LIFE. 'A great city is the school for studying life,' iii. 253;
'His life was marred by drink and insolence,' iv. 161, n. 4;
'It is driving on the system of life,' iv. 112;
'Life stands suspended and motionless,' iii. 419;
'The tide of life has driven us different ways,' iii. 22.
LIGHTS. 'Let us have some more of your northern lights; these are
mere farthing candles,' v. 57, n. 3.
LIMBS. 'The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,' iii.
38, n. 6.
LINK. 'Nay. Sir, don't you perceive that _one_ link cannot clank,'
iv. 317.
LITTLE. 'It must be born with a man to be contented to take up
with little things,' iii. 241.
LOCALLY. 'He is only locally at rest,' iii. 241.
LONDON. 'A London morning does not go with the sun,' iv. 72;
'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life,' iii. 178.
LORD. 'His parts, Sir, are pretty well for a Lord,' iii. 35;
'Great lords and great ladies don't love to have their mouths
stopped,' iv. 116;
'A wit among Lords': See below, WITS.
LOUSE. See above, FLEA.
LOVE. 'It is commonly a weak man who marries for love,' iii. 3;
'Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book,' ii. 53;
'You all pretend to love me, but you do not love me so well as
I myself do,' iv. 399, n. 6.
LUXURY. 'No nation was ever hurt by luxury,' ii. 218.
LYING. 'By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him, but
all comfort in his conversation,' iv. 178.
M.
MACHINE. 'If a man would rather be the machine I cannot argue with
him,' v. 117.
MADE DISH. 'As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was
a wretched attempt,' i. 469.
MADHOUSES. 'If you should search all the madhouses in England, you
would not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense,' iv.
170.
MADNESS. 'With some people gloomy penitence is only madness
turned upside down,' iii. 27.
MANKIND. 'As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,' iv. 239.
MANY. 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,' i. 396.
MARKET. 'A horse that is brought to market may not be bought,
though he is a very good horse,' iv. 172;
'Let her carry her praise to a better market,' iii. 293.
MARTYRDOM. 'Martyrdom is the test,' iv. 12.
MAST. 'A man had better work his way before the mast than read
them through,' iv. 308.
MEAL. 'He takes more corn than he can make into meal,' iv. 98.
MEANLY. 'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a
soldier, or not having been at sea,' iii. 265.
MEMORY. 'The true art of memory is the art of attention,' iv. 126,
n. 6.
MEN. 'Johnson was willing to take men as they are' (Boswell), iii. 282.
MERCHANT. 'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i.
491, n. 3.
MERIT. 'Like all other men who have great friends, you begin to
feel the pangs of neglected merit,' iv. 248.
MERRIMENT. 'It would be as wild in him to come into company without
merriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without his
pistols,' iii. 389.
MIGHTY. 'There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,' i. 422.
MILK. 'They are gone to milk the bull,' i. 444.
MILLIONS. 'The interest of millions must ever prevail over that of
thousands,' ii. 127.
MIND. 'A man loves to review his own mind,' iii. 228;
'Get as much force of mind as you can,' iv. 226;
'He fairly puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179;
'The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace
equally great things and small,' iii. 334;
'They had mingled minds,' iv. 308;
'To have the management of the mind is a great art,' ii. 440.
MISER. 'He has not learnt to be a miser,' v. 316.
MISERY. 'It would be misery to no purpose,' ii. 94;
'Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse
to the mention of it,' iv. 31.
MISFORTUNES. 'If a man _talks_ of his misfortunes, there is something
in them that is not disagreeable to him,' iv. 31.
MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319.
MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be a
a republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257.
MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182;
'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19;
'_Perhaps_ the money might be _found_, and he was _sure_ that
his wife was _gone_,' iv. 319;
'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed
than in getting money,' ii. 323;
'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400.
MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199.
MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having
been in the pillory,' iii. 315.
MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,'
ii. 230.
MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460.
MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only by
murder,' v. 93, n. 4.
N.
NAMES. 'I do not know which of them calls names best,' ii. 37;
'The names carry the poet, not the poet the names,' iii. 318.
NAP. 'I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a
bad night, and then the nap takes me,' ii. 407.
NARROWNESS. 'Occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness'
(Boswell), iv. 191.
NATION. 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life,'
v. 109, n. 6.
NATIONAL. 'National faith is not yet sunk so low,' iv. 21.
NATIVE PLACE. 'Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable
in his native place,' ii. 141.
NATURE. 'All the rougher powers of nature except thunder were in
motion,' iii. 455;
'You are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that
a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good
practice,' v. 359;
'Nature will rise up, and, claiming her original rights, overturn
a corrupt political system,' i. 424.
NECESSITY. 'As to the doctrine of necessity, no man believes it,'
iv. 329.
NECK. 'He gart Kings ken that they had a _lith_ in their neck'
(Lord Auchinleck), v. 382, n. 2;
'On a thirtieth of January every King in Europe would rise with a
crick in his neck' (Quin), v. 382, n. 2;
'If you have so many things that will break, you had better
break your neck at once, and there's an end on't,' iii. 153.
NEGATIVE. 'She was as bad as negative badness could be,' v. 231.
NEVER. 'Never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot
have it,' iv. 205.
