infidel, an, ii. 95;
Johnson and the French players, ii. 404;
intended to exhibit, ii. 95, 155, n. 2, 299;
in Paris, ii. 398, 403;
pleased against his will, iii. 69;
regret for his death, iii. 185, n. 1, 374, n. 4;
witticism, fathered on him, ii. 410, n. 1;
knowledge and reading, his, iii. 69;
Law-Lord, on a dull, iv. 178;
leg, loses a, ii. 95, n. 1, 155, n. 1; iii. 97, n. 2;
_depeditation_, v. 130;
_Life_ of him, by W. Cooke, iv. 437;
Macdonald, Sir A., should ridicule, v. 277;
making fools of his company, ii. 98;
mimic, not a good, ii. 154; iii. 69;
'Monboddo, an Elzevir Johnson,' ii. 189 n. 2; v. 74, n. 3;
Murphy and _The Rambler_, i. 356;
Murphy's account of a dinner at his house, i. 504;
_Nabob, The_, iii. 23, n. 1;
_Orators, The_, ii. 154, n. 3; v. 130, n. 2;
patent, sells his, iii. 97;
_Piety in Pattens_, ii. 48, n. 2;
rising in the world, ii. 155, n. 2;
small-beer and the black boy, iii. 70;
stories, his, dismissed from the mind, ii. 433, n. 2;
Townshend, Charles, surpassed by, ii. 222, n. 3;
wit of escape, has the, iii. 69;
wit under no restraint, iii. 69;
Worcester College, Oxford, at, ii. 95, n. 2;
wicked pleasure in circulating an anecdote, i. 453.
FOPPERY never cured, ii. 128.
FORBES, Bishop, v. 252.
FORBES, Rev. Mr., v. 75.
FORBES, Sir William, and Co., v. 253.
FORBES, Sir William, of Pitsligo, sixth Baronet,
_Beattie, Life of_, v. 25, n. 1, 273, n. 4;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 24, 413, n. 3;
executor, iii. 301, n. 1;
children, guardian to, iii. 400, n. 1;
journals, reads, iii. 208; v. 413;
letter to, v. 413;
Carre's _Sermons_, edits, v. 28;
Errol, Lord, account of, v. 103, n. 1;
honest lawyers, on the duty of, v. 26-7, 72;
Johnson at Garrick's funeral, iii. 371, n. 1;
_Round Robin_, account of the, iii. 82-5;
Scott's tribute to him, v. 25, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 41, 42, 221; v. 32, 44, 46, 393.
FORBES, Sir William, seventh baronet, v. 253, n. 3.
FORD, Cornelius (Johnson's uncle), i. 49.
FORD, Rev. Cornelius (Johnson's cousin),
Hogarth's 'Parson Ford,' i. 49; iii. 348;
Johnson's account of him, ib.;
his ghost, iii. 349.
FORD, Dr. Joseph, i. 49, n. 3.
FORD FAMILY, i. 34; pedigree, i. 49, n. 3.
FORDYCE, Dr. George, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318;
iii. 230, n. 5; iv. 326;
anecdote of his drinking, ii. 274, n. 6.
FORDYCE, Rev. Dr. James, i. 396; iv. 411.
_Foreign History in Gent. Mag_. i. 154.
FOREIGNER, an eminent, iv. 14.
FOREIGNERS, 'are fools,' i. 82, n. 3; iv. 15;
writing a book in England, ii. 221;
attaching themselves to a party, ib.:
see JOHNSON, Foreigners.
_Forenoon_, changed into _morning_, ii. 283, n. 3.
FORGETFULNESS, iv. 126.
_Form_, iv. 321.
_Former, the, the latter_, iv. 190.
FORMOSA, iii. 443; v. 209.
_Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of_, iii. 444.
FORMS, tenacity of, iv. 104.
_Formular_, ii. 234.
FORNICATION, heinous sin, not a, ii. 172;
misery caused by it, i. 457;
penance for it, v. 208;
probationer, cause of a, ii. 171;
a sectary guilty of it, ii. 472;
should be punished by law, iii. 17, 407.
FORRESTER, Colonel, iii. 22.
FORSTER, George, _Voyage to the South Sea_, iii. 180.
