Chapter 59

'Sir, a man has no more right to _say_ an uncivil thing than to _act one_,' iv. 28.

UNDERMINED. 'A stout healthy old man is like a tower undermined' (Bacon), iv. 277.

UNDERSTANDING. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 313; 'When it comes to dry understanding, man has the better [of woman],' iii. 52.

UNEASY. 'I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. II.

UNPLIABLE. 'She had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding,' v. 296.

UNSETTLE. 'They tended to unsettle everything, and yet settled nothing,' ii. 124.

USE. 'Never mind the use; do it,' ii. 92.

V.

VACUITY. 'I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor pleasure,' iii. 380, n. 3; 'Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,' ii. 410.

VERSE. 'Verse sweetens toil' (Gifford), v. 117.

VERSES. 'They are the forcible verses of a man of a strong mind, but not accustomed to write verse,' iv. 24.

VEX. 'He delighted to vex them, no doubt; but he had more delight in seeing how well he could vex them,' ii. 334; 'Sir, he hoped it would vex somebody,' iv. 9; 'Public affairs vex no man,' iv. 220.

VICE. 'Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue,' i. 250; 'Madam, you are here not for the love of virtue but the fear of vice,' ii. 435.

VIRTUE. 'I think there is some reason for questioning whether virtue cannot stand its ground as long as life,' iv. 374, n. 5.

_Vitam. 'Vitam continet una dies,'_ i, 84.

VIVACITY. 'There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow,' ii. 465; 'Depend upon it, Sir, vivacity is much an art, and depends greatly on habit,' ii. 462.

_Vivite. 'Vivite laeti_,' i. 344, n. 4.

VOW. 'The man who cannot go to heaven without a vow may go--,' iii. 357.

W.

WAG. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,' iv. I, n. 2.

WAIT. 'Sir, I can wait,' iv. 21.

WALK. 'Let us take a walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel, through, I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world,' ii. 218.

WANT. 'You have not mentioned the greatest of all their wants--the want of law,' ii. 126; 'Have you no better manners? There is your want,' ii. 475.

WANTS. 'We are more uneasy from thinking of our wants than happy in thinking of our acquisitions' (Windham), iii. 354.

WAR. 'War and peace divide the business of the world,' iii. 361, n. 1.

WATCH. 'He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch, but will not enquire whether the watch is right or not,' ii. 213.

WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,'