Chapter M: =Machine=, the model, 264, 5 (2)

=Nature=, a great, development of, 142, 55;
a whole, 173, 25;
against, against God, 535, 40;
all, unknown art, 10, 7;
an enigma, till solved in and by man, 94, 27;
and art at one, 290, 3;
and her secrets, 508, 20;
and man, 549, 13;
and man, distinction between, 424, 1;
and necessity barriers, 170, 7;
and wisdom at one, 318, 47;
as a judge, 389, 11;
as felt by experience, 94, 32;
as regards God, 66, 2;
aims of, 66, 3;
as seen by intellect, 94, 32;
at bottom, 482, 12;
at heart, music, 384, 29;
be, your teacher, 44, 44;
cheerful lesson of, 564, 20;
circular power in, 472, 7, 31;
cruelty in, 20, 44;
cursed, as breeding ingratitude, 403, 40;
diseased, oftentimes breaks forth, 69, 13;
effect of contact with, in our city estimates, 21, 30;
errorless, 18, 44;
everything in, of one stuff, 94, 24;
fashioned him, then broke the mould, 290, 5;
filling the sails, 544, 30;
full of milk of human kindness, 486, 5;
gave sign of woe, 75, 46;
gift of, to man, 264, 9;
God's body, 9, 6;
her carefulness and her carelessness, 394, 47;
her gifts out of love, 528, 7;
her means, 249, 31;
how perfected, 404, 12;
how to regard our, 523, 16;
impartial,
5, 16;
in smallest things, 498, 1;
in the smallest, untameable, 5, 49;
inanimate, way from, to spirit, 198, 45;
inferior to grace, 131, 34;
inferior to spirit, 454, 35;
infinite vastness of, to the wisest, 496, 17;
inner secret of, impenetrable, 194, 42;
inexpugnable, 176, 7;
judgment of, effect of time on, 486, 33;
just, 226, 28;
laws of, God's thoughts, 232, 7;
life of, defined, 53, 34;
lore of, our treatment of, 408, 24;
love of, for her children, 219, 53;
made up of negative and positive, 94, 26;
makes no leaps, 290, 10;
more potent than will, 480, 35;
my goddess, 483, 42;
never without a purpose, 290, 9;
no beating back, 40, 36;
no blank or trifle in, 301, 13;
no caprices in, 475, 12;
no coercing, 73, 14;
no driving out, 290, 18;
no fixtures in, 467, 30;
no solitude in, 474, 20;
not affected by greater or less, 260, 16;
not to be baulked, 72, 41;
not to be coerced, 538, 11;
not to be extinguished, only repressed, 528, 33;
not to be grasped, 560, 9;
nothing seen isolated in, 527, 25;
office of prophet of, 198, 24;
omnipotent, 241, 46;
one throughout, 287, 28;
one touch of, 334, 28;
one whole, 199, 1;
one's, denying, 432, 29;
our feeling for, 508, 25;
outer shelf of, showing, 194, 42;
partial to cross-breedings, 226, 27;
path of, narrowness of, 447, 9;
perception of, 488, 36;
pity and rigour of, 193, 51;
pleasure of study of, 475, 9;
pleasures of, 470, 17;
secret of our mastery over, 206, 39;
secrets of, not to be forced, 119, 29;
self-imitative, 226, 29;
self-imparting, 391, 11;
surpasses art, 104, 51;
teaching of, 332, 39;
testimony of, versus learned arguments, 511, 16;
the aims of, 66, 3;
the book of, 418, 48;
the course of, 421, 41;
the course of, only partially known, 421, 42;
the favourite of, 264, 9;
the first step of, 392, 10;
the law of, 438, 20, 27, 28;
the living garment of God, 321, 29;
the masterpiece of, 6, 9;
the riddle of; 507, 6;
the spirit of, 401, 42;
the truths of, 459, 23;
those to whom she reveals herself, 335, 21;
through, up to Nature's God, 393, 31;
to be humoured, 243, 21;
too noble for world, 157, 6;
unchallengeable, 2, 51;
unhinged by gold, 162, 19;
unwillingly dragged to light, 519, 11;
whole sense of, where found, 301, 48;
without danger or restraint, 497, 25;
without the poet, 539, 40;
wonders of, at hand, 186, 36;
world of, mirrored in man, 465, 6

=Natures=, finest, flaws in, 427, 40;
good by disdaining as well as attaining, 85, 37;
great, two kinds of, 467, 26;
our, like oil, 338, 40;
sad, tolerance of, 379, 13

=Navigators=, ablest, fortunate, 462, 25

=Nay=, a woman's, worth of, 141, 43

=Near=, key to far, 444, 34;
not sought in far off, 462, 38;
the, 445, 12;
the, neglected, 367, 9

=Nearest=, the, often far off, 54, 20

=Neatness= a virtue, 526, 27

=Necessary=, the barely, indispensable, 535, 44

=Necessities= sterner than hopes, 444, 38

=Necessity=, a teacher, 285, 39, 43;
all-powerful, 14, 33;
and fancy, 101, 46;
and free will hostile, 95, 13;
and law, power of, 121, 57;
and Nature barriers, 170, 7;
as a weapon, 194, 12;
basis of all, 10, 56;
earnest aspect of, 84, 40;
from habit, 138, 11;
hard to wield, 74, 35;
her allotments, 5, 12;
owns no holiday, 104, 39;
how to anticipate, 152, 19;
how to more than conquer, 523, 8;
in relation to strength, 417, 25;
its pressure beneficial, 267, 32;
its strength, 315, 10;
law for all but man, 8, 55;
man in relation to, 12; 64;
mother of invention, 276, 56;
ground of existence, 94, 44;
our master, 58, 18;
power of, 313, 32-34; 231, 34;
praised as virtue, 231, 3;
rebel of all laws, 103, 42;
ring of, always at the top, 250, 12;
ring of, ring of duty, 140, 10;
superior to Nature, 292, 11;
yoke of, to be borne, 175, 31

=Need=, a bitter, at present, 472, 6;
and wish, 105, 2;
man's first, 204, 14;
our prime one, 568, 29

=Needle=, to pole, 395, 32

=Negation=, mere, unfruitful, 116, 18;
the end of opposition, 425, 8;
opposed to activity, 94, 5

=Negations=, taking safety under, 203, 2

=Negative= principle, the importance of, 191, 15

=Negatives=, deprecated, 71, 37

=Neglect=, a little, dangerous, 8, 42, 47, 49

=Negligence=, one, fatal, 169, 33

=Negro=, Fuller on, 436, 19

=Neighbour's=, our, prosperity and poverty, 449, 47

=Neighbours=, their value to us, 522, 40

=Nelson's= signal at Trafalgar, 82, 43

=Nemesis= on the alert, 381, 21

=Neptune's= trident, 235, 26

=Nero=, on signing a death-warrant, 512, 1

=Nerves=, the man, 444, 42

=Nescience= greater than science, 382, 31

=Nest=, one's own, beautiful, 4, 37

=Nest-life=, echo of, audible only in sorrow, 424, 37

=Net=, while fisher sleeps, 89, 5

=Nets=, useless where no fish, 82, 28

=Nettle=, how to handle, 121, 40;
stroking a, 484, 37

=Never=, a long while, 38, 5

=New=, a precedent some day, 328, 27;
age, a, want of, 426, 22;
and old, discretion in regard to, 28, 16;
and old, the conflict of, characterised, 421, 24;
its appearance and effects of, 541, 2;
foil, to old, 183, 13;
in science and morals, 189, 43;
nothing, in life, 315, 29;
reproduction of old, or forgotten, 180, 15, 16;
seldom good, 183, 12;
the, and the valuable, 537, 29;
the, how to employ, 243, 44;
the, still but in birth pangs, 424, 15;
unexpected quarter it comes from, 430, 46;
year's, a, greeting, 240, 29

