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JOHNSON, SAMUEL-

Leading events of his life.

[1773] publishes new edition of his folio
Dictionary, i. 192.

writes preface to Macbean's Dic-
tionary of Ancient Geography,' and
Argument in Favour of Lay Patrons,
ii. 192.

at sixty-four, attempts to learn the
Low Dutch languages, ii. 247.

injures his eyesight by the impru-
dent use of small print, ii. 247.

his journey with Boswell to the He-
brides, ii. 250.

presented with the freedom of Aber-
deen, ii. 324.

[1774] engaged in writing his 'Journey to
the Western Islands,' iii. 115.

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makes a journey into North Wales
with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale, iii. 124.
spends some time with Mr. Burke
at Beaconsfield, iii. 159.

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writes The Patriot,' iii. 162.
[1775] publishes his Journey to the
Western Islands of Scotland,' iii. 175.
-publishes Taxation no Tyranny,'
iii. 187.

receives his diploma as Doctor of
Laws from the University of Oxford,
iii. 205.

makes a tour to France with Mr.
and Mrs. Thrale, iii. 264.

[1776] writes an Argument in support of

the Liberty of the Pulpit, Proposals
for an Analysis of the Scotch Celtick
Language, and a Defence of the
Booksellers from the Charge of
making exorbitant Profits, iii. 311.
pays a visit to Oxford and Lichfield,
iii. 326.

visits Bath with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale,
iii. 409.

[1777] engages with the booksellers to
write The Lives of the English
Poets,' iii. 474.

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writes dedication to the king of the
Posthumous Works of Dr. Pearce,
iii. 476.

visits Oxford and Derbyshire, iii. 496.
exerts his humane and zealous in-
terference in behalf of Dr. Dodd,
iii. 503.

[1778] his visit to Warley Camp, iv. 228.
his home made uncomfortable by the
perpetual jarrings of those whom he
sheltered under his roof, iv. 232.
[1779] publishes the first four volumes of
his Prefaces, biographical and cri-
tical, to the most eminent of the En-
glish Poets,' iv. 237.

[1780] employed in the completion of the
'Lives of the Poets,' iv. 296.

[1781] completes his 'Lives of the Poets,'
iv. 401.

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- loses his friend Mr. Thrale, iv. 459.
appointed one of his executors, iv.
457.

- loses his friend Mr. Strahan, iv. 474.
- plans a life of greater diligence, v. 7.
purposes to devote six weeks to the
study of Italian literature, v. 7.

visits Oxford, Birmingham, and
Lichfield, v. 7.

[1782] loses his old friend Robert Levett,
v. 11.

declining state of his health, v. 16.
visits Oxford, v. 30.

takes a parting adieu of Streatham ;
his prayer on leaving Mr. Thrale's
family, v. 37.

reads a book of the Æneid every
night for twelve nights, v. 100.
[1783] attacked with a stroke of the palsy,
v. 109.

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visits Lichfield and Oxford, v. 116.
institutes the Essex Head Club, v.
144.

seized with a spasmodic asthma, v.

146.

[1784] visits Oxford, v. 182.

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his friends project a tour to Italy for
the benefit of his health, v. 234, 245,
261.

visits Lichfield, Birmingham, and
Oxford for the last time, v. 268.
- his extraordinary expiatory visit to
Uttoxeter, v. 288, 288 n.

His last illness and death.

rapid increase of his disorders, v. 298.
his preparations for death, v. 304.
particulars, by Boswell, of his re-
maining days, v. 310.

makes a liberal provision for his
negro servant, Francis Barber, v. 311.
particulars, by Mr. Nichols, of his
conversation within a few days of his
death, v. 318.

his three dying requests of Sir Joshua
Reynolds, v. 325.

- his great anxiety for the religious
improvement of his friends, v. 325.
particulars of Mr. Windham's last
interview with him, from his Private
Journal, v. 326.

Sir John Hawkins's journal of the
last fortnight of his life, v. 333.
diary of his last illness by Mr.
Hoole, v. 464.

particulars of his last moments, v.

343.

his DEATH, v. 344.

his WILL, v. 346.

his FUNERAL in Westminster Ab-

bey, v. 351, 352 n., 421.

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his peculiarities of person and man-
ner, i. 14, 21, 22, 23, 41, 61, 63, 68,
115, 116, 167, 254, 302, 496, 497; ii.
13, 68, 254, 255, 295 n., 534; iii.
112, 143 n., 419.

his very imperfect sight, iii. 286 n.,
419; iv. 384, 396.

his inability to discriminate features,
iv. 200.

his defective hearing, and his un-
accommodating manners ascribed

thereto, iv. 200, 354.

