waste of time, iv. 221.
HOSPITALS, their administration, iii. 53.
HOSTILITY, temporary, iv. 266.
HOT-HOUSES, iv. 206.
'HOTTENTOT, a respectable,' i. 266;
not Johnson, i. 267, n. 2.
HOUGHTON COLLECTION, iv. 334, n. 6.
HOUSE OF COMMONS,
afraid of the populace, v. 102;
Bolingbroke, described by iii. 234, n. 2;
bribed, must be, iii. 408;
coarse invectives in 1784, iv. 297;
city, contest with the, in 1771, ii. 300, n. 5; iv. 139;
corruption, iii. 206, 234;
Crosby the Lord Mayor committed by it to prison, iii. 459;
debates: see DEBATES;
dissolution of 1774, ii. 285; v. 460;
of 1784. iv. 264, n. 2;
election-committees, iv. 74;
figure made by insignificant men, v. 269;
influence of the Crown, motion on the, iv. 220;
influence of the peers, v. 56;
Johnson's account of it as it originally was, iii. 408;
anecdote of Henry VIII, ib.;
only once inside the building, i. 503-4;
Middlesex Election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION;
mixed body, iii. 234;
Nowell's sermon on January 30, iv. 296;
power of the nation's money, iv. 170;
relation to the people, iv. 30;
speaking at the bar, iii. 224;
Wilkes's advice, ib.;
speaking before a Committee, iv. 74;
counsel paid for speaking, iv. 281;
speeches, how far affected by, iii. 234-5;
tenacity of forms, iv. 104;
Wilkes, afraid of, iv. 140, n. I;
resolution to expel him expunged, ii. 112.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Copy-right Case, ii. 272;
Corporation of Stirling Case, ii. 374;
dissatisfaction with its judicature, ii. 421, n. 1;
Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1;
lay peers in law cases, iii. 345;
'noble stands,' made, v. 102;
Scotch Schoolmaster's Case, ii. 144, 186;
wise and independent, iii. 204.
HOUSEBREAKERS, iv. 127.
HOVEDEN, iv. 310, n. 3.
HOWARD, Hon. Edward, ii. 108, n. 2.
HOWARD, General Sir George, ii. 375, n. 1.
HOWARD, Lord, v. 403, n. 2.
HOWARD, Sir Robert, ii. 168, n. 2.
HOWARD,--, of Lichfield, i. 80, 515, 516; iii. 222.
HOWARD,--, of Lichfield, the younger, iii. 222.
HOWELL, James, in the Fleet, v. 137, n. 4;
_'Stavo bene,'_ &c., ii. 346, n. 6.
_Howell's State Trials_, Somerset's Case, iii. 87, n. 3.
HUDDESFORD, Rev. Dr., Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, i. 280, 322;
Johnson's letter to him, i. 282.
_Hudibras. See_ BUTLER, Samuel.
HUET, Bishop, iii. 172, n. 1.
HUGGINS, William, quarrel with Warton, iv. 6;
mentioned, i. 382.
HUGHES, John, _Memoir_ by Duncombe, iii. 314, n. 2;
_Sieges of Damascus_, iii. 259, n. 1;
Spenser, edits, i. 270;
mentioned, iv. 36, n. 4.
HUGILL, an attorney, iii. 297, n. 2.
HULK, The Justitia, iii. 268.
HUMANITY, its common rights, iv. 191, 284.
HUMBLE-BEE, v. 380, n. 3.
