Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

GUINEA.  ‘He values a new guinea more than an old friend,’ v. 315; ‘There go two and forty sixpences to one guinea,’ ii. 201, n. 3.

GUINEAS.  ‘He cannot coin guineas but in proportion as he has gold,’ v. 229.

H.

HANDS.  ‘A man cutting off his hands for fear he should steal,’ ii. 435;
  ’I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and
so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,’ iv. 224.

HANGED.  ‘A friend hanged, and a cucumber pickled,’ ii. 94;
  ’Do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares
for the succession of a royal family?’ iii. 270;
  ‘He is not the less unwilling to be hanged,’ iii. 295;
  ‘If he were once fairly hanged I should not suffer,’ ii. 94;
  ‘No man is thought the worse of here whose brother was hanged,’ ii.
177;
  ’So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain
us,’ iii. 318;
  ’I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man’s
son being hanged,’ iii. 11;
  ‘You may as well ask if I hanged myself to-day,’ iv. 173;
  ’Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,’ iii. 167.

HAPPINESS.  ‘These are only struggles for happiness,’ iii. 199.

HAPPY.  ‘It is the business of a wise man to be happy,’ iii. 135.

HARASSED.  ‘We have been harassed by invitations,’ v. 395.

HARE.  ‘My compliments, and I’ll dine with him, hare or rabbit,’ iii. 207.

HATE.  ‘Men hate more steadily than they love,’ iii. 150.

HATER.  ‘He was a very good hater,’ i. 190, n. 2.

HEAD.  ‘A man must have his head on something, small or great,’ ii. 473, n. 1.

HEADACHE.  ‘At your age I had no headache,’ i. 462;
  ’Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the
sense that I put into it,’ iii. 381.

HEAP.  ‘The mighty heap of human calamity,’ iii. 289, n. 3.

HELL.  ‘Hell is paved with good intentions,’ ii. 360.

HERMIT.  ‘Hermit hoar in solemn cell,’ iii. 159.

HIDE.  ‘Exert your whole care to hide any fit of anxiety,’ iii. 368.

HIGH.  ’Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven,’ v. 222.

HIGHLANDS.  ‘Who can like the Highlands?’ v. 377.

HISS.  Ah!  Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him,’ i. 451.

HISTORIES.  ’This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery,’ iv. 362.

HOG.  ‘Yes, Sir, for a hog,’ iv. 13.

HOGSTYE.  ’He would tumble in a hogstye as long as you looked at him, and called to him to come out,’ i. 432.

HOLE.  ’A man may hide his head in a hole ... and then complain he is neglected,’ iv. 172.

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