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[3] Fool: blockhead.

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Why, blockhead, are you mad?

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To pass away the evening, which he did not mean to have spent there, and to quiet his agitated spirits by thinking on something else, he walked under the Portico to a neighbouring coffee-house, where fate the Abate Toaldo in company of a few friends; wholly unconscious that he had been the cause of vexing the Procuratore; who, after a short pause, cried out, in a true Venetian spirit of anger and humour oddly blended together, "_Mi dica Signor Professore Toaldo, chi è il più gran minchion di tutti i fanti in Paradiso?_" Pray tell me Doctor (we should say), who is the greatest blockhead among all the saints of Heaven?

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Marco ved'ella--"e'l vero minchion: mentre mantiene tanti professori per studiare (che so to mi) delle stelle; roba astronomica che non vale un fico; è loro non sanno dirli nemmeno s'hà da piovere o nò._"--"Why it is St. Mark, do you see, that is the true blockhead and dupe, in keeping so many professors to study the stars and stuff; when with all their astronomy they cannot tell him whether it will rain or no."

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On every thorn delightful wisdom grows, And in each rill, some sweet instruction flows; But some untaught o'erhear the murmuring rill, In spite of sacred leisure--blockheads still.

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The good Pope Gregory, who feared (by sacred inspiration one would think) all which should come to pass, broke many beautiful antique statues, "lest," said he, "induced by change of dress or name perhaps our Christians may be tempted to adore them:" and we say he was a blockhead, and burned Livy's decads, and so he did; but he refused all titles of earthly dignity; he censured the Oriental Patriarchs for substituting temporal splendours in the place of primitive simplicity; which he said ought _alone_ to distinguish the followers of Jesus Christ.

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We've been blockheads, Julia, blockheads."

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Now would I were that blockhead Ajax for a minute.

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It was, even then, a question of monsters, "of dragons animated by a blockhead of a Savoyard, who had not enough spirit for the beast."

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To praise a blockhead's wit because he is great, is too frequently practised by authors, and deservedly draws down contempt upon them.

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The black men acted like _blockheads_.

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Let those blockheads of fishermen see what he'll do to 'em once you stop."

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"But when I recollected," said he, "what pleasure it would give the whole tribe of blockheads and blues to see you and me turning out against each other, I gave up the idea."

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a blockhead--I must have him again.

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I remember a blockhead of a critic in some Review or other crying out against this piece.

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An ungrateful blockhead is what you are.

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Well, how's that, you blockhead?

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"He's a blockhead!" cried Mr. Merrick testily.

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let him not cross my path, gossiping blockhead!

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I charge you with having murdered Coffin, even as you have just murdered that other poor blockhead who trusted you."

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"It is a difficult part to play amongst such a set of assassins and blockheads--but, when the scum is skimmed off, or has boiled over, good may come of it.

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Since I left England (and it is not for all the usual term of transportation) I have scribbled to five hundred blockheads on business, &c. without difficulty, though with no great pleasure; and yet, with the notion of addressing you a hundred times in my head, and always in my heart, I have not done what I ought to have done.

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"You blamed blockhead, don't you know?" the boss answered.

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"Of all the blockheads!" he growled, apostrophizing his own unreadiness.

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"Wait till I whisper, you blockhead," shouted the doctor.

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"'Wait till I whisper, you blockhead,'" shouted the recruit with equal heat.

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Everyone is expected to be more or less of a business man, and is looked upon as a blockhead and deserving to be cheated, if he does not understand and allow for the tricks of the trade.

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Blockhead that I was, not to have let well enough alone.

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_Enter Servant and _Jealous_._ Sir _Jeal._ What is your earnest Business, Blockhead, that you must speak with me before the Ceremony's past?

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Whatever was the matter with the yacht, Dan and his men were sure that the officers and crew were nothing less than blockheads.

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Most provident blockhead!

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Sir R. Flattery, blockhead!

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I am a poor man, and I argue with you, and convince you, you are wrong; then you call yourself a blockhead, and I am of your opinion: now, that's no flattery.

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She was not merely a fool, but had taken the full degree as a self-satisfied blockhead.

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Young youths, herd blockheads Church over here."

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"Blockhead you are to bare your mind," Mary admonished him.

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"Why for you call me blockhead when there's no blockhead to be?"

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What blockhead lost one penny?

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"Bravo, blockhead!

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After having walked half the day they reached a town that was called "Trap for Blockheads."

