EARNEST. 'At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,' v. 288, n. 3.
EASIER. 'It is easier to write that book than to read it' (Goldsmith),
ii. 90;
'It is much easier to say what it is not,' iii. 38.
EAST. 'The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well
as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,' v. 35.
ECONOMY. 'The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,' iii. 300.
_Emptoris sit eligere_, i. 155.
EMPTY-HEADED. 'She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,'
iii. 48.
END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in
imitation of Johnson), iii. 301;
'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82;
'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii. 407.
ENDLESS. 'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3.
ENGLAND. 'It is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost,
as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78.
ENGLISHMAN. 'An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has
nothing to say,' iv. 15;
'We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishmen
are not rare in it,' iii. 10.
ENTHUSIAST. 'Sir, he is an enthusiast by rule,' iv. 33.
EPIGRAM. 'Why, Sir, he may not be a judge of an epigram; but you
see he is a judge of what is _not_ an epigram,' iii. 259.
_Esprit_. 'Il n'a de l'esprit que contre Dieu,' iii. 388.
_Étudiez_. 'Ah, Monsieur, vous étudiez trop,' iv. 15.
EVERYTHING. 'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing
of anything,' iv. 176.
EXCELLENCE. 'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320;
'Is getting £100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii. 184.
EXCESS. 'Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in nature,' i. 453.
EXERCISE. 'He used for exercise to walk to the ale-house, but he was
carried back again,' i. 397;
'I take the true definition of exercise to be labour without
weariness,' iv. 151, n. 1.
EXISTENCE. 'Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it
is given to him,' iii. 58.