objects for observation, i. 367;
peace, negotiations of, iv. 158, n. 4;
preliminary treaty of, iv. 282, n. 1;
Pennsylvania, ii. 207, n. 2;
Philadelphia, i. 309, n. 2; iii. 364, n. 1; iv. 212, n. 1;
planters, ii. 27;
population, growth of, ii. 314;
_Rasselas_, reprint of, ii. 207;
Saratoga, iii. 355, n. 3;
slavery, England guilty of, ii. 479;
Susquehannah, v. 317;
taxation by England, ii. 312; iii. 205-7, 221; iv. 259, n. 1;
Virginia, ii. 27, n. 1; 479;
war with America popular in Scotland, iv. 259, n. 1;
war with the French in 1756-7, i. 308, n. 2; ii. 479; iii. 9, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, on the slaveholders, iii. 200, n. 4;
Wesley's _Calm Address_, v. 35, n. 3;
York Town, iv. 140, n. 2.
AMHERST, Lord, iii. 374, n. 3.
AMIENS, ii. 402, n. 2.
AMORY, Dr. Thomas, iii. 174, n. 3.
AMUSEMENTS,
key to character, iv. 316;
public, keep people from vice, ii. 169.
AMWELL, ii. 338.
AMYAT, Dr., i. 377, n. 2.
_Ana_, v. 311, n. 2, 414.
ANACREON,
Baxter's edition, iv. 163, 241, 265; v. 376;
mentioned, ii. 202.
ANAITIS, the Goddess, v. 218, 220, 224.
_Anatomy of Melancholy_, ii. 121.
ANCESTRY, ii. 153, 261.
ANCIENT TIMES worse than Modern, iv. 217.
ANCIENTS, not serious in religion, iii. 10.
ANDERDON, J. L., iii. 195, n. 1.
ANDERSON, John, _Nachrichten von Island_, iii. 279, n. 1.
ANDERSON, Professor, of Glasgow, iii. 119; v. 369, 370.
ANDREWS, Francis, i. 489.
_Anecdote_, ii. 11, n. 1.
ANECDOTES, Johnson's love of, ii. 11; v. 39.
_Anecdotes of distinguished persons_, iii. 123, n. 1.
_Anfractuosity_, iv. 4.
ANGEL, Captain, i. 349.
ANGELL, John, _Stenography_, ii. 224; iii. 270.
ANGER, unreasonable, but natural, ii. 377.
ANIMAL, noblest, v. 400.
ANIMAL SUBSTANCES, v. 216.
ANIMALS. See BRUTES.
_Animus Aequus_, not inheritable, v. 381.
_Animus irritandi_, iv. 130.
_Aningait and Ajut_, iv. 421, n. 2.
_Annals of Scotland_. See LORD HAILES.
ANNE, Queen,
'touches' Johnson, i. 42;
grant to the Synod of Argyle, iii. 133;
writers of her age, i. 425.
ANNIHILATION, Hume's principle, iii. 153;
worse than existence in pain, 295-6; v. 180.
ANNUAL REGISTER, Barnard's verses on Johnson, iv. 431-3.
ANONYMOUS WRITINGS, iii. 376.
ANSON, Lord, i. 117, n. 2; iii. 374.
ANSTEY, Christopher, _New Bath Guide_, i. 388, n. 3.
ANSTRUTHER, J., ii. 191, n. 2.
_Ant, The_, ii. 25.
ANTAGONISTS, how they should be treated, ii. 442; v. 29.
_Anthologia_, Johnson's translations, iv. 384.
_Anti-Artemonius_, i. 148, n. 1.
_Antigallican_, i. 320.
ANTIMOSAICAL REMARK, ii. 468.
_Antiquae Linguae: Britannicae Thesaurus_, i. 186, n. 3.
ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES, iii. 333, 414.
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, iv. 436.
ANTIQUARIANS, iii. 278.
_Apartment_, ii. 398, n. 1.
APELLES'S VENUS, iv. 104.
APICIUS, ii. 447.
_Apocrypha_, ii. 189, n. 3.
_Apollonii pugna Belricia_, ii. 263.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS, i. 289.
_Apophthegms of Johnson_, i. 190, n. 4; iv. 324.
APOSTOLICAL ORDINATION, ii. 103.
_Apotheosis of Milton_, i. 140.
APPARITIONS. See SPIRITS.
_Appeal to the publick_, etc. i. 140.
APPETITE, riding for an, i. 467, n. 2.
APPIUS, in the _Cato Major_, iv. 374.
APPLAUSE, iv. 32.
APPLE DUMPLINGS, ii. 132.
APPLEBY SCHOOL, in Leicestershire, i. 82, n. 2; 132, n. 1.
APPLICATION, to one thing more than another, v. 34-5.
