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38342	And are not you a fine Fool i''the mean time, to Drudg for the Faction that Sets ye on, to be afterwards made a slave for your pains?
38342	And dost not thou take notice that they put down the_ Lords Prayer_ too, because''twas akinn to the_ Popish Pater- Noster_?
38342	And what''s all this, but the effect of a Popular Licence and Appeal?
38342	And where''s the hurt of all this now?
38342	As of_ Grievances_,( I mean)_ Religion, the Liberty of the Subject_, and such like?
38342	But art thou really afraid of being_ taken_?
38342	But now I think on''t; deal freely with me; did you really go to the_ Registers_ ye spake of, to furnish_ Names_ for your_ Subscriptions_?
38342	But tell me in short; how came you off with your_ Petition_ in the_ Country_?
38342	But what do you think of drawing_ Nova Scotia_, and_ Geneva_ into the_ Alliance_?
38342	Do not I know all your Fallacies, your Shifts, and Hiding- holes?
38342	Do they ever take any notice of you?
38342	How stands your appetite to_ Wine_ and_ Women_?
38342	If the_ King breaks_ his_ Trust_, the_ People Resume_ it: but_ who_ are These_ People_?
38342	Let us have a Care of the same Incantation over again, Are we not under the protection of a Lawfull Authority?
38342	Now adde to all this, the_ suborning_ of_ Subscriptions_, and the_ Inflaming_ of_ Parties_, what can be more_ Undutifull_ or_ Dangerous_?
38342	Or He for_ any Rule at all_ that can not_ sin_?
38342	Pre''thee_ Bumpkin_, with thy_ Poles_, and_ Baltiques_, how shouldst thou come to understand the_ Ballance_ of_ Empires_?
38342	Were not these the very Circumstances of the late_ Times_?
38342	What course did you propound to your self, in case your_ Petition_ had succeeded?
38342	What needs he care for any_ other Guide_, that carries within himself an_ Infallible Light_?
38342	What would ye think of a_ Common Seaman_ that in a_ Storm_ should throw the_ Steers- man Overboard_, and set himself at the_ Helm_?
38342	Whence comes this_ Conjunction_, I prethee, of so many_ separate Congregations_, that are many of them worse then_ Papists, One_ to_ Another_?
38342	Where are we next then?
38342	Whether are Those Pamphlets,_ Impostures_ upon the_ Multitude_, or_ Not_?
38342	_ And that was a huge point_ Citt;_ but how were ye able to compasse it_?
38342	_ And what were these_ Committees_ now to do_?
38342	_ As how a_ Foreign Enemy_ pre''thee?_ A Heavy Charge.
38342	_ Ay, but what_ Hands_ have we_ Citt?
38342	_ Blesse me_, Citt,_ what do I hear?_ Popish Ministers may have Orthodox Offices.
38342	_ Bravely sayd,_ Citt,_ I Faith: who knows but we two may come to be_ Pillars_ of the_ Nation?
38342	_ But after all this_ Care_ and_ Industry_, how was it possible for the business to_ Miscarry?
38342	_ But can not the_ Aldermen_ hinder you from putting it to the Vote_?
38342	_ But how came those Committees( as ye call''um) by their_ Commissions?
38342	_ But is this certain?__ Citt._ Why I am now in my Element,_ Bumkin_; for thou know''st my Education has been toward the Law.
38342	_ But may I deny any thing that''s charg''d upon me, point- blank, if I be guilty of it?_ A Salvo for a Lye.
38342	_ But pre''thee hear me; Is it certain his Majesty has Lent the King of_ France Three Millions?
38342	_ But was this fair dealing, Brother?__ Citt._ Did not_ Abraham_ say of_ Sarah, She''s my Sister_?
38342	_ But was this fair dealing, Brother?__ Citt._ Did not_ Abraham_ say of_ Sarah, She''s my Sister_?
38342	_ But what becomes of me, if my Adversaries should turn the question another way?__ Citt._ I''le fortify you there too.
38342	_ But who do you mean by the= Common Enemy=?__ Citt._ I mean, the_ Court_, and the_ Church- Party_.
38342	_ Citt._ But do not you find many_ Honest_ and_ Considerable men_ concern''d in these_ Petitions_?
38342	_ Citt._ But have not the_ Two Houses_ their share in the_ Legislative Power_?
