Nores, Jason de, his comments on
! Horace, vi. 74 n.
North, Dudley, viii. 48 n. 56 n.
North, Frederick, Lord, iii. 153. 171.;
v. 163. 270. 316.; vii. 46.
North Pole, Johnson's conjectures re-
specting, vi. 128.
Norton, Sir Fletcher, iii. 92.; vi. Oglethorpe, General, i. 140 n.; iii.
110 n.
Ogden, Dr. Samuel, v. 6. ; viii. 103 n.
On prayer, iv. 30. 66. His Sermons,
iv. 19. 88.; v. 61. 91.; vii. 79.
Ogilvie, Dr. John, ii. 202. His' Day
of Judgment,' ii. 206 n.
215. 217, 218. 220, 221 n.; v. 294.
296 n.; vi. 173. 179.; vii. 123, 124.;
viii. 90. 158, 159.
‘Οἳ φιλοι, ον φίλος,’“ he that has
friends has no friend,') a phrase fre-
quently quoted by Johnson, i. 240. ;
vii. 132 n. 261.
Nourse, Mr., bookseller, vi. 130.
Novelty, paper on, in the 'Spectator,'
vi. 151.
Nowell, Rev. Dr., iii. 178.; viii. 298,
299.
'Nugæ Antiquæ,' Harington's, viii.
170.
Officers, military, v. 151.; vi. 124. ; ix.
55.
O'Kane, Irish harper, v. 48.
Old age, vii. 10. 88, 88 n. 193. 203. 369. ;
viii. 171. 275.; ix. 91. 212.
Old Bailey dinners, vii. 192 n.
Old English divines, ix. 137. 247..
Old friendships, ix. 121.
Oldfield, Dr., vi. 180.
Oldham's imitation of Juvenal, i. 130.
Old men, folly of putting themselves
to nurse, vi. 112.
Oldmixon, John, ii. 49.
Oldys, William, i. 176. 202.
Omai, vi. 123.
Opera girls, viii. 160.
Opinion, ix. 68.
Opinion of the world, ix. 88. 135.
Opium, viii. 159.
Orange peels, v. 269.
Oratory, iii. 248.; viii. 81. 197.
Ord, Mrs., vii. 315 n. 319. 332.
Orde, Lord Chief Baron, iv. 19.
Orford, Earl of, vii. 10 n.; viii. 317.
337 n.
Organ, v. 276.
Origin of evil, v. 111.
Original sin, viii. 103.; ix. 208.
Orme, Mr., his character of Johnson's
'Journey,' v. 162 n. 233 n. His
eulogy on Johnson, vii. 126.
Ormond, James, second Duke of, iv.
149.
Orrery, John, fifth Earl of, iv. 259.
Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, i. 214.
289.; ii. 51.; vii. 81. 163.; viii. 8.
163.
Orton's Life of Doddridge,' iv. 303.
Osborne, Francis, his works, iii. 229 n.
Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller, i.
176. 181.; vii. 204.; x. 96.
Ossian, ii. 168.; iii. 141.; iv. 37. 178.
F
262, 263, 264, 265. 327.; v. 138, 139.
227. 234, 235, 236. 243, 244. 247. 290.;
viii. 125. 173.; ix. 94.
Ostervald's' Sacred History,' iii. 28.
Otaheite, vi. 170.
'Othello,' vi. 159.
Otway, Thomas, vii. 368, 368 n.
Oughton, Sir Adolphus, iv. 36, 37.
130.
Ouran-outang, iv. 39. 273.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, iii. 76. ; vi.
247.
Overall, Bishop, v. 100.
Oxford University, advantages of, iii.
42.; ix. 9.; x. 26.
Oxford, Earl of, his library, i. 176.
Palaces, vi. 8.
Paley, Dr., iv. 211, 212.
Palmer, Rev. John, on Philosophical
Necessity, vii. 135.
P.
Pagan mythology, vii. 363.
Painters, vii. 120.
Painting, ii. 131 n. ; vi. 68. ; ix. 39. 139. Patronage, iv. 55.; viii. 160.
169. 211.
Palmer, Rev. Thomas Fysche, viii.
104, 105 n.
'Palmerino d'Inghilterra,' vi. 115.
Palmerston, Henry Temple, second
Viscount, viii. 225.
Parker, Sackville, bookseller, viii. 310.
Parkhurst, Rev. Mr., letter from Dr.
Dodd to, vii. 121.
Parliament, iii. 73. 131.; iv. 52.; v.
300.; vii. 26. 46. 89. 124. 292.; viii.
48. 82. 215.; ix. 118.
