_Origin and Progress of Language_, ii. 74, n. 1; 259, n. 5;
Ouran-Outang, capabilities of the, v. 46, 248;
primitive state of human nature, ii. 259;
savage life, admiration of, ii. 74, 147; v. 81;
son, his, v. 81;
tail, theory of the, v. 45, iii., 330;
talked nonsense, ii. 74; v. 111;
mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; iii. 126, 129; iv. 1, n. 1.
MONCKTON, Hon. Mary (Countess of Cork),
account of her, iv. 108 n. 4;
Boswell gets drunk in her house, iv. 109;
sends her verses, iv. 110, n. 1;
Johnson at her assembly, iv. 156, n. 1;
calls her a dunce, iv. 109;
promises her to go and see Mrs. Siddons, ii. 324, n. 2; iv.
242, n. 3.
MONEY, abilities needed in getting it, iii. 382;
advantages that it can give, iv. 14, 126, 152;
arguments against it, i. 441;
awkwardness in counting it, iv. 27;
change in its value, v. 321, n. 1;
circulating, happiness produced by its, ii. 429;
iii. 177, 249, 292, nn. 2 and 3;
conveniences where it is plentiful, v. 61;
country, keeping it in the, ii. 428-9;
domestic satisfaction, laid out on, ii. 352;
economy in its use, iii. 265;
enjoyed, should be early, ii. 226;
excludes but one evil--poverty, iii. 160;
getting it not all a man's business, iii. 182;
gives nothing extraordinary, iv. 126;
hoarded, iv. 173;
increase of it breaks down subordination, iii. 262;
increase of it in one nation impoverishes another, ii. 430;
influence, gives, v. 112;
influence of loans, ii. 167; iv. 222;
influence by patronising young men, ii. 167;
'insolence of wealth,' iii. 316;
interest, iii. 340;
investments, iv. 164;
'_make_ money,' iii. 196;
money-getting defended, ii. 323; iv. 126;
occupation, purchases, iii. 180;
respect gained by it, ii. 153;
save and spend, happiest those who, iii. 322;
spending it better than giving it, iii. 56; iv. 173;
trade, not increased by, ii. 98;
travelling, difficulties of, when there was little money, iii. 177;
writing for it, iii. 19.
See DEBTS.
MONKS. See MONASTERIES.
MONKS OF MEDMENHAM ABBEY, i. 125, n. 1.
MONMOUTH, Duke of, v. 357.
MONNOYE, De La, iii. 322, n. 3.
MONRO, Dr., iv. 263-4.
MONTACUTE, Lords, iv. 160.
MONTAGU, Edward, iii. 408, n. 3.
MONTAGU, Lady Wortley, contempt for Richardson, iv. 117, n. 1.
MONTAGU, Mrs., account of her writings, ii. 88, n. 3;
air and manner, iii. 244, n. 2;
Barry's picture, in, iv. 224, n. 1;
Bath, at, iii. 422-4;
benevolence, her, iii. 48, n. 1;
Boswell excluded from her house, iv. 64;
character by Miss Burney, iii. 48, n. 1, 244, n. 2; iv. 275, n. 3;
by Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, ib.;
Cumberland's _Feast of Reason_, described in, iv. 64;
Garrick, praises, v. 245;
_Essay on Shakespeare_, ii. 88; iv. 16, n. 2; v. 245;
Boswell's controversy with Mrs. Piozzi about it, ib., n. 2;
house, her new, iv. 64, n. 1, 65, n. 1; ill, iii. 434;
Johnson, drops, iv. 73;
gives her a catalogue of De Foe's works, iii. 267;
high praise of her, iv. 275;
letters to her: See JOHNSON, letters;
'not highly gratified; ii. 130;
quarrels with, iii. 425, n. 3;
war with him, iv. 64, 65, n. 1;
reconciled, iv. 65, n. 1, 239, n. 4;
the support of her assemblies, iv. 64, n. 1;
lived to a great age, iv. 275, n. 3;
Lyttelton, Lord, friendship with, iv. 64;
Mounsey, Dr., mentions, ii. 64, n. 2;
_par pluribus_, iii. 424;
portrait by Miss Reynolds, iii. 244;
pretence to learning, iii. 244;
Shakespeare, patronises, ii. 92, n. 3;
trembles for him, ii. 89;
Stillingfleet's blue stockings, iv. 108, n. 2;
Williams, Mrs., pensions, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1;
wits, among the, iv. 103, n. 1.
