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He is clearly a sufficient ruler, and perhaps civilizer of his kingdom of blockheads ad interim; but I found that the San Franciscans believe that this exceptional power cannot survive Brigham.

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When they had taken their seats in the corner of the room, Yussuf said, "Now my guests, as you hope for pardon, tell me, do you know nothing of what has happened to me this day--and what the blockhead of a caliph has been about?"

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A Ghost, you Blockheads, says Mr. _Long_ in a Pet, did either of you ever see a Ghost, or know any Body that did?

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Fortune is a Fool, and you are a Blockhead, if you put it in her Power to play Tricks with you.

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As Rosalie confided to her mistress, he became more of a blockhead every day.

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A German mother will say to her child, 'O, you little liar,' and does not imply serious reprobation thereby, and Professor Hart said that if you called a German student a liar, he might take it calmly, but if you called him a blockhead, he would challenge you to fight a duel.

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"Why, you blockhead, there is no such thing in _rerum naturâ_.

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"Nobody but a blockhead," said Dr. Johnson, "ever wrote except for money."

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It is also always conciliative to congratulate him on the possession of such and such rare and "_belle cose;_" and if you thus contrive to get into his good graces, he will deal with you at _fair prices_, and perhaps amuse you with an account of such tricks as he is not ashamed to have practised on _blockheads_, who will buy at any cost if the die is fine.

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"'How come you to forget water, blockhead?' she exclaimed; 'get some quickly, and then--Breakfast!'

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"Bob, you consummate blockhead!" said Mrs. Blackwell, "haven't you better sense than to talk about its being chilly?

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About this Gay wrote to Caryll in April: "There is a sixpenny criticism lately published upon the tragedy of 'The What D'ye Call It,' wherein he with much judgment and learning calls me a blockhead and Mr. Pope a knave.

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He talks of moderation or'e a Glass } But mentions none of that when with his Lass, } He's Knave in Grain; a Blockhead and an Ass.}

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"Dismiss," said one, "the blockhead Asses, And Hares, too cowardly and fleet."

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I'm not going to be your blockhead, Just because you're fond of flirting!

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For there's no use talking, fellows, MacMahon may be a blockhead but he is a brave man; you ought to have seen him on his big horse, with the shells bursting all about him!

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"Look out, there, you blockhead!" exclaimed the lieutenant, violently forcing Weiss up against the wall; "do you want to get yourself blown to pieces?"

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If yours act then the part of a liberal Son, or wanton Student, rejoice therein that you have not brought forth a dunce or blockhead; but since his Doctor saith that he is sharp-witted, and a hopefull youth; doubt not, but that you will, when he comes to his seriouser years, with delight and pleasure see him to be a great man.

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A five hundred mile lift on a three thousand mile jaunt was not to be missed just because this Chink was something of a blockhead.

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"Suggestion, you blockhead!

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There is a medium in all things; only blockheads go to extremes.

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He would be a very lazy blockhead if he were content, and I (who, though an inhabitant of the village, have preserved, thank God, some sense of justice) most earnestly counsel these half-fed claimants to persevere in their just demands, till they are admitted to a more complete share of a dinner for which they pay as much as the others; and if they see a little attenuated lawyer squabbling at the head of their opponents, let them desire him to empty his pockets, and to pull out all the pieces of duck, fowl, and pudding which he has filched from the public feast, to carry home to his wife and children.

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The probability I admit to be, in each particular case, that the sweet little blockhead will in fact never get a brief;--but I will venture to say there is not a parent from the Giant's Causeway to Bantry Bay who does not conceive that his child is the unfortunate victim of the exclusion, and that nothing short of positive law could prevent his own dear, pre-eminent Paddy from rising to the highest honours of the State.

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Now, I appeal to any human being, except Spencer Perceval, Esq., of the parish of Hampstead, what the disaffection of a clergy would amount to, gaping after this graduated bounty of the Crown, and whether Ignatius Loyola himself, if he were a living blockhead instead of a dead saint, could withstand the temptation of bouncing from £100 a year at Sligo, to £300 in Tipperary?

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But what a blockhead I am!

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This Christian Lukitsch, whose family name was Trankwillitatin, a lanky blockhead of a student, had the habit of coming to see us, the deuce knows why.

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I thought my Happiness was then compleat, Because 'twas in his Pow'r to make it so; I ask'd the Spark if he would do the Feat, But the unperforming Blockhead answer'd, _No_.

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never mind, that old blockhead.

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'You blockhead!' cried the master, beating him; 'you stupid little fool, how can you show that?'

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For these things were composed for their benefit, all of whom he supposes to be such blockheads that they will not instantly detect the patch-work he has so awkwardly sewn together.

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_Ant._ O Blockhead!

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The Husband, instead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toss-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.

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The King observing the Man's Countenance, perceiv'd he was no Blockhead, and thinking perhaps he might have misunderstood what he said, bids him be call'd back again.

