Nairne, Colonel, ii. 304, 305.
Nash, Rev. Dr. Threadway, his 'History
of Worcestershire,' iv. 127 n. ; v. 197 n.
Beau, v. 188 n.

National debt, Johnson's notion respect-
ing it, i. 386.

faith, iv. 353.

Native place, love of, renewed in old age,
v. 19.

Natural affection, ii. 103; v. 91.
- equality of mankind, ii. 13 n.
goodness, ii. 432, 435.
right, iii. 302.

Near-sightedness, Johnson's, i. 14; iii.
286 n., 419; iv. 200, 384, 396.
Necessity, doctrine of, v. 237.
Needlework, iv. 374.

Negro, Johnson's argument in favour of
one claiming his liberty, iv. 54, 66, 507.
Nelson, Robert, his Festivals and Fasts,"
iii. 346.

Network,' Johnson's definition of, i. 279.
Newdigate, Sir Roger, ii. 60.

Newhaven, William Mayne, Lord, iv. 284.
-some account of, iv. 284 n.
Newspapers, ii. 165; iv. 361.
New Testament, iii. 65; iv. 156.
Newton, Sir Isaac, i. 466; ii. 514; iv.
355; v. 6, 6 n., 98.

Johnson's praise of, i. 384; ii. 270.
Lord King's Life' of, i. 466 n.

Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Bristol, v. 184,
184 n.

Johnson's character of, v. 184.

his character of Johnson, v. 184 n.
'Nice' people, iv. 374.

Nichols, Dr. Frank, iii. 230; iv. 12.

his discourse De Animâ Medicâ,'
iv. 12.

- Mr. John, i. 59; iv. 403, 409, 434 n.
Johnson's notes and letters to, iv. 403,
404 n.; v. 283, 299 n.
Johnson's character of his 'Anecdotes,'
v. 38.

some account of, v. 283.

his Literary Anecdotes' a storehouse
of facts and dates, v. 283 n.
Nicol, Mr. George, v. 141, 466.
Johnson's letter to, v. 280.

Nightcaps, ii. 495, 534.

'No, sir,' in what sense used by Johnson,
v. 212.

Nobility, i. 385; ii. 335; iv. 220, 486 n.
usurpation of the, v. 139.

'Noble Authors,' Park's edition of, i.
336 n.

Nollekens, Mr., iv. 63, 72, 72 n.

his bust of Johnson, iv. 63, 72.
'Nonjuror,' Cibber's play of the, iii. 196,
197 n.

Nonjurors, iii. 196; v. 185.

Nores, Jason de, his comments on Horace,
iii. 332.

Nores, Jason de, some account of, iii.
332 n.

North, Dudley, esq., iv. 444, 444 n., 453,
453 n., 456.

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- Frederick, Lord, ii. 122, 138; iii. 103,
207 n., 244 n., 524; iv. 74.

his letter, as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, in favour of John-
son, iii. 205.

North Pole, Johnson's conjectures respect-
ing, ii. 459.

Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 91; iii. 362,
362 n.

Nose of the mind,' sagacity the, v. 244.
Nourse, Mr., the bookseller, iii. 380 n.
Novels, i. 384; iv. 396.

Novelty, the paper on, in the Spectator,"
one of the finest pieces in the English
language, iii. 397.

Nowell, Rev. Dr., ii. 143 n.

his sermon before the Commons, v. 194.
Nugæ Antiquæ,' Harington's, v. 59.
Nugent, Robert, Lord, ii. 123 n.
'Nullum numen adest, ni sit Prudentia,'
iv. 19.

Numbers, science of, iii. 325.
Nuremberg Chronicle, iii. 156.
"Nuğ yag sexeta,' (for the night cometh,')
the motto on the dial-plate of Johnson's
watch, ii. 59.

0.

Oath of abjuration, profligate boast of its
framer, iii. 196 n.

impolicy and inefficacy of such tests,
iii. 197 n.

Oaths, i. 302; ii. 208; iii. 86, 405.

morality of taking, iii. 196 n.