Parliamentary debates, i. 127. 167 —
172.; iv. 52.; x. 64.
Parnell, Dr., v. 199.; vi. 294.; vii. 46.
268 n.;
viii. 16. 24.
Parr, Dr. Samuel, ii. 124 n. ; vii. 363,
363 n. His epitaph on Johnson, viii.
424. Anecdotes by, x. 22.
Parson, the life of a, vii. 152.
Party, necessity of sticking to, iv. 25.
Passion week, viii. 64.
'Pastern,' ii. 47. 148.
Paten, Rev. Dr. Thomas, viii. 148, 149 n.
Pater Noster, iv. 126.
Paterson, Samuel, author of ' Coriat,
Junior,' iii. 209 n.; vi. 216.; viii.
265 n.
Panegyric, vi. 295.
Panting, Dr. Matthew, i. 74.
Paoli, General, iii. 71. 81. 196. 259. 264,
265. 304.; vi. 153. 294.; vii. 177. 180.
185. 235.; viii. 79.; x. 226. 229–237.
Paradise, John, i. 63 n.; vii. 261.;
viii. 250. 369.
Parental authority, vii. 249.; ix. 7.
Parentheses, viii. 180..
Paris, vi. 1.; vii. 87.
Parish clerk, viii. 105.
Parker, Rev. Mr., ii. 68. Anecdotes
Paterson, Samuel, his son, viii. 265 n.
'Patriot,' v. 217.; vi. 147.
Patriotism, v. 292.
Patriots, self-styled, viii. 63. ; ix. 147.
his
work on
Patronage, lay, iii. 286. 319.
Payne, William,
'Draughts,' ii. 71.
Pearce, Dr. Zachary, Bishop of Ro-
chester, ii. 46. ; vi. 76. 244, 244 n.,
245.
Pearson, Rev. Mr., vi. 109 n. ; vii.
241. ; viii. 226.
Pearson, Mrs., of Lichfield, i. ix.
Pecuniary embarrassment, evil of,
viii. 140.
Peel, Right Hon. Robert, vi. 88 n.
Peers, House of, iv. 104.; vii. 206.
Judicial powers of, vii. 206. Influ-
ence of, in the House of Commons,
iv. 52.
Peiresc, his death lamented in forty
languages, v. 319.
Pelham, Henry, ii. 15.
Pellet, Dr., vii. 210.
Pembroke, Lord, his description of
Johnson's conversation, iv. 8.
Penance in church, iv. 219.
Penitence, gloomy, only madness
turned upside down, vi. 145.
Penmaen Mawr, v. 207.
Penmaen Rhôs, v. 206.
Penn, Governor Richard, vii. 338.
Pennant, Thomas, iv. 168.; v. 291.;
vi. 262.; vii. 109. 111. 113. His
Tour in Scotland, vii. 109. 111. His
merit as a zoologist, vii. 113.
6 London,' vii. 113. His character
of Johnson, vii. 113.
'Pension,' Johnson's definition of, ii. Pinkerton, John, viii. 332.
His
48. 142.
Pepys, William Waller, vii. 314. 322.
325.; viii. 57 n.; ix. 49.; x. 114.
Pepys, Samuel, v. 55.
Perceval, Lady Catherine, v. 209 n.
Percy, Lord, vii. 115. 118.
Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore, i. 44.
46, 47. 75. 159. 221.; ii. 275. 282.;
iii. 55, 56. 153.; iv. 112. 281.; v.
323 n.; vi. 84 n. 299 n.; vii. 108.
114, 115. 230. 311.; ix. 22. 193. 239.
241. Anecdotes of Johnson by, x. 40.
Perkins, Mr., v. 218.; viii. 55. 58. 96.
138. 253.
Peruvian bark, viii. 296.
Peter the Great, iv. 273.
Peterborough, Earl of, viii. 20 n. 336.
Peters, Mr., vi. 112.
Petitions, facility of getting them up,
iii. 92.
Petty, Sir William, vii. 352.
Peyton, Mr., i. 216.; iii. 182, 183. 228.;
v. 327.
Philips, musician, Johnson's epitaph
on, i. 165.
Philips's Cyder,' a poem, iv. 77.
Philips, Miss, singer, afterwards Mrs.
Crouch, viii. 220.
Philosophers, ancient, their good hu-
mour in disputation accounted for,
vi. 125.
Philosophical necessity, vii. 132.
Philosophical Transactions,' iii. 26.
Philosophy, vi. 114.; vii. 153.
Phipps, Rev. James, vii. 154 n.
Phipps's 'Voyage to the North Pole,'
iv. 256 n.