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By this Answer, the King seeing the Man to be no Blockhead, having ask'd him a few Questions, says he, You shall have what you ask'd for, that you may thank me twice, and turning to his Officers; Let, says he, Letters patent be made out for this Man without Delay, that he may not be detain'd here to his Detriment.

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"And why didn't you bring it in, you blockhead?"

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That blockhead Friedrich Schumacher raises his crest and answers insolently that no one sings, since singing is strictly forbidden for the present."

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The Priests Won't allow this Argument in another Case; and I think an ill Poet is no more an Objection against the Stage, than a Clergyman's being a Blockhead, is to the Pulpit.

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Cruel blockheads.

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He's an old blockhead.

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TAUTOLOGY.--Avoid words which add no thing to the sense; such as, "_Now_ extant, _free_ gratis, _slow_ mope, _cold_ snow, a _hot_ sun, a _flowing_ stream, a _dull_ blockhead, _wise_ sages."

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But never mind, not a few wry faces we made at them, and not a few "blockheads" we pinned to their backs!

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Don't wait to ask questions, you blockhead!

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Ye blockhead, that's their livelihood."

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For, I ask of the men of knowledge of the world whether they would not hold him for a blockhead that should hope to prevail in an argument whose scope and object is to mortify the self-love of the expected proselyte?

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You blockhead!

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He called us all blockheads and cursed idiots.

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"Blockhead!

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The liar at any rate recognises that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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Mumming--masking--masquerading; Fanning--fun--fanfaronading; Dancing--duncing--deft disguises; Singing--supping--strange (sur) prizes; Galloping and gallivanting Couples much in need of BANTING; All the customary make-up CLARKSON's customers can fake up; All the little childish raiment, Fatties don--for sylph and fay meant; Tally-hos and Hey-no-nonnies: Jackies--Jillies--Jennies--Johnnies-- Barber's blockhead--nothing dafter-- Heralding "Before and After": "Auntie's Bottle Hot"--a phial Only for external trial-- Gems of London--gems of Paris-- Arid gusts--AUGUSTUS HARRIS-- Splitting mirth--some garbs that split, too-- Aching heads next morning, ditto!

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"If this blockhead here," with a lurch of the head backwards to where the blacksmith rode behind, "hasn't blundered in his 'reckonings,' we'll bag the game yet."

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Push on--follow the man--heed this blockhead no longer."

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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason--I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me."

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Thus Dædalus and Ovid too, That man's a blockhead, have confest: Powel and Stretch[1] the hint pursue; Life is a farce, the world a jest.

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Wherever the damn'd do chiefly abound, Most certainly there is HELL to be found: Damn'd poets, damn'd critics, damn'd blockheads, damn'd knaves, Damn'd senators bribed, damn'd prostitute slaves; Damn'd lawyers and judges, damn'd lords and damn'd squires; Damn'd spies and informers, damn'd friends and damn'd liars; Damn'd villains, corrupted in every station; Damn'd time-serving priests all over the nation; And into the bargain I'll readily give you Damn'd ignorant prelates, and counsellors privy.

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--I to such blockheads set my wit!

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But if you blab, you are undone: Consider what a risk you run: You lose your credit all at once; The town will mark you for a dunce; The vilest dogg'rel Grub Street sends, Will pass for yours with foes and friends; And you must bear the whole disgrace, Till some fresh blockhead takes your place.

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It was the deciding game of a rubber; the adversaries' score had stood at one, while we were at two, and besides, we had had two by honours; as they made four by cards, they went out--and so did I--not without an _obbligato_ accompaniment on muted strings; unwhispered whispers of "confounded blockhead!"

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For one Baroni, who is an honour at once to Rome, to Italy, and to Europe, you naturally expect to find many blockheads.

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"What is, then, you blockhead?" asked Thurston, impatiently; "is your hire insufficient?"

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Thou art the thrall, not of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own brutal appetites, and this scoured dish of liquor; and thou protest of thy 'liberty,' thou entire blockhead!"--P.

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And thou pratest of thy 'liberty,' thou entire blockhead!"--_Carlyle_.

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The beauty hesitates to say it, when a rich blockhead offers her his hand, because she has set her ambition on an "establishment."

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For in spite of the proverb, a blockhead at home is a blockhead all the world over, you must agree with me that travelling and sojourning among various people makes men wise.

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Go your ways, Contreras, for a tiresome blockhead, as you always were."

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DUNDERHEAD, _s._ a blockhead.

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"That your forefathers were great blockheads, and that their descendant is not a whit the wiser."

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He must have suffered enough to make the rack seem gentle, and yet the good blockhead only thought of telling us to leave him alone in case the vessel went.

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"Mean?" he said, turning upon me angrily, "you blockhead!

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"The police are blockheads," replied Mr. Scott.--"Will you be so good as to see if there is any one in the outer office, Mr. Brown, or on the stairs?

