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.
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