a pen his torpedo, i. 159, n. 4;
put down smoking at Bath, v. 60, n. 2.
NASH, Rev. Dr.,
_History of _Worcestershire_, i. 75, n. 3; iii. 271, n. 5.
NATION, state of common life, v. 109, n. 6.
NATIONAL CHARACTER, no permanence in, ii. 194.
NATIONAL DEBT, ii. 127; iii. 408, n. 4.
NATIONAL FAITH, iv, 21.
NATIVE PLACE, love of one's, iv. 147.
NATIVES. See under INDIANS and SAVAGES.
NATURAL HISTORY, iii. 273.
_Natural History_. See GOLDSMITH, Oliver, _Animated Nature_.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ii. 55.
NATURE, Boswell's want of relish for its beauties, i. 461;
all men envious and thieves by nature, iii. 271;
state of nature, iii. 49; v. 88.
See under SAVAGES.
_Nature Displayed_, iv. 311.
_Navigation_, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362.
_Navvy_, iii. 362, n. 5.
NEANDER, ii. 274.
NECESSITY, an eternal, v. 47.
See under FREE WILL.
NECKER, Mme., Garrick's _Hamlet_, v. 38, n. 2.
NEGROES. See SLAVES.
NEGROES,--law-cases. See KNIGHT, Joseph, and SOMERSET, James.
NELSON, Robert, Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458; iv. 311;
friend of Archibald Campbell, v. 357; the
original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3.
NENI, Count, iii. 35.
NERO, ii. 255, n. 4.
NERVES, weak, iv. 280.
NETHERLANDS, Johnson's projected tour, i. 470; iii. 454;
Temple's account of the drinking, iii. 330.
_Network_, defined, i. 294.
NEUFCHATEL, ii. 215.
_New Bath Guide_, i. 388, n. 3.
NEW FLOODGATE IRON, iv. 193.
NEW PLACE, effects of a, iii. 128.
_New Protestant Litany_, i. 176, n. 2.
NEW SOUTH WALES, iv. 125, n. 1.
_New Testament_, most difficult book in the world, iii. 298.
NEW ZEALAND, iii. 49.
NEWBERY, Francis,
bookseller, and dealer in quack medicines, v. 30, n. 3;
Johnson's advice to him about a fiddle, iii. 242, n. 1.
NEWBERY, John, the bookseller,
children's books, iv. 8, n. 3;
Goldsmith's publisher, iii. 100, n. 1; v. 30, n. 3;
James's powder, vendor of, iii. 4, n. 1
'Jack Whirler' of The Idler, v. 30, n. 3;
Johnson's debts to him, i. 350, n. 3;
publishes his Idler, i. 330, 335, n. 1;
The World Displayed, i. 345.
NEWCASTLE, famous townsmen, v. 16, n. 4;
Johnson passes through it, ii. 264, 266; v. 16;
story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394.
NEWCASTLE, first Duke of, i. 151.
NEWCASTLE, second Duke of, iv. 63.
NEWCASTLE FLY, ii. 377, n. 1.
NEWCASTLE ship-master, a, v. 312.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE, iii. 135, n. 1.
NEWCOME, Colonel (in The Newcomes), ii. 300, n. 3.
NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, iii. 203, n. 1.
NEWHALL, Lord, iii. 151.
NEWHAVEN, Lord, iii. 407-8.
NEWMAN, Cardinal,
Johnson's truthfulness, iv. 305, n. 3;
Oxford about the year 1770, ii. 445, n. 1.
NEWMARKET, i. 383, n. 3.
NEWMARSH, Captain, v. 134.
NEWPORT School in Shropshire, i. 50, 132, n. 1.
NEWSPAPERS,
booksellers, governed by the, v. 402, n. l;
everything put into them, iii. 79, 330;
knowledge diffused, ii. 170;
Macpherson's 'supervision,' ii. 307, n. 4;
in the time of the Usurpation, v. 366;
whole world informed, ii. 208.
NEWSWRITERS, ii. 170, n. 3; iii. 267, n. 1.
NEWTON, Sir Isaac,
_Arguments in Proof of a Deity_, i. 309;
a worthy carman will get to heaven as well as he, iii. 288;
Bentley's verses, mentioned in, iv. 23, n. 3;
free from singularities, ii. 74, n, 3;
house in St. Martin's Street, iv. 134;
infidelity, reported early, i. 455;
Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 125;
Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287;
mathematical knowledge unequalled, iv. 217;
poet, as a, v. 35;
'stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1.
NEWTON, John, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's,
_Account of his own Life_, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1;
censures Johnson, iv. 285, n. 3;
Johnson's retaliation, iv. 285-6;
_Dissertation on the Prophecies_, iv. 286;
mentioned, i. 79, n. 2.
