its whiggism, ii. 221;
Hume's Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2;
Johnson, _Life_ by, iv. 57-8;
attacks on it, iv. 64;
Johnson's unfriendliness, iv. 57;
Montague, Mrs., friendship with, iv. 64;
_Persian Letters_, i-74, n. 2;
'respectable Hottentot,' i. 267, n. 2;
Smollett, attacked by, iii. 33, n. 1;
Thomson's 'loathing to write,' iii. 360;
mentioned, ii. 64, n. 2, 124, n. 1.
LYTTELTON, Thomas, second Lord,
character, his, iv. 298, n. 3;
timidity, v. 454;
vision, iv. 298;
mentioned, iv. 296, n. 3.
LYTTELTON, Sir Edward, v. 457.
M.
MACALLAN, Eupham (Euphan M'Cullan), v. 39.
MACARTNEY, Earl of,
Boswell's Life of Johnson, praises, i. 13;
Campbell, Dr. John, account of, i. 418, n. 1 iii. 343, n. 4;
embassy to China, i. 13, n. 2, 367, n. 2;
Hindoos, describes a peculiarity of the, iv. 12, n. 2;
Johnson and Lady Craven, anecdote, iii. 22, n. 2;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
mentioned, i. 380; iii. 238, n. 2, 425.
MACAULAY, Dr., a physician,
husband of Mrs. Macaulay the historian, i. 242, n. 4; iii. 402.
MACAULAY, Mrs. Catherine, the historian,
Boswell wishes to pit her against Johnson, iii. 185;
Johnson and her footman, i. 447; iii. 77;
had not read her _History_, iii. 46, n. 2;
'match' with her, ii. 336;
political and moral principles, wonders at, ii. 219;
toast, i. 487;
maiden name and marriage, i. 242, n. 4;
'reddening her cheeks,' iii. 46;
ridiculous, making her, ii. 336;
Shakespeare's plays and her daughter, i. 447, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 46, n. 1.
MACAULAY, Dr. James,
_Bibliography of Rasselas_, ii. 208, n. 3.
MACAULAY, Rev. John,
Lord Macaulay's grandfather, v. 355, n. 1, 360, n. 1;
a man of good sense, v. 360;
on principles and practice, v. 359.
MACAULAY, Rev. Kenneth (Lord Macaulay's great-uncle),
colds caught at St. Kilda, on, ii. 51, 150; v. 278;
_History of St. Kilda_, ii. 150;
Johnson visits him, v. 118;
disbelieves his having written the _History_, v. 119;
calls him 'a bigot to laxness,' v. 120;
praises his magnanimity, ii. 51, 150; v. 278.
MACAULAY, Mrs. Kenneth,
Johnson offers to get a servitorship for her son, ii, 380; v. 122;
mentioned, v. 119.
MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay),
ancestors, ii. 51, n. 2; v. 118, n. 1, 355, n. 1;
_Addison, Essay on_, iv. 53, n. 3;
_anfractuosity_, iv. 4, n. 1;
Bentley and Boyle, v. 238, n. 1;
'brilliant flashes of silence,' v. 360, n. 1;
Boswell as a biographer, i. 30, n. 3;
Burke's first speech, ii. 16, n. 2;
Campbell's, Dr., _Diary_, ii. 338, n. 2;
Chesterfield, Earl of, eminence of the, ii. 329, n. 3;
Crisp, Mr., account of, iv. 239, n. 3;
Croker's 'blunders,' ii. 338, n. 2;
criticism on _Ad Lauram Epigramma_, i. 157, n. 5;
Greek, v. 234, n. 1;
Latin, iv. 144, n. 2;
and the Marquis of Montrose, v. 298, n. 1;
and _Prince Titi_, ii. 391, n. 4;
feeling and dining, on, ii. 94, n. 2;
Gibbon's reported Mahometanism, ii. 448, n. 2;
Hastings's answer to Johnson's letter, iv. 70, n. 2;
Hastings and the study of Persian, iv. 68, n. 2;
House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1;
imagination, described, iii. 455;
Johnson's blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7;
