Ireland, iv. 101, n. 4; title, succeeds to the, iv. 314, n. 1; Townshend, Charles, ii. 222, n. 3; transpire, iii. 343, n. 2; Trecothick, Alderman, iii. 76, n. 2; Tristram Shandy, ii. 449, n. 3; Tyrawley, Lord, ii. 211, n. 4; Usher of the Exchequer, iii. 19, n. 3; vails, ii. 78, n. 1; Vesey's, Mrs., Babels, iii. 425, n. 3; Voltaire, letter from, ii. 88, n. 2; Walpole's, Sir R., great plan of honesty, i. 131, n. 1; low opinion of history, ii. 79, n. 3; Warburton and Helvetius, iv. 261, n. 3; Westmoreland, Earl of, at Oxford, i. 281, n. 1; Whigs and Tories, iv. 117, n. 5; Whitaker's Manchester, iii 333, n. 3; Whitehead, Paul, i. 125, n. 1; Whitehead, William, i. 401, n. 1; Willes, Chief Justice, iv. 103, n. 3; World, The, contributor to, i. 257, n. 3; Yonge, Sir William, i. 197, n. 4; Young, Dr., v. 269, n. 2; Young, Professor, parody of Johnson, iv. 392, n. 1; Zobeide, iii. 38, n. 5. WALPOLE, Sir Robert, banished to the House of Lords, i. 510; Bath, Lord, sarcastic speech to, v. 339, n. 1; Clarke's refusal of a bishopric, iii. 248, n. 2; debates, reports of, unfair, i. 502; iv. 314; Elwall's challenge, ii. 164, n. 5; ferment against him, i. 129, 131; ii. 348, n. 2; fixed star, a, i. 131; v. 339; 'happier hour, his,' iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1; Hosier's Ghost, v. 116, n. 4; indecent pamphlet against him, iii. 239; Johnson attacks him in London, i. 129; in Marmor Norfolciense, i. 141; inveighs against him, i. 164; learned, neglected the, v. 59, n. 1; levee, his bow at a, iii. 90; ministry stable and grateful, ii. 348; patriots, iv. 87, n. 2; peace-minister, i. 131; v. 339, n. 3; Pitt, distinguished from, ii. 195; Pope's pride in him, iii. 347, n. 2; prime-minister, a real, ii. 355; iv. 81; 'read, I cannot,' ii. 337, n. 4; read Sydenham, v. 93, n. 4; talked bawdy at his table, iii. 57; Tories and Jacobites, confounded, i. 429, n. 4; 'Walelop' and 'Right Hon. M. Tullius Cicero,' i. 502; Whiggism under him, ii. 117; Yonge, Sir W., character of, i. 197, n. 4; mentioned, v. 285, n. 1. WALSALL, i. 86, n. 2. WALSH, William, 'knowing,' i. 251, n. 2; Retirement, ii. 133, n. 1. WALSINGHAM, Admiral, iii. 21, n. 2. WALTON, Isaac, Complete Angler, iv. 311; Donne's vision, ii. 445; Lives, his, one of Johnson's favourite books, ii. 363; projected edition, ii. 279, 283-5, 445; iii. 107; low situation in life, ii. 364; a great panegyrist, ib.; quotes Topsell, i. 138, n. 5. WANTS, fewness of, ii. 474, n. 3, 475. WAR, encourages falsehoods, iii. 267, n. 1; Kames's opinion ridiculed, i. 393, n. 2; lawfulness, ii. 226; miseries of it, ii. 134; one side or other must prevail, iv. 200; talk of it, iii. 265. WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester, abuse, extended his, v. 93; Allen's niece, married, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80; Birch, Dr., letter to, i. 28; 'blazes,' v. 81; Boswell imitates his manner, iii. 310, n. 4; Churchill attacks him, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2; Divine Legation, i. 235, n. 3; iv. 48; quotations from it, v. 423; Doctrine of Grace, v. 93; 'flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1; general knowledge, ii. 36; Helvetius, would have worked, iv. 261, n. 3; infidelity, prevalence of, ii. 359, n. 1; Johnson's account of him, v. 80; and Chesterfield, i. 263; gratitude to him, i. 176; and he cannot bear each other's style, iv. 48; Macbeth, praises, i. 175; meets him, iv. 47, n. 2, 48; praises him, i. 263, n. 3; iv. 46-9; treats him with great respect, iv. 288; lie, use of the word, iv. 49; Lincoln's Inn preacher, ii. 37, n. 1; Lowth, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423; Mallet attacks him, i. 329; Life of Bacon, iii. 194; projected Life of Marlborough, iii. 194; metaphysics, ignorance of, v. 81, n. 1; Parr's Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2; Pope's Essay on Man, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1; v. 80; made him a Bishop, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80; want of genius, v. 92, n. 4 reading, great and wide, ii. 36; iv. 48-9; v. 57, n. 3, 81; Shakespeare, edition of, i. 175, 176, 329; iv. 46; v. 244, n. 2; lines applicable to it, iv. 288; Strahan, intimate with, v. 92; ii. 34, n. 1; Theobald, compared with, i. 329; helped, v. 80; To the most impudent Man alive, i. 329; 'vast sea of words,' i. 260, n. 1, 278; View of Bolingbroke's Philosophy, i. 330, n. 1; writes and speaks at random, v. 92; Wycherly's definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3. WARBURTON, Mrs., ii. 36, n. 2, 37, n. 1. WARD, the quack doctor, iii. 389. WARDLAW, Sir Henry, ii. 91, n. 2. WARLEY CAMP, iii. 360-2, 365; visited by the King, ib., n. 3; by Paoli, iii. 368. WARNER, Rebecca, Original Letters, iv. 34, n. 5. WARNER, Rev. R., Tour through the Northern Counties, iv. 373, n. 1. WARRANTS, general, ii. 72. WARREN, Sir Charles, iv. 399, n. 5. WARREN, Dr., attends Johnson, iv. 399, 411; member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, iii. 425. WARREN, John, of Pembrokeshire, i. 89. WARREN, Mr., the Birmingham bookseller, i. 85-9. WARRINGTON, iii. 416; v. 441. WARTON, Rev. Dr. Joseph, Headmaster of Winchester College, Adventurer, wrote for the, i. 252, n. 2, 253; Bolingbroke's share in Pope's Essay on Man, iii. 402, n. 1; Burke and Chambers, recommends, to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519; Clarke's, Dr., agility, i. 3, n. 2; Donatus on a passage in Terence, ii. 358, n. 3; enthusiast by rule, iv. 33, n. 1; Essay on Pope, Johnson reviews it, i. 309; iii. 229; second volume delayed, i. 448; ii. 167; Garrick's offence at Johnson, ii. 192, n. 2; Goldsmith's conversation, i. 412, n. 1; Hamilton, W. G., letter from, i. 519; Hooke's payment from the Duchess of Marlborough, v. 175, nn. 3 and 5; inoculates his children, iv. 293, n. 2; Johnson and Dr. Burney's son, in. 367; estrangement with, i. 270, n. i; ii. 41, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; Lear, note on, ii. 115; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; manner, lively, ii. 41; taken off by Johnson, ib., n. 1; iv. 27, n. 3; Pope's cousin, meets, iii. 71, n. 5; rapturist, ii. 41, n. 1; Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83; a scholar, yet a fool, iii. 84, n. 2; Thompson, praises, iii. 117; World, The, origin of the name, i. 202, n. 4; mentioned, i. 325, 418, n. 1, 449, n. 1; ii. 34, n. 1; iii. 125. WARTON, Mrs. Joseph, i. 496, n. 2. WARTON, Rev. Thomas, account of him, i. 270, n. 1; appearance, ii. 41, n. 1; described by Miss Burney, iv. 7, n. 1; Boswell and Johnson call on him, ii. 446; Chatterton's forgery, exposes, iii. 50, n, 5; iv. 141, n. 1; contributions to the Life of Johnson, i. 8; Eagle and Robin Redbreast, i. 117, n. 1; Heroick Epistle, the authorship of the, iv. 315; Huggins, quarrels with, iv. 6; Idler, contributed to the, i. 330; Johnson, estrangement with, i. 270, n. 1; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; Oxford visit in 1754, i. 270; parodies his poetry, iii. 158, n. 3; preface to his Dictionary, i. 297, n. 3; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; Observations on