NEWTON, John, of Lichfield, father of the Bishop, i. 79, n. 2.
NEWTON, Rev. John,
engaged in the slave trade, iii. 203, n. 1;
Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1.
NEWTON, Dr., i. 227, n. 3.
NEWTON, Mr., of Lichfield, v. 428.
NICCOLSON, of Scorbreck, v. 195.
NICHOLS, Dr. Frank,
_De Anima Medica_, iii. 163;
physician to the King, turned out by Lord Bute, ii. 354;
rule of attendance as a physician, iii. 164.
NICHOLS, John,
account of him, iv. 437;
_Anecdotes of William Bowyer, iv. 161, 369, 437;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 437, 438;
_Gent. Mag_., edits, i. 90, n. 4; iv. 437;
Johnson, anecdotes of, iv. 407, n. 4;
funeral, invitation card to, iv. 419, n. 1;
and Henderson the actor, iv. 244, n. 2;
last days, iv. 407-10; v. 69, n. 1;
letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters;
spells his name wrongly, iv. 36, n. 4;
_Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century_, iv. 369, n. 1, 437;
Thirlby, memoir of, iv. 161, n. 4;
Tyers and _The Idler_, iii. 308, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 84, n. 3, 99, 102, n. 2, 135, 231, n. 2; iv. 359.
NICHOLSON ----, an advocate, v. 213.
NICKNAMES, i. 385, n. 1.
NICOL, George, the bookseller, iv. 251;
letter from Johnson, iv. 365.
NICOLAIDA, ii. 379.
NIDIFICATION, ii. 249.
NIGHT-CAPS, v. 268-9, 306.
_Night Thoughts_. See YOUNG.
NILE, a waterfall on it, i. 88, n. 2.
NISBET, Rev. Mr., v. 73.
NISBET, ----, an advocate, v. 213.
NISBETT, Sir John, iii. 205, n. 1.
NITROGEN, discovery of, iv. 237, n. 6.
_No Sir_,
as used by Johnson, ii. 452; iii. 70, 178, 185, 304;
explained by Boswell, iv. 315.
NOBILITY,
fortune-seeking, ii. 126;
respect due to them, i. 447; iv. 114;
in virtue above the average, iii. 353;
unconstitutional influence in elections, iv. 248, 250.
NOBLE, Mark, _Memoirs of Cromwell_, iv. 236, n. 1.
NOBLE AUTHORS, iv. 113-5.
NOBLEMAN, an indolent Scotch, iv. 87.
NODOT, Abbe, iii. 286, n. 2.
NOLLEKENS, Joseph, iii. 219, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2.
NOLLEKENS, Mrs., iii. 217.
NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357;
Cibber's _Nonjuror_, applicable to them, ii. 321;
comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii. 321-2;
could not reason, iv. 286-8;
Falconer, Bishop, iii. 371-2;
Johnson never in one of their meeting-houses, iv. 288.
_Nonpareil_, v. 414, n. 2.
NORBURY PARK, iv. 43.
NORES, Jason de, ii. 444.
NORFOLK, militia, i. 307, n. 4;
sale of the _Rambler_ in the county, i. 208, n. 3;
mentioned, iv. 134.
_Norfolk Prophecy_, i. 143.
NORRIS,--, a staymaker, i. 103.
NORTH, Dudley. See LONG.
NORTH, Frederick, Lord (second Earl of Guilford),
Coalition Ministry, iv. 223, n. I;
Conciliatory Propositions, iii. 221;
_Falkland's Islands_, stops the sale of, ii. 136;
Fox's dismissal from the Treasury, ii. 274, n. 7;
Gibbon, admired by, v. 269, n. 1;
humour, v. 409;
Johnson, fear of, as an M.P., ii. 137, n. 3;
no friend to, ii. 147;
goes to his house, v. 248;
proposes the degree of LL.D. for, ii. 318, n. 1;
writes to the Vice-Chancellor, ii. 331;
King's agent, merely the, ii. 355, n. i;
Macdonald, Mr., abused by, v. 153, n. 1;
ministry: See under MINISTRIES;
subscription to the Articles, upholds, ii. 150, n. 7;
Thurlow's hatred of him, iv. 349, n. 3.
_North Briton_, essay by Chatterton, iii. 201, n. 3;
Johnson's definitions, i. 295, n. 1.
See under WILKES.
NORTH POLE, voyage to the, v. 236.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, v. 295.
