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Chapter I: =Icicle=, image of chastity, 40, 37, 39

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=Idea=, a single, devotion to, 168, 37;
a single, possession by, deprecated, 169, 18;
an idle or distracting, evil of, 110, 18;
an infinite religious, power of, 421, 38;
and fact compared, 464, 28;
devotion to an, 379, 7;
fixed, danger of, 5, 47;
manifestation of, as beautiful, fleeting, 65, 28;
men possessed with an, 276, 18;
new, hard to instil, 491, 11;
power of an, 186, 34;
risk of sacrificing all to, 289, 37;
superior worth of, 538, 33;
the, and its manifestations, 65, 5;
the, that is once spoken no longer ours, 436, 8;
to be acted on, if it cannot be uttered, 217, 47

=Ideal=, accompaniments of, 559, 6;
better than actual, 91, 55; 92, 9;
attained, a low one, 149, 45;
describable only when conceived as real, 448, 40;
every one has his, 26, 58;
from duty, 116, 31;
in actual, 415, 33;
now insisted on, not natural, 112, 32;
ousted by the real, 415, 28;
pursuing one's own, 173, 29;
the, an illusory vision, 72, 40;
the, for every one, and how to realise it, 124, 7;
to grow in the real, 436, 9

=Idealist=, the, and his body, 315, 23

=Ideals=, extinct, 65, 4;
our, defined, 338, 21

=Ideas=, ancient, entertainment by moderns of, 174, 9;
change of, pleasure in, 315, 43;
confining, controlling power of, 524, 31;
delusive, prevalence of, 58, 10;
hard to discern, 391, 26;
having, and thinking, compared, 493, 9;
how realisable, 302, 34;
like pieces of money, 207, 34;
made flesh, 399, 21;
mistaken, the stupefying and pauperising effect of, 201, 35;
new, daring and inspiring, genesis of, 297, 26;
not measure of a man, 312, 32;
our, like pictures, 338, 22;
our want, not facts, 524, 45;
power of, 546, 30;
the shells of, 89, 38;
those who build on, 479, 23;
to assume a visible form, 91, 30;
world of, a refuge, 492, 14

=Idioms=, in language, 91, 11

=Idiots=, only, twice cozened, 116, 22;
the greatest, 478, 13

=Idle=, always busiest, 180, 20;
always dodge work, 108, 7;
chagrins of, 467, 28;
man, character of, 333, 8;
man, according to Socrates, 143, 41;
people, and their ennui, 345, 8;
the, and the devil, 423, 28;
the, characteristic of, 238, 20;
their intentions, 436, 13

=Idleness=, a reproach, 490, 23;
a tempting of the devil, 178, 52;
better than a bad trade, 29, 13;
busy, 268, 40;
evil of, 15, 19; 34, 3; 287, 29; 306, 42;
evil of encouraging, 175, 11;
fly, 108, 1;
harder work than industry, 97, 20;
in youth, penalty of, 25, 37;
its hopelessness, 187, 32;
mischief of, 224, 14;
strenuous, the toil of, 403, 35;
the blight of genius, 5, 20;
the evil of, 12, 48;
the toil of, 153, 17;
too much, effect of, 497, 38

=Idler=, a young, 214, 42;
like a handless watch, 15, 20

=Idlers=, great talkers, 345, 16

=Idolater=, the true, 363, 32

=Idolatry=, a mad, 488, 19;
the, that is condemnable, 46, 9

"=If=," comprehensiveness of, 24, 37;
the inventor of, 60, 30;
virtue in, 568, 22

=Igdrasil=, the tree, 399, 46

=Ignorance=, a modest confession of, 13, 51;
and unconsciousness of it, 147, 36;
as support of priestcraft, 377, 26;
audacious, _versus_ timorous knowledge, 546, 22;
comfort of, 116, 10;
contrasted with error, 84, 50; 85, 4; 85, 10;
evil of, 306, 42; 436, 14;
happiness, 83, 45;
honest, 471, 1;
human, Goethe on, 320, 29;
in action, 315, 25;
life-long, a tragedy, 414, 3;
man's, 483, 25;
of good from bad, effect of, 178, 21;
of self, 175, 5;
our, fatal, 539, 26;
rather than falsehood, 28, 56;
sense of, from greater knowledge, 443, 28;
sense of, mark of wisdom, 175, 5;
that marks a superior nature, 469, 32;
the only darkness, 472, 20;
true, 146, 2;
unconsciousness of, 147, 37;
voluntary, blameworthness of, 148, 41

=Ignorant=, man, an, according to the Hitopadesa, 151, 14;
the, most violent, 477, 24

=Iliad=, and wayside incidents, 436, 16;
Homer's, Carlyle on, 158, 37; 436, 17

=Iliads=, no formulæ for making, 467, 32

=Ilium=, sacred, fate of, 86, 33

=Ill=, a solace under, 184, 35;
patiently borne, 442, 41;
reports, credit given to, 274, 7;
saying and thinking no, 208, 41;
to do, who fears, 551, 18

=Ill-bred= man, mark of, 447, 30

=Ill-done=, the, no concern of ours, 554, 29

=Ill-fortune=, the, inexperienced in, 551, 32;
without power on him whom good fortune deceives not, 181, 41

