Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.