35. NERO, ii. 255, n. 4. NERVES, weak, iv. 280. NETHERLANDS, Johnson's projected tour, i. 470; iii. 454; Temple's account of the drinking, iii. 330. Network, defined, i. 294. NEUFCHATEL, ii. 215. New Bath Guide, i. 388, n. 3. NEW FLOODGATE IRON, iv. 193. NEW PLACE, effects of a, iii. 128. New Protestant Litany, i. 176, n. 2. NEW SOUTH WALES, iv. 125, n. 1. New Testament, most difficult book in the world, iii. 298. NEW ZEALAND, iii. 49. NEWBERY, Francis, bookseller, and dealer in quack medicines, v. 30, n. 3; Johnson's advice to him about a fiddle, iii. 242, n. 1. NEWBERY, John, the bookseller, children's books, iv. 8, n. 3; Goldsmith's publisher, iii. 100, n. 1; v. 30, n. 3; James's powder, vendor of, iii. 4, n. 1 'Jack Whirler' of The Idler, v. 30, n. 3; Johnson's debts to him, i. 350, n. 3; publishes his Idler, i. 330, 335, n. 1; The World Displayed, i. 345. NEWCASTLE, famous townsmen, v. 16, n. 4; Johnson passes through it, ii. 264, 266; v. 16; story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. NEWCASTLE, first Duke of, i. 151. NEWCASTLE, second Duke of, iv. 63. NEWCASTLE FLY, ii. 377, n. 1. NEWCASTLE ship-master, a, v. 312. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE, iii. 135, n. 1. NEWCOME, Colonel (in The Newcomes), ii. 300, n. 3. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, iii. 203, n. 1. NEWHALL, Lord, iii. 151. NEWHAVEN, Lord, iii. 407-8. NEWMAN, Cardinal, Johnson's truthfulness, iv. 305, n. 3; Oxford about the year 1770, ii. 445, n. 1. NEWMARKET, i. 383, n. 3. NEWMARSH, Captain, v. 134. NEWPORT School in Shropshire, i. 50, 132, n. 1. NEWSPAPERS, booksellers, governed by the, v. 402, n. l; everything put into them, iii. 79, 330; knowledge diffused, ii. 170; Macpherson's 'supervision,' ii. 307, n. 4; in the time of the Usurpation, v. 366; whole world informed, ii. 208. NEWSWRITERS, ii. 170, n. 3; iii. 267, n. 1. NEWTON, Sir Isaac, Arguments in Proof of a Deity, i. 309; a worthy carman will get to heaven as well as he, iii. 288; Bentley's verses, mentioned in, iv. 23, n. 3; free from singularities, ii. 74, n, 3; house in St. Martin's Street, iv. 134; infidelity, reported early, i. 455; Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 125; Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287; mathematical knowledge unequalled, iv. 217; poet, as a, v. 35; 'stone dolls,' ii. 439, n. 1. NEWTON, John, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul's, Account of his own Life, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1; censures Johnson, iv. 285, n. 3; Johnson's retaliation, iv. 285-6; Dissertation on the Prophecies, iv. 286; mentioned, i. 79, n. 2. NEWTON, John, of Lichfield, father of the Bishop, i. 79, n. 2. NEWTON, Rev. John, engaged in the slave trade, iii. 203, n. 1; Johnson's 'conversion,' iv. 272, n. 1. NEWTON, Dr., i. 227, n. 3. NEWTON, Mr., of Lichfield, v. 428. NICCOLSON, of Scorbreck, v. 195. NICHOLS, Dr. Frank, De Anima Medica, iii. 163; physician to the King, turned out by Lord Bute, ii. 354; rule of attendance as a physician, iii. 164. NICHOLS, John, account of him, iv. 437; Anecdotes of William Bowyer, iv. 161, 369, 437; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 437, 438; Gent. Mag., edits, i. 90, n. 4; iv. 437; Johnson, anecdotes of, iv. 407, n. 4; funeral, invitation card to, iv. 419, n. 1; and Henderson the actor, iv. 244, n. 2; last days, iv. 407-10; v. 69, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; spells his name wrongly, iv. 36, n. 4; Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, iv. 369, n. 1, 437; Thirlby, memoir of, iv. 161, n. 4; Tyers and The Idler, iii. 308, n. 3; mentioned, i. 84, n. 3, 99, 102, n. 2, 135, 231, n. 2; iv. 359. NICHOLSON ----, an advocate, v. 213. NICKNAMES, i. 385, n. 1. NICOL, George, the bookseller, iv. 251; letter from Johnson, iv. 365. NICOLAIDA, ii. 379. NIDIFICATION, ii. 249. NIGHT-CAPS, v. 268-9, 306. Night Thoughts. See YOUNG. NILE, a waterfall on it, i. 88, n. 2. NISBET, Rev. Mr., v. 73. NISBET, ----, an advocate, v. 213. NISBETT, Sir John, iii. 205, n. 1. NITROGEN, discovery of, iv. 237, n. 6. No Sir, as used by Johnson, ii. 452; iii. 70, 178, 185, 304; explained by Boswell, iv. 315. NOBILITY, fortune-seeking, ii. 126; respect due to them, i. 447; iv. 114; in virtue above the average, iii. 353; unconstitutional influence in elections, iv. 248, 250. NOBLE, Mark, Memoirs of Cromwell, iv. 236, n. 1. NOBLE AUTHORS, iv. 113-5. NOBLEMAN, an indolent Scotch, iv. 87. NODOT, Abbe, iii. 286, n. 2. NOLLEKENS, Joseph, iii. 219, n. 1; iv. 421, n. 2. NOLLEKENS, Mrs., iii. 217. NONJURORS, Archibald Campbell, v. 357; Cibber's Nonjuror, applicable to them, ii. 321; comparative criminality in taking and refusing the oaths, ii. 321-2; could not reason, iv. 286-8; Falconer, Bishop, iii. 371-2; Johnson never in one of their meeting-houses, iv. 288. Nonpareil, v. 414, n. 2. NORBURY PARK, iv. 43. NORES, Jason de, ii. 444. NORFOLK, militia, i. 307, n. 4; sale of the Rambler in the county, i. 208, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 134. Norfolk Prophecy, i.

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