NORTHCOTE, James, Boswell's self-reproach, v. 129, _i_ 1;
Goldsmith and _Cross-Readings_, iv. 322, n. 2;
Goldsmith on entering a room, i. 413, n. 2;
Johnson's character of Mudge, iv. 77, n. 1;
Johnson's interview with George III, ii. 42, n. 2;
Lowe the painter, iv. 202, n. 1;
Pulteney's oratory, i. 152, n. 3;
Reynolds appointed painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2;
dinner-parties, iv. 312, n. 3;
influence in the Academy, iv. 219, n. 4;
and Mrs. Siddons, iv. 242, n. 2;
use of 'Sir,' i. 245, n. 3;
visit to Devonshire, i. 377, n. 1;
Reynolds's, Miss, pictures, iv. 229, n. 4;
sees _She Stoops to Conquer_, ii. 233, n. 3.
NORTHEND, iv. 28, n. 7.
NORTHINGTON, Lord Chancellor, i. 45, n. 4.
NORTHINGTON, second Earl of, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1783, iv. 200.
NORTHUMBERLAND, a breed of reindeer, ii. 168, n. 1;
plantations of trees, iii. 272;
price of corn in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2.
NORTHUMBERLAND, first Duke of,
_Capability_ Brown his guest, iii. 400, n. 2;
Dr. Mounsey at his table, ii. 64;
Goldsmith's visionary project, iv. 22, n. 3;
Irish vice-roy, ii. 132; iv. 22, n. 3;
Johnson, civility to, iii. 272, n. 3; iv. 117, n. 1.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Elizabeth Duchess of,
Batheaston Vase, writes for the, ii. 337;
Boswell boasts of her acquaintance, iii. 271, n. 5;
Cock Lane Ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n, 1.
NORTHUMBERLAND, eighth Earl of, v. 403, n. 2.
NORTHUMBERLAND, Earls of, Dr. Percy's descent from them, iii. 271, n. 5.
NORTON, Sir Fletcher, first Lord Grantley,
account of him, ii. 472, n. 1;
his ignorance, ii. 91.
NORWAY, i. 425; ii. 103; v. 100, n. 1.
_Nose_ of the mind, iv. 335.
_Notes and Queries_,
Athenian blockhead, i. 73, n. 3;
Bowles, William, of Heale, iv. 235, n. 5;
Brooke's _Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5;
Ford family, will and pedigree, i. 49, n. 3;
Johnson's calculations about walling a garden, iv. 205, n. 1;
house in Bolt Court, ii. 427, n. 1;
letter on having a stroke of palsy, reprint of, iv. 229, n. 2;
(for his other letters to Hector, Taylor, &c., See under JOHNSON,
letters);
marriage register, i. 95, n. 2;
and Maty, i. 284, n. 3;
tutor to Mr. Whitby, i. 84, n. 2;
Johnson, Michael,
publishes Floyer's [Greek: Pharmako-basanos] i. 36, n. 3;
his marriage, i. 35, n. 1;
Johnson, Nathanael, i. 90, n. 3;
Langton's _navigation_, ii. 136, n. 2;
Pembroke College _Gaudy_, i. 273, n. 2;
_solution of continuity_, iii. 419, n. 1;
Swift 'a shallow fellow,' v. 44, n. 3;
Taylor's, Dr., separation from his wife, i. 472, n. 4.
NOTTINGHAM,
described by Hutton in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
fair, iii. 207, n. 3;
a learned pig, iv. 373.
NOURSE, the bookseller, iii. 15, n. 2.
_Nouveau Tableau de Paris_, ii. 366, n. 2.
NOVA ZEMBLA, v. 392.
NOVALIS, iii. 11, n. 1.
NOVELTY,
boys' restless desire for it, iii. 385;
paper on it in _The Spectator_, iii. 33;
Rousseau's love of it, i. 441;
Goldsmith, ib., n. 1; iii. 376.
NOVEMBER THE FIFTH, Johnson's verses on it, i. 60.
NOWELL, Dr.,
Boswell and Johnson dine with him, iv. 295;
fast sermon on Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; iv. 296.
NOYON, ii. 400.
_Nugae Antiquae_, iv. 180.
NUGENT, Colonel, ii. 136, n. 5.
NUGENT, Dr., account of him, i. 477, n. 4;
member of the Literary Club, i. 477; ii. 17, 240;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108.
_Nullum numen adest_, &c., iv. 180.
NUMBERS, science of. See ARITHMETIC and MATHEMATICS.
NUNCOMAR, iv. 70, n. 2.
_Nuremberg Chronicle_, v. 456.
NURSE, putting oneself to, ii. 474.
'Nux gar erchetai,'[Greek] ii. 57.
NUYS, iii. 235, n. 1.
O.
OAKES, Mrs., i. 407, n. 3.
OAKOVER, v. 429-30.
OATHS,
abjuration, oath of, ii. 220, 321, n. 4;
examination under oath, v. 390;
imposition of oaths, ii. 321, n. 4.
See SWEARING.