38342	_ Citt._ But if we be a_ Free People_, have not_ We_ as much_ Right_ to_ Our Liberties_, as the_ King_ has to_ his Crown_?
38342	_ Citt._ But is there no Fence then against_ Tyranny_?
38342	_ Citt._ But what did he say?
38342	_ Citt._ Pray''e tell me what it is that you call_ Government_, and how far it_ extends_?
38342	_ Citt._ Pre''thee what art affraid of?
38342	_ Citt._ Put it at worst, do not you know that every man must have his_ Dos_ of_ Iniquity_?
38342	_ Citt._ What do you talk of_ your Non- conformists_?
38342	_ Citt._ What for, ye Fop you?
38342	_ Citt._ What if a_ King_ will Transgresse all the Laws of_ God_ and_ Man_?
38342	_ Citt._ Why what''s the_ Common- Prayer Book Bumpkin_, but a mess of_ Parboyl''d Popery_?
38342	_ Citt._ Will you be_ Just_,_ Diligent_, and_ Secret_?
38342	_ Hold, hold_, Citt;_ what if all my great Friends should deceive me at last_?
38342	_ I am so much of Your Opinion, that you have Spoken my very Thoughts.__ Citt._ Bethink your self,_ Bumpkin_; what_ Papists_ do you know?
38342	_ I have hear''d some Inkling that way, but we''le scatter no words.__ Citt._ They never speak any thing to you in private, do they?
38342	_ I make no doubt on''t_ Citt:_ But could ye put me in a way to get a little money too_?
38342	_ Oh, now I think on''t; dist thou ever reade the Story of_ Moses_ and the_ Ten Tables?
38342	_ Pray''e what do you mean by_ standing to my Tackle?
38342	_ Pre''thee_, Citt,_ wert thou ever bound_ Prentice_ to a_ Statesman?
38342	_ Prethee Cit, tell me one thing by the way, hast thou ever made Tryal of this Experiment thy self?_ A Jayl is the High- way to Preferment.
38342	_ Prethee_ Citt,_ tell me in Honest_ English,_ where shall a body finde the_ simple,_ and the_ Religious Consciences_ thou told''st me of_?
38342	_ These are hard words_, Citt;_ but he told me further_, do n''t_ You_ Justifie_ King- Killing_(_ says he_) as well as the_ Jesuits_?
38342	_ Thou''rt a brave fellow_ Citt;_ but pre''thee what may thy Employment be at present, if a body may ask thee_?
38342	_ True._ Are not you Conscious to your selves of your Iniquities?
38342	_ Well but hark ye_ Citt,_ I hear People swear_, or in WORDS to this Effect;_ why may not a Man as well swear_, in SIGNS to this Effect?
38342	_ Well, but what shall we_ Charge''um with?
38342	_ What dost thou mean by_ Narratives, Citt?
38342	_ What is_ That,_ I pray''e, that ye call the_ Protestant Religion?
38342	_ Who wayts there without?
38342	_ Why what are those I prethee?_ Church worse to Dissenters then Jesuites.
38342	_ Yes, yes; There are abundance of Them.__ Citt._ Can you prove that ever they_ Sayd_, or_ Did_ any thing, in favour of the_ Papists_?
38342	_ and that they lifted up their_ Eyes,_ and_ hands,_ bent their_ Fists,_ knit their_ Brows,_ and made_ Mouths, to this or that Effect?
38342	may not the_ People_ resume their_ Trust_?
38342	or what did you_ Take_, and what did you_ Leave_?
38342	the Right of_ Bishops Votes_?
38342	what should they do with me?
38342	who are_ Delinquents_, and who_ not_?
38342	who made_ You_ a_ Commissioner_ for the_ Town_, or_ You_ for the_ Country_?
40339	500 or a 1000 Pound that he recover''d of One that did not say the Hundredth part of what this comes to?
40339	A Knight?...
40339	A Lord?
40339	A_ Romantique,_ or an_ Historical Observator?
40339	And how came ye to miss?__ A._ Why the Agent that I employ''d was so set upon his Guts, that he never minded the discourse at the Table.
