Chapter 40

'It is much easier to say what it is not,' iii. 38.

EAST. 'The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,' v. 35.

ECONOMY. 'The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,' iii. 300.

_Emptoris sit eligere_, i. 155.

EMPTY-HEADED. 'She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,' iii. 48.

END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in imitation of Johnson), iii. 301; 'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82; 'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii. 407.

ENDLESS. 'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3.

ENGLAND. 'It is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78.

ENGLISHMAN. 'An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say,' iv. 15; 'We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishmen are not rare in it,' iii. 10.

ENTHUSIAST. 'Sir, he is an enthusiast by rule,' iv. 33.

EPIGRAM. 'Why, Sir, he may not be a judge of an epigram; but you see he is a judge of what is _not_ an epigram,' iii. 259.

_Esprit_. 'Il n'a de l'esprit que contre Dieu,' iii. 388.

_Étudiez_. 'Ah, Monsieur, vous étudiez trop,' iv. 15.

EVERYTHING. 'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything,' iv. 176.

EXCELLENCE. 'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320; 'Is getting £100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii. 184.

EXCESS. 'Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in nature,' i. 453.

EXERCISE. 'He used for exercise to walk to the ale-house, but he was carried back again,' i. 397; 'I take the true definition of exercise to be labour without weariness,' iv. 151, n. 1.

EXISTENCE. 'Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him,' iii. 58.

F.

FACT. 'Housebreaking is a strong fact,' ii. 65.

FACTION. 'Dipped his pen in faction,' i. 375, n. 1.

FAGGOT. 'He takes its faggot of principles,' v. 36.

FALLIBLE. 'A fallible being will fail somewhere,' ii. 132.

FAME. 'Fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400; 'He had no fame but from boys who drank with him,' v. 268.

FARTHING CANDLE. 'Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover to show light at Calais,' i. 454.

FAT. 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' iv. 313.

FEELING. 'They pay you by feeling,' ii. 95.

FEET. 'We grow to five feet pretty readily, but it is not so easy to grow to seven,' iii. 316.

FELLOW. 'I look upon myself as a good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362; 'When we see a very foolish _fellow_ we don't know what to think of _him_,' ii. 54.

FELLOWS. 'They are always telling lies of us old fellows,' iii. 303.

FIFTH. 'I heartily wish, Sir, that I were a fifth,' iv. 312.

_Filosofo. 'Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo_' (Giannone), iv. 3.

FINE. 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' (a college tutor), ii. 237; 'Were I to have anything fine, it should be very fine,' iv. 179; v. 364.

FINGERS. 'I e'en tasted Tom's fingers,' ii. 403.

FIRE. 'A man cannot make fire but in proportion as he has fuel,' &c.,