- his extraordinary gesticulations, ii.
256; iii. 200; iv. 380, 441 n.

his peculiar march, iv. 441.

his loud and imperious tone of voice,

iv. 201.

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- his remarkable laugh, iii. 254.

the extreme heat and irritability of
his blood, v. 68.

his corporeal defects contributed to
the singularity of his manners, iv.

200.

his dress, ii. 257; iv. 184.

general traits of his character and
mode of living, i. 20, 23, 27, 28, 46,
63, 65, 86, 100, 113, 114, 136, 143,
164, 178, 228, 236, 376; ii. 254,
535.

his morbid melancholy, i. 34, 116,
282, 284, 333, 495, 514; ii. 46,
110, 255, 435; iii. 329, 371, 461;
iv. 25, 292, 301, 354; v. 119,
199.

his mind preserved from insanity by
his devotional aspirations, iv. 27.
his resort to arithmetic when his fancy
was disordered, iv. 392.

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his uncouth habits, iii. 112.

his occasional rudeness and violence
of temper, iii. 65 n., 66 n., 77, 143,
346, 413, 427, 443; iv. 20, 148,
200, 255, 345, 360, 369, 376, 384 n.,
417, 469, 487.

- his readiness to take offence at any
slight, iv. 558.

- his notions about eating, i. 480,
481, 482; ii. 258; iv. 164; v. 304,
305, 305 n.

his mode of drinking wine, i. 482;
iii. 407, 407 n.

his ten years' forbearance from all
fluids but tea and sherbet, iii. 407.
his respect for birth and family, i.
389.

his profound reverence for the hier-
archy, iv. 444.

his bow to an archbishop, v. 75.
his insensibility to the charms of
music, i. 355; ii. 8; iii. 295.

and to the beauties of paintings, i.
355; v. 217.

his alleged superstition, i. 496; ii.
141 n.; v. 153.

his personal courage, iii. 174.
his great love of late hours, iv. 56.
his disregard of public abuse, iv.
245, 361, 424, 435.

his abhorrence of affectation, iv. 358.
his diligent study of medicine, v. 16.
his love of chymistry, iv. 272.

his extensive knowledge of literary
history, iv. 37.

his alleged deficiency in Greek, i.
300, 300 n., 301 n., 302, 302 n.
wonderful power and extent of his
memory, i. 12, 23, 250, 300.
his political prejudices, i. 114.
his prejudice against the Scotch, ii.
257; iii. 181, 18] n.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL-

Leading points of his habits, manners,

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and character.

his unjust contempt for foreigners,
iv. 347.

his oratorical powers, ii. 126.

his great conversational powers, i.
164, 301, 374; ii. 251; iv. 484, 490;
v. 121.

his great dexterity at retort, v. 63.

his bow wow way of speaking, iii.
201 n.

his extraordinary readiness of wit,
iii. 433.

his mode of reading prose and verse,
iv. 50.

his rule always to talk his best, v. 62.
his great talent for humour, i. 165.
his powers of improvisation, iii. 460.
his dislike to be teased with questions,
iv. 123.

extraordinary fertility of his mind,
i. 182.

at sixty-seven purposes to apply vi-
gorously to the Greek and Italian
languages, iii. 454.

his style characterized, i. 195, 195 n.,
198, 200, 201; iv. 113, 406, 428.
various imitations of, v. 362.

his objection to the use of paren-
theses, v. 68.

his writing, whether for the public,
or privately to his friends, by fits and
starts, v. 284.

his extraordinary powers of composi-
tion, i. 167, 178, 300; ii. 301, 302,
342; iii. 219, 425 n.; iv. 401, 502.
the 'Ramblers' written as they were
wanted for the press, i. 178; iii. 408.
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of Human Wishes' in a day, ii. 15.
-wrote his 'False Alarm' in twenty-
eight hours, ii. 116.

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wrote a sermon after dinner, and sent
it off by the post that night, ii. 302.
wrote forty-eight pages of the 'Life
of Savage' at a sitting, ii. 302.

wrote six sheets of translation from
the French in one day, ii. 302.

wrote The Patriot' in one day, iii.
164.

- his general tenderness of nature, hu-
manity, and affability, i. 20, 50, 86,
136, 219, 220, 289, 303, 326, 327,
342, 343, 365, 381, 499; ii. 43; iii.
260, 486; iv. 132, 165, 208; v. 219,
243.

- his candour and amiableness of dis-
position, iii. 197.

- his gratitude for kindness conferred,
i. 502.

his active benevolence, iii. 199.

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his uncommon kindness to his ser-
vants, v. 74.

