Scotch accent, overcome by perseverance,

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ii. 152.

clergy, ii. 476.

impudence, iii. 182.

conjectures as to the origin of John-
son's antipathy to, v. 47 n.
extreme nationality of, ii. 229.
highlander, iii. 95.

learning of the, iii. 239, 239 n.

cause of their success in London, v. 65.
- lairds, Johnson's notion of the dignity
of, i. 418.

jealousy of the, iii. 181.

nationality of the, iii. 181, 182, 199,
363; v. 65.

Scotland, episcopal church of, iv. 239.

- peers of, their interference in elections
of the commons, v. 138, 139.
Scots, Mary, Queen of, i. 343; ii. 275.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER, notes commu-
nicated to the editor by, i. 417; ii. 138,
149, 259, 265, 273, 274, 285, 286,
288, 289, 291, 293, 296, 298, 300,
302, 303, 304, 305, 334, 343, 348,
351, 354, 365, 372, 373, 382, 383,
388, 393, 394, 395, 397, 401, 416,
445, 446, 447, 448, 451, 460, 465,
466, 478, 500, 503, 509, 511, 516,
534, 561; iii. 109, 111, 112.

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a history of the young Pretender by
him, a desideratum, iii. 88 n.

Scott, George Lewis, sub-preceptor to
George the Third, i. 169; iii. 481.

- John, of Amwell, iii. 213.

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- Johnson's application of the word, iii.
344 n.

Scoundrelism, ii. 339.
Scripture phrases, ii. 200.

Scriptures, Johnson's letters on the pro-
posal to translate them into Erse, ii.
27, 29.

Scruples, v. 307, 469.

unnecessary, iv. 375.
Scuderi, Mademoiselle, iii. 212 n.
Seal, Johnson's, i. 388.

Sea-life, wretchedness of, iii. 325, 326.
Seasons, influence of, ii. 247.

Secker, Archbishop, Johnson's prejudice
against his political character, iv. 361.
Porteus's Life of,' iv. 361.
Second sight, ii. 10, 141, 390, 395, 450,
450 n., 560; iii. 15, 86, 101, 193.
Sedley, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester,
ii. 284 n.

Seduction, iv. 217.

Seed, Rev. Jeremiah, his 'Sermons,' iv.
103.

Self-importance, iv. 22.

praise, iv. 183.

Selden's Table Talk' quoted, i. 74 n.;
iii. 4; v. 64 n.

Sellette, queries on the, iii. 272, 272 n.
Semel insanivimus omnes,' &c. whence
taken, v. 60, 60 n.
Seneca, ii. 524.

Selwyn, George, iv. 260 n.

'Senectus,' use of the word, iv. 210.
Sensual intercourse, iv. 100, 208.
'Sentimental Journey,' Sterne's, iv. 364 n.
'Serious Call,' Law's, i. 39, 381.

Sermons, the best English, for style, iv. 102.
collections of, iv. 478.

Johnson's, i. 307.

Johnson's advice on the composition of,
iv. 325.

Settle, Elkanah, the city poet, iii. 438.
Sève china, iv. 11 n.
Severity, iii. 324.

Sevigné, Madame de, ii. 40 n.; iii. 418;
iv. 292 n.

Seward, Rev. Mr., iii. 355, 518.

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- William, esq. ii. 77; iii. 486, 490;
iv. 302; v. 108.

- his Anecdotes of distinguished Persons,
v. 207 n.

Seward, Miss Anna, i. 5 n., 13 n., 59, 62,

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63, 214, 379; iii. 126, 205 n., 356;
iv. 96 n., 143, 149, 156 n., 157, 427;
v. 239, 240.

- her 'Ode on the death of Captain Cook,'
v. 239.

Sexes, inequality of the, iv. 143.

sensual intercourse between, iv. 208,
Shakspeare, different ways of 'spelling his
name, ii. 355.

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Johnson's edition of his plays, i. 151,
308, 316, 359, 494, 514, 515, 518.
his witches, iv. 253.

