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Place-hunters, iv. 90.

Plagiary, Sir Fretful, character of, intended
for Mr. Cumberland, ii. 197 n.
'Plain Dealer,' i. 131, 150.
Planting, iv. 58.

in Scotland, era of, iii. 100.

- in Scotland, spur given to, by John-
son's 'Journey to the Western Islands,'
iii. 466.

Players, i. 143, 144, 175, 411; ii. 91,

223, 273, 281, 356; iii. 289, 310, 352;
iv. 35, 119, 339.

Pleasure, iii. 119, 554; iv. 100, 151,
260.

Pleasures, necessary to intellectual health,
iv. 371.

-no man a hypocrite in his, v. 212.
'Pleasures of the Imagination,' Aken-
side's, i. 349.

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Plott's History of Staffordshire,' iv. 40.
Plunkett, Lord, iii. 241 n.

Pococke, Dr. Richard, iv. 124 n.; v.
63.

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"Polite Philosopher,' iii. 386.

Politeness, ii. 316; iv. 9.

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Johnson's, ii. 36, 261, 316; iii. 58,
238 n.; iv. 198, 501.

Politian's Latin Poems, Johnson's pro-
jected edition of, i. 58.
Politics, modern, iii. 228, 244.
Polygamy, ii. 438.

Poor, a decent provision for, the test of
civilization, i. 389.

- methods of employing, iv. 335.
of London, iv. 275.

Pope, Alexander, i. 32, 98, 157; ii. 85,
86, 314, 314 n.; iii. 41, 114; iv.
264.

his liberal conduct on the appearance
of Johnson's London,' i. 98.

recommends Johnson to Earl Gower,
i. 101.

his note concerning Johnson, i. 114.
his peculiar mode of writing, and im-
perfect spelling, i. 115.

his Messiah' translated into Latin
verse by Johnson, i. 32.

Johnson's observation on the proposal
for erecting a monument to him in St.
Paul's Church, i. 214 n.; ii. 226.
- Johnson's dissertation on the Epitaphs
of, i. 292.

his

Dunciad' written primarily for
fame, iii. 209.

Pope, Alexander, Johnson's character of
his Homer,' iv. 113.

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his Essay on Man,' iv. 276 n., 277,
278.

Dr. Blair's Letter concerning his
'Essay on Man,' iv. 277.

his knowledge of Greek, iv. 277.
his Grotto, iv. 340, 340 n.

his Preface' to Shakspeare, iv. 411 n.
Johnson's Life of, iv. 413.

Johnson's character of his poetry, iv.
193, 414.

his limited conversational powers, iv.
417.

- his Universal Prayer,' iv. 213.

Lewis's verses to, v. 203, 203 n.
Pope, Dr. Walter, his 'Old Man's Wish,'
iv. 350. 1

Popery, i. 214; ii. 105, 108.
Population, ii. 103, 264; iv. 87.
Porridge Island, iv. 381, 381 n.
Porter, Mrs., afterwards Johnson's wife,
i. 5, 12, 63, 64, 68.

Porter, Miss Lucy, i. 5, 12, 13, 55 n.,
59, 59 n., 215, 326, 342, 351, 372,
435, 498; ii. 3, 61, 68, 117, 131; iii.
252, 356, 361 n.; iv. 62, 72, 290,
295; v. 116, 131.

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- Johnson's letters to, i. 175, 326, 327,
328, 329, 330, 340, 342, 351, 435,
440, 498; iii. 263, 266, 267, 350; iv.
62, 72, 238, 241, 266, 303, 463; v.
1, 14, 112, 114, 133, 137, 154, 157,
167, 303.

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- Mrs., the actress, v. 131.

Porteus, Dr. Beilby, Bishop of Chester,
afterwards Bishop of London, iv. 137,
290, 293 n., 361, 446, 462 n.
Portland, Lady Margaret, Duchess Dow-
ager of, iv. 310.

some account of, iv. 310 n.

Portrait, Mr. Beauclerk's inscription on
the frame of Johnson's, v. 59, 59 n.
Portrait-painting, an improper employ-
ment for a woman, iii. 237.
Portraits, ii. 441.

Portraits of Dr. Johnson, list of the va-
rious, v. 353 n., 378.

Possibilities, ii. 281.

Post-chaise travelling, iii. 339, 370; iv.
9, 10.
Posterity, iii. 302.

Pott, Archdeacon, his Sermons, iii. 346.
Potter, Rev. Dr. Robert, iv. 4, 4 n.

