Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.

Chapter 38

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'This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to _ask_ a man to,' i. 470.

DIP. 'He had not far to dip,' iii. 35.

DIRT. 'By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen,' ii. 82, n. 3.

DISAPPOINTED. 'He had never been disappointed by anybody but himself,' i. 337, n. 1.

DISCOURAGE. Don't let us discourage one another,' iii. 303.

DISLIKE. 'Nothing is more common than mutual dislike where mutual approbation is particularly expected,' iii. 423.

DISPUTE. 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged,' iii. 11.

DISSENTER. 'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii. 268, n. 2.

DISTANCE. 'Sir, it is surprising how people will go to a distance for what they may have at home,' v. 286.

DISTANT. 'All distant power is bad,' iv. 213.

DISTINCTIONS. 'All distinctions are trifles,' iii. 355.

DISTRESS. 'People in distress never think that you feel enough,' ii. 469.

DOCKER. 'I hate a Docker,' i. 379, n. 2.

DOCTOR. 'There goes the Doctor,' ii. 372.

DOCTRINE. 'His doctrine is the best limited,' iii. 338.

DOG. 'Ah, ah! Sam Johnson! I see thee!--and an ugly dog thou art,' ii. 141, n. 2; 'Does the dog talk of me?' ii. 53; '_He_, the little black dog,' i. 284; 'He's a Whig, Sir; a sad dog,' iii. 274; 'What he did for me he would have done for a dog,' iii. 195; 'I have hurt the dog too much already,' i. 260, n. 3; 'I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory,' iii. 354; 'I love the young dogs of this age,' i. 445; 'I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,'