Peeped out on his one night being seated in the side gallery at the House of Commons, with the late Sir James Mackintosh, &c., where he could see and be seen by the members of the opposition, his friends. The debate was one of great importance. Fox at length rose, and as he proceeded in his address, the Doctor grew more and more animated, till at length he rose as if with the intention of speaking. He was reminded of the impropriety, and immediately sat down. After Fox had concluded, he exclaimed: "Had I followed any other profession, I might have been sitting by the side of that illustrious statesman; I should have had all his powers of argument,--all Erskine's eloquence,--and all Hargrave's law." He had one day been arguing and disagreeing with a lady, who said, "Well, Dr. Parr, I STILL MAINTAIN MY OPINION." "Madam," he rejoined, "you may, if you please, _retain_ your opinion: but you cannot _maintain_ it." Another lady once opposing his opinions with more pertinacity than cogency of reasoning, concluded with the observation, "You know, Doctor, IT IS THE PRIVILEGE OF WOMEN TO TALK NONSENSE." "No, madam," he replied, "it is not their _privilege_, but their _infirmity_. Ducks would walk, if they could, but nature suffers them only to waddle." After some persons, at a party where the Doctor made one, had expressed their regret that he had not written more, or something more worthy of his fame, a young scholar somewhat pertly called out to him, "Suppose, Dr. Parr, you and I were to write a book together!" "Young man," exclaimed the chafed lion, "if all were to be written in that book which I _do_ know, and which you _do not_ know, it would be a very large book indeed." The following are given by Field as his REPROOFS OF IGNORANCE TALKING WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF KNOWLEDGE. He was once insisting on the importance of discipline, established by a wise system, and enforced with a steady hand, in schools, in colleges, in the navy, in the army; when he was somewhat suddenly and rudely taken up by a young officer who had just received his commission, and was not a little proud of his "blushing honours." "What, sir," said he, addressing the Doctor, "do you mean to apply that word _discipline_ to the _officers_ of the army? It may be well enough for the _privates_." "Yes, sir, I do," replied the Doctor, sternly: "It is _discipline_ makes the scholar, it is _discipline_ makes the soldier, it is _discipline_ makes the gentleman, and the _want of discipline_ has made you what you are." BEING MUCH ANNOYED By the pert remarks of another tyro,--"Sir," said he, "your tongue goes to work before your brain; and when your brain does work, it generates nothing but error and absurdity." The maxim of men of experience, the Doctor might have added, is, "to think twice before they act once." To a third person, of bold and forward but ill-supported pretensions, he said, "B----, you have read _little_, thought _less_, and know _nothing_."