and Boswell on the non-jurors, iv. 286, n. 3, 287, n. 2;
_called_, iv. 94, n. 4;
and _Cecilia_, iv. 223, n. 5, 389, n. 4;
contempt of histories, iv. 312, n. 1;
etymologies, i. 186, n. 5;
and Horne Tooke, i. 297, n. 2;
household, i. 232;
ill-fed roast mutton, iv. 284, n. 4;
knowledge of the science of human nature, iii. 450;
of London and the country, ib.;
talk and style of writing, iv. 237, n. 1; v. 145, n. 2;
translation of his own sayings, iv. 320, n. 2;
on travelling, Appendix B, iii. 449-59;
_King's evil_, i. 42, n. 3;
Literary Club, i. 477, n. 4;
Mattaire's use of _Carteret_ as a dactyl, iv. 3;
Pitt's peerages, iv. 249, n. 4;
treatment of Johnson and Gibbon, iv. 350, n. 1;
Prendergrass, ii. 183, n. 1;
Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2;
Thrale's, Mrs., second marriage, iii. 49, n. 1;
Warburton, the, of our age, ii. 36, n. 2;
William III and Dodwell, v. 437, n. 3;
window tax, v. 301, n. 1.
MACAULEY, Dr. (Cock Lane Ghost), (probably Dr. Macaulay, the husband
of Mrs. Macaulay the historian), i. 407, n. 3.
MACBEAN, Alexander, Johnson's amanuensis, account of him, i. 187;
_calling_, on, iv. 94;
Charterhouse, brother of the, i. 187; iii. 440-1;
death, iii. 44l, n. 3;
stood as a screen between Johnson and death, ib.;
Johnson's _Preface_ to his _Geography_, i. 187; ii. 204;
learning, a man of great, iii. 106;
starving, ii. 379, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 138, 139; iii. 25.
MACBEAN, the younger, i. 187.
_Macbeth, Miscellaneous Observations on_, i. 175.
For _Macbeth_, See under SHAKESPEARE.
_Maccabees_, Johnson looks into the, ii. 189, n. 3.
_Maccaroni_, a, v. 84.
MACCARONIC verses, iii. 283.
MACCLESFIELD, v. 432.
MACCLESFIELD, Charles Gerard, Earl of, Bill of Divorce, i. 170, n. 5.
MACCLESFIELD, Countess of, account of her, i. 174, n. 2;
divorced, i. 170;
marries Colonel Brett, i. 174, n. 2;
Savage's reputed mother, i. 166, n. 4;
evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4;
reproached at Bath, i. 174, n. 1.
MACCLESFIELD, Thomas Parker, first Earl of, i. 157.
MACCLESFIELD, George Parker, second Earl of, i. 267, n. 1.
MACCONOCHIE--, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213.
MACCRUSLICK, v. 166, n. 2.
MACDONALD, Clan of, ii. 269, 270.
MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, of Slate
(father of Sir James and Sir Alexander Macdonald), v. 174, 188, 260.
MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, first Lord Macdonald,
arms rusty, his, v. 151, 355;
Boswell and Johnson try to rouse him, v. 150-1;
feudal system, attacks the, ii. 177;
flees from his tenants, v. 150, n. 3;
Johnson, introduced to, ii. 157;
invites him to visit him, v. 14;
inhospitality, ii. 303, n. 1; v. 148, n. 1, 157, n. 2;
'a very penurious gentleman,' v. 277, 279;
anecdotes of his penuriousness, v. 315-6;
passages suppressed by Boswell, v. 148, n. 1, 415, n. 4;
landlord, an oppressive, v. 149, 161;
Latin verses, his bad, v. 419;
sugar-tongs in his house, absence of, v. 22, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2, 173, 191, n. 2; v. 275.
MACDONALD, Lady,
wife of the first Lord Macdonald, ii. 169, n. 2; v. 147.
