Exalted, station, ornament to merit, 222, 36; who shall be, 146, 57
Example, and precept, 252, 43; force of, 171, 36; noble, force of, 78, 44; potency of, 96, 49; the effect of, 276, 43; the power of, 375, 6; value of, 158, 43
Examples, good, power of, 129, 27, 28; perfect, evil effect of, 89, 28 Excel, daring to, 301, 29
Excellence, source of, 92, 23; the appreciation of, value of, 297, 37; to be studied, 338, 35; uni- formity of, tiresome, 507, 24; what we must risk to attain, 489, 32; world's treatment of, 464, 31 Excellences, deep hidden, 40, 33 Excellency, witness of, 207, 7 Excellent, persons, tortures of, 383, 31; the, diffi- cult, 39, 37; the, how to treat, 536, 9; the, rare and rarely valued, 426, 18; the, unfathomable, 55, 2; things, rare, 328, 23
Exception, and rule, 96, 26; going by the, 199, 39 Exceptions, according to order, 291, 6 Excess, a tendency of Nature, 94, 41; every, a vice in end, 327, 49; no, 170, 14; 271, 51; nothing in, 242, 29; of good, dangerous, 153, 38; the evil of, 350, 10; unstable, 94, 43 Exchange, as a means of life, 275, 3 Excitement contrasted with enthusiasm, 83, 38 Excitements, great, effect of, 426, 10
Exercise, benefit of, 90, 48; bodily, St. Paul's estimate of, 31, 10; defined by Johnson, 228, 34; rules for, 6, 14
Exigencies, the science of, 97, 24.
Exile, everywhere, 566, 4; friendly face to, 496, 6; no exile from self, 535, 6 Existence, a distracted, waste of, 569, 25; a mystery to the greatest genius, 306, 41; all earthly, a vapour, 368, 36; contrasted with life, 487, 16; disappointed, worse than none, 208, 39; first delight of, 494, 43; laws of, our knowledge of, 207, 22; man's, secret of, 452, 47; our, passed into words, 339, 38; our, purpose of, 521, 26; perfection of, 345, 47; principle and end of, 521, 2; source and destiny of all, 554, 31; the healthy tenure of, 199 4; the only explanation of,
Existent, the, its importance, 457, 21 Expectation, a retarding weight, 559, 10; and uncertainty, as joys, 506, 1; as regulated by desire, 173, 6; effect of, on a blessing, 488, 10; of good, effect on us of, 559, 5 Expectations, and non-preparedness, 523, 44; ex- travagant, vain, 176, 1
Expecting nothing, blessedness of, 30, 51 Expense, our, the root of, 337, 45
Expenses, petty, effect of, on purse, 205, 32 Expensiveness, our, 340, 4
Experience, a light to truth, 467, 15; a teacher, 78, 34; and ability, possible effect of, 383, 37; as a teacher, 220, 21; as an educator, 323, 37; as in- ducing fear, 97, 46; authority of, 84, 30; bitter, 34, 19; bitter, advantage of, 532, 28; by indulg. ence in passion, 144, 20; contrasted with theory, 466, 20; incommunicable, 63, 26; its limited extent, 496, 17; knowledge of, 114, 34; like stern-lights of ship, 494, 35; man's only school, 264, 34; no antedating, 302, 55: not equal to understanding, 269, 22; one's own, and others', 75, 15; others', no demand for, 308, 26; our, of life, 337, 46; painful, as a teacher, 81, 48: per- fect, 345, 48; second-hand, 563, 22; the fruit of, life, 429, 31; thrift in, 34, 5; value of, 334, 22; without thought, 520, 3,
Experiences, common, instructive, 72, 45; our chief, 37, 24
Experiments, subject of, 105, 26
Exposition of one another order of the day, 472, 1
Expression, clear, of difficult matters, 492, 13: correct, the source of, 43, 56; dependence of on distinct thought, 284, 23; how to attain facility of, 488, 40; modest, virtue of, 281, 36; purpose of nature, 462, 8; test of thought, 253, 20; varieties of, accounted for, 529, 11 Expressiveness, all, 478, 5 Exquisite, the, coy, 94, 47
External things, emancipation from power of, 559, 26
Extracts, necessity for, 444, 18 Extraordinary, the, how to treat, 536, 10; only the, rebelled against, 265, 30; to be looked at, 198, 3 Extremes, violent, temporary, 307, 38 Extremity, trier of spints, 567, 34