HUME, David, account of his publications, v. 31, n. 1;
Adams, Dr., answers his _Essay on Miracles_, i. 8, n. 2;
ii. 441; iv. 377, n. a; v. 274;
Adams the architects, ii. 325, n. 3;
Agutter's sermon, attacked in, iv. 422, n. 1;
American war, iv. 194, n. 1;
ancient history, ii. 237, n. 4;
art, indifference to, i. 363, n. 3;
atheists in Paris, dines with seventeen, ii. 8, n. 4;
attacks, reply to, ii. 61, n. 4;
benefited by some, v. 274;
Beattie's _Essay on Truth: see_ BEATTIE;
Blacklock, the blind poet, i. 466, n. I; v. 47, n. 3;
books, the small number of good, iii. 20, n. 1;
Boswell intimate with him, ii. 59, n 3,437; n. 2; v30;
preserves memoirs of him, ib.;
Boufflers, Mme. de, ii. 405, n. 2;
Carlyle's, Dr., account of him, v. 30, n. 1;
change of ministry in 1775, expects a, ii. 381, n. 1;
Charles II, partiality for, ii. 341, n. 2;
Cheyne, Dr., letter to, iii. 27, n. 1;
composed with facility, v. 66, n. 3;
conceit, his, v. 29;
conversation, ii. 236, n. 1;
death, said that he had no fear of, ii. 106; iii. 153;
dedications, iv. 105, n. 4;
Deist, denied that he was a, ii. 8;
_Dialogues on Natural Religion_, i. 268, n, 4;
dines with those who had written against him, ii. 441, n. 5;
Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1;
education and disposition, opinion on, ii. 437, n. 2;
England on the decline, ii. 127, n. 4;
English and French politeness, iv. 237, n. 3;
English, his hatred of the, ii. 300, n. 5; v. 19, n. 4;
neglect of polite letters, ii. 447, n. 5;
prejudice against the Scotch, ii. 300, n. 5;
prose, iii. 257, n. 3;
and Scotch education, iii. 12, n. 2;
_Essays Moral and Political_, sale of his, iv. 440;
fame, his, v. 31;
Fergusson's _Essay on Civil Society_, v. 42, n. 1;
France on the decline, thinks, ii. 127, n. 4;
his reception there, ii. 401, n. 4;
French, ignorance of, i. 439, n. 2;
French prisoners, account of the, i. 353, n. 2;
Germany, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4;
Gibbon's praise of him, ii. 236, n. 3;
Glasgow professorship, sought a, v. 369, n. 2;
'gone to milk the bull,' i. 444;
happiness, equality in, ii. 9; iii. 288;
happy with small means, i. 372, n. 1;
Henry's _History_, reviews, iii. 334, n. 1;
_History of England_,
his alterations in it on the Tory side, iv. 194, n. 1;
Adam Smith's _Letter_ prefixed, v. 30, n. 3;
slow sale of the first volume, v. 31, n. 1;
written for want of occupation, iii. 20, n. 1;
mentioned, iv. 78, n. 2;
Hobbist, a, v. 272;
Home, John, and Shakespeare, ii. 320, n. 1;
Home, bequest to, ii. 320, n. 1;
house, his, in James Court, v. 22, n. 2;
in St. David Street, v. 28, n. 2;
Hurd and the Warburtonian school, iv. 190, n. 1;
hypocrite, longs to be a successful, iv. 194, n. 1;
'infidel pensioner,' called an, ii. 317;
infidels, attacks, iii. 334, n. 1;
infidelity, his death-bed, iii. 153;
infidelity, his, less read, iv. 288;
Johnson and Convocation, i. 464;
_Dictionary_, absurdities in, ii. 317, n. 1;
in the Green Room, i. 201;
had not (in 1773) read his _History_, ii. 236;
likes him better than Robertson, v. 57, n. 3;
violent against him, v. 30;
Kames and Voltaire, ii. 90, n. 1;
Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40, n. 1;
Leechman's _Sermon on Prayer_, v. 68, n. 4;
_Life_, with Adam Smith's letter prefixed, iii. 119;
Macdonald, Sir James, i. 449, n. 2;
Macpherson's _Homer_ and _History of Britain_, ii. 298, n. 1;
Mallet and Bolingbroke, i. 268, n. 4;
Mallet's _Life of Marlborough_, iii. 386, n. 1;
middle class in Scotland, absence of a, ii. 402, n. 1;
Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3;
ministry, imbecility of Lord North's, iii. 46, n. 5;
_Miracles, Essay on_, i. 444; iii. 188:
see under Dr. ADAMS and BEATTIE;
Monboddo's _Origin of Language_, ii. 259, n. 5;
Murray (Lord Mansfield), at Lovat's trial, speech of, i. 181, n. 1;
national debt, ii. 127, n. 4;
neglect of a book, iii. 375, n. 1;
New Testament, ignorance of the, ii. 9; iii. 153;
_Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2;
_Parties in General_, iii. 11, n. 1;
_Parties of Great Britain_, ii. 402, n. 1;
pension, ii. 317, n. 1;
philosopher, anecdote of a, iii. 305, n. 2;
Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1;
_Political Discourses_, ii. 53, n. 2;
Pretender's base character, v. 200, n. 1;
visit to London, i. 279, n. 5; v. 201, n. 3;
priests and dissenters, v. 255, n. 5;
'principle, has no,' iv. 194, n. 1; v. 272;
Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;
resistance, doctrine of, ii. 170. n. 2:
Robertson's _Scotland_, price offered for, iii. 334, n. 2;
Rousseau's visit to England and his pension, ii. 11, n. 4, 12, n. 1;
Russia, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4;
Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2;
Scotch writers, foolish praise of, iv. 186, n. 2;
Scotticisms, ii. 72;
corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3;
second-sight, ii. 10, n. 3;
Select Society, member of the, v. 393, n. 4;
sentiments, unanimity and contrariety of, iii. 11, n. 1;
Smith's, Adam, _Letter_, v. 30;
answered by Dr. Home, ib., n. 3;
Smith's, suggested knocking of his head against, iii. 119;
soldiers, iii. 9, n. 3;
Strahan, leaves his MSS. to, ii. 136, n. 6;
style, i. 439;
Swift's style, ii. 191, n. 3;
Tory by chance, iv. 194; v. 272;
Toryism, growth of his, iv. 194, n. 1;
touchstones of party-men, i. 354, n. 1;
tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 238, n. 2;
_Treatise of Human Nature_, i. 127, n. 1;
Tytler, attacked by, v. 274;
'Voltaire, an echo of,' ii. 53;
mentioned, ii. 160, n. 2.
