AMBITION. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,' iv. 1, n. 2.
AMERICAN. 'I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,' iii. 290.
AMUSEMENTS. 'I am a great friend to public amusements,' ii. 169.
ANCIENTS. 'The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded' (Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.
ANGRY. 'A man is loath to be angry at himself,' ii. 377.
ANTIQUARIAN. 'A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,' iii. 278.
APPLAUSE. 'The applause of a single human being is of great consequence,' iv. 32.
ARGUES. 'He always gets the better when he argues alone' (Goldsmith), ii. 236.
ARGUMENT. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged
to find you an understanding,' iv. 313;
'Nay, Sir, argument is argument,' iv. 281;
'All argument is against it; but all belief is for it,' iii. 230;
'Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow' (Boyle), iv. 282.
ASINUS. 'Plus negabit unus asinus in una hora quam centum philosophi probaverint in centum annis,' ii. 268, n. 2.