=Ill-humour=, protection from, 517, 31

=Illiterate= man, mark of, 447, 30

=Ill-luck=, fascination of, 398, 34;
how to avert, 31, 27

=Ill-mannered=, manners of, to whom odious, 441, 26

=Ill-manners=, three sources of, 356, 32

=Ill-natured= man, and public spirit, 202, 33

=Ills=, imaginary, Burns on, 33, 11;
in relation to blessings, 31, 17;
the, we have to be borne, 424, 19;
why ills, 139, 17

=Ill-thought= of, to be, sometimes a good, 490, 24

=Ill-tidings=, let, tell themselves, 123, 31

=Ill-usage=, effect of, 292, 16

=Illusion=, and after remorse, 61, 32;
its extent, 482, 19;
men's fondness for, 275, 9;
no end to, 72, 50;
power of, 349, 33;
that gladdens contrasted with truth that saddens, 80, 2;
the attractive power of, 320, 20;
the danger of, 422, 34;
which pervades life, 533, 23

=Illusions=, unmasking of, disliked, 502, 16

=Illustrious=, men, the sepulchre and the memorial of, 325, 5;
the most, 197, 15

=Ill-will=, the force of, 426, 48

=Images=, things expressed through, 480, 44

=Imagination=, a need of, 397, 22;
and reality, the worlds of, 465, 7;
appeals to, 263, 43;
as wings of ostrich, 157, 2;
contrasted with judgment, 223, 34;
death of, in love, 472, 27;
free, as nothing else, 315, 19;
in the poet, 448, 18;
madcap of the brain, 223, 33;
man's ruling and divine power, 403, 38;
more sensitive than heart, 200, 54;
Napoleon on the power of, 39, 8;
necessary to recognition of truth, 105, 12;
no imagination, 150, 8;
power of, 525, 21;
sayings about, 436, 20-23;
science indebted to, 382, 27;
strong, tricks of, 405, 53;
subject only to art, 78, 37;
surpassed by reality, 369, 21;
the element of, 397, 22;
to be kept sane, 217, 31;
under the affections, 545, 22;
want of, a grave defect, 16, 14;
without learning, 150, 32;
without taste, 78, 37;
without truth, 105, 33

=Imbecility=, man's, effect of, 436, 24

=Imitation=, a source of all apprenticeship, 138, 9;
easy, 34, 19;
long step to, 470, 5;
more potent than precept, 200, 46;
not discipleship, 490, 8;
of another's style, 493, 23;
of evil contrasted with that of good, 150, 49;
of good and of bad, 223, 15;
power of, 475, 36;
rule in, 362, 8; 529, 29

=Immaterial= things essential to life, 468, 26

=Immortality=, balked of, 144, 42;
effect of disbelief in, 544, 38;
essence of, 425, 33;
faith in, to be enjoyed in silence, 243, 12;
Horace's assurance of his, 310, 21;
how we forfeit, 529, 39;
our faith in, 523, 27;
the blazing evidence of, 337, 38;
the interest in, 66, 46

=Impatience=, Burns on, 340, 17;
difficult to conquer,
167, 1;
the evil of, 343, 11;
to right one's self to be curbed, 402, 10

=Imperial= spirits, rare prerogative of, 492, 43

=Imperfections=, our, the secret of, 306, 22

=Impious= to be feared, 166, 6

=Importance=, airs of, deceptive, 7, 38;
effect of imagination on, 565, 15;
in matters of, trust unsafe, 184, 19

=Impossibilities=, created by idleness, 202, 28;
faith laughs at, 100, 21

=Impossible=, everything at first, 92, 11;
no binding to the, 8, 34;
possible only to man, 261, 47;
proof of certainty, 38, 32;
the, 540, 10

=Imposture=, evils of, 9, 46;
probably for good, 357, 34

=Impression=, moral, when strongest, 338, 36

=Impromptu= test of wit, 223, 16

=Improvement=, means of, 531, 14;
not every, virtue, 298, 70;
secondary to invention, 98, 44

=Improvements=, resistance to, as innovations, 480, 16

=Improvidence= of life, 550, 42

=Impudence=, a god, 466, 24;
how to avoid imputation of, 461, 26;
mistaken for confidence, 289, 30;
the acme of, 440, 41

=Impulse=, the inner, power of, 475, 44

=Impunity=, evil effect of, 184, 6

=In= and out, in spiritual world, 191, 19

=Inability=, moral, and guilt, 283, 13;
suspends law, 183, 48

=Inaction=, accursed, 292, 6

=Inanimate=, the, to speak and reason, 265, 9

=Inanity=, alone endless, 314, 44

=Incapable= aping capable, 194, 39

=Incapacity=, the first proof of, 428, 33

=Incense=, a little, effect of, 505, 32;
ashes, and burning of, 301, 9;
on altar, obscuring effect, 421, 1

=Incivility=, from a superior, 506, 38

=Inclination=, and will, in the matter of virtue, 6, 42;
conquering, benefit of, 503, 8;
determining power of, 480, 39;
natural, to be controlled, 212, 7;
undue regard for one's own, 467, 16;
with habit, impossible to conquer, 491, 22