Eye, a commanding, 15, 5; a daring, 551, 28; a steady good, 79, 9; as an interpreter, 538, 4; as an organ of speech, 534, 42; by which one sees God, 426, 25; first overcome, 186, 23; importance of vision in, 417, 21; interpreter of heart, 214, 11; man's, not microscopic, 555, 7; one, better than two, 269, 40; only in forehead, 488, 38; seeira, of the first times, 434, 30; single, to be venerate, 18, 48; soul in the, 416, 10; the power of, s. 26; the, sayings about, 426, 26-42; the, under distraction, 43, 16; to be single, 439, 12 to negotiate for itself, 240, 34; versus ear, as vehicle of knowledge, 385, 21; where love, 72, 34 Eyes, affected by our heart, 337, 47; and the belly, 63, 52; and ears, as witne-ses, 63, 51; and what they indicate, 7, 13; effect of shutting 205, 47; homes of silent prayer, 154, 48; how guarded from error, 300, 1; importance of using. 202, 4; more trusted than ears, 276, 43; IT trustworthy than ears, 324, 2; never satisfied, 154 35; one man's, spectacles to another, 332, 57 our, exorbitant, 524, 44; our, misuse of, 521, 24 posted as sentinels, 324, 1; rather than ears, 153, 43; speaking and betraying power of, 541, 12: the feast of, 264, 35; to be cared for, 409, 33; to see withal, 520, 23; to look right on, 243, 9 weak, weakness of, 530, 12; weakness of 325, 13; without looking, 126, 5 Eye-witness, and hearsay, 350, 13; one, value of, 332, 14
Fable, Love's world, 64, 13
Face, a handsome, 112, 36; and the mind, 425, 47% 44; as revealing the heart, 190, 33; express a of, contrasted with tongue, 458, 10; full impre sion of, 205, 11; God hath given you one, 12% 11; like a benediction, 142, 36; not deceptive, 204, 21; the index of age, 98, 42; the, of labor Carlyle on, 512, 10; two sides of, 302, 33 Faces, expressive, 466, 38; that most charm 25, 482, 29; variety in, 206, 3 Facility, how to acquire, 59, 31 Fact, and speech, gulf between, 401, 1; goodman, plain-spoken, 130, 39; not law, 5, 27; sign cance of a, 5, 25, 26: 287, 46; stranger that fiction, 99, 9; the question for jury, 4, 50; the importance of, 457. 21
Faction, effect of, 381, 31 Factor, rule of, and minister compared, 140, 31 Facts, all enfolded in first man, 204, 22; and the truth of reason, 421, 32; beadrolls of, insigni ficance of, 556, 33; dissipated by time, 480, 35- downright, our need of, 529, 36; modelled by the man, 5, 48; plainest, men blind to, 151, 8; stab born things, 33, 7; the emphasis of, 425, 4; the great, 431, 19
Faculties, a delight to exercise, 313, 1; man's, no inventory of, 475, 8; our, and their exercise, 521, 16; our, their last perfection, 438, 7; the soul's, a misnomer, 413, 5.
Faculty, indispensability of, 105, 51; not to be forced, 293, 6; the logical, 313, 6; the imagina- tive, 313, 6
Fail, no such word as, to youth, 190, 48 Failing at all, 492, 20
Failings, how regarded by heaven, 474, 5; lean'd to virtue's side, 156, 51
Failure, a chief cause of, 105, 22; as a teacher, 525, 15; bright side of, 252, 48; fruit of, 104, 14; in a great object, 472, 38; sure road to, 456, 29; the only, to fear, 446, 1; the parents of, 193, 9 Failures, a cause of, 386, 2; a lesson to us, 329, 17; how to regard, 373, 8; no, where no efforts, 144, 50; not to daunt us, 206, 20; often successes, 526, 21
Fair day's wages, a, Carlyle on, 5, 28 Faith, a great, 285, 27; a lively, wages of, 506, 33; all in all of, 415, 50; alternation of periods of, with denial, 187, 49; 447, 28; an audacious, 530, 6; and doubt contrasted as to their origin, 233, 25; and hope, differences about, 186, 49; and knowledge, difference between, 186, 50; approved, reward of, 105, 58; as fashion, 149, 29; com- mended, 243, 32, 33; demand of love, 353, 53; desire of, faith enough, 176, 34; disowned when questioned, 242, 8; essence of, 425, 38; essence of all, 427, 6; fanatic, and falsehood, 99, 62; in an omnipresent God, denial or mere lip-asser- tion of, 427, 6; in days of sorrow, 523, 43; in whom alone, 104, 3; knowledge in, 383, 1o; lesson of, 462, 6; loss of, 146, 33; narrow, power of, 14, 26; necessary to faithful doing, 152, 41; once lost irreparable, 172, 8; only, that wears well, 446, 2; orthodox, defined, 60, 4; our slavery from want of, 485, 39; plain and simple, 467, 37; power of, 111, 26; 114, 3; 185, 52 279, 32; 448, 37; 492, 34; 558, 26; principal