more precious than life, 246, 30;
new-made, doth forget men's names, 207, 29;
not merely to be wooed, 384, 34;
once lost, 7, 29;
our true, the seat of, 338, 42;
post of, Carlyle on, 448, 35;
public, effect of, 357, 8;
reward of action, 272, 8;
stintedness in, 532, 3;
the place of virtue, 199, 38;
the post of, 47, 25;
titles of, 489, 16, 17;
to only two sets of men, 503, 45;
to whom due, effect on, 22, 11;
true and false, 199, 15;
undeserved, delight in, 101, 3
Honourable, nothing, without justice, 299, 11;
praiseworthy, 159, 36;
the, defined, 535, 45
Honours, and manners, 238, 37;
dearly bought, 238, 38;
effect of, on manners, 159, 48;
great, great burdens, 133, 35;
hereditary, value of, 155, 22;
how to render remote, near, 474, 16;
men's, 312, 13
Hood, a page of, Lowell on, 130, 23
Hoof, a clattering, 155, 29
Hook, to be always baited, 386, 37
Hope, a helmet, 118, 22; a long, 79, 22;
a too dear, 476, 42;
a waking dream, 110, 4; 222, 44;
against fortune, 552, 29;
air-castles of, still in the air, 140, 24;
all men's, 223, 18;
all-pervasive, 405, 50;
cherisher of life, 49, 52;
deceitful, 320, 23;
enjoyment, 495, 7;
evil of want of, 548, 42;
fed by fancy, 119, 9;
good, the effect of, 401, 29;
he who lives by, 441, 18;
indulgence in, 509, 41;
last stay to give way, 227, 36;
living in, 147, 43;
man's great, 265, 21;
man's greatest happiness, 110, 41;
man's only possession, 263, 48;
never comes, 548, 23;
never lose, 382, 6;
no extinguishing of, 311, 45;
no, no fear, 548, 15;
often illusory, 3, 9;
persistency of, 224, 15;
persuasive power of, 180, 33;
power of, 173, 13; 525, 20;
prayed for, as a blessing, 37, 27;
sayings about, 400, 31-33;
our inclination to, 521, 31;
term of, 5, 4;
the phœnix, 447, 39;
the power of, 319, 16;
to be cherished, 112, 42;
true, 500, 6;
vain, gain in loss of, 20, 25;
worse than despair, 563, 13
Hopes, a bad investment, 401, 22, 23;
as causes of ruin, 102, 11;
high, 82, 41;
our, defined, 338, 18;
vain spending on, 78, 10
Horace, his aim in life, 279, 20;
on his muse, 63, 31
Horace's, prayer, 158, 1;
thanksgiving to the gods, 63, 30
Horizon, a property in the, 470, 21
Horse, a willing, 32, 58;
and his rider, 117, 7;
bridled, ear of, 84, 20;
even a, will stumble, 89, 20;
grown fat, 37, 19;
sayings about the, 435, 30, 31;
what makes a good, 36, 1
Horses, buying, 185, 18;
in England and Italy, 82, 45;
to be fed, not pampered, 84, 16
Hospitable heart, who owns, 403, 27
Hospitality, a, not to be refused, 399, 2;
genuine, effect of, 471, 8;
not impoverishing, 168, 9;
what it consists of, 242, 19
Host, the, characterised, 435, 32
Houndsditch, the exodus from, when possible, 523, 11
Hour, darkest, 422, 38;
past, never returns, 292, 48;
that brings pleasant weather, 484, 27;
the call of, 71, 31;
the, God's, 223, 18;
the morning, 283, 47;
the transient, to be seized, 36, 53
Hours, all, to be improved, 406, 7;
happy, 435, 36
House, an empty, 435, 37;
divided against itself, 171, 8;
full of guests, 36, 31;
one's own, one's real root-room, 317, 44;
ornament of a, 446, 31;
the, what it may be made, 333, 2
Household as home, 435, 39
Households, kingdoms, 251, 22
House-keeping, hard, 270, 45;
vice of our, 460, 34
House-mother, a good, 389, 7
Houses, high, upper storey of, 156, 31;
repairing old, cost of, 327, 19
How, question of, 518, 25
Human, affairs, their risings and sinkings, 451, 46;
countenances, sympathetic, 510, 26;
element in man, 533, 45;
face, Sir J. Reynolds on, 435, 41;
kindness, full o' the milk o', 564, 36;
mind, the disease of, at present, 423, 44;
mind, saying of, 498, 5;
nature, everywhere the same, 332, 17;
nature, how to distort, 152, 40;
nature, its derivation, 65, 34;
nature, rules applicable to, 189, 52;
nature, strength of, under wrong, 468, 12;
nature, the peculiarity of, 3, 65;
nature, two ruling principles in, 504, 2;
race, character of, 100, 36;
race, daring of, 22, 45;
race, the, its best condition, 436, 3;
race, the, task of, 421, 17;