Johnson's parody on his verses, iv. 4.
his translation of Eschylus, iv. 113.
Poverty, i. 454; iv. 375; v. 25, 29, 33,
36, 42, 266.

Power, despotic, iv. 141, 164.

Power of the Crown, ii. 165.

Praise, ii. 51; iv. 80, 132, 363, 381, 453,
455; v. 172.

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- indiscriminate, iv. 260.

Praise, effect of exaggerated, iv. 453, 455.
Praise and flattery, difference between, iii.

139 n.

Prayer, ii. 273, 303, 352, 354; v. 107,
193.

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Book of Common, v. 193.

form of, Johnson's arguments for, iii.
60; v. 193.

- Johnson's affecting one, on the death
of his wife, i. 213.
Prayers, Johnson's classification of, v. 294.
6 Prayers and Meditations,' Johnson's, i.
39 n., 42, 65, 177, 213, 236, 242, 286,
289, 317, 328, 339, 343, 494, 495,
501, 504; ii. 42, 44, 46, 116, 134, 182,
184, 205, 240, 247, 248; iii. 114, 164,
235, 389, 454, 461, 462; iv. 161, 175,
176, 250, 322, 331, 401, 457, 557; v.
7, 15, 20, 37, 285, 294, 295 n., 307,
309, 335, 335 n.

Preaching above the capacity of the con-
gregation, v. 63.

Precocity in children, iii. 294.

'Preceptor', Dodsley's, i. 166.
Predestination, ii. 106.

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Prejudice, v. 47 n.

-Johnson's, against Scotland and Scotch-

men, ii. 257, 353; iii. 176, 181 n.,
250 n.; v. 54.

Premium scheme, in Dublin University,
i. 306.

Prendergast, Colonel Sir Thomas, his pre-

sentiment of his death, ii. 178, 178 n.
Presbyterians, ii. 105; iii. 36, 77, 79.
Prescience of the Deity, iv. 149, 150 n.
Prescription of murder in Scotland, ii.
261, 321.

Presentiment of death, remarkable story
concerning, ii. 178, 178 n.

Press, superfetation of, prejudicial to good
literature, iv. 193.

Pretender, the Young, Boswell's account
of the escape of, ii. 561.

-a history of, by Sir Walter Scott, a
desideratum, iii. 88 n.

Price, Archdeacon, iii. 154.

Dr. Richard, v. 123 n.

Priestley, Dr. Joseph, iv. 150 n.; v. 123,
123 n., 531.

Johnson's opinion of, i. 382.
Primrose, Lady Dorothea, iv. 421.
Prince of Wales, his situation, v. 61.
afterwards George IV., ii. 41.
'Prince Titi,' history of, iii. 271.
Principle, i. 457.

Principles, fundamental, iii. 244 n.
'Principles of Politeness,' Trusler's, iii.
418 n.

Pringle, Sir John, ii. 158, 329; iii. 72,
78 n., 79, 380 n., 427; iv. 20 m, 102.
Printer's devil, iv. 472.
Printing-house, Virgil's description of the
entrance into Hell applied to, iii. 5.

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Prior's Life of Burke' quoted, i. 408;
v. 317 n.

Prisons on the continent, v. 167.
Pritchard, Mrs., the actress, i. 172; ii.
92, 357; iii. 224.
Private conversation, v. 97.
Prize-fighting, ii, 452.
Procrastination, i. 178.
Procurators of Edinburgh, Johnson's ar-
gument against a prosecution by, against
the publisher of a libel, iv. 503, 523.
'Progress of Discontent,' Warton's, i. 268n.
Prologues, i. 156; ii. 47; iii. 199, 478;
v. 131.

Pronunciation, ii. 152, 318; iii. 352; iv. 49.
Property, ii. 236.

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laws of, iii. 301, 308.

Propitiatory sacrifice, ii. 323 n.; iv. 499.
Prosperity, iv. 218.

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institutions, administration of, iii. 418.

speaking, ii. 199; iii. 214.

schools, iii. 377; iv. 18; v. 209.

Virtue,' Dodsley's, iv. 352.

- worship, i. 431 n.

Pudding, meditation on a, iii. 46.
Puffendorf, ii. 150; iii 316.

Pulpit, liberty of the, iii. 424, 425, 455,
455 n., 532.

Pulsation, theory of, iii. 398.

Pulteney, Right Hon. William, afterwards
Earl of Bath, iii. 34, 525.
Punctuation, iii. 397, 397 n.

Punishment, eternity of, iv. 53, 498; v.
198.

