8 of the Second Letter, the writer [Philip Beach] asserted, that he had in his own possession 'an authentic and complete collection of the castrated passages.'" [T.S.]] _Setting up for a maxim, laying down for a maxim, clapt up, decency,_ and some other words and phrases, he uses many hundred times.
_Cut out for a court, a pardoning planet, clapt up, left in the lurch, the mob, outed, a great beauty, went roundly to work:_ All these phrases used by the vulgar, shew him to have kept mean or illiterate company in his youth.
REMARKS ON BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME..