329; 'Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog than I am,' iv. 347, n. 1; 'Some dogs dance better than others,' ii. 404; 'The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity,' iv. 34, n. 5; 'The dogs are not so good scholars,' i. 445; 'The dog is a Scotchman,' iv. 98; 'The dog is a Whig,' v. 255; 'The dog was so very comical,' iii. 69; 'What, is it you, you dogs?' i. 250.
DOGGED. 'Dogged veracity,' iii. 378.
DOGGEDLY. 'A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' i. 203; v. 40, 110.
DOGMATISE. 'I dogmatise and am contradicted,' ii. 452, n. 1.
DONE. 'What a man has done compared with what he might have done,' ii. 129; 'What must be done, Sir, will be done,' i. 202.
DOUBLE. 'It is not every name that can carry double,' v. 295; 'Let us live double,' iv. 108.
DOUBTS. 'His doubts are better than most people's certainties' (Lord Chancellor Hardwicke), iii. 205.
DRAW. 'Madam, I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds' (Addison), ii. 256.
DRIFT. 'What is your drift, Sir?' iv. 281.
DRIVE. 'I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or draws me,' iv. 273, n. 1; 'If your company does not drive a man out of his house, nothing will,' iii. 315; 'Ten thousand Londoners would drive all the people of Pekin,' v. 305.
DRIVING. 'You are driving rapidly from something, or to something,' iii. 5.
DROPPED. 'There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by,' iv. 73.
DROVES. 'Droves of them would come up, and attest anything for the honour of Scotland,' ii. 311.
DROWNED. 'Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned,' v. 137.
DRUNK. 'Never but when he is drunk,' ii. 351; 'Equably drunk,' iii. 389; 'People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to get drunk,' v. 249; 'A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk,' iii. 389.
DUCKING-STOOL. 'A ducking-stool for women,' iii. 287.
DULL. 'He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others' (Foote), iv. 178; 'He was dull in a new way,' ii. 327.
DUNCE. 'It was worth while being a dunce then,' ii. 84; 'Why that is because, dearest, you're a dunce,' iv. 109.
E.
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.
Etudiez. 'Ah, Monsieur, vous etudiez 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 L100,000 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.
F.
FACT. 'Housebreaking is a strong fact,' ii. 65.
FACTION. 'Dipped his pen in faction,' i. 375, n. 1.
FAGGOT. 'He takes its faggot of principles,' v. 36.
FALLIBLE. 'A fallible being will fail somewhere,' ii. 132.
FAME. 'Fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400; 'He had no fame but from boys who drank with him,' v. 268.
FARTHING CANDLE. 'Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover to show light at Calais,' i. 454.
FAT. 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' iv. 313.
FEELING. 'They pay you by feeling,' ii. 95.
FEET. 'We grow to five feet pretty readily, but it is not so easy to grow to seven,' iii. 316.
FELLOW. 'I look upon myself as a good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362; 'When we see a very foolish fellow we don't know what to think of him,' ii.