part of, 449, 24; proper power of, 449, 41; resting on authority, 427, 8; right, if life right, 110, 23; right, defined, 474, 15; sister of justice, 216, 39; steps of, 455, 12; strengthened by knowledge, 504, 23; the great trial to, 384, 26; the one thing needful, 110, 17; the only sure foundation, 9, 1; the power of, 200, 44; 312, 23; 319, 11; the proper object of, 240, 14; the root of, 340, 15; want of, 110, 17; 507, 11; 558, 26; want, at present, 423, 44; wilful, confirmed by absurdity, 544, 37; with centre everywhere, 554, 4; wonder essential to, 560, 4; Voltaire's definition of, 481, 40 Faithful, in little, 147, 8; sure of reward, 105, 46 Faithfulness, commended, 28, 48 Faithless among the faithful, 100, 27 Faiths, in all, something true, 184, 31 Fallen, the, succouring, 371, 14 Falls, some, means to rise, 398, 7
False, in one thing, 101, 2; knowledge of, a truth, 221, 18; men, mischief done by, 312, 46; the, evil influence of, 2, 49
Falsehood, a salve, 181, 9; after falsehood, 100, 30; adhesiveness of, 226, 12; as weakness, 443, 31; at touch of celestial temper, 301, 49; evil of, 502, 6; goodly outside of, 322, 31; how regarded, 223, 21; in kings, 494, 3; man fire to, 92, 30; obstacle to happiness, 56, 27; path of, 447, 8; soothing, 181, 9; the success of, 512, 5; to be renounced, 501, 40 Falsehoods, that are not lies, 466, 39 Falsities, all, to be alike treated, 71, 34 Falsity of things, more seeming than real, 480, 33 Fame, a thin web, 174, 7; common, rarely wrong, 45, 13 complacency in, 312, 29; course of, 514, 39; exceptional, 323, 24; how one earns, 330,
32; in no hurry for, 172, 14; insignificance of, 155, 31; 533, 44; lessened by acquaintanceship, 280, 2; law of, 439, 31; lust of, and wise men, 440, 10; modestly enjoyed, 28, 20; obtained and deserved, 398, 36; Pope on, 311, 49; posthumous, a vain desire, 555, 3; rage for, 538, 23; the price of, 443, 32; the struggle for, 97, 48; thirst for, 260, 7; true, like our shade, 499, 48 Familiar, by proxy, 311, 7
Familiarity, lowering effect of, 181, 28 Families, and their best members, 176, 4; only two, 72, 3
Family, a happy, 140, 14; bargaining in, over the pottage, 442, 43; home of peace, 190, 35; heroism in the, 432, 32; in the bosom of one's, 336, 51; Burns' prayer for a, 545, 17; virtue, importance of, 427, 13
Famine, effect of, on heart, 530, 18; evil of,
Fanaticism, contempt of, 90, 9; defined, 90, 9; effect of, on a man, 407, 5
Fancy, charm of, 442, 7; compared with reason, 369, 34; 526, 20; contrasted with imagination, 183, 2; exacting, 292, 13; fantastical, 395, 1; giving way to understanding, 431, 5; how bred, 411, 40; over reason, what, 10, 19; sugar of life, 69,9; the tyranny of, 201, 36; turned necessity, 539, 18; versus fancy, 522, 33; without taste,
Fancying in harmony with the fact, 369, 20 Fantasies, lightest, two meanings of, 503, 44 Fantasy, compared with understanding, 459, 33; exorbitant demands of, 386, 46; function of, 66, 5; the age of, gone, 53, 25; the power of, 266, 11; the ripened fruit of, 387, 3 Far-away things, attractiveness of, 76, 11 Farces, seeming, tragedies, 268, 31 Farewell, hard to say, 555, 10; Macpherson's, Farewells should be sudden, 244, 17 Farthing, a good, 31, 28 Farthings, valued, 480, 20 Fashion, a bad rule, 170, 23; a maxim of, 88, 31; a tyrant, 226, 13; dominancy of, 526, 22; effect of, 427, 14; fool in, and one out of, 314, 19; glass of, 322, 32; imperious, 567, 1; old and new, how regarded, 91, 1; out of the, 19, 15; power of 385, 19; 440, 15; tyranny of, 21, 16 Fashions, change of, a tax, 39, 45; following the, 477, 10; invented by fools, 108, 53 Fastidious, the, unfortunate, 238, 11 Fastidiousness to be avoided, 526, 27 Fatalism, faith of men of action in, 284, ro Fate, all thralls of, 212, 21; a mystery, 218, 12; action of, on willing and unwilling, 73, 41; and dreams of the past, 240, 47; and the heart, 370, 24; and the willing, 102, 47; 103, 3; and the un- willing, 102, 47; 103, 3; a pedagogue, 54, 25; a, to be evaded, 217, 4; best use of, 205, 50; Cæsar's belief in, 34, 34; certainty of, 111, 46; cuffs of, on good and resolute man, 422, 22; how to conquer, 491, 5; in drawing of heart, 62, 3; irresistible, 478, 11; master of his, cannot com- plain, 60, 25; most wre ched, 415, 20; not to be interrogated, 503, 1; no evading, 308, 32; no striving against. 