BEATEN. 'The more time is beaten, the less it is kept' (Rousseau), iv. 283, n. 1.
BELIEF. 'Every man who attacks my belief … makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 10.
BELIEVE. 'We don't know which half to believe,' iv. 178.
BELL. 'It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him' (Burke), iv. 27.
BELLOWS. 'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.
BELLY. 'I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else,' i. 467.
BENEFIT. 'When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it does for her, I will go to your benefit too,' ii. 330.
BIG. 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters,' i. 471.
BIGOT. 'Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,' v. 120.
BISHOP. 'A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,' iv. 75;
'I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,' iv. 274;
'Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a
bishop,' iv. 13;
'Dull enough to have been written by a bishop' (Foote), ib. n. 3.