Physic, vi. 140.; vii. 264.; ix. 44.
Physicians, vi. 99.; viii. 259. 322. ; ix.
44. 131.
'Physico-Theology,' Derham's, v. 58.
Piazzas, iv. 118.
'Picture,' Massinger's play of the, vii.
289.
Piety, ix. 34.
Pig, the learned, viii. 379.
'Pilgrim's Progress,' iii. 282. ; ix. 102.
Pindar,' West's translation of, vii.
375.
Piozzi, Mrs., commencement and pro-
gress of Johnson's acquaintance
with, ii. 292. 298. Anecdotes of
Johnson by, ix. 1. 127. Account of
her rupture with Johnson, ix. 105.
Her character of Johnson, ix. 107.
Piozzi, Signor, x. 19. 100.
Pitcairne, his Latin poetry, iv. 54.
Pitt, William, first Earl of Chatham,
i. 144.; iii. 233. 269.; v. 78.; viii.
319.
Pitt, Right Hon. William, his son,
viii. 256, 256 n. 260. 295.
Pitts, Rev. John, v. 172 n.
Pity, ii. 221.
Place-hunters, vii. 64.
Plagiary, Sir Fretful, character of,
intended for Mr. Cumberland, iii.
246 n.
'Plain Dealer,' i. 179, 179 n. 200.
Planting, vii. 27. In Scotland, era of,
v. 159.; vi. 230.
Players, i. 192, 193. 231.; ii. 177.; iii.
93. 277.; iv. 27. 39. 132.; vi. 23. 329.;
vii. 99.; viii. 239.
Pleasure, v. 183.; vii. 76. 136. 263.;
ix. 41.
Pleasures, necessary to intellectual
health, ix. 42. No man a hypocrite
"in his, viii. 318.
Pleasures of the Imagination,'
Akenside's, ii. 125.
Plott's History of Staffordshire,'
vii. 4.
Pococke, Dr. Richard, vii. 105. 375.
Poetry, Johnson's early, v. 297. Reli-
gious, ix. 145.
Poets, iv. 85. The preservers of lan- | Pott, Archdeacon, his Sermons, vi. 91.
guages, vi. 154.
'Polite Philosopher,' vi. 138.
Potter, Rev. Robert, vii. 91.; ix. 22.
Poverty, ii. 226.; viii. 133. 137. 140.;
ix. 90.
Politeness, iv. 81.; vi. 302.
Politian's Latin poems, i. 94, 94 n.
Politics, modern, v. 297. 316.
Polygamy, iv. 230.
Poor, ix. 31. A decent provision for,
the test of civilisation, iii. 145.
Methods of employing, vii. 352. Of
London, vii. 282.
Pope, Alexander, i. 61. 140. 145. 159,
160. 211. 281 n.; iii. 85, 86.; iv. 79.;
v. 86. 274.; ix. 18. 139. 193. 204. His
'Homer,' vii. 91. His Essay on
Man,' vii. 282, 283 n. His know-
ledge of Greek, vii. 283. His grotto,
vii. 357 n. Johnson's Life of, vii.
205.; viii. 14. Character of his poe-
try, vii. 188.; viii. 15. His limited
conversational powers, viii. 18. 'His
'Universal Prayer,' vii. 207. Lewis's
verses to, viii. 309 n.
Pope, Dr. Walter, his Old Man's
Wish,' vii. 366.
Popery, i. 281.; iii. 109. 111, 112.
Population, iii. 106.
Porridge Island, ix. 40.
Porter, Mr., of Lichfield, i. 99 n.; viii.
239.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Johnson's
wife, i. 35. 38. 89. 100, 101 n. 106. 280,
281.
Porter, Miss Lucy, i. 35. 95 n. 281.;
ii. 97.; iii. 162.; vi. 94. 103. 105.
109 n.; vii. 299. 306.; x. 9. 14. John-
son's letters to, i. 232.; ii. 98, 99.
Porter, Mrs., the actress, viii. 238.
Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of Ches-
ter, afterwards Bishop of London,
vii. 119. 299. 304. 376.
Portland, Lady Margaret, Duchess
Dowager of, viii. 322 n.
Power, despotic, vii. 124.
Praise, iii. 40.; vii. 115. 263. 378.; viii.
57.; ix. 114. 119. 139.
Praise and flattery, v. 202.
Prayer, form of, arguments for, v.
110.; viii. 206.
Prayers, Johnson's classification of,
x. 120.
various, x.
Post-chaise travelling, vi. 83. 119, 303.
'Prayers and Meditations,' Johnson's,
viii. 382.; x. 34. 95. 130. 154.