MACDONALD, Alexander, of Kingsburgh (old Kingsburgh),
his annuity, v. 257-8;
helps the Pretender, v. 188-9;
examined, v. 259-60;
mentioned, v. 160-1.
MACDONALD of Kingsburgh, the younger, account of him, v. 184;
emigrates, v. 185;
mentioned, v. 205-6.
MACDONALD, old Mrs. of Kingsburgh, v. 190.
MACDONALD, Archibald, M.P., v. 153, n. 1.
MACDONALD of Clanranold, v. 158.
MACDONALD, Sir Donald, v. 147.
MACDONALD, Donald, v. 149.
MACDONALD, Donald (Donald Roy), v. 190-1.
MACDONALD, Flora, wife of Macdonald of Kingsburgh,
Account of her adventures, v. 187-191, 201, 259;
Courtenay's _Poetical Review_,
mentioned in, ii. 268;
emigrates, v. 185, n. 3;
courage on board ship, ib.;
health drunk on Jan. 30, iii. 371;
Johnson visits her, v. 179, 184;
Primrose, Lady, rewards her, v. 201, n. 3;
virulent Jacobite in her old age, v. 185, n. 4.
MACDONALD, Hugh, v. 279.
MACDONALD, Sir James, account of him, i. 449;
death, v. 153, n. 1;
deeply regretted, v. 149;
English education, v. 149;
epitaph, v. 151;
generosity, v. 258;
Johnson, terror of, i. 449;
letters to his mother, v. 153, n. 1;
Marcellus of Scotland, iv. 82, n. 1; v. 152, n. 1;
Rasay has his sword, v. 174;
mentioned, v. 183, 289.
MACDONALD, James, a factor, Johnson visits him, v. 275-79.
MACDONALD, James, of Knockow, v. 257.
MACDONALD, Lady Margaret, widow of Sir A. Macdonald of Slate,
adored in Sky, iii. 383; v. 260;
befriends the Pretender, v. 188;
raises a monument to her son, v. 153.
MACDONALD, Ranald, ii. 309.
MACDONALD of Scothouse, v. 197.
MACDONALD of Sky, league with Rasay, v. 174.
MACFARLANE, THE LAIRD OF, the antiquary, v. 156, n. 3.
MACFRIAR, Donald, v. 191-2.
M'GHIE, Dr. William, i. 191, n. 5.
M'GINNISES, The, v. 337.
MACKENZIE,--, of Applecross, v. 194.
MACKENZIE, Sir George, _Characteres Advocatorum_, v. 212-4;
Dryden describes him as 'that noble wit of Scotland', iv. 38, n. 1.
MACKENZIE, Henry, _Man of Feeling_, i. 360;
_Man of the World_, i. 360, n. 2; v. 277;
_Mirror, The_, iv. 390, n. 1;
Poker Club, ii. 431, n. 1;
Wedderburne's Club, iv. 179, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 35, n, 1.
MACKENZIE, John, v. 191-3.
MACKENZIE,--, stories of second sight, v. 160.
MACKINNON, of Corrichatachin, v. 156;
Boswell calls him _Corri_, v. 258;
Johnson visits him, v. 156-162, 257-265.
MACKINNON, John, v. 197-8.
MACKINNON, Lady, v. 198.
MACKINNON, Laird of, v. 165, 195, 197-9.
MACKINNON, Mrs., v. 160-1, 259, 264.
MACKINTOSH, Sir James, Aberdeen, his fellow-students at, v. 85, n. 2;
study of Greek there, v. 92, n. 1;
birth-place, v. 132, n. 1;
Burke on Boswell's _Life_ as a monument to Johnson's fame, i. 10, n. 1;
and Gibbon, ii. 348, n. 1;
on Johnson's talk, iv. 316, n. 1;
as a metaphysician, i. 472, n. 2;
Dunbar, Dr., iii. 436, n. 1;
Fox's character, iv. 167, n. 1;
election to the Literary Club, ii. 274, n. 4;
Gray's and Walpole's style, iii. 31, n. 1;
Johnson, groundless charge against, v. 332, n. 1;
idea of a ship, v. 137, n. 4;
withheld from metaphysics, v. 109, n. 3;
leading life over again, on, iv. 303, n. 1;
Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;
Priestley, Dr., iv. 443;
Temple's style, iii. 257, n. 3;
torture, late use of, i. 467, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 40, n. 3; 230, n. 5.