MONTAGUE, Basil, son of Lord Sandwich, iii. 383, n. 3.
MONTAGUE, Frederic,
moves to abolish the fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1.
MONTAIGNE, on wise men playing the fool, i. 3, n. 2.
MONTESQUIEU,
_Esprit des Lois_,
Helvetius advises against its publication, v. 42, n. 1;
on the abolition of torture, i. 467, n. 1;
influence on Hume, ii. 53, n. 2;
_Lettres Persanes_, iii. 291, n. 1;
quotes the practice of unknown countries, v. 209.
MONTGOMERIE, Margaret (Mrs. Boswell). See BOSWELL, Mrs.
MONTGOMERY, Colonel, v. 149.
_Monthly Review_, Badcock's correspondence, iv. 443, n. 5;
Griffiths, owned by, iii. 30, n. 1, 32, n. 2;
hostile to the Church, ii. 40, iii. 32;
payment to writers, iv. 214, n. 2;
price of a fourth share, iii. 32, n. 2;
Smollett, attack on, iii. 32, n. 2;
written by duller men than the Critical Reviewers, iii. 32.
MONTROSE, second Duke of,
Boswell gets drunk at his house, iv. 109;
shot a highwayman, iii. 240, n. 1;
mentioned, v. 359, n. 1.
MONTROSE, third Duke of. See GRAHAM, Marquis of.
MONTROSE, first Marquis of,
letters to the Laird of Col, v. 298-9;
his execution, v. 298, n. 1.
MONTROSE, House of, iii. 382.
MONUMENTS IN ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, ii. 239; iv. 423, n. 2.
MONVILLE, Mr., ii. 390, 391.
MOODY, the player, clapped on the back by Tom Davies, ii. 344;
mentioned, ii. 340, 342.
MOON, twenty-sixth day of the new, iv. 30.
MOOR, Dr., Professor of Greek at Glasgow, iii. 39, n. 2.
MOORE, Edward, account of him, iii. 424, n. 1;
edits _The World_, i. 202, n. 4, 257, n. 3.
MOORE, Dr. John, confounded with Edward Moore, iii. 424, n. 1;
describes the streets of Paris, ii. 394, n. 3;
meets Johnson at Mr. Hoole's, iv. 281, n. 3.
MOORE, Rev. Mr., Ordinary of Newgate, iv. 329, n. 3.
MOORE, Thomas, lines on Sheridan's funeral, i. 227, n. 4.
MOORS OF BARBARY, ii. 391.
MORALITY, substitution for it when violated, ii. 129.
MORAVIANS, intimate with Johnson, iv. 410;
missions, v. 391;
quarrel with the Methodists, iii. 122, n. 1.
MORAY, Bishop of, v. 114, n. 2.
