Neighborhood, the law of, what, v. 321.

Newfoundland, view of the trade with it, i. 320.

Newspapers, powerful influence of them in the diffusion of French
    principles, iv. 327.

Night, a cause of the sublime, i. 132, 158.

Norman conquest, extraordinary facility of it, vii. 287.
  attempt to account for it, vii. 288.
  the great era of the English laws, vii. 487.

Normandy, reunion of it to the crown of France, vii. 445.

North, Lord, observations on his character, v. 182; vi. 216, 223.

Novelty, the first and simplest source of pleasure to the mind, i. 101.
  the danger of indulging a desire for it in practical cases, iv. 76.

Nundcomar, accuses Mr. Hastings of corruption, x. 24.

Nuzzer, or Nuzzerana, what, x. 171.

Oak, the, why venerated by the Druids, vii. 183.

Oath, the Coronation, observations upon it in reference to the
    Roman Catholics, iv. 260.

Obscurity, generally necessary to the terrible, i. 132.
  why more affecting than clearness, i. 135.

Obstinacy, though a great and very mischievous vice, closely
    allied to the masculine virtues, ii. 66.

Office, men too much conversant in it rarely have enlarged minds, ii. 38.
  in feudal times, the lowest offices often held by considerable persons,
    ii. 303.
  the reason of this, ii. 304.

Officers, military and naval, nature of the fortitude required
    of them, v. 468.

Opinion, popular, the support of government, ii. 224; vi. 165; vii. 91.
  an equivocal test of merit, v. 183.
  the generality of it not always to be judged of by the noise of the
    acclamation, v. 286.

Opinions, men impelled to propagate their own by their social nature,
    v. 361.
  their influence on the affections and passions, v. 403; vii. 44.
  the most decided often stated in the form of questions, vi. 28.
  the interest and duty of government to attend much to them, vii. 44.

Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.

Orange, Prince of, (afterwards William III.,) extracts from his
    Declaration, iv. 147.

Ordeal, purgation by, vii. 314.

Oude, extent and government of, under Sujah ul Dowlah, xi. 373.

Pain, pleasure, and indifference, their mutual relation as states
    of the mind, i. 103.
  nature and cause of pain, i. 210.
  how a cause of delight, i. 215.

Paine, Thomas, remarks on his character, v. iii; vi. 60.

Painting and poetry, their power, when due to imitation, and when
    to sympathy, i. 123.

Pandulph, the Pope’s legate, his politic dealing with King John, vii. 451.
  parallel between his conduct to King John and that of the
    Roman consuls to the Carthaginians in the last Punic war, vii. 453.