FORSTER, John, Bickerstaff, I., ii. 82, n. 3;
Boswell's stories, on variations of, i. 445, n. 1;
Bute's pensioners, i. 373, n. 1;
Churchill's _Rosciad_, i. 419, n. 5;
Davies and 'Goldy,' ii. 258, n. 2;
_Drelincourt on Death_, ii. 163, n. 4;
George III's pensioners, ii. 112, n. 3;
Goldsmith's assault on Evans, ii. 209, n. 2;
_Good-Natured Man_, ii. 48, n. 2;
quarrel with Johnson, ii. 253, n. 4,
_She Stoops to Conquer_, and the Royal Marriage Act, ii. 224, n. 1;
its production on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5;
its title, ii. 205, n. 4;
and Sterne, ii. 173, n. 2;
_Traveller_, the first line in, iii. 253, n. 1;
inaccuracy about 'Hesiod' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's letter to Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2;
and the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2;
Moore, Edward, mistakes for Dr. John Moore, iii. 424, n. 1;
taste, changes in public, iii. 192, n. 2.
_Fort_, a pun on it, ii. 241, n. 3.
FORTITUDE, iv. 374, n. 5.
_Fortune, a Rhapsody_, i. 124.
FORTUNE, wasting a, iii. 317.
FORTUNE-HUNTERS, ii. 131.
FORWARDNESS, ii. 449.
FOSSANE, ii. 400, n. 2.
_Fossilist_, ii. 304, n. 1; v. 408, n. 1.
FOSTER, Dr. James, iv. 9.
FOSTER, John, head-master of Eton, iv. 8, n. 3.
FOSTER, Mrs., i. 227.
See MILTON, granddaughter.
FOTHERGILL, Rev. Dr. ii. 331, 333.
FOULIS, Sir James, v. 150, 242.
FOULIS, Messrs., Glasgow booksellers, ii. 380;
'Elzevirs of Glasgow,' v. 370.
_Foundling Hospital for Wit_, iv. 289, n. 1.
_Fountains, The_, ii. 26, 232.
FOWKE, Mr., iii. 71, n. 5; iv. 34, n. 5.
FOWLER, Mr., ii. 63.
FOX, Charles James, Boswell on the India Bill, iv. 258, n. 2;
Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2;
Charles II, descended from, iv. 292, n. 2;
'commenced patriot,' iv. 87, n. 2;
Covent Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2;
described by Lord Holland, Gibbon, Mackintosh,
and Rogers, iv. 167, n. 1;
Walpole and Hannah More, iv. 292, n. 3;
Fitzpatrick's 'sworn brother,' iii. 388, n. 3;
George III's competitor, iv. 279;
divides the kingdom with Caesar, 292;
George III his own minister, i. 424, n. 1;
Goldsmith's _Traveller_, praises, iii. 252, 261;
Homer, reads, iv. 218, n. 3;
India Bill, i. 311, n. 1; iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 258, n. 2;
Johnson's epitaph, iv. 443;
'friend,' iv. 292;
for the King against Fox, but for Fox against Pitt, iv. 292;
in parliament, defends, iv. 318, n. 3;
presence, silent in, iii. 267; iv. 166;
thinks highly of his abilities, iii. 267;
accounts for his silence in company, iv. 167;
Kirkwall, returned for, iv. 266, n. 2;
Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479, 481, n. 3; ii. 274,
318; iii. 128, n. 4;
Lyttelton, second Lord, character of the, iv. 298, n. 3;
Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2;
Pitt's pertness, iv. 297, n. 2;
poetry _truth_, not history, ii. 366, n. 1;
Reynolds too much under him, iii. 261;
Sandwich's, Lord, removal, motion for, iii. 383, n. 3;
subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7;
_Sydney Biddulph_, praises, i. 390, n. 1;
Treasury, dismissal from the, ii. 274, n. 7;
Westminster election, iv. 266, 292, n. 3.
FOX, Henry. See HOLLAND, First Lord.
FOX, Lady Susan, ii. 328, n. 3.
FOX, Mrs., iv. 279, n. 2.
FOX-(Faux, or Vaux) HALL, iv. 26, n. 1.
FOX-HUNTING, i. 446, n. 1.
FRA PAOLO. See SARPI.
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH,
Academy takes forty years to compile their _Dictionary_,
i. 186, 301, n. 2;
sends Johnson a copy, i. 298;
on the resistance of the air, v. 253;
affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21;
_Ana_, their, v. 311;
anglomania, ii. 126;
Assembly, iv. 434;
authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1;
authors superficial, i. 454;
commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1;
commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1;
contented race, v. 106, n. 4;
cookery, ii. 385, 403;
Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1;
credulity, v. 330;
crossroads, ii. 391;
difference between English and French, iv. 14;
England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4;
English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343;
'fluency and ignorance,' iv. 15, n. 4;
invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4;
'French maxims abolish mercy,' iii. 204, n. 1.