Spenser's Fairy Queen, i. 270, n. 2, 276, 289; iv. 6; Ode on the First of April, iii. 159, n. 1; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; Professor of Poetry, i. 323, n. 3; Progress of Discontent, i. 283, n. 2; iii. 323, n. 4; pupils and lectures, i. 279, n. 2; Savage's Bastard, i. 166; Shakespeare, notes on, i. 335-6; ii. 114; mentioned, i. 78, n. 2, 79, n. 1, 325. WARTON, Rev. Thomas (the father of the two Wartons), i. 449, n. 1. WASHINGTON, George, ii. 478. WASSE, Christopher, v. 445. WASTE, iii. 265, 317. WATER, Johnson's advice to drink it, iii. 169. WATERS, Ambrose, iv. 402, n. 2. WATERS, Mr., Paris banker, ii. 3. WATFORD, ii. 204, n. 1, 301, n. 1. WATSON, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, bishops' revenues, iv. 118, n. 2; Chemical Essays, iv. 118, 232, n. 3; how to rise in the world, ii. 323, n. 1. WATSON, Professor Robert., of St. Andrews, History of Philip II, iii. 104; Johnson, entertains, v. 58-60, 64, 68; manners, wonders at, v. 70; talks on composition, v. 66. WATSON, Mr., 'out in the '45,' v. 158, n. 3. WATTS, Dr. Isaac, Abney, Sir Thomas, lived with, i. 493, n. 3; descends from the dignity of science, ii. 408, n. 3; Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 126, 370; iv. 35, n. 3; recommends his Works, iv. 311; poetry, his, better in its design than in itself, iii. 358; taught Dissenters elegance of style, i. 312. WEALTH. See MONEY. Wealth of Nations. See/ SMITH, Adam. WEATHER and Seasons, their influence acknowledged, i. 332, n. 2; ii. 263; iv. 259, n. 3, 353, 360; ridiculed by Johnson in The Idler, i. 332; ii. 263, n. 2; at the Mitre, i. 426; 'all imagination,' i. 452; weather does not affect the frame, ii. 358; iii. 305; ridiculed by Reynolds, i. 332, n. 2; Gray's 'fantastic foppery,' i. 203, n. 3; talking of the weather, i. 426, n. 1; iv. 360, n. 2. WEBSTER, Rev. Dr. Alexander, account of him, ii. 269, n. 4; v. 50; his manuscript account of Scotch parishes, ii. 274, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 270-2, 275; v. 387, n. 2, 391, 394, 397. WEDDERBURNE, Alexander. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. WEDDERBURNE, Mr., of Ballandean, iii. 214, n, 1. WELCH, Father, ii. 401. WELCH, Miss, iii. 217. WELCH, Saunders, account of him, iii. 216; death, iii. 219, n. 1; examination of a boy, iv. 184; Johnson, letter from, iii. 217; London poor, state of the, iii. 401. WELL-BRED MAN, distinguished from an ill-bred, iv. 319. WELSH. See under WALES. WELWYN, iv. 119; v. 270. WENDOVER, ii. 16, n. 1. WENTWORTH, Mr., master of Stourbridge School, i. 49. WENTWORTH HOUSE, 'public dinners,' iv. 367, n. 3. WESLEY, Rev. Charles, ill-used by Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4; 'more stationary man than his brother,' iii. 297. WESLEY, Rev. John, Behmen's Mysterium Magnum, ii. 122, n. 6; bleeding, opposed to, iii. 152, n. 3; Boswell introduced to him by Johnson, iii. 394; Calm Address to our American Colonies, v. 35, n. 3; Cheyne's rules of diet, iii. 27, n. 1; conversation, iii. 230, 297; Dodd, Dr., visits, iii. 121, n. 3; Edinburgh, filthy state of, v. 23, n. 1; farmers dull and discontented, iii. 353, n. 5; French prisoners, i. 353, n. 2; ghost, believed in a Newcastle, iii. 297, 394; Hall, Rev. Mr., his brother-in-law, iv. 92, n. 3; highwayman, never met a, iii. 239, n. 1; Johnson complains that he is never at leisure, iii. 230; letters to him, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3; spends two hours with, iii. 230, n. 3; journeys on foot, i. 64, n. 4; Law's Serious Call, i. 68, n. 2; leisure, never at, iii. 230; luxury, attacks the apologists of, iii. 56, n. 2; manners and cheerfulness, iii. 230, nn. 3 and 4; Marshalsea prison, i. 303, n. 1; Meier, Rev. Mr., ii. 253, n. 2; Methodists and a Justice of the Peace, i. 397, n. 1; name of, i. 458, n. 3; Moravians, quarrels with the, iii. 122, n. 1; muddy, uses the term, ii. 362, n. 3; Nash, silences, iv. 289, n. 1; Newgate prisons in London and Bristol, iii. 431, n. 1; 'old woman, an,' iii. 172; Oxford, devotional meetings at, i. 58, n. 3; Paoli's arrival in England, ii. 71, n. 2; plain preaching, i. 459, n. 1; polite audiences, iii. 353, n. 5; politician, a, v. 35, n. 3; prisoners under sentence of death, iii. 121, n. 3; iv. 329, n, 2; almost regrets a reprieve to one, v. 201, n. 2; readings and writings, range of his, iii. 297, n. 1; Robertson's Charles V, ii. 236, n. 4; rod, taught to fear the, i. 46, n. 4; Roman Catholics, attacks the, v. 35, n. 3; Rousseau and Voltaire, v. 378, n. 1; Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4; St. Andrews, students of, v. 63, n. 2; sister, his, Mrs. Hall, iv. 92; slaves, religious education of, ii. 27, n. 1; solitary religion, v. 62, n. 5; tea, against the use of, i. 313, n. 2; travels and sufferings, ii. 123, n. 3; iii. 297, n. 1; University life in England and Scotland, i. 63, n. 1; Warburton, answers, v. 93; witchcraft, believes in, ii. 178, n. 3. WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 46, n. 4. WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 267, n. 1; translation of Pindar, iv. 28. WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 76, n. 1; lines on his own death, iii. 165, n. 3. WEST, Rev. W., edition of Rasselas, i. 340, n. 3. WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 455: see JAMAICA and SLAVES. WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 456, n. 1; Lord Lyttelton's vision, iv. 298; portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 57, n. 1, 58, n. 3. WESTERN ISLANDS. See under BOSWELL, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Journey to the Western Islands, MARTIN, M., and SCOTLAND, Hebrides. WESTMINSTER. See under LONDON. WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation of the, iii. 113, n. 2. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1; Cibber's, Mrs., grave, v. 126, n, 5; Goldsmith's epitaph, iii. 82; and Johnson at the Poets' Corner, ii. 238; Handel musical meeting, iv. 283; Johnson's grave, iv. 419, 423; Jonson's, Ben, grave, v. 402, n. 5; Macpherson's grave, ii. 298, n. 2; Milton's monument, i. 227, n. 4; Reynolds describes its monuments, iv. 423, n. 2; 'walls disgraced with an English inscription,' iii. 85. WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i. 348, n. 2; meets the Pretender in London, i. 279, n. 5. WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and Johnson visit him, ii. 440; Johnson's letter to him, ii. 424; mentioned, ii. 356; iv. 308. WEY, River, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362, n. 5. WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 399, n. 1. WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 317, n. 3. WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 242, n. 3. WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2. See CORN. WHEATLEY, near Oxford, iv. 308. WHEATLEY, Mr. H. B., Wraxall's Memoirs, ii. 40, n. 4. Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer, iv. 212, n. 4. WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 366, n. 4; iv. 233, n. 3; experience as a country parson, iii. 437; Johnson's liking for his talk, iii. 366, n. 4; 307; letter to him, iii. 366; mentioned, v. 458, n. 1. WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. 458. WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revolution, ii. 117; hounds, its, iv. 40, 63; Lyttelton's vulgar Whiggism, ii. 221; no room for it in heaven, v. 385. WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 212; bottomless, iv. 223; defined, i. 294, 431, n. 1; devil, the first Whig the, iii. 326; iv. 317, n. 3; every bad man a Whig, v. 271; Fergusson 'a vile Whig,' ii. 170; governed, not willing to be, ii. 314; hall fireplace, moved the, i. 273; humane one, a, v. 357; 'is any King a Whig?' iii. 372, n. 3; nation quiet when they governed, iv. 100; parson's gown, in a, v. 255; pretence to honesty ridiculous, v. 339; scoundrel and Whig, ii. 444; Staffordshire Whig, iii. 326; Tories, enmity with, iv. 291; Tories when in place, i. 129; 'Whig dogs,' i. 504. WHISTON, John, bookseller, iv. 111. WHISTON, William, Bentley's verses iv. 23, n. 3; 'Wicked Will Whiston,' ii. 67, n. 1. WHITAKER, Rev. John, History of Manchester, iii. 333. WHITAKER, Rev. Mr., ii. 108, n. 2. WHITBREAD, Samuel, the brewer, iii. 363, n. 5. WHITBREAD, Samuel, M.P., the son, bill for parochial schools, iv. 200, n. 4. WHITBREAD, Miss, iii. 96, n. 1. WHITBY, Daniel, Commentary, v. 276. WHITBY, Mr., of Heywood, i. 84, n. 2. WHITE, Rev. Gilbert, hibernation of swallows, ii. 55, n. 2, 248, n. 1; Oriel College common-room, ii. 443, n. 4. WHITE, Rev. Dr., Bampton Lectures of 1784, iv. 443. WHITE, Rev. Dr., of Pennsylvania, ii. 207. WHITE, Rev. Henry, of Lichfield, iv. 372-3. WHITE, Mr., Librarian of the Royal Society, ii. 40, n. 2. WHITE, Mr., a factor, v. 122. WHITE, Mr., tried to be a philosopher, iii. 305, n. 2. WHITE, Mr., v. 427, n. 1. WHITE, Mrs., Johnson's servant, iv. 402, n. 2. WHITEFIELD, Rev. George, Boswell, personally known to, ii. 79, n. 4; Bristol Newgate, forbidden to preach in the, iii. 433, n. 1; Johnson knew him at Oxford, i. 78, n. 2; iii. 409; v. 35; Law's Serious Call, reads, i. 68, n. 2; lower classes, of use to the, iii. 409; mixture of politics and ostentation, v. 35; 'old woman, an,' iii. 172; oratory for the mob, v. 36; Oxford, persecuted at, i. 68, n. 1; Pembroke College, servitor of, i. 73, n. 4, 75; v. 122, n. 1; popularity owing to peculiarity, ii. 79; iii. 409; preaching described by Southey and Franklin, ii. 79, n. 4; v. 36, n. 1; sconced, i. 59, n. 3; Spiritual Quixote, ridiculed in the, i. 75, n. 3; Trapp's Sermons, attacked in, i. 140, n. 5. WHITEFOORD, Caleb, Cross-readings, iv. 322. WHITEHEAD, Paul, Churchill's lines on him, i. 125; Johnson undervalues him, i. 124-5; Manners, i. 125; v. 116. WHITEHEAD, William, Birth-day Odes, i. 402, n. 1; Elegy to Lord Villiers, iv. 115; Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3; proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2; grand nonsense, i. 402; Memoirs by Mason, i. 31; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1. WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2. WHITING, Mrs., iv. 402, n. 2. 'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 312. Whole Duty of Man, its authorship, ii. 239; Johnson made to read it, i. 67; recommends it, iv. 311. Wholesome severities, v. 423. WHOREMONGER, ii. 172. WHYTE, S., Home's gold medal, ii. 320, n. 2; Johnson's walk, i. 485, n. 1; Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2; Sheridan's pension, i. 386, n. 1. WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217. WICKHAM, iv. 192. WIDOWS, ii. 77. WIFE, 'Artemisias,' ii. 76; buying lace for one, ii. 352; choosing fools for wives, v. 226; death of one, iii. 419; disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1; learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128; negligent of pleasing, ii. 56; Overbury's lines, ii. 76; praise from one, i. 210; religious, should be, ii. 76; singing publicly for hire, ii. 369; story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389; of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319; studious or argumentative, iv. 32; superiority of talents, ii. 56. WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1. WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2. WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3. WIGS, bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288; tye-wigs, ib., n. 4; flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3; powdered, iii. 254: See under JOHNSON, wigs. WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2. Wildair, Sir Harry, ii. 465. WILKES, Dr., i. 148. WILKES, Friar, ii. 399. WILKES, John, Alderman, elected, iii. 460; Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73; Beauclerk's library, iv. 105; Boswell apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3; defends him, v. 339, n. 5; relishes his excellence, in. 64; brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64; proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2; companion in Italy, ii. 11; dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1; enlivened by his sallies, i. 395; receives a letter from 'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 381, n. 1; writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2; Burke's pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3; want of taste, iv. 104; City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1; City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5; Dedication of Mortimer, i. 353, n. 1; dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2; English tenacious of forms, iv. 104; Fall of Mortimer, iii. 78, n, 4; False Alarm, answer to the, iv. 30; Garrick's want of a friend, iii. 386; wit, like Chesterfield's, iii. 69; general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73; George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4; goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2; Gordon Riots, iii. 430; 'grave, sober, decent,' iii. 77; Heroic Epistle, attacked in the, v. 186; Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186; Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73; House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1; expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION; how to speak at its bar, iii. 224; Inverary, visits, iii. 73; 'Jack Ketch,' iii. 66; Johnson's account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii. 183; 'animosity' against him, i. 349; attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; iii. 64; v. 339; attacks, i. 429, n. 1; iii. 64, n. 2; after their reconciliation, in. 79, n. 1; calls on, iv. 107; compared with, iii. 64, 78; Dictionary, letter H, i. 300, 349, n. 1; meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 64-79, 201; v. 339, n. 5; second meeting, iv. 101-7; invites, to dinner, iv. 224, n. 2; letter to him, iv. 224, n. 2; and Mrs. Macaulay's footman, iii. 78; political definitions, i. 295, n. 1; repartee about a resolution of the House, iv. 104; says that he 'should be well ducked,' i. 394; sends him the Lives, iv. 107; talking of liberty, iii. 224; tete-a-tete with, iv. 