=Incomprehensible=, comprehensible, 61, 9

=Incongruous=, the, displeasing, 314, 31

=Inconstancy= man's one fault, 320, 35

=Increase=, the end of, 94, 40

=Incredible=, how to treat, 538, 43

=Incredulity=, a religion like the others, 223, 36

=Independence=, apostrophe to, 486, 10;
commended, 11, 28;
evil of loss of, 277, 4;
fruit of injustice, 224, 2;
rebellious, painful, 340, 45;
the best, 417, 40;
the glorious privilege of, 491, 17;
the secret of, 204, 24

=Independent= mind, Burns to, 483, 43

=Index=, an, a saving, 487, 1

=Indian=, the poor, faith of, 252, 12

=Indies=, wealth of the, 461, 41, 42

=Indifference=, prevalence of, now, 317, 42;
two kinds of, 131, 10

=Indigence=, man in, 542, 10

=Indigestion=, cause of dreams, 41, 52

=Indignation=, source of inspiration, 390, 24;
that makes verses, Carlyle on, 436, 27;
weaker than love, 255, 9

=Individual=, always moving, 436, 28;
as a private door to the divine, 125, 35;
first period of, 428, 28;
most important period in life of, 444, 1;
no, for his own sake, 91, 45;
no bridge between one and another, 472, 12;
the measure of an, 210, 28;
the, in society, 396, 17

=Individualism=, absolute, 2, 20;
adverse to welfare of the whole, 95,14;
preservative of power, 75, 18

=Individuality=, at a discount, 526, 22;
one's, his limit, 303, 26;
one's, sacred, 304, 43;
planted in instinct, power of, 174, 32

=Individuals=, easily dispensed with, 522, 42;
singly and corporately, 212, 11

=Indolence=, a perpetual holiday, 177, 48;
an end of, 334, 37;
king for life, 325, 9;
mistaken for patience, 330, 44;
our mental, 524, 33;
that voluntary debility, evil of, 414, 23

=Indolent= man, in love, 202, 55

=Indulgence=, how we learn, 205, 20;
rarer than pity, 187, 11

=Industrious=, first need of, 494, 1

=Industry=, as a defence, 99, 5;
building upon Nature, 544, 8;
condition of God's gifts, 125, 38;
dependence on one's own, 200, 36;
gifts that crown, 194, 4;
its support, 186, 41;
mistress of, 549, 27;
mother of, 518, 26;
the power of, 394, 7;
unfortunate condition of, 396, 21

=Inevitable=, arguing with, 472, 47;
folly of fearing or lamenting, 534, 28;
the, folly of distress about, 404, 33;
the, hard to bear, 54, 35;
to be yielded to, 551, 44

=Infant=, crying in the night, 15, 41;
those who have lost an, 480, 8

=Infant's= faith, sacredness of, 151, 47

=Inference= compared with observation, 323, 36

=Inferior=, finding one's, a first duty, 428, 15;
the, of nothing, worthlessness of, 147, 23

=Infidelity=, associated with bigotry, 407, 9;
general, as soil for religious ideas, 119, 39

=Infinite=, an epitome of, in every man, 266, 47;
how to attain to, 556, 28;
how to express, in art, 185, 10;
in finite, 495, 28;
nearness of, 116, 3;
seen in finite, 261, 45;
surest of facts, 436, 32;
the, how to read, 384, 37

=Infinity=, the chosen for, 507, 7

=Infirmity=, the badge of, 287, 33;
that last, of noble minds, 101, 23

=Influence=, defined, 9, 50;
over men, how to attain, 560, 27;
secret of, 436, 34;
true, 500, 11

=Influences=, man needs, 264, 1

=Infortune=, worst kind of, 110, 31

=Ingratitude=, a curse on, 403, 40;
evil of, 491, 14;
hatefulness of, 166, 31;
man's, 31, 2;
our suffering from, 524, 3;
the worst of vices, 132, 35

=Ingle-nook=, men must leave, 275, 39

=Inheritance=, as citizens, value of, 260, 8;
anticipated, 176, 23;
from our sires, 525, 3;
man's, 288, 6

=Inherited=, the, how to profit by, 519, 15

=Inhumanity=, man's, 266, 38

=Iniquity=, Burns' measure of, 541, 11;
sowing, penalty of, 148, 22

=Injuries=, benefit of, 436, 35;
best remedy for, 194, 31;
disregard of, mark of a great mind, 259, 21;
effect of slighting or being angry at, 194, 29;
not to be avenged, 154, 42;
our sense of, 385, 20;
revenging, costly, 198, 5;
to be expected, 97, 23;
to wilful men, 497, 3;
unexpected, 244, 34

=Injuring= to benefit, 483, 12

=Injurious= under injury, 311, 32

=Injury=, a galling, 155, 37;
avenging, easy, 522, 41;
better receive than do, 2, 48;
by a noble man, how to treat, 531, 45;
ghost of an, 472, 44;
how to meet an, 171, 29;
how to recompense, 370, 32, 33;
meditated, done, 194, 30;
mistake in avenging, 550, 25;
scorning to avenge, 427, 4