Garrick's account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3;
gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1;
great people live magnificently, ii. 402;
houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2;
hunting, v. 253;
Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1;
Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2;
Johnson's tour, ii. 384-404;
_Journal_, ii. 389-401;
account given by him to Boswell, 401;
made more satisfied with England, iii. 352;
saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4;
Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170;
literati, v. 229;
literature, art of accommodating, v, 310;
book on every subject, iv. 237;
high in every department, ii. 125;
little original, v. 311;
not so general as in England, iii. 254;
in its second spring, ib.;
literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1;
magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395;
manners
indelicate, ii. 403;
gross, iii. 352;
habit of spitting, ii. 403; iii. 352; iv. 237;
meals gross, ii. 389;
meat, fit for a gaol, ii. 402, 403;
described by Smollett as good, ii. 402, n. 2;
by Goldsmith as bad, ib.;
men know no more than the women, iii. 253;
middle rank, no, ii. 394, 402;
military character respected, iii. 10;
mode of life not pleasant, ii. 388;
national petulance, ii. 126;
novels, ii. 125;
opera girls, iv. 171;
Paris: See PARIS; peace of 1762, i. 382, n. 1;
of 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1;
people, misery of the, ii. 402;
philosophy, pursuit of, iii. 305, n. 2;
players, ii. 404;
politeness, iv. 237;
poor laws, no, ii. 390;
prisoners in England, i. 353;
private life unaffected by despotic power, ii. 170;
privileges little abused, v. 106, n. 4;
Provence, gaiety of, ii. 402, n. 1;
Scotland, compared with, ii. 403;
sentiments, ii. 385, n. 5;
soldiers and a woman, story of some, ii,
391;
stage, delicacy of the, ii. 50, n. 3;
subordination, happy in, v. 106;
talking, must be always, iv, 15;
tavern life in no perfection, ii. 451;
torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1;
treatment of Indians, i. 308, n. 2;
trees along a road, ii. 395;
words, use big, i. 471:
See under ROUSSEAU, SMOLLETT, MRS. THRALE, H. WALPOLE.
FRANCE, Queen of, flattered, iii. 322.
FRANCIS, Rev. Dr. Philip, praises Johnson's _Debates_, i. 504;
translates Horace, iii. 356.
FRANCIS, Sir Philip, censures Burke's style, iii. 187, n. 1.
Francklin, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Johnson, inscribes his _Lucian_ to, iv. 34;
Murphy, attacks, i. 355;
_Rosciad_, in the, iv. 34, n. 1;
_Round Robin_, did not sign the, iii. 83, n. 3.
FRANCK, Johnson's servant. See BARBER.
FRANCK, post office, ii. 266; iv. 361, n. 3.
FRANCKLAND, Sir Thomas, iv. 235, n. 5.
FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, books bought in his youth, iv. 257, n. 2;
books, high price of English, i. 438, n. 2;
Boswell, dines with, ii. 59;
civil liberty compared with liberty of trading, ii. 60, n. 4;
conversion from vegetarianism, iii. 228, n. 1;
England, hypocrisy of, ii. 480;
Georgia, settlement of, i. 127, n. 4;
good that one man can do, iv. 97, n. 3;
Hollis, Thomas, iv. 97, n. 3;
human felicity how produced, i. 433, n. 4;
inoculation, iv. 293, n. 2;
Johnson's pension and W. Strahan, ii. 137, n. 1;
Lee, Arthur, iii. 68, n. 3;
life, wished to repeat his, iv. 302, n. 1;
Loudoun, Lord, v. 372, n. 3;
man, definition of, iii. 245; v. 32, n. 3;
Mansfield's, Lord, house burnt, iii. 429, n. 1;
_Old Man's Wish_, iv. 19, n. 1;
_pamphlets_, iii. 319, n. 1;
Paris Foundling Hospital, ii. 398, n. 5;
population, rule of increase of, ii. 314;
Priestly and Price, iv. 434;
Pringle, Sir John, iii. 65, n. 1;
Quakers of Philadelphia, iv. 212, n. 1;
Ralph, James, i. 169, n. 2;
riots in London in 1768, ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5;
rise of himself and Strahan, ii. 226, n. 2;
Shipley, Bishop, friendship with, iv. 246, n. 4;
Wilcox, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2;
Strahan, letter to, iii. 364, n. 1;
Whitefield's oratory, ii. 79, n. 4;
'Wilkes and liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2.
FRANKLIN, Thomas, iii. 83. n. 3.
FRASER, Dr., v. 108.
FRASER, General, iii. 2.
FRASER, Mr., of Balnain, v. 133.
FRASER, Mr., the engineer, iii. 326.
FRASER, Mr., of Strichen, v. 107.
FRAUDS, none innocent, ii. 434, n. 2.
