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y, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind; but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind, v. 328; 'This rage of trade will destroy itself,' v. 231. TRADESMEN. 'They have lost the civility of tradesmen without acquiring the manners of gentlemen,' ii. 120. TRAGEDY. 'I never did the man an injury; but he would persist in reading his tragedy to me,' iv. 244, n. 2. TRANSLATION. 'Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good translation,' iii. 373. TRANSMITTER. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i. 166, n. 3. TRAPS. 'I play no tricks; I lay no traps,' iii. 316. TRAVELLERS. 'Ancient travellers guessed, modern measure,' iii. 356; 'There has been, of late, a strange turn in travellers to be displeased,' iii. 236. TRAVELLING. 'When you set travelling against mere negation, against doing nothing, it is better to be sure,' iii. 352. TRICKS. 'All tricks are either knavish or childish,' iii. 396. TRIM. 'A mile may be as trim as a square yard,' iii. 272. TRIUMPH. 'It was the triumph of hope over experience,' ii. 128. TRUTH. 'I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of truth,' iv. 65; 'Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it,' iv. 12; 'Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth, or hurt himself by telling what is not truth,' iii. 320; 'Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,' v. 42. TUMBLING. 'Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the Bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet,' ii. 48. TURN. 'He had no turn to economy' (Langton), iii, 363, n. 2. TURNPIKE. 'For my own part now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed' (Boswell or Edwards), iii. 306. TURNSPIT. 'The fellow is as awkward as a turnspit when first put into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,' iv. 411. TYRANNY. 'There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny,' ii. 170. U. UNCERTAINTY. 'After the uncertainty of all human things at Hector's this invitation came very well,' ii. 456. UNCHARITABLY. 'Who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably? iv. 97. UNCIVIL. 'I _did_ mean to be uncivil, thinking _you_ had been uncivil,' iii. 273; 'Sir, a man
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