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Kildare Railway: big blockhead sitting with his dirty feet on seat opposite, not stirring them for one who wanted to sit there.

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'You impertinent blasphemous blockhead!' this was sticking in my throat: better to retire without bringing it out."

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Desborough is a blockhead, to be sure; and Harrison is fanatic enough to believe anything.

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"Cowardly blockheads!" he said at last, seizing hold of the handle of the door, but without turning it effectually round-- "dare you not open a door?"

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puppy, fool, and blockhead," said the knight, "wouldst thou ask Doctor Rochecliffe to bear thee company at this hour?--Out, hound!--get down to the kennel yonder instantly, or I will break the knave's pate of thee."

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The blockheads are always planning a mutiny, though I confess none of them have ever taken the proportions of this one.

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So my old man-the old blockhead-off he goes: "Marry, marry," he says, "he must marry her and cover the sin," he says.

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Eh, you blockhead!

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He is so stupid-a regular blockhead!

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I told you the land must not be sold on credit, and everybody told you so, but you let yourself be deceived like the veriest blockhead.

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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.

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300 A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.

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'618 With him:' according to "the bookful blockhead."

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He reserves his lash for those who trample on their neighbors and insult "fallen worth," for cold or treacherous friends, liars, and babbling blockheads.

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One of the blockhead's follies was the not perceiving how great a panegyric I had bestowed on his brother's speaking in the H. of Commons, after fully stating its defects.

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The man had neither seen nor heard me, but at the last moment I had recognised him as the burlier of the two blockheads who had shadowed Raffles three days before.

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CHAPTER X _The critic once more consulted in vain: The Bishop less fastidious: The playhouse: Elbows and knees or virtue in danger: Mrs. Jordan_ It was possible I found, under the rose be it spoken, even for a bishop to be a blockhead: but, if that bishop had sense enough to discern my good qualities, I ought not to be the most unrelenting of his censurers.

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Noticed by the leading men, caressed and courted by their dependants, politics encouraging me on this hand, and theology inviting me on that, the whole world seemed to be smiles and sunshine; and I discovered that none but blockheads had any cause to complain of its injuries and its storms.

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You may be sure to meet them to-morrow, very industriously knocking at every door where they can gain admission, to tell their acquaintance what a vile piece it was; and what a strange blockhead the manager must be, who had refused farces of their writing, and operas of their setting, yet could dare to insult the town with such trash!

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Every blockhead can sneer at an author; the title itself is a sarcasm; and Job, who we are told was the most patient of men, uttered the bitterest wish that ever fell from lips: "Oh that mine enemy had written a book!"

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They would not suffer, surely they would not, as they so frequently do, this or that senseless blockhead to frustrate the labour of years, blast the poet's hopes, and render the birth of genius abortive!

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Sanguine blockhead, thus everlastingly to embitter my own cup of sorrow!

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And with good reason: I find it a very certain source of ease and affluence even to the most stupid blockheads, if they will but drudge on; and of riches, honours, and hereditary fame, to men of but very moderate talents.

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There was something impudently humble and satirical in his look, while he uttered this: yet so contrived as to make the man appear a pettish angry blockhead, who should take offence at it; and I certainly was not inclined to quarrel with my new comrades, the first day of our acquaintance.

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"Blockhead never will dance!

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First it had been "Block-house." lately, the more invidious "Blockhead."

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He had requested with a strong undertone of irony that she use his first name, and this she had done obediently several times--then slipping, helpless, repentant but dissolved in laughter, back into "Blockhead."

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Blockhead came around about ten in his new car and took me out Riverside Drive.

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"Blockhead said he'd put me in--only if I'm ever going to do anything I'll have to start now.

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She remembered nervously that she had once called him "Blockhead" to his face.

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"That is to say," we replied, "the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were?

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Will you venture your head, sirrah, blockhead you?

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"Yes, blockhead, I said the hall," he exclaimed in a louder voice.

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Would he not see Lord Grey who was in charge of the cavalry, or Master Ferguson who could tell him all he wanted to know--or Buyse, or Wade, or-- "Monmouth, blockhead--and Monmouth only," was the angry retort.

