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I have seen, in Smithfield, on a dry holiday, "thirty of them on a side," fighting and hammering as if for life; and was not at the pains to look at them, the blockheads; their noise as the mere beating of old kettles to me!

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"Dismiss," said one, "the blockhead asses, And hares, too cowardly and fleet."

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Meanwhile, all other kinds and tribes As fools and blockheads it describes, With other compliments as cheap.

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Sir Bear, sad blockhead, was deceived-- The prostrate man a corpse believed; But, half suspecting some deceit, He feels and snuffs from head to feet, And in the nostrils blows.

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Ah, blockhead, thou shalt dearly abide this delay when my lord knows thereof."

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blockhead!

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"Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw tolerably-should do it at least-have had good masters, and flatter myself that I am not quite a blockhead."

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As he drew near to the wood where he had left his wife, he heard a parrot on a tree calling out his name: "Mr. Vinegar, you foolish man, you blockhead, you simpleton; you went to the fair and laid out all your money in buying a cow.

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Here, here--bash me on the head for a blockhead and an omathaun."

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"Mercy on me!" she cried, clapping her hands at the first sight of Kate's face, "who was the born blockhead that said the girl's wedding was as like to be in the churchyard as in the church?"

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"It's a thundering blockhead I am for sure--frightning the life out of people with stories fit for a funeral."

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Maybe I've been only a blundering blockhead, and perhaps you've been clever, and smart uncommon, but I'm thinking there's some of you hasn't been rocked enough for all that."

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Not all his loyalty to Capt'n Davy could crush the thought that the man who had thrown away a jewel such as this must be a brute and a blockhead.

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"If I have any influence on board of this boat, such blockheads shall not be employed as waiters."

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I am still a blockhead.

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Seward's note and alteration to- "'Twixt the cold bears, far from the raging lion"- This Mr. Seward is a blockhead of the provoking species.

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One of his pupils expressed great surprise at this, when Cano answered, "Blockhead, don't you perceive that to create form and relief on a flat surface is a greater service than to fashion one shape into another?"

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But you are a blockhead, and it is tiresome to have to do with you.

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In his youth, he had been a captain in the army, where he was noted as a noisy quarrelsome fellow; transferred thence to the civil service, he proved himself a thorough master of the art of petty tyranny, a bustling coxcomb and a blockhead.

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'To be sure, I have a strong motive now for earning the half-crown, which I hadn't before,' thought he; 'but papa's so awfully particular, and I'm--yes, I must allow--I'm such an awful blockhead, that it's as likely as not I shall not win the money after all.

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"From what, blockhead?"

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It did not matter in our dynasties of determined noblesse how many things an industrious blockhead knew, or how curious things a lucky booby had discovered.

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"Yer blockhead, don't yer know it's stone?" drawled another.

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Blockhead----" "Excellency, I think----" he stammered in terror, "I think----" "What--quickly----" "I think, Excellency, that it was green."

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He was very passionate, and Adair said that the first time he ever saw him he unluckily asked him some question about the wild parts of Ireland, when Burke broke out, 'You are a fool and a blockhead; there are no wild parts in Ireland.'

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The word _the_ in the first paragraph was substituted for _a_, and this alteration these blockheads pretend makes a great difference in the sense.

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Lord Winchelsea makes an ass of himself, and would like to be sent to the Tower, but nobody will mind anything such a blockhead says.

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Mere Society so called, with all its bustle of gaiety and endless occupation about nothing, might have exercised upon him something of the fascination which fine names and fine houses and the sweep and whirl of hurried life certainly possess; but he who expresses almost with bitterness his disgust to see a blockhead of rank received by one of his noble patrons with as much, nay more, consideration than is given to himself, would probably have had very little toleration for the butterflies of fashion: whereas Edinburgh society impressed him greatly, as of that ideal kind of which the young and inexperienced dream, where the best and brightest are at the head of everything, where poetry is a passport to the innermost sanctuary and conversation is like the talk of the gods.

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And I'll bet," he added to Keeler, "the infernal old blockhead doesn't understand a word I've said."

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Perhaps the words of Johnson may apply to them:-- Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

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"Wake up, you blockhead--wake up, I say!"

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The lad was adjudged a dullard and left to remain in his stupidity with the rest of the blockhead world.

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"'You can't deny that he must be a Blockhead, said Kimber.

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It is an absurdly easy device for getting over your misgiving with the blockheads, but I think it would be an effective one.

