Chapter 43

'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,' iv. 224.

HANGED. 'A friend hanged, and a cucumber pickled,' ii. 94; 'Do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of a royal family?' iii. 270; 'He is not the less unwilling to be hanged,' iii. 295; 'If he were once fairly hanged I should not suffer,' ii. 94; 'No man is thought the worse of here whose brother was hanged,' ii. 177; 'So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain us,' iii. 318; 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged,' iii. 11; 'You may as well ask if I hanged myself to-day,' iv. 173; 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.

HAPPINESS. 'These are only struggles for happiness,' iii. 199.

HAPPY. 'It is the business of a wise man to be happy,' iii. 135.

HARASSED. 'We have been harassed by invitations,' v. 395.

HARE. 'My compliments, and I'll dine with him, hare or rabbit,' iii. 207.

HATE. 'Men hate more steadily than they love,' iii. 150.

HATER. 'He was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2.

HEAD. 'A man must have his head on something, small or great,' ii. 473, n. 1.

HEADACHE. 'At your age I had no headache,' i. 462; 'Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it,' iii. 381.

HEAP. 'The mighty heap of human calamity,' iii. 289, n. 3.

HELL. 'Hell is paved with good intentions,' ii. 360.

HERMIT. 'Hermit hoar in solemn cell,' iii. 159.

HIDE. 'Exert your whole care to hide any fit of anxiety,' iii. 368.

HIGH. 'Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven,' v. 222.

HIGHLANDS. 'Who can like the Highlands?' v. 377.

HISS. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him,' i. 451.

HISTORIES. 'This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery,' iv. 362.

HOG. 'Yes, Sir, for a hog,' iv. 13.

HOGSTYE. 'He would tumble in a hogstye as long as you looked at him, and called to him to come out,' i. 432.

HOLE. 'A man may hide his head in a hole ... and then complain he is neglected,' iv. 172.

HONESTLY. 'I who have eaten his bread will not give him to him; but I should be glad he came honestly by him,' v. 277.

_Honores. 'Honores mutant mores_' iv. 130.

HONOUR. 'If you do not see the honour, I am sure I feel the disgrace' (fathered on Johnson), iv. 342.

HOOKS. 'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57.

HOPE. 'He fed you with a continual renovation of hope to end in a constant succession of disappointment,' ii. 122.

HOTTENTOT. 'Sir, you know no more of our Church than a Hottentot,' v. 382.

HOUSEWIFERY. 'The fury of housewifery will soon subside,' iv. 85, n. 2.

HUGGED. 'Had I known that he loved rhyme as much as you tell me he does, I should have hugged him,' i. 427.

HUMANITY. 'We as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity,' iv. 191, 284.

HUNG. 'Sir, he lived in London, and hung loose upon Society,' i. 226.

HUNTED. 'Am I to be hunted in this manner?' iv. 170.

HURT. 'You are to a certain degree hurt by knowing that even one man does not believe,' iii. 380.

HYPOCRISY. 'I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery,' iv. 71.

HYPOCRITE. 'No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures,' iv. 316.

I.

I. 'I put my hat upon my head,' ii. 136, n. 4.

IDEA. 'That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one,' ii. 126; 'There is never one idea by the side of another,' iv. 225.

IDLE. 'If we were all idle, there would be no growing weary,' ii. 98; 'We would all be idle if we could,' iii. 13.

IDLENESS. 'I would rather trust his idleness than his fraud,' v. 263.

IGNORANCE. 'A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance,' iii. 335; 'He did not know enough of Greek to be sensible of his ignorance of the language,' iv. 33, n. 3; 'His ignorance is so great I am afraid to show him the bottom of it,' iv. 33, n. 3 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance,' i. 293; 'Sir, you talk the language of ignorance,' ii. 122.

IGNORANT. 'The ignorant are always trying to be cunning,' v. 217, n. 1; 'We believe men ignorant till we know that they are learned,' v. 253.

ILL. 'A man could not write so ill if he should try,' iii. 243.

ILL-FED. 'It is as bad as bad can be; it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept and ill-drest,' iv. 284.

IMAGERY. 'He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves to lose her,' v. 268, n. 2.

IMAGINATION. 'There is in them what _was_ imagination,' i. 421; 'This is only a disordered imagination taking a different turn,' iii. 158.

IMMORTALITY. 'If it were not for the notion of immortality he would cut a throat to fill his pockets,' ii. 359.

IMPARTIAL. 'Foote is quite impartial, for he tells lies of everybody,' ii. 434.

IMPORTS. 'Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong,' iv. 226.

IMPOSSIBLE. 'That may be, Sir, but it is impossible for you to know it,' ii. 466, n. 3; 'I would it had been impossible,' ii. 409, n. 1.

IMPOTENCE. 'He is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence to spend his money,' iii. 40.

IMPRESSIONS. 'Do not accustom yourself to trust to impressions,' iv. 122.

IMPUDENCE. 'An instance how far impudence could carry ignorance,' iii. 390.

INCOMPRESSIBLE. 'Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I ever knew,' &c., v. 391.

INDIA. 'Nay, don't give us India,' v. 209.

INEBRIATION. 'He is without skill in inebriation,' iii. 389.

INFERIOR. 'To an inferior it is oppressive; to a superior it is insolent,' v. 73.

INFERIORITY. 'There is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it,' ii. 169.

INFIDEL. 'If he be an infidel he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel,'