strength, to be exerted against fate, 404, 17;
things, frail support of, 328, 32;
worth, reverence for, the essence of all religions, 375, 28
Humanism contrasted with Christianity, 42, 56
Humanity, a common property, 524, 22;
and education, 65, 34;
as an invention, 261, 53;
as a whole, the only true man, 173, 2;
divinity of, 475, 42;
due to education, 163, 28;
grandmother and daughters of, 396, 32;
grows dearer, 402, 48;
how to elevate, 490, 41;
imitated, so abominably, 167, 14;
in deeds, 517, 28;
its designs and hopes, 206, 5;
joy of, 431, 30;
mistrust of, evil of, 151, 46;
only true principle of, 446, 23;
our goal, 163, 32;
our limit, 253, 8;
the battle of, 215, 46;
the essence of, 198, 43;
the sacred law of, 84, 14;
to be esteemed, 517, 28;
true, in the fields, 567, 33;
what to seek for, 527, 10;
who lives for, 554, 19;
without God, 338, 20
Humble, only, to rule, 169, 10;
sanctuary of, 422, 17
Hume and Johnson, if combined, 554, 24
Humility, a noble, how possible, 334, 42;
and knowledge, 356, 29;
as an ornament, 432, 33;
before God, effect of, 319, 35;
idea of, 428, 39;
modest, beauty's crown, 281, 37;
the Christian doctrine of, 420, 16;
too much, 569, 32;
want of, 518, 32
Humour, and pathos conjoined, 547, 33;
contrasted with wit, 558, 3;
essence of, 425, 41;
enough of a kind, 262, 26;
good, effect of, on weak spirits, 118, 18;
men of, men of genius, 276, 6
true, 231, 16;
true, defined, 500, 8-10
Hunger, a teacher, 259, 2; 285, 39;
best sauce, 180, 6;
effect of, on temper, 101, 30
Hurry, effect of, 104, 48, 50;
evil of, 536, 6;
man in a, Whately's advice to, 441, 16;
sign of incompetency, 553, 22
Hurting and healing, 513, 8
Husband, and wife, qualities of, 190, 45;
and wife, as economists, 492, 19;
the hen-pecked, and the tyrant wife, Burns' anathema on, 52, 1
Husbandman, and his labours, 436, 6;
happiness of, 320, 27;
unselfish labour of, 17, 29;
Virgil of, 371, 19
Husbandry, good, good divinity, 129, 34
Huss, John, at the stake, 322, 3
Hymen contrasted with war, 518, 38
Hymn-book not a panacea, 467, 14
Hypocrisy, homage to virtue, 223, 32;
intolerable, 468, 29;
in managing another, 93, 47;
where it begins, 91, 44
Hypocrite, Bishop Hall on, 436, 7;
Burns' aversion to, 127, 10;
worse than open sinner, 29, 47
Hypocrites, Satan's dupes, 174, 1
Hypotheses, lullabies, 164, 27;
repudiated by Newton, 164, 25
Hypothesis, power of a good stout, 122, 5
Hyssop in chink of wall, raison d'être of, 555, 4

I

Icicle, image of chastity, 40, 37, 39
Idea, a single, devotion to, 168, 37;
a single, possession by, deprecated, 169, 18;
an idle or distracting, evil of, 110, 18;
an infinite religious, power of, 421, 38;
and fact compared, 464, 28;
devotion to an, 379, 7;
fixed, danger of, 5, 47;
manifestation of, as beautiful, fleeting, 65, 28;
men possessed with an, 276, 18;
new, hard to instil, 491, 11;
power of an, 186, 34;
risk of sacrificing all to, 289, 37;
superior worth of, 538, 33;
the, and its manifestations, 65, 5;
the, that is once spoken no longer ours, 436, 8;
to be acted on, if it cannot be uttered, 217, 47
Ideal, accompaniments of, 559, 6;
better than actual, 91, 55; 92, 9;
attained, a low one, 149, 45;
describable only when conceived as real, 448, 40;
every one has his, 26, 58;
from duty, 116, 31;
in actual, 415, 33;
now insisted on, not natural, 112, 32;
ousted by the real, 415, 28;
pursuing one's own, 173, 29;
the, an illusory vision, 72, 40;
the, for every one, and how to realise it, 124, 7;
to grow in the real, 436, 9
Idealist, the, and his body, 315, 23
Ideals, extinct, 65, 4;
our, defined, 338, 21
Ideas, ancient, entertainment by moderns of, 174, 9;
change of, pleasure in, 315, 43;
confining, controlling power of, 524, 31;
delusive, prevalence of, 58, 10;
hard to discern, 391, 26;
having, and thinking, compared, 493, 9;
how realisable, 302, 34;
like pieces of money, 207, 34;
made flesh, 399, 21;
mistaken, the stupefying and pauperising effect of, 201, 35;
