Chapter 44

'Shunning an infidel to-day and getting drunk to-morrow' (A celebrated friend), iii. 410.

INGRAT. 'Je fais cent mécontens et un ingrat' (Voltaire), ii. 167, n. 3.

INNOVATION. 'Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation,' iv. 188.

INSIGNIFICANCE. 'They will be tamed into insignificance,' v. 148, n. 1.

INSOLENCE. 'Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out,' iii. 316.

INTENTION. 'We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad,' ii. 12.

INTREPIDITY. 'He has an intrepidity of talk, whether he understands the subject or not,' v. 330.

INVERTED. 'Sir, he has the most _inverted_ understanding of any man whom I have ever known,' iii. 379.

IRONS. 'The best thing I can advise you to do is to put your tragedy along with your irons,' iii. 259, n. 1.

IRRESISTIBLY. 'No man believes himself to be impelled irresistibly,' iv. 123.

IT. 'It is not so. Do not tell this again,' iii. 229.

J.

JACK. 'If a jack is seen, a spit will be presumed,' ii. 215, n. 4; iii. 461.

JACK KETCH. 'Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch' (Boswell), iii. 66.

JEALOUS. 'Little people are apt to be jealous,' iii. 55.

JOKE. 'I may be cracking my joke, and cursing the sun,' iv. 304.

JOKES. 'A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance,' ii. 231.

JOSTLE. 'Yes, Sir, if it were necessary to jostle him _down_,' ii. 443.

JOSTLED. 'After we had been jostled into conversation,' iv. 48, n. 1.

JUDGE. 'A judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs,' ii. 344.

JURY. 'Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime once a week,' iii. 11.

K.

KEEP. 'You _have_ Lord Kames, keep him,' ii. 53.

KINDNESS. 'Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness,'