=News=, good and bad, 402, 44;
only teller of, 446, 21

=Newspaper=, literature, Goethe on, 333, 41;
the influential, Emerson on, 207, 38

=Newspapers=, Napoleon's dread of, 114, 1;
our fortresses, 191, 35

=News-writer=, highest reach of, 435, 9

=New Testament=, revelation in, 375, 13

=Newton=, on his own worth, 172, 26

=Nicknames=, good, effect of, 306, 25

=Niggard=, always poor, 159, 5;
contrasted with generous, 24, 7

=Night=, a long, 370, 18;
and morning, rule for, 406, 28;
cause of, to man, 76, 4;
counsel by, 226, 30;
deeds of, 536, 4;
last in the train of, 99, 53;
sayings on the, 444, 45-49; 445, 1;
sober-suited matron, 44, 39;
the darkest, followed by day, 55, 24

=Nightingale=, the, Milton on, 408, 21

=Nights=, drowsy, how to have, 176, 31

=Nimbleness=, contrasted with haste, 141, 5

=Nimrod=, the, of this era, 450, 40

=Nineteenth= century, the enthusiasm of, 245, 18

=Nirvana=, 313, 15;
road to, 444, 40

"=No=," a surly, honest fellow, 302, 37;
from merely saying, no good, 116, 18;
power of saying, as a sign, 309, 16;
to be deliberate, 337, 1

No=,= man indispensable, 180, 3;
one called happy before death, 63, 34;
the way to yea, 319, 22;
value of learning to say, 236, 6

=Noah's= ark, mouldy rolls of, 308, 15

=Nobility=, a man's, a test of, 368, 14;
a sure mark of, 234, 34;
and virtue, of kin, 242, 6;
appendix to, 170, 35;
at its origin, 10, 8;
source of, 308, 7;
in mind, 76, 53;
mark of true, 425, 17;
of race, mark of, 184, 21;
of soul, and of birth, 55, 28;
our old, to be preserved, 244, 1;
oldest and only true, 445, 33;
the beginning of, 190, 22;
the only, 488, 39;
true, essence of, 426, 2;
true, its origin, 500, 27

=Noble=, and vulgar, self-estimates of, 461, 10;
birth, proof of, 391, 21;
blood, humble, 213, 4;
descent, value of, 171, 11;
heart, attractive power of, 385, 22;
how men become, 190, 31;
man, and danger, 532, 15;
man, defined, 60, 22;
mind, mark of, 491, 44;
only, to be good, 163, 5;
people, loyalty of, 15, 52;
qualities, non-transferable, 484, 10;
silent ones, of world, 465, 10;
soul, proved in difficulty, 186, 3;
souls, power of, 508, 112;
the, appreciation of, 53, 31; 489, 36;
the, defined, 484, 26; 536, 38;
the, great, 309, 48;
the, in death, 445, 4;
to keep with noble, 203, 1;
words for shield of, 116, 36

=Nobleman=, a definition of, 360, 39;
a degenerate, 505, 25;
defined, 143, 38;
qualities of a, 380, 27

=Nobleness=, attribute of all, 10, 32;
its derivation, 319, 29;
refining power of, 16, 16;
test of, 76, 52;
the idea of, 184, 25

=Nobles=, born, 304, 9

=Nod= _versus_ rod, 15, 55

=Noise=, music in distance, 268, 37;
not might, 14, 31;
of things deafening, 232, 51

=Noises=, encourager of, 431, 6

=Nomadism=, evil of, 346, 29

=Non-being=, no step in nature to, 517, 24

=Non-existent= rather than ignoble, 29, 35

=Nonsense=, consecration of, 523, 18;
daring, 53, 19;
in rhyme, 235, 43;
no objection in, 167, 31;
refreshing, 166, 9

=No-progress= men to be debarred public highways, 450, 8

=Northern= star, constant as, 164, 39

=Nose=, big, and handsome face, 210, 20

=Noses=, counting, to ascertain truth, 398, 27;
long, Napoleon's partiality for, 544, 1;
the length of, 472, 14

=Nothing=, absolute, 2, 21;
blessed in every respect, 299, 3;
extenuate, 400, 48;
for ever, 510, 29;
for nothing, 330, 1;
from nothing, 58, 34; 97, 16;
of nothing, 24, 3;
only once in the world, 476, 8;
perishes, 328, 17;
they that do, 479, 39

=Novel=, every, debtor to Homer, 93, 5

=Novels=, their unreality, 378, 1;
writers of, and double wrong they do, 563, 42

=Novelty=, charm of, 87, 28;
desire for, 179, 35;
love of, a ruling passion, 324, 36;
man's itch for, 87, 16;
people's delight in, 205, 12;
undue charm of, 536, 37

=Now=, the, 445, 12

=Numbers=, I lisp'd in, 21, 18;
round, 378, 17

=Nurse=, influence of, 3, 13

=Nursery=, training in, 443, 50

O

=Oak=, felled by blows of little axe, 269, 44;
when it falls, 445, 14

=Oak-tree=, when it falls and when it is planted, 545, 45

=Oarsmen= and steersman, 567, 27

=Oath=, powerless in domain of reason, 324, 26;
that does not bind, 305, 35

=Oaths=, but straws, 110, 29;
oracles, 157, 19;
straw to passion, 455, 39

=Obedience=, blind, 55, 9;
for those who can't rule, 243, 7;
imperative, 541, 27;
must be free, 204, 12;
not sacrifice, 45, 48;
Shelley on, 354, 46;
source of all virtues, 116, 14;
that is easy, 207, 20;
the key to freedom, 96, 22;
the virtue in, 364, 8;
to heaven, how learned, 449, 1;
true, 500, 28;
true, virtue of, 306, 44;
two kinds of, 490, 13;
value of, 10, 42;
virtue of Christianity, 403, 34;
when to be enforced, 171, 33

=Obeisance=, time for, 207, 11

=Obeyed=, how to be cheerfully, 176, 32

=Obeying= and governing, 203, 15

=Obeys=, who, and who commands, 151, 49

=Object=,and expression, 527, 26;
greatest in universe, and a greater, 432, 26

=Objects=, all, windows into the infinite, 10, 9

=Obligation=, haste in discharging, 490, 25;
limit to, 505, 7

=Oblivion=, the condition of memory, 176, 16;
the cormorant, 421, 35

=Obscure=, the, defined, 445, 23

=Obscurity=, cause of, 209, 45;
cause of, in writer, 205, 2;
contentment with, commended, 236, 1;
in an author, relative, 149, 8;
patience of, a duty, 343, 13

=Obsequiousness=, advantage of, 323, 32

=Observation=, Burns on lack of, 464, 42;
much, effect of, 285, 23;
to precede judgment, 27, 47;
vigilant, effect of, 92, 31;
want of, 109, 49; 143, 23;
width of, commended, 242, 30

=Observed= of all observers, 322, 32

=Observer=, a fine, characteristic of, 541, 4;
an acute, 144, 49;
great, a, 7, 3

=Obsolete= to the pot, 169, 42

=Obstacles=, glory in overcoming, 443, 20;
also stepping-stones, 418, 39

=Obstinacy=, 1, 12;
slavery, 15, 54

=Obvious=, the, ignorance of, 536, 45

=Occasions=, great, source of, 133, 7

=Occupation=, absence of, 2, 13;
blessing of, 307, 27;
constant, moral effect of, 46, 57;
necessity, duty, and pleasure, 291, 7;
sharpening effect of, 90, 3;
want of, a plague, 461, 16