FREDERICK, Prince of Wales. See under PRINCE OF WALES.
FREDERICK THE GREAT,
difficulties of his youth, i. 442, n. 1;
dressed plainly, ii. 475;
George II, quarrel with, iv. 107;
Johnson _downs_ Robertson with him, iii. 334-5;
opinion of his poetry, i. 434;
writes his _Memoirs_, i. 308;
Maupertuis, lines to, ii. 54, n. 3;
overawes Hanover, v. 201, n. 4;
power as a despotic prince, ii. 158;
prose and poetry, i. 434-5;
social, i. 442;
taken by the nose, risk of being, ii. 229;
torture, forbade use of, i. 467, n. 1;
Voltaire, contends with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2.
FREDERICK-WILLIAM the First, i. 308.
FREE AGENT, iv. 123.
FREE WILL,
Boswell introduces discussion, ii. 82, 104; iii. 290;
consults Johnson by letter, iv. 71;
'we know our will is free,' ii. 82; iv. 329;
'all theory against it,' iii. 291;
best for mankind, v. 117.
_Freeholder_, ii. 61, n. 4; 319, n. 1.
FREEPORT, Sir Andrew, ii. 212.
FREIND, Dr., i. 177, n. 2.
FRENCH, Mrs., iv. 48.
FRENCH COOK, a nobleman's, i. 469.
FRERON, father and son, ii. 392, 406.
FRESCATI, v. 153, n. 1.
FRIEND, Sir John, ii. 183.
FRIENDS, comparing minds, iii. 387;
example of good set by them, ii. 478;
few houses to be nursed at, iv. 181;
future state, in a, ii. 162; iii. 312, 438; iv. 279-80;
Goldsmith and the story of Bluebeard, ii. 181;
'he that has friends has no friend,' i. 207; iii. 149, 289, 386;
natural, iv. 147, 198, n. 4; v. 105;
pleasure in talking over past scenes, iii. 217;
survivor, the, iii. 312.
FRIENDSHIP, Christian virtue, how far a, iii. 289;
formed, how, iii. 165;
formed mostly by caprice or chance, iv. 280;
often formed ill, ii. 162;
mathematics, not as in, iii. 65;
neglect of it, iv. 145;
'repair,' need of, i. 300;
rupture of old, v. 89, 147;
test, put to the, iii. 238, 396.
_Friendship, an Ode_, i. 158; ii. 25.
FRISICK LANGUAGE, i. 475.
FROOM, iv. 402, n. 2.
FRUGALITY, iv. 163.
FRUIT, RAW, iv. 353.
_Frusta Letteraria_, iii. 173.
FRY, Thomas, the painter, iii. 21, n. 1.
FULLARTON, of Fullarton, iii. 356.
FULLER, Thomas, his dedications, ii., n. 2.
_Fun and funny_, ii. 335, n. 3; iii. 91, n. 2.
FUNDS, the, iv. 164.
_Further Thoughts on Agriculture_, i. 306.
FUTURE STATE, Boswell leads Johnson to discuss it, ii. 161;
confidence in respect to it, iv. 395;
due attention to it and to this world, v. 154;
gloom of uncertainty, iii. 154;
hope in it the basis of happiness, iii. 363;
knowledge of friends, ii. 162; iii. 438;
things made clear gradually, iii. 199.
G.
GABBLE, iii. 350; iv. 5.
GABRIEL, Don, a Spanish Prince, iv. 195, n. 6.
GAELICK. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse.
GAGNIER,--, ii. 390.
GAIETY, a duty, iii. 136, n. 2.
GALILEO, i. 194, n. 2.
GALLICISMS, iii. 343, n. 3.
GALWAY, Lady, iv. 109.
GAMA, iv. 250.
GAMING, produces no intermediate good, ii. 176;
more ruined by adventurous trade, iii. 23.
GAMING-CLUB, a, iii. 23.
_Ganganelli's Letters_, iii. 286.
GAOL FEVER, iv. 176, n. 1.
GARAGANTUA, iii. 255.
GARDEN, a walled, iv. 205.
GARDENERS, good, Scotchmen, ii. 77.
GARDENSTON, Lord (F. Garden), v. 75-6.
GARDINER, Mrs., account of her, i. 242, n. 5; iv. 245-6;
Johnson's bequest to her, iv. 402, n, 2;
mentioned, iii. 22, 104, n. 5; iv. 239, n. 2.
GARDNER, T., bookseller, ii. 344.
GARRET, the scholar's, i. 264.
GARRICK, Captain, i. 81; iii. 387.
GARRICK FAMILY, striking likeness in all the members, ii. 462.
