A.

=Aaron=, in absence of Moses, 532, 4

=Abasement= and elevation, 471, 6

=Abbot=, who burnt his fingers, 322, 27

=Abiding=, blessedness of, 30, 50

=Abilities=, natural, and culture, 290, 13;

like natural plants, 290, 12

=Ability=, combined with experience, 383, 37;

contentment with one's, 199, 49;

dependent on activity, 443, 27;

dependent on will, 37, 56;

everything in art, 60, 9;

how to know one's, 507, 49;

superior, use of, 407, 2;

the height of, 434, 24;

trying to surpass one's, 497, 18;

why conjoined with poverty, 451, 3

=Able= man, described, 7, 19;

importance of finding and installing, 106, 22; 427, 38;

men, why not rich, 451, 3

=Abode=, man's, in the future, 415, 27

=Above=, things, nothing to us, 361, 15;

those, have ends, 479, 30

=Absent=, an ideal person, 415, 28

=Absenteeism=, moral, 521, 41

=Abstract= terms, emptiness of, 161, 45

=Abstractions=, lofty, _versus_ complexities at hand, 240, 3

=Absurd= man, the, 223, 20

=Absurdity=, no, without its champion, 89, 51;

some slow in discerning, 181, 16

=Abundance=, effect of, on reason, 199, 2;

love of, 147, 54

=Abuse=, as against use, 1, 4; 2, 31;

no argument against use, 95, 43, 44;

provocative of abuse, 47, 41;

what is unsusceptible of, 534, 27

=Abuses=, as matter of sport, 260, 33

=Accent=, a pervading country, 469, 29

=Accessible=, discrimination of, from inaccessible, 471, 34

=Accidents=, behaviour under all, 243, 39;

rare, pleasure in, 316, 22

=Accommodation=, mutual, law of the world, 548, 5

=Accord=, perfect, with whom alone possible, 305, 39

=Accusing= spirit, and the oath, 415, 31

=Acheron=, greedy, 88, 21

=Achieved=, the, to him who looks forward, 55, 7

=Achievement=, exulting in, 473, 42

=Achievements=, greatest, first reception of, 432, 4

=Achilles=, the great, see, 207, 44

=Acknowledgment=, exacting a grateful, 426, 16

=Acquaintance=, large, wasteful of time, 175, 42

=Acquaintances= and friends, 268, 34

=Acquaintanceship=, expecting happiness from, 148, 11

=Acquirement=, every fresh, value of, 90, 56

=Acquisition=, unjust, 507, 40

=Acquisitions=, new, a burden, 297, 24

=Act=, an immortal seed grain, 36, 39;

who does not, dead, 551, 10

=Acting= according to thought, difficult, 489, 28

=Action=, a great source of, 362, 41;

a rule of, 546, 33;

a seed of circumstances, 163, 14;

all vital, unconscious, 184, 44;

an unwarrantable, 412, 53;

and thought, the worlds of, 465, 8;

best and only correct, 418, 3;

civil, second to doing a good, 297, 41;

contrasted with narrative, 289, 39;

contrasted with thought, 61, 25;

delayed, swallowed up by time, 486, 36;

dependent on will, 474, 37;

dumb, 55, 9;

effect of, as contrasted with thought, 485, 41;

effect of, on time, 349, 29;

every, measure of, 89, 52;

good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126, 35;

good, power of, 75, 7;

great, the effect on us of, 21, 47;

greater than sentiment, 91, 52;

hasty, contrasted with long pondering, 229, 34;

healthy, 153, 38;

how to test, 149, 47;

in, chief qualification, 184, 27;

involuntary, 3, 57, 58;

not thought, end of man, 425, 12;

our fairest, 427, 4;

our spontaneous, 339, 22;

power of, 224, 30;

real, the element of, 369, 11;

rectitude of, and intention, 370, 34;

relation of, to thought, 58, 37; 484, 47;

rule for, 114, 44;

rule of, 274, 45;

sole basis of, 205, 21;

spirit of, everything, 454, 32;

tendency of, 174, 5;

to be with decision, 57, 45;

true rule of, 92, 29;

virtue in, 334, 44;

voluntary, 38, 22;

worth of, dependent on motive, 163, 7, 10

=Actions=, brilliant, often matter of shame, 529, 1;

effect on us of our, 227, 22;

good, effect of, 128, 49;

good, in secret, 128, 48;

great, crowned, 133, 6;

great, eloquence, 434, 14;

how measured by wise men and fools, 108, 55;

more significant than words, 493, 41;

not to be hastily judged, 277, 21;

our epochs, 481, 20;

the importance of, 486, 1;

words, 562, 4;

wrong, apologies for, 377, 12

=Activity=, a noble and courageous, security of, 93, 52;

effect of, on the soul, 400, 5;

life without scope for, 205, 42;

man's, ever ready to relax, 266, 26;

reconciling effect of, 84, 39;

sole source of cheerfulness, 415, 6;

transforming power of, 66, 26;

undisciplined, hopelessness of, 505, 45;

without insight, 476, 7

=Actor=, might instruct a parson, 79, 20;

well-graced, interest in, 19, 33

=Acts=, great success of, due to fortune, 82, 32;

great, great thoughts in practice, 135, 21;

great, origin of, 133, 2;

illustrious, inspiring, 182, 18;

individual, not to be judged, 114, 13;

men's, detectives, 568, 17;

our, our angels, 337, 5

=Actual=, all from great mystic deep, 395, 24;

in relation to ideal, 395, 9;

the ideal, 415, 33

=Adaptation=, a sovereign rule, 387, 29

=Address=, value of, to boy, 122, 47

=Adieu=, a sweet, 395, 27

=Administer=, ability to, 93, 36

=Admiration=, and imitation, step between, 470, 5;

and love, 525, 34;

as a feeling, 305, 33;

contrasted with love, 63, 54;

elevating power of, 316, 34; 443, 25;

power of true, 460, 28;

the power of, 525, 20, 21;

unwise, contrasted with unwise contempt, 325, 21

=Admonition=, not readily forgiven, 274, 18

=Adore=, man to, not to question, 263, 36

=Adulation=, attendant on wealth, 259, 16;

the evil of, 104, 7;

to people and to kings, 107, 24

=Advance=, who does not, 364, 19

=Advanced=, age, a symbol of, 524, 26;

man, unhappy, 261, 19;

thinker, self-satisfaction of, 513, 32

=Advancing= in life, 490, 27

=Advantage=, or disadvantage, as motives, 202, 38;

to be taken, 209, 24;

price of, 9, 5

=Adverbs=, significance of, 126, 46

=Adventure=, commended, 217, 24;

for story's sake, 165, 39

=Adventurers=, good done by, 38, 38

=Adventures=, possible in life, 533, 26

=Adversaries=, merits of, how to treat, 85, 36

=Adversities=, how alone to overcome, 446, 9

=Adversity=, a school, 472, 30;

as a test, 97, 48;

as a teacher, 22, 46;

behaviour in, 89, 11;

brave spirit in, 2, 8;

compared with prosperity, 221, 48; 358, 22, 24, 26, 27;

contrary effects of, 438, 43;

effect of, on a man, 512, 23;

enlightening power of, 559, 25;

heroic endurance of, 145, 34;

man struggling with, and his deliverer, 432, 26;

more bearable than prosperity, 110, 33;

more tolerable than contempt, 268, 47;

rule for, 189, 22;

temper for, 5, 13;

test of strength, 177, 53; 175, 13;

use of, 408, 20;

virtue of, 460, 42;

what it brings to light, 215, 34

=Advice=, bad, 261, 32, 33;

best, 417, 32;

common motive in asking, 284, 32, 33;

giving and taking, 524, 13;

giving, and the wisdom to profit by it, 524, 12;

gude, seasonable, 137, 9;

medical, 300, 35;

men liberal with, 330, 13;

motive for asking, 522, 29;

of those who are well, 98, 46; 179, 5;

person to give, 335, 15;

rule in giving, 368, 19; 384, 11;

to be followed, if good, 172, 10;

unacceptable, 161, 34;

wanted and not wanted, 415, 34

=Advisement=, good, good, 320, 34

=Adviser=, to conceal his superiority, 61, 18

=Advising=, 368, 20, 21

=Advocate=, trade of, Carlyle on, 403, 20

=Afar=, the, 445, 12

=Affairs=, change of, change of men, 295, 46

=Affectation=, a confession, 489, 31;

essence of, 425, 31;

in style, 323, 29

=Affection=, display of, to be distrusted, 547, 30;

due to man, 58, 41;

effect of absence on, 2, 12;

entire, characteristic of, 83, 43;

great, and deep veneration, incompatible, 201, 8;

private, effect of, on judgment, 357, 7;

profound, characteristic of, 339, 34;

selfishly sought after, 177, 14;

tragic effects of wounded, 138, 36;

true, described, 507, 36;

value of, 420, 15

=Affections=, holy, the band of, 40, 40;

how won, 105, 15; 330, 37;

our, characteristic of, 337, 7;

our greatest tyrants, 324, 40;

the proper objects of, 387, 47;

to be moderated, 56, 31;

without a tap-root, 566, 13

=Affinities=, spiritual, as a bond, 166, 17

=Affirmation= before denial, 243, 35

=Affirmatives=, wanted, 71, 37

=Afflicted=, the, of God, helplessness of, 45, 3; 531, 36

=Affliction=, weakness of being daunted by, 542, 40

=Agamemnon=, brave men before, 517, 7

=Age=, and youth, characteristics of, 53, 26;

a thought to present to, 508, 40;

as a teacher, 21, 14;

compared with youth, 568, 37, 45, 49; 469, 2;

crabbed, and youth, 49, 30;

distrustful, 37, 16;

effect of, on our views of life, 444, 36;

emancipation from one's, impossible, 303, 20;

every, has its characteristics, 39, 52;

glory of, 430, 11;

golden, whither fled, 64, 27;

in man and in woman, 124, 15;

of gold, the true, 23, 31;

old, bashfulness in, 25, 61;

our, characterised, 337, 9, 10;

present, characterised, 525, 25;

surest sign of, 456, 27;

the function of, 60, 23;

the riddle of, how to be solved, 451, 34;

the self-satisfaction of, 186, 30;

this, chief curse of, 420, 6;

weakening effect of, 328, 11;

without brains, 341, 16

=Agencies= to be economised, 117, 4

=Ages=, great, characteristic of, 10, 43;

the, and the hours, 435, 35

=Agnosticism= of doubt, and that of devotion, 415, 43

=Agreeable=, art of being, 458, 34;

condition of being, 474, 28;

to be, every one's duty, 90, 13

=Agreement=, an indifferent, commended, 15, 38

=Agriculture=, advantages of, 329, 8;

occupation in, 411, 15

=Aid= at call, 482, 11

=Aim=, a lower, secured by devotion to a higher, 415, 26;

to, not enough, 569, 27

=Alacrity= in sinking, 166, 32

=Alarm=, who sounds, safe, 83, 29

=Alchemists=, discoveries of, 415, 49

=Alchemy=, 18, 29

=Alcohol=, pure, the thing wanted, 534, 14

=Alexander= the Great at the tomb of Achilles, 320, 26;

Juvenal on, 509, 4;

his tomb, 400, 18

=All=, co-operation with, 314, 28;

for man's good, 111, 34;

forsaking, finding all, 323, 33;

how one whole, 488, 11;

in flux, 10, 54;

in nothing, 185, 53;

the, incomprehensibility of, 141, 33;

the law and all the prophets, 220, 5;

reflex of, in every man, 92, 35;

things from above, 328, 9;

things, how to subject, 563, 32;

things of same stuff, 328, 7;

to be found in No, 319, 22

=Allegiance=, to fallen lord, merit of, 145, 34

=Allegory=, a transparent palace, 222, 5

=Alliance= with a powerful man, 318, 49

=Alliteration=, 17, 10

=Allotted=, the, and the non-allotted, 536, 39;

what is, and what is not, 414, 41

=Alms=, a rule in, 184, 46;

giving, but not thought, 492, 40;

to go before, 243, 14

=Almsgiving=, 305, 48

=Alms-people=, Ruskin's, 287, 38

=Alone=, doubly, 544, 28;

the word, 564, 34

=Alphonso= of Castile, saying of, 327, 30

=Altitude= to unpractised eye, 496, 36

=Amateur=, not to be discouraged, 416, 3

=Ambassador=, Wotton's definition of, 14, 18

=Ambition=, a dream, 73, 3;

a noble, 470, 13;

a shadow's shadow, 167, 16;

a vain, 322, 7;

and love, wings to great deeds, 258, 6;

as a motive, 399, 1;

danger of, 2, 33;

effect on mind of, 133, 32;

fling away, 107, 45; 165, 28;

end of, 266, 3;

for place and greatness, 321, 32;

freedom from, 485, 30;

great, from great character, 133, 8;

height of, 326, 15;

hurtful vice, 161, 17;

in Cæsar, 545, 21;

man's, 397, 33;

minds most and least actuated by, 276, 12;

Mme. de Pompadour on, 474, 1;

no, in heaven, 187, 21;

not to be too high-pitched, 243, 42;

often vain, 87, 11;

parent of virtue, 484, 9;

slavery, 14, 19;

toil and vanity of, 249, 44;

vaulting, 511, 48;

way of, 556, 14

=Ambitions= followed by adulation, 416, 4

=Ambition's= hands, washing of, 19, 9

=Ambitious=, man and his masters, 222, 43;

men, the risk to, 543, 1;

thoughts, 25, 47

=Amen=, let me say, 241, 35

=Amendment=, first impulse to, 386, 9;

though civilisation should go, 168, 34

=America=, a forecast of, 512, 20;

the only true, 184, 48

=Americans=, and English, 427, 44;

Emerson on, 335, 8

=Amiss=, nothing, with simpleness and duty, 296, 2

=Amusement=, good of, 569, 23;

