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Proverb.-A PROVERB and a by-word among all people.

1 Kings ix. 7.

My definition of a PROVERB is, the wit of one man, and the wisdon of many.-EARL RUSSELL, To Sir J. Macintosh.

Proverb'd.-I am PROVERB'D with a grandsire phrase.

Proverbs.-Jewels five-words long,

SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet.

That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle for ever.-TENNYSON, The Princess.

Providence.-There is a special PROVIDENCE in the fall of a sparrow.

Pulpit.-And PULPIT, drum ecclesiastick,

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Pun.-A man who could make so vile a PUN would not scruple to pick a pocket.-J. DENNIS, 1734.

People that make PUNS are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.-HOLMES, Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.

Pretend to be deaf; and after he has committed his PUN, and just before he expects people to laugh at it, beg his pardon, and request him to repeat it again. After you have made him do this three times, say, "Oh, that is a pun, I believe ! I never knew a punster venture a third exhibition under similar treatment. It requires a little nicety so as to make him repeat it in proper time. If well done the company laugh at the punster, and then he is ruined for ever.-MAGINN, Maxims.

Punishment.-Back to thy PUNISHMENT,

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Pure.-Unto the PURE all things are pure.—Titus i. 15.

Puritans.-The PURITANS hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but beause it gave pleasure to the spectators.MACAULAY, History of England.

Pythagoras.—Clo. What is the opinion of PYTHAGORAS concerning

wild-fowl?

Mal. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.
Clo. What thinkest thou of his opinion?

Mal. I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.

SHAKESPERE, Twelfth Night.

Q.

Quality. Come give us a taste of your QUALITY.

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet, act iv. sc. 2.

Beware

Quarrel.—
Of entrance to a QUARREL; but, being in,
Bear't that the opposer may beware of thee.

Greatly to find QUARREL in a straw,

Ibid., act i. sc. 3.

When honour's at the stake.-Ibid., act iv. sc. 4.

The QUARREL is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

SHERIDAN, The Rivals, act iv. sc. 3.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he armed that hath his QUARREL just;
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,

Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

SHAKESPERE, King Henry IV., part ii. act iii. sc. 2.

Quarrels. They who in QUARRELS interpose

Must often wipe a bloody nose.-J. GAY, The Mastiffs.

Thy head is as full of QUARRELS as an egg is full of meat.
SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 1.

Quarry. So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd
His nostrils wide into the murky air,
Sagacious of his QUARRY from so far.

MILTON, Paradise Lost, book x. 1. 279.

Queen o' the May.-You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;

To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year;

Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;
For I'm to be QUEEN O'THE MAY, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the
May. TENNYSON, The May Queen.

Questions.-Ask me no QUESTIONS, and I'll tell you no fibs.

GOLDSMITH, She Stoops to Conquer, act iii.

Quips. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee

Jest and youthful jollity;

QUIPS and cranks and wanton wiles,

Nods and becks and wreathed smiles. -MILTON, L'Allegro, 1. 2.

R.

Race. He lives to build, not boast, a generous RACE;

No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.-R. SAVAGE, The Bastard.

Rank.-RANK is but the guinea's stamp,

A man's the gowd for a' that.

BURNS, Is there for Honest Poverty.

Rascals. O Heaven! that such companions thou'dst unfold,

And put in every honest hand a whip,

To lash the RASCALS naked through the world.

SHAKESPERE, Othello, act iv. sc. 2.

Rat. Smell a RAT.-BEN. JOHSON, Tale of a Tub, act iv. sc. 3. BUTLER, Hudibras, part i. canto i. 1. 281. FARQUHAR, Love and a Bottle.

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Collect, Second Sunday in Advent.

Read.-READ, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

Reading.-READING maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Histories make men wise; poets,

writing an exact man.

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witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

BACON, Essay 1, Of Studies.

READING what they never wrote,

Just fifteen minutes huddle up their work,
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.

COWPER, Task, book ii.

Reason. Give you a REASON on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. —SHAKESPERE, Henry IV., act ii. sc. 4.

Human REASON is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. -Luther.

I have no other but a woman's REASON:

I think him so because I think him so.

SHAKESPERE, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i. sc. 2.

Reason. I was promised on a time
To have REASON for my rhyme :
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.

SPENSER, Lines on his Promised Pension.

Reason, Goddess of.-A personification of those intellectual powers which distinguish man from the rest of the animal creation; deified in 1793 by the Revolutionists of France, and substituted as an object of worship for the divine beings of the Christian faith.

Rebellion.-REBELLION to tyrants is obedience to God.

From an inscription on the cannon near which the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica.-STILES'S History of the Three Judges of King Charles I. This supposititious epitaph was found among the papers of Mr. Jefferson, and in his handwriting. It was supposed to be one of Dr. Franklin's spirit-stirring inspirations.-RANDALL'S Life of Jefferson, vol. iii. p. 585.

Rebels.-Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are REBELS from principle.-BURKE, On the French Revolution.

Recoiled. And back RECOILED, he knew not why,
Even at the sound himself had made.

COLLINS, Ode to the Passions, 1. 19.

Records.-In RECORDS that defy the tooth of time.

YOUNG, The Statesman's Creed.

Reign. Here we may REIGN secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

MILTON, Paradise Lost, book i. 1. 261. Reign of Terror.-A term applied to a period of anarchy, bloodshed, and confiscation, in the course of the French Revolution, during which the country was under the sway of the actual terror inspired by the ferocious measures of its governors, who had established it avowedly as the principle of their authority. It commenced after the fall of the Girondists, May 31, 1793, and extended to the overthrow of Robespierre and his accomplices, July 27, 1794. Thousands of persons were put to death during this short time.

Religion.-RELIGION, blushing, vales her sacred fires,

And unawares morality expires.

Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor❜d;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:

Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall,
And universal darkness buries all:

POPE, The Dunciad, book iv. 1. 649.

Religion. And for a mantle large and broad

He wrapt him in RELIGION.-BURNS, The Holy Fair.
Remedies. Our REMEDIES oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.

SHAKESPERE, All's Well, act i. sc. 1.

Remedy. REMEDY worse than the disease.-BACON, Of Seditions and Troubles. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 2. SUCKLING's Letters: A Dissuasion from Love. DRYDEN, Juvenal, satire xvi. 1. 32.

Things without all REMEDY

Should be without regard: what's done is done.

SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.

Remember. I REMEMBER, I remember

The fir-trees dark and high;

I used to think their slender tops

Were close against the sky;

It was a childish ignorance,

But now 'tis little joy

To know I'm further off from heaven

Than when I was a boy.-HOOD, I Remember.

Remote.-REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow.

GOLDSMITH, The Traveller, 1. 1.

Remuneration.-Biron. What is a REMUNERATION?
Costard. Marry, sir, half-penny farthing.

SHAKESPERE, Love's Labour Lost, act iii. sc. 1.

Repentance. He who seeks REPENTANCE for the past
Should woo the angel Virtue in the future.

LYTTON, Lady of Lyons.

Reputation.-It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of REPUTATION but by himself. --MONK, Life of Bentley.

REPUTATION, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my repu'tation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, sir, and what remains is bestial.-SHAKESPERE, Othello, act ii. sc. 3.

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Respectable.-Q. What do you mean by RESPECTABLE
A. He always kept a gig.--Thurtell's Trial.

Rest.-Absence of occupation is not REST.

A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.-CoWPER, Retirement.

Silken REST

Tie all my cares up.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Four Plays in One, sc. 3.

Retreat.-In all the trade of war no feat

Is nobler than a brave RETREAT.

BUTLER, Hudibras, part i. canto iii. 1. 607.

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