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NEW PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY. 



Age (Ladies) An unknown quantity. 



Ambassador A spy, whose person is sacred and inviolable. 



Bulletin An official lie. 



Congress A political raree-show, in which kings are the jugglers, 



the people the dupes. 



Court A theatre on which the great exhibit their littleness. 

 Cannon Royal logic. 



Conquest The exploit of a regal plunderer. 

 Crown A cap which sits loosely on a tyrant's head. 

 Conscience An inaudible voice, which the deafest can hear. 

 Ciphers Figures which represent the classes of a nation the King, 

 by himself, is the nought it is only by being joined to 

 the people he acquires value. 

 Dinner A political test of capacity. 

 Dress A good or bad recommendation. 

 Duty What one is paid for neglecting. 

 Dowry A plaster for the bodily and mental imperfections of 



women. 



Epaulette A. warrant for impertinence. 

 Equality The political state of the law. 

 Epitaph The last tribute to vanity. 

 Fashion The only inviolable law. 

 Honour The pretext for killing a friend, or being killed by an 



enemy. 



Honesty An obsolete term. 

 History An ancient fable. 

 Intolerance Pandora's box. 

 Impartiality A Utopian virtue. 

 Leisure A convenient plea for idleness. 

 Library The poor man's company. 

 Love An affair of pounds, shillings, and pence. 

 Logic The art of confounding. 



Modesty An ornament whose value falls as the owner rises. 

 Merit A disqualification for business. 

 Meretricious Fashionable. 

 Memoirs (contemporary) The confessions of sinners who are past 



their wickedness. 

 Member (of Parliament) An agent appointed to watch the interests 



of others, but who only looks to his own. 

 Matron An old ewe dressed lamb fashion. 

 Mirror The only friend that speaks truth. 



Moustaches A row of hairs under the nose to terrify naughty 

 children. 



