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father, 595

constitutional, discussed, 248

Johnson's early state of, 11
allied to madness, 310

Memis, Dr, case decided, 286

Boswell's cause, argument on, by Johnson, 227
Memory, failing at seventy, proof of a diseased mind,
315

plays strange tricks, an instance of, Johnson, 552
Men allowed more liberty than women, 342
'Menagiana," the, pun in, 189

Mercheta Mulierum of the old Charters and "Borough
English," 628

Merit not neglected by the world; Johnson well
treated by, 436

"Messiah," Pope's, Johnson's version of, at college,
"he will soon be deterre," 10

Metcalfe's, Mr P., attention to Johnson at Brighton,433
Mickle, Julius, acquaintance with Johnson; his
"Lusiad," 458

Militia in Scotland, 246

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Moody, the actor, and his "Poor George II.!" 219
Moor, Dr, of Glasgow, 268 n

More, Hannah, "empty-headed" (?), 270

rebuked for her flatteries of Johnson, 344

Morgann, M., author of "Falstaff's Letters," remini-
scences of Johnson, 441 and n

Mounsey, Dr, Johnson on, "a fellow who swore and
talked bawdy," 140

"Mr" v. "Dr," Johnson, 544′′

Mudge, described by Johnson, a model clergyman,

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NABOB, a, carries it before a man of family, 562
"Nail, since you will drive the," Johnson, 607
Nairne, Mr, Johnson's compliment to, 548
National Debt no burden, 157

"Negotiations, the pious," as to Johnson's increase of
pension; failure of, 486

Negro, the argument for, and judgment, 318
Nelson's "Festivals," the greatest sale after the Bible,

253

Neni, Count, and Garrick on Abel Drugger, 267
New-born child, how Johnson would treat it, 149
Newhaven, Lord, and Johnson's discussion, 736
Newton superior to French Philosophers, 157

Bishop of Bristol, criticised; Prophecies,"
"Tom's great work," 469 and n
Nichols, Dr, displaced by Lord Bute for a Scot, 222
recollections of Johnson, 505 and »
Night-cap," Boswell and Johnson on a, 612
"Nil admirari," and Waller on, 224 and #
"No, Sir!" true meaning of Johnson's, 477
Nobility saved by their wealth and by entails from
falling into contempt, 561

"Non equidem invideo," etc., 348 and n

Nonjurors, Johnson never knew one that could reason.
Discussion on the point between Johnson and
Mr J. Henderson, 469 "

the, Johnson on, 214 and #

Nonsense, distinction between talking, and knowing
that you are talking nonsense, Johnson on, 143
North Pole, the, navigating towards, 602
Northumberland, Duke of, "fit to succeed himself,"

159

"Nose of the mind," altercation between Johnson,
and "Young Burke," 482

bleeding, Dr Taylor's, and "breaking vessels,"
Johnson on, 303

Notes on Works of Manners, required after sixty or
seventy years, 181

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- in the mind, torpid by one's own fault, 333
Old woman, story of, told by Mrs Thrale, 325
Oldfield, Dr, and Duke of Marlborough, 272
O'Leary, Father, and his controversy with Wesley,
543 n

Opera girls, French, “in keeping,” 436
Opium-taking, 436

Orange, butter made from orange peels, 444

Oranges, squeezed, and Johnson, 216
Orchard, a good one desirable, 159

Orde, Chief Baron, praise of, 541
Orders, religious, 247

Original sin and the Atonement, Johnson's exposition
of, 422

Orme's praise of Johnson, 341

Orrery, Lord, dignified, 437

so generally civil that no one thanked him for
it, 312
Osborne's Works, 176

Ossian, "a man might write such stuff for ever," 439
discussions on, with M'Queen at Ulinish, and
with R. M'Leod, 603

discussed at Edinburgh, and “one gentleman in
company" (young Tytler), 648
Johnson on, 197, 220

test of its genuineness, 559

"Ostentatiously," Johnson "talks" at Fort George,

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Oughton, Sir A., praise of, 567

Commander of Forces in Scotland, his discussion
with Johnson on Ossian," 545

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"Outlaw" (Sir Geo. Steevens), "he leads the life of
an," 228

Oxford, Johnson at, and his course there, 10
Johnson obliged to leave from poverty, 14
expulsion of six students from, 174

Johnson's life at, recounted to Boswell, 168

"jaunt to," by Johnson and Boswell (1784), 468
Johnson's jaunt to, in 1776, 247

-Johnson's last visit to, 468

PAGAN mythology, uses of, 391

If mind like pain of body must be severely felt,

456

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Passion Week, dining with a Bishop in, 412
"Paternoster," the, 'Who was the author of?" a
foreigner asking, 566

Paterson, Johnson's interest for, 284

Johnson's application for, to Reynolds, 451
v. Alexander, Johnson's argument, 228
"Patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel," 221
Patronage, bad: "what flattery! what falsehood!"
549