40339	And is not a_ Dissenting Protestant_ a_ Christian too?
40339	And what are All These_ Sorts_, and_ Degrees_ of_ Danger_ to the_ Instances_ we have now_ Before_ us?
40339	And whether in such hast?
40339	And why should not You and I keep our_ Conferences_ here too?
40339	And, with a kind of_ Malice Prepense, Murder_ the_ Ingenious_ part of_ Mankind_?
40339	Are not All_ Publique Benevolences; Publique Works; Publique Acknowledgments_; the_ same Thing_?
40339	Are not these likely men now, to help out a_ King_, and a_ Religion_, at a dead lift?
40339	But are not all_ Protestants_ Members of the_ Reformed Religion?
40339	But can ye_ Keep_ what ye_ Reade,_ at this rate_?
40339	But did they not swear a little short, think ye?__ A._ Nay, they might have sworn_ homer_, I must confess.
40339	But do you think now to bring''um to their Wits again with a_ Pamphlet?
40339	But has he not taken the_ Sacrament_ to the_ contrary?
40339	But here let me ask ye a Question: Do you know a_ Little Cause- Jobber_ yonder somewhere about_ Kings- street, in Covent Garden_?
40339	But how d''ye like the Kings Declaration?__ A.
40339	But how do they_ Manage That Province_ all this while, as to the_ Subject_, I mean, that we were_ Speaking_ of?
40339	But however He was a very_ Brave Fellow,_ was he not_?
40339	But is there no believing of a_ Converted Papist_ upon his_ Oath?
40339	But is there no_ Uniting_ of These_ Dissenters?
40339	But what d''ye think of_ Cornelius Tacitus?
40339	But what if it_ be a Gathering_?
40339	But what is it that you call a_ Remedy?
40339	But what says Mr._ Oates_, all this while, to_ L''Estranges Enformation_ against_ Tonge_, in the_ Shammer Shamm''d_?
40339	But what was it that put you upon_ Travel?
40339	But what''s your Opinion of_ Caesars Commentaries_ then?
40339	Come,''Faith we should not part with dry lips, What d''ye think of one_ Roomer_ now to the Health of?
40339	D''ye Mark me?
40339	Did you ever see my_ Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy_?
40339	He that_ Really Believes_ he Writes_ Well_; why does he pretend to_ Think_ Otherwise?
40339	He that_ Writes Ill_, and_ Sees_ it, why does he_ Write on_?
40339	He''s of the_ Prelatical House_, I suppose, Is he not?
40339	He_ Himself,_ or the_ Witnesses?
40339	How far will the_ Privilege_ of a_ True- Protestant- Whig_ Justify a_ Villain_ in so many_ Scandalous Lyes_?
40339	How many sound_ Protestant Divines_ may there be of that House now, d''ye think, in_ England_, and_ Wales_, and the Town of_ Berwick upon Tweed_?
40339	I mean, for a_ Narrative?
40339	Not at all._ It runs so much upon the_ Arbitrary_, and the_ Prelatick_?
40339	Pray favour me a word; When you speak of a_ True Protestant,_ do n''t you mean a_ Dissenting Protestant?
40339	Pray what Family is this same_ Church- man_ of, for I know a world of the_ Name_?
40339	Prethee let me Understand a little of their Birth, Growth, Discipline, and Education; How they are Fed, Nourish''d, and Entertain''d?
40339	Prethee when didst thou see Mr._ Sancroft?
40339	Prethee why is not_ Circingle- man, Lawn- sleeve- man, Mitre- man_, as good a name as_ Church- man_?
40339	Shall the_ Observator_ be a_ Weekly Paper,_ or How_?
40339	Stay a little; what have we here?
40339	These_ Cheats_ upon the_ People,_ and_ Affronts_ upon the_ Government?
40339	Titus Livius_ a good_ Historian_ sayst thou?
40339	To have the_ Teeth_, the_ Nails_, the_ Fierceness_, the_ Strength_,& the_ Appetite_ of the most_ Ravenous_ of_ Wild Beasts_?
40339	To the_ First_; What do I care, for having so much_ Dirt_ Thrown at me, that will_ Wash off_ again?
40339	Was That Yours then?__ A.
40339	Well but is not_ Titus Livius_ a pretty Good_ Historian?
40339	Well, But who knows best?
40339	Well, and is he ever the worse for that?__ A._ Only_ Antichrist_ is the_ Head_ of the_ Family_.
40339	What D''ye mean_, Kings- man_ and_ Church- man?
40339	What a Treasure''s here?
40339	What a_ Declaration_ is there?
40339	What and continue Papists still?__ A._ Yes: And go on still with the Hellish Popish Plot, as heartily as ever they did before.