HUME, Mrs., James Thomson's grandmother, iii. 359.
_Humiliating_, ii. 155.
HUMMUMS, The, iii. 349.
HUMOUR. See GOOD HUMOUR.
HUMOUR, Scotch nation not distinguished for it, iv. 129.
_Humours of Ballamagairy_, ii. 219, n. 1.
HUMPHRY, Ozias,
account of him, iv. 268, n. 2;
Johnson's letters to him, iv. 268-9;
his miniature, iv. 421, n. 2.
_Humphry Clinker_. See SMOLLETT.
HUNGARY, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18.
HUNTER, John, the surgeon, i. 243, n. 3; iv. 220, n. 1.
HUNTER, Dr. William, iv. 220.
HUNTER, ----, Johnson's schoolmaster, i. 44-6; ii. 146, 467.
HUNTER, Miss, iv. 183, n. 2.
HUNTER, Mrs., i. 516.
HUNTING, v. 253.
HUNTINGDON, tenth Earl of, iii. 84, n. 1.
HURD, Richard, Bishop of Worcester,
accounts for everything systematically, iv. 189;
Addison, impertinent notes on, iv. 190, n. 1;
archbishop, declined to be, iv. 190;
Boswell attacks him, iv. 47, n. 2;
_Cowley's Select Works_, edits, iii. 29, 227;
evil spirits, on, iv. 290; v. 36, n. 3;
Horace, notes on, iii. 74, n. 1;
Hume, attacks, iv. 190, n. 1;
Johnson praises him, iv. 190;
_Moral and Political Dialogues_, iv. 190;
_Parr's Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian_, iv. 47, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 404, n. 1; ii. 36, n. 2; iv. 407, n, 4.
'HURGOES,' i. 502.
HUSSEY, Rev. John, Johnson's letter to him, iii. 369.
HUSSEY, Rev. Dr. Thomas, iv. 411.
HUTCHESON, Francis, on _merit_, iv. 15, n. 5.
HUTCHINSON, John, _Moral Philosophy_, iii. 53.
HUTCHISON, William, of Kyle, v. 107, n. 1.
HUTTON, the Moravian, iv. 410.
HUTTON, William (of Birmingham),
Bedlam, visits, ii. 374, n. 1;
Birmingham, cost of living at, i. 103, n. 2;
_Derby, History of_, iii. 164, n. 1;
sufferings as a factory-boy, iii. 164, n. 1.
HYDER ALI, v. 124, n. 2.
HYPOCAUST, a Roman, v. 435.
HYPOCHONDRIA, i. 66, 343; iii. 192.
See under BOSWELL, JOHNSON, and MELANCHOLY.
_Hypochondriack, The_, iv. 179, n. 5.
HYPOCRISY,
little suspected by Johnson, i. 418, n. 3;
middle state between it and conviction, iv. 122;
no man a hypocrite in his pleasures, iv. 316.
_Hypocrite, The_, ii. 321.
I.
ICELAND,
Horrebow's _Natural History_, iii. 279;
Johnson talks of visiting it, i. 242; iii. 454; iv. 358, n. 2.
ICOLMKILL. See IONA.
_Idea_, improperly used, iii. 196.
IDLENESS,
active sports not idleness, i. 48;
hidden from oneself, i. 331, n. 1;
miseries of it, i. 331;
upon principle, iv. 9;
why we are weary when idle, ii. 98.
_Idler, The_ (an earlier paper than Johnson's), i. 330, n. 2.
_Idler, The_ (Johnson's),
account of it, i. 331-5;
Betty Broom, story of, iv. 246;
collected in volumes, i. 335;
Johnson draws his own portrait in Mr. Sober, iii. 398, n. 3;
writes on his mother's death, i. 331, n. 4, 339, n. 3;
mottoes, i. 332;
No. 22 omitted in collected vols., i. 335;
pirated, i. 345, n. 1;
profits on first edition, i. 335, n. 1;
tragedians, a hit at, v. 38, n. 1.
IFFLEY, iv. 295.
IGNORANCE,
guilt of voluntarily continuing it, ii. 27;
in men of eminence, ii. 91;
people content to be ignorant, i. 397.
ILAM. See ISLAM.