'Oats,' Johnson's definition of, i. 280;
iii. 81 n., 349 n., 351; iv. 131.
Obedience, iv. 153.

Obscenity, always repressed in Johnson's
company, v. 195.

Observance of days and months, iii. 346.
Observer,' Cumberland's, iv. 435.
Occupation, iv. 31.

Occupations, hereditary, ii. 351.

O'Connor, Charles, esq., Johnson's letters
to, on his 'Dissertations on the History
of Ireland,' i. 311; iii. 476.

Odyssey, more interesting than the Æneid,

iv. 312, 417; v. 100.

Ofellus, in the Art of Living in London,'

who, i. 74.

Offely, Mr., a pupil of Johnson, i. 66.
Officers, military, their general ignorance,
iii. 94.

- respect paid to, iii. 375.

Ogden, Dr. Samuel, ii. 508; iv. 498.
— on prayer, ii. 273, 303.

his Sermons,' ii. 265, 322; iii. 20,
45; iv. 103.

Ogilvie, Dr. John, i. 434.

his Day of Judgment,' i. 437 n.
Oglethorpe, General, i. 97, 118; ii. 173,
174, 175, 178, 178 n.; iii. 225, 227,
227 n., 422; v. 49, 49 n., 50 n., 140,
484.

“Οι φίλοι, οι φίλος, ( he that has friends

has no friend') a phrase frequently
quoted by Johnson, i. 182; iv. 148, 258.
O'Kane, the Irish harper, iii. 9.

Old age, iv. 44, 110, 110 n., 197, 210,

353, 391; v. 60, 174.

Old Bailey dinners, iv. 202 n.
Oldfield, Dr., story of, iii. 423.
Oldham's imitation of Juvenal, i. 89.

Old men, folly of putting themselves to
nurse, iii. 364.

Oldmixon, John, i. 281 n.

Oldys, William, i. 129.

Omai, iii. 374 n.

Opera girls, v. 50.

Opie, John, his picture of Johnson, v. 251.
Opium, v. 50.

Johnson's use of, ii. 5.
Opposition, the, iv. 473.

Orange peels, use to which Johnson ap-
plied them, iii. 204.

Orator, Johnson's qualifications as an, ii.
126, 127.

Oratory, ii. 199; iv. 477; v. 83, 103.
Orchards, i. 391.

Ord, Mrs., a celebrated blue-stocking, iv.
305, 307, 319.

Orde, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 265.

Orford, Earl of, iv. 44 n.; v. 210.

his pictures, v. 243, 243 n.

Organ, iii. 211.

Origin of evil, iii. 61.

Original sin, iv. 498.

Orme, Mr., the Irishman, his character of

Orton's Life of Doddridge,' ii. 497.
Osborne, Mr. Francis, his works, ii. 186,
186 n.

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Thomas, the bookseller, i. 129, 133;
iv. 211.

Ossian, poems of, their merit and authen-
ticity discussed, i. 385, 405; ii. 280,
280 n., 395, 464, 559; iii. 83, 84,
167, 170, 176, 184, 185, 187, 222;
v. 13, 61, 142.

Ostervald's Sacred History,' ii. 42 n.
Otaheite, inhabitants of, iii. 414.
'Othello,' morality of the tragedy of, iii.
404.

Otway, Thomas, his pathetic powers, ii.

127; iv. 352, 352 n.,

Oughton, Sir Adolphus, ii. 279, 279 n., ́
355.

Ouran-outang, ii. 281.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, ii. 78.

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his defence of the Christian revelation,
ii. 423 n.

Palmer, Rev. John, his Answer' to
Priestley on Philosophical Necessity,
iv. 150 n.

Rev. Thomas Fysche, iv. 500.

some account of, iv. 500.

Palmerino d'Inghilterra, a romance
praised by Cervantes, iii. 367.

Palmerston, Henry Temple, second Vis-
count, v. 114.

Palmira, iv. 369.

Palsy, Johnson's attack of, v. 109, 110,
111, 112.

Pamphlet, iv. 178, 178 n.

