Collier
Cited as Collier. — 31 quotations
Blazon
Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.
Break
To break upon the score of danger or expense is to be mean and narrow-spirited.
Challenge
There must be no challenge of superiority.
Clumsiness
The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance.
Clutch
A man may set the poles together in his head, and clutch the whole globe at one intellectual grasp.
Complainant
Eager complainants of the dispute.
Cover
A handsome cover for imperfections.
Dispirit
He has dispirited himself by a debauch.
Distriction
A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction.
Do
You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown.
Drive
The trade of life can not be driven without partners.
Drop
Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
Envy
A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty.
Fag-end
The fag-end of business.
Good
All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in merit.
Headquarters
The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence.
Lie
Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.
Lug
They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
Nose
We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
Obstruction
Disparity in age seems a greater obstacle to an intimate friendship than inequality of fortune.
Passable
Could they have made this slander passable.
Presence
A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance.
Run
I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its “punctum saliens.”
Scarceness
The value of an advantage is enhanced by its scarceness.
Set
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself.
Shut
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better.
Stark
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
Turn
Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Underproportioned
Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility.
Wooden
When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it.