APPREHENSIONS. See FANCIES.
ARABIC, iv. 28.
ARABS, v. 125.
ARBUTHNOT, Dr. John, _Dunciad_, annotations on the, iv. 306, n. 3;
_History of John Bull_, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
illustrious physician, an, ii. 372;
_Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus_, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
universal genius, i. 425; v. 29, n. 2;
superior to Swift in coarse humour, v. 44.
ARBUTHNOT, Robert, v. 29, 32.
_Archaeological Dictionary_, iv. 162.
ARCHBISHOP, Johnson's bow to an, iv. 198.
ARCHES, semicircular, and elliptical, i. 35l.
ARCHITECTURE, ornamental, ii. 439.
ARESKINE, Sir John, v. 293.
ARGENSON,--, ii. 391.
ARGONAUTS, i. 458.
ARGUING, good-humour in, iii. 11.
ARGUMENT, compared with testimony, iv. 281-2;
getting the better of people in one, ii. 474;
opponent, introducing one's, ii. 475.
ARGYLE, first Marquis of, v. 357, n. 3.
ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, v. 357, n. 3.
ARGYLE, tenth Earl (first Duke) of, v. 227, n. 4.
ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, _Beggar's Opera_, sees the, ii. 369, n. 1;
Elwall, challenged by, ii. 164, n. 5;
Walpole as sole minister, attacks, ii. 355, n. 2.
ARGYLE, Archibald, third Duke of,
librarian, neglects his, i. 187; a narrow man, v. 345;
Wilkes visits him, iii. 73.
ARGYLE, John, fifth Duke of, at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
Boswell calls on him, v. 353-4;
estates in Col. v. 293;
Tyr-yi, v. 312;
Iona, v. 335;
Gordon riots, rumour about him at the, iii. 430, n. 6;
Johnson dines with him, v. 355-9;
is provided by him with a horse, v. 359, 362;
corresponds with him, v. 363-4;
lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 101, 102.
ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 246.
ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 353, n. 1;
at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
dislikes Boswell, v. 353;
slights him, v. 354, 358-9;
he drinks to her, v. 356;
Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 356, 363;
is 'all attention' to her, v. 359, 363;
calls her 'a Duchess with three tails', v. 359.
ARIAN HERESY, iv. 32.
ARIOSTO, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1.
ARISTOTLE, Barrow, quoted by, iv. 105, n. 4;
difference between the learned and unlearned, iv. 13;
friendship, on, iii. 386, n. 3;
Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2;
lying, on, ii. 221, n. 2;
purging of the passions, iii. 39.
ARITHMETIC, Johnson's fondness for it, i. 72; iv. 171, n. 3, 271;
principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2.
ARKWRIGHT, Richard, ii. 459, n. 1.
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ii. 179.
ARMS, piling, iii. 355.
ARMSTRONG, Dr., iii. 117.
ARMY. See SOLDIERS.
ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 347.
ARNE, Dr., v. 126, n. 5.
ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., _Observations on Insanity_, iii. 175, n. 3.
ARRAN, Earl of, i. 281.
ARRIGHI, A., _Histoire de Pascal Paoli_, ii. 3, n. I; v. 51, n. 3.
_Art of Living in London_, i. 105, n. 1.
'ART'S CORRECTIVE,' v. 299.
ARTEMISIA, ii. 76.
ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 179.
ARTICLES. See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES.
ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 50, n. 4.
ARTISTS, Society of. See SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.
_Ascertain_, iii. 402, n. 2.
ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor's degree, takes his, i. 58, n. 3;
_Life_ by Johnson, i. 464;
quoted, i. 307, n. 2.
ASH, Dr., iv. 394, n. 4.
ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 180;
earthquake, iii. 136;
Green Man Inn, iii. 208;
Johnson's visits, iii. 451-3;
and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 430;
and Boswell in 1776, ii. 473-6;
in 1777, iii. 135-208;
school, ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138;
two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 359;
water-fall, iii. 190.
ASHBY, i. 36, n. 3, 79, n. 2.
ASHMOLE, Elias, iii. 172; iv. 97, n. 3.
ASIATIC SOCIETY, ii. 125, n. 4.
ASSENT, a debt or a favour, iv. 320.
ASSYRIANS, ii. 176; iii. 36.
ASTLE, Rev. Mr., iv. 311.
ASTLE, Thomas, letter from Johnson, iv. 133;
mentioned, i. 155; iv. 311.
ASTLEY, the equestrian, iii. 409.
ASTOCKE, i. 79, n. 1.
ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Hervey), i. 83, n. 4.
ASTON, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466.
ASTON, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 466, 469; iii. 132, 211, 412, 414; iv. 145, n. 2.