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"Blockheads all eight of you.

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For I ask of the men of knowledge of the world, whether they would not hold him for a blockhead, that should hope to prevail in an argument, whose scope and object is to mortify the self-love of the expected proselyte?

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Daubers and blockheads think themselves painters, and are received by the public as such, if they know how to foreshorten bones and decipher entrails; and men with capacity of art either shrink away (the best of them always do) into petty felicities and innocencies of genre painting--landscapes, cattle, family breakfasts, village schoolings, and the like; or else, if they have the full sensuous art-faculty that would have made true painters of them, being taught, from their youth up, to look for and learn the body instead of the spirit, have learned it, and taught it to such purpose, that at this hour, when I speak to you, the rooms of the Royal Academy of England, receiving also what of best can be sent there by the masters of France, contain _not one_ picture honorable to the arts of their age; and contain many which are shameful in their record of its manners.

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"And what ailed the old blockhead then," cried Jeffreys, "that he did not take it?"

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In England, the people were prejudiced against him as a foreigner; his earldom, his garter, his lucrative places, his rapidly growing wealth, excited envy; his dialect was not understood; his manners were not those of the men of fashion who had been formed at Whitehall; his abilities were therefore greatly underrated; and it was the fashion to call him a blockhead, fit only to carry messages.

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The editorial WE has often been fatal to rising genius; though all the world knows that it is only a form of speech, very often employed by a single needy blockhead.

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I only know that it is a faith, which except a man do keep pure and undefiled, without doubt he shall be called a blockhead.

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He seized the cow by the tail, and cried out, 'It was a gentleman commoner, as he had him by the tail of his gown;' while the doctor, who had caught the cow by the horns at the same time, immediately replied, 'No, no, you blockhead, 'tis the postman, and here I have hold of the rascal by his blowing-horn.'

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A philosopher who plunges into the practical affairs of the world without taking human feelings and imagination into account is sure to find himself stumbling about among blocks and blockheads, and tripped up by the ill-will of vested interests; but on the other hand, if he has taken the right direction, his ardent energies have the impetus of some natural force.

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The sixth child, let us suppose, is a blockhead.

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Being a blockhead, he will remain a blockhead.

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Were it not that veneration and gratitude cause us to suspend harsh words with regard to such a man, who has upon the greatest question affecting our human reason almost, we might say, _revealed_ the truth (viz., in his theory of the categories), we should describe him, and continually we are tempted to describe him as the most superhuman of recorded blockheads.

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Such being the state of their acquaintance with the theory itself, we need not be surprised to find that the accidental connection between Mr. Wordsworth and the Laureate arising out of friendship and neighbourhood should have led these blundering critics into the belief that the two poets were joint supporters of the same theory: the fact being meanwhile that in all which is peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth's theory, Mr. Southey dissents perhaps as widely and as determinately as Mr. Coleridge; dissents, that is to say, not as the numerous blockheads among the male blue-stockings who dignify their ignorance with the name of dissent--but as one man of illustrious powers dissents from what he deems after long examination the errors of another; as Leibnitz on some occasions dissented from Plato, or as the great modern philosopher of Germany occasionally dissents from Leibnitz.

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A blockhead.

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And I'm blockhead enough to believe him.

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"You careless blockhead!" he shrieked, raising the injured foot from the ground, while a spasm of anguish contracted his features.

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"Situs" is "nasty stuff;" "oscula jungere" is "to tip him a kiss;" "pingue ingenium" is a circumlocution for "a blockhead;" "anilia instrumenta" are "his old woman's accoutrements;" and "repetito munere Bacchi" is conveyed to the sense of the reader as, "they return again to their bottle, and take the other glass."

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'Pingue sed ingenium mansit,' is rendered by Clarke, 'but he continued a blockhead still.']

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"The blockhead must have taken the old pack-horse road on the fell-side.

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He would break every bone in the blockhead's skin.

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"To-day, this man is to take upon himself the name of Paul Lowther--his true name, though he doesn't know it, blockhead as he is.

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_Sumph_, a blockhead.

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The Heaviest, sinking through complex fluctuating media and vortices, has its deflexions, its obstructions, nay at times its resiliences, its reboundings; whereupon some blockhead shall be heard jubilating, "See, your Heaviest ascends!"

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These were absurd superstitious blockheads of Monks; and we are enlightened Tenpound Franchisers, without taxes on knowledge!