264, 33; our, what we make it, 231, 8; ordinations of, 517, 17; our, how to overcome, 366, 12; overloading of, 440, 16; quarrelling with one's, 554, 37; responsibility of, 33, 34; scale of, lightest in, 550, 6; shunned, embraced, 74, 8; stars of, in the breast, 191, 44; the book of, hidden all but a page, 154, 2; the sorrowfulest, 454, 17; to be submitted to, 535, 7; under temptation, 412, 8; undue respect to, 483, 9; what we may make of, 523, 18 Fated, the, and the feared, 54, 37 2 P
Fates, cur, ce rivers in their rise, 33, 19; the, Feast, constituents of a, 394, 19; what constitutes, Feasts, by whom made and by whom eaten, 100, 56 Feather, incapat of moment 455,
Fatherland, befire Tife, 95.6 Fathers, ou, c ect. of pity, 186, so; our, to be as good 25, 438 Fatigue most wearisome, 472, 36; the best night.
Fant, a, denied, sof, : a, virtue out of 214
ding one, and rusting into another, 117, 8: condemned ere committed, 4f, 10; every, at first monstrous, 93, 13; excaring of a, 14, 49; in every, fay, 186, 33; man's granu, 266, 32; which eds a lie, 314, 4,
Fault-finders, nothing safe from, 315, 39 Fault-finding, not always safe, 508, 36; of fools, 49, 2, 3; Car, 521, 11; to be avoided, 283, 38; withs it mending, 264, 58 Faultless, nothing, 550, 29 Faults, advantage from, 204, 17; allied to ex. callanges, 458, 13; as trints of Perty, 12, 26; committing and permitting, 428, 17; Confessed, 1. f mended, 46, 16; deception as regards our. 550, 20; difficult to weed out, 198, 8; effect of a call to give up, 244, 55; Goethe on, 205, 20; greatest of, 432, 30; hard to cure, 523, 25; how corrected, 34, 9; in honest and dishonest, 6, 21; lie gently on him, 395, 15; men moulded out of, 28, 16; mended, not to be referred to, 276, so; nature of, 9, 27; none exempt from, 92, 2; of had and of good men, 25, 43; of others and our own, 8, 21, 22; of others, instructiveness of, 98, 16; often corrected by chance, 39, 38; of the player and the man, 10, 41; one's own, best known, 169, 9; one's own, easily pardoned, 101, 32; others' zeal in amending, 315, 15; our, nist to discourage, 296, 41; our own, and our neigh- bour's, 91, 53; our relation to, as our own or others, 29, 16; pleasure in others, 390, 26; seeing only others' 50, 12; seeking only for, 480,, 17; that kill us, 206, 22; that look handsome, 322, 35; to be thankful for, 92, 10
Faust, in a dilemma, 169, 41; Goethe's, without fruit, 314, 34
Favour, a, against one's will, 28, 2; a, what it con ists in, 5, 32; a, when to ask, 296, 3; asking for, 149, 31; how to confer a, 529, 4 Favours, injudiciously conferred, 27, 56, 57; from the great, 115, 5; refusing, 341, 45, 47 Fear, a bad preserver, 261, 39; a, daily surmount- ing, value of, 142, 45; an inventor, 227, 4; and reverence contrasted, 492, 21; desponding, effect of, 62, 30; early and provident, 75, 31; effect of, 121, 55; 492, 22; effect of, on speech, 81, 46; getting rid of, a first duty, 428, 14; how bred, 327, 54; incompatible with love, 255, 1; incom- patible with wisdom, 504, 38; inconsistent with love, 146, 13; of the Lord, 427, 26-29; per- petual, evil of, 272, 45: persuasive power of, 180, 33; sign of low birth, 57, 15; slavery to, 302, 18; stages of, 457, 48; cold, that freezes, 102, 20; those who dwell in, 483, 7; to be suppressed, 160, 22; unknown to Germans 14, 21; unlimited, 70, 47; unreasonableness of, 537, 15; who has no, 264, 6
Feared by many, fearing many, 294, 7 Fearless man, a, 532, 32; the, 150, 19 Fears, our, effects of, 545, I
Feeble, in work unhelpfly 305, 7; the, to be supported, 488, 24
Feeling, an unpleasant, a warning, or, st thought, 484. 40; as opposed to thinking. I. ty bi ed, 33, 20; compared with so 384, 41; delicacy of, 11, 8; bow to aw 452023; 403, 47: importance of, 119, 26; in reality keer er than in song, 268, 38; man of, fare of, 47. 19: not attained by hunting for it, 53, 47 UDA mans end, 266, 18; one's, to be trusted, 184, 455 power of, 264, 30; strung, tendency of, 404 5 the an-logy of, 44, 30