ASTON, 'Molly' (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 83; ii. 466;
interest of money, on the, iii. 340-1;
Johnson's epigram on her, i. 83, n. 3; 140, n. 4; iii. 341, n. 1;
her letters to, iii. 341, n. 1;
quoted by, iii. 341, n. 1;
Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 57.
ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 83, 106, n. 1.
ASTON HALL, ii. 456, n. 2.
ATHEISM, v. 47.
_Athelstan_, ii. 131, n. 2.
_Athenoeum, The_, Boswell's letters of acceptance as Secretary of the
Royal Academy, iii. 370, n. 1;
mistake in Forster's _Goldsmith_, ii. 208, n. 5.
_Athenian Letters_, i. 45, n. 2.
ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 171;
brutes, 211.
ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 7;
family of, v. 234.
_Athol porridge_, iv. 78.
ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 163.
ATONEMENT, The, v. 88.
ATTACKS ON AUTHORS;
attack is the reaction, ii. 335
better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 375 v. 273
part of a man's consequence, iv. 422
'fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400
very rarely hurt an author, iii. 423
useful, in subjects of taste, v. 275
felt by authors, ib. n. 1
Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 61, n. 4
Bentley, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 274, n. 4;
Boerhaave, ii. 61, n. 4
Fielding, v. 275, n. 1
_Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield_, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 375, n. 1
Johnson's solitary reply to one, i. 314; ii. 61, ib. n. 4.
ATTERBURY, Bishop, elegance of his English, ii. 95, n. 2
_Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts_, ii. 228
_Sermons_, iii. 247
mentioned, i. 157.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL, _Diabolus Regis_, iii. 78.
ATTORNEYS converted into Solicitors, iv. 128, n. 3
Johnson's hits at them, ii. 126, ib. n. 4; iv. 313.
AUCHINLECK, Lord, account of him, v. 375-6, 382, n. 2
Baxter's _Anacreon_, collated, iv. 241
attentive to remotest relations, v. 131
Boswell's ignorance of law, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2
Boswell, his disposition towards: See BOSWELL, father
contentment, iii. 241; v. 381
death, iv. 154
'in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 385
described in a _Hypochondriack_, i. 426, n. 3
Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4
entails his estate in perpetuity, ii. 413-4
Gillespie, Dr., _honorarium_ to, iv. 262
heirs general, preference for, ii. 414-5
calls Johnson a dominie, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2
a Jacobite fellow, v. 376
_Ursa Major_, v. 384
a brute, ii. 381, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1
proposes to send him the _Lives_, iii. 372
visits him, v. 375-385
three topics in which they differ, v. 376
contest, v. 382-4
polite parting, v. 385
Knight the negro's case, iii. 216
Laird of Lochbury, trial of the, v. 343
loves labour, ii. 99;
planter of trees, iii. 103; v. 380
respected, v. 91, 131, 135
second wife, ii. 140, n. 1; v. 375, n. 4;
Boswell on ill terms with her, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 80, n. 2
tenderness, want of, iii. 182
windows broken by a mob, v. 353, n. 1
mentioned, ii. 4, 206, 290, 291; iii. 129.
AUCHINLECK PLACE. See SCOTLAND, Auchinleck.
AUCTIONEERS, long pole at their door, ii. 349.
AUGUSTAN AGE, flattery, ii. 234.
AUGUSTUS, ii. 234, 470.
AULUS GELLIUS, v. 232.
AUSONIUS, i. 184; ii. 35, n. 5; iii. 263, n. 3.
AUSTEN, Miss, _Pride and Prejudice_, iii. 299, n. 2.
AUSTERITIES, religious. See MONASTERY.
AUSTRIA, House of, epigram on it, v. 233.
AUTEROCHE, Chappe d', iii. 340.
AUTHOR, an, of considerable eminence, iv. 323
one of restless vanity, iv. 319
who married a printer's devil, iv. 99
who was a voluminous rascal, ii. 109.
AUTHORITY,
from personal respect, ii. 443
lessened, iii. 262.
AUTHORS,
attacks on them; See ATTACKS;
best part of them in their books, i. 450, n. 1;
chief glory of a people from them, i. 297, n. 3; ii. 125;
complaints of, iv. 172;
contrast between their life and writings, ii. 257, n. 1;
consolation in their hours of gloom, ii. 69, n. 3;
dread of them, i. 450, n. 1;
eminent men need not turn authors, iii. 182;
fit subjects for biography, iv. 98, n. 4;
flatter the age, v. 59;
hunted with a cannister at their tail, iii. 320;
Johnson consulted by them
'a man who wrote verses,' ii. 51;
Colley Cibber, ii. 92;
'a lank and reverend bard,' iii. 373'
Crabbe, iv. 121, n. 4;
a tragedy-writer, iv. 244, n. 2;
young Mr. Tytler, v. 402;
advises to print boldly, ii. 195;
advice very difficult to give, iii. 320;
willing to assist them, iii. 373, n. 1; iv. 121; v. 402;
put to the torture, ib.
