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- his 'Sermons,' iii. 459, 467; iv. 16,
64, 204, 204 n., 472.

his Lectures,' iv. 23, 23 n.

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his imitation of Johnson's style, iv. 23.
his letter concerning Pope's Essay on
Man,' iv. 277.

Blair, Rev. Robert, his poem of 'The
Grave,' iii. 411.

-some account of, iii. 411 n.

Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, i. 119.
Blaney, Elizabeth, i. 8; v. 288.
Blank verse, Johnson's dislike of, i. 383,
442; iv. 352.

excellence of rhyme over, iv. 410.
Blasphemy, literary property in, ii. 286.
Bleeding, Johnson's objection to periodical,
iii. 518.

Blenheim, ii. 531; iii, 158, 337.

Blind, notion that they can distinguish
colours by the touch, ii. 183.
'Blockhead,' Johnson's application of the
word, ii. 168; iii. 343, 343 n.
Blue-stocking Clubs, origin of, iv. 480.
Boarding-schools, iv. 282.

Bocage, Madame du, iii. 269, 288, 290 n.
her Columbiade,' v. 239.
Boerhaave, Johnson's Life of, i. 110.
Boece, Hector, the historian, v. 159.
Boethius, de Consolatione Philosophiæ,'
i. 109, 386.

Boileau, i. 89, 345 n.; iv. 214, 378.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first Vis-
count, i. 255, 316; iv. 419; v. 228.
Johnson's character of, i. 255, 316.
his share in Pope's Essay on Man,'
iv. 276 n., 277, 278.

Frederick, second Viscount, iv. 384.
Bolt-court, iv. 131.

Bonaventura, the seraphic doctor,' i. 518.
Bones, uses applied to, v. 80.

Bon-mots, iv. 182.

Book, one always to be carried in the
pocket, iv. 257.

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BOSWELL JAMES, esq., Mr. Courtenay's
verses on, i. 200; iii. 111.
contributed to create a public taste for
biographical details, i. 243 n.
his introduction to Johnson, i. 400,
401.

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story told by Johnson of his early years,
i. 446 n.

his Account of Corsica, ii. 47, 72,
72 n., 73.

elected a member of the Literary Club,
ii. 224, 227.

Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides,
ii. 250, 250 n.; v. 481.

his dress at the jubilee, ii. 71.
his strange propensity for witnessing
executions, ii. 92 n. ; iv. 317 n. ; v. 237.
his ancestry, ii. 262; iii. 75, 299.

his character drawn by himself, ii. 287.
Johnson's character of him, ii. 288;
iii. 110, 255, 262; iv. 227.

his account of the escape of the young
Pretender, iii. 561.

his announcement of the Life of John-
son' during the Doctor's lifetime, iii. 5.
his letter to the Laird of Rasay, on a
passage in Johnson's 'Journey,' iii. 105.
Lord Stowell's character of him, iii.
110 n.

Johnson's character of his Tour to
the Hebrides,' iii. 255.

his attempt to imitate the style of War-
burton, iv. 167 n.

his short quarrel with Johnson, iv. 202,
202 n.

his Letter to the People of Scotland,'
v. 149, 154 n.

his expectations from Mr. Pitt, v. 159.
- his controversy with Miss Seward, v.
240.

-Johnson's Letters to him, i. 485; ii. 2,
20, 59, 72, 113, 130, 190, 193, 248,
249; iii. 112, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123,
161, 163, 164, 165, 167, 170, 171, 261,
263, 266, 296, 298, 301, 302, 305, 306,
308, 309, 409, 452, 456, 458, 467, 469,
472, 484, 486, 490, 493; iv. 64, 68,
69, 134, 227, 235, 242, 270, 271, 291,
295, 301, 323, 332, 440; v. 10, 24,
29, 31, 32, 35, 113, 138, 150, 154, 155,
158, 160, 245, 249, 296, 297, 298.

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his Letters to Johnson, ii. 129, 192;
iii. 112, 121, 122, 160, 161, 166, 169,
170, 183, 252, 261, 265, 293, 451, 453,
455, 464, 468, 471, 472, 480, 485, 490,
493, 494, 496; iv. 63, 65, 68, 72, 74,
75, 133, 226, 238, 270, 289, 293, 321.
his letter to Garrick, iii. 43.
Boswell, Mrs., the author's wife, ii. 130;

iii. 112, 112 n., 308, 309, 451, 492,
493, 564; iv. 8 n., 242, 332; v. 107.
some account of, ii. 130 n.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 451, 492; v. 34.