107; Junius, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4; Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D., iv. 30, n. 3; libel, prosecution for, iii. 78; library, sells his, iv. 105, n. 2; Lord Mayor, iii. 68, n. 4, 459-460; kept from being, v. 339; Memoirs by Almon, i. 349, n. 1; Middlesex election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION; Monks of Medmenham Abbey, i. 125, n. 1; North Briton, No. 45, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3; Earl of Bute attacked, ii. 300, n. 5; oratory, on, iv. 104; 'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii. 183; physiognomy, ii. 154, n. 1; Pope's repartee, iv. 50; prison, in, ii. 111, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5, 460; profanity, his, iv. 216; quotation, censures, iv. 102; riots in London in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5; Scotland, raillery at, iii. 73, 77; iv. 101; sentimental anecdote, iv. 347, n. 2; Settle, the City Poet, iii. 75; Shelburne, opposed by, iv. 175, n. 1; Shelburne and Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5; Sheriff, v. 186, n. 4; Smollett's letter to him, i. 348; 'Wilkes and Liberty,' ii. 60, n. 2; v. 312; 'Wilkite, no,' iii. 430, n. 4. WILKES, Miss, iv. 224, n. 2. WILKIE, William, D.D., Hume's Scotch Homer, ii. 53, n. 1; iv. 186, n. 2. WILKIN, Simon, editor of Sir Thomas Brown's Works, iii. 293, n. 2. WILKINS, Bishop, ii. 256, n. 3. WILKINS, landlord of the Three Crowns, Lichfield, ii. 461, 462; iii. 411. WILKS, the actor, acted Juba in Cato, v. 126, n. 2; Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53; Johnson celebrates his virtues, i. 167, n, 1; manager of Drury Lane Theatre, v. 244, n. 2. WILL, free. See FREE WILL. WILL-MAKING, ii. 261; iv. 402, n. 1. WILLES, Chief Justice, 'attached to the Prince of Wales,' i. 147, n. 1; Bet Flint's trial, iv. 103, n. 3; Johnson's schoolfellow, i. 45, n. 4. WILLIAM III, Dodwell, Henry, will not persecute, v. 437, n. 3; Irish, not the lawful sovereign of the, ii. 255; Johnson's Dictionary, in, i. 295, n. 1; resplendent qualities, his, ii. 341, n. 4; Revolution Society, commemorated by the, iv. 40, n. 4; Shebbeare, satirised by, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 15, n. 3; torture in Scotland, legal in his reign, i. 467, n. 1; 'worthless scoundrel,' ii. 341-2; 'that scoundrel,' v. 255; mentioned, iv. 342; v. 234. WILLIAMS, Anna, account of her, i. 232; ii. 99; iv. 235, n. i, 239, n. 4; allowance from Mrs. Montagu, iii. 48, n. 1; iv. 65, n. 1; from Lady Philipps, v. 276, n. 2; Adventurer, Bathurst's Essays in the, i. 254; benefit at Drury Lane, i. 159 n. 1, 393, n. 1; Bet Flint, did not love, iv. 103, n. 1; Bolt Court, room in, ii. 427, n. 1; Boswells envy of Goldsmith's taking tea with her, i. 421; 'a privileged man,' i. 463; ii. 99; and the Jack Wilkes dinner, iii. 67; 'loves,' ii. 145; carving, ii. 99, n. 2; conversation, i. 463; death, iv. 65, n. 1, 235; drunkenness, on, ii. 435, n. 7; eating, mode of, iii. 26; electrical experiments, ii. 26, n. 2; Garrick refuses her an order, i. 392; Gordon Riots, left London at the, iii. 435; 'hates everybody,' iii. 368; Hetherington's Charity, ii. 286; illness, ii. 412; iii. 93, 95; 123, 128, 132, 211, 215, 363; iv. 142, 170, 233-4; jealousy, iii. 55; Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341; pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462; iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2; takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235, n. 1, 270; tea with her, i. 421; ii. 99; turns Captain Macheath, iv. 95; Johnson's Court, room in, ii. 5; Miscellanies, i. 148, 177, n. 2; ii. 25-6; iii. 104; peevishness, iii. 26, 128, 220; quarrels with the rest of the household, iii. 368, 461; second sight, instance of, ii. 150; tea, mode of making, ii. 99; will, her, iv. 241; mentioned, i. 227, n. 2, 241, 242, 274, 326, 328, 350, n. 3, 369, 382; ii. 45, 77, 164, 209, 214, 215, 226, 242, 269, 310, 333, 357, 360, 386, 434; iii. 6, 44, 79, 92, 222, 269, 271, 313, 380; iv. 92, 210; v. 98. WILLIAMS, Sir Charles Hanbury, Johnson's pamphlet against him, ii. 33; speaks contemptuously of him, v. 268; lines on Pulteney, v. 268, n. 3. WILLIAMS, Helen Maria, iv. 282. WILLIAMS, Zachariah, i. 274, n. 2, 301. WILLIS, Dr. Thomas, De Anima Brutorum, v. 314, n. 1. WILMOT, Chief Justice, i. 45, n. 4. Wilson against Smith and Armour, ii. 196, n. 1. WILSON, Father, ii. 390. WILSON, Florence, De tranquillitate animi, iii. 215. WILSON, Rev. Mr., dedicates his Archaeological Dictionary to Johnson, iv. 162. WILSON, Thomas, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 489. WILTON, Boswell visits it, ii. 326, n. 5, 371; writes to Johnson from it, iii. 118, 122. WILTON, Miss, ii. 274. WILTSHIRE, militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4; mentioned, iv. 237. WINCHESTER, capital convictions in 1784, iv. 328, n. 1; cathedral, iii. 457; Franklin visits it, ii. 60, n. 2; Johnson visits it in 1762, i. 496, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 115. WINCHESTER COLLEGE, Johnson places Burney's son there, iii. 367; Morell visits it, v. 350, n. 1; Peregrine Pickle's governor, v. 185, n. 2. WINDHAM, Right Hon. William, account of him in 1784, iv. 407, n. 2; balloons, love of, iv. 356, n. 1; Burke's merriment, iv. 276; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, 438; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; Glasgow University, at, iii. 119; Horsley's character, iv. 437; Johnson's advice to him, iv. 200, n. 4; at Ashbourn, visits, iv. 356, 362, n. 2; attends, when dying, iv. 407, 411, 415, n. 1; his servant nurses him, iv. 418, n. 2; bequest to him, iv. 402, n, 2; gift, iv. 440; college days, i. 70, n. 3; dexterity in retort, iv. 185; funeral, iv. 419; and Heberden, iv. 399, n. 6; Latin read with pleasure by few, v. 80, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 227, 362; never read the Odyssey through, i. 70, 72, n. 3; pension, proposed increase of, iv. 338, n. 2; recommends Frank to him, iv. 401, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4; portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; rascal, will make a very pretty, iv. 200; Secretary for Ireland, iv. 200, 227, n. 2; wants and acquisitions, iii. 354; Wapping, explores, iv. 201, n. 1; Warton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 41, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 306; iv. 344. WINDOW-TAX, v. 301, n. 1. WINDSOR, Beauclerk's house, i. 250; Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 312, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2. WINDUS, John, Journey to Mequinez, v. 445. Windward, defined, i. 293. WINE, abstinence a great deduction from life, iii. 169, 245, 327; not a diminution of happiness, iii. 245; does not admit of doubting, iii. 250; reasons for it, ii. 435; iii. 245; advice to one who has drunk freely, ii. 436; iii. 389; benevolence, drunk from, iii. 327; bottles drunk at a sitting, iii. 243, n. 4; claret and ignorance, iii. 335; claret, port, and brandy distinguished, iii. 381; iv. 79; conversation and benevolence, effect on, iii. 41, 