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The young Emperor who reigned over the town of "Trap for Blockheads," having won a splendid victory over his enemies, ordered great public rejoicings.

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As I heard all these different versions of so simple a matter, and found that not a few were inclined to each, I could, not help exclaiming, "In truth the Devil is a very clever fellow, and man even a greater blockhead than I had taken him for."

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I Man a Laughing Animal--Antiquity of Popular Jests--'Night and Day'--The Plain-featured Bride--The House of Condolence--The Blind Man's Wife--Two Witty Persian Ladies--Woman's Counsel--The Turkish Jester: in the Pulpit; the Cauldron; the Beggar; the Drunken Governor; the Robber; the Hot Broth--Muslim Preachers and Misers II The Two Deaf Men and the Traveller--The Deaf Persian and the Horseman--Lazy Servants--Chinese Humour: The Rich Man and the Smiths; How to keep Plants alive; Criticising a Portrait--The Persian Courtier and his old Friend--The Scribe--The Schoolmaster and the Wit--The Persian and his Cat--A List of Blockheads--The Arab and his Camel--A Witty Baghdádí--The Unlucky Slippers III The Young Merchant of Baghdád; or, the Wiles of Woman IV Ashaab the Covetous--The Stingy Merchant and the Hungry Bedouin--The Sect of Samradians--The Story-teller and the King--Royal Gifts to Poets--The Persian Poet and the Impostor--'Stealing Poetry'--The Rich Man and the Poor Poet V Unlucky Omens--The Old Man's Prayer--The Old Woman in the Mosque--The Weeping Turkmans--The Ten Foolish Peasants--The Wakeful Servant--The Three Dervishes--The Oilman's Parrot--The Moghul and his Parrot--The Persian Shopkeeper and the Prime Minister--Hebrew Facetiæ TALES OF A PARROT.

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The alchemist died of poverty and distress, while the blockhead found a treasure under a ruin.

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In the following passage the man of learning and virtue is contrasted with the stupid and ignorant blockhead: "If a wise man, falling into company with mean people, does not get credit for his discourse, be not surprised, for the sound of the harp cannot overpower the noise of the drum, and the fragrance of ambergris is overcome by fetid garlic.

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The wise man is like the druggist's chest, silent, but full of virtues; while the blockhead resembles the warrior's drum, noisy, but an empty prattler.

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II THE TWO DEAF MEN AND THE TRAVELLER--THE DEAF PERSIAN AND THE HORSEMAN--LAZY SERVANTS--CHINESE HUMOUR: THE RICH MAN AND THE SMITHS; HOW TO KEEP PLANTS ALIVE; CRITICISING A PORTRAIT--THE PERSIAN COURTIER AND HIS OLD FRIEND--THE SCRIBE--THE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE WIT--THE PERSIAN AND HIS CAT--A LIST OF BLOCKHEADS--THE ARAB AND HIS CAMEL--A WITTY BAGHDÁDÍ--THE UNLUCKY SLIPPERS.

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Some time after this the king, being merry with wine, said to his chief vazír: "Make me out a list of all the blockheads in my kingdom."

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'Ah, blockhead!' said the prince to him.

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Blockheads, list of, 80.

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Learned man and blockhead, 49; youth, modesty of, 27.

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'Confounded, puffing, wheezing, gasping, broken-winded old blockhead it is!' growled Mr. Sponge, wishing he could get to his former earth at Puffington's, or anywhere else.

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Blockhead = malsaĝulo.

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There he is, in the middle of the road, the blockhead."

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During this colloquy, the gipsy music was playing; the first fiddle was really not bad: and the nonchalant rogue-humour of his countenance did not belie his alliance to that large family, which has produced "so many blackguards, but never a single blockhead."

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"Extricate is not the word, you blockhead; extract, I suppose you mean.

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"At you, Mr. Vinegar, you foolish man--you simpleton--you blockhead!

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you blockhead!"

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"You stupid blockhead!" roared Mr. Bonnet, "how like an ass you have acted!

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You--come here, you blockhead!"

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"No, no, no, you dense blockheads!" uttered Cadet Midshipman Merriam.

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"I didn't tell you to walk your post, blockhead!" scowled Mr. Merriam.

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"Blockhead!" was the courteous reply, "what, not believe your own son?

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True enough; and Roger would never have been such a monetary blockhead, had he not been now so generally tipsy; the fumes of beer had mingled with his plan, and all his usual shrewdness had been blunted into folly by greediness of lucre on the one side, and potent liquors on the other.