_Project for the employment of Authors_, i. 306, n. 3;
wonders at their number, v. 59;
judgment of their own works, i. 192, n. 1; iv. 251, n. 2;
language characteristical, iv. 315;
lie, whether ever allowed to, iv. 305-6;
modern, the moons of literature, iii. 333;
obscure ones, i. 307, n. 2;
patrons, iv. 172;
patronage done with, v. 59;
payments received:
_Adventurer_, two guineas a paper, i. 253;
Baretti, translation of some of Reynolds's _Discourses_ into Italian,
twenty-five guineas, iii. 96;
Blair, _Sermons_, vol. i, L200, vol. ii. L300, vol. iii. L600, iii. 98;
Boswell, _Corsica_, 100 guineas, ii. 46, n. 1;
_Critical Review_, two guineas a sheet, iv. 214, n. 2;
_Monthly_, sometimes four guineas, ib.;
Fielding, _Tom Jones_, L700, i. 287, n. 3;
Goldsmith, _Vicar of Wakefield_, L60, i. 415;
_Traveller_, L21, ib., n. 2;
Hawkesworth, L6000 for editing _Cook's Voyages_, i. 341, n. 4;
Hill, Sir John, fifteen guineas a week, ii. 38, n. 2;
Hooke, L5000 for the Duchess of Marlborough's _Apology_, v. 175, n. 3;
Johnson: See JOHNSON, payments for his writings;
payment by line, i. 193, n. 1;
Piozzi, Mrs., for Johnson's Letters, L500, ii. 43, n. 1;
Robertson offered L500 for one edition of his _History of Scotland_,
iii. 334, n. 2;
L6000 made by the publishers; offered 3000 guineas for _Charles V_,
ii. 63, n. 2;
Sacheverell, L100 for a sermon, i. 39, n. 1;
Shebbeare six guineas for a sheet for reviews, iv. 214;
Savage, _Wanderer_, ten guineas, i. 124, n. 4;
Whitehead, Paul, ten guineas for a poem, i. 124;
pleasure in writing for the journals, v. 59, n. 2;
privateers, like, iv. 191, n. 1;
private life, in, i. 393;
public, the, their judges, i. 200;
putting into a book as much as a book will hold, ii. 237;
regard for their first magazine, i. 112;
reluctance to write their own lives, i. 25, n. 1;
respect due to them, iii. 310; iv. 114;
sale of their works to the booksellers, iii. 333-4;
styles, distinguished by their, iii. 280;
treatment by managers of theatres, i. 196, n. 2;
writing for profit, iii. 162;
on subjects in which they have not practised, ii. 430.
_Authors by Profession_, i. 116.
AVARICE, despised not hated, iii. 71
not inherent, iii. 322.
AVENUES, v. 439.
AVERROES, i. 188, n. 4.
AVIGNON, iii. 446.
AYLESBURY, Lady, iii. 429, n. 3.
B.
B--D, Mr., Johnson's letter to, ii, 207.
BABY, Johnson as nurse to one newborn, ii. 100.
BABYLON, i. 250.
BACH, ii. 364, n. 3.
BACON, Francis, _Advancement of Learning_, i. 34, n. 1;
argument and testimony, on, iv. 281;
conversation, precept for, iv. 236;
death, the stroke of, ii. 107, n. 1;
delight in superiority natural, iv. 164, n. 1;
_Essays_ estimated by Burke and Johnson, iii. 194, n. 1;
_Essay of Truth_ quoted, iv. 221, n. 3;
_Essay on Vicissitude_, v. 117, n. 4;
healthy old man like a tower undermined, iv. 277;
_History of Henry VII._, v. 220;
introduction of new doctrines, on the, iii. 11, n. 1;
Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. 194;
'Kings desire the end, but not the means,' v. 232, n. 4;
_Life_ by Mallet, iii. 194;
'roughness breedeth hate,' iv. 168, n. 2;
Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2;
style, i. 219;
Turks, their want of _Stirpes_, ii. 421;
'who then to frail mortality,' &c., v. 89;
mentioned, i. 431, n. 2; ii. 53, n. 2, 158.
BACON, John, R.A., Johnson's monument, iv. 424, 444.
BADCOCK, Rev. Samuel, anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 407, n. 4;
White's _Bampton Lectures_, iv. 443, n. 5.
BADENOCH, Lord of, v. 114.
BAGSHAW, Rev. Thomas, Johnson's letters to him, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 351.
BAILEY, Nathan, v. 419.
BAILY, Hetty, iv. 143.
BAKER, Sir George, iv. 165, n. 3, 355.