Pamphlets, Johnson's, i. 361 n.; iii. 190.
Panegyrick, iii. 521.

Pantheon, in Oxford-street, ii. 163.
Panting, Dr. Matthew, i. 42.

Paoli, General, ii. 73, 82, 159, 183, 212,

245; iii. 148, 399, 520; iv. 183, 235,
263, 288, 475; v. 98, 123 n., 145.
Papier maché, iii. 157.

Papists, v. 188.

Paradise, John, esq., i. 34 n. ; iv. 258; v.
22 n., 104, 145, 279.

- some account of, v. 279 n.
Johnson's letter to, v. 279.
Parallel, Johnson's readiness at finding a,
iv. 6.

Parental authority, iv. 247.

Parentheses, Johnson's objection to, v. 68.
Parents, iv. 380, 383:

Paris, state of society in, iv. 109.

Johnson's tour to, iii. 36.
Parish clerk, his necessary qualifications,
iv. 500.

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his habit of drinking to excess, iii. 521.
Parr, Rev. Dr. Samuel, iv. 415; v. 123 n.
Johnson's opinion of his conversation,
iv. 347.

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- recommended by Johnson to the mas-
tership of the Norwich grammar school,
iv. 347 n.

- his description of Mrs. Sheridan, the
author of Sydney Biddulph,' i. 348 n.
anecdotes of Johnson by, v. 414.

his epitaph on Johnson, v. 355, 356 n.
Parson, the life of a, iv. 163.

Party, necessity of sticking to, ii. 272.
Party opposition, iii. 525.

Passion week, iv. 462.

Passions, the, iii. 403.

'Pastern,' Johnson's wrong definition of,
i. 279, 368.

Paten, Rev. Dr. Thomas, v. 40.

Johnson's letter to, v. 40 n.

-some account of, v. 40 n.

Pater Noster, ii. 353.

Paternity, iv. 118.

Paterson, Mr. Samuel, author of 'Coriat,

Junior,' ii. 169, 169 n.; iii. 454 n.; v.
108, 163 n.

Paterson, Mr. Samuel, his son, v. 163.
'Patriot,' a political pamphlet by John-
son, iii. 162, 165, 393.
Patriotism, iii. 525.

Johnson's definition of, iii. 223.
Patriots, self-styled, iv. 461.
Patronage, ii. 294; v. 51.

-lay, Johnson's argument in defence of,
ii. 229, 546.

Paul, Sir George Onesiphorus, iii. 17 n.
Payne, Mr. William, Johnson's Preface
to his work on 'Draughts,' i. 305; v.
143.

Pearce, Dr. Zachary, Bishop of Rochester,
i. 278; iii. 334, 476.

Johnson's dedication to his Posthumous
Works, iii. 477.

- curious anecdote of, iii. 477 n.

supplied Johnson with some etymolo-
gies for his Dictionary, i. 278.
Pearson, Rev. Mr., iii. 361, 361 m.; iv.
241; v. 115.

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Mrs., of Lichfield, i. 175 n.; iii. 340,
361 n., 498; v. 72 n.

Pecuniary embarrassment, evil of, v. 33.
-profit, the only genuine motive to
writing, i. 113.

Peel, Right Honourable Robert, iii. 21 #,
344 n.

Peerages, great inaccuracy of, as to dates,
iv. 307 n.

Peers, House of, ii. 335.

- judicial powers of the, iv. 213.

influence of, in the House of Commons,
ii. 292.

Peers of Scotland, their interference in

elections of the Commons, v. 138, 139.
Peiresc, his death lamented in forty lan-
guages, iii. 246.

Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick's
Ode on the Death of, i. 256.
Pellet, Dr., iv. 216.

Pembroke, Lord, his description of John-
son's conversation, ii. 256.
Penance in church, ii. 429.
Penitence, gloomy, only madness turned
upside down, iii. 392.
Penmean Mawr, iii. 146.

Penn, Governor Richard, iv. 324 n.
Pennant, Mr., ii. 387, 443; iii. 134 n.,

222, 491; iv. 127.

his Tour in Scotland, iv. 128, 130.
his merit as a zoologist, iv. 131.

his London,' iv. 131,

his character of Johnson, iv. 131.