_versus_ business, 173, 18;

wish of society, 396, 38

=Anarchy=, and tyranny, 504, 14;

death, 131, 13

=Ancestors=, deeds of, not ours, 88, 8;

our, 332, 12;

our duty to, 527, 40;

people who disrespect, 345, 20;

who has no need of, 553, 27

=Ancestry=, boasting of, 145, 21; 271, 10; 473, 2;

who has nothing but, to boast of, 150, 46

=Anchor=, that holds, 36, 38;

to the soul, 544, 36

=Anchorage= for man, 494, 24;

necessary in this world, 208, 33

=Anchoring=, no, fast, 377, 8

=Ancients=, and moderns, teachings of, compared, 416, 7;

our masters in morals, 521, 20;

that don't grow old, 432, 44;

we, 521, 9

=Anecdote=, value of one, 331, 37

=Angel=, the recording, and the oath, 415, 31;

the recording, no fable, 451, 4

=Angel's= face, her, 154, 47;

visits, 249, 38, 39

=Angel-visits=, 37, 27

=Angels=, and accommodation for them, 443, 10;

as created, 94, 22;

Disraeli on side of the, 450, 27;

men one day, 526, 13;

Swedenborg on, 187, 22;

the best, not in community, 417, 48;

visits of, let pass, 430, 34

=Anger=, a majestic, 471, 7;

a man who provoked to, silences it, 551, 34;

a punishment to one's self, 490, 7;

ability to moderate, 281, 18;

best antidote to, 271, 22;

best restraint upon, 142, 9;

dissolved in menaces, 552, 44;

end of, 540, 21;

for nothing to no purpose, 482, 28;

how to avoid, 215, 27;

how to overcome, 240, 16;

no guard to itself, 296, 1;

of a strong man, 416, 8;

often unreasonable, 466, 44;

restraint of, 142, 49;

slowness to, 147, 19, 20;

the bridle of, 272, 13;

the end of, 62, 44;

to burn slow, 240, 21;

unreasonable, with others, 28, 13;

unrestrained, evil of, 364, 18;

with one we love, 491, 3

=Angler=, the born, 568, 18

=Angling=, Izaak Walton on, 526, 18;

like humility, 567, 40

=Angry= at all, angry for nothing, 148, 47;

man beside himself, 159, 15

=Anguish=, great purifying power of, 6, 64

=Animal=, denial of, in man, 416, 47;

every, loves itself, 327, 42;

life of an, 439, 1

=Animals= summed up in man, 264, 19

=Annihilation=, no such thing as, 377, 7

=Annoyances=, the smallest, effect of, 453, 51

=Annoying= others, 144, 21

=Answer=, a perfect, 145, 31;

the shortest, 453, 27;

wise, how to get a, 177, 26; 531, 43

=Ant=, a silent preacher, 316, 23;

lesson of, 125, 3;

the, example of, 342, 16

=Antæus=, meaning of the fable, 122, 18

=Antagonist=, a prudent, 218, 10;

how to meet an, 373, 1;

an, not to be underrated, 307, 46

=Anthropomorphism= in thought, 60, 32

=Antiquary=, memory of, characterised, 21, 42

=Antique=, the, our admiration of, 337, 6

=Antiquity=, chief moral agent of, 453, 11;

divided from us only by age, 109, 2;

the world's youth, 16, 13

=Antony= over Cæsar's body, 33, 33

=Anvil= and hammer, 30, 31; 74, 20, 30

=Anxiety=, effect of, 198, 10;

misery of, 34, 41;

Plato on, 340, 18;

specific against, 220, 11;

to be despised, 62, 24

=Ape=, perfect, _versus_ degenerate man, 181, 6

=Aphorism=, a short but certain, 323, 33;

essence of, 425, 37;

true salt of literature, 271, 16

=Aphorisms=, only words, 534, 9;

the value of, 65, 38

=Apollo= to Phaëthon, 106, 34

=Apology=, Christian, 487, 15;

from want of sense, 307, 7;

who needs no, 19, 32

=Apostle= and preacher, different aims of, 224, 11

=Apostates= never genuine believers, 479, 54

=Apothegms=, practical ineffectuality of, 185, 16

=Apparel=, and the man, 416, 11;

proclaims the man, 48, 36;

singularity in, 149, 1

=Appearance=, deceptiveness of, 23, 13;

_minus_ reality, 61, 23;

neglect of, becoming in man, 112, 31;

_versus_ reality, 325, 47

=Appearances=, and reality, 481, 34;

deceptiveness of, 7, 52; 18, 23; 305, 17;

first, deceptive, 56, 32;

keeping up, 421, 14;

mere, mislead, 277, 7;

not to be trusted, 116, 39;

power of, 61, 22;

science of, 102, 36;

value of, 534, 32

=Appetite=, a satisfied, incredulous of hunger, 48, 13;

a well-governed, 24, 54;

allures to destruction, 163, 16;

change of, with age, 72, 13;

cruelty of, 546, 23;

from eating, 222, 25;

ideal of, 88, 5;

in youth, 7, 14

=Appetites=, unanswered, ground of complaint, 275, 42

=Applaud= to the very echo, 169, 19

=Applause=, dependence on, 152, 13;

gaining, and avoiding censure, 202, 20;

popular, not fame, 219, 56;

popular, the poison of, 320, 28;

reward of virtue, 278, 11;

to be regarded with suspicion, 545, 42

=Application=, felicitous, merit of a, 471, 12;

importance of right, 475, 4

=Appreciation= and criticism, 201, 27

=Apprenticeship=, no man's completed, 391, 13

=Approved man=, the, 312, 31

=Aptitudes=, to be tested, 79, 7

=Arc=, the, that we see, all that is drawn, 524, 44

=Arch-enemy=, the, 416, 14

=Archer=, how known, 14, 22

=Archimedes=, and his prop, 72, 4;

exclamation of, 89, 8

=Architect=, a fellow-worker, 446, 42

=Architecture=, attraction of, 174, 23;

Greek, character of, 136, 9;

the best, 417, 33

=Arguing=, disingenuous, 145, 25;

rule in, 185, 7

=Argument=, contrasted with testimony, 412, 48;

folly of heat in, 323, 38;

the best, 227, 22;

vain against nature, 166, 38;

_versus_ instruction, 370, 8

=Arguments=, wagers for, 108, 49

=Aristocracies= that do not govern, 356, 46

=Aristocracy=, an, the likely fate of, 13, 53;

essence of, 425, 36;

the, defined, 360, 37;

the right basis of, 229, 24

=Aristocrat=, a young, Iphicrates to, 287, 44

=Armada=, Spanish, scattering of, 5, 42

=Armies= not to be stamped out, 217, 3

=Arms=, a last resort, 328, 25;

and peace, 18, 8

=Army=, a school of morality, 416, 18;

book to study life in, 416, 17;

like a serpent, 14, 25

=Arrogance=, how fostered, 407, 20

=Art=, a great step in study of, 553, 20;

a haven of refuge, 265, 31;

a love for, test of, 472, 42;

a test of, 300, 43;

a wise man's, defined, 540, 27;

achievement in, 155, 9;

ancient and modern, contrasted, 14, 37, 38;

ancient, and modern science, 534, 11;

and Christianity, 420, 19;

and deception, life with, 566, 24;

and life, 516, 17;

and morals, laws of identical, 64, 25;

and nature, compared, 290, 28;

and nature, perfection by, 272, 43;

and morals, rules in, compared, 188, 15, 16;

and religion, 372, 13;

and the religious passion, 451, 13;

as the spirit is, 550, 16;

different appreciations of, 53, 32;

without breath of life, 237, 4;

capability everything in, 130, 26;

condition of perfection in, 265, 23;

contrasted with criticism, 225, 5;

contrasted with manufacture, 550, 16;

display of to be distrusted, 504, 40;

done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;

easily learned, 414, 29;

concealment of elaboration in, 54, 28;

Emerson's definition of, 421, 28;

false ambition in, 191, 20;

first and last secret of, 287, 46;

genuine, the _raison d'être_ of, 91, 5;

great, the work of full manhood, 9, 12;

great, Ruskin's definition of, 9, 38;

highest achievement of, 435, 10;

highest, characterised, 434, 36;

highest problem of, 435, 7;

highest subject of, 60, 19;

how far teachable, 205, 10;

how to attain proficiency in, 292, 24;

ignoble, test of, 300, 43;

imitation of nature, 328, 41;

in, ability everything, 60, 9;

in, the only good, 173, 5;

inversion and subversion of, 545, 23;

less expressive than affection, 5, 40;

life of, 416, 12;

measure of love of, 567, 22;

mediæval and modern, 431, 14;

mediæval and modern, compared, 188, 1, 2;

misfortune in, 442, 34;

more than strength, 204, 18;

necessity in, 539, 33;

noble, expression of a great soul, 308, 12;

noblest, 465, 20;

object of, 445, 16;

of both divine and earthly inspiration, 22, 30;

no patriotic, 473, 44;

perfection of, 18, 28;

principle and aim of, 66, 8;

produced hastily, 416, 24;

products, nought and not bad, 357, 48;

question as regards, 450, 29;

rated by gold, 48, 43;

sayings about, 65, 16-18;

secret of power of, 207, 3;

_sine quâ non_ of, 100, 1;

teaching of, 456, 42;

technical skill in, 451, 13;

the best in, 186, 2;

the chief matter in any, 35, 47;

the claims of, 247, 47;

the faculty of, 426, 46;

the great in, defined, 540, 44;

the greatest, 452, 43;

the ideal in, 54, 7;

the last step of, 392, 10;

the laws of, 438, 26;

the oldest, a mushroom, 290, 22;

the theatrical, 431, 8;

to learned and unlearned, respectively, 70, 27;

true, characterised, 499, 38, 39;

unintelligible to the head alone, 433, 22;

unquickened from above and within, 507, 53;

when to be called fine, 136, 10;

who knows, half or wholly, 552, 5;

without enthusiasm, 316, 29;

worthless, apart from nature, 139, 20

=Artifice=, danger and disgrace of, 225, 9

=Artisan= at home everywhere, 361, 25

=Artisans= and artists, 184, 36

=Artist=, a bad and a good, distinguished, 323, 16;

an, essence of, 474, 27;

and his age, 416, 26;

and his art, 205, 10; 416, 28;

and his work, 416, 25; 512, 30;

and society, 14, 30;

at thought of mob, 65, 30;

conceiving and executing, 416, 27;

destructive influence of society on, 396, 12;

function of, 462, 10;

great, and his ideal, 431, 12;

greatest, characterised, 434, 36;

his function, 334, 45;

his praise in his work, 55, 8;

his true praise, 265, 5;

measuring tools of, 14, 29;

modesty in, merit of, 410, 38;

necessity of sight to, 448, 40;

good, mark of, 418, 15;

true praise of, 14, 28;

Ruskin's definition of, 14, 27; 14, 30;

spiritual, born blind, 454, 40;

the best, 426, 28;

the greatest, as defined by Ruskin, 143, 49;

vocation of, 416, 29;

truth in hand of, 18, 57

=Artist-work=, the most important, 301, 1

=Artistes=, conceit of, 218, 23

=Artists=, ancient, aim of, 208, 27;

and artisans, difference between, 184, 36;

great and feeble, distinctions between, 534, 34;

inventing and at work, 60, 28;

no standard for amateurs, 416, 3

=Arts=, a family of sisters, 421, 8;

all fine, related, 10, 38;

and nature, 221, 39;

conditions necessary for, 421, 22;

great, contrasted with false, 133, 9;

on what their vitality depends, 425, 21;

the fine effect of culture of, 168, 42;

the fine, mother and father of, 444, 12;

the fine, secret of, 182, 17;

the fine, the aim in, 188, 45;

the fine, what we know in, 190, 37;

the perfection of the, 447, 25;

the principle and aim of, 66, 8;

to learned and unlearned, 438, 33;

useful mother and father of, 444, 12

=Asbestos=, fate of what is not of, 541, 3

=Ashes=, live in their wonted fires, 77, 28;

the, of your sires, 394, 45

=Asketh=, he that, 93, 32

=Asking=, timid, 364, 50;

twice better than going wrong, 28, 33; 29, 48

=Aspiration=, its effect on us, 539, 36;

persistent, of mankind, like a compass to a ship, 447, 29

=Ass=, bray of, 367, 38;

why offensive, 85, 25;

dreams of the, 58, 16;

man with a head of, 41, 23;

mistaking itself for a stag, 41, 8;

never more than an ass, 171, 46;

rather an, that carries us, 29, 26;

the hungry, 222, 31;

the kick of, how to treat, 171, 45

=Assertion= no proof, 27, 6;

without discrimination, Dante on, 40, 58

=Asses= know asses, 79, 6

=Assistance=, a universal necessity, 304, 16;

mutual, a law of nature, 180, 43

=Association= of ideas, 257, 47

=Associations=, old, not to be bought, 526, 6

=Assuming=, the most, 479, 16

=Assurance= doubly sure, 167, 49

=Astray=, who walks, 551, 16

=Atheism=, moral root of, 277, 18;

Plato on, 466, 42;

practical, defined, 395, 10;

what it amounts to, 301, 3

=Atheist= by night, 34, 7;

no good man, 211, 26

=Atheist's= God, the, 301, 3

=Athene=, the goddess, 430, 18

=Athens= and Greece, 556, 6

=Atonement=, commencement of, 421, 11

=Attachment=, personal, as a ground of public conduct, 346, 51;

powerful, effect of, 354, 51;

the law of, 337, 13;

tokens of, 133, 10

=Attainment=, satisfactory, 313, 26

=Attempt= begun to be carried through, 24, 18

=Attention=, evil effect of constant, 46, 54

=Attorney's= epitaph, 155, 15

=Auctioneer=, the, at a non-plus, 358, 10

=Audacity=, the effect of, 346, 39

=Augustine's= prayer for deliverance, 245, 7

=Auld=, acquaintance, 389, 33;

Nickie Ben, Burns' address to, 102, 18

=Austerity= superseded, 544, 31

=Australia=, fertility of, 75, 50

=Author=, and his brother authors, 301, 5;

cares of an, 311, 20;

compared with his works, 301, 5;

enraged, 49, 35;

fastidious about his style, 543, 2;

genius not enough for, 208, 13;

how to understand an, 177, 44;

most engaging powers of, 459, 28;

in the regard of publisher, 301, 6;

popular, wish of, 84, 18;

profession of, 278, 44;

reading an, 524, 37;

rule in choosing, 42, 44;

unconsciously portrays himself, 90, 2;

who should not be, 150, 6;

without gift of selection, 151, 6

=Authority=, a test of character, 474, 25;

based on injustice, 194, 24;

based on kindness and force, 144, 5;

gentleness in, commended, 175, 14;

conduct of people in, 345, 1;

how founded, 330, 39;

how to destroy, 219, 2;

how weakened, 314, 12;

not to be lightly resisted, 304, 8;

of a greater, submission to, 449, 2;

provocative of disobedience, 548, 21

=Authors=, and their works, 284, 11;