=Injustice=, committed, _versus_ injustice suffered, 149, 46;
effect of, on its perpetrator, 485, 31;
effect of sight of, on temper, 209, 6;
greatest, 432, 28;
height of, 158, 38;
Jacobi's definition of, 216, 11;
no man means an, 302, 50;
no success, 405, 29;
not to be borne, 85, 16;
rather suffer than do, 169, 30;
to individual, 436, 36;
unbearable, 526, 31

=Inmost= things melodious, 194, 34

=Inner=, and outer, 446, 32;
sacrifice of, to outer, 198, 36

=Innocence=, a heroic, 469, 41;
silent, persuasiveness
of, 453, 36;
and obscurity, advantages of, 323, 30;
and mystery, incompatibility of, 210, 18;
badge of, 87, 38;
coerced, like a caged lark, 44, 18;
eloquence of, 15, 43;
friend of, 66, 45;
from misfortune, 329, 22;
greatest prerogative of, 492, 2;
how regarded by guilty, 151, 5;
in whom alone, 104, 3;
power of, 66, 10;
prior to guilt, 94, 22;
to be protected at any cost, 29, 44;
to eye of vice, 496, 39;
true, mark of, 365, 19;
within, good armour, 153, 23;
youth-preserving power of, 319, 8

=Innocent=, as doves, 399, 27;
sleep of the, 436, 40;
the, what is due to, 496, 8

=Innovations=, crude at first, 20, 45

=Inquirers=, Goethe's dislike to, 272, 23

=Inquiries=, numerical, 318, 39;
scientific and learned, Mephisto on, 512, 50

=Inquiry=, before judgment, 27, 47;
beginning of, 417, 22;
default of, 174, 47;
fundamental, 174, 46;
the proper subject of, 288, 46

=Inquisitive= person to be shunned, 345, 42

=Inquisitiveness=, penalty of, 147, 28;
implying ill-will, 51, 47

=Insanity=, a certain, necessary, 304, 11;
common, 300, 16;
contrasted with inspiration, 255, 14

=Inscriptions=, lapidary, 187, 39; 230, 8

=Insect=, an, an insect on a queen, 305, 19

=Insensibility=, and anguish, the mean between, 528, 33;
too much, 497, 46

=Insight=, before eloquence, 162, 10;
clear, its compass, 164, 13;
deep, tendency of, 56, 51;
effect of, 525, 14;
indispensableness of, 391, 26;
reckoned final, 262, 16;
worth a life's experience, 13, 52

=Insincerity=, Carlyle on, 471, 20

=Insinuations=, Devil's rhetoric, 73, 38

=Insolence= from contemptible people, 471, 10

=Inspiration=, contrasted with insanity, 255, 14;
from above time, 486, 38;
from indignation, 99, 4;
in the dullest, 190, 26;
necessity for, 326, 24;
of the Almighty, 206, 21;
possibility of, 471, 5;
the word, 463, 25;
to be enjoyed while it lasts, 243, 31;
to be waited for, 503, 2

=Inspired=, the truly, 417, 4

=Instability=, cause of, 540, 37;
of things, 19, 35

=Instant=, the, to be taken by forward top, 244, 18

=Instinct=, as substitute for reason, 111, 11;
contrasted with reason, 369, 35, 42;
mere, no guide for a man, 212, 7;
our, most sacred, 54, 2;
to be trusted, 501, 11

=Instincts=, who speaks to the, 553, 35

=Institutions=, aim of all, 440, 26;
ancestral, to be respected, 289, 25

=Instructed=, the, a time coming for, 501, 13;
the half and the wholly, Goethe on, 151, 17

=Instruction=, divers agents of, 557, 34;
effect of, 70, 30;
even from an enemy, 102, 27;
methods of, 462, 30;
of merely clever men, 437, 2;
the only solid, 446, 19;
valuable as life, 409, 17

=Instrument= mistaken for agent, 73, 43

=Instruments= that boast, 399, 14

=Insult=, harder to bear than wrong, 432, 3;
how to treat, 538, 35; 540, 24;
polite, its keenness, 453, 46

=Insurrection=, how to foment, 90, 1

=Insurrections=, dangerous, 204, 25

=Integrity=, Cromwell on, 405, 24;
reputation for, forfeited, 542, 6;
sayings about, 357, 37, 38

=Intellect=, a large, mark of, 14, 23;
a man's, measure of his worth, 163, 20;
all, moral, 10, 27;
and experience as lights, 94, 32;
and heart, connection of, 520, 16;
better than Nature, 291, 41;
different forms of, and their relation to the ridiculous, 61, 30;
dweller in, lonely, 472, 19;
endowments of, 392, 49;
error of, measure of, 190, 15;
function of, 458, 42;
heroism of, 100, 17;
inflexible, 233, 4;
life of, 75, 26;
man of, his proper place in affairs, 440, 26;
man of, lost without energy, 440, 27;
men of great, not of the world, 276, 3;
occupied in splitting hairs, 416, 31;
our ideal of, 416, 5;
sayings about the, 437, 4-6;
superior, always self-conscious, 305, 49;
march of, 441, 28, 29;
timid, loss to world from, 550, 45;
without energy, 12, 32