MACKLIN, Charles, _Life_ by W. Cooke, iv. 437;
_Man of the World_, v. 277, n. 1;
taught Wedderburne, iii. 2.
MACLAURIN, Professor Colin,
epitaphs, his, v. 49-50;
Goldsmith's anecdote of his yawning, iii. 15;
tries to fortify Edinburgh, v. 49, n. 6.
MACLAURIN, John (afterwards Lord Dreghorn),
argument for Knight, a negro, iii. 86;
motto for it from Virgil, iii. 87, n. 3, 212;
plea read by Johnson, iii. 88, 101, 127, 212;
epitaphs on his father, his, v. 49;
Goldsmith's story of his father, uneasy at, iii. 15;
Johnson, introduced to, v. 48;
style, caricatures, ii. 363;
'made dish,' his, i. 469; v. 394, n. 1.
MACLEAN, Alexander, Laird of Col. See COL, the old Laird of.
MACLEAN, Dr. Alexander, a physician of Tobermorie,
Johnson visits him, v. 313-16;
wrote _The History of the Macleans_, v. 313;
mentioned, v. 310, 319.
MACLEAN, Dr. Alexander, another physician of Mull, v. 340.
MACLEAN, Sir Allan, Chief of the Macleans, v. 310;
Johnson visits him, v. 322-31;
his house, v. 322, n. 1, 323;
Sunday evening, v. 325;
accompanies Johnson, v. 331-44;
in Iona, v. 335;
asserts the rights of a chieftain, v. 337;
brags of Scotland, v. 340;
visits Lochbury, v. 341-3;
lawsuit, his, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 95, 101, 102, 122, 126-7;
hates writers to the signet, v. 343, n. 3.
MACLEAN, Captain Lauchlan, v. 284-285, 294, 305.
MACLEAN, Clan of, ii. 269.
MACLEANS of Col, story of the, v. 297, n. 1.
MACLEAN, Donald, young Laird of Col. See COL, Laird of.
MACLEAN, Donald, of Col, father of the old laird, v. 299.
MACLEAN of Corneck, v. 293, 294, 296, 301.
MACLEAN, Sir Hector, v. 299, 323.
MACLEAN, Rev. Hector, v. 286-8, 306.
MACLEAN, Sir John, v. 314.
MACLEAN, John, a bard, v. 314.
MACLEAN of Lochbuy. See LOCHBUY, Laird of.
MACLEAN, Miss, of Inchkenneth, v. 325.
MACLEAN, Miss, of Tobermorie, v. 314, 3I7.
MACLEAN of Muck, v. 225.
MACLEAN, nephew to Maclean of Muck, v. 225.
MACLEAN of Torloisk, ii. 308.
_Macleans, History of the_, v. 313.
MACLEOD of Bay, v. 208.
MACLEOD, Captain, of Balmenoch, v. 144.
MACLEOD, Clan of,
two branches, v. 410;
question as to the chieftainship, ib., v. 412.
MACLEOD, Colonel, of Talisker,
account of him, v. 256, 260;
Johnson visits him, v. 250-56;
mentioned, v. 95, 165, l79, 2l5, 22l, 234.
MACLEOD, Dr., of Rasay,
wounded at Culloden, v. 190, 194;
receives a present from the Pretender, v. 195;
mentioned, v. 165, 169, 183, 192, 411.
MACLEOD, Donald (late of Canna), v. 156, 260, 272.
MACLEOD of Ferneley, v. 250.
MACLEOD, Flora, of Rasay,
her beauty, v. 178;
married, iii. 118, 122;
visits Boswell, v. 411.