MORE, Hannah, _Bas Bleu_, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 108;
boarding-school, kept a, iv. 341, n. 5;
books found guilty of popery, iii. 427, n. 1;
Boswell's tenderness for Johnson's failings, beseeches, i. 30, n. 4;
Boswell's and Garrick's imitation of Johnson, ii. 326, n. 1;
Covent-Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2;
dates, indifferent to, iv. 88, n. 1;
Fox, describes, iv. 292, n. 3;
Garrick's death and the Literary Club, i. 481, n. 3;
explanation of Johnson's harshness, iii. 184, n. 5;
flatters, iii. 293;
and Mrs. Garrick, friendship with, iii. 293, n. 4;
Garrick's, Mrs., 'Chaplain,' iv. 96;
George III and Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6;
Henderson, John, of Pembroke College, iv. 298, n. 2;
hides her face, iv. 99;
Home's _Douglas_, v. 362, n. 1;
Johnson brilliant and good-humoured, iii. 260, n. 5;
criticism of Milton, iv. 99, n. 1, 305;
death an era in literature, iv. 421, n. 1;
finds her reading Pascal, iv. 88, n. 1;
flatters, iii. 293; iv. 341;
flattered by him, iii. 293, n. 5; iv. 341, n. 6;
and George III, ii. 42, n. 2;
health in 1782, iv. 149, n. 3;
1783, iv. 220, n. 3;
in Grosvenor Square iv. 72, n. 1;
introduced to, iv. 341, n. 6;
_Journey_, sale of, ii. 310, n. 2;
likens her to Hannibal, iv. 149, n. 3;
praises her, iv. 275;
and Macbeth's heath, v. 115, n. 3;
'mild radiance of the setting sun,' iv. 220;
prayer for Dr. Brocklesby, iv. 414, n. 3;
regret that he had no profession, iii. 309, n. 1;
shows her Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 5; iv. 151, n. 2;
and _The Siege of Sinope_, iii. 259, n. 1;
Kennicott, Dr., ii. 128, n. 1;
Kennicott, Mrs., iv. 285, n. 1;
Langton's devotion to Johnson, iv. 266, n. 3;
_Leonidas_ Glover and Horace Walpole, v. 116, n. 4;
lived to a great age, iv. 275; n. 3;
Monboddo, Lord, v. 77, n. 2;
_Nine_, iv. 96, n. 3;
Paoli's mixture of languages, ii. 81, n. 3;
Percy, tragedy of, iii. 293, n. 4;
respectable, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2;
scarlet dress in a court-mourning, iv. 325, n. 2;
_Sensibility_, iv. 151, n. 2;
Shipley's, Bishop, assembly, iv. 75, n. 3;
Thrale's death, iv. 84, n. 3;
_Tom Jones_, reads, ii. 174, n. 2;
Vesey's, Mrs., parties, iii. 424, n. 3;
Williams, Miss, i. 232, n. 1;
mentioned, iii. 256.
MORE, Dr. Henry,
_Divine Dialogues_, v. 294;
a visionary, ii. 162.
MORE, Rorie. See MACLEOD, Sir Roderick.
MORE, Sir Thomas,
death, not deserted by his mirth in, v. 397, n. 1;
epigram on him, v. 430;
manuscripts in the Bodleian, i. 290;
_Utopia_ quoted, iii. 202, n. 3.
_More_, Celtic for _great_, ii. 267, n. 2; v. 208.
MORELL, Dr. Thomas, v. 350.
MORELLET, Abbe, ii. 60, n. 4.
MORERI'S _Dictionary_, v. 311.
MORGAGNI, ii. 55.
MORGANN, Maurice,
anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 192;
_Essay on Falstaff_, iv. 192.
_Morning Chronicle_, iv. 149, 150, n. 2.
_Morning Post_, iv. 296, n. 3.
MORRIS, Corbyn, iv. 105, n. 4.
MORRIS, Miss, iv. 417.
MORRIS, Mr. Secretary, ii. 274, n. 7.
MORRISON, Mr. Alfred, _Collection of Autographs_,
Johnson's letter to Ryland, iv. 369, n. 3;
to Taylor, ii. 468, n. 2; iv. 139, n. 4;
Johnson's receipt for payment for the _Lives_, iv. 35, n. 3.
MORRISON, Kenneth, v. 284.
MORTIMER, Dr., Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, ii. 268, n. 2.
MOSAICAL CHRONOLOGY, i. 366.
MOSER, Mr., Keeper of the Royal Academy, ii. 257, n. 2; iv. 227.
MOSES,
Brydone's antimosaical remark, ii. 467;
evidence required from him by Pharoah, ii. 150;
Song of Moses paraphrased, v. 265.
MOSS, Dr., iv. 73.
MOTIVES, i. 397.
MOTTEUX, Mr., ii. 398.
MOUNSEY, Dr.,
account of him, ii. 64, n. 2;
Johnson vehement against him, ii. 64.