Horace's advice to, 406, 30;

most original, 444, 3;

of a people, their worth, 420, 5;

three classes of, 468, 24;

to be content with choice readers, 379, 27;

young, error of, 568, 8

=Authorship=, three difficulties of, 468, 25; 497, 9

=Avarice=, and luxury compared, 258, 11;

compared with poverty, 354, 18, 35;

contrasted with poverty,

62, 43;

how created, 204, 39; 488, 32;

in contrast with gluttony, 124, 42;

no, in hell, 137, 21;

subduing, profit of, 230, 44

=Avaricious=, the, 386, 27;

the, their affectation, 50, 32

=Avengement=, man's part, 65, 35

=Avenue=, every, barred now, 317, 29

=Awkwarkness=, cause of, 521, 15;

sign of genius, 133, 22

=Awoke= and found myself famous, 165, 10

=Axioms=, only words, 534, 9

=Aye= or no, the power of, 189, 41

B

=Bachelors=, old, why there are, 415, 25

=Back=, defence of, 488, 38;

going, when easy and when impossible, 492, 44;

rather than wrong, 381, 1

=Backbiter=, and face-flatterer, the same, 300, 29

=Backsliding=, fatal, 478, 19

=Bacon=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;

treatment of, 349, 20;

unconcern about his name, 110, 26

=Bad=, as a doctor, 129, 35;

at strife with good, 382, 8;

for sake of good, 125, 42;

ground, pains not to be wasted on, 297, 16;

in the thinking, 315, 2;

man always suspicious, 80, 32;

man, his enemies, 416, 45;

man, opponents of, 59, 44;

man, pretending to be good, 261, 38;

men, ability of, 477, 19;

mistaken for good, 417, 38;

nothing and no one absolutely, 218, 7, 13;

nothing, if understood, 78, 40;

nothing so, as we think, 378, 47;

once, bad always, 386, 23;

railing against, deprecated, 71, 37;

the fear of, 436, 18;

the, sparing, 31, 33; 148, 23;

thing, worthless, 1, 8;

when good, 331, 32

=Bairns=, young and old, and their parents, 543, 9

=Ballads=, more powerful than laws, 241, 33

=Ballot-box=, a leveller, 33, 45

=Banishment=, bitter bread of, 76, 17

=Baptism=, with water and with fire, 186, 15

=Barbarian=, a, 150, 38

=Barbarism=, defined, 549, 31;

first step from, 495, 10

=Barbarous=, character, traits of, 475, 31;

man, first spiritual want of, 428, 37

=Bargain=, a, and the purse, 6, 38;

a good, a loss, 31, 39;

to be clear, 260, 23

=Bargains=, confined to man, 263, 1;

great, no economy, 178, 45;

third party to, 470, 34

=Barrel-organ= in a slum, 170, 45

=Barter=, passion for, 77, 51

=Base=, and depraved training in, 70, 26;

man, a, who means to be your enemy, 541, 34

=Baseness=, at heart, effect of, on character, 542, 7;

irrespective of looks, 112, 37;

provision for turning, into nobleness, 21, 23

=Bashfulness=, a defect, 180, 30;

without merit, 278, 20

=Bathing=, no, twice in the same river, 302, 52

=Battalions=, the heaviest, God with the, 329, 27

=Battle=, a, won, Wellington on, 444, 45;

all, misunderstanding, 9, 14;

ceasing for want of combatants, 88, 22;

each man alone in, 190, 36;

necessary to victory, 401, 46;

won, as sad as one lost, 297, 35

=Battlefield=, mercy on the, 331, 11

=Battlefields=, world's, 465, 23

=Bayonets=, Napoleon on, 566, 31

=Be=, to, not to be, 490, 32

=Be-all= and end-all, 412, 54

=Bear= and endure, 346, 9, 10

=Beard=, or no beard, 146, 41;

pride of, 170, 46

=Beast=, no, without some pity, 301, 8;

ungovernable, how to manage, 188, 43

=Beasts=, wild and tame, to be avoided, 324, 44

=Beau=, Fielding's definition of, 1, 13

=Beaufort=, Cardinal, last words of, 537, 24

=Beautiful=, a manifestation, 417, 7;

and good, 417, 8; 430, 39;

benefit of, 540, 41;

capacity for, rare, 325, 12;

compared with rational, 331, 48;

effect of fostering, 113, 55;

Emerson on, 315, 37;

feeling for, to be cultivated, 264, 3;

formerly holy, 185, 50;

foundation of, 417, 10;

how to find, 526, 32;

in curves, 187, 43;

like sunshine, 417, 9;

nothing, by itself, 314, 45;

nothing, out of place, 206, 2;

only in song, 114, 25;

souls, short-lived, 162, 29;

the alone, 482, 34;

the, and the rude craftsman, 510, 51;

the, in the form, 23, 42;

the, lot of, 513, 21;

the, reconciliation of good and true, 518, 17;

things, the two most, 459, 27;

test of the, 313, 43;

to be encouraged, 460, 15

=Beauty=, a fragile good, 112, 30;

a sign of purity, 153, 37;

a thing of, 21, 37;

adoration of, 273, 29;

aim of the world, 208, 28;

all, in man, 312, 35;

and folly, 26, 14;

and life in the small, 189, 51;

and the eternal, inseparable, 153, 52;

and virtue, rarely combined, 110, 42;

and worship of, Goethe on, 66, 9;

as seen, undefinable, 567, 44;

as truth, 520, 22;

attractive power of, 1, 16;

basis and essence of, 540, 25;

born a, born married, 42, 6;

complex, 488, 22;

contrasted with grace, 131, 36-38;

contracted with grace and innocence, 66, 10;

contrasted with grandeur, 132, 8;

dead, chaos comes again, 109, 47;

defined, 197, 26;

dependence of, on expression, 97, 50;

effect of contrast on, 47, 33;

Elysian, 81, 4;

everywhere, 290, 35;

fair point of the line of, 427, 3;

final aim of art, 66, 8;

fleeting, 70, 15;

forms of, compared, 1, 15;

human, effect of sight of, 301, 40;

ideal, fugitive, 436, 10;

ideal of, 436, 11;

in a plain dress, 447, 47;

in common lives, 476, 20;

in the purest sense, 469, 10;

like a leaf, 225, 20;

moral power of, 382, 16;

mortal, 22, 27;

not always blessed, 322, 34;

not separable from the eternal, 153, 52;

not vain, because fading, 197, 4;

of a rainbow character, 523, 4;

one, mortification to another, 292, 8;

only seen in suffering, 379, 37;

personal, power of, 129, 60;

persuasive power of, 10, 10;

possibility of, 471, 5;

principal ingredient in, 511, 41;

seat and sources of, 507, 34;

seldom unconscious, 105, 3;

sense of, and duty, 453, 9;

sought for pleasure, 20, 36;

sources of, 184, 40;

subtle attraction of, 99, 42;

the best part of, 413, 29;

the nature of, 406, 40;

too great, effect on sight of, 403, 5;

unconsciousness of, rare, 105, 3;

undemonstrable, 331, 23;

vain, 103, 24;

why snarled at, 274, 49;

with modesty, rare, 368, 3;

without modesty, 313, 42;

without virtue, 99, 25; 224, 20;

worship of mere, 465, 28

="Because"= our concern, not "why," 556, 13

=Becoming=, the, defined, 535, 45

=Bed=, a silken, kindly, 332, 21;

the conjugal, 386, 32

=Bede's= tomb, inscription on, 138, 26

=Bedlam=, how tenanted, 253, 47

=Bee=, little busy, 161, 11

=Bees=, keeping of, 437, 26

=Beggar=, and king, 190, 8;

and rich, different feelings of, 531, 32;

at his level, 460, 12;

Lamb on, 417, 11-17;

on horseback, 387, 40, 41;

pains taken by Nature in forming, 292, 26

=Beggar'd= all description, 155, 2

=Beggar's=, bag, 28, 54;

purse, 1, 19;

robes, 367, 39;

the, song, 530, 11

=Begging=, apt to provoke disgust, 88, 32;

shame of, to be spared, 123, 2

=Beginning=, a bad, 1, 6;

a good, 6, 39;

a hot, course and end of, 15, 6;

and end, contrast of, 194, 26;

cheerful, 8, 59; 90, 5;

contrasted with ulterior steps, 9, 15;

difficult, 8, 60;

implies an end, 48, 12;

most notable, 186, 40;

no, rather than never end, 29, 34;

prior to improving or finishing, 345, 4;

the true, unnoticed, 458, 35

=Beginnings= to be resisted, 356, 59

=Begun=, half done, 25, 49; 68, 30

=Behaviour=, contagious, 109, 21;

end of education, 77, 9;

in private, 58, 14;

learned, as we take diseases, 275, 20;

rule for, 394, 46;

the first sign of force, 347, 4

=Being=, all, founded on reason, 9, 3;

every, has its own beauty, 91, 35;

resigned with regret, 112, 2, 3;

the chain of, 511, 47

=Beings=, above us and beneath us, a wise man's attitude to, 199, 48

=Belial=, the sons of, 445, 33

=Belief=, a, easy to a man, 203, 16;

and conduct, inconsistency of, 264, 2;

and disbelief, dangerous, 346, 18;

a miracle, 197, 16;

alternations of, 173, 30;

affected by custom, 523, 26;

easier than judgment, 93, 38;

eludes system, 163, 15;

flower of, in the last darkness, 544, 7;

general ground of, 9, 28;

impotent to change nature, 301, 10;

in absurdity, 49, 50;

limiting, by comprehensibility, 148, 48;

modern, 565, 49;

multiform, 476, 19;

now-a-days, only half-hearted, 275, 41;

often unintelligent, 274, 4;

one's, effect on, of another's, 200, 49;

only in practice, 457, 19;

or disbelief, no compelling, 302, 36;

our, in others, 521, 29;

power of, 538, 22; 532, 28;

power of a firm, 27, 19;

that is contrary to truth, 301, 11;

the, we incline to, 539, 38;

variations of, from generation to generation, 305, 4;

_versus_ debate, 12, 13;

want of, to be concealed, 461, 15;

what regulates our, 528, 6

=Beliefs=, two, necessary to fulfilling our duty, 525, 23;

various as men, 274, 24

=Believers=, traditional, the god of, 430, 15

=Believing=, man, the, the original, 442, 8;

three means of, 468, 27;

unhasting, 145, 19;

without seeing, merit of, 30, 45

=Bell=, church, inscription on, 231, 5

=Bells=, church, 64, 26

=Bell-wethers=, men have their, 267, 28

=Belly=, a slave to, 417, 27;

empty, effect of, on body, 545, 25;

full, effect of, on spirit, 545, 25

=Belongings=, our chief, inalienable, 450, 3

=Beloved=, how to be, 490, 14;

object, centre of a paradise, 90, 6;

of the Almighty, 417, 28

=Below=, things, nothing to us, 361, 10

=Benefactor=, how we regard, 527, 24

=Benefactors=, how to treat, 71, 26

=Beneficence=, defined, 28, 3;

fruitful effects of, 1, 22;

tree of, well-rooted, 549, 18

=Benefit=, a high, compared with a low, 198, 46;

affected by manner of conferring it, 475, 1;

given quickly, 194, 38;

that sticks to fingers, 478, 15;

to one worthy of it, 28, 1

=Benefits=, our sense of, 385, 20;

remembered, and not, 144, 54

=Benevolence=, impossible to one ill at ease, 305, 40;

rare, 368, 6;

universal, pretenders to, 480, 14

=Benevolent=, heart, our regard for, 417, 30;

mistaken occupation of, 417, 31

=Berries=, two lovely, moulded on one stem, 395, 33

=Best=, a test of, 413, 20;

inexplicable by words, 562, 8;

liable to abuse, 110, 27;

man, Emerson's, 145, 31;

man, moulded out of faults, 479, 26;

nearest, 12, 58;

safety of, 540, 42;

the, in the world, 537, 11;

the, inexplicable by words, 67, 18;

the, a sufferer, 417, 50;

things, the law regarding, 427, 39;

when corrupted, 48, 27;

who does his, 55, 13

=Bestride= the narrow world, 142, 26

=Betrayal=, only by friends, 330, 8

=Betrayer=, the, defined, 418, 14

=Better=, and worse without limit, 184, 7;

enemy of well, 179, 36; 234, 6;

side of things, looking at, 543, 34;

the, the greater, 34, 37

=Bible=, a, all have to publish, 538, 15;

and the Jews, 418, 23;

an idol, 274, 36;

an indubitably inspired, 331, 40;

and religion, 205, 41;

as an educator, 274, 38;

effect on style of study of, 195, 26;

effect of familiarity with, 439, 34;

free circulation of, Goethe on, 285, 10;

from the heart of nature, 33, 10;

Goethe on, 164, 40;

honestly studied, a difficult book, 177, 10;

how it may do harm, and how good, 344, 52;

how to understand difficult parts of, 446, 27;

its eternally effective power, Goethe on, 331, 17;

morality, 384, 45;

not a panacea, 467, 14;

of a nation, 418, 24; 491, 4;