=Occupations=, mechanical, 441, 42

=Ocean=, beating of, 445, 24

=Offence=, an, which we pardon, 330, 34;
and punishment, disproportionate effect of, 547, 31;
every, at first, 93, 6;
giving and appeasing, 201, 28;
inclination to give, 124, 16;
none free from, 304, 14;
not soon forgotten, 50, 51;
pardon of, bringing under obligation, 446, 45;
rising above, 543, 6;
taking, 21, 27

=Offences=, at my beck, 467, 22

=Offender=, and offended, as regards memory of offence, 42, 19;
never forgives, 146, 4;
the, unforgiving, 42, 18-32

=Offers=, extravagant, denials, 325, 27

=Office=, a kind, natural to one, 331, 47;
effect of, on character, 259, 5;
high, slavery of, 554, 1;
just pride of, 212, 2;
testing power of, 17, 32;
unfitness for, 179, 19;
without pay, a temptation, 14, 10

=Official=, duty of, 170, 3

=Officious=, the, mischievous, 161, 35

=Offspring=, unworthy, boast of, 509, 12

=Old=, and new, discretion in regard to, 28, 16;
and new, the conflict of, characterised, 421, 24;
few know how to be, 105, 17;
harness, better die in, 29, 21;
how first appreciated, 183, 13;
I love everything that's, 167, 42;
idolatry of the, 523, 13;
maid's tongues, 64, 5;
man, an, just beginning to live, 365, 39;
man in a house, 15, 58;
man, one misery of, an, 333, 29;
man, only old despicable, 299, 22;
man, sayings of, 118, 35;
men, and their good advice, 239, 33;
men, beauty of, 430, 14;
men, errors of, 425, 29;
men, failing of, 198, 18;
oak, twist out of, 209, 3;
people, borne with, 265, 32;
people, talk of, 238, 39;
people, who forget their age, 234, 30;
superseded by new, 445, 30;
the, death of, 445, 29;
the, extolled, 513, 38;
the, once new, 328, 27;
the, passed away, 424, 15;
to know how to grow, 493, 32;
what never grows, 535, 20

=Old age=, a burden, 132, 46; a peaceful, how to
attain, 177, 33;
a regret, 568, 42;
a time of folly, 83, 58;
a weakness of, 199, 51, 52;
a worn out, cause of, 245, 43;
advance of, 74, 21;
an anxiety of, 466, 1;
and faults of youth, 527, 7;
and its wrinkles, 228, 16;
and memory, 225, 38;
approach of, unfelt, 310, 2;
benefit of knowledge to, 220, 31;
beyond astonishment, 188, 34;
chief characteristic of, 69, 24;
desire of, 147, 42;
discomforts of, 285, 50;
folly and jesting unseemly in, 161, 31;
Goethe on, 6, 22;
grief in, 192, 41;
hard to bear, 78, 31;
hoarding, 213, 2;
hoped for, yet dreaded, 224, 6;
its sadness, 537, 40;
only ornament of, 446, 11;
prepared by a noble life, 542, 23;
respect formerly for, 259, 12;
Seneca on, 16, 8;
the disappointment of, 190, 19;
the dotage of, 386, 44;
the ills of, 361, 33;
the temper of, 362, 1;
those who grow virtuous in, 544, 25;
time of astonishment, 182, 25;
to limit itself, 445, 32;
undesired, 91, 51;
weakness of, 516, 36;
weaknesses of, 275, 43

=Oldest=, not always best experienced, 298, 6

=Once=, better than never, 81, 20;
no custom, 77, 31

=One=, power of, to infect all, 136, 13;
see, see all, 384, 32;
thing, engrossment with, 168, 37

=One's=, own, how a thing is made, 313, 50;
own, negatively defined, 121, 45;
own, right to, 330, 43;
self, to be sought within, 293, 19;
self, fighting with and conquering, 391, 12

=Onward=, ever, 183, 15

=Openness= of mind, indispensable in discussion, 147, 13

=Opinion=, advantage of wide range of, 223, 14;
and force in government, 112, 16;
as a guide, 34, 50;
change of, not inconstancy, 295, 6;
common, ignorance of, 200, 53;
compared with truth, 502, 4;
duel of, nature umpire in, 190, 41;
effect of similarity of, 521, 1;
effect of time on, 335, 44;
every new, suffrages for, at first, 93, 1;
inconsistencies of, often justifiable, 193, 3;
inferior to heart, 54, 4;
matter of indifference, 136, 1;
nothing but, 94, 34;
of another, test of one's, 492, 27;
of us, to respect, 527, 3;
of the many, worthlessness of, 565, 21;
one man's, no man's, 332, 60;
popular, 352, 45, 46;
power of, 277, 13; 464, 34;
private, 359, 36;
private and public, 357, 10;
public, 315, 26; 359, 35-38;
public, impotence of, 534, 41;
public versus private, 453, 41;
reaction of, on one's self, 93, 39;
surgeon to my hurt, 172, 36;
test of worthlessness of, 157, 8;
what is wanted in, 313, 20

=Opinions=, changing, by law, 495, 34;
divisive effect of, 507, 14;
false, source of, 458, 13;
golden, from all, 166, 41;
how to express, 281, 38;
men's, fallible, 159, 3;
master of all, no bigot, 151, 21;
no right to have, 308, 22;
of friends, room to be left for, 528, 21;
of others, how to construe, 493, 41;
of stupid and ignorant people, 404, 40;
of things, effect on us of, 438, 50;
our, condition of satisfaction with, 521, 47;
our wrangling for, 521, 47;
predominant, 356, 5;
to be tested, 527, 29;
variety of, 446, 28;
want of fixed, 552, 17

=Opium=, carrying power of, 497, 12

=Opportunities=, little, to be improved, 251, 30;
of evil and good compared, 446, 29;
to be embraced, 441, 40;
value of, 244, 7

=Opportunity=, a lost, 461, 42;
but one, of a kind, 472, 8;
folly of losing, 322, 19;
how often lost, 57, 42;
importance of, 247, 31;
makes thief, 80, 13;
power of seeing and seizing, 381, 4;
temptation of, 166, 39;
tempting power of, 84, 10;
to be noted, 216, 49;
to be seized swiftly, 381, 4;
to be waited for, 12, 29

=Opposition=, how to face, 28, 35;
parliamentary, a necessity, 549, 19;
the virtue of, 303, 34

=Oppression=, unbearable, 194, 50;
under one deity, occasion for another, 379, 26

=Optics=, spiritual, 464, 39;
the law of, in human transactions, 188, 46

=Opulence=, and poverty, states of, contrasted, 173, 46;
vulgar, its insolence, 518, 8

=Oracle=, an ambiguous, 169, 35;
I am Sir, 165, 4

=Oracles=, heaven's, be preserved, 108, 4

=Orator=, a fully equipped, 150, 48;
all admire, 259, 9;
delivering everything for an, 109, 12;
desire of, 85, 18;
greatest gift of, 319, 28;
qualities of, 2, 52;
secret of success of, 61, 31

=Orators=, great, and their words, 135, 30;
no, born, 289, 42;
resource of, that want depth, 38, 12;
that always convince, 239, 13

=Oratory=, first and last thing in, 428, 41;
how to train for, 179, 21;
mediocre, 466, 32;
the aim of, 336, 5;
the main point in, 313, 20;
the seat of, 188, 40

=Orb=, the smallest, thou behold'st, 478, 25

=Ordeal=, that may be faced, 218, 21

=Order=, gain of time, 119, 14;
good, importance of, 61, 33;
man's law, 264, 16;
our limit, 567, 3;
social, without liberty, 396, 3;
the power of, 410, 42;
the teacher, 287, 22