_Ilk_,
defined in Johnson's _Dictionary_, iii. 326, n. 4;
'Johnson of that Ilk,' ii. 427, n. 2.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN, ii. 457.
IMAGES, worship of, iii. 17, 188.
_Imagination_, iii. 341.
IMITATIONS OF POEMS, i. 118, n. 5, 122.
IMLAC, why so spelt, iv. 31. See also under _Rasselas_.
IMMORTALITY,
belief of it impressed on all, ii. 358;
of brutes, ii. 54.
IMPARTIALITY IN TELLING LIES, ii. 434.
IMPIETY,
inundation of it due to the Revolution, v. 271;
repressed in Johnson's company, iv. 295.
IMPORTANCE, imaginary, iii. 327.
IMPOSTORS, Literary,
Douglas, Dr., i. 360;
Du Halde, ii. 55, n. 4;
Eccles, Rev. Mr., i. 360;
Innes, Rev. Dr., i. 359;
Rolt, E., i. 359.
_Impransus_, i. 137.
IMPRESSIONS,
trusting to them, iv. 122-3;
early ones, iv. 197, n. 1.
_In Theatro_, ii. 324, n. 3.
INCE, Richard, a contributor to the Spectator, iii. 33.
_Inchkenneth, Ode on_, ii. 293; v. 325.
_Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim_, iv. 181, n. 3.
INCIVILITY, iv. 28.
INCOME, living within one's, iv. 226.
INDECISION OF MIND, iii. 300.
_Index-scholar_, iv. 407, n. 4, 442.
INDIA,
despotic governor the best, iv. 2l3;
'don't give us India,' v. 209;
grant of natural superiority, iv. 68;
hereditary trades, v. 120,
Johnson's wish to visit it, iii. 134; n. 1, 456;
judges there engaging in trade, ii. 343;
mapping of it, ii. 356;
nursery of ruined fortunes, iv. 213, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 194.
See EAST INDIES and INDIES.
INDIAN BILL, Fox's,
Ministry dismissed on it, i. 311, n. 1;
Lee's piece of parchment, iii. 224, n. 1.
INDIANS, American,
story told of them by two officers, iii. 246; v. 135;
their weak children die, iv. 210;
wronged, i. 308, n. 2.
See NATIVES.
INDICTMENT, prosecution by, iii. 16, n. 1.
INDIES, the,
discovery of the passage thither a misfortune, i. 455, n. 3;
proverb about bringing home their wealth, iii. 302.
_Indifferently_, i. 180.
INDOLENCE, iv. 352.
INFERIORITY, 'half a guinea's worth of it,' ii. 169.
INFIDELITY abroad, iv. 288;
affectation of showing courage, ii. 81;
gloom of it, ii. 81;
outcry about it, ii. 359. See CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.
INFIDELS,
compared with atrocious criminals, iii. 55;
credulity, their, v. 331;
ennui, must suffer from, ii. 442, n. 1;
keeping company with them, iii. 409-10;
number in England, ii. 359;
treating them with civility, ii. 442;
writings allowed to pass without censure, v. 271;
writers drop into oblivion, iv. 288.
INFLUENCE,
America might be governed by it, iii. 205;
crown influence salutary, ii. 118;
Bute's attempt to govern by, ii. 353;
lost and recovered, iii. 4;
vote of the House of Commons against it, iv. 220;
in domestic life, iii. 205, n. 4;
Ireland governed by it, iii. 205;
property, in proportion to, v. 56;
wealth, from, v. 112.
INFLUENZA, ii. 410.
INGENHOUSZ, Dr., ii. 427, n. 4.
INGRATITUDE,
complaints of, iii. 2;
Lewis XIV's saying, ii. 167.
INNES, or INNYS, Rev. Dr.,
fraud about Dr. Campbell, i. 359;
about Psalmanazar, i. 359, n. 3; iii. 444-5, 447-8.
INNKEEPERS, soldiers quartered on them, ii. 218, n. 1.
INNOCENT, punishment of the, iv. 251.
INNOVATION, iv. 188.
INNS,
felicity of England in the, ii. 451;
Shenstone's lines, ii. 452.
INNYS, William, the bookseller, iv. 402, n. 2, 440.
INOCULATION, iv. 293; v. 226.
INQUISITION, i. 465.
INSANITY. See JOHNSON, madness, and MADNESS.
INSCRIPTIONS. See EPITAPHS.
INSECTS, their numerous species, ii. 248.
INSURRECTION OF 1745,
Boswells projected _History_ of it, iii. 162, 414;
Voltaire's account, ib., n. 6;
hard to write impartially, v. 393.
INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT, due to subordination, ii. 219.
INTELLECTUAL LABOUR, mankind's aversion to it, i. 397.
INTENTIONS, ii. 12;
