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vacuity of, iv. 372.

on living it over again, v. 199.
Lilliburlero,' ballad of, its political effects,
iii. 222.

Linen, advantages of wearing, ii. 437.
Lintot, the bookseller, i. 73.

Liquors, Johnson's scale of, iv. 252, 499.
'Literary Club,' founded, i. 490, 492 n.,

528; ii. 16, 17, 19, 223, 241, 341;
iii. 193, 220, 470, 480, 492; iv. 86 n.,
139, 299, 309, 360, 388, 456.

- complete list of its members from its
foundation to the present time, i. 528.
'Literary Anecdotes,' Nichols's, a store-
house of facts and dates, v. 283 n.
fame, iii. 233, 233 n.

fraud, i. 240 n., 307, 349.

man, life of, iv. 472.

journals, ii. 39.

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Magazine,' Johnson's contributions

to, i. 292, 311, 315; iv. 409.

- property, i. 451; ii. 243, 286, 307;
iii. 116, 116 n.; iv. 495.

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dignity of, iv. 168.

Liturgy of the Church of England, the
offspring of piety impregnated by wis.
dom, v. 232.

Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, first Earl
of, iii. 510.

'Lives of the English Poets,' Johnson's,

ii. 40 n.; iii. 395, 401, 435, 473, 474,
521, 531; iv. 176, 210, 226 n., 237,
242, 251, 259, 263, 271, 296, 302-
308, 323, 342, 401-435, 440; v. 19.
- critique on, and account of, iv. 403-
435.

the most popular and entertaining of
all Johnson's works, ii. 40 n.

Lleweney, iii. 134 n., 135.

Lloyd, Dr., Bishop of St. Asaph, iii. 136;
v. 186 n.

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some account of, iii. 136 n.

Mr., the quaker, of Birmingham, iii.
344.

Humphry, the antiquary, iii. 138.
Miss Olivia, the quakeress, i. 61.
Johnson's verses to, i. 62.

Lobo's Account of Abyssinia,' i. 55; iii.
373.

Local attachment, ii. 105.
Locality, v. 118.

Lochbuy, the Laird of, iii. 37, 37 n.
Lady, iii. 37.

Loch Lomond, iii. 59; iv. 253.
Lock, William, esq., of Norbury Park, iv.
410.

Locke, John, ii. 326; iv. 338 n.

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his verses to Dr. Sydenham in Trac-
tatum ejus de Febribus,' ii. 327.

his plan of education imperfect, iv. 225.
Lodgings, list of Johnson's various, in
London, i. 81, 162.

Lofft, Capel, esq., v. 175, 176 n.
Loggan's drawing of the remarkable cha-
racters at Tunbridge Wells in 1748, i.
68 n., 86 n., 165.

Lombe, Mr. John, his silk-mill at Derby,
iv. 12.

London, i. 70, 74; iii. 213, 231 n., 232,
385; iv. 28, 62, 101, 109, 160, 227,
248, 275, 369, 370; v. 43.

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the great field of genius and exertion,
i. 70.

-Art of Living' in, i. 74.

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Johnson's poem of, i. 60 n., 89, 91, 98,
99, 100, 167.

Johnson's love of, i, 310, 377, 392,
434; ii. 77, 533; iv. 29, 109, 248;
v. 274, 274 n., 291.

the fountain of intelligence and plea-
sure, iii. 119.

no place where economy can be so well
practised as in, iv. 248.

its pre-eminence over every other place,
iv. 248.

-state of the poor in, iv. 275.

too large, iii. 232, 232 n.

- no similarity to a head connected with
a body, iii. 232.

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mode of choosing its mayors, iv. 223.
Pennant's Account' of, iv. 131.

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shopkeeper, ii. 315, 316, 317 n.

no place cures a man's vanity so well
as, i. 378.

'London Chronicle,' i. 306, 494; ii. 105,
197; iv. 76, 448 n.

Londoners, ii. 102, 533.

Long, Dudley, esq., iv. 444, 453, 456 n,
See North.
Longitude, i. 285.

