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 I were a fifth,’ iv. 312.
Filosofo. ‘Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo’ (Giannone), iv. 3.
FINE. ’Read over your compositions, and
wherever you meet with a passage which you think is
particularly fine, strike it out’ (a college
tutor), ii. 237;
‘Were I to have anything fine, it
should be very fine,’
iv. 179; v. 364.
FINGERS. ‘I e’en tasted Tom’s fingers,’ ii. 403.
FIRE. ‘A man cannot make fire but in proportion
as he has fuel,’ &c.,
v. 229;
’If it were not for depriving the
ladies of the fire I should like
to stand upon the hearth myself,’ iv. 304, n.
4;
‘Would cry, Fire! Fire! in
Noah’s flood’ (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.