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  NABOBS, ii. 339, n. 2; v. 106. NAIL, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3. NAIRNE, Colonel, v. 69-70. NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan), accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62; to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386; praised by him, v. 53; and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3; mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5. NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2. Namby-Pamby, i. 179. NAMES, queer-sounding, iii. 76. NAMPTWICH, v. 432. NAP after dinner, ii. 407. NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, edition of Boswell, ii. 391, n. 4. NAPLES, iii. 19; v. 54. Naples, History of the Kingdom of, iv. 3, n. 3. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ii. 393, n. 7. NARES, Rev. Mr., iv. 389. NARROW place, how far the mind grows narrow in a, ii. 246 NARROWNESS in expenses, v. 345-6; a fit of narrowness, iv. 191. NASH, Alderman, iii. 460. NASH, Richard (‘Beau’), engages in a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 289, n. 1; ‘here comes a fool,’ i. 3, nn. 2, 3; 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.

 

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