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Miss Veronica, the author's daughter,
ii. 262; iii. 494 n.

. Dr., the author's uncle, ii. 283; iii.
90, 373.

NOTES, corrective of Boswell's errors,
inconsistencies, exaggerations, contra-
dictions, and misrepresentations, i. 37,
53, 136, 138, 144, 150, 158, 159, 166,
172, 179, 186, 195, 196, 197, 200, 202,
277, 294, 295, 300, 304, 306, 314, 317,
319, 325, 330, 333 n., 343, 349, 362,
363, 394, 395, 396, 398, 401, 402, 412,
413, 419, 427, 428, 429, 430, 437, 452,
467, 483, 492, 505, 508, 510, 512.

- ii. 1, 54, 56, 71, 72, 73, 88, 92, 101,
109, 114, 160, 244, 265, 287, 328, 311,
399, 421, 435, 450, 466, 476, 515, 571.

iii. 2, 5, 37, 66, 108, 109, 110, 172,
175, 176, 179, 191, 192, 194, 197, 198,
202, 204, 220, 225, 249, 255, 317, 336,
366, 391, 408, 417, 423, 429, 452, 485,
493.

iv. 17, 31, 45, 77, 81, 86, 95, 97, 99,
113, 123, 126, 148, 152, 157, 189, 202,
204, 211, 212, 215, 242, 265, 269, 292,
300, 302, 317, 321, 426, 435, 450, 453,
486, 501.

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Bowles, William, esq., v. 119.
Bow-wow way, Johnson's, ii. 256; iii.
201 n.

Bowyer, William, the printer, v. 283, 283 n.
Box-clubs, iii. 255.

Boxing, Johnson's skill in, ii. 452.
Boyce, Samuel, the poet, v. 71, 320.
Boyd, Hon. Charles, ii. 318 n., 330, 332;
iii. 542.

some account of, v. 320 n.

Boyd's inn, ii. 259.

Boydell, Mr. Alderman, iii. 168.

Boyle, the noble family of, ii. 461.

Hon. Robert, i. 296.

Boys at school, i. 463.

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Bozzy,' Boswell so called by Johnson,
iii. 2; v. 181.

Bradshaigh, Lady, i. 178 n.

Bradshaw, John, the regicide, v. 121 n.

William, v. 77 n.

Braganza,' Jephson's tragedy of, ii. 89.
Braidwood, Mr., his academy for the deaf
and dumb, iii. 94.

Braithwaite, Daniel, esq., of the general
post-office, v. 176.

Bramhall, Archbishop, on Liberty and
Necessity, ii. 106 n.
Bramins, iv. 344, 362.
Brandy, iv. 252, 449.
Bravery, iv. 186; v. 304.

Brentford, iii. 65; v. 64.
Brett, Colonel, i. 150 n.

Bribery at elections, iii. 214.

Brighthelmstone, i. 440; iii. 457.
Bristol, inns at, iii. 416.

Britain, little known of the ancient state
of, iv. 194.

British parliament, alleged corruption of,
iv. 58.

'British Poets,' Bell's edition of, iii. 474.
'British Princes,' quoted, ii. 111 n.
'British Essayists,' Chalmers's, i. 189.
'British Synonimy,' Mrs. Piozzi's, v. 324.
Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, iii. 368; v. 55.
his kind attention and liberality to
Johnson, iii. 112, 128.

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Johnson's letters to, v. 119, 268.
- some account of, v. 274 n.
Brodhurst, Mr., Johnson's play fellow,
iv. 267.

Brodie, Alexander, esq., ii. 428 n.
Brooke, Mr., author of Gustavus Vasa,'
i. 111; ii. 46 n.

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Mrs., author of 'Emily Montague,'
i. 439, 439 n.

Brooks, or rivulets, iv. 105.

Broome, William, the poet, iv. 312.

- Johnson's Life of, iv. 417.