Feelings, at meeting and farewell, 338, 1: by which we live, 525, 20, 21; duration of, 42, 30 fine, without vigour of reason, 106, 27; finer 58 cf, not given to every one, 217, 7: great, like instincts, 135, 20; our most exalted, 38, 37; the hid in man, 539, 15
Feet, her, beneath her petticoat, 155, I Feigned, the, never lasting, 315, 7 Felicity, from self alone, 152, 30; greatest, 432, 11; or infelicity, a man's, how to know, 544, Si in the soul, 163, 19
Fell, Dr., I do not love thee, 155, 47 Fellow, a lucky, 35, 40 Fellow-feeling, effect of, 5, 33 Fellowship, a, to cultivate, 342, 3; founded on truth, 150, 24; the end of existence, 312, 35 Fetters, a burden, 304, 29; when one wishes to be in, 544, 44
Feud, an eid, easily renewed, 47, 27 Fibres, tension of all, 427, 35 Fiction, compared with truth, so1, 48; contrasted with fact, 369, 19, 20; interior to fact, 99, 12; more potent than fact, 338, 2 Fictions, to resemble truth, 105, 31 Fiddlestick, the power of, 539, 8 Fidelity, among rebels, 370, 11; but a name, 308, 45; compared with justice, 569, 40; contrasted with love, 246, 11; gone, 67, 5; importance of, 501, 25; in small things, 3, 25; to be practised, 504, 15
Fiel, a large, to ear, 166, 43 Fields, and cities, 70, 5; holy, over whose acres, 138, 26; where joy for ever dwells, 102, 21 Fiends, absolute, 2, 18
Fight, no, no victory, 174, 43; to, and die, 492, 44; to, with stronger, no obligation to, 473, 38 Fighting, an affair of the heart, 313, 10; and being beaten, compared, 173, 10; does not feed men, 294, 44
Fights, that, and runs away, 109, 51; 146, 14 Figure, a pleasing, value of, 16, 40 Finding, not the possession, sweet. 298, 1 Fine Art, as defined by Ruskin, 106, 23 Fine, characteristic of everything, 427, 39, 40: thing, expense of buying, 547, 12
Finesse, a great step in, 198, 41; hovers between virtue and vice, 225, 21; recourse to, mars of incapacity, 227, 18
Finger-posts, authentic, few, 377, 41 Finished-off, man, no satisfying, 531, 17; tersus becoming, 281, 5
Finite, and infinite, respective conditions of, as, 26; let alone infinite, too much for man, 202, 21; shadows forth infinite, 261, 45.
Fire, a mighty, to quickly kindle, 482, 48 ; a neglected, 294, 30; a slow, 19, 53; and wind, 484, 19; its power, 27, 12; little, to be trodden out, 8, 42; matter for the, 541, 3; no extinguisher, 179, 33 sayings about, 427, 46, 47: 425, 1, 2; slumbering in ashes, 233, 27; the only, worth
gauge or measure, 264, 20; who walks through, 552, 45; wind-fed and wind-extinguis ed, 320, 1 Fires, violent, 157, 10
Fireside, my own, an Eden, 540, 20
Firm, legal, advantage of two attorneys in, 476, 34 Firmament, unseen support of, 311, 26 Firmness, and rashness, 543, 24; with pliability, 179, 8
Fitting, the, right, 540, 6
Flame and smoke as passing into each other, 203, 10 Flash, not the thunder, 206, 13
Flatterer, and tyrant, compared, 465, 35; at whose expense he lives, 498, 36; Latin word for, 438, 10; Steele on, 165, 25; the greatest, 474, 26; to be avoided, 324, 44
Flatterers, why so obnoxious, 450, 45 Flattery, a visor to villany, 307, 39; and censure, 347, 22; attractive, 23, 10; benefit of, 421, 7; easier than praise, 275, 10; how harmful, 390, 27; ill-manners, 315, 49; inconsistent with love, 303, 35; to cajole fools, 301, 52; to fools and wise men, 487, 50; what is wanting to be pleased with, 539, 37
Flaws, where they abound, 427, 39, 40 Flesh to be sacrificed to spirit, 440, 8 Flock, no, without one dead lamb, 472, 39 Flogging before better than afterwards, 200, 9 Flower, a, despising, as a weed, 538, 26; and seed, relation of, 428, 49; born to blush unseen, 117, 23; of humanity, and the slime it springs from, 429, 18; of sweetest smell, 429, 1 ; petal of, and granite boulder, 191, 12; mystery included in a, 251, 16; tender, with head elate, 457, 8; thoughts from a, 494, 27