327; daily consumption of wine, iii. 27, n. 1; different, makes a man, v. 325; 'drives away care,' ii. 193; drunk, the art of getting, iii. 389; drunk for want of intellectual resources, ii. 130; freezing, iv. 151, n. 2; in vino veritas, ii. 188; Johnson's abstinence, i. 103, n. 3; advice to drink wine, ib.; not to drink it, iii. 169; 'drink water and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306; life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170 (See under JOHNSON, wine); melancholy increased by it, i. 446; patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329: See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1. WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 442. WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502. WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325. WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180. WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian, account of him, i. 275, n. 4; Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273; mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322. WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444. WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3. WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252. WIT, basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3; Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1; defined in Barrow's Sermon, iv. 105, n. 4; generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3. WITCHES, evidence of their having existed, ii. 178; Johnson's disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1; 'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17; Shakespeare's, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347; Wesley's belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3; witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45; abolished by act of parliament, ib.; last executions, v. 46, n. 1. WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243. WITS, a celebrated one, iii. 388; the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1. WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2. WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg), Garrick's tea, iii. 264; sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3. WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4. WOLFE, General,' choice of difficulties,' v. 146. WOLVERHAMPTON, Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164; epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2. WOMEN, Addison's time, in, iv. 217, n. 4; carefulness with money, iv. 33; cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285; employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1; envy of men's vices, iv. 291; few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33; fortune, of, iii. 3; genteel, more, than men, iii. 53; gluttony, i. 468, n. 1; Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4; indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291; knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226; little things, can take up with, iii. 242; marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131; men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286; natural claims, ii. 419; over-match for men, v. 226; Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289; pious, not more, than men, iv. 289; portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362; power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2; preaching, i. 463; quality, of, iii. 353; reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4; soldiers, as, v. 229; temptations, have fewer, iii. 287; understandings better cultivated, iii. 3; virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3. Women Servants, wages, ii. 217. Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75; narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396; one rescued by him, iv. 321; wretched life, i. 457. Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4; propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3. Wood, Anthony a, Assembly Man, v. 57, n. 2; on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59; Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the Athenae, iv. 161, n. 1; styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4. Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248. Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127. Woodstock. See BLENHEIM. Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5. Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3. Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2. Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2, Woolwich, iii. 268. Worchester, Gwynn's bridge over the Severn, v. 454, n. 2; Johnson visits it, v. 456; mentioned, iii. 176, n. 1. Worcester, Battle of, iv. 234, n. 1; v. 319. Word to the Wise, iii. 113. Words, big words for little matters, i. 471; words describing manners soon require notes, ii. 212. Wordsworth, William, Edinburgh Review and Lord Byron, iv. 115, n. 2; Excursion, quoted, v. 424; lines to Lady Fleming, i, 461, n. 5; Lonsdale's, first Lord, cruelty to him, v. 113, n. 1; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1; Solitary Reaper, v. 117, n. 3; 'We live by admiration,' ii. 360, n. 3. Work. See LABOUR. Work him, iv. 261, n. 3; v. 243. Workhouse, parish, iii. 187. World, complaints of it unjust, iv. 172; counterfeiting happiness, ii. 169, n. 3; despised, not to be, i. 144, n. 2; Johnson's knowledge of it, i. 215; likes the society of a man of the world, iii. 21, n. 3; judgment must be accepted, i. 200; knowledge not strained through books, i. 105; peevishly represented as very unjust, iii. 237, n. 1; running about it, i. 215; running from it, iv. 161, n. 3. World, The, a club, iv. 102, n. 4. World, The, Bedlam, visitors to, ii. 374, n. 1; Chesterfield's papers on the Dictionary, i. 257-9; confounded with The World of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1; contributors, i. 257, n. 3; v. 48, 238; Johnson thinks little of it, i. 420; name chosen by Dodsley, i. 202, n. 4. World, The, newspaper of 1790, iii. 16, n. 1. World Displayed, Introduction to the, i. 345. WORRALL, T., i. 166, n. 4. WORSHIP OF IMAGES, iii. 17, 188. WORTHINGTON, Dr., V. 443, 449, 453. WOTTON, Sir Henry, ii. 170, n. 3. WOTY, Mr., i. 382. WRAXALL, Sir Nathaniel W., George III's manners, ii. 40, n. 4; Johnson, describes, iii. 426, n. 4; and the Duchess of Devonshire, iii. 425, n. 4; and Mrs. Montagu, iv. 64, n. 1; meets, at Mrs. Vesey's, iii. 425; driven away by him, iii. 426, n. 4; Malagrida's name, iv. 174, n. 5; Tour to the Northern Parts of Europe, iii. 425. WREN, Sir Christopher, v. 249. WRIGHT, Thomas, of Shrewsbury, v. 455, n. 1. WRITERS. See AUTHORS. WRITING, Johnson's calculation about amount produced, ii. 344; money, for, iii. 19, 162; pleasure in it, iv. 219; writing from one's own mind, ii. 344. Wronghead, Sir Francis, ii. 50. WURTZBURG, Bishopric of, v. 46, n. 1. WYCHERLY, William, definition of wit, iii. 23, n. 3. WYNNE, Colonel, v. 449. WYNNE, Sir Thomas and Lady, v. 448, 449. WYNNE, Mrs., v. 451.