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Those superstitious blockheads of the Twelfth Century had no telescopes, but they had still an eye; not ballot-boxes; only reverence for Worth, abhorrence of Unworth.

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For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.

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Surely a just citizen _is_ admonished by God and his own Soul, by all silent and articulate voices of this Universe, to do what in _him_ lies towards relief of this poor blockhead-quack, and of a world that groans under him.

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This poor blockhead too is born, for uses: why, elevating him to mastership, will you make a conflagration, a parish-curse or world-curse of him?

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How pay them at the public cost;--how, above all, by _setting fire_ to the public, as we said; clapping 'conflagrations' on the public, which the services of blockheads, _non-idonei_, intrinsically are!

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Stupid blockheads, to reverence their St. Edmund's dead Body in this manner?

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* * * * * Of a truth, if man were not a poor hungry dastard, and even much of a blockhead withal, he would cease criticising his victuals to such extent; and criticise himself rather, what he does with his victuals!

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And greatly do I respect the solid character,--a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well-conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned,--who esteems all 'Customs once solemnly acknowledged' to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.

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Thou entire blockhead!

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I say, these Paragraphs, and low or loud votings of thy poor fellow-blockheads of mankind, will never guide thee in any enterprise at all.

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Quashee, it must be owned, is hitherto a kind of blockhead.

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Strange enough: a many-counselled Ulysses is set in motion by a scoundrel-blockhead; plays tunes, like a barrel-organ, at the scoundrel-blockhead's touch,--has to snatch, namely, his sceptre-cudgel, and weal the crooked back with bumps and thumps!

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Thou fool, with _thy_ empty Godhoods, Apotheoses _edgegilt_; the Crown of Thorns made into a poor jewel-room crown, fit for the head of blockheads; the bearing of the Cross changed to a riding in the Long-Acre Gig!

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Danger of blockheads.

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Blockheads, danger of, 111.

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"You are all blockheads!" he cried to his servants.

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Thus all the editors, without a single comment--Oh the blockheads!

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"Hollo," said Mr. Stirn, "what is all this?--what's the matter, Lenny, you blockhead?"

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Nay, e'en with blockheads pass the night; If such can read, to such I write.

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"You stupid blockhead!" said the carrier; "'Twixt you and us there is no barrier.

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"You blockhead!" said an honest farmer, Who grew with indignation warmer, "You are an owl: and are as blind, As parents, to the youthful mind.

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Any blockhead can go to a public meeting and bring in a report that has the words "as follows" scattered here and there down the columns.

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Much less will I believe that this dull blockhead, I will not say, hates sin, but recognizes it when he sees it.

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_Meletides_ (or more properly Melitides) was an Athenian of proverbial stupidity, whose name was synonymous for blockhead.

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He won't come back again, the blockhead!

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"Thou yellow blockhead!" he whispered to him; "what am I to do with thy gold bars that thou hast left me?

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When the master is a blockhead, the servant must bear the blame.

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I might grow rich, meseems, were I to let myself be stared at for money while I stay here; and if I chance to give them all this pleasure gratis, forthwith a pack of blockheads begin barking and hallooing at my tail.

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It cannot therefore be considered as a miracle, notwithstanding the extraordinary care and expense which his friends bestowed upon his education, that he always continued a blockhead, and was such a perfect dunce at eleven years of age, that instead of being able to read and write as a young gentleman ought to do, he could scarcely tell his letters.

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Dr. Johnson also said, when Boswell named a gentleman of his acquaintance who wrote for the vase, "He was a blockhead for his pains"; on the other hand, when told that the Duchess of Northumberland wrote, Johnson said, "Sir, the Duchess of Northumberland may do what she pleases: nobody will say anything to a lady of her high rank."

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"You'll get nothing from that blockhead, sir!" cried Brockman.

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"I was blockhead enough to run full tilt against Mr. Weevil when I got outside, and--and he caught sight of your letter."

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What's your game, blockhead?"

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The best proof of the astronomer is just such "as might have been expected from the merest of blockheads"; but as the giver is of course not a blockhead, this circumstance shows how deeply blinded by prejudice he must be.

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The Messiah, with His Divine mission proved by miracles which all might see who chose to look, is degraded into a prototype of James Laurie, ingeniously astronomizing upon ignorant geometry and false logic, and comparing to blockheads those who expose his nonsense.

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The Stagirite (who knew the difference) called him a blockhead.

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'Blockheads,' wrote Sir Walter Scott, 'can never find out how folks cleverer than themselves came by their information.

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