MACLEOD of Hamer, v. 225.
MACLEOD, John _Breck_, v. 233-4.
MACLEOD, John, of Rasay. See Rasay.
MACLEOD, Laird of,
account of him, v. 176;
as a chief, v. 208, 211, 215, 250;
estates, v. 231;
fisheries, v. 249;
Johnson visits him, v. 14, 207;
is offered Island Isa, v. 249;
takes leave of him, v. 256;
writes to him, v. 266, n. 2;
mentioned, v. 141, 165, 177, 217, 229, 234, 251.
MACLEOD, old Laird of, v. 143, 289.
MACLEOD, Lady (widow of the old laird),
Johnson, welcomes, v. 207-8, 266, n. 2;
argues on principles and practice, v. 210;
on natural goodness, v. 211;
on removing the family seat, v. 222;
mentioned, v. 215.
MACLEOD of Lewis, v. 167.
MACLEOD, Magnus, v. 208.
MACLEOD, Malcolm,
account of him, v. 161-2, 166, 168;
befriends the Pretender, v. 190-9;
arrested, v. 200-1;
tells a legend, v. 171;
mentioned, iii. 119; v. 179, 183.
MACLEOD, Rev. Neal, v. 338, 340.
MACLEOD, Sir Normand, v. 319.
MACLEOD, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92, 95, 251.
MACLEOD, Sir Roderick (Rorie More),
his cascade, v. 207, 215, 223;
bed, v. 208;
horn, v. 212, 320;
mentioned, v. 219.
MACLEOD, Roderick, v. 242.
MACLEOD, Sandie, v. 165;
known as M'Cruslick, v. 166, 168, 178.
MACLEOD, Mrs., of Talisker, v. 253.
MACLEOD, ----, of Ulinish,
account of him, v. 235;
mentioned, v. 177, 211, 246, 248.
MACLONICH, Clan of, v. 297, n. 1.
MACLURE, Captain, v. 319.
MACMARTINS, v. 298.
MACNEIL of Barra, v. 227, n. 4.
M'NEILL, P. _Tranent and its Surroundings_, iii. 202, n. 1.
M'NICOL, Rev. Donald, ii. 308, n. 1.
MACPHERSON, James,
account of his person and character by Dr. Carlyle, ii. 300, n. 1;
by Hume, ii. 298, n. 1;
buried in Westminster Abbey, ii. 298, n. 2;
_Fragments of Ancient Poetry_, ii. 126, n. 2;
Homer, translation of, ii. 298; iii. 333, n. 2;
'impudent fellow,' i. 432;
newspapers, 'supervised' the, ii. 307, n. 4;
Ossian, ii. 126, n. 2, 302;
criticisms, &c. on it:
'abandoning one's mind to write such stuff,' iv. 183;
'writing in that style,' v. 388;
concocted, how, v. 242;
Cuchullin's car and sword, v. 242;
Giants of Patagonia, on a par with the, v. 387;
gross imposition, v. 241;
Highlander, testimony of a, iii. 51;
manuscripts, no, ii. 297, 302, 309, 310, 311, 347, 383;
Johnson's attack, Macpherson furious at, ii. 292;
tries intimidation, ii. 296;
writes to him, ii. 297;
answer, ii. 297, n. 2, 298;
rejoinder to Clark, iv. 252;
opinions of _Ossian_ formed by
Blair, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; v. 243;
Boswell, ii. 302, 309; v. 388, n. 1, 389;
Carlyle, Dr. A., ii. 302, n. 2;
Dundas, President, ib.;
Dempster, ii. 303; v. 408;
Elibank, Lord, v. 388;
Gibbon, ii. 302, n. 2;
Hume, ii. 302, n. 2;
Macqueen, Rev. D., v. 164, 240, 242;
Oughton, Sir A., v. 45;
Scott, Sir Walter, v. 164, n. 2;
Shaw, Rev. W., pamphlet by, iv. 252;
answer by Clark, ib.;