Sir William Jones on, 418, 21;

teaching of, 418, 22, 25;

the, and man's obligations, 392, 52;

the Hebrew, 434, 22;

the study of and eloquence, 303, 31;

true, just knows her, 215, 38;

truths still latent in, 418, 20;

writing a, 435, 8, 18

=Bibles=, how made great, 489, 1

=Biography=, faithfully written, a poem, 473, 8;

of souls, epochs in, 508, 24

=Bigot=, as regards reason, 148, 53

=Bigotry=, an unchristian, 495, 32;

effect of, on religion, 30, 18

=Bird=, an example, 400, 31;

an old, 15, 56;

in hand, 1, 37;

in the wood, 81, 14;

smallest, alighting on tree, 453, 52;

that flutters least, 403, 11

=Birds=, Burns' pity of, in winter, 181, 34;

by shallow rivers' falls, 34, 15;

early, 75, 32;

how taught to sing, 400, 9; 523, 22;

old, 327, 10, 11

=Birth=, beginning of death, 20, 35;

high, an accident, 156, 29;

low, comparative advantage of, 487, 52;

meanness of, not to be concealed, 46, 1;

naught without sense, 270, 24;

our, Wordsworth on, 337, 18;

pride of mere, 398, 33

=Birth-place=, insignificance of, 490, 10

=Births=, premature, 116, 32

=Bishop= of gold and wood, 89, 42

=Bitter=, in the memory, 415, 13

=Black=, but not the devil, 164, 36;

obliged to wear and buy, 490, 30

=Blade=, the trenchant, Toledo trusty, 458, 29

=Blame=, on the wronged, 224, 29;

not on one side only, 181, 30

=Blamelessness=, mark of imbecility or greatness, 114, 37

=Blaming= self, motive in, 330, 27

=Blast=, the loudest, 418, 34

=Blaze=, a, as a spectacle, 466, 34

=Blessed=, man, half part of, 143, 52;

the, according to Horace, 310, 25

=Blessedness=, must be sought and founded within, 298, 4;

not in rank or wealth, 209, 14

=Blessings=, as they go, 160, 54;

fleeting, 183, 21;

in relation to ills, 31, 17;

not valued till lost, 78, 18;

still rife, 267, 24;

unthought-of, 491, 25

=Blind=, and blind leaders, Carlyle's advice to, 545, 26;

leading blind, 174, 11;

the, and colour, 1, 41;

the, as leader, 361, 42;

the very, 27, 53

=Blindest=, the, 474, 50

=Blindness=, colour, better than total, 44, 31;

our, a blessing, 176, 6

=Bliss=, an hour of, value of, 382, 5;

search for, in wealth and power, vain, 567, 36;

the same in all, 46, 13

=Blockhead=, a, cavilling of, 1, 42;

according to Wm. Blake, 153, 19;

and his time, 431, 24;

the bookful, 418, 49

=Blood=, a peculiar fluid, 31, 7;

alone, not ennobling, 534, 23;

good, a virtue of, 31, 50;

hard to tame, 419, 8;

justification of shedding, 418, 41;

no foundation set on, 474, 31;

through scoundrels, 287, 39

=Bloom=, of youth, fading, 320, 25;

season of, only once, 441, 38

=Blossom=, no, no fruit, 301, 7

=Blossoms=, not fruits, 30, 60

=Blue-stocking=, estimate of, 1, 43

=Blunder=, the most fatal, 473, 28;

worse than a crime, 39, 10

=Blundering=, a means of learning, 34, 14

=Blush=, a, beauty of, 172, 3;

a, in the face, 28, 55;

meaning of a, 418, 45

=Blushing=, beautifying power of, 85, 11

=Bluster=, a blind for cowardice, 133, 16

=Blustering=, for the fop, 232, 52

=Boasters=, of great things, 399, 14

=Boasting=, before victory, 242, 10

=Boats=, in a calm, 567, 34

=Bodies=, large, likely to err, 230, 13;

without working, 126, 5

=Bodily= labour, alleviating, 235, 23

=Body=, a handsome, needs no cloak, 48, 8;

built by spirit, 86, 2;

effect of soul on, 110, 32;

feeble, effect of, on mind, 505, 17;

how to warm, 519, 1;

light of, 439, 12;

of man, a temple, 471, 19;

pent, here in the, 155, 11;

politic, evil in, 202, 39;

politic, the, like the human body, 233, 11;

the, and its passions, whence, 478, 40;

the, and raiment, 438, 48;

to be cared for, 409, 33;

with head off, 537, 12;

without spirit, 474, 22

=Boldly=, ventured, half done, 115, 52

=Boldness=, commended, 26, 50;

empty, 219, 55

=Bond=, who breaks his, 550, 38

=Bonfires=, risk of crowding round, 345, 10

=Book=, a, a book, 488, 42;

a bad, 208, 2;

a, digressions in, Swift and Sterne on, 68, 11, 12;

a, difficulty in composing, 185, 40;

a good, destruction of, high treason, 19, 16;

a good, value of, 283, 27;

a good, who kills, 552, 4;

a great, great, 7, 9;

a hieroglyphical, 283, 2;

a true, the virtue of, 562, 1;

a wise man's, defined, 540, 27;

an effective, 171, 1;

and head in collision, 541, 40;

as a friend, 505, 29;

every, written for a special public, 90, 17;

good, Milton's definition, 6, 40;

good, to read, 90, 16;

great, great evil, 272, 15;

how to render, lasting, 493, 3;

how serviceable, 301, 14;

how written down, 301, 16;

injurious, author of, 150, 47;

last thing in writing, 438, 9;

lifetime of, 22, 25;

love of a, 147, 49;

main worth of, 189, 30;

man of one, 37, 20; 125, 27;

no, so bad as not to yield some good, 299, 1;

no, useless, 318, 37;

on what condition readable, 313, 3;

projecting, sweeter than making, 167, 30;

right use of, 496, 37;

test of worth in, 301, 14, 15;

that time has criticised, 533, 39;

the rule in writing a, 171, 30;

the true value of a man's, 459, 14;

to learn wisdom from, 464, 18;

true, the writer of, 145, 35;

what makes a good, 489, 2;

what must be behind a, 477, 12;

without stomach for, 565, 17;

worth buying, 171, 2;

worth or unworth of, independent of style, 481, 42;

writer of, a world-preacher, 465, 42

=Bookish= knowledge in heads of fools, 108, 62

=Books=, a lover of, happiness of, 305, 14;

a substantialworld, 73, 2;

about books, 472, 1;

advantage of buying, 296, 56;

and brains, as possessions, 520, 23;

and conversation, 332, 3;

and nature, both belong to the seeing eye, 290, 29;

and the heart, 434, 14;

and the world, 477, 33;

as records, 10, 35;

as superseding gossip, 139, 16;

bad, not to be read, 29, 36;

big, how made, 284, 44;

borrowed, 450, 46;

castrating, 36, 43;

clever, 300, 25;

comparative insignificance of, 538, 15;

compared with observation, 323, 37;

consoling power of, 201, 49;

contain soul of the past, 185, 15;

Cowley to his, 44, 47;

critics of, at present, 476, 29;

demoralising, 521, 12;

diverse motives for reading, 398, 44;

eloquence and dumb presagers, 321, 10;

estimates of, at different ages, 8, 53;

evil of too many, 69, 46;

famous, some not worth reading, 398, 30;

good, few and chosen, 129, 6;

great actions, 91, 14;

have their destinies, 137, 54;

help from, 479, 1;

in science and literature, to read, 189, 42;

judged by sensations, 269, 37;

Martial on, 406, 47;

mental food, 224, 21;

mottoes to, worthlessness of, 489, 15;

never referred to, 526, 2;

never to be borrowed, 296, 56;

nine-tenths nonsense, 300, 25;

no end of making, 325, 7;

not permissible, 269, 15;

not so instructive as life, 52, 33;

not to be underrated or overrated, 304, 45;

of most value, 271, 16;

old and famed, why we should read, 487, 49;

old, compared with new, 327, 12;

old, converse with, 553, 11;

only thing of value in, 315, 30;

our, characterised, 377, 19;

parcel of well chosen, suggestiveness of, 446, 44;

point in regard to, 448, 21;

prized above a dukedom, 220, 9;

professorship of, desiderated, 301, 18;

quality required in, 1, 50;

reading of, that benefits, 204, 32;

reason of success of many, 268, 44;

sayings about, 397, 45, 46; 398, 1, 2;

scholars, and printers, 236, 14;

study of, contrasted with conversation, 455, 41;

study of, no guarantee of wisdom, 483, 11;

success of many, accounted for, 456, 13;

that have come down, 335, 18;

that help most, 419, 1;

that warp to be shunned, 166, 20;

the best effect of, 417, 35;

the channel of wisdom, 86, 20;

the titles of, their importance, 297, 34;

their use and uselessness, Goethe on, 440, 35;

to be loved early, 151, 40;

to be read only by advice, 567, 24;

value of, 1, 49;

which we learn from, 528, 4;

without thought, 340, 9;

worth reading, 567, 42

=Bored=, one must get used to being, 179, 31

=Bores=, all men, at times, 9, 60;

Voltaire on, 498, 22

=Boring=, the secret of, 235, 8

=Born=, fate of everything, 475, 10;

the gently, on both sides, blood of, 542, 25

=Borrower=, his creditor, 419, 2

=Borrowing=, caution against, 294, 36, 37;

forbidden, 251, 57;

rule in, 32, 6;

the lesson of, 353, 37

=Bosom= in one's, a host, 109, 45

=Boswells= rarer than Johnsons, 213, 9

=Boudier's= epitaph, 209, 43

=Bounty=, an autumn, 110, 2;

diffused too widely, 337, 20

=Bourbons=, the, Talleyrand on, 182, 20

=Bow=, Apollo's, not always bent, 295, 35;

overstrained, 11, 9;

test of strength of, 205, 29

=Bowers= of bliss, conveyed to, 311, 48

=Boy=, a happy, 140, 18;

the generous, 551, 19

=Boys=, the purity of, to be guarded, 299, 35;

training of, Plato on, 71, 35;

value to, of address and accomplishments, 122, 47

=Braggards=, greatest cowards, 432, 6

=Brain=, added, difficulty added, 557, 10;

coinage of, 482, 1;

overwrought, 558, 21;

product of, its quality, 540, 28

=Brains=, cannot be given, 164, 37;

our, seventy year clocks, 337, 21;

when the, are out, 457, 43; 480, 32

=Brave=, man, discourse of a, 2, 7;

man, and his word, 90, 19;

man, mark of, 419, 10;

man, may not yield, 113, 2;

man, the portion of, 382, 10;

man, unselfish, 59, 45;

man, yields to brave, 113, 4;

men, favoured by fortune, 113, 20;

men, generated by brave, 112, 48;

spirit, in adversity, 2, 8;

the, prodigality of, 48, 60;

youth, training of, 90, 20

=Bravery=, calm, 113, 3;

deeds of past, hard to appreciate, 90, 18;

far off, fear at hand, 42, 21;

incompatible with dread of pain, 303, 5;

often, in not attempting, 313, 13;

seen in perils, 38, 42;

the greatest, 410, 45;

true, characterised, 499, 40;

unyielding, 113, 2;

value of, 88, 6

=Bravest=, tenderest, 419, 11

=Bread=, a crust of, and liberty, 123, 10;

cast on waters, 36, 44, 45;

how to earn one's, 260, 49, 50;

miraculous, 321, 8;

provision of, 150, 21

=Breast=, human, without windows, 291, 11

=Breath=, a, power of, 2, 9;

our first, beginning of death, 428, 7

=Breathe=, freely, how to, 237, 40

=Breathing=, as inhaling and exhaling, 185, 16

=Breed=, in man, importance of, 95, 7

=Breeding=, effect of, on a man, 419, 13;

fine, merit of, 471, 21;

good, marks of, 403, 12;

good, value of, 409, 31;

high, contrasted with good, 129, 9;

more than birth, 30, 25;

the time of, 457, 45;

wise, nowhere, 557, 46

=Brevity=, danger of, 32, 33

=Brighter= from obscurity, 84, 7

=Brilliancy=, affectation of, 334, 30

=Brink= near destruction, 496, 30

=British= nation, the character of, 419, 14

=Britons=, the, Virgil on, 344, 39

=Broken= heart, dying of, 160, 51

=Brother=, friend, provided by nature, 503, 23

=Brotherhood=, the only possible, 472, 13

=Brothers=, effect of good, on sisters, 529, 22;

ever brothers, 301, 32;

wrath of, 465, 37

=Brow=, open, open heart, 79, 32

=Browning's= faith and hope, 209, 26

=Brute, et tu=, 88, 47

=Brutes=, lessons they teach, 523, 35

=Bubble= reputation, the, 20, 3

=Bubbles=, fate and tragic end of all, 9, 13

=Buckets=, dropping, into empty wells, 57, 1

=Bud=, opening, to heaven conveyed, 84, 26

=Buddhist=, Nature no, 292, 33

=Builder=, better than the building, 414, 30

=Building=, and its foundation, 439, 28;

effect of, on purse, 41, 17;

too low, 497, 34;

up, man's joy, 312, 36

=Bullet=, every, its billet, 90, 21

=Bungling=, hateful, 166, 30

=Bunyan=, in, personifications, 191, 28;

to readers of his Pilgrim, 115, 1

=Burden=, a, cheerfully borne, 419, 17;

a man's, known only to himself, 306, 15;

a willing, 36, 16;

cast off, another to bear, 175, 35;

known only to bearer, 319, 32;

light, 244, 28; 288, 27;

respect the, 374, 47;

laid on by necessity, 132, 43

=Burdens=, laid on and lifted off by God, 185, 16

=Bureaucracy=, tendency of, 2, 29

=Burgher=, the civilized, mark of, 346, 30

=Buried=, the, for this world, 117, 42

=Burns=, ambition of, 122, 24;

Carlyle on, 338, 48; 389, 43; 556, 16;

Carlyle's vindication of, 131, 13;

his charity, 466, 13;

his preference of wit to wealth, 122, 28;

his real hardship, 161, 28;

his respect for truth, 494, 38;

his inspiring idea, 123, 14;

on effect of sin on the heart, 168, 49;

reflections of, on his life, 161, 38;

songs of, 454, 29;

wish of, at the plough, 89, 34

=Burns=, prayer for humanity, 466, 15;

songs, Carlyle of, 251, 10

=Burnt= child dreads the fire, 4, 62

=Business=, and desire, every man hath, 92, 1;

and economy of time, 443, 11;

as a man's puppet, 140, 17;

contrasted with idleness, 436, 25;

defined, 237, 42;

definition of, 260, 2;

diligent in, 385, 16;

effect of, 237, 43;

how to deal with, 73, 15;

minding one's own, 175, 9;

now war, 212, 34;

one thing, generosity another, 169, 12;

other people's, attending to, 8, 17-19, 27, 36;

other's, _versus_ own, 158, 45;

our grand, not seeing but doing, 338, 6;

inattention to, 13, 6;