Punishments, iv. 124.

Puns, ii. 199, 228, 228 n.; iv. 184; v.
212, 213.

Purcell, iii. 217.

Purgatory, i. 219; ii. 107, 156.

Purposes, good, the benefit of, v. 306 n.

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Allan, Esq. the painter, iv. 105, 105 n.,
106, 191, 193, 197; v. 281, 281 n.
Rambler,' Johnson publishes the, i. 176,
178, 179, 183, 189.

his reasons for giving it that name,
i. 176.

his prayer on commencing the under-
taking, i. 177.

Cave's letter to Richardson respecting
the author of, i. 184.

remarks on, i. 189, 202, 242.
translations of the mottoes to, i. 202,
203 n.

Italian translation of, iv. 287.

translated into Russian, v. 174, 465.
Ranby, John, Esq., his 'Doubts on
the Abolition of the Slave Trade,' iv.
56.

Ranelagh, ii. 163; iii. 258; iv. 52.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, i. 203.

Random Records,' Colman's, iii. 420 n.
Rank, its importance in society, 456;

ii. 12, 171, 171 n., 245; iii. 203; iv.
384.

Rasay, isle of, ii. 392, 396, 400, 402,
404; iii. 106, 545, 552.

Rasay, John Macleod, Laird of, ii. 396,
397, 397 n., 404; iii. 104, 107 n,
491, 552.

250,

his letter to Boswell, on Johnson's
'Journey to the Hebrides,' iii. 104.
Johnson's letter to, iii. 106.
Lady, ii. 396; iii. 552.
Miss Flora, ii. 411.

Rascal,' Johnson's use of the word, iii. 366.
'Rasselas,' Prince of Abyssinia, John-
son's, i. 58, 328 n., 330, 332, 340,
447; iv. 176, 222, 492.

written in one week to defray the ex-
pense of his mother's funeral, i. 331.
translated into four languages, ii. 196.
Ratcliff, Dr., master of Pembroke, his
neglect of Johnson at Oxford, i. 257.

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advantages of, iii. 236.

snatches of, iv. 352.

the small quantity of, in the world,

v. 99.

the manner and effect of, i. 28, 443;
iv. 45, 46, 257.

best mode of, iii. 408.

and writing, ii. 181; iii. 401.
Red ink, properties of, iv. 319.
Reed, Mr. Isaac, i. 173; ii. 228 n.; iv.
405.

Refinement, in education, iv. 18.
Reformers, ii. 235.

Regatta, described, iii. 257.
Registration of deeds, Johnson's note on,
iv. 444.

'Rehearsal, the Duke of Buckingham's,
ii. 163; iv. 414; v. 216.
Rein-deer, introduction of into England,
ii. 162.

Relations, ii. 339.

Relationship, ii. 172, 339.

Religion, i. 38, 289, 382, 406, 413, 495,
496, 501, 518; ii. 5, 10, 73, 98, 105,
107, 108, 114, 116, 142, 168, 201,
304, 462; iii. 10, 18, 362; iv. 156,
204, 240, 462, 496; v. 95.
natural and revealed, v. 328.
Roman Catholic, v. 188.
Religious discourse, v. 96.
- impressions, iv. 497.
orders, iii. 323.

discipline, iv. 497.

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'Remembrance' and Recollection,' di-
stinction between, iv. 501, 501 n.
'Renegado,' definition of, i. 281.
Rents, ii. 103, 425, 521.

Repentance, iv. 153; v. 92, 309 n.
Resentment, iii. 404; v. 282.

Resolutions, difficulty of keeping, ii. 116.
of amendment, iii. 235.

Respect not to be paid to an adversary,
ii. 266.

'Respublicæ,' the little volumes entitled,
iii. 417.

Resurrection, i. 350; iv. 466; v. 93.
Retired tradesmen, iii. 213.
Retirement from the world, ii. 297; v. 3.
Retort, Johnson's dexterity in, v. 63.
Reviews and Reviewers, v. 94.

Monthly and Critical, iii. 396, 409.
Reviewers, impropriety of returning thanks
to, iv. 427.

Revolution of 1688, ii. 212; v. 50, 50 n.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. 114, 115, 116,

142, 179, 210, 227, 278, 353, 359,
362, 366, 368, 490, 492 n. ; ii. 17, 40,
84, 89, 112, 135, 223, 256 n.,
269 n.,
335, 342, 360, 513; iii. 168, 168 n,
181, 240, 320, 371, 405, 408, 444,
450, 454; iv. 85, 86 n., 116, 159, 168,
169 n., 177, 189, 191, 202, 209, 231,
245 n., 258, 296, 338, 396, 443, 462,
470, 489 n.; v. 99, 108, 136, 144, 149,
177, 178 n., 212, 281, 282, 325.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Johnson's' dulce
decus,' i. 227.