MOUNT EDGECUMBE, ii. 227, n. 2; v. 1O2.
MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS, iii. 455.
MOUNTSTUART, Lord (second Earl of Bute),
Boswell's dedication to him, ii. 20, n. 4, 23;
friendship with him, iv. 128; v. 58;
embassy to Turin, iii. 411;
Scotch Militia bill, ii. 431; iii. 1;
mentioned, i. 375, 380; iii. 91-2.
_Mourning Bride_. See under CONGREVE, William.
_Mouse's likeness_, v. 39, n. 2.
_Muddy_, ii. 362, 460.
MUDGE, Colonel William, i. 378, n. 2.
MUDGE, Dr. John, i. 378;
letter from Johnson, iv. 240.
MUDGE, Mr., i. 486.
MUDGE, Rev. Zachariah,
death, iv. 77, n. 3;
'idolised in the west,' i. 378;
Johnson's character of him, iv. 76-7;
_Sermons_, iv. 77, 98.
MUFFINS, buttered, iii. 384.
MUIR, a Scotch advocate,
transported for sedition, i. 467, n. 1; iv. 125, n. 2.
MULGRAVE, second Baron, i, 116, n. 1; iii. 8; v. 362, n. 1.
MULLER, Mr., of Woolwich Academy, i. 351, n. 1.
MULSO, Miss. See CHAPONE, Mrs.
MUMMIES, iv. 125.
MUNSTER, Bishop of, iii. 330, n. 1.
MURCHISON, ----, a factor, v. 141, 146.
MURDER, prescription of, v. 24, 87.
MURDOCH, Dr., _Life of Thomson_, iii. 117, 133, 359.
MURISON, Principal, v. 63-4.
MURPHY, Arthur,
account of him, i. 356, n. 2;
Ben Jonson's _Fall of Mortimer_, iii. 78, n. 4;
Boswell's introduction to Johnson, i. 391, n. 4;
Campbell's _Diary_, mentioned in, ii. 338, n. 2;
counsel in the Copyright Case, ii. 273;
Davies's stories, perhaps the subject of one of, iii. 40, n. 3;
_Elements of Criticism_, ii. 90;
_Epilogue to Irene_,
mistaken about the, i. 197, n. 4;
Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438;
_Euphrasia_, v. 103, n. 1;
_False Delicacy_, ii. 48, n. 2;
Foote's _Life_, ought to write, iii. 185, n. 1;
Garrick, controversy with, i. 327, n. 1;
description of a dinner at his house, ii. 155, n. 2;
of his funeral, iv. 208, n. 1;
sarcasm against him, ii. 349, n. 6;
_Gray's Inn Journal_, i. 309, 328, 356;
inaccuracy about a visit to Oxford, iv. 233, n. 3;
Johnson, account of his introduction to, i. 268, n. 4, 356;
apologises to, for repeating some oaths, ii. 338, n. 2; iii. 40;
an ardent friend, iv. 344, n. 2;
colloquial Latin, ii. 125, n. 5;
contempt of Garrick's acting, ii. 92, n. 4;
_Debates_, i. 504;
degree of Doctor, i. 488, n. 3;
desire of life, iv. 418, n. 1;
desire for reconciliation, ii. 256, n. 1;
dread of death, iv. 399, n. 6;
and Garrick introduced to the Thrales, i. 493;
levee, attends, ii. 118;
life in Johnson's Court, ii. 5. n. 1;
love for him, ii. 127;
pension, i. 374-5;
praises him as a dramatic writer, ii. 127;
sorrow for Garrick's death, iii. 371, n. 1;
proposal to write his _Life_, ib.;
style, i. 221, n. 4;
and Thurlow, iv. 327, n. 4;
will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2;
wit and humour, ii. 262, n. 2;
Mason's _Memoirs of Gray_, iii. 31;
Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2;
_Mur_, ii. 258;
_Orphan of China_, i. 324, n. 1, 327;
_Poetical Epistle to S. Johnson_, i. 355;
portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
_Review of Burke's Sublime and Beautiful_, i. 310;
_Romeo and Juliet_ as altered by Garrick, v. 244, n. 2;
_Selections_, disapproves of, iii. 29;
Shakespeare and Congreve compared, ii. 86;
Simpson, Joseph, account of, iii. 28;
Smith's _Wealth of Nations_, cannot read, ii. 430, n. 1;
_Spectator_, chance writers in the, iii. 33;
Thrale's friendship for him, i. 493, n. 1;
'Tig and Tirry,' ii. 127, n. 3;
_Zenobia_, ii. 127, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 82, 374, 469, n. 2; iii. 27; iv. 273.