Longlands, Mr., ii. 180

Longley, John, esq., Recorder of Ro-

chester, iv. 340, 340 n.
Longman, the Messieurs, i. 157, 266.
Lonsdale, first Earl of, ii. 346 n.
Looking-glasses, iii. 278.

Lopez de Vega, iv. 6.

Lord Chancellors, on the mode of choosing,
ii. 150 n.

Lord High Constable of Scotland, ii. 336 n.
Lord's Prayer, v. 21.

Loudoun, John, fourth Earl of, iii. 67,565.

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some account of, iii. 67 n.

- Lady Margaret Dalrymple, Countess
of, iii. 67; iv. 233.

some account of, iii. 67 n., 565.
Loughborough, Lord, i. 361, 363, 397,
398; iii. 230, 230 n., 367, 368; v. 57,
58 n.

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- taught English pronunciation by Mr.
T. Sheridan, i. 396.

his talents and great good fortune, i. 397.
Louis the Fourteenth, ii. 40 n.; iv. 197.
Lovat, Simon, twelfth Lord, i. 155; ii.
451; iii. 92.

some account of, i. 155 n.

Johnson's verses on his execution, i. 155.
- his inscription to the memory of his
father, ii. 449.

Love, i. 370, 381; iii. 236, 348; iv. 53,
371.

- Johnson's description of, iv. 396.

of Fame,' Young's, ii. 496.

in a hollow tree, iv. 450.
- and Madness,' v. 65.
Loveday, Dr. John, ii. 243 n.
Lovibond, Edward, esq., i. 71.
Low company, v. 209.

life, ii. 535; iv. 380.
Lowe, Mr., i. 19, 23.

Johnson's schoolfellow, v. 127.
Johnson's letters to, v. 34, 113.

Mr. Mauritius, the painter, iv. 250,
329, 330.

Lowth, Dr. Robert, Bishop of London,
i. 134; ii. 37, 315, 356; iii. 403 n.,
424; v. 87.

Lowther, Sir James, the miser, ii. 345.
Lowthers, family of the, ii. 346.

Lubricity of the bowels, Johnson's remedy
for, iv. 556.

Lucas, Dr. Charles, i. 295.

some account of, i. 295 n.
Lucian, iii. 376; iv. 400.
Lumisden, Andrew, esq., iii. 285 n.
Lunardi, the aëronaut, v. 271 n., 273 n.
'Lusiad,' Johnson's intention to translate
the, v. 141.

Mickle's translation of the, v. 140.
Luther, ii. 438.

Luton Hoe, Johnson's visit to, iv. 502.
Luxury, ii. 164, 205, 295; iii. 53.

outcry against the evil of, iii. 421; iv.

80, 140, 150.

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Macallan, Eupham, the fanatic woman,
ii. 274.

Macartney, George, Earl of, i. 357 n. ; iii.
386 n.; iv. 98 n., 310, 430 n.
Macaulay, Rev. Kennett, his 'Account of
St. Kilda,' ii. 52, 142, 349.

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- Mrs. Catherine, i. 225, 460, 501; ii.
207; iii. 211 n., 253, 411 n., 440;
iv. 37.

Macbean, Mr., his 'Military Dictionary,'
i. 108.

Alexander, i. 161; ii. 193, 252 n.,
390; iv. 331, 466; v. 241.
Macbeth, i. 151; ii. 91, 347; iii. 543.
Macbeth's Castle, iii. 543.

6 Maccaroni,' ii. 417 n.

Maccaronic verses, etymology of, iv. 141,
142 n.

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Macclesfield, George, Earl of, i. 254 n.

Countess of, the reputed mother of
Savage, i. 145, 150 n.

Macconochie, Mr., afterwards Lord Mea-
dowbank, iv. 66, 66 n.

Maccruslick, ii. 397, 397 n., 410.
Macdonald, Sir James, i. 462; ii. 150,
381, 384, 407, 482, 516, 551; iv.
454 n.

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inscription on his monument in the
church of Slate, ii. 551.

his two last letters to his mother, ii.
553.

Sir Alexander, ii. 150, 379, 379 n.,
381, 383, 391, 502; iii. 8, 74 n.,
549, 564.

Latin verses addressed by him to Dr.

