* This simple and definite phrase we derive from the nation to
whom we were indebted during the last century for some other
phrases about as definite, but rather more dangerous.

** Another phrase of Parliament, which, I need not observe, is
always made use of in oratory when the orator can see his
meaning about as distinctly as Sancho perceived the charms
of Dulcinea.

*** A very famous and convenient phrase this -- but in politics
experiments mean revolutions. 1828.

Here, observing a smile upon his Majesty's countenance, Popanilla told
the King that he was only a chief magistrate, and he had no more right
to laugh at him than a parish constable. He concluded by observing that
although what he at present urged might appear strange, nevertheless, if
the listeners had been acquainted with the characters and cases of
Galileo and Turgot, they would then have seen, as a necessary
consequence, that his system was perfectly correct, and he himself a man
of extraordinary merit.

Here the chief magistrate, no longer daring to smile, burst into a fit
of laughter; and turning to his courtiers said, 'I have not an idea what
this man is talking about, but I know that he makes my head ache: give
me a cup of wine, and let us have a dance.'

All applauded the royal proposition; and pushing Popanilla from one to
another, until he was fairly hustled to the brink of the lagoon, they
soon forgot the existence of this bore: in one word, he was cut. When