MURRAY, Sir Alexander, v. 293.
MURRAY, Lady Augusta, ii. 152, n. 2.
MURRAY, Lord George, ii. 270, n. 1.
MURRAY, James Stuart, Earl of, the Regent, v. 114, n. 2.
MURRAY, John, the bookseller, iii. 294.
MURRAY, ---- (Lord Henderland),
Johnson, dines with, iii. 8-16;
silent in his company, v. 50;
sends his son to Westminster School, iii. 12.
MURRAY, R., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489.
MURRAY, William. See MANSFIELD, Earl of.
_Musarum Deliciae_, iii. 319, n. 1.
_Muse in Livery_, ii. 446.
_Muses' Welcome to King James_, v. 57, 80.
MUSGRAVE, Dr. Samuel,
dines with Reynolds, iii. 318-20;
parades his Greek, iii. 318, n, 1.
MUSGRAVE, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Richard, ii. 343, n. 2; iv. 323, n. 1.
MUSGRAVE, Sir William, i. 152.
MUSIC,
effect of it explained, iii. 198;
emoluments of performers, ii. 225;
melancholy effects produced _per se_ bad, iv. 22;
in _Revelation_, ii. 163.
See JOHNSON, music.
_Musical Travels of Joel Collyer_, i. 315.
MUSWELL HILL, ii. 378, n. 1.
MUTINY ACT. See SOLDIERS.
_Mutual_ friend, iii. 103, n. 1.
MYDDELTON, Rev. Mr., v. 453.
MYDDLETON, Colonel,
family motto, v. 450, n. 2;
Johnson, erects a memorial to, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1;
visits him, v. 443, 452-3.
MYLNE, Robert, i. 351.
_Mysargyrus_, i. 252, 254, n. 1.
MYSTERY, iii. 324
Boswell's love of _the mysterious_, iv. 94, n. 2;
'the wisdom of blockheads,' iii. 324, n. 4;
universal, iii. 342.
MYTHOLOGY,
its dark and dismal regions, iv. 16, n. 4;
can no longer be used by poets, iv. 17;
none among savages, iii. 50.
N.
NABOBS, ii. 339, n. 2; v. 106.
NAIL, growth of the, iii. 398, n. 3.
NAIRNE, Colonel, v. 69-70.
NAIRNE, William (Lord Dunsinan),
accompanies Johnson to St. Andrews, v. 54, 56, 58, 62;
to Edinburgh Castle, v. 386;
praised by him, v. 53;
and by Sir Walter Scott, ib., n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 41, 126; v. 38, 394-5.
NAIRNE, Mr., the optician, iii. 21, n. 2.
_Namby-Pamby_, i. 179.
NAMES, queer-sounding, iii. 76.
NAMPTWICH, v. 432.
NAP after dinner, ii. 407.
NAPIER, Rev. Alexander, edition of Boswell, ii. 391, n. 4.
NAPLES, iii. 19; v. 54.
_Naples, History of the Kingdom of_, iv. 3, n. 3.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ii. 393, n. 7.
NARES, Rev. Mr., iv. 389.
NARROW place, how far the mind grows narrow in a, ii. 246
NARROWNESS in expenses, v. 345-6;
a fit of narrowness, iv. 191.
NASH, Alderman, iii. 460.
NASH, Richard ('Beau'),
engages in a religious dispute at Bath, iv. 289, n. 1;
'here comes a fool,' i. 3, nn. 2, 3;