Johnson in the Isle of Skie, ii. 550.
Lady Margaret, ii. 561, 561 n.; iv.
254.

Miss Flora, ii. 411, 416, 418, 420,
421 n., 485, 561; iii. 47, 111 n.,
482, 552, 555.

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- Henry, esq., i. 350.

his Man of the World,' ii. 502.
his Man of Feeling,' ii. 502 n.
Mackinnon, Mrs., ii. 490 n.
Mackinnon's Cave, iii. 26, 27 n.
Mackintosh, Sir James, iii. 118 n., 223 n.,
444; v. 212 n., 214 n.

his biographical notice of Mr. Courte-
nay, v. 445.

Macklin, Charles, the actor, i. 396; iii.
368.

Maclaurin, Colin, the mathematician, i.

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379.

ridicule thrown on him in Gold-

smith's Animated Nature,' iii. 379.
his epitaph, by his son, ii. 285 n.

John, afterwards Lord Dreghorn,
i. 481; ii. 285; iii. 238.
some account of, ii. 285 n.
Maclean, Alexander, the Laird of Col, iii.
293.

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Macleod, General John, Laird of Rasay,

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ii. 382, 409, 425.

some account of, ii. 409 n.
Johnson's letter to, ii. 493.

his 'Memoirs of his own life, ii.
554.

Lady, ii. 428; iii. 545.
some account of, ii. 428 n.

Miss, of Rasay, ii. 411; iii. 483.
Sir Roderick, ii. 428, 432.

Rev. Neal, iii. 34, 36.
Malcolm, ii. 392; iii. 551.

Alexander, or Sandie, ii. 396, 397,
397 n., 410, 421, 427.

Macleod's dining-tables, ii. 460 n.
Macleod's maidens, ii. 460 n.

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Macpherson, Dr. John, his 'Scottish An-
tiquities,' ii. 426.

his Latin Ode from the Isle of Barra,
ii. 492.

Rev. Martin, ii. 492, 494.

Macquarrie, of Ulva, iii. 14, 491, 497.
Macqueen, Mr. Donald, ii. 382, 392,
439, 442, 446, 450, 482; iii. 261.
Macra, Mr. John, 447 n.

Macraes, clan of, ii. 373 n., 374 n., 447.
Macsweyne, Mr., ii. 515, 516, 516 n.,
531.

Mrs., ii. 516.

Macswinney, Owen, iii. 435.

some account of, iii. 435 n.

Madden, Dr. Samuel, i. 250 n., 306; iii.
196, 196 n.

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first proposer of premiums in Dublin
College, i. 306.

his Boullter's Monument,' i. 307.
Madness, i. 4, 406; iv. 25, 363.

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its gradations traced by Johnson, i. 36.
and hypochondria, distinction between,
i. 36.
Magliabechi, Johnson's resemblance to
the medallic likeness of, i. 302.
'Mahogany,' a liquor so called, iv. 449.
Maiden assize, iv. 116.

'Malagrida,' iv. 299; v. 54.
Malevolence, natural human, i. 223.

Mallet, David, i. 255, 316, 387, 417; ii.
152, 222, 407; iv. 47, 258, 277; v. 97.
his tragedy of' Elvira,' i. 417.

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his Life of Lord Bacon,' iv. 47.
in early life wrote his name Malloch,'
v. 97, 97 n.

his poem on repairing the University
of Aberdeen, v. 97.

Malone, Edmond, esq., i. 3, 20, 24, 41,
53, 72, 133, 134, 139 n., 192 n., 211 n.,
240 n., 250 n., 347, 401 n., 505 n.;

iii. 359 n., 421 n., 489 n.; iv. 77 n.,
183 n., 265 n, 330, 378 n., 381 n.,
386 n., 419, 420; v. 254.

Johnson's letter to, v. 13.
Man, iii. 226.

not a machine, ii. 348.

said to be a cooking animal, ii. 269 n.
- picture of, by Shakspeare and Milton,
iv. 442, 442 n.

difference between a well and ill bred,
v. 215.

Man of fashion, v. 50, 51 n.

'Man of Feeling,' i. 351.

