Dieu. ‘Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer’ (Voltaire), v. 47, n. 4.

DIFFERING.  ’Differing from a man in doctrine was no reason why you should pull his house about his ears,’ v. 62.

DIGNITY.  ’He that encroaches on another’s dignity puts himself in his power,’ iv. 62;
  ‘The dignity of danger,’ iii. 266.

DINNER.  ’A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,’ i. 467, n. 2;
  ‘Amidst all these sorrowful scenes I have no objection to dinner,’
v. 63;
  ‘Dinner here is a thing to be first planned and then executed,’
v. 305;
  ’This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a
dinner to ask a man to,’ i. 470.

DIP.  ‘He had not far to dip,’ iii. 35.

DIRT.  ‘By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen,’ ii. 82, n. 3.

DISAPPOINTED.  ‘He had never been disappointed by anybody but himself,’ i. 337, n. 1.

DISCOURAGE.  Don’t let us discourage one another,’ iii. 303.

DISLIKE.  ’Nothing is more common than mutual dislike where mutual approbation is particularly expected,’ iii. 423.

DISPUTE.  ’I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man’s son being hanged,’ iii. 11.

DISSENTER.  ‘Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter’ (Sir R. Chambers), ii. 268, n. 2.

DISTANCE.  ’Sir, it is surprising how people will go to a distance for what they may have at home,’ v. 286.

DISTANT.  ‘All distant power is bad,’ iv. 213.

DISTINCTIONS.  ‘All distinctions are trifles,’ iii. 355.

DISTRESS.  ‘People in distress never think that you feel enough,’ ii. 469.

DOCKER.  ‘I hate a Docker,’ i. 379, n. 2.

DOCTOR.  ‘There goes the Doctor,’ ii. 372.

DOCTRINE.  ‘His doctrine is the best limited,’ iii. 338.

DOG.  ‘Ah, ah!  Sam Johnson!  I see thee!—­and an ugly dog thou art,’
ii. 141, n. 2;
  ‘Does the dog talk of me?’ ii. 53;
  ‘He, the little black dog,’ i. 284;
  ‘He’s a Whig, Sir; a sad dog,’ iii. 274;
  ‘What he did for me he would have done for a dog,’ iii. 195;
  ‘I have hurt the dog too much already,’ i. 260, n. 3;
  ‘I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory,’ iii. 354;
  ‘I love the young dogs of this age,’ i. 445;
  ‘I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,’
i. 504;
  ‘I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head,’ iv. 221;
  ‘If you were not an idle dog, you might write it,’ iii. 162;
  ‘It is the old dog in a new doublet,’ iii. 329;
  ‘Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog than I am,’
iv. 347, n. 1;
  ‘Some dogs dance better than others,’ ii. 404;
  ‘The dogs don’t know how to write trifles with dignity,’ iv. 34, n. 5;
  ‘The dogs are not so good scholars,’ i. 445;
  ‘The dog is a Scotchman,’ iv. 98;
  ‘The dog is a Whig,’ v. 255;
  ‘The dog was so very comical,’ iii. 69;
  ‘What, is it you, you dogs?’ i. 250.