=Orders=, no shame in obeying, 469, 13

=Organ=, inscription on, 156, 48

=Organisation=, closing of individual, 27, 10;
military, foundation of, 58, 28

=Origin=, pride of, 356, 39

=Original=, how to be, 461, 27;
man, and popular, contrasted, 448, 33;
the, still here, 130, 52

=Originality=, in authors, 444, 3;
merit of, 442, 8

=Origins=, the question of, insoluble, and for idle people, 243, 37

=Orphaned=, the truly, 298, 2

=Orpheus=, represented in poet, 459, 5

=Others=, bondage to, 385, 1;
often a burden to us, 8, 56;
trust not to, what one's self can do, 166, 42

"=Ought=," God in the word, 126, 42

=Ounce=, the last, 438, 5

=Our= own, before another's, 526, 30

=Ourselves=, to see, as others see us, 322, 24

=Ourselves=, to be accepted as we are, 526, 23, 24

=Outer= and inner, 446, 32

=Outward=, the, a garment of invisible within, 541, 14

=Outwitted=, the easily, 564, 38

=Over-consideration=, vanity of, 149, 48

=Over-curious=, the, 446, 33

=Overfeeding=, mortality from, 57, 19

=Over-happiness= no happiness, 140, 12

=Overpraise=, evil of, 472, 26

=Ovid=, on his muse, 63, 33;
on his rhymes, 36, 22;
on his works, 210, 23;
to his muse, 132, 21

=Own=, one's, devotion to, 166, 17;
one's, right to, 168, 18

=Owner=, foot of, 429, 12

=Ownership=, conquest, 155, 31;
exclusive, theft, 227, 20

=Ox=, a strange, 32, 10;
a tired, 32, 14;
an old, steady, 32, 55;
that works, not to be muzzled, 483, 47

=Oyster=, the first to eat an, 149, 20

P

=Pactolus= river, the blind and the seer at, 511, 5

=Paganism=, virtue of, 403, 34

=Page=, a, sparkling with points, 334, 24

=Pain=, a nether-fire, 544, 45;
and joy, relative amount of, 471, 36;
and pleasure, companions, 349, 30;
and pleasures, revolutions of, 545, 9;
as urging to labour, 95, 35;
avoidance of, the aim of wise man, 321, 36;
birth of higher natures, 23, 46;
compensation in, 328, 2;
consecrated in Christ, 524, 42;
felt, the worst, 446, 38;
flying, 524, 16;
from happiness, 2, 62;
great agent in march of world, 431, 9;
how to beguile, 435, 17;
how to eschew, 177, 34;
ill to bear, 364, 42;
man's master, 223, 24;
not imaginary, 10, 13;
not to be given, 431, 16;
one, lessened by another, 332, 18;
positive, 380, 62;
risk of shirking, 382, 10;
seductive power of, 88, 15;
shared, divided, 385, 28;
sympathetic, 242, 31;
three parts in joy, 28, 18;
which we give ourselves for others, 527, 43

=Pains=, forgotten after gains, 112, 29;
too much, bad, 300, 12

=Painstaking=, too much, a disease, 497, 43

=Painter=, effect of love of gain on, 439, 49;
genius necessary to, 489, 40;
his own colour-grinder, 446, 42;
what a, should paint, 93, 41;
licence conceded to, 348, 25

=Painters= and poets, common licence to, 351, 36

=Painting=, before, blackening behind, 41, 14;
does not feed men, 294, 44;
in old and in later times, 188, 35;
mediocre, 466, 32;
moral effect of, 383, 32;
that attracts by mere verisimilitude, 533, 42;
with a big brush, 566, 38

=Pallas=, the birth of, 301, 27

=Pantaloon=, lean and slippered, 438, 32

=Paradise=, a moment in, cheap at the price of death, 78, 36;
in, alone, 280, 6

=Parasite=, nothing without its, 73, 21

=Pardon=, never and always, 127, 29;
nothing in yourself, 178, 23;
term of, 527, 44

=Pardoning=, sometimes an evil, 278, 13, 15

=Parent=, authority of, how forfeited, 506, 20

=Parents=, and children, in great states and vile, 187, 19;
and children, as regards mutual support, 79, 40;
and children, how they regard each other, 41, 54;
death of, to child, 489, 22;
respect for, as a duty, 374, 43;
their joys, griefs, and fears, 437, 20

=Parliament=, member of, difficult to choose, 203, 44

=Parnassus=, the elect of, 234, 18;
the poor man's, 287, 12

=Parsimony= and frugality, 558, 39

=Pars magna=, 88, 36

=Parsons=, cobblers, 279, 46

=Part=, acting a, long, difficult, 201, 5;
inexplicable, if whole is so, 554, 33

=Particles=, significance of, 425, 20

=Particular=, in art, to represent universal, 448, 16;
the, the universal limited, 446, 46

=Parties=, all work together, 244, 4;
how formed, 276, 15;
the weakness of, 206, 32

=Parting=, an image of death, 180, 39;
ordained of God, 85, 42;
the pain of, 382, 1;
the pangs of, 555, 41

=Partington, Mrs.=, and the Atlantic, 416, 32

=Partisanship=, effect of, on truth, 382, 22

=Parts=, men of great, 276, 5

=Party=, a sacrifice to, 550, 36;
animosities, effect of, 424, 40;
best service to, 145, 8;
government, evil effect of, 276, 15;
in England, habit of, 433, 4;
leader, his difficulties, 145, 17;
man, no convincing, 144, 17;
spirit, evil of, 457, 7

=Passion=, a disappointed, the wound of, 201, 43;
a god, 404, 51;
a malignant, 189, 57;
being without, 491, 2;
easier to inspire than faith, 203, 14;
employment of, apart from reason, 144, 47;
extreme, folly of, 314, 16;
fit of, an exposure, 145, 14;
function of, 329, 43;
in the soul, 562, 20;
infinite, everywhere, 334, 54;
latent in every heart, 186, 35;
long-cherished, 67, 26;
moral power of, 226, 35;
never decides aright, 297, 22;
no, can be hid, 93, 42;
not to be bought, 32, 21;
ruling, the power of a, 542, 2;
susceptibility to, 545, 37;
the power of, 559, 39, 40;
unsteadiness of, 341, 51;
_versus_ reason, 20, 20;
volatile, 65, 20

=Passionless=, man, as regards evil, 143, 28

=Passions=, and feelings, contrasted with reason, 369, 23, 31;
as orators, 239, 13;
contrasted with conscience, 224, 32;
effect of absence on, 2, 11;
exaggerations, 10, 15; 65, 19;
general and particular, 439, 48;
gentle, fruits of, 121, 28;
great, incurable diseases, 136, 47;
hard to conceal, 363, 1;
how to treat our, 461, 25;
like rivers in their course, 249, 51;
man great by his, 263, 43; man without, worthlessness of, 92, 36;
man's, saddening, 264, 1;
our, abuse of our, 529, 31;
our, in frenzy and under reason, 338, 43;
our, like convulsion fits, 338, 44;
our, masters rather servants, 276, 34;
our, the true phœnixes, 338, 45; 556, 3;
power of the, 38, 37;
private and public, 239, 12;
Rousseau on his, 39, 2;
sayings about, 446, 47-51; 447, 1;
strong, life of manly virtues, 404, 7;
subduing, a work, 207, 8;
their duration, 225, 12;
their use and nobleness, 306, 31;
transmuted by music, 287, 1;
violent, how formed, 514, 35;
voice of the body, 46, 39;
why implanted, 291, 15;
winds of the vessel, 239, 15;
without, without principle and motive, 150, 40.
See =Les passions=.