- his constancy to those whom he once
employed, v. 215.

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- his great distress at the loss of his
friends, iv. 240.

- his fondness for animals under his
protection, v. 74.

his inexhaustible charity, iii. 489;
iv. 77, 269 n., 397; v. 182.

- his love of the poor, i. 366, 377,
430; v. 2.

his kindness to authors in looking
over their works and suggesting im-
provements, iv. 243.

his rigid honesty, i. 45.

- his early, habitual, and systematic
piety, i. 10, 38, 63, 114, 289, 326.
his inviolable regard to truth, i. 125,
127, 302, 450; iii. 320; iv. 83.
never greedy of money, but without
money could not be stimulated to
write, i. 113, 309.

his hatred of disguise, iv. 372.

- his fixed incredulity of every thing
he heard, iv. 386, 386 n.

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Jubilee, ii. 71.

Judges, private life of, iii. 92.

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trading, iii. 218.

Kings, their situation, i. 437, 454; ii.

38, 456; iv. 417.
King's-Head Club, i. 163.

why they should not hold their places Kippis, Dr. Andrew, ii. 127 n.,

for life, iii. 229.

Judgment, iii. 236.

Junius, ii. 121, 122; iv. 246; v. 201.
Justamond, John Obadiah, iii. 472 n.
Juvenal, iii. 56; iv. 111, 224.

- Halliday's notes on, Johnson's high
opinion of, v. 332.

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Kaimes, Henry Home, Lord, i. 119;
ii. 54, 90, 189, 498; iii. 62.

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his Elements of Criticism,' i. 403;
iv. 102.

his Sketches of Man,' iv. 102, 206,
219.

Kearney, Rev. Dr. Michael, i. 144 n.;
iv. 122 n., 183 n., 278, 442 1.
Kearsley, Mr., the bookseller, i. 190; iv.
441 n.

Kedleston, the scat of Lord Scardale, iii.
129; iv. 8.

Kellie, Thomas, sixth Earl of, iv. 20 n.,
190 n.

Kelly, Hugh, iii. 478, 479; v. 227.

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Johnson's prologue to his Word to
the Wise,' iii. 478.

some account of, v. 321 n.

Kemble, John Philip, v. 130, 132 n.

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some account of, v. 130 n.

· Charles, v. 131 n.

Kempis, Thomas à, iv. 81, 81 n.

Ken, Bishop, iv. 17 n.; v. 186 n.

Kennedy, Rev. Dr., Johnson's dedication

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to his Astronomical Chronology,' i.
356.

Dr., his tragedy, iv. 94.

Kennicot, Dr. Benjamin, his Collations,
i. 386; ii. 277.

some account of, i. 386 n.

Kenrick, Dr. William, his attack on
Johnson's Shakspeare, i. 516; ii. 63,
499, 499 n.; iv. 112.
Kepple, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 94.
Kerr, Mr. James, ii. 275.
Kettel, Dr. Ralph, i. 257.

Kilmorey, John, tenth Viscount, iii. 131;
iv. 207; v. 134.
Kindersley, Mr., v. 128.
Kindness, v. 32; iv. 33.

King, Rev. Dr., i. 266, 268 n., 337; iii.
239 n.

on the happiness of a future state,
iv. 147.

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-Archbishop, his Essay on Evil,' iv.
276 n.

some account of, i. 266 n.

- Lord, his Life of Locke,' i. 466.

iv. 25, 25 n.

323 n.;

his biographical catechism, v. 292.
Knapton, Messrs., the booksellers, i. 157.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, iv. 92, 92 n.
Knight, Lady, i. 214, 221; ii. 25.

her description of Johnson's political
principles, i. 214 n.

her account of Mrs. Williams, i. 221;
ii. 25 n.

Knitting, iv. 97; v. 183.

Johnson's attempt to learn, iii. 233 n.
Knowledge, i. 430; ii. 209 n.; iii. 233,
336, 401; iv. 194.

every day, the best, iv. 19.

Knowles, Mrs. Mary, the quakeress, iii.
440, 442; iv. 143, 145, 147, 152.

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Charles, esq., the husband of 'Alley
Croker,' iv. 107 n.

Langton, Bennet, esq., i. 19, 78, 231,
249, 322, 347, 370, 487 n., 489, 490;
ii. 16, 17, 45, 64, 69 n., 85, 122,
231 n., 239 n., 245 n., 249 n., 323 n.,
341, 438; iii. 122, 123, 174, 236, 252,
320 N., 343 n., 411 n., 457, 467, 492 n.;
iv. 9, 37 n., 76, 105, 116, 137, 158 n.,
174 n., 177 n., 215 n., 227, 311, 448,
470; v. 114, 116, 126, 177, 317.
- some account of, i. 231 n.; v. 317.

