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.