Brother and sister, relation of, i. 324.
Brown, Tom, Johnson's instructor in En-
glish, i. 17.

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dedicates his Spelling-book to the
Universe,' i. 17.

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some account of, i. 390 n.

Sir Thomas, Johnson's Life of, i. 198,
293, 315.

his style, how far imitated by Johnson,
i. 198 n., 293; iv. 113 n.

fond of Anglo-Saxon diction, i. 198.
his saying of devils, iv. 152.

Sir William, the physician, iv. 395,
395 n.

his extemporaneous epigram on the
two universities, iv. 396.

Isaac Hawkins, esq.,

315; iv. 35.

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ii. 386; iii. 214,

his poem De Animi Immortalitate,'
ii. 386.

his Son, v. 170 n.

Bruce, Robert, iii. 265.

- James, the Abyssinian traveller, iii.
208; v. 229.

Brumoy's Greek Theatre, i. 336 n.
Brundusium, Horace's journey to, iv. 105.
Brunet, M., iii. 275 n.

Brussels trimming, compared by Johnson
to bread sauce, iv. 283.

Brutes, ii. 55, 233; iii. 417.

Bryant, Jacob, esq., v. 300 n.

Brydone, Captain Patrick, his

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through Sicily,' iv. 223.

'Tour

his anti-mosaical remark, iii. 356.
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, eleventh
Earl of, anecdote of, ii. 171.

Buchan's Buller, ii. 333, 334 n.
Buchanan, George, i. 471, 471 n.; ii. 97,
293; iv. 416; v. 64.

'Buck,' nearly synonymous with 'dandy,'
ii. 417.

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Buller of Buchan, ii. 333, 334 n. ; iii. 542.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,' ii. 226;
iv. 377.

Buonaparte, Napoleon, ii. 242 n., 474;
iii. 362 n.

Burgess-ticket, Johnson's, at Aberdeen,
ii. 324.

Burgoyne, General, surrender of his army
at Saratoga, iv. 222.

Lady Frances, her saying, iv. 374 n.
Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes
of, and remarks upon, i. 57, 334, 390,
423 n., 465, 484 n., 490.

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his oratory characterized by Wilkes,
iv. 447.

his uniform respect for Johnson, v. 214.
his pun on Dr. Brocklesby's name, v.
247 n.

his strikingly characteristic will, v.
314 n.

Burke, Richard, esq., Edmund's brother,
iv. 511.

Richard, esq., Edmund's son, v. 8,
101, 101 n., 282.

some account of, v. 8 n.
Burial service, v. 93.
Burlamaqui, iii. 316.

Burman, Peter, Johnson's Life of, i. 129.
Burnaby, Mr. Edward, i. 500 n.

Burnet, Bishop, his 'Own Times,' ii. 201,
512; iv. 44.

James, ii. 138 n., 334. See Monboddo.*
Burney, Dr. Charles, i. 41, 172 n., 174 n.,
255 n., 271, 313, 315, 406, 454, 492 n.,
496 n.; ii. 307; iii. 293; iv. 4, 112,
231, 234, 245 n., 305, 354 n., 377 n.,
392, 397 n., 470; v. 5, 117.

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his wayward attack on Lord Carlisle's
poems, iv. 486 n.

Cabbages, iii. 342.

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Cadogan, Dr. William, on the Gout, ii.
430.
'Calamities of Authors,' D'Israeli's, i.
88 n.

Calculators, extraordinary, possess little
other intellectual power, iii. 325.

• Caliban of Literature,' epithet applied to
Johnson, i. 387.

Caligula, his exclamation, iv. 141, 141 n.
Callimachus, merits of, iv. 334.

'Called,' phenomenon of hearing oneself,
iv. 468.

Cambridge, Richard Owen, esq., i. 184 n. ;
iii. 237, 240; iv. 105; v. 72, 73 n.
-university, ii. 36; iv. 198.

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Dr. Sharpe's picturesque account of
Johnson's visit to, i. 500.

Camden, Charles Pratt, first Earl, iii.
116 n., 190 n.; iv. 168.

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Camden's Remains,' iv. 163; v. 92.
Cameron, Dr. Archibald, rigour exercised
in his case, i. 117.