40339	What is a Dissenter then?__ A._ Tis Impossible to say either what a_ Dissenter IS_, or what he is_ NOT_.
40339	What would I give to be as well vers''d in_ History,_ as you are_?
40339	What''s become of_ L''Estrange_ I wonder?__ A._ Who!
40339	What''s the End, and Use of them?
40339	Who''s that?_ Athanasius?
40339	Who''s that?_ Athanasius?
40339	Why do n''t you see how the Toad Brazens it out still that he was not at_ Somerset- House_?
40339	Why do ye talk thus of men of Quality, and Considerable Families?__ A._ Well!
40339	Why how can that be?__ A._ Why you must know I have a notable Faculty that way.
40339	Why might not this be_ Towzer?
40339	Why prethee what is_ Civilly- Drinking_ his Health, more then_ Dutifully Praying_ for''t_?
40339	Why truly for a man that has seen the world as you have done, what can he do better?__ A._ Yes, I have seen the world to my Cost.
40339	Why ye had a Pretty Fellow to''ther day, what''s become of him?__ A._ I''l tell ye then.
40339	Would not you as much_ scruple_ the putting of that_ Seal_ to a_ Lease_, as the_ seeing_ of that_ Figure_ in a_ Church- Window_?
40339	You have no kindnesse, I perceive, for a_ Dissenting Protestant;_ but what do you think of a bare_ Protestant_ without any_ Adjunct?
40339	You have read all these Authors, have you not?__ A._ Why verily I_ have_, and I have_ not_.
40339	You will not make the_ Protestant- Mercury_ to be an_ Anabaptist_ too, will ye_?
40339	_ A._ A_ Narrative_ d''ye say?
40339	_ But here''s enough of this; and Pre''thee tell us now, how go squares in the_ State_ all this while_?
40339	_ But how_ turning over_ of_ Men?
40339	_ But what shall_ I_ call this at last?
40339	_ But which way lies_ your_ Humour_ then?
40339	_ Can any man help his Opinion?__ A._ A man may_ Mean well_, and_ Do Ill_; he may shed_ Innocent Bloud_, and_ think he does God good Service_.
40339	_ Can you shew me any of these_ Counterfeits,_ and_ Impostures_ that you speak of?
40339	_ Obs._ Dost not thou know that there are_ Several_ Sorts,& Degrees of_ Danger_?
40339	_ Obs._ What dost thou Talk of Tongue- Ty''d?
40339	_ Obs._: But of what Magnitude?
40339	_ TRIMMER._ Prethee what_ Danger_?
40339	_ To._ And wherein does this_ Art of Government_ Consist?
40339	_ To._ But ha''ye no_ Manuscripts_?
40339	_ To._ But what Subject are they mostly of?
40339	_ To._ Is it a Science that may be Convey''d by_ Instruction_?
40339	_ To._ What do they treat of?
40339	_ Towzer?_ that_ Impudent Dog_; That_ Tory- Rascal_; That_ Fidling Curr_.
40339	_ Trim._ And what if a man should Allow This sort of People now, to be the most_ Uncouth, Hideous Monsters_ of the_ Creation_?
40339	_ Trim._ D''ye call this Reasoning, or Ridiculing?
40339	_ Wh._ Does he not use the_ Christian Coffee- House_?
40339	_ Wh._ Nay,''tis a horrible Abuse, and really the man stands in''s own light: What was''t?
40339	_ Why does the Law receive''em then( upon such and such Certain Tests) for_ statutable Protestants?
40339	_ but what do you think of_ Protestant Smith_ and_ Protestant Harris?
40339	but let them be as_ poor,_ and_ malicious_ as_ Devils,_ so long as they have neither_ Brains,_ nor_ Interest,_ what hurt can their Papers do_?
40339	tho''_ Prance_ and_ Mowbray_ swear they saw him there?
40339	to be Plain and Short; You call your self the_ Observator:_ What is it now that you intend for the Subject of your_ Observations?