Johnson's opinion of his learning, iv.
350.

Johnson's lines on, iv. 357, 357 n.
compared with Congreve, ii. 86, 97.
his picture of man, iv. 443, 443 n.
'Modern Characters' from, iv. 111.
'Shall' and will,' Johnson's use of the
words, i. 60 n.; iv. 254.

Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's, his
monument, ii. 300 n., 303 n.

Sir Walter Scott's story of his murder,
ii. 300 n.

Samuel, his Letters on Italy,' iii.
420, 420 n.

Shaw, William, his pamphlet on Ossian,

v. 141.

Shawe, Colonel Meyrick, on the affinity
between the Irish and Erse languages,
ii. 149 n.

Shebbeare, Dr., ii. 68, 68 n.; iv. 174 n.,
485; v. 94.

his Letters on the English Nation,'
under the name of Battista Angeloni,
a Jesuit, iv. 485.

Sheep's head, iii. 38, 38 n.

Shelburne, William Petty, second Earl,
afterwards first Marquess of Lansdowne,
iv. 120, 299; v. 53 n., 70, 180 n.
Goldsmith's blundering speech to, v.54.
Shenstone, William, ii. 494; iii. 41, 157,
339.

his Essays,' v. 106 n.

favourite stanza of, v. 18 n.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, i. 143, 348,

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398, 403, 465; ii. 87, 88 n.; iii. 195,
480, 481; iv. 86 n., 182, 238, 238n,
246; v. 83.

Johnson's description of his conversa-
tion, i. 380, 465.

irreconcilable difference between John-
son and, i. 395.

Johnson's character of, v. 46, 46 n.,
103.

his Lectures on Oratory, v. 103.
his gold medal to the author of
6 Douglas,' iii. 195, 195 n.

- Mrs., i. 348.

her 'Sydney Biddulph,' i. 348.
some account of, i. 348 N., 399.

Dr. Parr's description of her, i. 348 n.
Mrs., formerly Miss Linley, v. 27.
Charles, his Revolution in Sweden,'
iv. 143.

Sherrard, Rev. Robert, afterwards fourth
Earl of Harborough, iv. 512.

'She Stoops to Conquer,' ii. 196 n., 203,
212, 222.

Shiels, Mr. Robert, i. 161, 161 n.; iii.
395, 395 n., 401, 481, 531.
'Ship of Fools,' Barclay's, i. 263.
Shipley, Dr. Jonathan, Bishop of St.
Asaph, iii. 136 n., 141 n., 386 n., 444;
iv. 105, 305, 307, 313n., 445 n., 462 n ;
v. 135.

- his interview with Johnson, iii. 65,
65 n.; iv. 192 n.

- difference between Johnson and, iv.
356 n.

Garrick's opinion of, iv. 356 n.
Smithson, Sir Hugh, i. 390.
Smoking, i. 305; ii. 295, 295 n.
Smollett, Dr. Tobias, i. 127, 338.
his letter to Wilkes, i. 338.

Solander, Dr., ii. 135, 138, 139; iii. 23,

23 n., 391.

Soldiers, ii. 367; iii. 375; iv. 121.

Solitude, ii. 45; v. 113.

dangerous to reason, iv. 370.

not favourable to virtue, iv. 370.
reasons against, v. 3.

Somerville, James, thirteenth lord, iv.
418.

some account of, iv. 418.

Somnambulism, Dr. Blacklock's, ii. 281 n.
Sorrow, ii. 299; iv. 461.
Sorbonne, iii. 281.

Souls, Johnson's notion of the middle
state of, after death, i. 219.

Sounds, ii. 183.

South, Dr., his Sermons,' ii. 106; iv.
103.

- his Sermons on Prayer recommended
by Johnson, ii. 106.
Southwark, people of, iv. 332 n.
Southwell, Robert, his stanzas 'upon the
Image of Death,' iii. 143 n.