_versus_ amusement, 173, 18;

we love, 491, 13;

what is everybody's, 536, 8;

with men above it, 105, 23

=Bust=, animated, hollowness of, 35, 20

=Bustle=, and quiet, 443, 12

=Busy=, aversion of, to idle, 177, 50

"=But=," sneaking, evasive, &c., 302, 37;

the inventor of, 60, 30

"=But yet=," fie upon, 165, 45

"=Buts=," the modifying, 9, 2

=Butter=, bad, salted, 478, 2

=Buyer=, need of, for eyes, 111, 13;

requirements in, 217, 12;

requires a hundred eyes, 41, 10

=Buyers= and sellers, 181, 24

=Buying= and asking, 217, 13;

and selling, Spanish proverb on, 470, 28;

better than borrowing, 29, 18;

not begging, 81, 23;

prudence in, 33, 43;

the rule in, 176, 31;

what one cannot pay, 41, 9

=Byron=, his real hardship, 161, 28;

the poetry of, 387, 4

=Byron's=, feelings for those that love and those that hate him, 155, 20;

greatest grief, 110, 39;

last words, 167, 56

C

=Cæsar=, Augustus, on losing his legions, 511, 35

=Cæsar=, Julius, imperious, dead, 183, 35;

mighty, so low in death, 321, 22;

on Cassius, 241, 30;

on crossing the Rubicon, 411, 9;

when he crossed the Rubicon, 210, 8;

word of, as living and as dead, 33, 40

=Cake=, earned by baking it, 141, 36

=Cakes= and ale, no more, 72, 8

=Calamity=, great source of, 431, 38;

man under, 510, 30

=Calling=, a, advantage of, 146, 43

=Calm=, no sailing in, 303, 34;

nourishment of strength, 279, 14

=Calmness=, sign of strength, 277, 1; 354, 45;

source of, 456, 6

=Calumniators=, their own avengers, 480, 1

=Calumny=, alarm at, 101, 3;

best answer to, 495, 1;

eagerness to spread, 3, 42;

how to escape, 565, 6;

how to extinguish or to justify, 36, 23;

how to overcome, 47, 10;

how to silence, 559, 9;

no escaping, 28, 46; 305, 15;

ready acceptance and spread of, 299, 9;

sure to stick, 22, 42

=Calvin=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;

treatment of, 349, 20

=Camp=, English, on the eve of battle, 116, 1;

virtues rare in, 368, 4

=Canary= bird, in a darkened cage, 419, 23

=Candour=, not necessarily impartiality, 23, 17;

the effect of, 35, 11

=Canker=, loathsome, in sweetest bud, 252, 16

=Cant=, defined, and its progeny, 197, 17;

mind to be cleared of, 43, 58

=Canticle=, the sublimest, 456, 8

=Canvassing=, exhausting effect of, 223, 38

=Capabilities=, defined, 99, 26

=Capability=, no vague general, 90, 23;

unknown till tried, 306, 14

=Capacity=, limited, 220, 33

=Capitalist=, in a civilised nation, 420, 3

=Capricious= man, his faith, 3, 24

=Captivity=, type of, 109, 24;

as an evil, 245, 29

=Carcass=, attractive power of, 549, 33

=Cards=, a pack of, 217, 8

=Care=, a fig for, 243, 3;

effect of, 51, 37;

foe togladness,

79, 15;

man's first, 266, 31;

not all on one object, 295, 29;

profitlessness of, 306, 46;

soothed by song, 280, 1;

the danger of too much, 479, 11;

vanity of, 16, 57;

want of, 518, 30;

wise, 531, 16

=Careless=, past preaching to, 179, 16;

people, 405, 45

=Carelessness=, about others' opinion, a bad sign, 294, 32

=Cares=, effect of, 114, 46;

nursed, 275, 29;

others', the burden of, 162, 31

=Caricature=, effect of, on Hogarth, 34, 18

=Carlyle=, as a thinker, 453, 7;

at Linlathen, 461, 46;

inspiring idea of, 123, 14;

James, to his son, 264, 27;

of his father, 485, 38;

of his mother when dying, 438, 6;

on his life, and world's relation to it, 464, 14

=Carlyle's=, books, John Burroughs on, 307, 21;

one certainty, 316, 21;

reflection on his life at Craigenputtock, 160, 53;

teaching, John Burroughs on, 461, 28

=Carlyles=, the, John Burroughs on, 419, 28; 541, 22

=Carper=, a, 2, 36

=Carters=, employment for, 489, 12

=Cash= payment, impotence of, 256, 8

=Cassandra= and the Trojans, 57, 23

=Cassius=, Cæsar on, 145, 4

=Castles= in air, foundations to be put under, 176, 46

=Castor= and Pollux, 36, 42

=Cat=, a scalded, 19, 2; 40, 43

=Categories=, only words, 534, 9

=Cathedral=, not so majestic as a tree, 324, 25

=Cathedrals=, of Christendom, the glory of, 276, 24;

the old, and the great blue dome, 445, 28

=Catiline's= flight, 1, 30

=Cato=, a, in every man, 469, 25;

has to submit, 419, 32;

the elder, Livy on, 163, 13; 187, 33

=Cause=, a good, injury to, 171, 3;

a good, needs support, 31, 25;

a noble, desertion of, 200, 3;

that is strong, 413, 2;

the best, needs advocacy, 56, 18;

true, sure of victory, 106, 8

=Causes=, great, never tried on the merits, 133, 14;

weightiest, most silent, 277, 1

=Caution=, enforced at every step, 94, 8;

from experience, 37, 18;

mother of safety, 225, 8

=Censor=, the business of, 234, 2;

the trade of, 198, 11

=Censure=, and flattery, 347, 22;

and ridicule, cheap, 201, 22;

avoiding, and gaining applause, 202, 20;

effect of, in contrast with glory, 124, 33;

from knowledge, 84, 27;

how and when to administer, 106, 19;

how to treat, 409, 15;

linked to fame, 101, 10;

not to be too hasty, 528, 39;

of a friend, without thanks, 289, 1;

often wrong, 318, 38;

to be received with complacency, 545, 42;

to begin at home, 409, 32;

unqualified, evil of, 313, 49;

who should, 242, 40

=Censurers=, fear of, 527, 5

=Censures=, commendations, 181, 19

=Centuries=, conspirators against soul, 419, 34;

lineal children of one another, 419, 33

=Century=, present, Schiller on, 78, 45;

thy, as thy life element, 252, 2

=Ceremony=, absurd and tiresome, 376, 51

=Ceres= and peace, 343, 56

=Certain=, quitting, for uncertain, 143, 37;

sacrificed for uncertain, 38, 27;

the only thing, 478, 27

=Certainty=, beginning with, 185, 42;

by way of doubt, 474, 2;

the only, 377, 1

=Chaff-cutter=, as creator, 174, 13

=Chain=, dependent on link, 32, 39

=Chains=, and slavery, 180, 4;

golden, heavy, 128, 44;

rattling of, as show of freedom, 276, 22

=Chamfort's= last words, 166, 13

=Chamois=, caught, though high-climbing, 119, 37

=Champion=, the, and his love of victory, 419, 37

=Champions=, great, special gifts of God, 134, 42

=Chance=, a nickname for providence, 233, 36;

a second, advantage of, 48, 38; 86, 18;

as a god, 103, 22;

as arbiter, 172, 24;

games of, traps, 118, 31;

gatherings of, 385, 22;

no such thing as, 474, 29;

scope for, everywhere, 36, 48;

unseen providence, 10, 7

=Chances=, common, bearable, 45, 11

=Change=, a call everywhere for, 457, 29;

a necessity, 527, 13;

cause of uneasiness, 79, 19;

everything subject to, 327, 45;

fear of, 186, 8;

in every, dissatisfaction, 186, 26;

life of world, 464, 9;

love of, 377, 55;

man hates, 34, 6;

necessity for, 479, 18;

not therefore change for better, 5, 10;

seldom for the better, 266, 16;

universal, 328, 17-18; 329, 9

=Chaos=, is come again, 96, 16;

doomed that harbours a soul, 301, 19

=Character=, a high, essential of, 48, 61;

a man's, how to raise, 567, 17;

a man's history, 435, 16;

alone, stable, 76, 44;

and talent, how formed respectively, 85, 20;

arbiter of fortune, 157, 9;

contrasted with reputation, 374, 9;

defined, 2, 61; 497, 15;

due to many influences, 307, 9;

due to way of thinking, 226, 10;

formation of, 409, 43; 429, 15;

good, value of, 78, 9;

his, not wholly known to a man, 92, 6;

how formed, 539, 28, 32;

how it reveals itself, 538, 19;

how to understand, 301, 20;

importance of, 161, 5;

individual, power of, 431, 21;

its victories, 460, 36;

mark of a simple, manly, 19, 32;

merit of having a, 490, 1;

national, tempered by environment, 289, 45;

no changing one's, 171, 51;

nobility of, the condition of, 477, 18;

penetrated by soul, 161, 21;

power of, 200, 51; 367, 41;

seizing a, and delineating, 495, 36;

strong, basis of, 385, 40;

strong, tendency of, to eccentricity, 76, 32;

the art of moulding, 301, 1;

the noble and the well-bred, contrasted, 445, 3;

the only, worth describing, 335, 4;

true test of, 537, 18;

unaffected by change of place, 44, 17;

varieties in, accounted for, 529, 11;

weakness of, 530, 16;

what is implied in, 64, 24

=Characters=, people's, how to learn, 527, 21;

strong, formation of, 404, 2, 3;

the most passionate, and their feelings of duty, 157, 23;

truthful, credulous, 49, 53

=Charitable=, the, and their charity, 419, 46

=Charities=, posthumous, characterised, 353, 24

=Charity=, a dearth of, 472, 22;

after death, Bacon on, 145, 47;

and friendship, 337, 22;

Christian, rare, 368, 10;

concern of all, 186, 49;

contrasted with intellect, 195, 18;

definition of, 481, 37;

effect of, on the press, 63, 40;

essential, 305, 34;

its destination not to be inquired into, 555, 6;

large, and white hands, 230, 14;

misplaced, repining at, 388, 23;

Moltke on, 560, 26;

no excess in, 423, 10;

of God, the restoring, 506, 22;

of great souls, 334, 50;

the first order of, 20, 46;

the power of, 196, 17;

to unrelated people, 166, 17;

towards half-believer, 524, 30;

that thinketh no evil, 420, 1;

virtue of the woman, 121, 50

=Charlatan=, a poor creature, 407, 36

=Charles II.= in his chamber, Rochester on, 155, 14

=Charm=, a native, compared with art, 494, 25

=Charmer=, were t'other, away, 161, 23

=Charms=, personal, effect of, 224, 19;

God-given, 126, 2

=Charter=, of Louis Philippe, 224, 27

=Chase=, joy of the, 552, 23

=Chaste= mind, the, mark of, 420, 2

=Chastisement=, contrary effects of, 40, 38;

God's not feared, 552, 42;

want of, defect in education, 321, 21

=Chastity=, female, two safeguards to, annulled, 226, 26;

in the tropics, 435, 11;

the nurse of, 412, 2

=Chatterers=, to be guarded against, 551, 5

=Chaucer=, characteristic of, 419, 44;

reading, 369, 5;

Spenser on, 52, 51

=Cheapest=, the, dearest, 535, 50

=Cheapness=, of its wares, as a basis for a nation, 414, 27;

of man, tragedy of, 420, 4

=Cheated=, how to be, 419, 35

=Cheating=, all wakeful against, 92, 28;

and being cheated, pleasure of, 72, 25

=Cheek=, eloquent, 123, 18

=Cheerful=, the, the privilege of, 319, 8

=Cheerfulness=, a duty to promote, 502, 48;

advantage of, 566, 6;

and health, 153, 31, 34;

badge of gentleman, 373, 46;

benefit of, 173, 38;

compared with mirth, 280, 16, 17;

concomitant of, 185, 27;

effect of, 231, 12; 426, 10;

from activity, 415, 6;

in want, 304, 18;

inward, thanksgiving, 196, 29;

no, by painful effort, 301, 21;

peculiar to man, 15, 25;

pleasing to the Muses, 2, 63;

root of, 314, 9;

sign of wisdom, 443, 36;

strength of, 562, 2;

to be promoted, 495, 27;

to be welcomed, 172, 5;

value of, contrasted with sadness, 15, 64

=Cherub=, sweet little, 470, 32

=Chickens=, for lion, not chickenweed, 174, 22;

not to be counted before hatching, 4, 20

=Child=, a cupid visible, 3, 3;

and its mother's blessing, 3, 4;

a, our model, 186, 31;

a spoiled, 82, 34;

a wise, 143, 13;

birth of, an imprisonment, 418, 29;

death of, to father, 489, 22;

destiny of, how determined, 429, 38;

distinctive character of, 424, 2;

education of, 420, 10, 11;

first lesson for, 400, 19; 492, 11;

how to feed, 565, 39;

how to train, 498, 54;

little, man to become, 428, 40;

our best service to a, 492, 29;

play of a, 518, 15;

pleasures of a, 27, 15;

simplicity of, superior to intelligence of intelligent, 506, 11;

stammering of, 420, 12;

thankless, a, 162, 28;

the, and the man, 223, 23;

the first and second lesson of, 243, 15;

the fresh gaze of, significance of, 429, 27;

the, in the cradle, and when grown into a man, 140, 8;

training of, 417, 5;

who needs not chastisement, 541, 36

=Childhood=, a forecast, 420, 13;

and age, 569, 3;

conversion into, a necessity, 96, 25;

depths in, 186, 27;

fancies of, 415, 48;

heart of, 434, 3;

impressions of our, 436, 26;

light of, 267, 13;

man's second, 267, 6;

the promise of, 172, 6

=Childishness=, second, 230, 36

=Children=, and parents, in great states and vile, 187, 19;

as we make them, 238, 12;

education of, compared with begetting of, 483, 8;

duty of man of high birth to his, 182, 1;

false training of, 341, 35;

formation of the character of, 77, 8;

glory of, 430, 12;

healthy, and nature, 291, 3;

how to keep, cheerful, 349, 24;