X.

XAVIER, Francis, v. 392, n. 5. XENOPHON, delineation of characters in the Anabasis, iv. 31; Memorabilia, iii. 367, w. 2; v. 414; Treatise of Oeconomy, iii. 94. XERXES, described in Juvenal, ii. 228; weeping at seeing his army, iii. 199. XYLANDER, i. 208, n. 1.



Y.

YALDEN, Rev. Thomas, Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; his Hymn to Darkness, ib., n. 8. YATES, Mr. Justice, i. 437, n. 2. YAWNING, anecdote of, iii. 15. YONGE, Sir William, character, i. 197, n. 4; Epilogue to Irene, i. 197; pronunciation of great, ii. 161. Yorick's Sermons, iv. 109, n. 1. YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439. YORK, Archbishops of, their public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3. See MARKHAM, Archbishop. YORK, Duke of (James II), v. 239, n. 1. YORK, Duke of, goes to hear the Cock Lane ghost, i. 407, n. 1; Johnson dedicates music to him, ii. 2; kindness to Foote, iii. 97, n. 2. YORK, House of, iii. 157. YORKSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 362. You was, iv. 196, n. 1. YOUNG, Arthur, Birmingham manufacturers in 1768, ii. 459, n. 1; roads in the north of England, iii. 135, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 161, n. 2. YOUNG, Dr. Edward, blank verse of Night Thoughts, iv. 42, n. 7, 60; Britannia's daughters and Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; Brunetta and Stella, v. 270; Card, The, ridiculed in, v. 270, n. 4; Cheyne, Dr., iii. 27, n. 1; compared with Shakespeare and Dryden, ii. 86, n. 1; Conjectures on Original Composition, v. 269; critics, defies, ii. 61, n. 4; 'death-bed a detector of the heart,' v. 397, n. 1; epigram on Lord Stanhope, iv. 102, n. 4; 'For bankrupts write,' &c., iii. 434, n. 6; gloomy, how far, iv. 59, 120; 'Good breeding sends the satire,' &c., iv. 298; housekeeper, his, v. 270; Johnson and Boswell visit his house, iv. 119-21; Johnson calls him 'a great man,' iv. 120; describes meeting him, v. 269; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3; estimate of his poetry, ii. 96; iv. 60; v. 269—70; knotting, on, iii. 242, n. 3; knowledge not great, v. 269, n. 3; Langton's account of him, iv. 59; Life by Croft, iv. 58; v. 270, n. 4; Love of Fame, v. 270; Mead, Dr., compliments, iii. 355, n. 2; Night Thoughts, ii. 96; iv. 60-1; v. 270; 'Nor takes her tea,' &c., iii. 324, n. 3; 'O my coevals,' in. 307; preferment, pined for, iii. 251; iv. 121; quotations, iv. 102, n. 1; 'quotidian prey,' v. 346; Rambler, his copy of the, i. 215; 'Small sands the mountain,' &c., iii. 164; sundial, iv. 60; Universal Passion, money received for it lost in the South Sea, iv. 121; 'Words all in vain pant,' &c., iv. 25, n. 3. YOUNG, Mr. (Dr. Young's son), Boswell and Johnson visit him, iv. 119-21; quarrel with his father, v. 270. YOUNG, Professor, of Glasgow, imitates Johnson's style, iv. 392. YOUNG PEOPLE, generous sentiments, i. 445; Johnson loves their acquaintance, i. 445. YOUTH, companions of our, iv. 147; scenes, i. 370; ii. 461, n. 1; v. 450. Yvery, History of the House of, iv. 198.