'Man of the World,' ii. 502, 502 n.
Mandeville's Fable of the Bees,' ii. 96.

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- fallacy of his doctrine of 'private vices
public benefits,' iv. 150, 151.

his Treatise on the Hypochondriacal
Disease,' v. 231.

Sir John, his Travels in China' re-
commended by Johnson, v. 332.
Manley, Mrs., v. 76.

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Manning, Rev. Owen, ii. 17 n.

Mr., the compositor, v. 218.
Manningham, Dr., iv. 9.

Mansfield, Lord, ii. 151, 151 n., 179, 187,

215, 264, 329; iii. 91, 193, 194 n.,
211, 365 n., 452; iv. 33 n., 314, 418;
v. 57.

Mantuanus, Johannes Baptista, v. 60,
60 n.


Mapletoft, Dr. John, ii. 106 n.
Marana, J. P., a Genoese, author of The
Turkish Spy,' v. 77 n.

Marchetti, an Italian physician, v. 332.
Marchmont, Hugh, fourth Earl of, ii.
154; iv. 209, 211, 214, 263, 296,
418.

Johnson's interview with, iv. 264.
Markland, Jeremiah, the philologist, iv.
376.

some account of, iv. 376 n.; v. 39 n.
J. H., esq., notes communicated to the
editor by, iii. 489 n.; iv. 4, 156, 330,
376; v. 34, 39, 59, 64, 65, 87, 93,
170 n., 175, 179, 183, 190 n., 193,
202, 207, 271, 283, 332.

Marlay, Dr. Richard, iv. 443.

Burke's playful sally on, iv. 443.
some account of, iv. 443 n.

Marlborough, John, Duke of, ii. 408; iii.
143 n., 338, 423; iv. 258, 451.

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Martinelli, Vincenzio, hisIstoria d'In-
ghilterra,' ii. 208.

some account of, ii. 208 n.

Martyrdom, ii. 234, 235.

Mary, Queen of Scots,

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343; ii. 275.

inscription for a print of, iii. 113, 123,
160, 168, 169.

Mason, Rev. William, ii. 157; iii. 396.
his Elfrida,' iii. 210.

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- his 'Caractacus,' iii. 210.

his prosecution of Mr. Murray, the
bookseller, iv. 152, 153 n.

- his share in the Heroic Epistle,' iv.
485; v. 211, 211 n.
Masquerades, ii. 194.
Mass, ii. 107.
Massillon, iii. 4.

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his book of the dialects, iv. 335.
Maty, Dr. Matthew, i. 270; iii. 472 n.
some account of, i. 270 n.

Gibbon's character of his Biblio-
thèque Britannique,' i. 270 n.
Maupertius, ii. 55.

Mawbey, Sir Joseph, ii. 68 n.

Maxwell, Rev. Dr. William, his anecdotes
of Johnson, i. 373, 388 n., 428; ii.
121.

- some account of, i. 373 n.

Mayne, William, esq., iv. 284 n.

Mayo, Rev. Dr., ii. 231, 233, 237, 237 n.
Mead, Dr., iv. 17, 222.

Meadowbank, Lord, iv. 66 n.

Meals, stated, iv. 164.

Medals, only valuable as a stamp of merit,
iii. 195.

Medicated baths, of, ii. 101.
Meditation on a pudding, iii. 46.
Mediterranean, iii. 400.

Meek, Rev. Dr., i. 258, 261.

Melancholy, i. 36, 74 n., 460; ii. 46,
435; iii. 329, 371, 452, 461; iv. 25,
27, 292, 301, 354; v. 119.

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Johnson's remedy against, i. 460; iii.
329, 371; iv. 26, 235.

Johnson projects a history of his, ii.

46.

Melancthon, iii. 482, 485.

Boswell's letter to Johnson from the
tomb of, iii. 485 n.

Melchor, Jacobus, iii. 127 n.

Melcombe, George Bubb Dodington, Lord,
i. 185 n., 192; iv. 430 n.

Melmoth, William, esq., iv. 305, 307.
some account of, iv. 305 n.
his Letters' quoted, v. 169 n.