=Past=, a form of present, 519, 5;
and future, our relation to, 521, 8;
cold dead hand of, curative of egotism, 475, 29;
court of the, 422, 5;
events, to be ignorant of, 295, 41;
great spirits of, 431, 39;
grief over, natural, 274, 28;
how to appropriate, 454, 8;
how to treat, 501, 15;
key to future, 404, 22;
lamenting, vain, 494, 2;
no concern to us, 180, 9;
no erasing the, 294, 40;
not to be lamented, 103, 47;
not to be undone, 23, 11;
not wasted if we rise on its ruins, 311, 46;
our yearning after, 15, 37;
present, and future, compared, 429, 37;
present, and future, how to regard, 252, 58;
the barbaric, study of, 264, 1;
the hours of the, 302, 22;
the, sayings about, 447, 2-7;
the soul of, in books, 185, 15;
unalterable, 312, 33

=Pastime=, the dearest, 65, 8

=Pastor=, profession of, 107, 11

=Pastors=, ungracious, conduct of, 71, 25

=Pastures=, good, 130, 3

=Patch= rather than a hole, 28, 27

=Paternity= in law, 87, 23

=Pates=, lean, fat paunches make, 102, 45

=Path=, a best, for every man, 471, 13;
the beaten, safe, 513, 43, 44;
the best, through life, 417, 53;
the direct, 61, 33;
sure and honest heart, all, 215, 28

=Pathetic=, the, its elements, 447, 14

=Pathway=, a, to be made where none visible, 548, 18

=Patience=, a lesson in, 75, 12;
a prayer, 432, 35;
abused, 343, 20;
against fortune, 484, 33;
an alleviator, 74, 34;
and faith, 449, 24;
and its fruit, 226, 37;
and perseverance, power of, 180, 25;
as a passion, 82, 24;
as a remedy, 15, 32;
as an antidote, 226, 39;
attained no small feat, 124, 3;
being out of, 553, 24;
better than learning, 119, 19;
commended, 558, 40; 566, 34;
cowardice in noble hearts, 414, 36;
defined, 226, 38;
exhortation to, 509, 21;
in man and wife, 314, 14;
in seeking the Lord, 394, 5;
like, on a monument, 389, 12;
more than brains, 77, 32;
nobler than beauty, 82, 23;
Kepler's, of faith, 174, 8;
oil of the lamp, 266, 23;
power of, 175, 37; 179, 38; 237, 23; 295, 48; 338, 47; 342, 55; 464, 32;
prayed for, 217, 22;
preached by all, 9, 63;
rampart of courage, 112, 53;
sort thy heart to, 400, 17;
_versus_ haste, 54, 21;
want of, 162, 15;
want of, want of philosophy, 554, 34;
when outraged often, 117, 47;
worth the pains, 146, 20

=Patient= man, fury of, 29, 72

=Patriot=, glory of, 205, 35;
the, who saves his country, 478, 14

=Patriotism=, as an affection, 36, 19;
unfelt at Marathon, 413, 44;
its substitutes under despotism, 506, 21;
power of, in the heart, 315, 33

=Patriots=, great, excellent as men, 133, 41

=Patron=, Johnson's description of, 16, 22

=Patronage=, begging, 162, 23;
two kinds of, 505, 28

=Paul= and David, our opinions of, 523, 17

=Paunch=, a fat, without fine sense, 348, 44

=Pay=, a true man's, 306, 33

=Pay-day=, its recurrence, 569, 10

=Peace=, a certain, safer than an expected victory, 272, 42;
and anger, contrasted, 35, 6;
and concord, the price of, 483, 39;
and joy from content and love, 249, 19;
and plenty, the brood of, 349, 50;
and war, effects of, compared, 518, 42, 46;
beautiful, 382, 13;
becoming in men, 35, 6;
dependence of, on neighbours, 289, 6;
few qualified for, 484, 25;
first duty of citizen, 378, 24;
how alone attainable, 306, 34;
how to live in, 324, 9;
how to preserve, 490, 35;
how to secure, 240, 51; 390, 41;
in heaven and on earth, 344, 47;
life in, 149, 4;
man in, 188, 52, 53;
no, apart from ideal, 26, 58;
no, perfect, 202, 5;
no, without arms, 295, 34;
only ground of, 314, 1;
our love for, 525, 33;
sacrifices for, 467, 11;
secret of, 537, 16;
the foes of, 329, 35;
tranquil, a wish, 272, 34

=Peaceful=, the, peace-making, 106, 53

=Peacemakers=, the, 447, 16

=Peaks=, loftiest, in clouds, 550, 35

=Pearls=, give not, to swine, 123, 21;
in the deep, 185, 51;
tears, 346, 28;
to be dived for, 85, 7

=Peasant=, contrasted with philosopher, 460, 4;
with fowl in pot, 211, 23

=Peasantry=, a brave, value of, 33, 1

=Pebble=, casting, from hand, effect of, 199, 1

=Pedagogue=, the, and the age, 457, 2

=Pedant=, a, defined, 16, 25; 152, 48;
a female, offensive, 164, 41;
and teacher contrasted, 234, 23;
the real, 437, 8

=Pedantry=, defined, 54, 11;
origin and evil of, 421, 24;
vacancy, 344, 25

=Pedigree=, kingly, traced backwards, 534, 25;
mere, of no avail, 402, 34;
pride of, 522, 27

=Peerage=, the English, 530, 37

=Pen=, magic of, 440, 12;
mightier than sword, 447, 18;
most wonderful of tools, 296, 64;
steadying power of, 509, 39;
strokes of, to be deliberate, 455, 31

=Penalty=, according to offence, 4, 59;
paid by innocent, 77, 49

=Penitence=, better than casuistry, 200, 15

=Penny=, a bad, 32, 12;
to spend, I hae a, 166, 28

=Penury=, abyss of, 296, 56

=People=, a great, condition of continued power of, 448, 36;
a great, instinctive feeling of, 437, 1;
a, without religion, 253, 2;
chief glory of a, 420, 5;
choice of, measure of, 123, 42;
common-place, how to win, 333, 21;
effect of treating, as they are or should be, 546, 41;
glory of, 430, 11;
great, special gifts of God, 134, 42;
heart of a country, 234, 26;
high-class, rule of intercourse with, 187, 34;
how to move the heart of, 303, 12;
how to understand, 556, 34;
mass of, characterised, 431, 27;
most objectionable, 444, 4;
only three classes of, 468, 3;
silence of, a lesson to kings, 235, 11;
sympathetic, 408, 35;
that sing, safe to live among, 560, 12;
the, and kings, 447, 20, 23;
the, and their orators, 234, 27;
the, miscreant calling himself, 186, 44;
the, open to flattery, 312, 38;
the, supreme law of, 379, 51;
the, voice of, 347, 31;
the, voice of, to be regarded, 389, 35;
the, their fondness for deception, 353, 1;
voice of, how to regard, 461, 9;
with no annals, 140, 28;
without laws, 79, 42

=Peoples=, great, conservative, 9, 40

=Perception=, of a fact, a fact, 288, 17;
want of, fatal, 461, 17

=Perdition= catch my soul, 96, 16

=Perfect=, nothing, till humanised, 315, 32;
the, around us, 522, 34;
thing, treatment of, 362, 21

=Perfection=, by nature and by art, 272, 43;
claim of, 145, 40;
desire of, a disease, 423, 9;
dumb, 544, 19;
easily dispensed with, 333, 28;
end of, 540, 3;
from trifles, 499, 23;
greater, dispensable, 520, 41;
how to arrive at, 489, 37;
in art, demand for, 302, 9;
in heaven's regard and man's, 517, 18;
in one's self to be aimed at, 28, 12;
law of, 227, 3;
sought in another, 75, 4;
supreme, 537, 9;
the three sources of, 468, 30