Johnson's letters to, i. 273, 313, 322,
323, 347; ii. 16, 17, 45, 122, 133,
137; iii. 123, 237, 252, 487; iv.
232; v. 2, 17, 126, 161, 267, 276.
- his Collectanea of Johnson's sayings,
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. Irish, ii. 149.

poets the preservers of, iii. 400.

the pedigree of nations, ii. 448.
Lapidary inscriptions, inaccuracy of, iv.
238.

Lascaris's Grammar, the first book printed

in the Greek character, iii. 158 n.
Latin epitaphs, ii. 384 n.

La Trobe, Rev. Mr., v. 322, 322 n., 472.
Laud, Archbishop, his Diary, ii. 201.
Lauder, William, his forgery against
Milton, i. 205; iv. 409.

Lauderdale, Earl of, ii. 336; iii. 387.
'Laughers,' the, utility of associating with,
v. 61.

Laurel, the, i. 160 n.
Law, iii. 316.

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profession of, iv. 30, 31 n.

Johnson's intention of studying, i. 504.
his opinions as to the study and practice
of, ii. 9, 20, 48, 202, 262, 283, 321,
540, 542, 546; iii. 247, 316, 386, 424,
466; iv. 30, 213, 376, 444, 478.
arguments on several cases, ii. 179, 540.
See Argument.

Cicero's defence of the study of, ii. 49 n.
Law, Dr. Edmond, Bishop of Carlisle, iv.
294, 294 n.

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William, v. 186 n., 194.

his Serious Call' the first occasion of
Johnson's thinking in earnest of re-
ligion, i. 39; iv. 555.

the finest piece of hortatory theology
in any language, i. 381.
some account of, i. 381 n.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, i. 324 n.

- Dr. Thomas, i. 325; iii. 171 n., 387,
460; iv. 297, 303, 304, 320, 468;
v. 15, 21, 99, 109.

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Johnson's letters to, iii. 171; iv. 297;
v. 16, 17 n.

-Johnson's letters to his daughter, v. 17 n.
his death, v. 16, 109 n.
Laws, iii. 302, 390.

Lawyers, ii. 10; iv. 165, 444.

not to be censured for multiplying
words, iv. 444.

on their soliciting practice, iii. 317.
Lawyers, Sunday consultations of, iii. 249.

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Lectures, on the practice of teaching by,
ii. 7; iv. 466.

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Lee, Alderman, iii. 440, 440 n.

Arthur, esq., iii. 431.

John, esq. the barrister, iv. 79, 79 n.
Leechman, Dr. William, ii. 303; iii. 65.
his work on prayer, ii. 303, 303 n.
Leeds, Francis, fifth Earl of, lines on his
marriage, iv. 346.

Legitimation by subsequent marriage, iii.
344, 344 n.

Leibnitz, ii. 148, 514.

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, iii. 137.
Leisure, the source of intellectual improve-
ment, ii. 207.

Leith, ii. 289.

Leland, Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 503; ii. 240;
iii. 476; iv. 167.

Leland's Itinerary,' iii. 144 n.

Lenox, Mrs. Charlotte, i. 208, 243, 287,
336, 356; iii. 165; iv. 341; v. 172.
Johnson writes" Proposal' for pub-
lishing her works, iii. 165.
Leonidas,' Glover's, ii. 348.
Leslie, Charles, v. 186 n.

some account of, v. 186 n.
Letter-writing, iv. 476.

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Letters, the sanctity of private, ii. 59.
none received in the grave,' v. 469.
Levellers, i. 460.

Lever, Sir Ashton, v. 243, 243 n.
Levett, Mr. Robert, i. 136 n., 137, 175,
217; ii. 4, 201; iv. 2, 73, 181, 231,
243, 288, 466; v. 99, 113.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 145, 264, 456.
his death, v. 11.

Johnson's verses to the memory of, v. 11.
Lewis, David, his lines to Pope, v. 203,
203 n.

some account of, v. 203 n.
Mr. F., i. 202.

Lexicography, more difficult of execution
than poetry, iii. 526.

'Lexiphanes,' Campbell's, ii. 44.
Libels, ii. 523; iii. 319, 380, 464.

from the pulpit, iii. 425.

on the character of the dead, iii. 380.
Liberty, ii. 62, 233; iv. 77, 254.
political, ii. 62.

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of conscience, ii. 234.

- of conscience and liberty of teaching,
distinction between, v. 96.

- of the press, ii. 62; iii. 380.

- of the pulpit, iii. 425.

and necessity, iv. 440.

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