'Pensées' de Pascal, iv. 250.

135,

Pepys, William Waller, esq., his letters
to Mrs. Montagu respecting Johnson's
Life of Lord Lyttleton, v. 224.
Perceval, Lady Catherine, iii. 149 n.
Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore, i. 24, 26,
43, 114, 166, 494, 499; ii .64, 65,
123, 342, 480; iii. 248 n., 340 n.,
342; iv. 3 n., 5 n., 127, 134, 135,
170, 233, 204 n., 301, 325 n., 472.

difference between Johnson and, iv.
127, 132.

heir male of the ancient Percies, iv.
127, 127 n.

Johnson's character of, iv. 134.
forms a sermon out of Johnson's fourth
Idler, iv. 135.

Johnson's ludicrous parody on his
'Hermit of Warkworth,' iv. 136.

- Mrs., iii. 127; iv. 511.

· Peregrinity,' ii. 361.

Perfection, to be aimed at, v. 248.

Perkins, Mr., the brewer, iii. 162 n.; iv.
452, 455, 492.

-Johnson's letters to, iii. 162; v. 31,
148.

Peruvian bark, v. 192.
Peter the Great, ii. 473.

Peterborough, Earl of, iv. 418 n.; v. 243.
Peters, Mr., iii. 364.

Petitions, facility of getting them up, ii.
90.

Petty, Sir William, iv. 335.

Peyton, Mr., Johnson's amanuensis, i.
161, 162; ii. 146, 147, 184; iii.
252 n.

Philips, the musician, Johnson's epitaph
on, i. 119.

Cyder,' a poem, ii. 312.

Miss, the singer, afterwards Mrs.
Crouch, v. 107, 107 n.

Philosophers, ancient, their good-humour
in disputation accounted for, iii. 376.
Philosophical necessity, iv. 150, 150 n.
- Transactions,' ii. 39.

'Picture,' Massinger's play of the, iv.

281.

Pig, the learned, v. 289.

Pilgrim's Progress,' ii. 226; iv. 377.
'Pindar,' West's translation of, iv. 359.
Pinkerton, v. 238.

Piozzi, Mrs., i. 5, 10, 39 n., 62, 165,
186 n., 214 n., 428 n., 508, 509, 512;
ii. 181 n., 469 n.; iii. 125 n., 141 n.,
149 n.,
159 n., 202 n., 239 n., 240,
370, 408, 413 n.; iv. 77 n.,
85 N.
321 n., 328, 360, 365, 377 n., 378 n.,
381 n., 386 n., 468; v. 249, 252, 254,
255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261, 267,
307, 423. See Thrale.

- her Three Warnings,' i. 511.

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commencement and progress of John-
son's acquaintance with, 512.

receives 5001. for her collection of John-
son's letters, ii. 42 n.

- Johnson's letters to, ii. 43, 60, 70,
118, 131, 132, 191, 193, 197; iii. 249,
252, 253, 260, 359, 392, 442, 443,
444, 460; iv. 1, 59, 61, 202, 230,
245, 267, 274, 275, 283, 288, 296,
302, 304, 306, 308, 312, 319, 320,
324, 458, 460; v. 8, 26, 30, 98, 99,
108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118,
128, 133, 144, 159.

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her letters to Johnson, iii. 257; iv.
305, 308; v. 182, 249.

bequeaths her patrimonial estate to a
foreigner, to the exclusion of her own
children, iii. 135 n.

her description of the regatta, iii. 257.
Baretti's strictures on her marriage
with Piozzi, iii. 413 n.

Johnson's verses on her birthday, iii.
463.

her miserable mésalliance, v. 249 n.,
251, 252 n.

Boswell's proneness to distrust her cha-
racter, iv. 81 n., 85, 97, 97 n.; V.
254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261,
307.

- her handwriting an almost perfect spe-
cimen of calligraphy, iv. 404.

anecdotes of Johnson by, v. 422 n.
her poetical character of Johnson, v.
427.