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If you had not been blockheads, you might have known it, from the extraordinary neatness of the rose-colored envelope, with its figured green border."

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"Then Lady Mabel is an automaton," he added scornfully, "and I, blockhead that I am, never found it out till now!

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There will be more blockheads than mine in St. Stephen's, I can tell you.

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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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"They're a stupid lot of blockheads down there," he growled, as he hung up the receiver.

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Stanton handed him Nellie's daguerreotype, and he pretended to discover a close resemblance between her and Fanny; but neither Mrs. Middleton, nor Mr. Ashton could trace any, for which Mr. Middleton called them both blockheads.

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Before I go, however, I want to tell you, that you and your friends are a set of blockheads.

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"What an awful blockhead!" said the stern associate.

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He is such a blockhead, and, saving your presence, at the same time such a sly beast!"

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"You are a blockhead," he said to his subaltern.

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These German blockheads!

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The new sovereign was a selfish, coarse old man, who in private life would, as Lady Montagu said, have passed for an honest blockhead.

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Pitt condemned such oppression as morally wrong, Burke denounced it as inexpedient, and Fox, another prominent member of Parliament, wrote, "It is intolerable to think that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief."

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"Jack, life is a great schoolmaster, but why does it take so long to drub any sense into these blockheads of ours?"

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You are all a pack of blockheads.

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Scott himself, sensible as ever, wrote in his _Journal_, "The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeare--not fit to tie his brogues."

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The characteristic reply was a Parthian arrow: "Vat te tevil I trow my money away for dat vich the blockhead vish'?

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Daubers and blockheads think themselves painters, and are received by the public as such, if they know how to foreshorten bones and decipher entrails; and men with capacity of art either shrink away (the best of them always do) into petty felicities and innocencies of genre painting--landscapes, cattle, family breakfasts, village schoolings, and the like; or else, if they have the full sensuous art-faculty that would have made true painters of them, being taught from their youth up, to look for and learn the body instead of the spirit, have learned it and taught it to such purpose, that at this hour, when I speak to you, the rooms of the Royal Academy of England, receiving also what of best can be sent there by the masters of France, contain _not one_ picture honourable to the arts of their age; and contain many which are shameful in their record of its manners.

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The French Duc de Longueville had for some time been an honored prisoner at the English court, held as a hostage from Louis XII, but de Longueville was a blockhead, who could not keep his little black eyes off our fair ladies, who hated him, long enough to tell the deuce of spades from the ace of hearts.

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I was credited with being a blockhead, when in fact they were the dupes.

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"Caskoden, you are either a liar or a blockhead."

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There's a friend of mine that studies his Bible without any reference to the old systems of theology, and finds these old systems have made some big mistakes in interpreting its sayings, when a newspaper blockhead comes along and says if he won't conform let him go out of the church.

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As they sauntered back, the lawyer suddenly cried out: "What a forgetful blockhead I am.

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"Don't sit grinning there, you blockhead!" shouted the ancient mariner to Sylvanus; "hev ye been so long aboard ship ye can't tell a stable when you see it?

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He tutored me for Harvard-and I guess you've never had a worse blockhead, have you, Irv?"

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I've seen enough, to be able to judge _à priori_, that father Noah's flood piled the hill with blocks, which have served one Dr. Borlase and others as occasions for earning the character of blockheads.

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It occupied me about eight days, an innocent fact which divers dull Zoili have been much offended withal, seeing that Coleridge had thought proper to bring out his two Parts at a sixteen years' interval; a matter doubtless attributable either to accident or indolence,--for to imagine that he was diligently polishing his verses the whole time (as some blockheads will have it) would indeed be a verification of the _parturiunt montes_ theory.

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

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"Why, no, you blockhead; I told you _to be_ here."

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And certainly the Shiites must be great blockheads to allow themselves to be cut into mince-meat by thousands, rather than admit that God would enrich the calendar with three saints distasteful to them personally.

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"Take care!--don't tread upon my tulips, you blockhead; don't you see that you nearly trampled upon one of them!"

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It matters not to you whose servant you may be so long as you hold sway in your own domain, and you call him a blockhead who does not look after himself first of all.

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Yes, Kaplan Giraj, I am a blockhead no doubt, for I am not afraid to risk losing this wretched life, awaiting my reward in another world.

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Experience of every day life teaches us, if we would but learn, that civility is not only one of the essentials of high success, but that it is almost a fortune of itself, and that he who has this quality in perfection, though a blockhead, is almost sure to succeed where, without it, even men of good ability fail.

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