=Intellectual= men, when at their best, 202, 48

=Intelligence=, a man of large, 37, 52;
as a social bond, 32, 49;
characteristic of, 1, 31;
clear, the great point, 240, 27;
dependence of, on misfortune, 136, 33;
educating, 492, 6;
men of limited, censure of, 238, 14;
movements of, characterised, 404, 41;
natural, power of, 292, 44;
self-conscious, illusory, 162, 44;
without energy, 31, 1

=Intelligent=, the, right of, 437, 7

=Intemperance= in feeling, 199, 50

=Intent=, secret, betrayed by outward act, 3, 44

=Intention=, a pure, 272, 30;
evil, guilt of, 140, 41;
fixed upon God as end, 413, 17;
of things never clear, 451, 19

=Intercourse=, our social, 339, 9;
social, good effect of, 396, 2

=Interest=, as a teacher, 64, 30;
lessening fatigue, 178, 25;
limit of, in people, 274, 43;
_minus_ self-interest, 94, 15;
power of, in settling doubts, 111, 43;
private, no such thing as, 172, 44

=Interests=, great, apt to clash, 189, 45;
man's, an augury of him, 411, 41;
renounced, not tastes, 275, 35

=Intimacies=, to be sparing in, 526, 23

=Intolerable= things, three, 468, 29

=Intolerance=, fierce, as a symptom, 412, 22

=Intolerant= man, the, 437, 8

=Intoxication=, habitual, criminality of, 138, 23

=Intrepidity=, commended, 243, 39

=Introspection=, no, 483, 46

=Intrusion=, prying, 551, 22

=Invent=, how to learn to, 200, 43

=Invention= after truth, 105, 33;
and memory, 273, 20;
highest, characterised, 434, 38;
the difficult achievement, 98, 44

=Inventions=, adding to, 179, 1;
and society, 396, 32;
daughters of humanity, 121, 56;
perfection of, slow, 299, 18

=Inventor=, a borrower, 334, 46

=Investigators=, quibbling, 444, 4

=Invisible=, embodied in visible, 266, 11;
the, garment of, 457, 24;
world, in and about us, 437, 11

=Iron=, hand, in velvet glove, 15, 44;
striking the, 527, 2

=Irregularities= as signs, 184, 40

=Irremediable=, not to be lamented over, 37, 28

=Irresolute= man, pitiable, 475, 37

=Irresolution=, a proof of weakness, 474, 32;
effect of, 201, 10;
rebuked, 161, 37

=Irretrievable=, the, how to treat, 114, 44

=Isolation=, no such thing as, 188, 24;
of man from man, impossible, 274, 41;
to be avoided, 527, 30

=Italy=, seasons in, 156, 17

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=Jack= and gentleman, 392, 19

=Jackdaw=, the Welshman's, 484, 14

=Jackdaws=, how to escape the scream of, 397, 31

=Jargon=, dogmatic, 70, 34

=Jealous=, with what possessed, 437, 16

=Jealousy=, cancer of, 419, 24;
how to get rid of, 176, 14;
ineradicable, 49, 19;
its malignant nature, 437, 17;
love of self, 181, 14;
that may make better, 480, 28;
the fruit of, 78, 28;
the green-eyed monster, 29, 63

=Jean Paul= of his early poverty, 449, 27

=Jehovah=, Jove, or Lord, 103, 7

=Jeer=, effect of one, 332, 43

=Jericho=, go to, 125, 2

=Jest=, a, expected, 437, 18;
and earnest, treatment of, 172, 34;
rather lose, than friend, 29, 31;
preferring, to friend, 148, 51;
sundering, from earnest, 151, 26;
the prosperity of a, 7, 40, 41

=Jester=, little short of fool, 146, 45;
to be shunned, 108, 3

=Jesting=, danger of, with the great, 98, 28;
not understood by nature, 292, 30

=Jests=, he, at scars, 144, 6;
made and repeated, 108, 56;
wanton, 518, 36

=Jesuit= order described, 224, 3

=Jesus=, always with His own, 252, 9;
and Socrates, difference between, 423, 33;
His own sole witness, 1, 52;
of Himself as Son of man, 454, 9;
religion of, 451, 9;
the heart of, unpenetrated, 42, 50;
the teaching of, 529, 12

=Jew=, hath not a, eyes, 141, 16

=Jewels=, God's, how polished, 126, 12;
hid, lost, 156, 21;
merely to look at, 115, 2

=Jews=, the, Goethe on, 437, 15

=Job=, afflictions of, the record of, 447, 19

=Job's= faith, 169, 33

=John Bull=, advice to, 241, 22;
the _vis inertiæ_ of, 312, 24;
the pride of, 424, 26

=Johnny Pigeon's= epitaph, 155, 12

=Joke=, a, love of, 124, 24;
among whom to risk a, 333, 49;
the worst, 474, 49

=Jokes=, laughter at one's own, 545, 5;
risk incurred by, 109, 34

=Joking=, incompatible with malignity, 497, 24;
rule in, 4, 16;
with ladies, 281, 2