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I would detest myself as a tasteless, unfeeling, insipid, infamous blockhead!

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When I must skulk into a corner, lest the rattling equipage of some gaping blockhead should mangle me in the mire, I am tempted to exclaim--"What merits has he had, or what demerit have I had, in some state of pre-existence, that he is ushered into this state of being with the sceptre of rule, and the key of riches in his puny fist, and I am kicked into the world, the sport of folly, or the victim of pride?"

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Human existence in the most favourable situations does not abound with pleasures, and has its inconveniences and ills: capricious foolish man mistakes these inconveniences and ills as if they were the peculiar property of his particular situation; and hence that eternal fickleness, that love of change, which has ruined, and daily does ruin many a fine fellow, as well as many a blockhead, and is almost, without exception, a constant source of disappointment and misery.

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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, and such is my friend Clarke, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel: a fellow whom in fact it savours of impiety to attempt making a scholar of, as he has been marked a blockhead in the book of fate, at the almighty fiat of his Creator.

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Among ourselves, where only an infinitely small proportion of the population has the opportunity of studying, the lack of means among the immense majority secures a privilege even to the blockheads among the fortunate possessors of means.

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Since we, however, notwithstanding this, supply our demand for intellectual workers--apart, of course, from those exceptional cases which occur everywhere--solely from the small number of sons of rich families, we are fortunate if we find one capable student among ten incapables; of which ten--since the one capable student cannot supply all our demand--at most only two or three of the greatest blockheads suffer shipwreck.

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"Am I responsible if the blockhead has got drunk someplace?"

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"Your face, blockhead, when you come out of the room."

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"That is to say," we replied, "the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were?

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"Lo, a blockhead on a block," said the passers-by.--"What prayer make you by night?" they asked a sage.

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If a child lies, that does not make of him a liar, any more than does his failure to understand what he has just been told make of him a blockhead.

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But he would be wrong; and, in fact, would only be confirming the real author's contention that "Sure, of all blockheads, _Scholars_ are the worst."

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This is _True Taste_, and whoso likes it not, Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool, and sot.

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But he would be wrong; and, in fact, would only be confirming the real author's contention that "Sure, of all blockheads, _Scholars_ are the worst."

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This is _True Taste_, and whoso likes it not, Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool, and sot.

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"Are you not a pretty fellow to vote for Bald-head, whom you have so often called rogue and blockhead?"

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But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!

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A VERY NECESSARY PRECAUTION BLOCKS AND BLOCKHEADS.

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Then he got a better place; but, for a time, had to bear much abuse from his master, who declared that, although he had come across many blockheads from Cumberland, George was the stupidest one of all!

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why didn't you look, you young blockhead?" cried the prefect, catching the small boy by the arm, while Noaks and Mouler burst into a roar of laughter.

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Eyre, The Bachelor's Moving Day, The Bad "Odor" in the West Ballad of the Good Litttle Boy aged ten "Behold how Pleasant a Thing," &c. Beautiful Snow Bit of Natural History, A Bird of Wisdom in Iowa, The Bingham on Rome Blocks and Blockheads Book Notices Boyhood Bow-Wow!

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A Fop, a Fool, a beaten Ass--a Blockhead.

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No, no, thou deservest her; she would have made an old fond Blockhead of me, and one way or other you wou'd have had her--ods bobs, you wou'd-- _Enter_ Bearjest, Diana, Pert, Bredwel, _and_ Noisey.

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from the left-handed blow Of airy Blockheads who pretend to know.

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Bring 'em to me, And I'll convert that Coxcomb, and that Blockhead, into Your Honour and Right-Worshipful.

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"Why, hast questioned me but once, and then thou wert something of a blockhead dreamer, methought.

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The blockheads!

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And even these blockheads are beginning to get tired of my self-defense pleas."

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Potatoes get on best in sandy soil, I'm sure of that -but plant before you boil; Then put in strawberries; that's what I do- Confound you for a blockhead!

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"You blockhead!" exclaimed his Majesty, "LIE BIG, the editor of the Sun , is not coming back for some time; he is of more service to me on earth, making converts for my jurisdiction, than the public are probably aware."