Paul's, St, monument in, by Bacon, with inscrip-

tion by Dr Parr, 509

Peace preserved by cowardice on both sides, 353
Peer in the ancient times, no disgrace to, not to be
able to write his name, 448

Peers of Scotland, representative, unconstitutional in
their elections? 457

the, opposed to the opinion of the twelve
judges, 359

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10,000 Londoners would drive all," 623
"Penitent belabouring his confessor, Reynolds'
humorous remark of Johnson, 467

Pennant censured and praised, 338

praised by Boswell, 338

"the dog is a Whig," Johnson, 339

Pension, a, to Johnson, account of, 91

application to increase Johnson's, to enable
him to go abroad. The "pious negotiation"
described, 480, 482

Goldsmith to Johnson, "you who shelter your.
self under a corner of a," 419

Johnson expected to write for his, 213
Penuriousness and madness, instance cf, 437

People who disagree on a capital point, can they
live together? 672

Pepys, Sir Weller, described, 410 n

Percy, Dr W., and Johnson reconciled by Boswell, 339
Boswell's letters, on his quarrel with Johnson,
339, 340

his altercation with Johnson on Pennant's Tour,
337

his descent from the House of Northumberland,
337 n

Johnson's altercation with, on Dr Mounsey,

141

made Dean of Carlisle (1778), 364

on Grainger's sugar-cane, 251 n

writing "History of the Wolf in Great Britain,"
"Rat, the Grey," subject suggested, 252

"Peregrinity" and depeditation," Johnson's
"coined words," 569

Perth, man executed at, I see the hand of Provi-
dence," 562

Perversion of religion, all, a substitute for violated
morality, 158

Peter the great, no practical use in his serving in the
dockyard, 606

Petition to Parliament, Johnson on, 147

Philips, epitaph on, amended by Johnson, 33
Philips, Lady, and her six young ladies, account of,

614

Philips, Miss, recommended to Windham, 451
Philosopher, trying to be one, "but I don't know

how cheerfulness was always breaking in," 347
Physician, foppish, with a fine coat, "if dipped in
Pactolus I should not have recognised you,"
Johnson, 478

effect of changing his religion on a, 255
in the West Indies, story of, 252
"Pickled mango, cutting a," in a stingy house, 346
Pig, the learned, Johnson on, and pigs, 495

Piling arms at Burgoyne's surrender insisted on,
"many puerilities in war," 361

Pillory not always a disgrace, 350

Pious, a wicked fellow the most, when he takes to
piety, 470

Pistols, Johnson's, 548

Pit, to, two people against each other, uncivil, 313
Pitt, Mr, Boswell sends his pamphlets to, 461
Plaid-making in Scotland a domestic art? 556
Planting, advice on, 318

Play at Lichfield, marriage more necessary to a man
than to a woman, 168

Player, position of, and of Garrick, 188

Players, no respect for, 312

Plutarch, "The Rambler" on, 3

Plymouth, Johnson's visit to, with Sir Joshua, 92
Poetry, indefinable, 268

should mediocre be tolerated? 222

Politeness to an inferior, Johnson's, 165

Political principles, Johnson's, 155

Politics and Pulteney, 633

honesty in, discussed, 270

modern, and principles of Government, 226

sooner have my bones broken, than talk of,"
Johnson, 437

Poor woman lying in street, Johnson taking her home,
478

Poor, the employment of, a mistake? 388

on the, in London, 374

Pope, Cowley preferred to, by Johnson, 635
described by Ramsay, 355

foolish to give all his friendship to lords, 359
"licentious stanza" in his "Universal Prayer,"
359

Pope, in his "Essay on Man," borrowing from Arch-
bishop King's "Origin of Evil," 374 n
-Johnson on, 145

Pope's letter on Johnson's "Convulsions," 32
"Dunciad," 217

"Essay on Man," originally written by Boling-
broke in prose, and Johnson's objection,
375

- letter to Dublin College, 28
Population, increase of, on, 149
Port family and Ilam, 313
Porter, Johnson and the, 407

Porter, Lucy, Johnson's stepdaughter, 139, 254
Mrs, Johnson's marriage with, 18

Mr, death of, Lucy Porter's brother, 456
Portrait painting improper for women, 224
Post-chaise, driving in a, "life has nothing better,"
251

Postage, heavy, and Johnson, 264

"Potted stories," living on (Murphy or Steevens),
268

Powerscourt, Lord, his wager, and the French
Academy, 607

Practising, not, what one teaches does not affect a
physician's advice, 594

Praise from Johnson

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Provisions, the carrying to a friend's house is
66 oppressive and insolent," 553

Publishing, advice as to, 351
Pudding, meditation on a, 637

Puns, Johnson's aversion to, and "pun sauce," 477
Purse, wife who had made a, out of her husband's

fortune, Johnson's story, 478

"QUANTUM cedat virtutibus aurum," application of
quotation, at Flora Macdonald's, 586 and n
Quarrel, Boswell's, with Johnson in Scotland, from
his riding on and leaving him, 573, 524
Queen The, in "She stoops to Conquer," 187
Quern, old woman grinding corn with a, 608
Questioning an offensive form of conversation, 257,
272

reproof to Boswell on, 336

"Quos Deus vult perdere," where found, 439

Quotations from Johnson's own books, his anger at,
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Quotidean expenses," Johnson, 635