=Jollity= and tranquillity, 499, 1

=Journal=, the learned, Emerson on, 207, 38

=Journalist=, Bismarck's definition of, 569, 22;
to whom he owes tribute, 498, 34

=Jove=, prayer to, 380, 56

=Joy=, amid misfortune, 22, 24;
and grief, in measure, 371, 25;
and pain, relative amount of, 471, 36;
and sorrow, 114, 48;
and weeping at, 162, 5;
as a teacher, 334, 47;
concealment of, 145, 30;
deep, awe in, 9, 20;
each present, absorbing, 75, 22;
effect of, as compared with that of grief, 136, 34, 35;
effect of excessive, on reason, 54, 1;
effect of imparting, 473, 24;
effect of, on mind, 133, 32;
effect of reflection on, 417, 3;
fellowship in, 460, 32;
great, after great change, 133, 45;
great, how earned, 133, 36;
how to find, 567, 41;
how we part with, 527, 45;
in Heaven, 532, 5;
man's, only in building up, 312, 36;
meaning of, 91, 37;
not in joys, 64, 18;
our face of, 529, 40;
profound, 357, 53;
seen only in a beautiful face, 379, 37;
shared, 20, 7; 92, 22;
shared, joy doubled, 122, 12; 385, 28;
sympathy with, 548, 40;
the greatest, 474, 14;
three parts pain, 28, 18;
true, 500, 12, 13;
true, a character of, 374, 26;
true, its origin, 499, 35;
unfelt, hard to feign, 154, 32;
vanishing, 519, 25

=Joyousness=, essential to all useful effort, 77, 37;
mother of virtues, 64, 19

=Joys=, concealment of, 149, 36;
connection of, with sorrows, 191, 41;
each condition its own, 82, 55;
highest, source of, 434, 44;
killed with love, 154, 1;
little and great, 251, 21;
not unmingled, 508, 11;
participation in another's, 152, 2;
purest, how obtained, 452, 20;
too high, not to be sought, 527, 33;
unfelt, hard to feign, 154, 32

=Judas=, equal to Jesus at the ballot-box, 33, 45;
even a, among the apostles, 89, 21

=Judge=, a lax, 310, 27;
a good and faithful, 31, 60;
an incompetent, 175, 6;
and jury, their functions, 4, 50;
and law, compared, 259, 4;
appeal to the heart of, 125, 4;
duties of, 214, 30-33;
duty of, 390, 19;
not, and reason why, 112, 6;
of others, how to, 527, 31;
others, how we, 523, 33;
our, he who made the heart, 552, 14;
who acquits a criminal, 214, 1;
who cannot punish, 7, 43;
whom no king can corrupt, 154, 5

=Judges=, cobblers, 279, 46;
function of, 237, 20;
good, rare, 129, 41;
should have two ears, 376, 31;
the duty and practice of, 233, 22;
virtue required in, 327, 58

=Judging= by the event, 493, 25;
defined, 493, 26;
men, golden rule of, 198, 27;
others, 41, 4;
well or evil, 551, 2

=Judgment=, a, well tried, 387, 52;
and wit, 557, 50; 558, 6;
and knowledge, 221, 6, 7;
as a mark of genius, 281, 22;
as the inner man, 405, 47;
at the helm, 544, 30;
contrasted with imagination, 223, 34;
contrasted with invention, 196, 13;
deceptive, 453, 13;
dependent upon feeling, 522, 20;
divine, 125, 22, 32, 33; 127, 47;
fled to brutish beasts, 321, 6;
haste in, 187, 36;
how to form, 27, 47;
lack of, danger of, 94, 17;
last, necessary, 7, 62, 63;
last, responsibility at, 568, 28;
like a pair of scales, 437, 21;
limit of, 539, 24;
of others, 93, 20;
of posterity and contemporaries, contrasted, 47, 7;
of the wisest, 463, 26;
one's own, as standard, 267, 4;
of man and woman, 267, 34;
private, Dr. Stirling on, 357, 9;
private, no standard of right, 286, 10;
right, rule for, 109, 9;
self-satisfaction with, 93, 10;
spoiled by imagination, 398, 22;
the world's, 384, 22;
to be according to law, 214, 24;
to be charitable, 163, 21;
trade on, 57, 41;
vulgar, of a great man, 422, 19;
weakness of, 66, 16;
which we have here, 530, 10;
word of, above man, 114, 13

=Judgments=, estimate of our, 489, 13;
to be weeded of opinion, 531, 7;
worthlessness of people's, 181, 26

=Juggling=, as governing world, 204, 7

=Julian=, his apostrophe to Christ, 514, 3

=Juliet=, love of, for Romeo, 123, 15

=Jupiter=, leniency of, 390, 33

=Jurists=, bad Christians, 215, 9

=Jury=, function of, 4, 50

=Just=, cause, defence of, 215, 42;
condition of being, 523, 5;
for unjust, 17, 38;
man may need help, 89, 32;
man, rising again of, 109, 4;
path of, 447, 11;
perfectly, or according to ability, 490, 33;
the actions of, 335, 12;
the, the little of, 439, 26;
the only, stern, 151, 18;
the, without law, 117, 43;
thing, the strong, 455, 35