Jesus on, 466, 4;

late, 230, 37;

less cared for than animals, 273, 42;

little, Christ's love for, 406, 6;

love of, for marvellous, 315, 44;

men thrice, 521, 19;

no, now, 7, 21;

of God and of man, always, 469, 18;

sciences not to be taught to, 527, 34;

sorrow in parting with, 475, 6;

the sports of, 34, 16;

weak-minded, propagating, 416, 6;

when to be praised, 231, 25;

whom they are sure to love, 441, 24;

why lost, 222, 24;

writing down to, 497, 6

=Child's= church, building sites for, 456, 5

=Child's= ignorance of death, 19, 30

=Chimney=, a little, soon heated, 143, 5

=Chivalry=, age of, gone, 415, 38;

in what contained, 462, 12;

motto of, 444, 15;

of work, need of, 308, 5;

the essence of virtue, 44, 28

=Choice=, offered to man, 127, 32;

offered us, 465, 12;

the last, 65, 21

=Choler=, one's, consuming, a virtue, 491, 24

=Christ=, a foe to, 147, 14;

a miracle, 371, 24;

and Christendom, religions of, 451, 8;

and religion, 372, 33;

appearances of, 493, 22;

body of, 418, 47;

claim of, 147, 51;

condition of following, 386, 21;

condition of presence of, 548, 52;

confessing, what it is, 491, 21;

following, 171, 50;

greater than Zeno, 394, 27;

greatness of, as a conception, 334, 41;

His rule of judgment, 189, 36;

in bread, a harmless doctrine, 473, 7;

in gunpowder, 473, 7;

indispensable to His disciples, 559, 38;

life of, private, 439, 6;

life of, who thinks he can write, 365, 20;

relatives of, 554, 38;

on His Father's house, 188, 20;

on His mission among men, 481, 8;

on His work and working day, 167, 56;

promises of, greatness of, 476, 2;

teaching of, 432, 46;

the finite in, 185, 30;

the infinite in, 185, 30;

the principle unfolded by, 454, 45;

the reproach of, 482, 5;

the story of, Leo X. on, 362, 28;

true cross of, 458, 37

=Christ's=, disciples, 564, 7, 9, 17;

friends, 564, 6;

yoke, 409, 23

=Christendom= minus Christianity, 94, 10

=Christian=, a, here or nowhere, 171, 10;

a test of a, 440, 40; 443, 24;

faith, the fall from, summed up, 427, 10;

fortitude, 429, 16;

God's gentleman, 3, 7;

religion, the, 420, 16-21

=Christianity=, a, that will have to go, 420, 22;

character of belief in, 468, 27;

characteristic of, 534, 40;

here, 197, 24;

innate, 564, 2;

love of, irrespective of truth, 147, 47;

more commended than practised, 133, 13;

muscular, 156, 50;

on its negative side, 191, 15;

parent of liberty, 245, 19;

precepts of, 241, 7;

secret of, 122, 4;

the discovery in, 461, 34;

_versus_ idolatry, 548, 2;

_versus_ stoicism, 394, 27;

virtue of, 403, 34;

whatever its genesis, here, 496, 18;

witness of, within, 152, 37

=Christians=, the blood of, 386, 24;

young, growing, and full-grown, 568, 9

=Christopher, St.=, call to, 377, 29

=Chronicle=, humblest, a reflex of the age, 89, 33

=Church=, a, test of, 242, 35;

and its enemies, 239, 26;

controversy in, 69, 34;

her function, 65, 10;

in, all equal, 219, 48;

in danger, Carlyle on, 455, 8;

nearer the, 444, 35;

no, better than bigotry, 208, 51;

ark of safety, 97, 60;

spirit of, Boileau on, 354, 4;

the, 420, 23-25;

the, history of, 435, 21;

the office of, 206, 33;

the only true, 470, 41;

the stomach of, 65, 9;

visible, without invisible, 435, 21;

who builds, to God, 550, 40

=Churches=, name from building, 108, 23

=Churchmen= and their church, 420, 26

=Circuitous= often better than direct, 379, 30

=Circumstance=, believers in, 388, 25

=Circumstances=, and men, 274, 25;

and the man, 440, 21;

creatures of men, 263, 37;

depressing, that elevate, 466, 33;

effect on us of, 339, 8;

how to treat, 88, 27;

importance of change of, 276, 41;

indifference of, 431, 22;

our duty in reference to, 339, 8;

the influence of, 205, 31,

to be ruled, 266, 36

=Cities=, and their best citizens, 176, 4;

origin of, 70, 5

=Citizen=, a good, 19, 20;

an unworthy, 182, 7;

first duty of, 378, 24;

state in relation to, 455, 9;

the, and the man, 233, 2

=Citizens=, man-made, 26, 60;

of world, how we become, 200, 48

=City=, a great, 259, 7;

a, of what composed, 31, 51;

and country, 420, 28, 29;

advantage of living in, 177, 37;

building and destroying, 509, 26;

estimates, in presence of nature, 21, 30;

great, to a stranger, 474, 21;

no continuing, here, 155, 7;

our abiding, still ahead, 415, 27;

saved by a poor man who was forgotten, 477, 31;

the first, 127, 50

=Civil=, power, superior to the military, 37, 29;

quarrels, despatch in, 104, 49;

turmoil, evil of, 185, 31

=Civilisation=, dependence of, on freedom, 48, 45;

first step to, 495, 10;

near to barbarism, 443, 37;

our, Emerson on, 529, 24;

the founders of, 102, 25;

the problem of, 143, 53;

test of, 457, 12;

ultimate tendency of, 459, 31

=Civilised= man, the, described, 420, 31

=Civilisers=, two, 193, 4

=Civility=, cheap, 314, 10;

the best, 413, 4;

the part of, 557, 20

=Claim=, who makes, has no, 151, 42

=Clamour=, loud, insane, 253, 33

=Clan=, a sacrifice for its chief, 118, 5

=Class=, to be trembled at, 471, 15

=Classes=, the dangerous, 436, 14;

the higher, kicked off as burdens, 167, 9;

the upper, 460, 7

=Classical=, and romantic, 420, 34

=Clay=, damp, easily wrought, 17, 55

=Clean=, keep, better than make, 332, 44

=Cleanliness= next godliness, 161, 3

=Cleopatra=, nose of, 174, 26

=Clergy=, and their wranglings, 163, 3;

three sections of, 420, 35;

where Christianity is the established religion, 168, 11

=Clergymen= and their use of words, 561, 12

=Clerks=, the greatest, 432, 7

=Clever=, people, Goethe on, 121, 53;

people, never from stupid, 168, 7

=Cleverness=, a commendable, 179, 9;

little gain by, 329, 39

=Cliff=, tall, type of a great man, 20, 34

=Climbing=, possible, though soaring not, 524, 40

=Cloak=, take thine old, 209, 22

=Cloth=, bad, 37, 4;

the foundation of society, 396, 25

=Clothes=, and the man, 61, 23; 513, 37;

Carlyle's doctrine of, 541, 30;

do not always make the man, 298, 7;

early pride of, 251, 29;

respect paid merely to, 306, 23;

revealing and concealing effect of, 485, 37;

rule of fashion in, 185, 32;

soul in, 469, 11;

superfine, 447, 32;

under, a man, 186, 25;

with or without the man, Carlyle on, 123, 40

=Clothing=, gay, whom it attracts, 304, 2

=Cloud=, every, not storm-pregnant, 90, 25;

one, darkening power of, 331, 52;

that veileth love, 90, 26;

the, brightness behind, 2, 3

=Cloud-capt= towers, 420, 36

=Clouds=, and the sea, 421, 5;

round the setting sun, 421, 3, 4;

the, regarding, 148, 5;

a set-off to the sun, 174, 45

=Clown=, sphere of, 81, 3

=Coat=, a smart, 19, 59

=Cobbler=, to his last, 242, 44, 58; 293, 17; 386, 36

=Cobblers=, all, 279, 46

=Cock=, on its own dunghill, 118, 26;

on its own midden, 3, 15;

trumpet of the morn, 421, 6;

when he crows, 60, 10

=Coin=, intellectual, in exchange of thought, 190, 46

=Colander=, fermentation in, 314, 3

=College=, education at, 71, 24; 74, 2;

learning, Burns on, 74, 2

=Cologne=, Cathedral, Carlyle on, 513, 26;

three kings of, virtue in names of, 210, 27

=Colour=, all good, pensive, 9, 32;

as a gift of God, 324, 23;

impression of, 91, 34;

men's joy in, 275, 17

=Colt=, test of its worth, 377, 10

=Colts=, young hot, how to treat, 55, 32

=Columbus= a world-child, 465, 16

=Combat=, not victory, the joy, 204, 34;

the greatest, 551, 31

=Combatant=, a brave, 551, 7

=Combinations=, unequal, 507, 8

=Comeliness=, true, in the mind, 499, 42

=Comet=, a sign of disaster, 185, 34

=Comfort=, those who enjoy, 480, 10

=Comforts=, many, harmful, 284, 29;

our, anxieties, 337, 23

=Comic= and tragic side by side, 421, 9

=Command=, sweet, force in, 471, 30;

the right to, 323, 8;

to, a fine thing, 198, 25;

with conviction, power of, 207, 20

=Commander-in-chief=, risk in his absence, 504, 36

=Commanding=, from obeying, 308, 56;

one good at, 363, 20

=Commandment=, the eighth, comprehensiveness of, 190, 24; 331, 27

=Commandments=, the ten, in Rome, 189, 38; 569, 30

=Commands=, imperative upon all, 467, 9;

not to be debated, 84, 22

=Commendation=, how to administer, 374, 3

=Commendations=, censures, 181, 19;

to be weighed, 419, 40

=Commentators=, weakness of, 162, 24

=Commerce=, an evil effect of, 184, 9;

effect of, 548, 56;

effect of, on nations, 81, 39;

practices in, 188, 11

=Common=, good, merit of serving, 142, 25;

good, neglect of, a crime, 59, 50;

men, endurance of, 567, 34;

men, lightness of, 252, 45;

men, the dread of, 367, 41;

opinion, as a standard, 197, 6;

seeing miraculous in the, 437, 9;

the, enslaving power of, 520, 18;

the, rarely mistaken, 319, 5;

things, our power in, 189, 23

=Commonplace=, success of, 26, 52

=Commons=, House of, Coke on, 389, 47

=Common-sense=, exceptional, 315, 37;

as judge in high matters, 232, 41;

genius of humanity, 235, 9;

in high rank, rare, 368, 13;

how maintained, 314, 20;

the advantage of, 440, 25

=Commonwealth=, strongest, based on passion, 180, 32;

the condition of its welfare, 172, 9;

under so many heads, 310, 24

=Communications= with God and man, 528, 32

=Communicative= man, to be dreaded, 467, 3

=Communism=, injustice in, 185, 39

=Communities= like Arctic explorers, 273, 28

=Community=, constituents of, 361, 27

=Companion=, a faithful, 396, 39;

pleasant, value of, 44, 49

=Companions=, to chose, 217, 37

=Companionship=, loving, value of, 340, 45;

on a journey, 119, 25;

test of a man, 411, 41;

wise, value of, 148, 44

=Company=, as marking a man, 7, 46;

decent, condition of introduction into, 490, 26;

descent from high, to low, 266, 4;

effect of too much, 397, 20;

for entertainment, 544, 6;

good, effect of, on virtue, 129, 15;

good, on the road, 129, 16;

good, restlessness for, 551, 4;

the, to keep, 217, 19, 21;

_versus_ solitude, 464, 38;

we should seek, 524, 8

=Comparison= no proof, 45, 34

=Compass=, susceptibility of, to error, 18, 53

=Compassion=, and courage joined, 505, 47;

and ingratitude incompatible, 194, 17

=Compelled=, he who can be, 44, 20

=Compensation=, in nature, 90, 46;

law of, 109, 35;

universal, 94, 14

=Competency=, meaning of, 535, 2

=Competition=, death, 131, 13;

the only worthy, 445, 42

=Complaining=, Burns' contempt for, 106, 46;

how to avoid, 215, 27;

misery of always, 490, 4;

our, a reflection on heaven, 345, 5

our, Swift on, 337, 28;

uselessness of, 316, 47

=Complains=, who, gets little compassion, 151, 43

=Complaint=, matter of just, 237, 33;

whining, despicable, 166, 36

=Complaints=, cure, for many, 237, 25;

not, only events, a fit subject, 483, 44;

our, aimlessness of, 339, 7;

to hear, 493, 17

=Completeness=, attainable by all, 60, 3

=Complexion=, a sour, how to get rid of, 197, 33

=Complies= against his will, 145, 44

=Compliment=, the most elegant, 57, 3

=Compliments=, mere, no tempting bait, 277, 6

=Composition=, a great, how produced, 302, 14;

literary, Horace on, 50, 44

=Comprehensibility=, standard of belief, 398, 25

=Comprehensible=, common and insipid, 284, 20

=Compromise=, the supreme rule now, 317, 42

=Compulsion=, a, that is good for a man, 202, 4;

no reason upon, 173, 41

=Computation=, a touchstone, 313, 37

=Concealment=, contrasted with saying nothing, 8, 51;

how to frustrate, 385, 36;

Johnson on, 304, 46;

like a worm in the bud, 389, 10

=Conceit=, minds with and without, 558, 35;

not to be pitied, 168, 47;

of one's own creation, effect of, 325, 30;

strong, the power of, 404, 4;

wise in his own, 385, 18

=Conceited= people as judges, 311, 10

=Concentration=, commended, 71, 41;

the one prudence, 445, 39

=Conceptions=, our, anthropomorphic, 60, 32

=Concern=, our sole proper, 535, 33

=Conciseness=, desirableness of, 87, 1;

in speech commended, 92, 26

=Concord=, among men, a contrast, 387, 23;

and discord contrasted, 507, 32;

and discord, relative effects of, 46, 7;

effects of, contrasted with discord, 64, 10

=Condemnation= less curative than compassion, 45, 39

=Condescension=, insolence, 436, 42

=Condition=, determined by conduct, 306, 7;

external, sign of internal, 452, 19

=Conditions= already laid, 63, 36

=Condolement=, to persevere in, 494, 46

=Conduct=, a rule for, 404, 24;

as showing the man, 222, 7;

developed in society, 104, 42;

effect of, 473, 2;

in our own power, 43, 27;

