn'd and wise; By wit, by knowledge, studious to be read, I scorn the multitude, alive and dead.

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The man who owns it, may be what he can, an honest man, or a scoundrel, a mushroom or an Howard, a scholar, or a brute, a wit or a blockhead, _c'est égal_.

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My rank in life made these accomplishments still more conspicuous; and, fascinated with the general applause which they procured, I never considered about the proper means by which they should be displayed; hence, to purchase a smile from a blockhead I despised, have I frequently treated the virtuous with disrespect, and sported with the Holy Name of heaven to obtain a laugh from a parcel of fools, who were entitled to nothing but my contempt.

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"Never saw such a set of damned blockheads!" yelled the officer in exasperation.

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