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' iv. 31. MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319. MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be a a republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257. MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182; 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19; '_Perhaps_ the money might be _found_, and he was _sure_ that his wife was _gone_,' iv. 319; 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money,' ii. 323; 'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400. MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199. MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having been in the pillory,' iii. 315. MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,' ii. 230. MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460. MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only by murder,' v. 93, n. 4. N. NAMES. 'I do not know which of them calls names best,' ii. 37; 'The names carry the poet, not the poet the names,' iii. 318. NAP. 'I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me,' ii. 407. NARROWNESS. 'Occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness' (Boswell), iv. 191. NATION. 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life,' v. 109, n. 6. NATIONAL. 'National faith is not yet sunk so low,' iv. 21. NATIVE PLACE. 'Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place,' ii. 141. NATURE. 'All the rougher powers of nature except thunder were in motion,' iii. 455; 'You are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 359; 'Nature will rise up, and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system,' i. 424. NECESSITY. 'As to the doctrine of necessity, no man believes it,' iv. 329. NECK. 'He gart Kings ken that they had a _lith_ in their neck' (Lord Auchinleck), v. 382, n. 2; 'On a thirtieth of January every King in Europe would rise with a crick in his neck' (Quin), v. 382, n. 2; 'If you have so many things that will break, you had better break your neck at once, and there's an end on't,' iii. 153. NEGATIVE. 'She was as bad as negative badness could be,' v. 231. NEVER. 'Never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot have it,' iv. 205. NEW. 'I found that generally what was new wa
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