it 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. 54.

FELLOWS. 'They are always telling lies of us old fellows,' iii. 303.

FIFTH. 'I heartily wish, Sir, that