17667	And I suppose you were very peremptory in your decisions?
17667	And have you not found the election of the sixteen too dependent on the favour of a court?
17667	And shall I banish myself for ever from such a consort?
17667	And shall particulars have a right which nations have not?
17667	And was not your whole conduct afterwards the effect of cool reason, undisturbed by the agitations of jealous and tortured love?
17667	And what could have prevented them, but the war which you waged and the alliances which you formed?
17667	And what had we else to protect us, if no confederacy had been formed to resist his ambition?
17667	And what is a wench to a barrel of exquisite oysters?
17667	And what judgments have you been pleased to pass upon us?
17667	And what more pleasing, or what more glorious employment can any government have, than to attend to the cultivating of such a plantation?
17667	Are not his groans ever sounding in the ears of thy conscience?
17667	Are the inhabitants of Pennsylvania to make war against them with prayers and preaching?
17667	Are there no other authors who write in this manner?
17667	Are there no wolves in North America to devour those lambs?
17667	But are you sure there is no blunder in these calculations?
17667	But did you always pronounce so favourably for us?
17667	But did you never reprove your witty friend, La Fontaine, for the vicious levity that appears in many of his tales?
17667	But do n''t you allow, Mr. Pope, that our writers, both of tragedy and comedy, are, upon the whole, more perfect masters of their art than yours?
17667	But do not arts and sciences render men effeminate, luxurious, and inactive?
17667	But has not Dryden been accused of immorality and profaneness in some of his writings?
17667	But how comes it that you are so offended with murder; you, who have frequently massacred women in their sleep, and children in the cradle?
17667	But how do you hope to preserve this admirable colony which you have settled?
17667	But if you had desired to govern otherwise, had they power to restrain you?
17667	But if, on the contrary, a court inclines to tyranny, what a facility will be given by these dispositions to that evil purpose?
17667	But let me ask you to which of our rival tragedians, Racine and Corneille, do you give the preference?
17667	But let me inquire in my turn, how did your heart find a balm to alleviate the anguish of the wounds it had suffered?
17667	But pray, Mr. Penn, what right had you to the province you settled?
17667	But see; who comes hither?
17667	But suppose the high priest of Mexico had taken it into his head to give Spain to Montezuma, would his grant have been good?
17667	But what can be said for the other, for the Englishman?
17667	But what could we do?
17667	But what did you do for your sovereign and for the State?
17667	But what else canst thou do, thou bragging rascal?
17667	But what excuse can you find for the cruel violence you employed against your Protestant subjects?
17667	But what is better than the wing of one of our English wild rabbits?
17667	But what is she now?
17667	But what, Ulysses, do you fear?
17667	But who is this shade that Mercury is conducting?
17667	But why did not you also make a voyage to Sandwich?
17667	But why did not you indulge it in a manner more becoming your birth and rank?
17667	But why do they trouble people with their meditations?
17667	But will your Majesty give me leave to ask you one question?
17667	Can a philosopher desire to defeat that good purpose?
17667	Can any writer be exact who is so comprehensive?
17667	Can it signify to the world what an idle man has been thinking?
17667	Can one be pleased with seeing the same thing over and over again?
17667	Could such a design be contracted into a narrower compass?
17667	Could you bring your tongue to give him the name of Augustus?
17667	Could you stoop to beg consulships and triumphs from him?
17667	Could you, Phocion, think it safety to have our freedom depend on the moderation of Philip?
17667	Did I invade it when I marched to deliver the people from the usurped dominion and insolence of a few senators?
17667	Did Solon, think you, give laws to a people, and leave those laws and that people at the mercy of every invader?
17667	Did not Leander swim over the Hellespont in a tempest to get to his mistress?
17667	Did you destroy tyrants and robbers?
17667	Did you ever eat any of them stewed or potted?
17667	Did you kill the Nemean lion, the Erymanthian boar, the Lernean serpent, and Stymphalian birds?
17667	Did you restore the republic to what it was in my time?
17667	Do n''t you find him too declamatory, too turgid, too unnatural, even in his best tragedies?
17667	Do not they rend thy hard heart, and strike thee with more horror than the yells of the furies?
17667	Do we not often take a pleasure to show our own power and gratify our own pride by degrading notions set up by other men and generally respected?
