OF THE CLUB. No. 2.

11. 25, 6. that famous country-dance, a dance still in use, more especially at the end of a ball; so called from being more common in country places than in towns, though commonly supposed to be from the F. contre-danse.

27. parts, mental endowments.

1. 30-P. 6, 1. 1. only as... wrong, only in so far, in such respects, as his opinions of what is right and wrong differ from those of the world in general; his singularities not being mere whims and caprices without reasonable foundation or origin.

1. 3. unconfined... forms, not hampered by any forms of behaviour that are prescribed merely by fashion and custom.

1. 6. Soho Square, to the south of Oxford Street, formerly called King's Square, was a very fashionable part of the town from the days of the Stuarts to the middle of the last century. It is said to derive its name from the words "So Hoe," the cry used in hunting the hare, a pastime in which the Mayor and Corporation used to indulge in the fields on which the square was afterwards built.

1. 7. by reason, because; a phrase now almost obsolete. crossed, thwarted, disappointed. perverse, sc. so far as his wishes were concerned.

1. 10. my Lord Rochester. Etherege, two well-known men of fashion of the time; the former, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, a courtier and a poet, infamous for his debauchery; the latter, Sir George, a writer of comedies and equally loose in his life; my was and still is often prefixed to the title 'Lord,' sometimes in the way of respect, sometimes with a sarcastic emphasis.

1. 11. Bully Dawson, a notorious sharper and debauchee about town at this period.

1. 13. ill-used, sc. in being first encouraged and afterwards repulsed.

1. 15. jovial, merry, generally with the idea of boisterous mirth. Like mercurial,'' saturnine,' etc., a relic of the former belief in astrology according to which a man's temperament was supposed to be affected by the planet just rising above the eastern horizon at his birth. Thus the planet of Jupiter or Jove was considered of joyful augury and men born under it to be of a joyous disposition, those born under Saturn to partake of the gloomy

nature of that god, those under Mercury to resemble that lighthearted deity. Other words having a similiar origin are disastrous,' 'ill-starred,' 'influence,' etc.

1. 16. never dressed afterwards, sc. fashionably; never cared what he wore, whether it was in the fashion or not.

1. 17. doublet, an inner garment which served, so to speak, as a lining or double to the outer one; F. double, with the diminutive suffix -et.

1. 19. in and out, sc. of fashion.

1. 21. a good house, a well-appointed and hospitable house.

1. 28. a justice of the quorum, one of the county justices, magistrates. The word quorum, now used of a number of members of any body sufficient to transact business, is the Lat. quorum, of whom, it being usual formerly to enumerate the members forming a committee, of whom a certain number must be present at a meeting.

1. 29. a quarter-session, the quarterly meeting of the justices for the trial of offenders against the peace; we now use the plural 'quarter-sessions.'

11. 30, 1. by explaining ... Game-Act, said with a pleasant sarcasm, as though the act for the preservation of game was something beyond ordinary comprehension.

1. 36. humoursome, fanciful, odd-natured.

P. 7, ll. 2, 3. and is the most... stage, but, instead of giving his attention to such matters, devotes himself entirely to theatrical affairs.

1. 3. Aristotle, here referring to the great philosopher's writings on poetry, more especially in regard to the drama. Longinus, a distinguished Greek philosopher and grammarian of the third century of our era, whose work entitled On the Sublime contains, among other subjects, criticisms on poetry.

1. 4. Littleton or Coke, two distinguished jurists of the seventeenth century, the latter a rival of Bacon's who was dismissed from his post of Chief Justice, in 1615, for having displeased the King, Jaines the First.

1. 5. marriage-articles, settlements as to money made at marriages.

1. 7. to answer ... lump, to consider and answer in return for a lump sum, a sum paid for the whole not for separate cases.

1. 11. Tully, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator. 1. 13. This turn, this bent or inclination of character.

1. 14. disinterested, his concern not being with matters of

ordinary interest; he having no personal interest in the affairs which occupied his associates.

1. 16. too just, too rigorous in his valuation of them.

1. 19. delicate, nice, fastidious, refined.

11. 21, 2. his hour of business, the time of the day at which he becomes seriously occupied, while others are relaxing their minds.

1. 22. New Inn, an old-fashioned brick square in Lincoln's Inn. 1. 23. takes a turn, spends a short time.

1. 24. rubbed, dusted. perriwig, now spelt 'periwig.' "The i after r is corruptly inserted; Minsheu gives the spellings perwigge and perwicke. Of these forms, perwigge is a weakened form of perwicke or perwick; and perwick is an E. rendering of the O. Du. form, as distinct from peruke, which is the F. form-0. Du. perruyk..... — F. perruque, a peruke [an artificial head of hair]"... (Skeat, Ety. Dict.).

1. 25. the Rose, then a tavern on the outside of Temple Bar. 1. 33. would make figure, would not be thought much of, would not be applauded.

