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Mr. Masseron, who was not better pleased with my abilities than I was with the employment, treated me with disdain, incessantly upbraiding me with being a fool and blockhead, not forgetting to repeat, that my uncle had assured him I was a knowing one, though he could not find that I knew anything.

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In fact I had no inclination to do it: but notwithstanding this, by an incoherence I cannot myself comprehend, I at length was prevailed upon to go, contrary to my inclination, the sentiment of my heart, my reason, and even my will; solely from weakness, and being ashamed to show an appearance to the least mistrust; and besides, as the expression of the country is, 'per non parer troppo cogliono'--[Not to appear too great a blockhead.]

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My indignation was so raised at seeing so many blockheads, who did not understand the question, attempt to decide upon it imperiously, that in my answer I gave some of them the worst of it.

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The persons deputed spoke for me, and I answered yes and no, like a blockhead; I was afterwards admitted to the communion, and reinstated in my rights as a citizen.

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Mr. Masseron, who was not better pleased with my abilities than I was with the employment, treated me with disdain, incessantly upbraiding me with being a fool and blockhead, not forgetting to repeat, that my uncle had assured him I was a knowing one, though he could not find that I knew anything.

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In fact I had no inclination to do it: but notwithstanding this, by an incoherence I cannot myself comprehend, I at length was prevailed upon to go, contrary to my inclination, the sentiment of my heart, my reason, and even my will; solely from weakness, and being ashamed to show an appearance to the least mistrust; and besides, as the expression of the country is, 'per non parer troppo cogliono'-[Not to appear too great a blockhead.

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My indignation was so raised at seeing so many blockheads, who did not understand the question, attempt to decide upon it imperiously, that in my answer I gave some of them the worst of it.

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The persons deputed spoke for me, and I answered yes and no, like a blockhead; I was afterwards admitted to the communion, and reinstated in my rights as a citizen.

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But he uttered a cry of rage when he saw, printed at full length, given over to common curiosity, to the eagerness of the public for scandal, and to the malignity of blockheads, a direct allusion to his marriage--worse than that, the very history of his marriage placed in an outrageous manner next to the paragraph in which his name was almost openly written.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,601   ~   ~   ~

But he uttered a cry of rage when he saw, printed at full length, given over to common curiosity, to the eagerness of the public for scandal, and to the malignity of blockheads, a direct allusion to his marriage--worse than that, the very history of his marriage placed in an outrageous manner next to the paragraph in which his name was almost openly written.

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"What dost mean, blockhead?"

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"Nay, not a blockhead, Monsieur; I have good eyes, and I have seen what I have seen.

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"I am speaking to thee of a dream, blockhead.

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There is stuff enough in it to upset three kingdoms, if necessary, and the blockheads will spoil all.

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"What dost mean, blockhead?"

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"Nay, not a blockhead, Monsieur; I have good eyes, and I have seen what I have seen.

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"I am speaking to thee of a dream, blockhead.

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There is stuff enough in it to upset three kingdoms, if necessary, and the blockheads will spoil all.

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Then, suddenly: "Do you think me the man to submit to prejudiced blockheads?"

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Then, suddenly: "Do you think me the man to submit to prejudiced blockheads?"

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But he uttered a cry of rage when he saw, printed at full length, given over to common curiosity, to the eagerness of the public for scandal, and to the malignity of blockheads, a direct allusion to his marriage--worse than that, the very history of his marriage placed in an outrageous manner next to the paragraph in which his name was almost openly written.

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"What dost mean, blockhead?"

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"Nay, not a blockhead, Monsieur; I have good eyes, and I have seen what I have seen.

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"I am speaking to thee of a dream, blockhead.

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There is stuff enough in it to upset three kingdoms, if necessary, and the blockheads will spoil all.

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Then, suddenly: "Do you think me the man to submit to prejudiced blockheads?"

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JOLTHEAD, blockhead.

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NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.

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You tricked that blockhead out of them.

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He took it, and signed it at once with his own hand; then, giving it back, added: "Now, you have no answer left; see that you dispatch it at once, for this is my pleasure; and Benvenuto's shoes are worth more than the eyes of all those other blockheads."

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At least once every day there came to visit me a sort of blockhead named Messer Francesco Soderini.