=Perfumed=, like a milliner, 114, 43

=Perhaps=, a great, in quest of, 210, 36

=Perishable=, to be made imperishable, 521, 26

=Perjuries=, lovers', 72, 6

=Perjury=, the punishment of, 346, 27;
when a virtue, 234, 20

=Permanence=, the condition of, 354, 36

=Perplexity=, moral, 1, 39

=Persecution=, better than being shunned, 29, 15;
history of, 435, 19

=Perseverance=, effect of, 496, 31;
gain of, 34, 10;
law of, 438, 21;
power of, 80, 54; 96, 54; 135, 29;
rarer than effort, 227, 8;
reward of, 496, 12; 553, 26;
virtue of, 56, 38; 346, 30;
want of, 142, 34

=Persistence=, merit of, 346, 30, 31

=Persistency=, attracts confidence, 89, 27

=Person=, a third, annoyance to two, 82, 4;
a worthy, respected by the good, 143, 17;
mystery of a, 444, 28

=Personality=, great, how to respect, 492, 23

=Persons=, and things to be taken as they are, 276, 13;
criticising of, 476, 29;
great, behaviour towards, 498, 45;
interesting, the only, 335, 8;
the emphasis of, 425, 4;
universally treated ill, 526, 5;
who please us, 443, 14

=Persuasion=, and faith, power of, 279, 32;
law of, 241, 16;
power of, 104, 57; 312, 23;
susceptibility to, the rule, 336, 5

=Perversion=, last stage of, 438, 8

=Perversities=, greatest of all, 432, 29

=Pervert=, no, fit for kingdom of God, 303, 47

=Perverted= minds, effect of things on, 328, 22

=Pestilence=, evil of, 101, 31

=Peter= more feared than respected, 117, 29

=Petition= to God, a precept, 93, 48

=Petticoat= government, 32, 47

=Phaëton=, epitaph on, 156, 14

=Phariseeism= intolerable, 468, 29

=Pharmacopœia=, Napoleon's, 520, 28

=Philanthropic=, the, mistaken occupation of, 417, 31

=Philanthropy=, a vain, 536, 5;
mere, not the aim of life, 256, 38;
true, 482, 3;
with a flaw, 414, 5

=Philina= on her days and nights, 212, 13

=Philip II.= of Spain's boast, 170, 5

=Philistinism=, instance of, 203, 3

=Philosopher=, and the toothache, 477, 37;
and trifles, 150, 17;
characteristics of, 489, 42, 43;
content with being, 177, 16;
contrasted with peasant, 436, 15; 460, 4;
defined, 447, 34, 35;
dejection unseemly in, 56, 45;
his first business, 428, 8;
most aspiring, his proudest boast, 449, 50;
object and duty of, 445, 20;
should not swear, 324, 26;
the, and practical interests, 558, 33;
the, characteristic of, 419, 43;
true, character of, 419, 41;
without good-breeding, 452, 27;
work for a, 495, 36

=Philosopher's=, stone, a, 21, 23;
stone, the, 343, 60;
stone, the true, 47, 18, 23; 177, 1

=Philosophers=, a trouble to the world, 278, 37;
in talk, fools in art, 269, 45;
Rousseau on, 409, 18;
their opposite views of man, 398, 42

=Philosophic= study, the condition of, 421, 39

=Philosophical=, act, the true, 459, 3;
systems, worthlessness of, 550, 8

=Philosophies=, man's supplements of his practice, 267, 5

=Philosophising=, true, 383, 41

=Philosophisings=, cold, in presence of heart, 444, 37

=Philosophism=, fruit of, in France, 310, 4

=Philosophy=, a deliverer and a defender, 227, 5;
a genuine, 494, 11;
a test of a man's, 315, 23;
according to Plato and to Bacon, 189, 6;
after defeat, 333, 6;
and adversity, 4, 71;
and Christianity, 42, 52;
and divinity, 70, 12;
and misfortune, 227, 7;
as deceptive, 227, 6;
beginning of all, 459, 3;
best part of, 221, 12;
compared with poetry, 350, 41;
compared with religion, 372, 7, 17;
defined, 537, 3;
divine, 161, 7;
effects of little, and of depth in, 8, 48;
effect of, on one in fear, 449, 5;
existence and necessity of, 442, 6;
first qualification for, 61, 14;
function of, 516, 23;
glory of, 430, 13;
importance of, 81, 40; 559, 41;
misapplied, 521, 25;
motive to, 207, 9;
not enough, 26, 2;
permanent, 550, 7;
politics harmful to, 313, 47;
power of, 70, 9;
problem of, 449, 30;
sayings about, 447, 37, 38;
small draughts of, and large, 394, 23;
temple of, qualification for entering, 508, 3;
the beginning and end of, 192, 33;
the one, 471, 17;
the first cause of, 561, 44;
the sign of a ripened, 13, 51;
the two objects of, 423, 40;
too austere, 497, 30;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, 492, 9;
visible, 426, 17

=Phocion= to Demosthenes, 271, 37

=Phœnix=, a symbol of progress, 106, 20;
the, burning of, 190, 11

=Phœnix-bird= in the fire, 545, 46

=Physic=, hated, yet helpful, 484, 32;
the best, 533, 31;
to the dogs, 485, 42

=Physician=, a, to be old, 212, 48;
dispensed with, 559, 1;
must be humane, 78, 35;
no perfect, 334, 25;
profession of, 107, 11;
those who need, 479, 33;
to be honoured, 159, 50;
who has never been sick, 303, 48;
wise, usefulness of, 25, 1

=Physicians=, I die by the help of too many, 165, 41;
many, bad sign of a state, 226, 16;
the two best, 411, 48;
two real, 227, 37

=Physiognomists=, the best, 348, 24

=Physique=, effect of, on estimate of self, 278, 5

=Picture=, good, a sermon, 91, 10;
poem without words, 287, 37;
to ensure a genuine, 240, 27

=Pictures=, attraction of, 174, 23;
by nature, 72, 7;
good, shades and lights in, 468, 9;
importance of arrangement in, 323, 20;
pleasure in, 519, 31

=Piece=, a, how to compose, 119, 15

=Piety=, among the ruins of Iona, 413, 44;
and reason to be combined, 526, 39;
ascetic, 120, 27;
but a means, 116, 38;
defined by Cicero, 216, 30;
how best displayed, 334, 38;
real, 334, 1;
the, of a reformed man, 24, 56;
to be kept distinct from art, 345, 22

=Pig=, every, scrubbing, 152, 12

=Pigeons=, no, ready roasted, 119, 12, 13

=Pilate=, jesting, without eye for truth, 212, 34

=Pilgrimages=, profitlessness of, 148, 6

=Pilgrims=, few, saints, 105, 19

=Pillow=, a sibyl, 447, 40

=Pills=, sugared, 16, 56;
to be swallowed, 348, 42

=Pilot=, of Galilean Lake, 447, 41;
vigilance required in, 39, 41

=Pilotage=, in calm, 184, 8;
in storm, 184, 10

=Pilots=, skilful, reputation of, how gained, 393, 17

=Pindar=, passion of, mine, 542, 30

=Pious=, honoured by gods and men, 51, 38; 447, 44

=Pipe=, that is not played on, 540, 16

=Pity=, akin to humour, 164, 9;
ere charity, 36, 7;
how to show, 389, 40;
human, power of, 283, 26;
no, without rigour, 12, 46;
not hatred, 71, 44;
object of, 425, 22;
often more becoming than envy, 383, 36;
our, measure of, 527, 47;
rather than envy, 29, 27;
through severity, 396, 44;
virtue of law, 110, 38

=Pitying= better than condemning, 201, 26

=Place=, a consecrated, 46, 43;
a man below his, 152, 30;
dignified by deed, 116, 13;
preparation for a, 488, 37;
trodden by a good man, 447, 46

