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'Oh, oh!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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I'll go too!' cried Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.

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'Dear father!' cried Blockhead-Hans, 'I must have a horse too.

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[Illustration: Then They Oiled the Corners of Their Mouths] 'Well,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'if I can't have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!'

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'Here I come!' shouted Blockhead-Hans, singing so that the echoes were roused far and near.

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'Hullo!' bawled Blockhead-Hans, 'here I am!

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'Blockhead!' said his brothers, 'what are you going to do with it?'

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'Blockhead!' said they, 'that is an old wooden shoe without the top!

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'Of course I shall!' returned Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed and rode on a good way.

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here I am!' cried Blockhead-Hans; better and better--it is really famous!'

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'Oh,' said Blockhead-Hans, 'it is really too good!

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'Of course it is!' said Blockhead-Hans, 'and it is the best kind!

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But the brothers rode on so fast that dust and sparks flew all around, and they reached the gate of the town a good hour before Blockhead-Hans.

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Now Blockhead-Hans came in; he rode his goat right into the hall.

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'That's good!' replied Blockhead-Hans; 'then can I roast a crow with them?'

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said Blockhead-Hans That was neatly done!

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said the Princess] 'Oh, rather!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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'I've got that in my pocket!' said Blockhead-Hans.

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By each window do you see there are standing three reporters and an old editor, and this old editor is the worst, for he doesn't understand anything!' but she only said this to tease Blockhead-Hans.

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are those the great people?' said Blockhead-Hans.

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Blockhead-Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters--and they are not to be believed for a moment.

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Let all such blockheads suppose what they choose.

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And there's that blockhead of a boy outside there."

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CHAPTER LII _Hon._--Why didn't you show him up, blockhead?

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"May the Lord deliver us from all Cant: may the Lord, whatever else He do or forbear, teach us to look facts honestly in the face, and to beware (with a kind of shudder) of smearing them over with our despicable and damnable palaver into irrecognisability, and so falsifying the Lord's own Gospels to His unhappy blockheads of Children, all staggering down to Gehenna and the everlasting Swine's-trough, for want of Gospels.

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"The blockhead!" said the boatswain.

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"What a blockhead I was!" he thought, quite angry with himself.

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Ye have become great blockheads, blind leaders, understanding not at all the Scriptures.

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"Cease, blockhead, to babble Your ganderlike gable: Could Repeal e'er be REASON CONTENTS ME with Graham, Could the NE NIMIUM Of good Gordon succumb, Or the Stanley's SANS CHANGER be changed into shame?

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It only means, Belinda, that this said shepherd was blockhead enough to keep gazing upon his beloved fair, although every glance shot him through the heart, and killed him a hundred times.

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But when at length you are recognized and admitted to his acquaintance, if you should devote yourself to the attention of saluting him for three years consecutively, and after this intermit your visits for an equal length of time, then if you return to repeat a similar course, you will never be questioned about your absence any more than if you had been dead, and you will waste your whole life in submitting to court the humours of this blockhead.

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He was a blockhead, but he was a man, and could stand up for his love, and for his own rights as a man, independent of the world.

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I enjoy the friendship of men of letters, and am therefore not to be put down by the opposition of a parcel of senseless blockheads, without brain, or heart, or soul.

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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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The words "blockhead" and "booby" were the mildest which they now applied to each other.

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'Know it, blockhead!

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'You are a little blockhead,' replied his mother; 'and as for Lady Anne, if she does not mind what she is about I shall turn her out of doors, and she may go a-begging.'

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Block is _an obstruction, a stop_; and, finally, Block means _a blockhead_.

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ap-ple-pie, Sir: that's right, you are a good boy, and there is a sixpence for you; and as for you two dunces, I will take care you shall neither of you have another bit of apple-pie, till you know how to spell it; and he was as good as his word; for though all the rest of the boys had apple-pie the next day for dinner, neither of them were suffered to eat a bit, because they had not learned to spell it; so they were obliged to sit and look at the rest, like two blockheads as they were.

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It reflects and gives sensuous images of truth; but it is only the Philistine or the blockhead who can seriously ask, is it true?

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If we allowed our teaching and our thinking to be done by blockheads; our hard labour to be done by men whose muscles were less developed than their brains; made our soldiers out of our cowards, and our sailors out of the sea-sick,--should we be better off?