Cameron, Captain, ii. 149 n.
Camerons, family of the, ii. 525.
Campbell, Hon. Archibald, ii. 204.
his Doctrines of a Middle State,' iii.
52, 424; v. 185.

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some account of, iii. 53.

Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 306; iii. 213,
217, 225.

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his Philosophical Survey of Ireland,'
iii. 213, 476.

a sketch of, iii. 217 n.

Rev. Dr. John, i. 350, 430; ii. 52,
117 n., 203; iii. 188; iv. 98, 98 n.
his

Political Survey,' iii. 18, 335.
some account of, i. 430 n.; ii. 116 n.
Rev. John, minister of Kippen, ii. 29.
Mungo, who shot Lord Eglintoune,
ii. 67 n.; iv. 41.

some account of, iv. 41 n.
'Candide,' of Voltaire, i. 331, 334; iv. 222.
Candour, Johnson's, v. 124.

Canning, Right Hon. George, on the ad-

vantage of a public education, iii. 377 n.
'Canons of Criticism,' Edwards's, i. 251 n.
Cant, the mind to be cleared of, iv. 102.
Canus, Melchior, a Spanish dominican,
iii. 271.

Capel, Edward, preface to his Shakspeare,
iv. 337.

Cardan, Dr. Jerom, his mode of com-
posing his mind, iv. 26 n.

Card-playing, ii. 76; iii. 99, 387 n., 388.
recommended by Dr. Baillie, iii. 99.
Cardross, Lord, afterwards Earl of Buchan,
ii. 171, 171 n.

Careless, Mrs., Johnson's first love, iii.
347, 348; v. 19.

'Careless Husband,' Cibber's, iii. 215.
Carelessness, iv. 353.

Carleton, Captain, his amusing 'Me-
moirs,' v. 243, 243 n.

Carlisle, Frederick, fifth Earl of, iv. 485.

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Johnson's favourable opinion of his
'Father's Revenge,' v. 136, 136 n.

- Lord Byron's wayward attack on his
poems, iv. 486 n.

Carmichael, Miss, iv. 77, 231 n.
Carre, Rev. Mr., his 'Sermons,' ii. 264.
Carstares' 'State Papers,' ii. 451 n.
Carte, Thomas, his Life of the Duke of
Ormond,' ii. 524.

Carter, Mr., iii. 186, 207.

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- Johnson's letters to, i. 59, 76, 91, 92,
93, 94, 105, 107, 108, 130, 132.

- Latin verses addressed to him by John-
son, i. 83, 83 n.

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his letter to Richardson respecting the
'Rambler,' i. 184.

- his Life by Johnson, i. 243; iv. 532 n.
Cawdor Castle, ii. 350, 351 n.; iii. 543.
Cecil, Colonel, ii. 178.

'Cecilia,' Miss Burney's, v. 104.
Cervantes, iv. 378.

Certainties, small, the bane of men of
talents, iii. 198.

Chadworth, Lord, v. 404.

Chalmers, George, esq., i. 127 n.

Alexander, esq, editor of the British
Essayists,' i. 179 n.,
186 n.,

196, 200; ii. 112, 200.

189 n.s

his Lesson in Biography,' v. 447.
Chamberlaine, Mrs., iii. 200 n.
Chamberlayne, Rev. Mr., v. 187 n.
Chambers, Ephraim, his Proposal for his
Dictionary, i. 196.

Johnson's style founded partly upon
that of, i. 196, 196 n.

- Robert, afterwards Sir Robert, i. 261;
ii. 24, 245, 246, 248, 254, 342; iii.
116, 118, 123; iv. 202 n., 438, 439.
some account of, i. 261 n.
Johnson's character of, iv. 438.
Johnson's letter to, i. 261.

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- Sir William, his Chinese Architecture,"
66, 66 n., 67 n.

'Heroic Epistle to, quoted, ii. 419;
iv. 128 n.; v. 211 n.

Catharine, Johnson's maid-servant, i.
327, 329, 330; ii. 42.

Chamier, Anthony, esq., i. 490; ii. 342;
iii. 450 n., 484; iv. 70, 107.
'Champion,' a periodical paper, i. 145.
Chancellors, how chosen, ii. 150.
Chapone, Hester, formerly Miss Mulso, a
contributor to the Rambler,' i. 178;
v. 384.

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