2d, "He is constitutionally indolent."

He brands himself mentally indolent; he deprives his thought itself of all sharpness, exactness, and power.

I answered, after a moment's reflection,'You have a great deal of intellectual arrogance, and you are, physically, very indolent.'

I am dreadfully indolent.

There is there such a superabundance of the laboring population, that for a long time to come, labor must be very cheap, and the habitually indolent will doubtless prefer employing others to work for them, than to work themselves.

"I am ashamed to say that the heat has rendered me a trifle indolent".

Essentially an indolent though receptive mind, he made no effort to trace the new ideas to their consequences; he vaguely considered them not irreconcilable with the old.

Were I not of a profoundly indolent, restless, adventurous nature, and horribly averse to writing, I would make a great book of this and live honoured by every profound duffer in the world.

[Illustration: Letter C.] Characteristically indolent, the fondness for a sedentary life is stronger, perhaps, with the Turks, than with any other people of whom we read.