Cabbage, "such a woman might

be cut out of a cabbage," 196.
Cadogan, Dr., his book on the
gout, 176 n.

Calder Manse, an evening at, 92;
the library in, 93.
Campbell, Bishop Archibald, on a
Middle State, 310; Johnson's
account of, 311.

Dr. John, translator of Her-
mippus Redivivus, author of the
Political Survey of Great
Britain, 280, 281.
Candlestick, Mackinnon's, 288.
Cards, Johnson wishes he had
learned to play, 351.
Carelessness, Johnson's, about let-
ters and papers, 317.
Caricature, of Walpole, referred
to, 244; Hogarth's, of Wilkes,
in Flora Macdonald's room in
Sky, 152.

Carr, Rev. George, his sermons,
and account of, 14 n.
Carriage, Rasay's, a fine strong
open boat, 130.

Carte, his life of the Duke of Or-

mond, ill written, 254.
Cascade, Mrs. Cotton's dry, 385 n.
Case, with spoon, fork, &c., given

by Prince Charles Edward to

Cave, Mackinnon's, Scott's note
on, 288.

Cawdor Castle, the Thane of Caw-
dor's seat, 92.

Chambers, Sir Robert, conducts
Johnson to Newcastle, 5.

Sir William, his account of
Oriental gardening, 152.

Dr. William, the restorer of
St. Giles', 26.
Chapel, Baron Smith's attended
by Johnson, 14; ruins of a, in
Inchkenneth, Boswell visits at
night for devotion, but returns
in haste for fear of ghosts, 284 n.
Charles Edward, Prince, escape of
with Flora Macdonald, 155-65;
Voltaire's saying on, 165.
Chatsworth visited, 376.
Chester visited, 381; a disagree-

ment takes place there between
Johnson aud Mrs. Thrale, 381.
Cheyne, Dr., his rule of life, 123.
Chief, a Highland, should make
his house like a Court, 235.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., "a very airy
lady," 211.

Christ, His atonement and satis-
faction, 66, 67.

Christian Institutes, by Dr. J. Gas-
trell, 280.

Clarendon's fine passage on the

execution of Montrose, 257.
Claymore, Rorie More's shown to
Johnson, 178.

Clergy, Scotch and English, com-

pared, 215; dispute as to which
are most learned, 216.

Clive, Mrs., the best player John-

a college there, each member to
be a professor of some subject,

83.

Cocker's Arithmetic, Johnson pre-
sents to a girl in the Highlands,

108.

Col, the young chieftain, 217; his
plan for Johnson's excursion,
217; leader of the party, 219;
his dogs, 243; brings Johnson
a number of books to pass the
time, 253; Johnson's gratitude
283; Johnson parts from him,
with regret, 287; his excellent
qualities, and untimely death,
286, 287 n.

Col, life in, described, 259; wind
in, louder than any other place,
"its noise all its own," 354; the
castle of, the account of it given
by Johnson in his Journey
quoted, 255.
Colquhoun, Sir James, his hospi-
tality, 316.

Lady Helen, disputes with
Johnson on the use of a liturgy,
318.

Columba, St., tradition of his
having landed at Portawherry in
Iona, 293.

Combermere, Johnson stays at,
379, 380.

Comedy, Mr. Cumberland's, 143;
Boswell finds in Rasay, 143.
Companions, Foote and Garrick
as, compared, 340.

Composition, Johnson's advice on,
48, 49.

Congratulations to Johnson on his

return from the tour, 344.
Connor, a Catholic priest, a pri-
soner for some years in Harris,

193.

Contractions, Johnson's, of his
friends' names, 266.
Conversation between a great
personage and Johnson, 97 n.