Flowers, as symbols of nature, 44, 33; preachers, 568, 32; contrasted with weeds, 408, 22; fair, by the wayside, 382, 15; the sweetest, our treatment of, 529, 39; Wordsworth on, 127, 18 Fluency, often scarcity, 421, 13; secret of, 538, 42 Flunkeyism, 271, 19
Flush of health and of death, 469, 33
Flute, a beginner on, 192, 31; and lyre, with voice compared, 429, 3; blowing on, not playing, 30, 40 Fly, not without spleen, 89, 15; those that, 482, 45; Uncle Toby to the, 125, 1; 482, 21 Foe, no, no friend, 144, 27; service of, 412, 52 Foes, our greatest, within, 187, 14; what they teach, 115, 13
Folk, old and young, compared, 213, 15 Folks that stand on their heads, 478, 3 Follies, in relation to wisdom, 92, 39; committed out of complaisance, 165, 12; greatest o', 432, 31; our own and others', differently regarded, 529, 9; reasoning us out of our, 483, 2
Folly, a characteristic of, 87, 25; 105, 31; com- pared with wisdom, 557, 5; disdainful of itself, 329, 5; greatest and commonest, 494, 20; how alone to conceal, 404, 29; in every one, 212, 10; learned at college, 211, 43; sayings about, 429, 5, 6; shoot, as it flies, 98, 20; the short, best, 227, 12; universal, 172, 15; without remedy, 80, 34
Fondness, fostered by time, &c., sure, 406, 1 Fontaine, La, epitaph of, 211, 44
Food, though given, to be wrought for, 125, 39 Fool, a great, 179, 7; a, how to win, 45, 1; a learned, 505, 36; a, mark of, 404, 34; a, when silent, 89, 16; a witty, and a foolish wit 29, 7: a thorough, 144, 34; according to Wm. Blake, 153, 19; and his hobby, 2, 60; and his opinions, 359, 29; and learning, 236, 34; and wise. 10, 39; and wise contrasted, 252, 10; and wise, diverse conduct of, 538, 40; as he grows richer, 443, 22; as regards reason, 148, 53; at forty, 30, 2; conscious of his folly, 151, 4; effect of praising, 355, 13, 14; familiarity with
a, 32, 59; getting rid of a, 31, 45; hard argu- ing with, 333, 23; hard to discover, 208, 23; his sorrows and fears, 466, 25; in his devotions, 504, 8; in his own house, knowledge of, 349, 7; kind, the worst, 437, 28; let me play the, 241, 34; mark of, 333, 1; may be knave, 164, 31; never changes his mind, 180, 41; no, without admirer, 505, 37; of virtue, be, not of vice, 108, 36; old and young, 239, 35; once a, always, 363, 18; rather than saddening experience, 166, 26; the conceit of, 404, 27; the, sayings about, 429, 7-11; to self worse than being fooled, 563, 12; truths of a, 425, 26; without the stuff of success, 505, 35 Foolish, man, aversion of, to the wise, 108, 38; ever, never wise, 151, 48; once very, never wise, 150, 30
Foolishest man, no, without a knowledge all his
Foolishness, the thought of, 457, 35. Fools, all, 9, 62; 482, 20; 498, 23; behaviour to, characteristic of a man, 315, 13; deliberate, the wisdom of, 322, 17; favoured by fortune, 113, 19; favourites of women and fortune, 124, 36; gabble of, evil of, 420, 6; dependence of knaves on, 174, 47; in majority, 89, 49; 239, 27 indis- pensable to wise men, 118, 14; intelligible only to God, 66, 48; learn by experience, 89, 40; learned, 236, 10; many, 404, 28; necessary to wise men, 127, 38; old, 398, 32; our feelings towards, 343, 54; rush in where angels fear to tread, 109, 39; safety in number of, 444, 23; sayings about, 5, 54-68; 6, 1, 2; 90, 50-52; talk of, 238, 39; taught by experience, 97, 34; that boast, 399, 14; their company saddening, 421, 15; to be first won, 11, 41; trade by the eye, 219, 50; unpitied by heaven, 154, 14; with wit insufferable, 108, 17
Foot, had music in't, 157, 17; slip of, and of tongue, 81, 18
Footway, rule of, 452, 13
Fop, described, 6, 2; Diogenes on a, 186, 18; one, plague to another, 292, 8
Forbidden, the, man's hunger for, 506, 17; the, striven after, 300, 35
Force, affects action, not will, 225, 23; and right, power of, 201, 47; brute, as social bond, 32, 49; contrasted with opinion, 335, 38; even in a righteous cause, 89, 25; giant for weak, 212, 42; man of, virtue in, 471, 3; no honestly exerted, lost, 302, 29; personal, 347, 1; when legitimate, 228, 18; with and without judgment, 516, 11 Forebodings of evil, 114, 36 Foreign, rule insecure, 8, 25; the, not to be shunned, 264, 32