Southwell, Thomas, second lord, iv. 330;
v. 53.

some account of, iv. 330.

- Lady Margaret, iv. 329.
Johnson's letter to, iv. 329.
some account of, iv. 329 n.

Spain, no country less known than, i.

354, 419, 466.

Spanish plays, iv. 348.
Speaking, public, iii. 214.

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of one's-self, iv. 183.

Speculum Humanæ Salvationis,' iii. 279.
'Spectator, The,' i. 185 n.; ii. 200; iii.
246, 397; iv. 87, 357, 364, 446, 465.
Spells, ii. 395 n.

Spelman, Sir Henry, on the fatality at-
tending the inheritance of confiscated
church property, v. 38 n.

Spence, Rev. Joseph, iii. 11, 11 n.

his very amusing

Anecdotes,' iv.

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his Christian Hero,' iii. 336.

Addison's conduct towards, iv. 420, 421,
421 n.

– Mr. Joshua, his 'Prosodia Rationalis,"
201, 201 n.

Steevens, George, esq., ii. 111, 117, 118,
193, 197; iii. 117, 248, 248 n., 464;
iv. 44, 139, 139 n., 222, 258, 104; v.
172 n., 221, 316, 335.

- Johnson's letter to, iii. 464.

- anecdotes of Johnson by, v. 416.
Stephani, account of the, iv. 335.

Sterne, Rev. Lawrence, ii. 169, 210; iv.
364 n., 481.

his Tristram Shandy,' iii. 337.
his Sermons,' iv. 513, 513 n.
Stews, licensed, iii. 382.

Stillingfleet, Benjamin, esq., iv. 480.
Stirling, corporation of, Johnson's argu-
ment in favour of, iii. 247, 530.
Stockdale, Rev. Perceval, i. 320; ii. 139;
v. 215 n.

his Remonstrance,' a poem, ii. 116.
- some account of, ii. 116 n.
Stonehenge, v. 129, 129 n.

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Stories, truth essential to, iii. 320, 321;
iv. 400.

Story telling, iv. 400.

Stowell, Lord, i. 72 n., 261 n., 337 n.,
473; ii. 108, 126 n., 127, 254, 259,
259 n., 262, 279 n., 401 n.; iii. 117,
122; iv. 117, 122, 122 n., 167, 309,
309 n., 314, 465.

his character of Boswell, iii. 110.

- his account of Coulson, the eccentric,
iii. 159 n.

Strahan, Rev. Mr., i. 212, 502; ii. 37 n.,
214, 314 n., 325 n.; iii. 192, 195,
197; iv. 324 n.; v. 168.

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difference between Johnson and, iv.
229.

publishes Johnson's 'Prayers and Me-
ditations,' i. 213.

Johnson's letters to, i. 502; iv. 230.
William, esq., iv. 230, 474; v. 64.
his letter recommending Johnson to be
brought into parliament, ii. 125.
Mrs., Johnson's letters to, iv. 474;
v. 12.

Stratagem, iv. 132.

Streatfield, Mrs., iv. 384 n.

Streatham, ii. 79; iv. 219, 384, 459,
Strichen, Lord, ii. 340 n.

Strickland, Mrs., iii. 281, 288 n., 482 n.
Stuart family, i. 343, 445; ii. 207; iii. 521.
Hon. and Rev. William, afterwards
Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of
Ireland, v. 76.

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Stuart, Hon. Colonel James, father of the
present Lord Wharncliffe, iv. 273, 294,
294 n.

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- Andrew, esq., ii. 218.

his Letters to Lord Mansfield on the
Douglas Cause,' ii. 118; iii. 365.
Francis, i. 161; iv. 295, 302; v.154,
159, 473.

some account of, v. 473.

Rev. James, translator of the scriptures
into Erse, ii. 29 n., 30.

Study, plan of, i. 420, 443, 468, 469,
472, 475; ii. 17, 247; iv. 143, 220,
256, 283, 341, 352.