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Religion, "I never make it appear too hard," John-
son, 627

reflection on the value of, 448

Religious conversation uncommon, 156

acquaintances, Hussey, Latrobe, the Benedictines,
etc., Johnson's tolerance, 506

"Remember, and to recollect different things," 422
Rent, the measure of, explained by Johnson, 620
Rents, raising, 149

Reparation is due to the reputation of the dead, 262
Republicæ," the, 272

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Reserve, Johnson's absence of, in a stage-coach, 468
Residences, Johnson's list of, 376 n

Resolutions, pious failure of, in Johnson, 224
"Respect him you could not, love him you could
not," etc., 395

Respectful treatment of an infidel in controversy dis-
cussed, 249

Resurrection of bodies after our Saviour's death,
discussed, 413

"Retiring" from society "civil suicide," 450

from active life not proper, 550

Retort, vigorous, to the Scot on Buchanan, "only
man of genius," 440

Reviewing payment, six guineas to Dr Shebbeare,

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Ritter, J., a Bohemian, Boswell's servant, 548
Robertson, Dr W., to be distinguished from Dr James
Robertson, 544 n

Robertson, "History of Scotland," price paid for, 355
-Johnson "Downed him with the King of Prussia,"
355

talk censured, 357

a shallow historian, 176

Robertson's style formed on Johnson, 309

Robin Hood Society, debates at, 412, 414
Robinson, Sir Thomas, "the tall," 107
Rochester, visit of Johnson to, 453
Rochester's Poems castrated, 315

Rolt, account of, 87

contract with Gardiner, the bookseller, 220
Roman writers, their partial accounts? 442
Romances, reading of, justified, 391

Rome, Church of, Johnson defending some of its
doctrines, 470

Rorie More of Dunvegan, 593, 594

Rose, Dr, of Chiswick, his excellent retort to Johnson,

435 n

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public, 161

Sconser, Johnson and Boswell at, 608

Scorpion, the, in circle of fire, 138

Scotch, the, jests on, Johnson's and Wilkes', 279

and Irish understand each other's Gaelic, 166
Church, patronage in the, 190

Johnson had no real prejudice against, 156
in 1745, "wanted law," 157

success of, in London, reason for, 440

physicians (Drs Cullen, Munro, Hope, and
Gillespie), consulted on Johnson's case, 461
Johnson's dislike to, reasons for, 435

Wilkes' jests on, 278

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Johnson railing at, we taught you everything
since the Union," 606

gardeners, Johnson on, 144

accent, the, 166

Scotchman never daunted by a refusal, instance of

Dossie, 390

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'more water in," owing to "your vile bogs,"
Johnson, 634

Johnson's prejudice against, shown early, 539
printing in, 183

"Scots made necessarily, the English by choice, ha ?
ha!" Johnson, 546

a, judgment of Johnson, 308

known to each other though born in very distant
counties; Johnson's explanation, 257

Scott of Amwell, his Elegies, 222

Sir W., dinner, 335

Scotticisms, Hume's collection of, Johnson, "I wonder
he should find them," 143

"Scoundrel," Johnson's use of the word, 9
"Scoundrelism about a low man," Johnson, 26
Scribbler, a contemptible, assailing "The Tour," 657
Scriptural allusions in familiar talk, 182
Sea life like jail life, 247

Secker, Archbishop, Johnson prejudiced against, 395
Second sight, 164
instance of, 628

Boswell's own opinions on : case of, 648
instances of, 577

"Seducing man, a very," Johnson, 403 n
Selections from an author's work, 325

Semel insanivimus omnes, where found, 439
Senate, Roman, compared with English Parliament,
318

Seneca exiled to Corsica, not farther from his home
than they in the Hebrides, 621
"Sensation is sensation," Johnson, 559
"Seraglio," Johnson's, 365

Sermon, Mr Tait's, at Inverness, on inferior people
attaching themselves to men of talent, 568

Sermons written for Taylor by Johnson, 312

forty, Johnson had written, 552

Servant accused of stealing coins: Sir G. Kneller's
story, 328

Servants, women and men, problem as to, 183

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Sexual intercourse, 357

Shakspeare, Johnson publishes his, 123
and Corneille compared, 391
witches, 369

Johnson's "Proposals," 40

confidence in 66

one reading" of, 272

and Steevens' published (1773), 179

Sharpe, Gregory, "ranting on liberty," 158

Sharpe's letters on Italy, 272

Shaving, different fashions of, 306

Shaw, Rev. Mr, supports Johnson's view of "Ossian,"
458

Cuthbert, verses on Johnson, 133

and his Erse Grammar, 288

"She Stoops to Conquer," Johnson's praise of, 187

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