Foresight of what is to come paralysing, 421, 4 Forest, planting and uprooting, 509, 26 Forethought, value of, 221, 34; favours brave, 113, 39 manly, 216, 48
Forfeited, the, irrecoverable, 305, 21 Forgetfulness contrasted with memory, 273, 14, 25 Forgetting, expediency of, 88, 16 Forgiven, the, duty of, 5, 18 Forgiveness, a source of weakness and strength, 94, 57; natural, 163, 41; rule of, 513, 30; too ready, 364, 23; with God and Christ, 471, 28 Forgiving, and forgetting, Schopenhauer on. 492, 31; Schiller on, 513, 31 Forgotten things insignificant, 325, 23 Form, mathematical, versus living, 271, 2 Forms, our social, 339, 17; their tendency to corrupt, 21, 17 Formulas, essential, 262, 4; value to man of, 473, 31 Forsaking all, the profit of, 552, 9 Fortitude, as a virtue, 460, 42; commended, 122, 45; defined, 432, 27; the root of, 340, 15; true, defined, 499, 49; value of, 471, 17
Fortunate, better than wise, 81, 13; the always, 441, T4 Fortune, a better, to desire, 495, 51; a broken, man of, 340, 27; a fickle jade, 257, 45; a goddess, man-made, 312, 4; 318, 30; a great, 259, 13; a great, making and keeping, 208, 10; alternation of, with misfortune, 444, 7; a man's best, 54, 5; a man's, on his forehead, 414, 33; a match for, 495, 3; an expensive mistress, 353, 49; and her gifts, 225, 26; and her arrows, Dryden on, 240, 48; and ruin, 269, 8; and the prudent, 342, 23; and wisdom, 557, 1; a self-sufficing, 537, 32; an unsuitable, 50, 49; bad, may be changed to good, 455, 20; bad, virtue for, 187, 15; boast of, 473, 2; choice of, 494, 37; companion of valour, 516, 9; dependent on the character, 39, 46; diminished, how to behave under, 172, 17; does not change nature, 245, 51; effect of good and bad, 416, 44; everywhere, 549, 29; fatal lures of, 22. 34; fatal obstructions to, 467, 33; favoured of, at home, everywhere, 113, 32; favourite of, 22, 48; footsteps of, 257, 34; frowns of, not to daunt, 242, 16; frustrating power of, 38, 8; Goethe on effect on him of good and bad, 154, 26; good, 564, 5; good, a cloak, 530, 8; good, accompanied by good, 538, 7; good and bad, a necessity, 224, 22; good and bad, as ele- ments of virtue, 136, 45; good and bad, how to act in, 182, 34; good, and good sense, 523, 28; good, folly of not embracing, 143, 6; good, from our endeavours, 129, 29; good, hard to sustain, 527, 15; good, mother of, 401, 20; good or bad, to whom it falls, 232, 49; good or bad, ill to de- termine, 523, 34; good or bad, to what we ascribe, 520, 40; good, our stomach for, 339, 23; good, preferred to wisdom, 137, 42; good, to the soldier, 350, 16; good, to be seized, 158, 21; good, virtue for, 187, 15; her aim in her gifts, 172, 18; how to behave under change of, 172, 16; how to manage, 528, 36; how to make, a friend, 177, 40; how to overcome, 541, 9; indiffer- ence to, 503, 17; inequalities of, Burns' lament over, 253, 19; large, misery of keeping, 280, 23; loon of, and the webs, 439, 39; making, mistress, 202, 54; maligned, 207, 24; man maker of his, 92, 17; neither to elate nor depress, 390, 10; not to be mistress, 296, 40; not to be yielded to, 565, 4; one's, in one's self, 75, 13; one's, no fleeing from, 107, 37; ounce of, value of, 279, 10; ever with industry, 549, 27; partiality of, 53, 42; power of, 163, 25; power of, by whom alone con- fessed, 448, 38; power of, limited, 299, 2; pre- sent and past compared, 240, 25; question about, 450, 25; reverse of, Horace in, 231, 6; ruler of life, 201, 48; smiling or frowning, 394, 36; surest passports to, 115, 3; the arbiter of, 157, 9; the favoured of, 68, 29; 307, 10; the goal of, attained, 541, 42; unstable, 331, 13, 33; vanity of seek- ing, 480, 9; vicissitudes of, 225, 25; 514, 2; visit of, 473, 25; the, which nobody sees, 429, 17; what the benefits of, require, 541, 18; when she means most good, 543, 26; with the fortunate, 185, 13; without an enemy, 413, 18; without fairness, 326, 30; without prudence, 318, 30. See Fortuna.