Style, i. 195, 196, 197, 198; iv. 113 n.,
138, 406, 428, 430.

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Burrowes's Essay on Johnson's, i.
195 n.

- Addison's and Johnson's compared, i.
201.

Johnson's character of Addison's, i.
201.

various kinds of, ii. 184.

metaphorical expression a great excel-
lence in, iv. 24.

of English writers, how far distin-
guishable, iv. 138.

- of different painters, how far distin-
guishable, iv. 138.
Subordination, iv. 254.

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necessary to human happiness, i. 455,
460; ii 13, 207, 245.

- impaired in England, by the increase
of money, iv. 117.

in society, duty of maintaining, iii. 203.
Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles,

ii. 106, 142, 142 n., 300.

Succession, iii. 300, 304.

Suetonius, iv. 141 n.

Suicide, ii. 217, 290; v. 27, 106.

Sunday consultations, lawyers', iii. 249.
ii. 73, 74, 202, 304; iii. 18.

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Johnson's mode of passing, i. 287;
ii. 5, 202; iii. 18.

Superstition of the press, prejudiced to
good literature, iv. 193.

Superiors, deference to, ii. 337, 337 n.
Superstitions, i. 496; ii. 141, 534; iv. 239.
Suppers, iv. 165.

'Surveillance,' no English word to de-
scribe, iii. 198 n.

Suspicion, iii. 498.
Swallows, ii. 56.

Swearing in conversation, ii. 159.
Swene's stone, ii. 348.

Swift, Johnson's prejudice against, ii. 279.
his Tale of a Tub,' i. 464, 464 n.;
ii. 279.

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Earl Gower's letter to, concerning
Johnson, i. 102.

Johnson's opinion of, i. 391, 398 n.,
464; ii. 67, 279, 279 n.; iii. 194.

- his Conduct of the Allies,' ii. 67.

'Table Talk,' Selden's, iii. 4; v. 64 n.
Table, sinking, invented by Louis XV.,
iii. 272, 272 n.

Tacitus, style of, ii. 182.

'Tale of a Tub,' i. 464; ii. 279; iii. 194,
194 n.

Talisker, ii. 475, 481; iii. 557.

'Talk' and ' conversation,' Johnson's
distinction between, v. 65.

Talkers, exuberant public, ridiculed, ii.
231.

Talking above the capacity of one's com-
pany, v. 63.

Tallow-chandler, story of one, iii. 213.
Tasker, Rev. William, iv. 243; v. 29.
- his 'Carmen Seculare' of Horace, iv. 243.
his Ode to the Warlike Genius of
Britain,' iv. 243; v. 49 n.

some account of, iv. 243 n.
Tasso, iv. 191.

Hoole's translation of, iv. 372.
-Johnson's elegant Dedication of Hoole's
translation of, to the Queen, i. 272.
Taste, ii. 183.

refinement of, v. 248.

Tavern, the chair of a, iii. 339.
Taverns, iii. 338, 339 n.; iv. 445.
Tavistock, Lady, her excessive grief for
the loss of her husband, ii. 94.
Taxation no Tyranny,' iii. 187, 211,
480; iv. 74, 143.

- sundry suppressed passages in, iii. 189.
Taylor, Jeremy, i. 197; v. 188 n., 194,
324 n., 335.

his forms of prayer, v. 193, 193 n.
Rev. Dr. John, i. 29, 33, 51, 144,
159, 171, 197 n., 217, 218, 360; ii.
10 n., 118, 160; iii. 356, 363, 444,
501 n., 503, 516, 520; iv. 1, 17,
32, 42, 44, 58, 197 n., 267; v. 109,

165 n.

some account of, v. 39 n.
Thicknesse, Philip, esq., his Travels,'
iv. 91.

Things, attention to small, v. 69.
Thinking too well of mankind, v. 228.
Thirty-nine Articles, the, ii. 106, 142.
Thirlby, Dr. Styan, iv. 337; v. 39.
Thomas, Mr. Nathaniel, iii. 456 n.
Thompson, William, author of the Man
in the Moon,' iii. 109.