Kant's rule of, 3, 45;

not communicable, 97, 34;

personal, power of, 200, 45;

proper rule of, 385, 4;

prudent, its two pivots, 227, 31;

rules for, 394, 50; 395, 6; 323, 14;

rule of, 70, 19-21;

significance of, 354, 1;

sovereign guides in, 241, 44;

steadfastness in, 147, 29;

to be according to circumstances, 549, 28

=Conference=, the advantage of, 369, 9

=Confession=, a new, wanted, 426, 22;

an open, 15, 60;

healing power of, 107, 5

=Confidant= of a man's vices, his master, 421, 23

=Confidence=, broken, lost, 149, 34;

effect of, 105, 52;

how won, 105, 15;

in all or in none, 510, 39;

lost, all lost, 150, 34;

power of, 281, 9

=Confinement=, effect of, on fierceness, 88, 13

=Conflict=, known only to strength, 403, 29

=Conforming= easier than making conform, 179, 14

=Conformity=, easier than persuasion, 205, 3;

what we lose by, 524, 6

=Confusion=, the, to be shunned, 103, 46

=Confutation= often mere heedless re-assertion, 119, 28

=Congregation=, a happy, 140, 14

=Conquer=, those who can, 111, 26; 478, 54

=Conquered=, man rarely, 365, 1;

race, how to treat, 200, 39;

the, their only safety, 505, 43

=Conquering=, the art of, 222, 30

=Conqueror=, every, has his Muse, 182, 18;

how regarded, 233, 7;

the greatest, 143, 50; 304, 19;

the true 514, 25

=Conquest=, of self, in the moment of victory, 30, 34;

the condition of permanency of, 301, 25;

without danger, 491, 23

=Conquests= by violence and by moderation, 269, 50

=Conscience=, a clear, 3, 14; 495, 25;

a clear, happiness of, 140, 11;

a coward, 446, 30;

a good, virtue of, 171, 38;

a guilty, 7, 16;

a sacrifice of, 64, 30;

a sound, invincible, 286, 41;

a Sunday, 470, 31;

a weak, 482, 30;

a, without darkness, 472, 21;

acting contrary to, 432, 29;

and history, 204, 5;

contrasted with passions, 224, 32;

friendship of, advantage of, 550, 12;

good, result of, 137, 33;

guilty, effect of, 137, 29;

in matters of, the rule, 187, 58;

in man as acting or reflecting, 60, 11;

large, none, 109, 5;

limit of its authority, 305, 9;

loss of, 147, 46;

not our law, 373, 6;

of many, 539, 21;

pain of, 446, 39;

peaceful, joy of, 437, 19;

sayings about the, 421, 25-27;

still and quiet, value of, 166, 8;

terror of, _versus_ diseases of the liver, 558, 46;

the basis of society, 396, 36;

the judge, 378, 31;

the lash of, 307, 42;

to be always consulted, 509, 18;

voice of, 461, 6;

without God, 3, 23;

wound of, an open one, 322, 16

=Conscientiousness=, the ground of, 392, 31

=Conscious= and unconscious, 460, 19

=Consciousness=, always of the wrong, 325, 17;

and unconsciousness contrasted, 506, 3

=Conservatism=, contrasted with reform, 371, 5;

what it has to defend, 419, 30

=Conservative=, the, consideration for, 313, 48;

the, defined, 423, 2;

the true, duty of, 419, 3

=Consider=, before acting, 32, 16;

before venturing, 85, 15

=Consideration=, always room for, 22, 35;

before action, 16, 7;

benefit of, 504, 20;

contrasted with thought, 6, 31;

first, and then despatch, 357, 6;

when necessary, 560, 15

=Consistency=, no concern of great soul, 558, 20;

not imperative, 71, 38

=Consistent= man, his faith, 3, 24

=Consolation=, rule in administering, 238, 10;

the surest, 234, 17

=Constancy=, man's one want, 533, 8;

not a virtue of the world, 139, 28;

not to be expected, 173, 37;

virtue of, 25, 63;

only in honesty, 472, 18

=Constant= as the northern star, 33, 13

=Constitution=, the, how to preserve, 419, 3;

the, not supreme, 469, 42;

less than man, 263, 29

=Contemplation=, advantage of, 344, 17;

for, formed, 109, 25

=Contemporaries=, to be borne with, 527, 8

=Contempt=, evil of, 141, 12; 149, 50;

hard to bear, 268, 47;

harder to bear than wrong, 432, 3;

never forgiven, 564, 4;

rather than castigation, 47, 6;

unwise, contrasted with unwise admiration, 325, 21

=Content=, a ground of, 27, 4;

bliss of, 539, 17;

dependent upon God, 374, 57;

in whatsoever state, 166, 46

=Contented=, man, free from anxiety, 62, 7;

man, weak, 202, 50

=Contention=, from pride, 34, 12;

how engendered, 334, 48;

with certainty of defeat, 201, 14;

religious, effect of, 183, 20;

to be avoided, 240, 52;

with words, 47, 35

=Contentment=, 20, 27;

a cause of, 521, 22;

better than riches, 82, 63;

commended, 236, 1; 367, 21;

defined, 338, 37;

in retirement, 360, 40;

maxim on, for home use, 372, 41;

not portion of world, 203, 49;

of mind, 442, 15;

our, 337, 29;

power of, 182, 9;

profit of, 69, 2;

source of, 116, 12;

St. Paul on, 141, 45;

state of, 505, 12;

_versus_ ambition, 141, 4;

with little, gain in, 175, 22;

with the present, 229, 14;

with what we can, 243, 24;

wisdom of, 229, 15

=Contingency=, no, 472, 17

=Contradicting=, to be avoided, 195, 52

=Contradiction=, a downright, 4, 45;

a flat, 80, 1;

a teacher, 150, 44;

being able to stand, 140, 28;

good and to be borne, 202, 5;

how to treat, 526, 42;

the meaning of, 47, 36

=Contradictions=, aggregate of all, 2, 21

=Contraries= everywhere in nature, 95, 15

=Controversy=, anger in, 185, 4;

the dust of, 424, 27

=Contumaciousness=, root of, 380, 49

=Convenience=, every, has its inconvenience, 329, 1

=Conversation=, a rule in, 333, 24;

alleviating effect of, 421, 33;

and discourse, effects of, on one's thoughts, 554, 35;

among gentlemen, 363, 10;

boldness in, 185, 43;

brilliancy in, effect on people of, 475, 17;

contrasted with reading, 455, 41;

discretion in, 285, 19;

due more to confidence than wit, 224, 31;

effect of, on mind, 404, 17;

Emerson on, 557, 31;

essentials of, 185, 44;

first requisite in, 428, 34;

our pleasure in, 285, 20;

perfection of, 447, 26;

rare, 268, 46;

relish for, increased with age, 138, 1;

rule in, 11, 55; 511, 46;

the charm of, 443, 39;

the ingredients of, 428, 23;

the worst form of, 17, 56;

_versus_ debate, 56, 17

=Conversation's= Lexicon, the best, 370, 7

=Converse=, ability to, condition of, 306, 11

=Conversing= with what is above us, benefit of, 550, 29

=Conversion=, known only to God, 20, 58;

that is imperative, 96, 25

=Converting= greater than conquering, 203, 30

=Conviction=, one's, from another's lips, 326, 1;

one's, infinitely strengthened by another's, 288, 15;

openness to, rare, 104, 57;

personal, sacredness of, 240, 37;

power of, 312, 32;

rare, 336, 5;

should be strong, 266, 29

=Convictions=, Goethe's respect for, 169, 14;

kicking against, 289, 29;

one's, from a stranger, 162, 37

=Cooking= confined to man, 262, 49

=Cooks=, the father of, 127, 43

=Coolness=, the value of, 217, 20

=Co-operation= a law of life, 131, 13

=Copy= to be followed, 108, 11

=Core= not finally hidden, 421, 34

=Corn=, good, in small fields, 83, 17;

who can make two ears of, grow instead of one, 553, 9

=Cornelia= of her sons, 478, 37

=Corpse=, fate of, indifferent, 408, 45;

not the whole animal, 421, 36

=Correction=, failure in, from want of courage, 227, 14

=Corregio= before a Raphael, 14, 35

=Correspondence=, the first requisite in, 428, 34

=Costume=, cut and colour in, 172, 7

=Cottage=, every equipment for, 90, 29;

smallest, large enough for love, 368, 39

=Cotter=, humble, Burns on, 161, 1

=Council=, a, sages indispensable to, 413, 25

=Counsel=, given rather than taken, 274, 35;

good, how regarded, 93, 25;

good, if not taken, 129, 17;

good, over-night, 137, 36;

good, rejected, 129, 18;

good, to fools, 129, 20;

good, value of, 542, 42;

good, without good fortune, 129, 21;

hasty, 325, 3;

no counsel, 150, 7;

no, no help, 148, 59;

no, till asked, 123, 20;

not at needful moment, 551, 11;

of a friend, 471, 11;

slow-footed, advantage, 394, 13;

the value of, 548, 13;

thrown away, 549, 30;

unselfish, rare, 199, 12

=Counsellor=, to be without, 493, 11

=Counsellors=, good, lack not clients, 120, 22;

good, value of, to prince, 161, 26;

the best, 335, 59

=Counsels=, hasty, effect of, 512, 4;

scattered, not to rest on, 375, 1

=Countenance=, an index, 518, 12;

more in sorrow, 3, 29

=Counting=, by nose, 334, 29;

correct, effect of, on friendships, 48, 19

=Countries=, the richest, now and formerly, 112, 33

=Country=, a great, mark of a, 133, 15;

a, strength and power of, 445, 26;

duty to our, 227, 1;

effect of, on men, 274, 6;

largest soul of a, 438, 1;

lifelong affection for, importance of, 505, 21;

longing for the, 322, 1;

love of, 56, 33; 559, 24;

love of, and good manners, 439, 48;

love of, comprehensiveness of, 328, 1;

love of, sweet, 73, 55;

merit of serving one's, 364, 44;

one's, defined, 337, 31; 343, 35; 504, 26;

sacrifice for, sweet, 73, 50;

served in various ways, 523, 3;

test of a, condition, 421, 20;

the, privilege of, 449, 28;

the undiscovered, 424, 19; 459, 34;

to be abandoned, 333, 47;

want of interest in one's, 502, 20;

wealth of a, 461, 39, 43;

who enjoy, 405, 52

=Courage=, a, from fear, 477, 44;

and compassion joined, 505, 47;

and fear, with reference to danger, 103, 32, 41;

compared with justice, 216, 17;

connected with heart, 287, 48;

enough, 169, 46;

from duty, 166, 14;

in a bad affair, 31, 58;

in confronting evil, 86, 4;

mental, rarer than valour, 278, 2;

more than rage, 367, 35;

necessity for, 521, 28;

often from fear, 233, 13;

only in innocence, 472, 18;

physical and moral, 348, 18;

pitch it should rise to, 63, 17;

sacred, what it evidences, 379, 7;

shown in death, 178, 22;

that braves heaven, 167, 3;

that we admire, 421, 40;

to endure, 3, 30;

want of, 518, 31;

with success or defeat, 493, 25

=Courages=, the best, 417, 34

=Course=, our, forward, 524, 27

=Courses=, bad, issue of, 33, 3

=Court=, does not make happy, 225, 1;

like a marble edifice, 224, 35;

sayings about, 422, 2-5;

selfishness at, 82, 60;

the, La Bruyère on, 363, 15

=Courteous= man, a, 147, 2

=Courtesies=, small and great, effect of, 453, 50

=Courtesy=, dependent on morality, 473, 41;

excess of, suspicious, 548, 50;

import of, 462, 12;

of the heart, 85, 29;

room for, 247, 48;

rule in, 185, 45;

rule of, 432, 2; 526, 28;

want of, 163, 33

=Courtier=, an assiduous, a slave, 363, 30;

father of the tyrant, 446, 43;

the requisites of, 420, 7

=Courtship=, a dream, 275, 4

=Covet= all, lose all, 42, 34

=Covetous=, man, and his wealth, 173, 21;

riches of, 422, 6

=Covetousness=, and modesty, as regards wealth, 86, 44;

cause of, 96, 32;

contrasted with charity, 40, 27;

folly of, 131, 30;

inconsistent with godliness, 171, 15;

its object, 300, 35;

penalty of, 13, 48;

slavery, 244, 16

=Cow=, the, and the piper, 122, 25

=Cowardice=, pain of, in fear, 103, 41

=Coward=, brave, under bad fortune, 542, 44;

the rights of, 538, 27

=Cowards=, boastful, 177, 49;

not visited by God, 127, 54;

sayings about, 487, 30, 31;

should be allowed to desert, 109, 26;

with hearts false as stairs of sand, 161, 41

=Cowl= makes not monk, 50, 39

=Cowper=, inspiring idea of, 123, 14

=Coxcomb=, a, man's own making, 291, 16;

and the flatterer, 422, 8;

once, one always, 109, 1

=Cradle=, what is learned in, 536, 25

=Crack=, a, in everything, 469, 30

=Craft=, a, advantage of having, 366, 20;

a, to be learned when young, 235, 39;

power of, 331, 20

=Crafty=, man, always in danger, 422, 10;

man and his time, 431, 24

=Creating= something, the condition of, 177, 32

=Creation=, a thought of God, 127, 34;

and destruction simultaneous, 190, 11;

not to be understood, 268, 8;

beginning of, 417, 21;

better than learning, 200, 22;

end of, 264, 8;