OATS,
defined, i. 294; iv. 168;
oat-ale, ii. 463;
oat-cakes eaten in Lichfield, ii. 463;
oatmeal eaten dry, v. 308;
'they who feed on it are barbarians,' v. 406.
OBEDIENCE, iii. 294.
OBJECTIONS may be made to everything, ii. 128; iii. 26.
OBLIGATIONS,
moral and ritual, ii. 376;
perfect and imperfect, ii. 250;
Reynolds's reflection on gaining freedom from them, i. 246.
OBLIVION, iv. 27, n. 5;
morbid, v. 68.
O'BRIEN, William, the actor,
described by Walpole, iv. 243, n. 6;
his marriage, ii. 328, n. 3.
OBSCENITY, repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295.
OBSERVANCE OF DAYS, ii. 458.
_Observations on Diseases of the Army_, iv. 176, n. 1.
_Observations on his Britanick Majesty's Treaties, &c_., i. 308.
_Observations on the Present State of Affairs_, i. 308, 310.
_Observer, The_, iv. 64.
OBSTINACY, must be overcome, ii. 184.
OCCUPATION, iii. 180;
hereditary, v. 120.
O'CONNOR, Charles, Johnson's letters to him, i. 321; iii. 111.
OCTAVIA, iv. 446.
ODD, nothing odd will do long, ii. 449.
ODE, Goldsmith's account of one, iv. 13.
_Ode, Ad Urbanum_, i. 113.
_Ode, An_, i. 178.
_Ode, In Theatre_, ii. 324, n. 3.
_Ode on Solitude_, iii. 197.
_Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,_ i. 420.
_Ode on the British Nation_, iv. 442.
_Ode on the Peace_, iv. 282.
_Ode on Winter_, i. 182.
_Ode to Friendship_, i. 158.
_Ode to Melancholy_, i. 122, n. 4.
_Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, a caricature, iv. 387.
_Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, written in Sky, v. 158.
_Ode to the Warlike Genius of Britain_, iii. 374.
_Ode upon the Isle of Sky_, v. 155.
_Odes. See_ CIBBER, COLLEY, and GRAY, Thomas.
_Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion_, ii. 334.
ODIN, iii. 274.
ODYSSEY. See HOMER.
_Oedipus Tyrannus_,
Johnson's preface to Maurice's translation, iii. 370, n. 2.
_Ofellus_, i. 104.
OFFELY, Mr., i. 97.
OFFICER. See SOLDIER.
OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, _Sermons_,
Boswell edified by them, v. 29;
caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1;
Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248;
tries to, v. 29, 88;
prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350;
on original sin, iv. 123, n. 3;
on prayer, v. 38, 58, 68, 282, 325;
quotation from one, v. 351.
OGILBY, John, i. 55.
OGILVIE, Dr. John,
_Poems_, i. 421, 423, n. 1;
praises Scotland, i. 425.
OGILVY, Sir James, v. 227, n. 4.
OGLETHORPE, General,
account of him, i. 127, n. 4, 128, n. 1;
Belgrade, siege of, ii. 181;
birth, ii. 180, n. 2;
Boswell and the Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1;
to Shebbeare, introduces, iv. 112;
communicates particulars of his life to, ii. 351 n. 3;
Caligula and the Senate, iii. 283;
dinners at his house, ii. 179, 217, 232, 350; iii. 52, 282;
v. 138, n. 1;
duelling, defends, ii. 179;
father, his, iv. 171;
Georgia, colonises, i. 127, n. 4;
Johnson's _London_, patronises, i. 127;
visits, iv. 170;
willing to write his _Life_, ii. 351;
luxury, declaims against, iii. 282;
'never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57;
Pope's lines on him, i. 127, n. 4;
Prendergast and Sir J. Friend, ii. 182;
Prince of Wirtemberg and the glass of wine, ii. 180;
vivacity and knowledge, iii. 56;
Wesley, Charles, ill-uses, i. 127, n. 4.
OGLETHORPE, Mr., ii. 272.
'O'HARA, you are welcome,' v. 263.
OIL OF VITRIOL, ii. 155;
Johnson's, v. 15, n. 1.
O'KANE, the harper, v. 315.
OKERTON, i. 194, n. 2.
OLD AGE, desirable, how far, iv. 156;
evils, its, iii. 337;
memory, failure of, iii. 191;
men less tender in old age, v. 240, n. 2;
mind growing torpid, iii. 254;
_senectus_, iii. 344.
OLD BAILEY, _Sessional Reports_,
Baretti's trial, ii. 97, n. 1;
Bet Flint's, iv. 103, n. 3;
contain 'strong facts,' ii. 65.
_Old Man's Wish, The_, iv. 19.
OLD MEN, loss of the companions of their youth, iii. 217;
putting themselves to nurse, ii. 474;
supposed to be decayed in intellect, iv. 181.