17667	Do you not remember how angry King Ferdinand was with you on that account?
17667	Do you presume to deny it?
17667	Does he affirm to you that turtle is better than venison?
17667	Does not this in a great measure diminish those peers who are not elected?
17667	Dost thou know I have kept the best company in England?
17667	Dost thou not know that, in doing these wonderful acts, I showed as much courage as Alexander the Great, as much prudence as Caesar?
17667	English?
17667	Had it given into your hands the money of the republic without account?
17667	Had lions been destroyed only in single combat, men had had but a bad time of it; and what but laws could awe the men who killed the lions?
17667	Had your victory procured you an exemption from justice?
17667	Has Mercury struck thee with his enfeebling rod?
17667	Have you been in Lilliput lately, or in the Flying Island, or with your good nurse Glumdalclitch?
17667	Have you forgotten that I was the favourite and first Minister of a great King of England?
17667	Have you forgotten that I was your sovereign?
17667	How can I love one who would have degraded me into a beast?
17667	How could I venture to open my lips in their presence?
17667	How could you imagine that it would ever go well when deprived of this spring, so necessary to adjust and balance its motions?
17667	How could you publish what tends so directly and apparently to weaken in mankind the belief of those sanctions?
17667	How could you then be so negligent of the safety of your country as not to employ him in this, the most dangerous of all she ever had waged?
17667	How couldst thou dare to accuse me of not going to Sandwich to eat oysters, and didst not thyself take a trip to America to riot on turtles?
17667	How did you gain the affection of the people of Athens but by soothing their ruling passion-- the desire of hearing their superiors abused?
17667	How does honest Lemuel Gulliver?
17667	How does my old lad?
17667	How happened it that your enemy did not take off your scalp?
17667	How should I be able to endure the torment of thinking that I had wronged such a wife?
17667	How were they your troops?
17667	How will men with minds relaxed by the enervating ease and softness of luxury have vigour to oppose it?
17667	How, madam, did you support or recover your spirits under so rainy misfortunes?
17667	I suppose you did not think it was very meritorious?
17667	If our love of these was sometimes heated into anger against those who offended them no less than us, is that anger to be blamed?
17667	If you loved Cicero, how could you love Antony?
17667	If you loved Octavius, how could you avoid taking part against Antony in their last civil war?
17667	If you loved me, how could you love Octavius?
17667	In what manner did you answer a regular accusation from a tribune of the people, who charged you with embezzling the money of the State?
17667	Is Jack as mad still as ever?
17667	Is it richly furnished within?
17667	Is it the name of the Inquisition, or the name of Guatimozin, that troubles and affrights thee?
17667	Is not liberty an inherent, inalienable right of mankind?
17667	Is whipping of no use to mend naughty boys?
17667	Let me ask you, then, What were the acts of your reign?
17667	Modish_.--What would you have had me do?
17667	Mr. Secretary, are you witty upon me?
17667	My reflections are allowed to be deep and sagacious; and what can be more useful to a reader than a wise man''s judgment on a great man''s conduct?
17667	Nay, in that we both lived in, though much more enlightened than the former, did I not see them occasion a violent persecution in my own country?
17667	Nay, what is still worse, are there not panegyrics on tyrants, and books that blaspheme the gods and perplex the natural sense of right and wrong?
17667	On what other subject were ever accumulated so many dignities, such honours, such power?
17667	Or could you, by refusing to encumber yourself with these, dissolve all other ties?
17667	Or shall we constitute him_ friseur_ to Tisiphone, and make him curl up her locks with his satires and libels?
17667	Pray have you a fine Vauxhall and Ranelagh?
17667	Pray when did you eat a crust with Lord Peter?
17667	Pray, of what ingredients might the dish he paid so much for consist?
17667	Pray, sir, what is your name?
17667	Shall I forget my Penelope, who ca n''t forget me, who has no pleasure so dear to her as my remembrance?
17667	Shall I own it to you, Publius?
17667	Shall I reward her with falsehood?
17667	Sirrah, savage, dost thou pretend to be ashamed of my company?
17667	Suppose a Popish king on the throne, will the clergy adhere to passive obedience and non- resistance?
17667	The custom of duelling?
17667	The planter of a small colony in North America presume to vie with the conqueror of the great Mexican Empire?
17667	This I do not deny; but did I ever declare, or give you reason to believe, that I thought it a prudent or well- timed act?
17667	Was I a tyrant because I would not crouch under Pompey, and let him be thought my superior when I felt he was not my equal?