God's manner of, 128, 16;

harmony of, 332, 22;

motive of, 434, 26;

not easy, 301, 27;

visible and invisible, 461, 4

=Creation's= blot, creation's blank, 413, 46

=Creator=, an inference from nature, 291, 2

=Creature=, how to understand any, 190, 21;

of God, one, 128, 4;

the true, of God, 128, 4

=Creatures=, all provided for, 142, 11

=Credit=, easily lost, 283, 24;

given only to belief, 319, 31;

private, worth of, 357, 8

=Credulity=, its nature, and subjects of it, 225, 3

=Creed=, a, always sensitive, 383, 1;

a steadfast, foundation of, 34, 50;

not so significant as the man, 529, 37;

of the true saint, 422, 13;

outworn, a pagan suckled in a, 133, 31;

two elements in every, 186, 29

=Creeds=, effect of science on, 382, 24

=Creeping= in the way and running out of it, 142, 35

=Cricket= on the hearth, 102, 8

=Crime=, an equaliser, 50, 9;

eschewed from disgrace it brings, 8, 20;

every, avenged at the moment, 90, 33;

evil of overlooking a, 196, 26;

fatal prevailing source of, 333, 26;

indulgence to, 332, 1;

its natural punishment, 225, 2;

meditated, committed, 289, 31;

no consecrating, 312, 18;

no hiding of, 45, 8; 472, 24;

sharer in, 50, 52;

that most impute a, 479, 29;

the contagion of, 421, 31;

the disgrace, 39, 3; 69, 17; 233, 16;

when successful, 358, 28;

who hinders not, 146, 56

=Crimes=, causes of, 173, 39;

consecrated, 405, 28;

great, the foreshadows of, 363, 2;

not cured by cruelty, 50, 34;

others', our estimate of, 161, 13;

when a crown is at stake, 239, 19

=Criminal= laws to be gentle, 260, 44

=Criminality=, condition of, 277, 50

=Criminals=, and the light, 311, 37;

different fates of, of same type, 45, 9

=Cringe=, effect of ceasing to, 514, 13;

people who, 480, 4

=Crisis=, a, for both men and nations, 331, 29;

significance of, 94, 58;

the, to be prayed for, 243, 34

=Critic=, attribute of a good, 25, 2;

but a, 382, 7;

eye of, 426, 33;

true and false, function of, 3, 37;

temper required in, 30, 38;

the, on style, 563, 39;

what makes a, 206, 19

=Critical=, easier than correct, 203, 11;

nothing if not, 110, 5; 165, 2;

powers, the test of, 456, 28;

study, distracting, 280, 7

=Criticising=, contrasted with making better, 326, 3;

disadvantage of, 448, 6

=Criticism=, and appreciation, 201, 27;

brightest gem of, 35, 12;

contrasted with art, 225, 5;

destructive, in matters of faith, 172, 8;

enemy's, value of, 122, 11;

first condition of, 408, 38;

how to dodge, 381, 23;

just, rule for, 109, 9;

of self, 497, 11;

of what is above us, abstaining from, rare, 391, 14;

the cant of, Sterne on, 324, 32;

true, the object of, 294, 45

=Critics=, how created, 533, 19;

professional, incapacity of, 357, 50;

ready made, 265, 19;

Young on, 158, 23

=Cromwell=, Boswell's father on, 127, 46

=Cromwell's= judges, the Scotch on, 16, 20

=Crooked= cannot be straightened, 414, 38

=Cross=, a, and bitterness in life, 490, 29;

attractive power of, 420, 20;

bearing, cheerfully, 175, 8;

bearing, longest, 149, 11;

behind the devil, 61, 19;

essential to Christianity, 43, 7;

every, has its crown, 90, 22;

false doctrine of, 281, 30;

fitting close of the life, 422, 17;

of Christ, the power of, 422, 16;

one's own, hardest, 4, 38;

one's, to repel, 495, 19;

risk of rejecting one's, 175, 10;

sanctuary of the humble, 422, 15;

the, irreverence towards, 158, 21;

to every one, 39, 33;

the, religion of, 371, 41;

the, sustaining, 480, 18;

touchstone of faith, 105, 44;

the true of Christ, 458, 37;

the, way of, 513, 41

=Crosses=, overrated, 488, 43

=Crowd=, according to Coke, 286, 16;

bustling, passing through, 494, 45;

not company, 3, 38

=Crowded= hour of glorious life, 332, 6

=Crowds= without great men, 559, 35

=Crown=, a noble, one of thorns, 93, 2;

golden, 3, 39;

and headache, 3, 40;

noble, crown of thorns, 111, 23;

not always his who has earned it, 152, 7

=Crucified=, the, irreverence towards, 198, 21

=Cruel= only to be kind, 167, 54

=Cruelty=, of the affectionate, 422, 20;

under garb of mercy, 324, 33;

weakness, 9, 18

=Crumbs=, bread, 394, 43

=Crusaders=, war-cry of, 63, 9

=Cucumbers=, sunbeams out of, 142, 37

=Cultivated= men, importance of, 396, 6

=Cultivation=, generally essential to usefulness, 94, 52;

without ability, 290, 13

=Culture=, a false, defined and denounced, 560, 18;

affair of inner man, 333, 38;

effects of, 98, 11;

for a noble soul, 15, 53;

Goethe on, 207, 40;

high, a proof of, 205, 37;

human, our indifference to, 525, 38;

moral, the root of, 283, 11;

partial and extreme, 342, 3;

rule in regard to, 434, 33;

spontaneous, value of, 471, 27;

universality of, 22, 29;

the business of, 391, 11;

without intelligence, 292, 44

=Cunning=, art of, 416, 30;

dismasked, 20, 8;

men, Burton of, 518, 21;

on whom it imposes, 227, 30;

outwitted, 89, 24;

self-defeated, 82, 40;

stronger than strength, 250, 26

=Cup=, inordinate, unblessed, 91, 36

=Cupid=, a rogue, 13, 58;

methods of killing, 398, 3;

though small, great, 251, 39

=Cupidity= antagonistic to the Gospel, 549, 22

=Cupid's= bow, how rendered useless, 336, 45;

weapons, 257, 26

=Curiosity=, a low vice, 413, 39;

a scourge, 422, 28;

age of, gone, 415, 39;

evil of, 218, 29;

too much, 569, 35

=Curse=, a, 27, 21;

dinna, 68, 32;

to be shared by all, 477, 9

=Cured=, willingness to be, 341, 51

=Curses=, like processions, 232, 39;

small, on great great occasions, 394, 21

=Cursing= contrasted with swearing, 408, 18

=Custom=, a breach of, 419, 12;

a, falsely so called, 236, 8;

an evil, 261, 40;

ancient, 513, 39;

changing a, 285, 29;

force of, 46, 60; 47, 1, 2;

honoured in the breach, 3, 61;

man's lord, 266, 25;

more potent than reason, 350, 7;

needs no excuse, 43, 21;

often the only sanction, 162, 2;

power of, 48, 37; 510, 10;

power of, on belief, 523, 26;

the empire of, 132, 51;

the law of society, 396, 14;

the power of, 299, 29

=Customs=, local, 82, 14;

long, hard to shake off, 252, 32;

meaning in old, 4, 7;

observed more than laws, 461, 23;

of country to be followed, 108, 12;

old, 239, 34

=Cyclops=, the, at work, 182, 13

=Cynic=, a, described, 422, 33;

and his body, 315, 23

=Cynicism= deprecated, 71, 37

D

=Daggers=, I will speak, 241, 28

=Dainties=, bred in a book, 393, 2

=Daintiness= of stomach, 102, 42, 45

=Daisy=, the, Burns to, 531, 5

=Daisy's= fate, man's, 89, 37

=Dalliance=, not too much rein to, 71, 28

=Dame=, the scraping, wasteful, 311, 29

=Dan=, from, to Beersheba, all barren, 168, 17

=Dancing=, a corporeal poesy, 336, 39;

as a sign of happiness, 39, 32;

silent music, 287, 3

=Dandies=, remark upon, 483, 5

=Dandy=, in Shakespeare, 114, 43;

not without a heart, 559, 18

=Danger=, a common, 486, 14;

common, tends to concord, 45, 25;

despised, 43, 36;

foreseen, 3, 64;

how to oppose, 192, 5;

how to treat, 528, 38;

imminency of, 2, 42;

no, with due courage, 301, 45;

nothing free from, 299, 20;

effect of, on us, 529, 15;

on guard against, 36, 13;

the most deadly, 385, 39

=Dante=, as world-child, 465, 16;

as a figure in literary history, 184, 34;

rank as poet, 503, 48

=Daring=, a defence, 22, 41;

against daring men, 185, 12;

all that may become a man, 165, 37;

conceals fear, 22, 47;

defect of, 142, 30;

necessary for distinction, 22, 46

=Dark=, hours, man in, 86, 12;

running in, 148, 15;

the, in soul and their universe, 422, 36

=Darkness=, as co-factor with heat, 153, 51;

encountered as a bride, 172, 43;

of mind, our one enemy, 445, 35;

prince of, his greatest enemy, 21, 39;

powers of, how they seduce us, 488, 46;

rather than light, 249, 12, 13;

spiritual, how to disperse, 241, 10;

the only, 472, 20;

those insensible to, 480, 5

=Dashes= and modern humour, 392, 56

=Daughter=, marrying and bringing up, 202, 21;

too much cared for, 77, 26

=Daughters=, fragile ware, 70, 24;

love for, 38, 29;

slovenly, when wives, 55, 23

=David's= harp, 177, 3

=Dawn=, its solemnity, 474, 19

=Day=, a, losing or misspending, 482, 44;

a, what may bring forth, 3, 71;

and night, how to spend, 241, 42;

appointed, each man has his, 402, 22;

bright, requires caution, 205, 51;

each, how to live, 528, 35;

each new, how to regard, 327, 53;

end of night, 444, 48;

end of, regarded by God, 312, 39;

every, a Doomsday, 90, 36;

every, a leaf in life's history, 90, 35;

every, a rampart breach, 78, 41;

every, how to spend, 90, 37;

every, sets in night, 36, 17;

every, whole of life, 253, 10;

every, worth of, 243, 38;

fair, sign of, 15, 1;

of days, 422, 40;

offices of the, 191, 8;

parting, described, 342, 6;

poorest passing, the conflux of eternities, 448, 29;

still, but night setting in, 308, 30;

the claims of the, 201, 31;

the darkest, transient, 422, 37;

the most wasted, 32, 20;

the, owning, 144, 52;

the, value of, 298, 20;

Titus on loss of a, 13, 27;

when to praise, 22, 12

=Days=, calm, how to have, 176, 31;

fine, not as roses, 331, 19;

my, in the yellow leaf, 287, 43;

succeeding, unlike, 238, 40

=Dazzles=, a thing which, temporary nature of, 519, 20

=Dead=, as riders, 66, 27;

distinguished by their virtues alone, 227, 34;

happy, 3, 10;

no speaking ill of, 497, 27, 28;

of, nothing unfavourable, 58, 30;

selves, stepping-stones, 275, 33;

state of, 559, 2;

the, all holy, 447, 5;

the, and our concerns, 170, 15;

the, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 323, 2;

the, our need of, 422, 43;

the, our sole duty to, 540, 39;

the, purifying power of, 439, 17;

the, respect due to, 329, 29;

to bury their dead, 242, 46

=Dealing=, fair, blessed effect of, 312, 34;

plain, 349, 13, 14

=Dear= to another, dear to self, 172, 31

=Dearest=, the, 54, 19

=Death=, a deliverer, 248, 11, 12;

a happy, 140, 15;

a joy, 288, 8;

a matter of time, 414, 26;

a man mightier than, 532, 23;

a necessity, 10, 33;

a new birth, 116, 2;

a radical cure, 246, 46;

a reconciler, 79, 24;

a release, 61, 28;

a sleep, 519, 34;

a swift rider, 43, 31;

a universal interest, 253, 41;

an awakening, 246, 46;

an awakening as from nightmare, 250, 7;

and his brother sleep, 163, 2;

and sleep, 393, 37;

and sun not to be looked at, 235, 15;

and the puny body, 283, 59;

and the thought of, contrasted, 226, 20;

beautiful, 160, 49;

but parting breath, 326, 18;

common to all ages, 328, 5;

often comparatively painless, 270, 1;

effect of, on life, 247, 37;

end of all, 481, 14;

everywhere, 366, 48;

fear of, lamentable, 167, 53;

fear of, 275, 7;

fear of, most strange, 284, 37;

finishing touch, 234, 14;

gate of life, 283, 56;

gloried in by Nature, 291, 5;

gradual, 523, 32;

fearlessness of him who does not fear, 520, 14;

happy, a, 124, 37;

honour in, 159, 31;

how to escape or invite, 77, 38;

how to overcome, 517, 30;

if gods or no gods, 205, 33;

impartiality of, 341, 4;

implied in birth, 289, 41;

in battle, 386, 19;

in nature, birth, 9, 19;

mystery of, 25, 31;

necessary to life, 403, 14;

no discharge from, 473, 24;

no evil, 202, 34;

no remedy against, 47, 31;

no surprise to the wise, 226, 21;

no worse than life, 167, 26;

not feared beforehand, 168, 33;

not subject to fortune, 245, 6;

not the worst of evils, 309, 17;

not to be feared, in battle, 567, 12;

not to be forgotten, 262, 20;

not to be thought of, 334, 1;

of no season, 237, 1;

only in meaner parts, 116, 16;

ordained law of, 206, 22;

our farthest limit, 283, 60;

path of, to be trodden by all, 328, 4;

patiently submitted to, 72, 38;

peace to be made with, 74, 36;

Plato on, 306, 19;

pomp of, 448, 22;

principle of, received at birth, 19, 57;

reconciling, 319, 6;

Regnier on, 210, 38;

repose from all toils, 283, 57;

river of, to be crossed by all, 327, 57;

sayings on, 491, 35-37;

sense of, in apprehension, 453, 10;

sting of, 497, 10;

sting of, felt by survivor, 544, 17;

sudden, 368, 15;

that puts an end to pain, 408, 25;

the fear of, 200, 23;

the fearless of, 364, 7;

the fell sergeant, 481, 35;

the most desirable, 550, 3;

the poor man's dearest friend, 325, 50;

the sole, 110, 7;

the solemnity associated with, effect of, 352, 18;

the true, 512, 34;

the thought of, 19, 14; 173, 33;

triumphed over and led captive of, 269, 24; 250, 19;

way to, open, 311, 50;

who fears, 532, 9; 551, 17;

who fears not, 150, 19; 441, 6;

whoso can look on, 554, 7

=Death-bed= of a man, two queries over the, 542, 1

=Debt=, avoidance of, a first duty, 241, 19;

effects of, 5, 21;

evil of, 11, 65;

freedom from, 86, 43;

known when accounts come in, 333, 40;

two ways of paying, 466, 30;

not lessened by care, 38, 6, 7;

to be avoided, 368, 26;

without supper rather than in, 29, 24

=Debts=, all paid, 145, 50;

and sins, their number, 392, 54;

as legacy, 66, 11;

cleared by borrowing, 315, 18;

great and small, 394, 22;

small and heavy, effect of, 244, 27

=Decay=, contrasted with growth, 48, 9

=Deceit=, deceptiveness of, 7, 28;

effect of experience in, 447, 22;

art of, 416, 30

=Deceived=, twice, a disgrace, 171, 12

=Deceiving=, a deception, 274, 8;

the deceiver, pleasure of, 38, 43

=Decency=, connected with virtue and vice, 225, 6;

indispensability of, 105, 51;

want of, 183, 18

=Deception=, always of self, 266, 22;

and self-deception, 199, 46;

limited, 39, 31;

of appearances, 56, 36;

universal, 28, 52, 53