new, daring and inspiring, genesis of, 297, 26;
not measure of a man, 312, 32;
our, like pictures, 338, 22;
our want, not facts, 524, 45;
power of, 546, 30;
the shells of, 89, 38;
those who build on, 479, 23;
to assume a visible form, 91, 30;
world of, a refuge, 492, 14
Idioms, in language, 91, 11
Idiots, only, twice cozened, 116, 22;
the greatest, 478, 13
Idle, always busiest, 180, 20;
always dodge work, 108, 7;
chagrins of, 467, 28;
man, character of, 333, 8;
man, according to Socrates, 143, 41;
people, and their ennui, 345, 8;
the, and the devil, 423, 28;
the, characteristic of, 238, 20;
their intentions, 436, 13
Idleness, a reproach, 490, 23;
a tempting of the devil, 178, 52;
better than a bad trade, 29, 13;
busy, 268, 40;
evil of, 15, 19; 34, 3; 287, 29; 306, 42;
evil of encouraging, 175, 11;
fly, 108, 1;
harder work than industry, 97, 20;
in youth, penalty of, 25, 37;
its hopelessness, 187, 32;
mischief of, 224, 14;
strenuous, the toil of, 403, 35;
the blight of genius, 5, 20;
the evil of, 12, 48;
the toil of, 153, 17;
too much, effect of, 497, 38
Idler, a young, 214, 42;
like a handless watch, 15, 20
Idlers, great talkers, 345, 16
Idolater, the true, 363, 32
Idolatry, a mad, 488, 19;
the, that is condemnable, 46, 9
"If," comprehensiveness of, 24, 37;
the inventor of, 60, 30;
virtue in, 568, 22
Igdrasil, the tree, 399, 46
Ignorance, a modest confession of, 13, 51;
and unconsciousness of it, 147, 36;
as support of priestcraft, 377, 26;
audacious, versus timorous knowledge, 546, 22;
comfort of, 116, 10;
contrasted with error, 84, 50; 85, 4; 85, 10;
evil of, 306, 42; 436, 14;
happiness, 83, 45;
honest, 471, 1;
human, Goethe on, 320, 29;
in action, 315, 25;
life-long, a tragedy, 414, 3;
man's, 483, 25;
of good from bad, effect of, 178, 21;
of self, 175, 5;
our, fatal, 539, 26;
rather than falsehood, 28, 56;
sense of, from greater knowledge, 443, 28;
sense of, mark of wisdom, 175, 5;
that marks a superior nature, 469, 32;
the only darkness, 472, 20;
true, 146, 2;
unconsciousness of, 147, 37;
voluntary, blameworthness of, 148, 41
Ignorant, man, an, according to the Hitopadesa, 151, 14;
the, most violent, 477, 24
Iliad, and wayside incidents, 436, 16;
Homer's, Carlyle on, 158, 37; 436, 17
Iliads, no formulæ for making, 467, 32
Ilium, sacred, fate of, 86, 33
Ill, a solace under, 184, 35;
patiently borne, 442, 41;
reports, credit given to, 274, 7;
saying and thinking no, 208, 41;
to do, who fears, 551, 18
Ill-bred man, mark of, 447, 30
Ill-done, the, no concern of ours, 554, 29
Ill-fortune, the, inexperienced in, 551, 32;
without power on him whom good fortune deceives not, 181, 41
Ill-humour, protection from, 517, 31
Illiterate man, mark of, 447, 30
Ill-luck, fascination of, 398, 34;
how to avert, 31, 27
Ill-mannered, manners of, to whom odious, 441, 26
Ill-manners, three sources of, 356, 32
Ill-natured man, and public spirit, 202, 33
Ills, imaginary, Burns on, 33, 11;
in relation to blessings, 31, 17;
the, we have to be borne, 424, 19;
why ills, 139, 17
Ill-thought of, to be, sometimes a good, 490, 24
Ill-tidings, let, tell themselves, 123, 31
Ill-usage, effect of, 292, 16
Illusion, and after remorse, 61, 32;
its extent, 482, 19;
men's fondness for, 275, 9;
no end to, 72, 50;
power of, 349, 33;
that gladdens contrasted with truth that saddens, 80, 2;
the attractive power of, 320, 20;
the danger of, 422, 34;
which pervades life, 533, 23
Illusions, unmasking of, disliked, 502, 16
Illustrious, men, the sepulchre and the memorial of, 325, 5;
the most, 197, 15
Ill-will, the force of, 426, 48
Images, things expressed through, 480, 44
Imagination, a need of, 397, 22;
and reality, the worlds of, 465, 7;
appeals to, 263, 43;
as wings of ostrich, 157, 2;
contrasted with judgment, 223, 34;
death of, in love, 472, 27;
free, as nothing else, 315, 19;
in the poet, 448, 18;
madcap of the brain, 223, 33;
man's ruling and divine power, 403, 38;
more sensitive than heart, 200, 54;