17667	Was it not better to fight for the independence of our country in conjunction with Thebes than alone?
17667	Was it not greater to reign over all Mount Parnassus than over a petty state in Italy?
17667	Was it offered to him, and did he refuse to accept it?
17667	Was not this sacrificing the great interests of virtue to the little motives of vanity?
17667	Was this acting like the subject of a free State?
17667	Was this the master you chose?
17667	Well, sir, let me know what merit you had to introduce you into good company?
17667	Were not our victories at Bannockburn and at Otterburn as glorious as any that, with all the advantage of numbers, they have ever obtained over us?
17667	What a direful calamity was the eruption of Vesuvius, which you have been describing?
17667	What can I do with this fellow?
17667	What can so much exalt the character of a prince as to have his actions approved by a zealous Republican and the enemy of his house?
17667	What compensation have I gained for all these sacrifices so lavishly, so imprudently made?
17667	What could make me amends for her being no longer mine, for her being another''s?
17667	What could you do?
17667	What did it signify whether in Asia, and among the barbarians, that general bore the name of King or Dictator?
17667	What employed your widowed hours after the death of your Essex?
17667	What has so much depraved their taste?
17667	What is this stranger with you?
17667	What matters it whether a State is mortally wounded by the hand of a foreign enemy, or dies by a consumption of its own vital strength?
17667	What other man has ever done such wonders as these?
17667	What right hadst thou, or had the King of Spain himself, to the Mexican Empire?
17667	What think you of their thin- spun systems of philosophy, or lascivious poems, or Milesian fables?
17667	What were the English, and what, let me ask you, were the French dramatic performances, in the age when he nourished?
17667	What wouldst thou give to part with the renown of thy conquests, and to have a conscience as pure and undisturbed as mine?
17667	What, O Publius, was your conquest over yourself, in giving back to her betrothed lover the Celtiberian captive compared to this?
17667	What, then, was become of that undaunted Scotch spirit, which had dared to resist the Plantagenets in the height of their power and pride?
17667	Which of us two is the truest friend to mankind?
17667	Which of you, ladies, could have patiently borne this treatment?
17667	Who can resist the English and Scotch valour combined?
17667	Who has offended you?
17667	Why did not you bring the muses to Sweden, instead of deserting that kingdom to seek them in Rome?
17667	Why did not you go and preach chastity to Lais?
17667	Why did you choose to write such absolute nonsense as you have in some places of your illustrious work?
17667	Why dost thou turn pale?
17667	Why should I be singled out as worse than other statesmen?
17667	Why would you lose the substance of glory by seeking the shadow?
17667	Why would you, against all the cautions I had given, expose your life in a loyal castle to the mercy of that prince?
17667	With what prince, what king did you marry?
17667	Would a battle lost in Boeotia be so fatal to Athens as one lost in our own territory and under our own walls?
17667	Would anybody think of employing a Raphael to clean an old picture?
17667	Would it be impossible, do you think, to obtain leave from Pluto of going back for one day to my own table at London just to taste of that food?
17667	Would you have had me solicit the command of an army which I believed would be beaten?
17667	Would you present a modern fine gentleman, who is negligently lolling in an easy chair, with the labours of Hercules for his recreation?
17667	You will not pretend to compare your eating with mine?
17667	_ Aristides_.--What then occasioned their defeat?
17667	_ Aristides_.--Why was the command not given to Phocion, whose abilities had been proved on so many other occasions?
17667	_ Arria_.--Is it possible, madam?
17667	_ Boileau_.--Did not you take the model of your"Dunciad"from the latter of those very ingenious satires?
17667	_ Boileau_.--Do you think that he was equal in comedy to Moliere?
17667	_ Boileau_.--Has England been free from all seductions of this nature?
17667	_ Boileau_.--Is he not too universal?
17667	_ Boileau_.--Is not Spenser likewise blamable for confounding the Christian with the Pagan theology in some parts of his poem?
17667	_ Bookseller_.--Am I got into a world so absolutely the reverse of that I left, that here authors domineer over booksellers?
17667	_ Bookseller_.--I assure you those books were very useful to the authors and their booksellers; and for whose benefit besides should a man write?
17667	_ Brutus_.--Are there no obligations to a good heart, Pomponius, but honours and offices?