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Why, sir, ever since your mother's uncle, Sir Stanly Egerton, left you this three thousand pounds a year, and that you have, in compliance with his will, taken up the name of Egerton, they think you are grown proud;--that you have estranged yourself fra the Macsycophants--have associated with your mother's family--with the opposeetion, and with those who do not wish well till Scotland;----besides, sir, the other day, in a conversation at dinner at your cousin Campbel M'Kenzie's, before a whole table-full of your ain relations, did not you publicly wish a total extinguishment of aw party, and of aw national distinctions whatever, relative to the three kingdoms?--[_With great anger._] And you blockhead-- was that a prudent wish before so many of your ain countrymen?--or was it a filial language to hold before me?

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I must keep a devilish tight hand upon this fallow, I see,--or he will be touched with the patriotic frenzy of the times, and run counter till aw my designs.--I find he has a strong inclination to have a judgment of his ain, independent of mine, in aw political matters;--but as soon as I have finally settled the marriage writings with my lord, I will have a thorough expostulation with my gentleman, I am resolved,--and fix him unalterably in his political conduct.--Ah!--I am frighted out of my wits, lest his mother's family should seduce him to desert to their party, which would totally ruin my whole scheme, and break my heart.--A fine time of day for a blockhead to turn patriot;--when the character is exploded--marked--proscribed;--why the common people--the vary vulgar--have found out the jest, and laugh at a patriot now-a-days,---just as they do at a conjurer,--a magician,--or any other impostor in society.-- _Enter_ TOMLINS, _and Lord_ LUMBERCOURT.

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Doubtless, sir, you are a blockhead:--nai, sir, I'll tell you how I raised it.

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No, no.--Come away, Counsellor Plausible;--come away, I say;--let them chew upon it.--Why, counsellor, did you ever see so impertinent, so meddling, and so obstinate a blockhead, as that Serjeant Eitherside?

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You're a blockhead!

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And you who never fell through pride, You who in different sects were shammed, And come to see each other damned (So some folks told you--but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you)-- The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more-- I to such blockheads set my wit!

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I to such blockheads set my wit!

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Allan Macleane, of the Highlanders, calls the engineers "fools and blockheads, G--d d--n them."

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_1st Wrenboy_: And we who are ignorant blockheads, and never were reared to know The art of the languaged poets, it's along with you we will go.

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"Oh, you infernal blockheads!"

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Let us go to prison as quickly as possible, blockheads!"

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The youngsters are asked to come to a "learning meeting" where they must recite or exhibit something they have written or drawn; "blockheads as well as clever children are encouraged."

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: "We have been cheated by blockheads, robbed by people whose incapacity was even greater than their villainy."]

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'Pass on, blockhead,' says th' faculty.

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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason-I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

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* I think the _Learned_, and _Unlearned Blockhead_ pretty Equal: For 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk _Nonsense_, or _Unintelligible Sense_.

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To be plain, whoever Disputes _Aristotle_ and _Horace_, Rules does as good as call the _Scaligers_, _Vossii_, _Rapins_, _Bossu's_, _Daciers_, _Corneilles_, _Roscommons_, _Normanby's_ and _Rymers_, _Blockheads_: A man must have a great deal of Assurance, to be so free with such illustrious Judges.

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'Tis to no great purpose that a Man seeks to make himself admir'd by his Composures: Blockheads, indeed, may oftentimes admire him but then they are but Blockheads; and as for _Wits_ they have in themselves the seeds or hints of all the good and fine things that can possibly be thought of or said; and therefore they seldom admire any thing, but only approve of what hits their Palate.

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Within your country's law, blockhead!

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They left Burgundy, Beauvais, and Henry of Champagne--one friend, one enemy, and one blockhead.

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The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeare-not fit to tie his brogues.

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James, the blockhead, lost my poor Spice, a favourite terrier.

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In middle age, when Defoe was taunted with his want of learning, he retorted that if he was a blockhead it was not the fault of his father, who had "spared nothing in his education that might qualify him to match the accurate Dr. Browne, or the learned Observator."

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The Whigs the timber duty say They will bring down a peg; More wooden-pated blockheads they!

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"I did that because I heard you were calling yourself a blockhead."

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I was not long, either, in discovering that the older pupils and graduates were intelligent, accomplished and refined; that they were treated more as equals by the officers, and that they were trotted out to show off the merits of the institution, while we young blockheads were kept in the background.

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To myself there is a ring in it as of clear steel; and my prophecy is that all the roaring blockheads of the world cannot prevent its natural effect on human souls.

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These and a hundred other little thieveries they committed with such dexterity, that old Tom Crib, whose son was transported last assizes for sheep-stealing, used to be often reproaching his boys, that Giles' sons were worth a hundred of such blockheads as he had; for scarce a night passed but Giles had some little comfortable thing for supper which his boys had pilfered in the day, while his undutiful dogs never stole any thing worth having.

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"1781.--What a blockhead Dr. Burney is to be always sending for his daughter home so!

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