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.

O.

OBJECT.  ‘Nay, Sir, if you are born to object I have done with you,’ v. 151.

OBJECTIONS.  ’So many objections might be made to everything, that nothing could overcome them but the necessity of doing something,’ ii. 128;
  ‘There is no end of objections,’ iii. 26.

OBLIVION.  ‘That was a morbid oblivion,’ v. 68.

ODD.  ‘Nothing odd will do long,’ ii. 449.

ON’T.  ‘I’ll have no more on’t,’ iv. 300.

OPPRESSION.  ’Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of oppression,’ v. 82, n. 2.

ORCHARD.  ‘If I come to an orchard,’ &c., ii. 96.

OUT.  ’A man does not love to go to a place from whence he comes out exactly as he went in,’ iv. 90.

OUTLAW.  ‘Sir, he leads the life of an outlaw,’ ii. 375.

OUT-VOTE.  ‘Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them,’ iii. 234.

OVERFLOWED.  ‘The conversation overflowed and drowned him,’ ii. 122.

OWL.  ’Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owl upon day,’ iv. 312.

P.

PACKHORSE.  ‘A carrier who has driven a packhorse,’ &c., v. 395.

PACKTHREAD.  ’When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,’ ii. 88.

PACTOLUS.  ’Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you,’ iv. 320.

PAIN.  ’He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,’ ii. 435, n. 7.

PAINTED.  ’Hailes’s Annals of Scotland have not that painted form which is the taste of this age,’ iii. 58.

PAINTING.  ‘Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,’ iv. 321.

PALACES.  ’We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one cottage is burning,’ ii. 90.

PAMPER.  ‘No, no, Sir; we must not pamper them,’ iv. 133.

PANT.  ’Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I’ll make both time and space pant,’ iv. 25.

PARADOX.  ‘No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,’ ii. 73.

PARCEL.  ’We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice’ (Lord Lucan’s anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.