BORN.  ‘I know that he was born; no matter where,’ v. 399.

BOTANIST.  ’Should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn myself into a reptile,’ i. 377, n. 2.

BOTTOM.  ‘A bottom of good sense,’ iv. 99.

BOUNCING.  ‘It is the mere bouncing of a school-boy,’ ii. 210.

BOUND.  ‘Not in a bound book,’ iii. 319, n. 1.

BOW-WOW.  ’Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way’ (Lord Pembroke), ii. 326, n. 5.

BRAINS.  ‘I am afraid there is more blood than brains,’ iv. 20.

BRANDY.  ‘He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy,’ iii. 381;
  ‘Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him,’
iii. 381.

BRASED.  ‘He advanced with his front already brased,’ v. 388, n. 2.

BRAVERY.  ‘Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing,’ iv. 395.

BRENTFORD.  ‘Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?’ iv. 186.

BRIARS.  ’I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and thorns still hang about me’ (Marshall), iii. 313.

BRIBED.  ‘You may be bribed by flattery,’ v. 306.

BRINK.  ‘Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,’ ii. 241, n. 1.

BROTHEL.  ’This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a brothel,’ iii. 25.

BRUTALITY.  ‘Abating his brutality he was a very good master,’ ii. 146.

BUCKRAM’D.  ’It may have been written by Walpole and buckram’d by Mason’ (T.  Warton), iv. 315.

BULL.  ’If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, “Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?"’ ii. 228.

BULL’S HIDE.  ’This sum will...get you a strong lasting coat supposing it to be made of good bull’s hide,’ i. 440.

BURDEN.  ’Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of himself,’ v. 358, n. 1.

BURROW.  ’The chief advantage of London is that a man is always so near his burrow’ (Meynell), iii. 379.

BURSTS.  ‘He has no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions,’ iv. 27

BUSINESS.  ’It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it’ (Franklin), iv. 97 n. 3.

Buz.  ‘That is the buz of the theatre,’ v. 46.

C.

CABBAGE.  ’Such a woman might be cut out of a cabbage, if there was a skilful artificer,’ v. 231.

CALCULATE.  ’Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate,’ iii. 49.

CANDLES.  ‘A man who has candles may sit up too late,’ ii. 188.

CANNISTER.  ‘An author hunted with a cannister at his tail,’ iii. 320.

CANT.  ‘Clear your mind of cant,’ iv. 221;
  ‘Don’t cant in defence of savages,’ iv. 308;
  ‘Vulgar cant against the manners of the great,’ iii. 353.