=Places= and place-holders, 63, 45

=Plagiarism=, Kingsley on, 301, 37

=Plagiarists=, honest, 10, 45

=Plain=, blunt man, a, 164, 49;
the perfectly, 381, 37

=Plain-dealing=, exceptional, 313, 37;
in disfavour, 107, 30

=Plain-spokenness=, an eccentricity, 177, 22

=Plan=, the divine, no need to understand, 155, 16

=Planet=, rather than moon, 166, 23;
sceptre of the, 458, 30

=Plant=, often removed, 16, 39

=Plate=, enjoyed as earthenware, 133, 37

=Plato=, as a thinker, 453, 7;
father of thought, 340, 10;
fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
the greatness of, 349, 19;
thought of, mine, 542, 30;
treatment of, 349, 20;
wrong with, rather than right with others, 84, 45

=Plato's= "Republic," 331, 27

=Plausibility= and truth, 355, 15

=Player=, and the times, 253, 6;
might teach parson, 169, 49

=Playfulness= after exertion, 151, 26

=Playing=, too much, 492, 5

=Pleasant=, mingled with bitter, 271, 55;
and unpleasant, matter of habit, 316, 25

=Pleasantry=, must be spontaneous, 101, 43;
with whom to risk, 528, 37

=Please=, others how to, 510, 20;
to, as a wish, 89, 4

=Pleasing=, art of, 416, 22;
every one pleasing none, 151, 20;
many a vain attempt, 217, 5;
no, every one, 117, 6;
pleasure of, 520, 37

=Pleasure=, a man of, 12, 34;
after pain, 376, 5;
and fear of the penalty, 65, 26;
and pain, 32, 35; 340, 42;
and pain, cousins german, 229, 6;
as a moralist, 474, 24;
at expense of pain, 308, 29;
blinding power of, 223, 22;
cost of, 10, 16;
diving for, 186, 9;
effect of indulgence in, 271, 20;
effect of, on sense of time, 349, 29;
effect of refinement upon, 443, 18;
evil only when enslaving, 82, 51;
excess of, criminal, 242, 32;
from activity, 93, 50;
illusory, hope of, 403, 24;
intellectual and sensual, 191, 14;
lawful, 84, 38;
looked forward to, 79, 41;
men's proneness to, 158, 46;
mere, as motive of action, 278, 23;
no compensation for pain, 31, 17;
not to be despised, 168, 6;
of the world, a dream, 362, 22;
precursor of grief, 136, 37;
pursuit of, demoralising, 147, 26;
sacrifice of, a gain, 198, 16;
sacrificing, to duty, 149, 35;
satieties of, 467, 28;
sequel to, 485, 45;
that strikes the soul, 448, 8;
the most exquisite, 234, 28;
the sweetest, 324, 28;
to an ill-conditioned being, 489, 33;
true, the fountain of, 188, 47;
without reason, result of, 407, 28;
without self-flattery, 330, 3

=Pleasure-seeker=, the, 448, 5

=Pleasures=, bitter when abused, 239, 18;
Burns on evanescence of, 33, 22;
great, rarer than great pains, 134, 43;
how enhanced, 517, 22;
how to look at, 252, 58;
like wine, 526, 14;
mental, never cloy, 278, 3;
not to be exalted, 294, 39;
of the world, the, 448, 9;
our, and pains, 339, 1;
our, how protracted, 338, 49;
temperate man's, 457, 3;
the sweetest, 325, 10;
tranquil, 498, 55

=Plenty=, everywhere, 271, 48

=Pliability=, and firmness, 179, 8;
man's, characterised, 408, 27

=Plodders=, continued, gain of, from other's books, 394, 25

=Plodding=, effect of, 480, 2;
not easy, 201, 38;
universal, evil of, 555, 32

=Ploughman's= clocks, 278, 32

=Ploughshare=, soldiers of, 397, 10

=Poem=, a great, suggestive, 91, 18;
a heroic, at bottom, 473, 8;
a, what makes 204, 10;
an indifferent, writing, and understanding a good, 201, 21;
as image of life, 16, 43;
heroic, qualification for composing, 153, 2;
qualities of a true, 110, 40; 310, 35;
true, writer of, his reward, 437, 10;
which is not sung, 536, 40

=Poems=, all great, foundation of, 324, 24;
by mere water-drinkers, 318, 15;
for the day and for all time, 138, 41;
heroic, how to produce, 241, 17;
old, sacred, 380, 24;
painted window-panes, 119, 18

=Poesy=, difficulties in, 316, 31;
immortal, 227, 15;
spirit of, 454, 37

=Poet=, a, defined, 486, 19;
a, for everything, 75, 21;
a, how to understand, 556, 25;
a necessary qualification for, 559, 27;
a, of superior merit, not to be described, 384, 28;
a, on canvas, same as in song, 16, 47;
a word for, 409, 29;
akin to madman, 24, 17;
always waited for, 426, 22;
and his inspiration, 203, 37;
as representing a class of men, 273, 40;
as revealer of beauty, 150, 50;
business of, 489, 39;
by birth, 350, 36;
coin of a, 163, 6;
delight of, in wandering, 80, 3;
distinguished from prophet, 449, 46;
dramatic, Horace on, 370, 40;
dramatic, two qualifications of, 503, 36;
everywhere in his place, 549, 20;
eyes to other men, 284, 14;
function of, 64, 21; 206, 37;
genius necessary to, 489, 40;
God the perfect, 127, 5;
great, limitedness of, 311, 27;
high watch-tower of, 59, 48;
his resources, 406, 17;
how formed, 492, 32;
licence conceded to, 348, 25;
like the eagle, 444, 31;
lyric and epic, beverages of, 440, 11;
native land of, 444, 31;
Nature's teaching to, 531, 35;
nothing useless to a, 489, 24;
object of, 445, 19;
of to-day, and the wealth he inherits, 522, 12;
often child of love, 325, 34;
pen of, tempered with love's sighs, 296, 19;
qualification of, 252, 4;
qualifications for, 303, 2, 3;
satirical, a check, 18, 60;
sayings about, 448, 11-19;
scared by the mob, 322, 8;
sign of the, 453, 33;
spirit required of, 237, 4;
suffering necessary to, 426, 23;
the, advice to, 558, 41;
the, and troubles of life, 540, 18;
the, attributes of, 16, 44-46;
the business of, 14, 16;
the complete, his outfit, 421, 16;
the eye of, 470, 21;
the high priesthood of, 550, 41;
the irreligious, 437, 13;
the note-book of, 426, 30;
the only teller of news, 446, 21;
the struggle of the, 93, 51;
the true, 459, 4-6;
to be, one must be a poem, 152, 54;
to sing to himself and the Muses, 34, 59;
what he has to cultivate and shun, 539, 2;
what it is to be a, 489, 44;
what makes a, 198, 49;
what makes the, 373, 11;
with nothing to interpret and reveal, 174, 29;
without poetic frenzy, 554, 27;
who entitled to be called, 50, 48;
work for a, 495, 36

=Poet's= gift, Horace's admiration of, 182, 8

=Poetasters=, conceit of, 218, 23

=Poetic=, art, destiny of, 508, 31;
genius, the test of, 457, 13;
pains, a pleasure in, 470, 16

