world's treatment of, 464, 31
Excellences, deep hidden, 40, 33
Excellency, witness of, 207, 7
Excellent, persons, tortures of, 383, 31;
the, difficult, 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, 437, 14
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;
extravagant, 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 inducing fear, 97, 46;
authority of, 84, 30;
bitter, 34, 19;
bitter, advantage of, 532, 28;
by indulgence 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;
perfect, 345, 48;
second-hand, 563, 22;
the fruit of life, 429, 31;
thrift in, 34, 5;
value of, 334, 22;
without thought, 529, 3
Experiences, common, instructive, 72, 45;
our chief, 337, 34
Experiments, subject of, 103, 26
Exposition of one another order of the day, 472, 1
Expression, clear, of difficult matters, 492, 19;
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, 26;
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 spirits, 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;
seeing, of the first times, 434, 30;
single, to be venerated, 18, 48;
soul in the, 416, 10;
the power of, 57, 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 witnesses, 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;
more trustworthy than ears, 324, 2;
never satisfied, 154, 36;
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, 158, 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 most, 325, 13;
without looking, 126, 5
Eye-witness, and hearsay, 350, 13;
one, value of, 332, 14

F

Fable, Love's world, 64, 13
Face, a handsome, 112, 36;
and the mind, 426, 43, 44;
as revealing the heart, 190, 33;
expression of, contrasted with tongue, 458, 10;
full impression of, 205, 11;
God hath given you one, 126, 11;
like a benediction, 142, 36;
not deceptive, 204, 21;
the index of age, 98, 42;
the, of labour, Carlyle on, 512, 10;
two sides of, 302, 33
Faces, expressive, 466, 38;
that most charm us, 482, 29;
variety in, 206, 3
Facility, how to acquire, 539, 31
Fact, and speech, gulf between, 401, 1;
goodman, plain-spoken, 130, 39;
not law, 5, 27;
significance of a, 5, 25, 26; 287, 46;
stranger than 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, 264, 22;
and the truth of reason, 421, 32;
beadrolls of, insignificance of, 556, 33;
dissipated by time, 486, 35;
downright, our need of, 529, 36;
modelled by the man, 51, 48;
plainest, men blind to, 161, 8;
stubborn 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 imaginative, 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;
commended, 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-assertion of, 427, 6;
in days of sorrow, 523, 43;
in whom alone, 104, 3;
knowledge  in, 383, 10;
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, 101, 31
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, 315, 41
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, 317, 30
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, 10
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;