17667	_ Caesar_.--Can Scipio wonder at the ingratitude of Rome to her generals?
17667	_ Caesar_.--How could it be otherwise?
17667	_ Caesar_.--Was I the enemy of my country in giving it a ruler fit to support all the majesty and weight of its empire?
17667	_ Christina_.--Am I sure of it?
17667	_ Christina_.--Darest thou, Oxenstiern, impute any blemish to my honour?
17667	_ Circe_.--You will go then, Ulysses, but tell me, without reserve, what carries you from me?
17667	_ Cortez_.--Is it possible, William Penn, that you should seriously compare your glory with mine?
17667	_ Cortez_.--Is this the wisdom of a great legislator?
17667	_ Darteneuf_.--What does he say?
17667	_ Darteneuf_.--What will I say?
17667	_ Demosthenes_.--Would Athens not have been ruined if no battle had been fought?
17667	_ Hercules_.--Do you pretend to sit as high on Olympus as Hercules?
17667	_ Horace_.--But what have you said of me?
17667	_ Horace_.--Have not I heard that you pretended to derive your descent from the princes of Verona?
17667	_ Horace_.--Pray, Mercury, how do you intend to dispose of this august person?
17667	_ Locke_.--Do you make doubting a proof of depth in philosophy?
17667	_ Locke_.--Do you think it beneficial to human society to have all temples pulled down?
17667	_ Locke_.--How could you, then, be indifferent with regard to the sanctions religion gives to morality?
17667	_ Locke_.--Is there no medium between the blind zeal of a sectary and a total indifference to all religion?
17667	_ Locke_.--Is there not also a weakness of a contrary nature to this you are now ridiculing?
17667	_ Lord Falkland_.--Are not you surprised to see me in Elysium, Mr. Hampden?
17667	_ Lucian_.--But what if he will not be quiet?
17667	_ Lucian_.--Doubtless they do; but will you pardon me if I ask you one question?
17667	_ Lucian_.--Have I not heard that you wrote a very good serious book on the aphorisms of Hippocrates?
17667	_ Mercury_.--If this way of life did not give you pleasure, why did you continue in it?
17667	_ Penn_.--Ask thy heart whether ambition was not thy real motive and zeal the pretence?
17667	_ Plato_.--Do you pretend, Diogenes, that because you were never in a court, you never flattered?
17667	_ Plato_.--May not the abuse be corrected without losing the benefit?
17667	_ Plutarch_.--Are both these characters by the same author?
17667	_ Pope_.--What do you think of my"Homer?"
17667	_ Rabelais_.--My life was a farce; my death was a farce; and would you have me make my book a serious affair?
17667	_ Scaliger_.--Is it possible you should be ignorant of my decrees?
17667	_ Scipio_.--Am I then to understand that the civil war you engaged in was really a mere contest whether you or Pompey should remain sole lord of Rome?
17667	_ Scipio_.--What do I hear?
17667	_ Servius Tullius_.--Can any length of establishment make despotism lawful?
17667	_ Servius Tullius_.--Do you then justify Augustus for the change he made in the Roman government?
17667	_ Virgil_.--But what said others to this method of disputation?
17667	_ Virgil_.--Sir, may I ask for what reason you cast your eyes so superciliously upon Horace and me?
17667	_ Wolsey_.--Did not you die, as I did, in disgrace with your master?
17667	_ Ximenes_.--Can you confess such a principle of your conduct without a blush?
17667	and can you deny that wit and learning are often made subservient to very bad purposes?
17667	and do n''t you think that, in return for the service you did them, they ought to erect you a statue?
17667	didst thou leave the great empire of Mexico in that state?
17667	do I not deserve this scorn?
17667	is it then possible that what some of our countrymen tell me should be true?
17667	must I bear this?
17667	or James?
17667	or art thou ashamed to let us see how awkward thou art?
17667	or make him climb the Alps with Hannibal when he is expiring with the fatigue of last night''s ball?
17667	that I was at once Lord High Chancellor, Bishop of Durham, Bishop of Winchester, Archbishop of York, and Cardinal Legate?
17667	the children of Cleopatra?
17667	what is that, madam?
17667	who madest thyself a voluntary instrument to carry into a new- discovered world that hellish tribunal?
17667	why will you force me to tell you truths I desire to conceal?
17667	with what persons have I been discoursing?