Z.

ZECK, George and Luke, ii. 7. ZECKLERS, ii. 7 n. 3. ZEILA, i. 88. ZELIDE, ii. 56, n. 2. ZENOBIA, ii. 127, n. 3. Zobeide, iii. 38. ZOFFANI, J., iv. 421, n. 2. ZON, Mr., i. 274. ZOZIMA, i. 223.



DICTA PHILOSOPHI.

A CONCORDANCE OF JOHNSON'S SAYINGS.

ABANDON. 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it,' iv. 183.

ABSTRACT. 'Why, Sir, he fancies so, because he is not accustomed to abstract,' ii. 99.

ABSURD. 'When people see a man absurd in what they understand, they may conclude the same of him in what they do not understand,' ii. 466.

ABUSE. 'Warburton, by extending his abuse, rendered it ineffectual,' v. 93; 'They may be invited on purpose to abuse him,' ii. 362; 'You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one,' i. 409.

ACCELERATION. 'You cannot conceive with what acceleration I advance towards death,' iv. 411.

Accommode. 'J'ai accommode un diner qui faisait trembler toute la France' (recorded by Boswell), v. 310, n. 3.

ACTION. 'Action may augment noise, but it never can enforce argument,' ii. 211.

ADMIRATION. 'Very near to admiration is the wish to admire,' iii. 411, n. 2.

AGAIN. 'See him again' (Beauclerk), iv. 197.

ALIVE. 'Are we alive after all this satire?' iv. 29.

ALMANAC. 'Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanac' (Boswell), ii. 366.