NEW. 'I found that generally what was new was false' (Goldsmith),
iii. 376.
NEWSPAPERS. 'They have a trick of putting everything into the
newspapers,' iii. 330.
NICHOLSON. 'My name might originally have been Nicholson,' i. 439.
NINEPENCE. See DRAW.
No. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i. 166.
NON-ENTITY. 'A man degrading himself to a non-entity,' v. 277.
NONSENSE. 'A man who talks nonsense so well must know that he
is talking nonsense,' ii. 74;
'Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense,' ii. 78.
NOSE. 'He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose,
at the head of his army,' ii. 229.
NOTHING. 'Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state
of a degraded mind,' iv. 352;
'Sir Thomas civil, his lady nothing,' v. 449.
NOVELTIES. 'This is a day of novelties,' v. 120.
NURSE. 'There is nothing against which an old man should be so
much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse,' ii. 474.
O.
OBJECT. 'Nay, Sir, if you are born to object I have done with you,' v.
151.
OBJECTIONS. 'So many objections might be made to everything, that
nothing could overcome them but the necessity of doing something,'
ii. 128;
'There is no end of objections,' iii. 26.
OBLIVION. 'That was a morbid oblivion,' v. 68.
ODD. 'Nothing odd will do long,' ii. 449.
ON'T. 'I'll have no more on't,' iv. 300.
OPPRESSION. 'Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species
of oppression,' v. 82, n. 2.
ORCHARD. 'If I come to an orchard,' &c., ii. 96.
OUT. 'A man does not love to go to a place from whence he comes
out exactly as he went in,' iv. 90.
OUTLAW. 'Sir, he leads the life of an outlaw,' ii. 375.
OUT-VOTE. 'Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them,'
iii. 234.
OVERFLOWED. 'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii. 122.
OWL. 'Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owl
upon day,' iv. 312.
P.
PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.
PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread,
I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.
PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have
noticed you,' iv. 320.
PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being
a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
PAINTED. 'Hailes's _Annals of Scotland_ have not that painted form
which is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.
PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.
PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one
cottage is burning,' ii. 90.
PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not _pamper_ them,' iv. 133.
PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time and
space pant,' iv. 25.
PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.
PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but
the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice'
(Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.
PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers
and assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.
PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.
PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness
of parsimony,' iii. 317.
PARSONS. 'This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,' iv. 76.
PATRIOTISM. 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' ii. 348.
PATRIOTS. 'Patriots spring up like mushrooms' (Sir R. Walpole), iv.
87, n. 2;
'Don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87.
PATRON. 'The Patron and the jail,' i. 264.
PECCANT. 'Be sure that the steam be directed to thy _head,_ for
_that_ is the _peccant_ part,' ii. 100.
PEGGY. 'I cannot be worse, and so I'll e'en take Peggy,' ii. 101.
PELTING. 'No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting me
with pamphlets,' ii. 308.
PEN. 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand,
or more wise when he had,' iv. 29.
PEOPLE. 'The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminished
their people,' v. 300.
Per. _'Per mantes notos et flumina nota,'_ i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.
PERFECT. 'Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,'
iv. 338.
PERISH. 'Let the authority of the English government perish rather
than be maintained by iniquity,' ii. 121.
PETTY. 'These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,' i. 498.
PHILOSOPHER. 'I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but I
don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in' (O. Edwards),
iii. 305.
PHILOSOPHICAL. 'We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,....
but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,' v. 328.
_Philosophus. 'Magis philosophus quam Christianus,'_ ii. 127.
PHILOSOPHY. 'It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the
time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,' v. 114, n. 1.
PICTURE. 'Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I know
not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance
to sit for a picture,' iv. 4.
PIETY. 'A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll
beat you all at piety,' iv. 289.
PIG. 'Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,'
iv. 373;
'It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him
back by the tail,' v. 355.
PILLOW. 'That will do--all that a pillow can do,' iv. 411.
PISTOL. 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the
butt end of it' (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.
PITY. 'We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,'
iii. 11.
PLAYER. 'A player--a showman--a fellow who exhibits himself for a
shilling,' ii. 234.
PLEASANT. 'Live pleasant' (Burke), i. 344.
PLEASE. 'It is very difficult to please a man against his will,' iii. 69.
PLEASED. 'To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is
doing a very great thing,' iii. 328.
PLEASING. 'We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,' ii. 22.
PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327;
'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176;
'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,'
iii. 250;
'When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,' iii. 131.
_Plenum._ 'There are objections against a _plenum_ and objections
against a _vacuum_; yet one of them must certainly be true,' i. 444.
PLUME. 'This, Sir, is a new plume to him,' ii. 210.
POCKET. 'I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,' v. 145.
POCKETS. See above under IMMORTALITY.
POETRY. 'I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,' v. 35;
'There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,' iii. 374.
POINT. 'Whenever I write anything the public _make a point_ to know
nothing about it' (Goldsmith), iii. 252.
POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of
fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody
that stood in the way,' iii. 264.
POLITENESS. 'Politeness is fictitious benevolence,' v. 82.
POOR. 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test of
civilization,' ii. 130;
'Resolve never to be poor,' iv. 163.
PORT. 'It is rowing without a port,' iii. 255.
See CLARET.
