ILL-FED. 'It is as bad as bad can be; it is ill-fed, ill-killed,
ill-kept and ill-drest,' iv. 284.
IMAGERY. 'He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves
to lose her,' v. 268, n. 2.
IMAGINATION. 'There is in them what _was_ imagination,' i. 421;
'This is only a disordered imagination taking a different turn,'
iii. 158.
IMMORTALITY. 'If it were not for the notion of immortality he would
cut a throat to fill his pockets,' ii. 359.
IMPARTIAL. 'Foote is quite impartial, for he tells lies of everybody,'
ii. 434.
IMPORTS. 'Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll
never go far wrong,' iv. 226.
IMPOSSIBLE. 'That may be, Sir, but it is impossible for you to
know it,' ii. 466, n. 3;
'I would it had been impossible,' ii. 409, n. 1.
IMPOTENCE. 'He is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence
to spend his money,' iii. 40.
IMPRESSIONS. 'Do not accustom yourself to trust to impressions,'
iv. 122.
IMPUDENCE. 'An instance how far impudence could carry ignorance,'
iii. 390.
INCOMPRESSIBLE. 'Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I
ever knew,' &c., v. 391.
INDIA. 'Nay, don't give us India,' v. 209.
INEBRIATION. 'He is without skill in inebriation,' iii. 389.
INFERIOR. 'To an inferior it is oppressive; to a superior it is
insolent,' v. 73.
INFERIORITY. 'There is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to
other people in not having seen it,' ii. 169.
INFIDEL. 'If he be an infidel he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel,'
ii. 95;
'Shunning an infidel to-day and getting drunk to-morrow' (A
celebrated friend), iii. 410.
INGRAT. 'Je fais cent mécontens et un ingrat' (Voltaire), ii. 167,
n. 3.
INNOVATION. 'Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation,'
iv. 188.
INSIGNIFICANCE. 'They will be tamed into insignificance,' v. 148, n. 1.
INSOLENCE. 'Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out,' iii. 316.
INTENTION. 'We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad,' ii. 12.
INTREPIDITY. 'He has an intrepidity of talk, whether he understands
the subject or not,' v. 330.
INVERTED. 'Sir, he has the most _inverted_ understanding of any man
whom I have ever known,' iii. 379.
IRONS. 'The best thing I can advise you to do is to put your
tragedy along with your irons,' iii. 259, n. 1.
IRRESISTIBLY. 'No man believes himself to be impelled irresistibly,'
iv. 123.
IT. 'It is not so. Do not tell this again,' iii. 229.