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I lost my patience at this nonsense, and said to them: "You blockheads!

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Cellini calls this man, his bitter foe and rival, Buaccio or the great ox, blockhead, instead of Baccio, which is shortened for Bartolommeo.

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JOLTHEAD, blockhead.

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NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.

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When we went out to play, all the boys cried out, "B for blockhead, B for blunderbuss, B for booby," and so on, ever so many other names beginning with B, and kept pointing at us.

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Snatching the cup from my hands, he shouted out, "Ah, karhowree sabbee lee-lee ena arva tee maitai!" in other words, what a blockhead of a white man!

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Will a man discharge the solemn impertinences of the one office with less zeal, or shrink from the bloody boldness of the other with greater timidity, because the blockhead thinks he can eat angels in muffins and chew a spiritual nature in the crumpets which he buys from the baker's shop?

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You ask me, if I think it possible for this country to survive the recent misfortunes of Europe?--I answer you, without the slightest degree of hesitation: that if Bonaparte lives, and a great deal is not immediately done for the conciliation of the Catholics, it does seem to me absolutely impossible but that we must perish; and take this with you, that we shall perish without exciting the slightest feeling of present or future compassion, but fall amidst the hootings and revilings of Europe, as a nation of blockheads, Methodists, and old women.

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Who can doubt but that five years after he has got hold of the country, Ireland will be tossed away by Bonaparte as a present to some one of his ruffian generals, who will knock the head of Mr. Keogh against the head of Cardinal Troy, shoot twenty of the most noisy blockheads of the Roman persuasion, wash his pug-dogs in holy water, and confiscate the salt butter of the Milesian republic to the last tub?

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He would be a very lazy blockhead if he were content, and I (who, though an inhabitant of the village, have preserved, thank God, some sense of justice) most earnestly counsel these half-fed claimants to persevere in their just demands, till they are admitted to a more complete share of a dinner for which they pay as much as the others; and if they see a little attenuated lawyer squabbling at the head of their opponents, let them desire him to empty his pockets, and to pull out all the pieces of duck, fowl, and pudding which he has filched from the public feast, to carry home to his wife and children.

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But the world was never yet conquered by a blockhead.

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The probability I admit to be, in each particular case, that the sweet little blockhead will in fact never get a brief;--but I will venture to say, there is not a parent from the Giant's Causeway to Bantry Bay who does not conceive that his child is the unfortunate victim of the exclusion, and that nothing short of positive law could prevent his own dear, pre-eminent Paddy from rising to the highest honours of the State.

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Now, I appeal to any human being, except Spencer Perceval, Esq., of the parish of Hampstead, what the disaffection of a clergy would amount to, gaping after this graduated bounty of the Crown, and whether Ignatius Loyala himself, if he were a living blockhead instead of a dead saint, could withstand the temptation of bouncing from 100 pounds a year at Sligo, to 300 pounds in Tipperary?

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The mournful and folly-stricken blockhead forgets that his toe cannot survive him; that if he dies, there can be no digital life apart from him: yet he lingers and fondles over this last part of his body, soothing it madly with little plasters, and anile fomentations, while the neglected fever rages in his entrails, and burns away his whole life.

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After this truthful testimony, which Pelion upon Ossa of evidence has confirmed, does Mr. Froude, in the fatuity of his skin-pride, believe that educated men, worthy of the name, would be otherwise than resentful, if not disgusted, at being shunted out of bread in their own native land, which their parents' labours and taxes have made desirable, in order to afford room to blockheads, vulgarians, [117] or worse, imported from beyond the seas?

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JOLTHEAD, blockhead.

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NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.

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What a blockhead, and a beast, and a fool, was I to trust myself among such a barbarous ruffian race!

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The chairman interposed his authority in vain; the noise grew louder and louder; the disputants waxed warm; the epithets of blockhead, fool, and scoundrel, were bandied about.

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"Nothing's so partial as the laws of fate, Erecting blockheads to suppress the great.

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You really are a little blockhead, Thea.

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The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one would expect to find in an official document: "CLERKE OF THE ACTS.

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"It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.