- her Collectanea of Johnson's sayings,
iv. 365.

Piozzi, Signor, v. 249, 249 n.

Pitcairne, his Latin poetry, ii. 293.
Pitt, Right Hon. William, first Earl of
Chatham, i. 100; ii. 188, 215; iii. 34;
v. 213.

Pitt, Right Hon. William, his son, v. 154,
159, 192, 282 n.

Johnson's expectation from, v. 159 n.
Pitt and Fox, v. 192.
Pitts, Rev. John, v. 60 n.
Pity, i. 451.

Place-hunters, iv. 90.

Plagiary, Sir Fretful, character of, intended
for Mr. Cumberland, ii. 197 n.
'Plain Dealer,' i. 131, 150.

Planting, iv. 58.

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in Scotland, era of, iii. 100.

in Scotland, spur given to, by John-
son's Journey to the Western Islands,'
iii. 466.

Players, i. 143, 144, 175, 411; ii. 91,
223, 273, 281, 356; iii. 289, 310, 352;
iv. 35, 119, 339.

Pleasure, iii. 119, 554; iv. 100, 151,
260.

Pleasures, necessary to intellectual health,
iv. 371.

-no man a hypocrite in his, v. 212.

Pleasures of the Imagination,' Aken-
side's, i. 349.

Plott's History of Staffordshire,' iv. 40.
Plunkett, Lord, iii. 241 n.

Pococke, Dr. Richard, iv. 124 n.; v.
63.

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Essay on Man,' iv. 277.

his knowledge of Greek, iv. 277.

his Grotto, iv. 340, 340 n.

his Preface' to Shakspeare, iv. 411 n.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 413.

-Johnson's character of his poetry, iv.
193, 414.

his limited conversational powers, iv.

417.

his Universal Prayer,' iv. 213.

Lewis's verses to, v. 203, 203 n.
Pope, Dr. Walter, his 'Old Man's Wish,'
iv. 350.

Popery, i. 214; ii. 105, 108.
Population, ii. 103, 264; iv. 87.
Porridge-Island, iv. 381, 381 n.

Porter, Mrs., afterwards Johnson's wife,
i. 5, 12, 63, 64, 68.

Porter, Miss Lucy, i. 5, 12, 13, 55 n.,
59, 59 n., 215, 326, 342, 351, 372,
435, 498; ii. 3, 61, 68, 117, 131; iii.
252, 356, 361 n.; iv. 62, 72, 290,
295; v. 116, 131.

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Johnson's letters to, i. 175, 326, 327,
328, 329, 330, 340, 342, 351, 435,
440, 498; iii. 263, 266, 267, 350; iv.
62, 72, 238, 241, 266, 303, 463; v.
1, 14, 112, 114, 133, 137, 154, 157,
167, 303.

Mrs., the actress, v. 131.
Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of Chester,
afterwards Bishop of London, iv. 137,
290, 293 n., 361, 446, 462 n.
Portland, Lady Margaret, Duchess Dow-
ager of, iv. 310.

some account of, iv. 310 n.
Portrait, Mr. Beauclerk's inscription on
the frame of Johnson's, v. 59, 59 n.
Portrait-painting, an improper employ-
ment for a woman, iii. 237.
Portraits, ii. 441.

Portraits of Dr. Johnson, list of the va-
rious, v. 353 n., 378.
Possibilities, ii. 281.

Post-chaise travelling, iii. 339, 370; iv.
9, 10.
Posterity, iii. 302.

Pott, Archdeacon, his Sermons, iii. 346.
Potter, Rev. Dr. Robert, iv. 4, 4 n.

Johnson's parody on his verses, iv. 4.
his translation of Eschylus, iv. 113.
Poverty, i. 454; iv. 375; v. 25, 29, 33,
36, 42, 266.

Power, despotic, iv. 141, 164.
Power of the Crown, ii. 165.

Praise, ii. 51; iv. 80, 132, 363, 381, 453,
455; v. 172.

– indiscriminate, iv. 260.

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