Thomson, the poet, i. 464; ii. 64; iii.
401, 473, 481, 496; iv. 226, 419 n.
- Rev. James, his case, iii. 424.
Johnson's argument in favour of, iii.

522.

Thornton, Bonnel, esq., i. 183, 194 n., 239 n.
his burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia's
Day,' i. 432.

- Mr. Henry, iv. 332 n.
Thoughts, inquisitive and perplexing,
Johnson's prayer against, v. 285.

in Prison,' Dr. Dodd's, iv. 126.
Thrale, Henry, esq., i. 300, 506, 514; ii.
68, 124, 361, 502; iii. 162, 357, 372,
383, 472, 493; iv. 240, 267, 268,
332 n., 384, 441, 451, 456, 474; v. 228.
Johnson's introduction into the family
of, i. 506, 508, 512; iv. 332, 332 n.
his design of bringing Johnson into
parliament, ii. 124.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 445, 493.
his Address to the Electors of South-
wark, written by Johnson, iv. 328.
his death, iv. 457, 458; v. 18.

sale of his brewery, v. 1.

Mrs., see Piozzi, Johnson's Latin
Ode to, ii. 388, 388 n.

Threshing, ii. 489.

Thuarus, Johnson's proposed translation

of, v. 320.

Thucydides, iv. 191.

Thurlow, Lord, v. 58.

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Boswell's letter to, on Johnson's pro-
posed tour to Italy, v. 236.

Johnson's letters to, v. 263, 265, 265 n.
his letter to Sir Joshua Reynolds, v.
265.

his letter to Boswell, v. 245, 283.
his letter to Johnson, iv. 331.

on the liberty of the pulpit, iii. 425.
Tillotson, Archbishop, style of his Ser-
mons, iv. 102.

Time and space, iv. 357.
Timidity, v. 209.

Titi, History of Prince, iii. 271 n.
Toasts, iv. 361.

Toleration, ii. 233, 237; iv. 343.

- universal, iv. 250, 343.

Tomkison, Mr., Johnson's letter to, v.
127.

Tooke, Rev. John Horne, iv. 172 n., 221.
his Letter to Mr. Dunning on the
English Particle,' iv. 221.

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his Diversions of Purley,' iv. 221 n.
Topham, the King versus, for a libel
against Earl Cowper, deceased, iii. 381 n.
Tories, ii. 209, 498; iv. 185, 210, 390,
474; v. 71.

Tory, Johnson's definition of, i. 280.

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and Whig, Johnson's description of, iv.
491; v. 190.

Torture in Holland, i. 479.

Towers, Dr. Joseph, his Letter to Dr.
Johnson on his Political Publications,'
iii. 191.

his Essay on Johnson,' iv. 408, 408 n.
Town life, iv. 28, 109.

Townley, Charles, esq., iii. 482 n.
Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, ii. 211;
iii. 368, 368 n., 482.

Trade, ii. 99, 170; iii. 22, 316.

the rage of, ii. 456.

Tradesmen, opulence of, iii. 22.
— unhappiness of retired, iii. 213.
Tradeswomen, iv. 220.
Tradition, ii. 306.

Tragedy, the purpose of, iii. 403.
Tragic acting, Johnson's contempt of, ii.
273.

Translation, iii. 400.

Translations, ii. 27; iv. 113.
Transubstantiation, ii. 306, 322.
'Transpire,' definition of the word, iv.
210, 210 n.

Trapaud, Mr., ii. 366.

Travel, Lord Essex's advice on, i. 446.
'Traveller,' Goldsmith's, i. 427, 494; ii.
6, 224; iii. 40; iv. 107.

Travelling, i. 381, 419, 446, 475; ii.
119; iii. 339, 370, 373, 400, 414, 538,
550; iv. 91, 124, 159, 220, 223.