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It was impossible to suspect any one of being such a monstrous blockhead; so I was rather disagreeably startled at hearing the crack of a gun, and feeling the tingling of a bullet whizzing past my ear.

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* * * * * The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learnèd lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears.

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But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace, Insults fallen worth, or beauty in distress; Who loves a lie, lame slander helps about; Who writes a libel, or who copies out; That fop, whose pride affects a patron's name, Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame; Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show the sense of it without the love; Who has the vanity to call you friend, Yet wants the honour, injured, to defend; Who tells whate'er you think, whate'er you say, And, if he lie not, must at least betray; Who to the Dean and silver bell can swear, And sees at Canons what was never there; Who reads, but with a lust to misapply, Make satire a lampoon, and fiction, lie: A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.

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Sumph', blockhead.

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The man behind me shouted to every bewildered, staring Belgian whom we passed: 'Yes, young fellow, you are astonished, you blockhead!'

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"Pox take the blockhead, I suppose he would marry her.

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"Pox take the blockhead, he is mighty nice, methinks, in his temper.

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He could neither flatter a blockhead, nor pimp for a peer.

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"Why, you incorrigible blockhead," said lord Martin, "you have neglected half your instructions.

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Go hang, ye blockheads, get ye from my sight!

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Truly, truly, he does not as beseems a gentleman of his calling; pray, let some go forth to meet him on the green, and send in that blockhead Block.

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They might be cowards that were frighted, or blockheads that were cheated; but, whatever they were, they could contract only for themselves.

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"My dear colleague," said I, "Bedeau has proved that the police are blockheads."

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He who is at the top is a madman, those who are beneath are blockheads.

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It must be owned that they are often slightly dull; and in matters of Art are not unfrequently blockheads.

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If David, when his toils were ended, Had heard these blockheads sing before him, To us his psalms had ne'er descended-- In furious mood he would have tore 'em.

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People are influenced more by what a man says, if his practice is suitable to it,--because they are blockheads.

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Pox on me for a puppy, a fool, a blockhead, a clumsy varlet, a mere Jack Belford!--I thought myself a much cleverer fellow than I am!--Why could I not have been followed in by Dorcas, who might have taken it up, while I addressed her lady?

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"Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw tolerably--_should_ do it at least--have had good masters, and flatter myself that I am not quite a blockhead."

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"I am the densest blockhead in all Europe!" he announced emphatically.

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Doctor.--What a blockhead you are.

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O blockhead!

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Marry, come up, you blockhead!

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Hang him, blockhead!

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[240] [i.e., A blockhead, a fool.--_Steevens_.]

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A learned man who had composed thirteen volumes on the properties of the griffin, and was besides the chief theurgite, hastened away to accuse Zadig before one of the principal magi, named Yebor, the greatest blockhead and therefore the greatest fanatic among the Chaldeans.

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'Then you are a blockhead, for Corneille was infinitely greater.

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Howe'er, to do you right, the present age Breeds very hopeful monsters for the stage; That scorn the paths their dull forefathers trod, And wont be blockheads in the common road.

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Besides, proud blockhead, be not vain, Of what thou call'st thy slaves and train.

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by what a powerful race (For blockheads may have power and place) Are scandals raised and libels writ!

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Thus ministers have royal boons Conferred on blockheads and buffoons: In spite of nature, merit, wit, Their friends for every post were fit.

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Your partial hand can wealth dispense, But never give a blockhead sense.

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_130 Each took the part that he advised, And all were equally despised; A farmer, at his folly moved, The dull preceptor thus reproved: 'Blockhead,' says he, 'by what you've done, One would have thought 'em each your son: For parents, to their offspring blind, Consult, nor parts, nor turn of mind; But even in infancy decree What this, what t'other son should be.

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_140 Had you with judgment weighed the case, Their genius thus had fixed their place: The swan had learnt the sailor's art; The cock had played the soldier's part; The spider in the weaver's trade With credit had a fortune made; But for the fool, in every class The blockhead had appeared an ass.'

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_90 Blockheads,' says he, 'learn more respect; Know ye on whom ye thus reflect?

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In private life he would have been called an honest blockhead; and Fortune that made him a king, added nothing to his happiness, only prejudiced his honesty, and shortened his days.

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