IMPARTIAL.  ‘Foote is quite impartial, for he tells lies of everybody,’ ii. 434.

IMPORTS.  ’Let your imports be more than your exports, and you’ll never go far wrong,’ iv. 226.

IMPOSSIBLE.  ’That may be, Sir, but it is impossible for you to know it,’ ii. 466, n. 3;
  ‘I would it had been impossible,’ ii. 409, n. 1.

IMPOTENCE.  ’He is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence to spend his money,’ iii. 40.

IMPRESSIONS.  ‘Do not accustom yourself to trust to impressions,’ iv. 122.

IMPUDENCE.  ‘An instance how far impudence could carry ignorance,’ iii. 390.

INCOMPRESSIBLE.  ’Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I ever knew,’ &c., v. 391.

INDIA.  ‘Nay, don’t give us India,’ v. 209.

INEBRIATION.  ‘He is without skill in inebriation,’ iii. 389.

INFERIOR.  ’To an inferior it is oppressive; to a superior it is insolent,’ v. 73.

INFERIORITY.  ’There is half a guinea’s worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it,’ ii. 169.

INFIDEL.  ‘If he be an infidel he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel,’ ii. 95;
  ‘Shunning an infidel to-day and getting drunk to-morrow’ (A
celebrated friend), iii. 410.

INGRAT.  ‘Je fais cent mecontens et un ingrat’ (Voltaire), ii. 167, n. 3.

INNOVATION.  ‘Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation,’ iv. 188.

INSIGNIFICANCE.  ‘They will be tamed into insignificance,’ v. 148, n. 1.

INSOLENCE.  ‘Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out,’ iii. 316.

INTENTION.  ‘We cannot prove any man’s intention to be bad,’ ii. 12.

INTREPIDITY.  ’He has an intrepidity of talk, whether he understands the subject or not,’ v. 330.

INVERTED.  ’Sir, he has the most inverted understanding of any man whom I have ever known,’ iii. 379.

IRONS.  ’The best thing I can advise you to do is to put your tragedy along with your irons,’ iii. 259, n. 1.

IRRESISTIBLY.  ‘No man believes himself to be impelled irresistibly,’ iv. 123.

IT.  ‘It is not so.  Do not tell this again,’ iii. 229.

J.

JACK.  ‘If a jack is seen, a spit will be presumed,’ ii. 215, n. 4; iii. 461.

JACK KETCH.  ’Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir!  I’d as soon dine with Jack Ketch’ (Boswell), iii. 66.

JEALOUS.  ‘Little people are apt to be jealous,’ iii. 55.

JOKE.  ‘I may be cracking my joke, and cursing the sun,’ iv. 304.

JOKES.  ’A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance,’ ii. 231.

JOSTLE.  ‘Yes, Sir, if it were necessary to jostle him down,’ ii. 443.

JOSTLED.  ‘After we had been jostled into conversation,’ iv. 48, n. 1.

JUDGE.  ‘A judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs,’ ii. 344.

JURY.  ’Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime once a week,’ iii. 11.