That the courteous reader may be qualified to judge for himself, I shall now insert a variety of quotations from this wonderful, amazing, admirable, astonishing, incomparable, immortal, and inimitable book. Too much cannot be said in its praise. I shall however let it speak for itself. Every page, indeed, is so pregnant with superexcellent beauties, that in selecting them, the critic's situation resembles that of the schoolman's ass between two bundles of hay; his only difficulty is where to begin. The pious husband of Bathsheba had asked 'What is MAN?' But let it be told in Rome, and published in the streets of Paris, to the honour of the English nation, that her greatest philosopher has received 300l. a-year for informing us that-- MAN is a 'Human being. 2. Not a woman. 3. Not a boy. 4. _Not a beast._' Woman. 'The female of the human race.' Boy. '1. A male child; not a girl. 2. One in the state of _adolescence_.' Girl. 'A young woman or child.' (_Female_ child he should have said.) Damsel. 'A young gentlewoman; a wench; a country lass.' Lass. 'A girl; a maid; A young woman.' Wench. '1. A young woman. 2. A young woman in contempt. 3. A strumpet.' Strumpet. 'A whore, a prostitute.' Whore. '1. A woman who converses unlawfully with men; a fornicatress; an adultress; a strumpet. 2. a prostitute; a woman who receives men for money.' To whore, _v. n._ (from the noun) 'To converse unlawfully with the other sex.' To whore, _v. a._ 'To corrupt with regard to chastity.' Whoredom, _s._ (from whore) 'Fornication.' (Here follow several other definitions on the same pure subject, which every body understands as well as Dr Johnson.) Young. 'Being in the first part of life. _Not old._' Youngster, younker. 'A young person.' (I pass by _ten_ other articles, about _youthful_ compounded of _youth_ and _full_, &c. &c. because young people are in no danger of thinking themselves old.) Yuck, _s._ (_jocken_, Dutch.) 'Itch,' Old. 'Past the middle part of life; _not young_; not new; ancient; not modern. OF OLD. Long ago; from ancient times.' Hum, interj. 'A sound implying doubt and deliberation, _Shakespeare_.' Fiddlefaddle, _s._ (a cant word) 'Trifles.' Fiddlefaddle, _a._ 'Trifling; giving trouble.' (----His own example strengthens all his laws, Sam is himself the true sublime he draws.)