11. 33, 4. he calls ... common, speaks of the sea as though it were as much a British possession as is the common the possession of an English village. A 'Cominon' is a portion of meadowland in a village, which for the purpose of feeding animals, for rural sports, etc., is property common to the villagers in general.

P. 8, 1. 3. and if another, from another, an elliptical expression for and if another part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from another nation.'

11. 15, 6. that there is not... owner, i.e. that he is a very rich man indeed, and therefore that to say that England... men is equivalent to saying its wealth would be very much greater than that of any other nation.

1. 17. Captain Sentry, "It has been said, that the real person alluded to under this name was C. Kempenfelt, father of the Admiral Kempenfelt who deplorably lost his life when the Royal George of 100 guns sunk at Spithead, Aug. 29, 1782" (Ferguson).

11. 20, 1. at putting... them, in bringing their talents so pro minently under the notice of those who ought to consider them as to ensure their being properly regarded.

1. 23. engagements, battles.

11. 26, 7. who is not... soldier, unless, in addition to his being an able soldier, he has also enough of the arts of a courtier to recommend himself to those in authority.

1. 28. impudence, effrontery, unabashed assurance.

11. 29, 30, talked to this purpose, spoken on this subject in this way, to this purport.

1. 31. left the world, retired into private life.

1. 33. him, the man who.

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11. 34, 5. who endeavour commander, whose aim is the same as his own, viz., to obtain the good graces of some superior in military command.

1. 36. disposing, dispensing their favour.

P. 9, 1. 2. a mind, an inclination.

11. 2, 3. to come at me, to reach me, i.e. my case.

1. 4. would make a figure, aims at winning a high position for himself. See note on p. 7, 1. 33.

11. 15, 6. in the utmost... him, immeasurably his inferiors in rank.

1. 18. humourists, strange-natured, eccentric, fellows.

1. 19. gallantries, love adventures.

11. 21, 2. should be... life, ought to be considered an old man. careful of his person, careful to live a life which should not prematurely age him, careful of a youthful appearance so far as it may be preserved by a life of moderation.

1. 23. a very easy fortune, such a sufficiency of wealth as prevents any anxiety on that score.

11. 24, 5. traces in his brain, marks of senility in his understanding. well turned, well formed, of a good figure.

1. 28. habits, fashions of dress.

11. 28, 9. He can smile easily, i.e. he is not so taken up with himself as not to be able to meet men with ready courtesy.

1. 30. mode, fashion.

1. 33. whose frailty... petticoat, what frail lady of celebrity brought a particular kind of petticoat into fashion; petticoat, the skirt underneath the lower part of the dress.

P. 10, 1. 3. smitten, sc. with love.

1. 4. was taken with him, fell in love with him.

1. 6. a blow of a fan, a tap of the fan as a mark of favourable notice; the fan played a more important part in the gallantries of those days than it does now; see the Essay on The Exercise of the Fan.

1. 7. Lord such-a-one, some lord whose name is not mentioned. 11. 10, 1. cheated me ... affair, craftily won the lady to whom I was a suitor.

11. 11, 2. used... than, treated me worse than. made advances to, courted, made love to.

11. 13, 4. us of... turn, us who are of a graver disposition. 11. 21, 2. adds to every man himself, puts every man into a better humour with himself and all about him.

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1. 26. preferments in his function, professional advancement, clerical offices, appointments.

11. 27, 8. a chamber-counsellor, one whose practice consists in giving legal opinions upon matters in dispute, or needing settlement, without having to go into court to conduct cases; such counsellors are chiefly conveyancers, equity lawyers, etc.

1. 30. advances, brings into repute.

11. 32, 3. fall on ..... topic, take up, discourse upon, some question of religion.

11. 35, 6. conceives ... infirmities, finds in the decay of his physical powers an assurance that he will shortly exchange that decay for life eternal.

PUBLIC CREDIT, A VISION. No. 3.

P. 11, 1. 7. or rather speculations, or rather, I should say, when engaged in my speculations upou the world around me.

1. 8. the bank, the Bank of England. "The conception of the Bank originated with Paterson, a Scotchman, in 1691. Its small business was first transacted in the Mercer's Hall, then in the Grocer's Hall, and in 1734 was moved to the buildings which form the back of the present court towards Threadneedle Street. The modern buildings, covering nearly three acres, were designed in 1788 by Sir John Soane... The taxes are received, the interest of the national debt paid, and the business of the Exchequer transacted at the Bank" (Hare, Walks in London, i. 293).

1. 10. corporation, company.

11. 11, 2. in that just... economy, in the precise and orderly management of the bank's transactions.

11. 16, 7, with an eye... principles, with a view to the interests of particular persons rather than those of the community at large, and to the principles by which one party in the state is governed rather than to the principles of the nation as a whole.

11. 19, 20. a kind...dream, not a dream in which everything is fitful and inconsequent, but one of which the phases were regular and governed by method.