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"Plague take the _blockhead_!" he at last exclaimed, and with this compliment began the long and sorrowful story of her wedded life.

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I am a blockhead.

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He would be met pounding along steadily, carrying, often twirling, a 'very big stick,' which now and then came down with a blow--upon the knuckles, I take it, of some imaginary blockhead on the other side--muttering to himself, 'immersed in thought and with a fierce expression of concentrated study.'

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"Don't play the blockhead," she went on.

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Every blockhead thinks himself at liberty to crack a joke upon them; and when he says something, that he conceives to be wondrous smart, about Miss Such-an-One and her cat or poodle dog, he conceives himself a marvellous clever fellow; yea, even those of her own sex who are below what is called a "certain age" (what that age is, I cannot tell), think themselves privileged to giggle at the expense of their elder sister.

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But the prince having his eyes shut, and his back toward him, could not see his motions, and the enchanter being horribly affrighted, as well as naturally a great blockhead, was so long in recollecting the formula of his incantation, that the prince, seeing by a sly glance over the shoulder, that he was sufficiently near, suddenly turned round, and with one blow severed his head from his shoulders.

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But however agreeable this picture may be, Mrs. Warren, on reading Burgoyne's farce, immediately sharpened her pen, and replied by writing a counter-farce, which she called "The Blockheads; or, the Affrighted Officers.

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Oh, yes--They thought so too--for lack-a-day, Their gen'ral turned the _blockade_ to a play: Poor vain poltroons--with justice we'll retort, And call them _blockheads_ for their idle sport.

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Not only is this apparent in "The Blockheads," but likewise in "The Group," a piece which holds up to ridicule a number of people well known to the Boston of that day.

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[2] The/Blockheads:/or, the/Affrighted Officers.

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Fractious old blockhead!

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Blockhead!

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He vas call me--ah, le diable!--block; dis--[_Points to his head._] blockhead, oui, blockhead.

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Surely the old blockhead would not make himself so ridiculous.

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Yes, it's for that;--I remember he said you call'd him a blockhead.

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[_Breaks open the note, and reads._] What is all this?--Booby--blockhead-- satisfaction--challenge--courage--honour--gentleman--honour'd per Monsieur Cubb.

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You are crazier than either, you old blockhead, or you would not make such a crazy speech: I say my constitution is a thousand per cent.

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thy vengeful flame; Fools read and _dy'd_: for Blockheads then had _Shame_.

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[43] Persuasive, tho' a woful Blockhead he: Truth dies before his shadowy Sophistry.

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and instead of condemning bad Poets (as they did in certain Countries) to lick out their Writings with their own Tongue, shall Books become for the future inviolable Sanctuaries, where all Blockheads shall be made free Denizens, not to be touch'd without Profanation?

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between the enlightened scholar and the dunce of to-day, than there was between the monkish alchemist and the blockhead of yesterday?

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Peasant, voter, and dunce of this century are no doubt wiser than the churl, burgher, and blockhead of the twelfth.

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When you speak in this manner we are all amazed, like a pack of blockheads, and you are laughing in your sleeve: for, among all those high-sounding and admirable expressions, pleasure has no place, not only that pleasure which you say consists in motion, and which all men, whether living in cities or in the country, all men, in short, who speak Latin, call pleasure, but even that stationary pleasure, which no one but your sect calls pleasure at all.

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The Regent and his Mother Princesse de Conti Overturn Here, You Blockhead Duchesse Du Maine MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV AND HIS COURT AND OF THE REGENCY, By the Duke of Saint-Simon INTRODUCTION VOLUME 1.

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"You blockheads don't seem to understand what I want and what I am trying to do," shouted the general, wrathfully.

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"I never knew before that you were such a blockhead.

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In the former I soon found that blockheads with better memories could much surpass me, but for the latter I was particularly distinguished."

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His clothes are always dirty, for he will not brush them; his eyes are dull and heavy; he looks like a clown and speaks like a blockhead.

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The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no more; _I_ to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools-go, go, you're bit!'

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By the same token, I told the gentleman who recommended him to me, that the fellow was a blockhead, and I had done with him.'

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The detested Bulgar, the barbarian, the "kondri-cephalous" (blockhead) was advancing into eastern Macedonia, which the Greeks had gained at so much cost, and they were taking possession of that section of the country where the population really is preponderatingly Greek.

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"Why, the Fifth Form Literary Society, you blockhead!"

