239.
MANY. 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,' i. 396.
MARKET. 'A horse that is brought to market may not be bought, though he is a very good horse,' iv. 172; 'Let her carry her praise to a better market,' iii. 293.
MARTYRDOM. 'Martyrdom is the test,' iv. 12.
MAST. 'A man had better work his way before the mast than read them through,' iv. 308.
MEAL. 'He takes more corn than he can make into meal,' iv. 98.
MEANLY. 'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea,' iii. 265.
MEMORY. 'The true art of memory is the art of attention,' iv. 126, n. 6.
MEN. 'Johnson was willing to take men as they are' (Boswell), iii. 282.
MERCHANT. 'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i. 491, n. 3.
MERIT. 'Like all other men who have great friends, you begin to feel the pangs of neglected merit,' iv. 248.
MERRIMENT. 'It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without his pistols,' iii. 389.
MIGHTY. 'There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,' i. 422.
MILK. 'They are gone to milk the bull,' i. 444.
MILLIONS. 'The interest of millions must ever prevail over that of thousands,' ii. 127.
MIND. 'A man loves to review his own mind,' iii. 228; 'Get as much force of mind as you can,' iv. 226; 'He fairly puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179; 'The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small,' iii. 334; 'They had mingled minds,' iv. 308; 'To have the management of the mind is a great art,' ii. 440.
MISER. 'He has not learnt to be a miser,' v. 316.
MISERY. 'It would be misery to no purpose,' ii. 94; 'Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it,' iv. 31.
MISFORTUNES. 'If a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him,' iv. 31.
MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319.
MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be a a republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257.
MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182; 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19; 'Perhaps the money might be found, and he was sure that his wife was gone,' iv. 319; 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money,' ii. 323; 'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400.
MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199.
MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having been in the pillory,' iii. 315.
MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,' ii. 230.
MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460.
MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only by murder,' v. 93, n. 4.
N.
NAMES. 'I do not know which of them calls names best,' ii. 37; 'The names carry the poet, not the poet the names,' iii. 318.
NAP. 'I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me,' ii. 407.
NARROWNESS. 'Occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness' (Boswell), iv. 191.
NATION. 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life,' v. 109, n. 6.
NATIONAL. 'National faith is not yet sunk so low,' iv. 21.
NATIVE PLACE. 'Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place,' ii. 141.
NATURE. 'All the rougher powers of nature except thunder were in motion,' iii. 455; 'You are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 359; 'Nature will rise up, and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system,' i. 424.
NECESSITY. 'As to the doctrine of necessity, no man believes it,' iv. 329.
NECK. 'He gart Kings ken that they had a lith in their neck' (Lord Auchinleck), v. 382, n. 2; 'On a thirtieth of January every King in Europe would rise with a crick in his neck' (Quin), v. 382, n. 2; 'If you have so many things that will break, you had better break your neck at once, and there's an end on't,' iii. 153.
NEGATIVE. 'She was as bad as negative badness could be,' v. 231.
NEVER. 'Never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot have it,' iv. 205.
NEW. 'I found that generally what was new was false' (Goldsmith), iii. 376.
NEWSPAPERS. 'They have a trick of putting everything into the newspapers,' iii. 330.
NICHOLSON. 'My name might originally have been Nicholson,' i. 439.
NINEPENCE. See DRAW.
No. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i. 166.
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.