There are about a dozen phrases which all come tumbling along together, like the tongs, and the shovel, and the poker, and the brush, and the bellows, in one of those domestic avalanches that everybody knows.
If you get one, you get the whole lot.
What are they ?--Oh, that depends a good deal on latitude and longitude.

Epithets follow the isothermal lines pretty accurately.
Grouping them in two families, one finds himself a clever, genial, witty, wise, brilliant, sparkling, thoughtful, distinguished, celebrated, illustrious scholar and perfect gentleman, and first writer of the age; or a dull, foolish, wicked, pert, shallow, ignorant, insolent, traitorous, black-hearted outcast, and disgrace to civilization.
What do I think determines the set of phrases a man gets ?--Well, I should say a set of influences something like these:---1st.
Relationships, political, religious, social, domestic.

2d.
Oyster, in the form of suppers given to gentlemen connected with criticism.

I believe in the school, the college, and the clergy; but my sovereign logic, for regulating public opinion--which means commonly the opinion of half a dozen of the critical gentry--is the following MAJOR PROPOSITION.

Oysters au naturel.