TENDERNESS. ‘Want of tenderness is want of parts,’ ii. 122.
TERROR. ‘Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,’ iv. 253, n. 4.
TESTIMONY. ‘Testimony is like an arrow
shot from a long bow’
(Boyle), iv. 281.
Tete-a-tete. ’You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a tete-a-tete man all your life,’ iii. 376.
THE. ‘The tender infant, meek and mild,’ ii. 212, n. 4.
THEOLOGIAN. ’I say, Lloyd, I’m the best theologian, but you are the best Christian,’ vi. liv.
THIEF. See SLUT.
THINK. You may talk in this manner,....but don’t
think foolishly,’
iv. 221;
‘To attempt to think them down is
madness,’ ii. 440.
THOUGHT. ‘Thought is better than no thought,’ iv. 309.
THOUSAND. ’A man accustomed to throw for a thousand pounds, if set down to throw for sixpence, would not be at the pains to count his dice,’ iv. 167.
Tig. ‘There was too much Tig and Tirry in it,’ ii. 127, n. 3.
TIMBER. ‘Consider, Sir, the value of such a piece of timber here,’ v. 319.
TIME. ’He that runs against time has an antagonist not subject to casualties,’ i. 319, n. 3.
TIMIDITY. ’I have no great timidity in my own disposition, and am no encourager of it in others,’ iv. 200, n. 4.
TIPTOE. ‘He is tall by walking on tiptoe,’ iv. 13, n. 2.
TONGUE. ’What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity? Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?’ iv. 71.
TOPICS. See SICK.
TORMENTOR. ’That creature was its own tormentor, and, I believe, its name was Boswell,’ i. 470.
TORPEDO. ’A pen is to Tom a torpedo; the touch of it benumbs his hand and his brain,’ i. 159, n. 4.
TOSSED. ‘You tossed and gored several persons’ (Boswell), ii. 66; iii. 338
TOWERING. ‘Towering in the confidence of twenty-one,’ i. 324.
TOWN. ‘The town is my element,’ iv. 358.
TOWSER. ’As for an estate newly acquired by trade, you may give it, if you will, to the dog Towser, and let him keep his own name,’ ii. 261.
TRADE. ’A merchant may, perhaps, be a man
of an enlarged mind; but there is nothing in trade
connected with an enlarged mind, v. 328;
‘This rage of trade will destroy
itself,’ v. 231.
TRADESMEN. ’They have lost the civility of tradesmen without acquiring the manners of gentlemen,’ ii. 120.
TRAGEDY. ’I never did the man an injury; but he would persist in reading his tragedy to me,’ iv. 244, n. 2.
TRANSLATION. ’Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good translation,’ iii. 373.
TRANSMITTER. ‘No tenth transmitter of a foolish face’ (Savage), i. 166, n. 3.
TRAPS. ‘I play no tricks; I lay no traps,’ iii. 316.
TRAVELLERS. ‘Ancient travellers guessed,
modern measure,’ iii. 356;
’There has been, of late, a strange
turn in travellers to be
displeased,’ iii. 236.