Johnson's, on duelling, 12,

195;
on the practice of the
law, 13; emigration, 14; lite-
rary contests, treating your

adversary with respect, is strik-
ing soft in battle, 16; on Burke,

66

66

step aside to take shelter with
him for five minutes, and you
will say this is an extraordinary
man," 20, 179; on mind and the
direction of mental power, 21;
on "sticking to a party," the
'faggot of principles may have
some rotten sticks in it, and
they cannot well be separated,"
22; "I fancy mankind may, in
time, grow weary of prepara-
tion, and connection, and illustra-
tion, and all those arts by which
a big book is made," 24;
66 a man
may write at any time, if he
will set himself doggedly to it,"
25; on literary patronage, 42;
on composition, 49; on literary
property, 53; on Homer, and
the value of biography, 59; on
politeness, 61; on public schools,
64; on the satisfaction of
Christ, 67; on the training of
children, 75; on friends and re-
lations, 81; on moral evil, and
free-will, 90; "custom is to be
followed," said of seasons of
prayer, 95; on true fame, said
of Goldsmith, 107; on Death,
this world a mere show, and
when it is over spectators should
leave it cheerfully and give place
to others, 146; of a certain hook,
so many words to so little mat-
ter, that there was no getting
through the book," 173; good
humour acquired, increases with
age, 177; cunning shows no
great ability, 183; pains and
attention in consulting records,
a modern habit, 185; on the
Rock of Dunvegan, 188; on
the accounts of savage nations
given by themselves, 190;
on the different kinds of fools
men choose for wives, 191; on
land and trade, 197; on dying
men and their duties, 204; a
man is seldom disposed to work

himself, 207; on the Scottish
clergy, 215; on anecdotes, 218,
231; an old man should not re-
sign himself to the management
of anybody, 232; manners well
learned in small courts, 236;
dedications not to be judged
exactly as history, 245; "all
places (speaking of antiquities)
that are filled up were of great
depths," 251; Et hoc secundum
sententiam philosophorum est esse
beatus, 251; it is not every man
that can carry double, 253;
on diffusion in writing, 254;
on landlords and tenants, 262;
against low life, 265; on French
literature, 268; on the descrip-
tion of Hell, applied to a print-
ing-house, 269; longs to get to
a country of saddles and bridles,
275; on Dr. Campbell's writings,
280; he has learned much by the
vox viva, 280; on trade and the
wealth made by trade, 284;
young Col, a noble animal, 286;
on the credulity of Frenchmen,
287; Roving among the He-
brides," 289; on politics, Mr. Pitt
a meteor; Sir Robert Walpole
a fixed star, 294; Mr. Pulteney,
a Whig who pretended to be
honest, 294; on the improba-
bility of all history when related
shortly, 295; stony Scotland like
a man in rags, 295; more sense
in a line of Cowley, than in a page
of Pope, 300; on fanciful and sen-
timental writing, parodied by a
meditation on a pudding, 305;
on Mr. Archibald Campbell, the
nonjuring Bishop, 310, 311;
though a Whig, he had huma-
nity, 311; on luxury, 311;
nothing good but what is con-
sistent with truth or probability,
314; on dress, 317; on "solid
talk," 318; on the distribution
of charity, 325; political dif-
ferences increased by opposition,
336; on Ossian's poems, 337;

he could write a poem on Robin
Hood, which half England
should declare they had heard
from their earliest years, 338;
compares Garrick and Foote,
and calls Foote a most incom-
pressible fellow, 340; on Metho-
dism, 341; on the method of
collecting materials for history,
342; on Lord Mansfield's know-
ledge of English law, 344; on
Richardson's character, 344. See
Sayings.

Conversations, the power of re-
porting them faithfully, 361.
Conway, visited, 388.

Cooke, J., the translator of Hesiod
and Plautus, 23.

Coote, Sir Eyre, entertains John-
son at Fort George, 97.
Copyright and literary property,

53.

Credulity, French, greater than
English, 287; an example of,
338.

Crichton, Robert, Lord Sanquhar,
account of his murder of the
fencing master, 79.
Cromwell, his soldiers taught the
Aberdeen people to make shoes
and stockings, and plant cab-
bages, 63.

Crosbie, Mr., an "intrepid talker,"
"stands up" to Johnson, 8, 29, 30.
Crosses, the eight, at Rasay, 138.
Cullen, Dr., his entertaining con-
versation, 30.