lion compared, 519, 6; cunning of, 30, 14; once caught, 505, 34; one, more than enough, 79, 8; sayings about, 429, 21, 22; skin of, sewed to the lion's, 52, 14; taken in by a fowl, 160, 4
France, in, nation not corporate, 226, 25; in the van, 225, 28; inconsistencies in, 498, 31; indebted- ness of, to Corneille, 498, 51; monarchy in, 225, 27
Francis I. after his defeat at Pavia, 498, 32 Franklin, motto on bust of, 84, 36 Frankness, entire, permitted only to a few, 105, 10 Fraud, defined, 70. 48; detected in a, distrusted, 365, 24; first and worst, 428, 3; in generalities, 70, 52; to conceal, 114, 15 Frederick the Great, a king, 179, 25; bis indif- ference to criticism, 166, 14; last words of, 226, 17; social ideal of, 188, 7; tired of ruling slaves, 169, 40; two sides of his character, 5, 48 Frederick William I. of Prussia's boast, 170, 9; in reference to his son, 156, 27 Free, country, life in, 184, 11; creature, a per- fectly, 472, 11; man, according to Klopstock, 152, 29; man, the, defined, 429, 24; man, the only, 143, 48; no man, not lord of himself, 208, 28; not all, who mock their chains, 86, 35; settled in heaven, 393, 30; the, man, 366, 32; to be, what it is, 490, 15; who thinks himself, without being free, 298, 29; who to be deemed, 304, 22; who would be, 155, 21; 220, 7
Freedom, 265, 17; abroad versus slavery at home, 28, 29; absolute, 2, 19; and cultivation, 48, 45; and peace, 481, 36; but a name, 281, 16; civil, home of, 549, 14; conceded, 167, 36; condition of, 554,9; 556, 29; dependence of, on knowledge, 20, 36; dependent on law, 53, 38; enough, 171, 17; essential to existen ce, 114. 35; from woman's bonds, 84, 34; her quiet eye, 313, 31; human, 61, 1. 2, 5; in chains, 254, 31; in bonds, 331, 44; native to man, 172, 42; no barriers to, 154, 30; no, without justice, 182, 24; often imaginary, 267, 14; only in obedience, 96, 22; on the moun- tains, 23, 9; perfect, the condition of, 483, 32; popular, Mephisto on, 54, 38; real, condition of, 205, 28 sayings about, 64, 16, 17; spiritual, attainable by all, 245, 50; the basis of, 335, 6: the condition of, 267, 20; 306, 8; the height of, 304, 13; the measure of, 394, 51; the only pos- sible, 193. 11; the only, worth the name, 446, 4; the seat of, 67, 12; the secret of, 190, 39; true, in self-command, 90, 54; when abused, 344, 45; which we cannot use, 534, 13; who deserves, 334, 52; who has sufficient, 15, 16; with despotism, 495, 14; without self-command, 304, 6; 306, 8 Freedom's battle once begun, 109, 41 Freemen, corrupted, 48, 25 Free-will, necessity of, 265, 13; source of slavery, 393, 34; the function of, 95, 35 French, and English, contrasted, 222, 21; Mme. de Staël on, 359, 5; Revolution, first watchword of, 114, 12
Frenzy, effect of, compared with reason, 258, 44 Fretting, vanity of, 69, 2 Friend, a constant, 3, 26; a, defined, 208, 41; a desirable, 169, 22; a faithful, Napoleon on, 5, 30; a far off, effect of tidings of, 423, 50; a good, 6, 41; a good, value of, 270, 48; 505, 10; a, love for 30, 29; a necessity for a man, 171, 18; a reconciled, 17, 43; a reserved, danger of, 472, 2; a stranger, not an estranged, 29, 2; a, to all, 146, 61; a true, 513, 20; a, value of, 384, 30; a virtuous, casting off, 491, 16; a, with world shut out, 386, 20; an agreeable, Horace's preference for, 299, 37; an imprudent, dangerous, 376, 53: an old, not easily lost, 187, 42; and his faults, 13, 29; as nettle, not echo, 29, 10; admonition of, value of, 419, 21; difficulty of helping, in trivial
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