=Justice=, a safe shield, 93, 49;
a source of wrong, 9, 24;
administrator of, qualities of, 152, 28;
ally of religion, 313, 45;
all-pervading, 431, 36;
and generosity combined, power of, 429, 47;
and just men, our love for, 525, 32;
and liberty, effect of separating, 547, 29;
as administered, 54, 23;
as bandaged, 22, 28;
at all risks, 105, 26, 27;
compared with severity and love, 285, 13;
defined, 113, 12; 408, 17; 432, 27; 536, 22;
defined and described, 216, 32, 34-38;
discernment of, a revelation, 546, 35;
divine, instant, 125, 31;
enforced in Bible, 384, 45;
essence of, 425, 42;
exact, mercifulness of, 95, 45;
extreme, evil, 98, 3;
first, 27, 25;
foundation of temple of charity, 40, 29;
God's, unfailing, 128, 9;
guide, 241, 23;
how preserved, 245, 46;
how to be loved, 151, 3;
impartial, truest mercy, 207, 6;
in judgment and action, defined, 225, 39;
in the eyes of God, 491, 42;
lawyer's, _versus_ God's, 161, 40;
love of, 222, 12;
no, without generosity, 202, 36;
not to be sold, 344, 14;
one hour in the execution of, 332, 37;
orbs of, steadfast, 484, 29;
respect for the gods, 68, 53;
second to religion, 297, 39;
secure, 553, 14;
simple, 164, 26;
springs of, 283, 19;
subtlety of, 225, 40;
the administration of, 402, 45;
the chamber of, 46, 36;
the foundation of, 117, 36;
the, in fair round belly, 437, 23;
the only fountain of, 63, 46;
the reward of, 496, 13;
those who doubt or deny, 483, 19;
to man, desire of all, 273, 37;
uncompromising, 169, 8;
unfailing, 340, 19;
virtue of, 460, 39, 40;
virtue of great souls, 66, 30;
virtue of the man, 121, 50;
Westminster, and God's, different, 268, 50;
when too severe, 406, 39;
with the gods, 390, 12;
without recompense, 271, 30

=Juvenal= on his book, 365, 22

K

=Keats'=, epitaph, 155, 13;
rank as poet, 503, 48

=Keeping=, and giving, rule in, 217, 40;
as a merit, 293, 40

=Kepler's= highest wish, 288, 2

=Kernel=, who would eat, 364, 54

=Kettle=, rusty, not to be tinkered, 568, 31

=Key=, a gold, power of, 6, 37

=Kin=, a little more than, 8, 46

=Kind=, only the, fair, 311, 9;
words, healing power of, 15, 27

=Kindly= spirit, a, the human element, 332, 16

=Kindness=, according to the Hitopadesa, 143, 31;
a sudden blaze of, 406, 1;
breaks no bones, 137, 35;
commended, 243, 47;
deeds of, how repaid, 440, 22;
defined, 536, 23;
exemplar in repairing, 189, 29;
how to recompense, 370, 32;
little deeds of, effect of, 251, 9;
prevalency of, 524, 19;
requiting, hard, 522, 41;
soon forgotten, 50, 51;
the joy of doing, 106, 21;
to grateful and to ungrateful, 132, 40;
to the good, not wasted, 31, 35

=Kindnesses=, misplaced, 531, 26;
the best, 408, 31

=Kindred=, love of, 107, 38

=King=, a clown at heart, 33, 46;
a good, 6, 44;
a, the look of, 430, 38;
attribute of a, 553, 23;
an anointed, no deposing, 312, 19;
and kingdom, relation between, 375, 39;
contrast between, and a father, 86, 10;
every inch a, 25, 34; 179, 25;
fitness of the name, 89, 48;
good, value of, 127, 11;
his limits, 80, 55;
morality of a, 443, 5;
not a creature of chance, 296, 35;
of England, legal mercy of, 438, 35;
Popinjay, 35, 15;
sayings about the, 375, 40-45; 437, 31-38;
the (see =Rex=);
what most becomes, 301, 17

=Kingdom=, a man's, 313, 23;
of God, condition of entering, 554, 40;
of God, in what it consists, 437, 39

=Kings=, a world of, 172, 11;
and people, 534, 38;
and people, relation of, 447, 23;
anger of, 132, 50;
bands of, 15, 46;
contrasted with shepherds, 123, 43;
courts of, composition of, 22, 1;
divine right of, 451, 36;
divine right of, settled, 479, 7;
eyes and ears of, 286, 2;
heaven-chosen for us, 35, 15;
knowledge of, 493, 31;
last argument of, 505, 1;
not without good qualities, 38, 36;
not without their virtues, 190, 2;
only eloquence in behalf of, 233, 15;
only privates _plus_ ceremony, 535, 24;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, 162, 30;
the art of, 381, 11;
the curse of, 206, 6;
the, of modern thought, 437, 37;
the politeness of, 223, 12;
the true, 478, 50;
the wealth of, 335, 34;
their misdeeds and the penalty, 57, 53;
wise, and their councillors, 557, 33