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his prices for portraits, i. 324 n.

his visit to Devonshire with Johnson,
i. 366.

Johnson's letters to, i. 499; ii. 132;
iii. 446, 447, 454; iv. 236; v. 3, 39,
78, 108, 281.

- style and economy of his table, iii. 444.
two dialogues by, in imitation of John-
son's style of conversation, iv. 169,
514, 514 n.

- his Discourses to the Royal Aca-
demy,' i. 217.

Reynolds, Miss, i. 325, 355, 499; iii. 40 n.,
237 n., 286 n., 322 N., 341 n., 389, 412,
413, 446; iv. 68, 50, 98, 152, 200, 296,
305, 319 n., 324, 441, 451, 487; v. 4 n.
her character by Johnson,
499 n.
Johnson's letters to, iii. 398, 409, 447;
iv. 240, 288, 319; v. 4, 26, 117, 118,
129, 135, 138, 164, 167, 181.

her letter to Johnson, iii. 446.
her description of certain points of
Johnson's character, iv. 200.

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her Essay on Taste,' v. 3, 4.

her Recollections' of Dr. Johnson,
v. 383.

Rhetorical gesture, Johnson's ridicule of,

i. 319.

Rheumatism, Johnson's recipe for, iii. 237.
Rhubarb, v. 156.

Rhudlan Castle, iii. 140.

Rhyme, its excellence over blank verse,
i. 442; iv. 410.
Rich, Miss, iii. 212 n.

Richardson, Samuel, i. 117, 178, 178 n.,
183, 185 n., 210, 242, 275, 289, 290,
325, 359, 372, 384; ii. 25, 49, 50,
169; iii. 91; iv. 35, 172, 305, 336,
360; v. 99.

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a contributor to the Rambler,' i. 178.
Johnson's character of, i. 178, 210;
ii. 169; iii. 91.

Johnson's letters to, i. 210 n., 242, 289,
290.

Johnson's constant resource in pecu-
niary difficulties, i. 290 n.
compared with Fielding, ii. 50.
his limited conversational powers, iv.

360.

Richardson, Jonathan, i. 98.

Mr., an attorney, i. 193.

Richardson, Miss, i. 359 n.

Riches, i. 453, 454; ii. 145, 161; v. 266.
influence acquired by, ii. 345.
Riddoch, Mr., ii. 320, 325, 329.
Ridicule, the great use of, iv. 250, 349.
Riggs, Mrs., iii. 212 n.

Ring, Johnson's wedding, i. 214, 498.
Riots of 1780, iv. 314, 323.
Ritter, Joseph, ii. 288, 288 n.; iii. 297 n.
Rivers, Earl of, i. 146.

Rizzio, David, ii. 278.
Robert of Doncaster, inscription on his
stone, iii. 536.

Robertson, Dr. James, ii. 277.

Dr. William, the historian, i. 293;
ii. 30, 54, 64, 187, 224, 225, 252, 268,
273, 276, 278, 353; iii. 66, 66 n., 89,
93, 118; iv. 23, 192, 194, 196, 278,
449; v. 220 n.

his style formed upon that of Johnson,
iv. 23.

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his History of Scotland,' iv. 195.
Robin-Hood Society, religious, iv. 466.
Robinson Crusoe, iv. 123, 377.
Robinson, Dr. Richard, i. 391.

some account of, i. 391 n.

Sir Thomas, i. 389, 448; iii. 257.
Rochefoucault, Duc de, iv. 379.
Rochester, John Wilmot, second Earl of,
his poems, ii. 419 n. iv. 44.
Rockville, Alexander Gordon, Lord, i.
481 n.; iii. 90.

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Rod, punishment of the, i. 20; ii. 332.
Rodney, Admiral Lord, iii. 282 n.
Roffette, Abbè, iii. 286.

Rogers, Captain Francis, i. 367 n.

Rokeby, Morris Robinson, Lord, i. 339.
Rolt, Richard, his Dictionary of Trade
and Commerce,' i. 349.

anecdotes of, i. 349.

Roman Catholic Church, Johnson's cha-
ritable opinion of. i. 214, 214 n.; ii.
105, 107, 108, 142.

Roman Catholic religion, iii. 382; v. 188.
Romances, iv. 348.