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Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March He knew nothing about the navy He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours I never designed to be a witness against any man In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon The present Irish pronunciation of English

~   ~   ~   Sentence 240   ~   ~   ~

The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one would expect to find in an official document: "CLERKE OF THE ACTS.

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"It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,201   ~   ~   ~

Court attendance infinite tedious Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Diana did not come according to our agreement Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fashionable and black spots Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore Gave him his morning draft Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King God help him, he wants bread.

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But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, should not take this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the world.

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But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, should not take this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the world.

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They did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a strange act; but, I know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world, but stout and honest to his country.

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Up, and by water to White Hall, and there walked with Creed in the Matted gallery till by and by a Committee for Tangier met: the Duke of York there; and there I did discourse over to them their condition as to money, which they were all mightily, as I could desire, satisfied with, but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in our supplies of money, which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, I do and must admire.

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They did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a strange act; but, I know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world, but stout and honest to his country.

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Up, and by water to White Hall, and there walked with Creed in the Matted gallery till by and by a Committee for Tangier met: the Duke of York there; and there I did discourse over to them their condition as to money, which they were all mightily, as I could desire, satisfied with, but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in our supplies of money, which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, I do and must admire.

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The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one would expect to find in an official document: "CLERKE OF THE ACTS.

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"It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.

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Court attendance infinite tedious Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Diana did not come according to our agreement Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fashionable and black spots Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore Gave him his morning draft Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King God help him, he wants bread.

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But the main thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever have beggared the Hollanders, should not take this time to break with the Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which must have been forgiven him, and got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the world.

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They did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a strange act; but, I know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest man in the world, but stout and honest to his country.

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Up, and by water to White Hall, and there walked with Creed in the Matted gallery till by and by a Committee for Tangier met: the Duke of York there; and there I did discourse over to them their condition as to money, which they were all mightily, as I could desire, satisfied with, but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in our supplies of money, which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments, I do and must admire.

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a kiss after the first Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures Court attendance infinite tedious Court full of great apprehensions of the French Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses Credit of this office hath received by this rogue's occasion Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good Dash the brains of it out before the King's face Day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword Declared, if he come, she would not live with me Declared he will never have another public mistress again Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition Deliver her from the hereditary curse of child-bearing Desired me that I would baste his coate Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre Diana did not come according to our agreement Did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese Did extremely beat him, and though it did trouble me to do it Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did) Did take me up very prettily in one or two things that I said Did much insist upon the sin of adultery Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there Did find none of them within, which I was glad of Did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased Did trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while Did drink of the College beer, which is very good Difference there will be between my father and mother about it Dine with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes Discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court Discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning Discoursed much against a man's lying with his wife in Lent Discoursing upon the sad condition of the times Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola Disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons) Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity Do bury still of the plague seven or eight in a day Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past Dog attending us, which made us all merry again Dog, that would turn a sheep any way which Dominion of the Sea Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching Drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drink a dish of coffee Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Duodecimal arithmetique Durst not ask any body how it was with us Durst not take notice of her, her husband being there Dutch fleets being in so many places Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life Eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach Eat some butter and radishes Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Employed by the fencers to play prizes at Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier Enjoy some degree of pleasure now that we have health, money Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross) Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis" Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it bitchering Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him?

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Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March He knew nothing about the navy He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours I never designed to be a witness against any man In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon The present Irish pronunciation of English DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JAN 1659/60 [sp03g10.txt] A very fine dinner Gave him his morning draft Much troubled with thoughts how to get money My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, FEB 1659/60 [sp04g10.txt] Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Hanging jack to roast birds on Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin My wife and I had some high words Petition against hackney coaches Playing the fool with the lass of the house Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house To the Swan and drank our morning draft Wedding for which the posy ring was required Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MAR/APR 1659/60 [sp05g10.txt] Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it Strange thing how I am already courted by the people DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, MAY 1660 [sp06g10.txt] An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport And in all this not so much as one Bought for the love of the binding three books Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Fashionable and black spots He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while If it should come in print my name maybe at it In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber Presbyterians against the House of Lords Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, JUN/JUL 1660 [sp07g10.txt] A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity Court attendance infinite tedious Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service God help him, he wants bread.

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Court attendance infinite tedious Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Diana did not come according to our agreement Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fashionable and black spots Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore Gave him his morning draft Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King God help him, he wants bread.

