BEAST.  ’He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,’ ii. 435, n. 7.

BEAT.  ’Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has beat; he may have been beaten before,’ ii. 210.

BEATEN.  ‘The more time is beaten, the less it is kept’ (Rousseau), iv. 283, n. 1.

BELIEF.  ’Every man who attacks my belief ... makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,’ iii. 10.

BELIEVE.  ‘We don’t know which half to believe,’ iv. 178.

BELL.  ‘It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him’ (Burke), iv. 27.

BELLOWS.  ’So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she is not by this time become a cinder,’ ii. 227.

BELLY.  ’I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else,’ i. 467.

BENEFIT.  ’When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it does for her, I will go to your benefit too,’ ii. 330.

BIG.  ’Don’t, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters,’ i. 471.

BIGOT.  ‘Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,’ v. 120.

BISHOP.  ‘A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,’ iv. 75;
  ‘I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,’ iv. 274;
  ’Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a
bishop,’ iv. 13;
  ‘Dull enough to have been written by a bishop’ (Foote), ib. n. 3.

BLADE.  ‘A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,’ v. 439, n. 2.

BLAZE.  ’The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,’ iii. 423.

BLEEDS.  ’When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,’ i. 394.

BLOOM.  ’It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been seen before by anybody,’ i. 185.

BLUNT.  ‘There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion’ (Sir M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.

BOARDS.  ‘The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards’ (Garrick), ii. 465.

BOLDER.  ’Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never were brought together,’ iv. 13.

Bon-mot.  ‘It is not every man that can carry a bon-mot’ (Fitzherbert), ii. 350.

BOOK.  ’It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is
concealed behind the door,’ i. 396;
  ’You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have
entertainment from a book,’ iii. 385;
  ‘Read diligently the great book of mankind,’ i. 464;
  ‘The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,’
iv. 8, n. 3;
  ’The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more
pain than pleasure in it,’ iv. 218;
  ’It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much
as his book will hold,’ ii. 237.

BOOKSELLER.  ‘An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,’ iii. 434.