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He fell foul of Joe Crouch (who still came to do odd jobs in the garden) over some trifling matter, calling him an impudent blockhead, and telling Miss Fenleigh in a lofty manner that "he would never allow such a cheeky beggar to be hanging about the premises at Grenford."

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"Not U, but I, blockhead!"

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You mean to say, that not I but you are a blockhead?"

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"Just as you please," quietly responded Pat, "fool or blockhead--it's no matter, so long as yer free to own it!"

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A FOP in company, wanting his servant, called out: "Where's that blockhead of mine?"

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AN ignorant rector had occasion to wait on a bishop, who was so incensed at his stupidity that he exclaimed, "What _blockhead_ gave you a living?"

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He will chew salt-junk, and walk with an easy negligence acquired from a course of practice in the Bay of Biscay; and in due time arrive at his double epaulettes, and be a blockhead to the end of the chapter.

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He writes in severe terms against General Heister, whom he calls _an old woman_ in the field, and a stupid and incorrigible blockhead in the cabinet; he also says, that the Hessians and other Germans are the worst troops under his command, and are not fit to be trusted in any business; he has, therefore, desired several particular English officers to be sent to command them; some of them that he has pointed out have refused to go on such a forlorn hope; but General Burgoyne, much against his will, is, it seems, obliged to go, and one Colonel Charles Gray, who was only a Lieutenant-Colonel upon half pay, has agreed to go, being appointed to a regiment, with the rank of a Major-General in America.

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They had both been called into existence with the intention of being baffled and beaten, and made, with a wise adaptation of means to the desired end, consummate blockheads for the express purpose.

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And I remembered that Connus was always angry with me when I opposed him, and then he neglected me, because he thought that I was stupid; and as I was intending to go to Euthydemus as a pupil, I reflected that I had better let him have his way, as he might think me a blockhead, and refuse to take me.

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"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed.

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Then, addressing the Duke, whom he had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's adventures, he said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot be such a blockhead as your Excellency would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go on with his vagaries and follies."

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Jackson is a hickory blockhead, eh?

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In the former I soon found that blockheads with better memories would soon surpass me, but for the latter I was particularly distinguished.

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A _Bookseller_ in the City, who happened to be the Proprietor of this _Lucky Hit_, being at his Shop-door one Evening, a Gentleman pretty humbly habited accosted him, and desired leave to exhibit to him a _Copy_ upon a curious Subject, which, he said, was his own Performance, and which he believed _wou'd do_; he told him of what _University_ he was, and by what Means his Merit had miss'd of it's Reward: He was going to apologize for the meanness of his Apparel, when the Bookseller interrupted him with a great Oath, and pointed to a Warehouse of Waste-Paper, which he said was, to his sorrow, the Production of Beaus and Blockheads of Quality; adding, it was a Maxim held by the whole Trade, that _a bad Coat always betoken'd a good Poet_; and that if he approv'd of his _Work_, his _Dress_ should be no Obstacle to a Bargain: but that withal he seem'd to be Master of too much Modesty, he fear'd, to undertake the Business of his Shop; but if he turn'd out otherwise, and had any tolerable hand at Defamation, he had a _Fifth Floor_, with other Favours at his Service.

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"Another review, and by some officer who was not a d--d lawyer blockhead, might be awkward!"

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If I'd had the slightest enmity to you that would have been my chance after you tried to murder me, you blockhead!

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He's a boastful blockhead.

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His gay friend Wilkes had declared that he would be out-distanced in the professional race by dull plodders and blockheads, but at the outset he appears to have started with a fair amount of zest.

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If all blockheads are not vicious,--and I think they are,--all wicked men are necessarily foolish.

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Thence he was sent to Elphin; and of this period of his school life Dr. Strean says: 'He was considered by his contemporaries and school-fellows, with whom I have often conversed on the subject, as a stupid heavy blockhead, little better than a fool, whom every one made fun of.'

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Among those who are incapable of these operations, as well as among those who are fitted for them, there are both men of sense and blockheads.

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"I am taking this sorry blockhead of mine to hire him out to somebody or other.

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I can't get onto these blockheads.

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These blockheads know nothing holier than an altar-cloth, and feel richer than you and me with 30,000-mark incomes.

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For the Reader's Satisfaction, here follows a Translation of the first Act of the +Miles Gloriosus+, which begins between that Blockhead and his Buffoon.

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