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a kiss after the first Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures Court attendance infinite tedious Court full of great apprehensions of the French Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses Credit of this office hath received by this rogue's occasion Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good Dash the brains of it out before the King's face Day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword Declared, if he come, she would not live with me Declared he will never have another public mistress again Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition Deliver her from the hereditary curse of child-bearing Desired me that I would baste his coate Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre Diana did not come according to our agreement Did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese Did extremely beat him, and though it did trouble me to do it Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did) Did take me up very prettily in one or two things that I said Did much insist upon the sin of adultery Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there Did find none of them within, which I was glad of Did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased Did trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while Did drink of the College beer, which is very good Difference there will be between my father and mother about it Dine with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes Discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court Discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning Discoursed much against a man's lying with his wife in Lent Discoursing upon the sad condition of the times Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola Disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons) Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity Do bury still of the plague seven or eight in a day Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past Dog attending us, which made us all merry again Dog, that would turn a sheep any way which Dominion of the Sea Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching Drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drink a dish of coffee Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Duodecimal arithmetique Durst not ask any body how it was with us Durst not take notice of her, her husband being there Dutch fleets being in so many places Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life Eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach Eat some butter and radishes Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Employed by the fencers to play prizes at Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier Enjoy some degree of pleasure now that we have health, money Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross) Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis" Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it bitchering Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him?

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He is a good-natured man, but a blockhead.

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Consider this also, that the speedy fulfilment of those promises has been the ruling fancy of the most dangerous of all madmen, from John of Leyden and his frantic followers, down to the saints of Cromwell's army, Venner and his Fifth-Monarchy men, the fanatics of the Cevennes, and the blockheads of your own days, who beheld with complacency the crimes of the French Revolutionists, and the progress of Bonaparte towards the subjugation of Europe, as events tending to bring about the prophecies; and, under the same besotted persuasion, are ready at this time to co-operate with the miscreants who trade in blasphemy and treason!

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Come, little blockhead!

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He would sometimes blurt out such words as 'fool--idiot--blockhead,' as he walked along the street, astonishing passers-by who could not be supposed to know that the speaker was applying these epithets to himself.

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'Look here, you blockheads!'

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I shouldn't wonder if the blockhead aunt told.

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Blockhead!

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blockhead!

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When of a sudden Wilfrid had announced that he could not accompany the family party to Switzerland, Mr. Athel was saved from undignified irresolution by a hearty outburst of temper, which saw him well over the Straits before it gave way to the natural reaction, under the influence of which he called himself a blockhead.

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Who did ever say, except by way of irony, that such a one was a man of great virtue, but an egregious blockhead?

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At school, where Billy was the woodenest blockhead, he was top of his class.

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"Now, blockhead and son of misery, turn my jacket back.

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He goes off, saying to himself, 'Did you see him, the blockhead?'

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At every stage of my growth one or another of my passions was alert to twist me awry, and now I was getting a false self about me and becoming liker to the creature people supposed me to be, despising them for blockheads in my heart, as boys may who preserve a last trace of the ingenuousness denied to seasoned men.

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At every stage of my growth one or another of my passions was alert to twist me awry, and now I was getting a false self about me and becoming liker to the creature people supposed me to be, despising them for blockheads in my heart, as boys may who preserve a last trace of the ingenuousness denied to seasoned men.

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'A Swabian blockhead, aren't you?'

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blockheads!

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'A Swabian blockhead, aren't you?'

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blockheads!

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At every stage of my growth one or another of my passions was alert to twist me awry, and now I was getting a false self about me and becoming liker to the creature people supposed me to be, despising them for blockheads in my heart, as boys may who preserve a last trace of the ingenuousness denied to seasoned men.

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'A Swabian blockhead, aren't you?'

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blockheads!

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But I couldn't keep it to myself; I should give in to the temptation to call them blockheads and jackasses.'

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John Eames, the blockhead, did not like it.

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Painting was the golden key this thinker held to the Bramah lock of an imbecile's understanding the ponderous wards were beginning to revolve--when a blockhead came and did his best to hamper the lock.

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I will pray for my brother Robinson and my brother Hawes, and I shall pray for them all the more warmly that at present one is a blaspheming thief and the other a pitiless blockhead."

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