doubling it easily proves; besides, stop at what point you will, you find yourself as far from infinitude as ever. -Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 79. Ingratitude A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man, when he gets into a higher sphere, into others' habits of life, cannot keep up all his former connections. Then, those who knew him formerly upon a level with themselves, may think that they ought still to be treated as on a level, which cannot be; and an acquaintance in a former situation may bring out things which it would be very disagreeable to have mentioned before higher company, though perhaps everybody knows of them.-Life. March 28, 1776. To one Suffering from Let him do good on higher motives next Ingratitude time; he will then be sure of his reward.— Piozzi's Anecdotes. Initials Who is bound to recollect initials? A name should be written, if not fully, yet so that it cannot be mistaken.-Letters published by Mrs. Piozzi, No. 325. Injury tavern. All injury is either of the person, the fortune, or the fame.-Life. There is no private house in which people Inn can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that everybody should be easy, in the nature of things it cannot be there 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 you are. 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 :: "Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, The warmest welcome at an inn." -Life. March 21, 1776. To dread no eye and to suspect no Innocence tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence. -Rambler, No. 68. Universality of Insanity If we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. All power 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 I can entry of my court does not depend on me. 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 the Heart Man is better content to want diligence 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 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 Persecuted 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. When a man retires into an island, he is to Island Thought 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 |