different forms and with various success, has been brought upon the
stage or delineated in novels.

It is a problem of difficult solution to determine whether a union will
hasten or retard the amelioration of this country. The few gentlemen of
education who now reside in this country will resort to England. They
are few, but they are in nothing inferior to men of the same rank in
Great Britain. The best that can happen will be the introduction of
British manufacturers in their places.

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish
to drink beer? or did they learn from the Irish to drink whisky?

GLOSSARY

SOME FRIENDS, WHO HAVE SEEN THADY'S HISTORY SINCE IT HAS BEEN PRINTED
HAVE SUGGESTED TO THE EDITOR, THAT MANY OF THE TERMS AND IDIOMATIC
PHRASES, WITH WHICH IT ABOUNDS, COULD NOT BE INTELLIGIBLE TO THE ENGLISH
READER WITHOUT FURTHER EXPLANATION. THE EDITOR HAS THEREFORE FURNISHED
THE FOLLOWING GLOSSARY.

GLOSSARY 1. MONDAY MORNING--

Thady begins his memoirs of the Rackrent Family by dating MONDAY
MORNING, because no great undertaking can be auspiciously commenced in
Ireland on any morning but MONDAY MORNING. 'Oh, please God we live till
Monday morning, we'll set the slater to mend the roof of the house. On
Monday morning we'll fall to, and cut the turf. On Monday morning we'll
see and begin mowing. On Monday morning, please your honour, we'll begin
and dig the potatoes,' etc.

All the intermediate days, between the making of such speeches and the
ensuing Monday, are wasted: and when Monday morning comes, it is ten to
one that the business is deferred to THE NEXT Monday morning. The Editor
knew a gentleman, who, to counteract this prejudice, made his workmen
and labourers begin all new pieces of work upon a Saturday.

GLOSSARY 2. LET ALONE THE THREE KINGDOMS ITSELF.

--LET ALONE, in this sentence, means put out of consideration. The
phrase, let alone, which is now used as the imperative of a verb, may in
time become a conjunction, and may exercise the ingenuity of some future
etymologist. The celebrated Horne Tooke has proved most satisfactorily,
that the conjunction but comes from the imperative of the Anglo-Saxon
verb (BEOUTAN) TO BE OUT; also, that IF comes from GIF, the imperative
of the Anglo-Saxon verb which signifies TO GIVE, etc.

GLOSSARY 3. WHILLALUH.

--Ullaloo, Gol, or lamentation over the dead--

Magnoque ululante tumultu.--VIRGIL.

Ululat