=Kinship=, spiritual, test of, 73, 44

=Kiss=, echo of the sound of a, 454, 28

=Kissing=, full of sanctity, 157, 1

=Kitchen=, fundamental institution, 45, 22;
vital part of the house, 555, 27

=Kite=, a carrion, 2, 37

=Knave=, a crafty, 3, 32;
a, how to win, 45, 1;
an old, 15, 57;
and fool, 5, 58;
found out, 81, 5;
one thoroughly, 91, 38;
once, 331, 21;
wit needed by, 109, 11

=Knavery=, and folly, excuse for, 102, 29;
baseness of, 200, 17;
defined and developed from cunning, 51, 28;
no, if no fools, 174, 47

=Knaves=, first of nine order of, 428, 27;
honourable in the mass, 238, 33

Knight, lying, in dark ages, 302, 49;
scarce a, 145, 7

=Knights= of chivalry, 42, 35; 260, 41

=Know=, seeking to, 40, 59;
three things to, 199, 27;
to, as an act, 493, 44

"=Know thyself=," as a precept, 76, 42; 183, 43

=Knowing=, and doing, 525, 7;
compared with doing, 557, 49;
condition of, 525, 14;
difficult, 165, 6;
easier than doing, 175, 23;
meaning of all, 535, 41;
people, 99, 6;
the step from, to doing, 305, 13;
worth, not always knowable, 297, 51

=Knowledge=, a forbidden, 383, 48; 384, 47;
a burden, 506, 27;
a question of use, 203, 31;
a rare, 477, 28;
a steep, 110, 12;
all in all of, 415, 50;
all, useful, 166, 47;
and doubt, 482, 38;
and knowing it, 147, 34;
and thought, 485, 1;
as a helpmate to virtue, 515, 1;
as a test, 147, 31;
as a treasure, 324, 42;
benefit of, in use, 204, 26;
by rote, 493, 29;
by travelling and by reading, 413, 37;
Comte's stages of, 39, 53;
contentment in regard to, 199, 49;
contrasted with ignorance, 178, 7, 8;
crediting, to others, 62, 1;
death, 319, 12;
definition of, 547, 17;
diffused, 68, 5;
dissembling, not safe, 176, 37;
divorced from justice, 383, 5;
effect of, on faith, 504, 23;
essence of, 425, 43;
excellency of, 557, 6;
exclusively one's own, its value, 540, 48;
for imparting, 385, 32;
from enterprise, 269, 41;
from others' folly and wisdom, 413, 24;
gaining, a delight, 280, 8;
grades in, 469, 32;
great, an effect of, 431, 44;
great, without vanity, effect of, 133, 46;
growing in, happiness of, 413, 41;
highest, 493, 40;
how to acquire, 243, 10; 381, 25;
how to seek, 405, 55;
human, Goethe on, 320, 29;
in a disciplined mind, 508, 22;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
increased, sorrow increased, 146, 59;
intimacy better than extent of, 102, 6;
irreverent, 15, 45;
its flowers and seed, 453, 5;
its price the drawback, 312, 9;
its quality main thing, 204, 31;
little, who has, 42, 25;
man of, mark of, 146, 49;
natural, how attained, 290, 14;
no, lost, 302, 40;
no, without thinking, 481, 24;
not enough, 203, 40;
obstacle to, 383, 17;
of causes, happiness in, 104, 24;
of wise and ignorant contrasted, 30, 13;
origin of, 73, 22;
our, at best, 521, 18;
our highest enjoyment, 489, 27;
our, often worthless, 539, 26;
our, an illusion, 319, 13;
possession of, a right, 308, 22;
question in regard to, 522, 44;
real, the nature of, 369, 14;
ripening and flowering of, 229, 38;
rising in, effect of, 546, 40;
sayings about, 493, 28-44; 494, 1;
seat of, 452, 37;
source of, 393, 20;
strength, 147, 35;
that is worth, 142, 4;
that suffices, 201, 31;
the beginning and end of, 100, 11;
the beginning of, 254, 50;
the best part of, 417, 52;
the condition of acquiring, 12, 24;
the desire of, an effect of, 423, 10;
the key of, 392, 5;
the only, we possess, 358, 7;
the pearl of the faith-sea, 23, 8;
the tree of, 136, 36; 458, 24;
thirst for, 443, 29;
thorough, test of, 445, 37;
three stages of, 90, 38;
to be heralded by reverence, 260, 28;
to be reverenced, 241, 24;
to many too costly, 269, 36;
true, 500, 14, 15;
true, defined, 374, 14;
true, for life, not debate, 547, 13;
vain pursuit of, 145, 43;
versus practice, 162, 18;
we need not travel to acquire, 496, 33;
when alone accurate, 525, 6;
when no longer a pleasure, 331, 28;
with limits of satisfaction in, 93, 58;
without energy, 12, 54;
without God 110, 11;
without integrity, 195, 16;
without knowing it, 147, 33;
without practice, 553, 5;
without religion, 371, 44;
without sense, 43, 17;
without virtue, 515, 1;
worth of, though others know it not, 510, 6

=Know'st= thou the land, 218, 28

=Knox=, John, Earl of Morton on, 144, 19;
gospel of, to the Scotch, 241, 39

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