Preaching above the capacity of the
congregation, viii. 175.
Precocity, vi. 28.
Preceptor,' i. 220.
Predestination, iii. 109.
Prejudice, viii. 156. Johnson's,against
Scotland, iv. 10.; v. 240 n.; viii.
156 n.
Prendergast, Colonel Sir Thomas, iii.
221 n.
Presbyterians, v. 130. 132.
Prescience of the Deity, vii. 134,
135 n.
Prescription of murder in Scotland,
iv. 14. 87.
Presentiment of death, iii. 221 n.
Press, superfetation of, vii, 188.
Pretender, the Young, account of the
escape of, iv. 208. 329.
Price, Archdeacon, v. 213.
Price, Dr. Richard, viii. 232.
Pride, ix. 79.
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, iii. 138. ; vii.
135.; viii. 232 n.
Primrose, Lady Dorothea, viii. 22 n.
Prince of Wales, his situation, viii.
172. Afterwards George IV., iii.
28 n.
'Prince Titi,' history of, vi. 5.
Portrait, inscription on the frame of Pringle, Sir John, iii. 195.; v. 124.
Johnson's, viii. 170 n.
Portrait-painting, v. 308.
Portraits, iv. 234.
131 n. 132.; vi. 55. 125. 185.; vii. 78.
Printer's devil, viii. 76.
Printing, iii. 203. ; v. 215.; vi. 155 n.
Portraits of Dr. Johnson, list of the Printing-house, Virgil's description
of the entrance into hell applied
to, v. 43.
Prior, Matthew, iii. 79.; vii. 10, 11.
Prior's Life of Burke,' quoted, ii.
173.; x. 121.
Pritchard, Mrs., actress, i. 228. ; iii.
94.; iv. 132. ; v. 293.; viii. 238.
Private conversation, viii. 211.
Prize-fighting, iv. 248.
Procrastination, i. 236.
Procurators of Edinburgh, argument
against a prosecution by, viii. 109.
Prologues, i. 209.; iii. 35.; v. 262.
vi. 245.
Propensions, evil, ix. 209.
Property, iii. 294.; vi. 37. 46.
Prophecies, ix. 189.
Propitiatory sacrifice, iv. 89.
Prospects, ix. 39. 95.
Prosperity, vii. 212.
Prostitution, vi. 134.
Prussia, King of, i. 220.; vii. 190.;
viii. 85.
Psalmanazar, George, vii. 163. ; viii.
178. 271.; ix. 62. 132.
Psalms, biblical version of, v. 204.
Public amusements, iii. 202.
Public institutions, administration of,
vi. 175.
Public opinion, ix. 135.
Public schools, vi. 127. ; vii. 316. ; ix.
78.
Public speaking, v. 281.
Pudding, meditation on a, v. 93.
Puffendorf, iii. 185.; vi. 57.
Pulpit, liberty of, vi. 182, 183. 217. 334.
Pulsation, theory of, vi. 152.
Pulteney, William, Earl of Bath, ix.
147.
Punctuation, vi. 150 n.
Punishment, eternity of, vii. 20.;
viii. 102. 302.
Punishments, vii. 105.; ix. 208.
Puns, iii. 249. 285 n. ; viii. 319. ; ix. 136
Purcell, v. 285.
Purgatory, i. 286.; iii. 111. 193.
Q.
Quakers, their female preachers, ii.
251.; vi. 89.; viii. 211.
Quarrels, vii. 2.
Rasay, Isle of, iv. 178. 185. 188.
Rasay, John Macleod, Laird of, iv.
178. 188.; v. 163. 167. 325.; vi. 262.
Rasay, Lady, iv. 185.
Rasay, Miss Flora, iv. 195.
Rasselas,' ii. 101 n. 103, 104. 218. ;
vii. 167. 219.; viii. 97.; x. 23. 91. 140.
Ratcliff, Dr., master of Pembroke, his
neglect of Johnson at Oxford, ii. 18.
Rattakin mountain, iv. 153.
Rawlinson, Dr. Richard, the antiqua-
rian, viii. 146 n.
Ray, Miss, vii. 257.
Raynal, Abbé, ix. 37. 329.
Reading, i. 56.; ii. 213.; v. 306.; vi.
163.; vii. 11.; ix. 16. 169.
Reay, Lord, v. 55.
Red ink, properties of, vii. 332.
Reed, Isaac, i. 229.; iii. 285.; viii. 6.
Registration of deeds, viii. 47. ·
'Rehearsal,' iii. 200. ; viii. 322. ; ix.18.
Rein-deer, iii. 200.
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