=Poet-priest= still waited for, 465, 14

=Poetry=, ancient and modern, contrasted, 448, 20;
and prose, defined, 358, 20;
and words, 562, 12;
as an educator of children, 411, 14;
at bottom, 313, 4;
attractive power of, 24, 39;
averse to reasoning, 71, 32;
born of pain or sorrow, 350, 33;
by a bad man, 389, 37;
compared with painting, 340, 51;
contrasted with science, 382, 37; 383, 2;
elements or subjects of, 425, 3;
essence of, 426, 1;
from an engineer, 566, 27;
good, personification, 130, 5;
how to understand, 565, 19;
if nonsense, when reduced to prose, 200, 2;
in common lives, 476, 20;
inferior, denounced, 193, 47;
its dwelling-place, 372, 27;
its relation to philosophy, 345, 8;
its sadness objected to, 535, 34;
lyric, 258, 26;
mediocre, 466, 32;
mistaken test of, 198, 13;
must be of ideas, 184, 22;
not dead, 372, 27;
not the thing now wanted, 358, 11;
nursed by wrong, 284, 42;
of eighteenth century, 339, 2;
old-fashioned, character of, 327, 13;
organic, 377, 19;
popular, fault of, 448, 13;
second-rate, condemned, 558, 42;
surpassed by music, 286, 47;
the elevating power of, 200, 44;
the essence of, 369, 19;
the kingdom of, 54, 24;
the life of, 562, 12;
the only, 335, 11; 446, 12;
transporting, 315, 35;
true, in the fields, 567, 33;
true, truer than science, 500, 29;
value and dignity of, 559, 42;
value of, 565, 19;
who has no ear for, 532, 10;
without taste for, 150, 38

=Poets=, at first and at last, 528, 2;
a question about, 487, 45;
and poverty, 354, 16;
but two orders of, 503, 48;
contrasted with orators, 289, 42;
good, inspired interpreters, 130, 6;
great, and their readers, 310, 22;
great, best qualities in, 10, 30;
great, how their works have been read, 464, 3;
great, of slow growth, 315, 12;
great (see =Great Poets=);
make witty, 157, 22;
mediocrity in, 272, 2;
modern, Goethe on, 281, 29;
nature-made, 291, 50;
our, Emerson on, 339, 3;
sensitive, 121, 48;
their wish, 24, 21;
three, of Greece, Italy, and England, 485, 23;
to be fed, not pampered, 84, 16

=Poison=, slow, dangerous, 16, 48; 79, 12;
those that need, 479, 14

=Polarity=, our own, our law, 521, 30

=Policy=, and incidents, 192, 55;
object of all true, 445, 15;
the best, 35, 9

=Polish=, what is alone susceptible of, 335, 22

=Polite= people, excessively, designing, 347, 5

=Politeness=, benefit of, 28, 19;
defined, 227, 16;
estimable, 376, 51;
morally rooted, 301, 46;
of wise and fools, 462, 31;
only source of, 446, 24;
true, 38, 19;
value of, 474, 6;
wise and foolish, 21, 61

=Political=, economy, real science of, 450, 43;
watchword, highest, 435, 5

=Politician=, object and duty of, 445, 20

=Politicians= and statesmen, contrasted, 455, 10

=Politics=, as gambling, 472, 41;
bungling in, hateful, 166, 30;
philosophy harmful to, 313, 47;
sayings about, 189, 8-10;
subject to circumstances, 475, 24;
too rigorous, 497, 30

=Polonius=, advice of, to Laërtes, 123, 30

=Pomp=, insignificance of, 123, 13

=Poniards=, she speaks, 389, 14

=Poor=, and rich, 126, 15, 16;
and sins of rich, 59, 29;
compared with rich, 451, 24-27, 32;
considering, 30, 49;
fate of devourer of the, 37, 54;
giving to, 123, 46; 146, 21;
ignorance of, Carlyle on, 203, 35;
in purse, 18, 17;
man, a, 137, 46; 141, 23; 147, 53;
man, a, and a liar, 423, 8;
man, a really, 441, 5;
man, according to Emerson, 143, 53;
man, despised, 343, 47;
man, how, may become rich, 34, 1;
man, put to shifts, 158, 29;
man who is, 304, 12;
mercy to, blessed, 146, 50;
not to be robbed, 377, 43;
once, poor always, 386, 30;
man, become rich, pride of, 180, 2;
spectres that accompany, 203, 35;
spirit, mark of, 489, 5;
the alone truly, 319, 14;
the, obsequious to rich, 63, 50;
the, pity for, in a storm, 352, 37;
the poverty of, 423, 14;
the, sayings about, 448, 23-27;
the tillage of, 285, 12;
the uncomplaining, 59, 28;
the wretchedness of, 328, 40;
who think themselves so, 304, 10

=Poorest=, in his cottage, safety of, 448, 31;
place, plenty of, 448, 10

=Pope=, not born for high life, 169, 2;
of his religion, 408, 33;
on his verses, 173, 24

=Pope's= prayer for charity, 411, 12

=Populace=, the, insolence of, 129, 2

=Popular=, man and original contrasted, 448, 33;
the, characterises the people, 94, 48

=Popularity=, defined, 227, 17;
evanescence of, 124, 28;
fleeting, 181, 18;
sudden, 406, 4;
to be shunned, 51, 31

=Portion=, the best, 409, 31

=Portraits=, ancestral, in a mirror, 13, 43;
the best, 417, 54

=Position=, contentment with one's, commended, 566, 17;
filling of, main thing, 125, 36

=Positive=, as legible as negative, 483, 45;
and egative, universal in nature, 94, 26;
and negative universal, 174, 42, 43

=Possess=, how to, 39, 12;
who deserve to, 479, 53

=Possessing= and possessed, 519, 13

=Possession=, a permanent, 166, 34;
an acknowledged title, 385, 25;
as justifying right, 27, 22;
by right, 79, 33;
condition of true, 316, 43;
not mere fame, 206, 38;
of good things, effect on us of, 559, 5;
the only real, 167, 34;
thorough, a test of, 539, 44;
true, condition of, 520, 4

=Possessions=, a blessing or a curse, 138, 48;
of which one has more than he knows, 324, 47;
our, and wishes, 331, 18;
inherited, to be employed, 82, 56

=Possible=, ever possible, 415, 2

=Post=, a vacant, effect of filling, 498, 44;
our, not to be deserted, 527, 32

=Posterity=, our duty to, 527, 40;
our obligations to, 535, 21;
the judgment of, 47, 7

=Posture-maker=, the best, 291, 52

=Pot=, a little, 77, 30;
of ale, fame for, 169, 24

=Poultry=, world peopled with, 291, 48

=Poverty=, a calamity, 18, 17;
a drawback in life, 490, 34;
a hindrance to virtue, 1, 34;
a master, 467, 27;
and love, incompatible, 544, 10;
and reproach, 490, 23;
and vice, 518, 33;
a teacher, 150, 44;
better than cowardice, 197, 28;
better than vice, 29, 16;
chill air of, 3, 5;
condition of, without freedom, 88, 38;
contentment with, commended, 236, 1;
contrasted with avarice, 62, 43;
craft of, 18, 18;
cramping effect of, 141, 25;
direct road to, 397, 40;
discredit of, 24, 42;
disgrace of, 259, 36;
effect of, 394, 15;
effect of, on native character, 314, 11;
from sloth, 103, 14;
hard to bear, 78, 31;
hard to gild, 208, 11;
honest, 159, 32;
how so galling, 299, 41;
key to, 394, 5;
measure of, 148, 3;
national, incompatible with national prosperity, 334, 9;
no evil to a genuine man, 109, 3;
of spirit, God's delight, 18, 15;
real, 17, 4; 358, 4;
sayings about, 343, 50-52;
security of, 149, 17;
shame of, 388, 33;
standard of, 93, 21;
stronger than wealth, 26, 5;
the evil of, 530, 32;
the sixth sense, 18, 16;
the worst kind of, 55, 23;
to be hidden, 227, 2;
when one is down, 547, 3;
which oppresses a nation, evil of, 132, 44