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,