Culloden, Boswell's emotion at
hearing a description of the
battle, 110.

Cumberland, Mr., draws a High-
land character very well, in his

comedy • The Fashionable

Lover, 143.

Cumming, Thomas, the Quaker,
196, n.

Cunning displays no extraordinary
talent, 183.

Cuper's gardens, Johnson's joking
proposal to take them, with
Beauclerk and Langton, 254.
Cyder, Philips's poem on, 58.
Cypress Grove, Drummond of Haw-
thornden's quoted, on the world
being a mere show, which the
spectators should leave cheer-
fully for others, 146.

Dalrymple, Sir David. See Lord
Hailes.

Sir John, Johnson is engaged
to dine with, at Cranston, 349;
but Johnson does not arrive till
supper time, 350; his memoirs
of Great Britain, parodied and
quoted, 350 n.

Lady Margaret, Countess of
Loudon, 323.

Dance, the, called America, 237.
Darippe, Capt., breakfasts with

Johnson at Fort Augustus, 105.
Darwin, Erasmus, grandfather of
Charles Darwin, 375.

Dempster, Mr. George, his letter
of thanks for the Journey to the
Hebrides, 353-6.

Denbigh Castle, remains of, 382.
"Depeditation," the, of Foote, 101.
Derrick, Samuel, Johnson has a
kindness for, 90.

Dick, Sir Alexander, his warm
heart and gay temper at eighty-
one, 31.
Dictionary, verses on the, com-
posed of uncommon words taken
from it, 234.

"Difficulties, a choice of," Wolfe's

saying applied by Johnson, 116.
Dinely, Sir John, a poor knight of
Windsor, 23.

Diploma, or burgess ticket, of the
freedom of Aberdeen, presented
to Johnson, 68.

Distinguished men, Boswell justi-
fies his eagerness to share the
society of, 181.

Doddridge, Dr., his fine epigram,
"Live while you live," 232.
Doggedly. "A man may write
at any time if he will set him-
self doggedly to it," 25.
Dogs fighting, Beauclerk's story
of Johnson and the, 285.
Dorset, Lord, Lord Rochester calls
him "the best-natured man with
the worst-natured muse! 36.
Douglas Cause, the, Boswell thinks
shook the sacred security of birth-
right, 15.

the Duchess of, her broad
Scotch, 28.

Home's tragedy of, admired
by Sheridan and derided by
Johnson, 314.

Dovedale visited, 377.

Johnson, 147; Johnson's an-
swer, 148; he meets Johnson
after the tour, 335, 342; his
happy retort to Johnson, 335 n.
Eloquence, the peculiar excellence
of Burke's, 179.

Emigration, discussed, 14, 58, 171;
the effect of in Sky, contagious,
237; very early practised, 258.
Englishmen compared with Scotch-

men, 8.

Enquiry, historical and critical,
into the evidence against Mary
Queen of Scots, by Mr. Tytler,
337; account of, 337 n.
Entails, Johnson approves, 77.
Epictetus, quoted, on the voyage
of death, 239.

Epigram, the celebrated, quoted
by Mr. Whitbread in the House
of Commons, 198; Dr. Dod-
dridge wrote one of the finest,
232.

Errol, Lord, described, 78 n. ; his
picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
77; account of his family, 78,

79 n.

Erskine, Mr. Henry, gives Bos-
well a shilling for the sight of
"his bear," 24 n.

Erskine, the Ladies Elizabeth and
Anne, 327.

Euphan Macullan, described by
Lord Hailes, 24.

Evil, the origin of, discussed, 90.

Fairlie, Mr., Boswell's " respec-

table" farming neighbour, 331. ·
Falconer, Mr., husband to the

Countess of Errol, collector of
the library at Slains Castle, 78.
Falstaff, the Boar's Head, where

he and his companions met, 211.
Fame, "a shuttlecock, must be
struck from both sides to keep
it up," 348.
Fashionable Lover, The, Mr. Cum-
berland's Comedy, 143.
Fasting, Johnson's power of, 243.
Faulkener, George, curious con-
versation with, 28.