must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests-the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him; and no man, but a very impudent dog indeed, can as freely command what is in another man's house, as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome ; and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer No servants will attend you with the alacrity which waiters do, who are incited by the prospect of an immediate reward in proportion as they please. No, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. He then repeated, with great emotion, Shenstone's lines:

you are.

"Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,

Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found

The warmest welcome at an inn.”

Life. March 21, 1776.

Innocence

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence. -Rambler, No. 68.

Universality If we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. All power

of

Insanity

of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity.-Rasselas, ch. xliii.

Insubordination.

The chief cause of which is the great 'increase of money. No man now depends upon the lord of a manor, when he can send to another

country and fetch provisions. The shoeblack at the entry of my court does not depend on me. I can deprive him but of a penny a day, which he hopes somebody else will bring him; and that penny I must carry to another shoeblack; so the trade suffers nothing.-Life.

Union of

Intellect and

Integrity without knowledge is weak and Morality useless; and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.-Rasselas, ch. xl.

Preference of

Intellect to

Man is better content to want diligence

the Heart than power, and sooner confesses the depravity of his will than the imbecility of his nature.-Idler, No. 88.

Intemperance

Perpetual levity must end in ignorance; and intemperance, though it may fire the spirits for an hour, will make life short or miserable.Rasselas, ch. xvii.

Intentions

Good Intentions

Hell is paved with good intentions.Journal. April 14, 1775.

There is scarcely one that does not for the End purpose to close his life in pious abstraction,

with a few associates serious as himself.-Rasselas, ch. xlvi.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid

Intoxication of the pain of being a man.-Anecdotes by

Stockdale.

Iona

Perhaps, in the revolutions of the world, Iona may be some time again the instructress

of the Western regions.-Journey to the Western Islands,

p. 134.

Going to see
Ireland

The Irish

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.-Life. October 12, 1779.

The Irish are a fair people;-they never speak well of one another.-Life. Anecdotes by the Bishop of Killaloe, 1774.

The Irish Persecated

The Irish are in a most unnatural state, for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions, of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board; to punish them by confiscation and other penalties as rebels, was monstrous injustice. King William was not their lawful sovereign: he had not been acknowledged by the Parliament of Ireland when they appeared in arms against him.-Life. May 7, 1773.

Iron

Iron contributes so much to supply the wants of nature, that its use constitutes much of the difference between savage and polished life, between the state of him who slumbers in European palaces, and him that shelters himself in the cavities of a rock from the chillness of the night, or the violence of the storm.-Idler, No. 37.

Islands

In the islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different rank, and one does not encroach here upon another. Where there is

no commerce nor manufacture, he that is born poor can scarce become rich; and if none are able to buy estates, he that is born to land cannot annihilate his family by selling it.-Journey to the Western Islands, p. 173.

Island Thought

When a man retires into an island, he is to turn his thoughts entirely to another world: he has done with this.-Journal. September 5.

A Jacobite believes in the divine right of A Jacobite kings. He that believes in the divine right of kings believes in a Divinity. A Jacobite believes in the divine right of bishops. He that believes in the divine right of bishops, believes in the divine authority of the Christian religion. Therefore, a Jacobist is neither an Atheist nor a Deist. That cannot be said of a Whig, for Whiggism is a negative of all principle.—Life. July

9, 1763.

Nothing produces enmity so certain as one Jesting person's showing a disposition to be merry,

when another is inclined to be either serious or displeased.-Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 116.

Scornful Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Jesting Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. "London," Lines 165-166.

Johnson The approach of death is very dreadful.

Afraid of

Dying I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round and round for

that help which cannot be had.

Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live tomorrow. But let us learn to derive our hope only from GOD.-Life. Letter to Rev. D. Taylor, Ashbourne,

April 12, 1784.

Judge

There is no reason why a judge should hold Holding Office his office for life, more than any other person

for Life

in public trust.-Life. April 14, 1775.

Judges No judge can give his whole attention to Trading his office; and it is very proper that he should employ what time he has to himself to his own advantage, in the most profitable manner.-Life. April 6, 1775.

The Uses of To prize everything according to its real
Judgment use, ought to be the aim of a rational being.
Adventurer,"
"No. 119.

tion of the

Kennied's Edi- I know not any crime so great that a man Hebrew Bible could contrive to commit, as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.—Journal.

Kindness

Kindness is preserved by a constant reciprocation of benefits, or interchange of pleasures.-Rambler, No. 137.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of Kindness the business of life.-Life. September 21,