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reasons for reading, iv. 348.
Johnson's passion for, i. 24.

Romans, character of the ancient, i. 296.
Rome, the fountain of elegance, iv. 194.
Romney, Mr., the painter, iii. 409 n.
Rose, Dr., of Chiswick, i. 20 n.; v. 117.
his repartee on Johnson's pension, v.
47 n.

Rev. Charles, i. 502 n.

Mrs., her anecdotes of Johnson, v.
412.

Roscommon, Johnson's Life of, i. 166.
Roslin Castle, iii. 97.

Ross, Rev. Dr. John, Bishop of Exeter,
v. 170, 171.

Rothes, Lady, Mr. Bennet Langton's
wife, ii. 123, 133; iii. 467; iv. 158 n. ;
v. 116.

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his Confessions,' ii. 12 n.

Round numbers false, v. 223.
Rowe, Mrs., i. 296.

Rowley, Thomas, iii. 415.

Royal Academy, ii. 69; v. 98, 99.
family, ii. 497; iii. 521.

Rudd, Margaret Caroline, iii. 337 n.,
442; iv. 191.

Ruddiman, Thomas, i. 187; ii. 20, 204,
309; iv. 239.

Rudeness of manner, Johnson's occasional,

iii. 65 n., 66 n., 77, 346, 413, 427;
iv. 20, 200, 255, 345, 360, 369, 376,
384 n., 417, 469, 487.

Ruffhead's Life of Pope,' ii. 161.
Ruins, artificial ones, iii. 157 n.

'Rumble,' Hayley's ridicule of Johnson

under the character of, v. 240.

Runic inscription, i. 132 n.

Rural sports, iv. 370.

Russia, Catharine, empress of, iv. 236.

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his History of the Isle of Man,' iii.
31.

Sacrament, ii. 350; iv. 496; v. 189 n.
- Fleetwood on the, recommended by
Johnson, v. 465.

impropriety of receiving it sitting, iv.
251.

Sagacity and intuition, difference be-
tween, v. 244, 244 n.

Sailor, life of a, ii. 369, 473; iii. 325,
326; iv. 121.

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St. Helens, Allen Fitzherbert, Lord, his
communication to the editor, iv. 524 n.,
528 n.

some account of, iv. 528 n.
Kilda, ii. 52, 140, 349, 504.
Rule's chapel, ii. 296.

Vitus's dance, described by Sydenham,
i. 115; ii. 257.

Saints, worship of, ii. 107.

Salamanca, University of, i. 466.

Salisbury cathedral, v. 129.

-Bishop of, see Douglas, ii. 248.

Sallust, Spanish translation of, v. 72.

Salter, Rev. Dr., i. 162, 193.
Sanderson, Bishop, ii. 106 n.

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Sarpi, Father Paul, his History of the
Council of Trent,' i. 76, 104, 107.

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his Life by Johnson, i. 109.

Sastres, Mr., the Italian master, iii. 386;
iv. 78.

Johnson's letters to, v. 437.

Satire, general, iv. 376.

Savage, Richard, i. 96, 133, 138, 139, 141.
Johnson's Life of, i. 131, 138, 141,
145.

inquiry as to his birth, i. 145.

his tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury,'
iii. 479, 479 n.

his 'Wanderer' quoted, v. 186.
Savage girl of Amiens, ii. 343.

life, ii. 216.

Savages, ii. 75, 159, 216, 232, 315, 317;

iii. 414, 417; v. 90, 205.

Savings, trifling, iv. 159.
Scaliger, iii. 293 n.

Scalpa, island of, ii. 393.

Scarsdale, Lord, iii. 129; iv. 8.
Scepticism, ii. 282; iii. 527.

Johnson's eleven causes of, v. 294.
Schedel, of Nuremberg, iii. 156 n.
Schomberg, Dr. Ralph, the Jew physician,
iii. 354 n.

Schoolmasters, i. 20, 66; ii. 137, 150,
166 n., 179; v. 230.

Schools, public, iii. 377, 377 n.; iv. 18.
Science, books of, ii. 369 n.
Scorpions, curious inquiry concerning, ii.
55.

Score, a song in, iii. 201 n.

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meaning of the word, iii. 201 n.
Scotch, Johnson's feelings towards, i. 379,
439; ii. 54, 79, 152, 187, 229, 275 n.,
305, 321, 472; iii. 35, 181, 181 n.,
187, 239, 317, 318; iv. 103, 259, 321,
343, 475, 505; v. 47, 47 n., 64.

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