Melville, Viscount: see Dundas.
Member of parliament, duty of, on an
election committee, iv. 444.

Memis, Dr., iii. 167, 172, 247, 458, 464,
529.

Memory, i. 12, 300, 393 n.; ii. 248, 303;
iv. 44, 44 n., 278, 346, 501.
'Menagiana,' ii. 228; iii. 292 n., 371;
iv. 182 n., 207 n.; v. 61 n.
Mental diseases, not to be dwelt on, v. 302.
'Merchant of Venice,' curious mistake in
a French translation of, iv. 513.
Merchants, i. 507; iii. 22.

-enlarged views of our great, iv. 336.
Mercheta mulierum, iii. 15.
Merit, intrinsic, i. 455.

-- men of, not neglected, v. 51.
Metaphysical tailor, v. 66.

Metaphysics, i. 40.

Metcalfe, Philip, esq., i. 398 n. ; iii. 450;
v. 165.

Method, advantages of, iii. 457.

Methodism, i. 377.

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rank in France, want of, iii. 274,
274 n., 287.

Middlesex election, iv. 74, 284.

Middleton, Lady Diana, ii. 318 n.; iii. 542.
Middleton's Life of Cicero,' v. 228.
Midgeley, Dr. Samuel, v. 77, 77 n.
Migration of birds, ii. 232.

Military character, respect paid to, ii. 83;
iii. 375.

Miller, Andrew, the bookseller, anecdotes
of, i. 157, 273; iv. 261.

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Milton, John, his grandaughter, John-
son's prologue for the benefit of, i. 204.
his Tractate on Education,' iv. 225.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 407.

his picture of man, iv. 442, 442 n.
Johnson's saying respecting, v. 201.
Mimickry, ii. 145.

Mind, ii. 145; iii. 417; iv. 110, 195,
196; v. 469.

influence of the weather on the, i. 318.
management of the, iii. 329.

Cardan's mode of composing his, iv.
26 n.

Miracles, i. 458; iv. 40.

Miseries of human life, iii. 226.
Misers, ii. 345; iii. 9; iv. 182.
Misery, balance of, v. 199, 371.
Misfortunes, iv. 362.
Missionaries, iii. 87.
Mistresses, i. 370; iii. 87.
Modesty, iv. 219.

Moira, Earl of, ii. 411 n.
Molière, iii. 4; iv. 378.
Moltzer, Jacobus, iii. 127 n.
Monarchy, iii. 411.

Monasteries, i. 354; ii. 10, 297.
Monboddo, James Burnet, Lord, and his

writings, ii. 75, 138, 182 n., 244, 281,
309, 309 n., 311, 317 n., 343; iii.
25 n., 73, 262, 466, 540; iv. 16, 24,
67, 307, 500; v. 170.

some account of, ii. 138 n.
Johnson's visit to, ii. 311.

his remarks on Johnson's style, iv. 24.
Money, ii. 296; iv. 118, 206.

advantages of, iv. 31.
borrowers, v. 25, 29.
Money-getting, iii. 198; iv. 253.
Monks, iii. 270.

Monkton, Hon. Mary, the present Countess
of Cork and Orrery, iv. 307, 313.
some account of, iv. 307 n.
Boswell's verses to, iv. 482.
Monnoye, M. de la, iv. 182.
Monro, Dr., v. 157.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, her 'Let-
ters,' iv. 378.

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- Mrs., anecdotes of, i. 222 n., 339,
342, 389, 490 n.; ii. 65 n., 88, 468;
iii. 114, 256, 295, 296, 412; iv. 78,
98, 99 n., 230, 245, 304 n., 312, 322,
435, 443; v. 99, 124, 128, 173.
- Johnson's letters to, i. 339, 342.

- Johnson's admiration and esteem for,
i. 339 n.; v. 173.

- her Letters,' edited by Lord Rokeby,
i. 339 n.


- her Essay on Shakspeare,' ii. 88,
468.

- coolness between Johnson and, ii. 90 n.
- takes offence at Johnson's Life of Lord
Lyttleton, iv. 435, 435 n, 443, 443 n.
Montaigne, i. 377 n.

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