AMAZEMENT. 'His taste is amazement,' ii. 41, n. 1.

AMBASSADOR. 'The ambassador says well,' iii. 411.

AMBITION. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,' iv. 1, n. 2.

AMERICAN. 'I am willing to love all mankind, except an American,' iii. 290.

AMUSEMENTS. 'I am a great friend to public amusements,' ii. 169.

ANCIENTS. 'The ancients endeavoured to make physic a science and failed; and the moderns to make it a trade and have succeeded' (Ballow), iii. 22, n. 4.

ANGRY. 'A man is loath to be angry at himself,' ii. 377.

ANTIQUARIAN. 'A mere antiquarian is a rugged being,' iii. 278.

APPLAUSE. 'The applause of a single human being is of great consequence,' iv. 32.

ARGUES. 'He always gets the better when he argues alone' (Goldsmith), ii. 236.

ARGUMENT. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 313; 'Nay, Sir, argument is argument,' iv. 281; 'All argument is against it; but all belief is for it,' iii. 230; 'Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow' (Boyle), iv. 282.

ASINUS. 'Plus negabit unus asinus in una hora quam centum philosophi probaverint in centum annis,' ii. 268, n. 2.

ASPIRED. 'If he aspired to meanness his retrograde ambition was completely gratified,' v. 148, n. 1.

ATHENIAN. 'An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,' i. 73.

ATTACKED. 'I would rather be attacked than unnoticed,' iii. 375.

ATTENTION. 'He died of want of attention,' ii. 447.

ATTITUDENISE. 'Don't attitudenise,' iv. 323.

ATTORNEY. 'Now it is not necessary to know our thoughts to tell that an attorney will sometimes do nothing,' iii. 297; 'He did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney,' ii. 126.

AUCTION-ROOM. 'Just fit to stand at the door of an auction-room with a long pole, and cry "Pray gentlemen, walk in,"' ii. 349.

AUDACITY. 'Stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt,' ii. 292, n. 1.

AUTHORS. 'Authors are like privateers, always fair game for one another,' iv. 191, n. 1; 'The chief glory of every people arises from its authors,' v. 137, n. 2.

AVARICE. 'You despise a man for avarice, but do not hate him,' iii. 71.

B.

BABIES. 'Babies do not want to hear about babies,' iv. 8, n. 3.

BAITED. 'I will not be baited with what and why,' iii. 268.

BANDY. 'It was not for me to bandy civilities with my Sovereign,' ii. 35.

BARK. 'Let him come out as I do and bark,' iv. 161, n. 3.

BARREN. 'He was a barren rascal,' ii. 174.

BAWDY. 'A fellow who swore and talked bawdy,' ii. 64.

BAWDY-HOUSE. 'Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods,' iv. 26.

BEAST. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.

BEAT. 'Why, Sir, I believe it is the first time he has beat; he may have been beaten before,' ii. 210.

BEATEN. 'The more time is beaten, the less it is kept' (Rousseau), iv. 283, n. 1.

BELIEF. 'Every man who attacks my belief ... makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 10.

BELIEVE. 'We don't know which half to believe,' iv. 178.

BELL. 'It is enough for me to have rung the bell to him' (Burke), iv. 27.

BELLOWS. 'So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonder she is not by this time become a cinder,' ii. 227.

BELLY. 'I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else,' i. 467.

BENEFIT. 'When the public cares the thousandth part for you that it does for her, I will go to your benefit too,' ii. 330.

BIG. 'Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters,' i. 471.

BIGOT. 'Sir, you are a bigot to laxness,' v. 120.

BISHOP. 'A bishop has nothing to do at a tippling-house,' iv. 75; 'I should as soon think of contradicting a Bishop,' iv. 274; 'Queen Elizabeth had learning enough to have given dignity to a bishop,' iv. 13; 'Dull enough to have been written by a bishop' (Foote), ib. n. 3.

BLADE. 'A blade of grass is always a blade of grass,' v. 439, n. 2.

BLAZE. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 423.

BLEEDS. 'When a butcher tells you that his heart bleeds for his country he has in fact no uneasy feeling,' i. 394.

BLOOM. 'It would have come out with more bloom if it had not been seen before by anybody,' i. 185.

BLUNT. 'There is a blunt dignity about him on every occasion' (Sir M. Le Fleming), i. 461, n. 4.

BOARDS. 'The most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards' (Garrick), ii. 465.

BOLDER. 'Bolder words and more timorous meaning, I think, never were brought together,' iv. 13.

Bon-mot. 'It is not every man that can carry a bon-mot' (Fitzherbert), ii. 350.

BOOK. 'It was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is concealed behind the door,' i. 396; 'You have done a great thing when you have brought a boy to have entertainment from a book,' iii. 385; 'Read diligently the great book of mankind,' i. 464; 'The parents buy the books, and the children never read them,' iv. 8, n. 3; 'The progress which the understanding makes through a book has more pain than pleasure in it,' iv. 218; 'It is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as much as his book will hold,' ii. 237.

BOOKSELLER. 'An author generated by the corruption of a bookseller,' iii. 434.

BORN. 'I know that he was born; no matter where,' v. 399.

BOTANIST. 'Should I wish to become a botanist, I must first turn myself into a reptile,' i. 377, n. 2.

BOTTOM. 'A bottom of good sense,' iv. 99.

BOUNCING. 'It is the mere bouncing of a school-boy,' ii. 210.

BOUND. 'Not in a bound book,' iii. 319, n. 1.

BOW-WOW. 'Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way' (Lord Pembroke), ii. 326, n. 5.

BRAINS. 'I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.

BRANDY. 'He who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy,' iii. 381; 'Brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him,' iii. 381.

BRASED. 'He advanced with his front already brased,' v. 388, n. 2.

BRAVERY. 'Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing,' iv. 395.

BRENTFORD. 'Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?' iv. 186.

BRIARS. 'I was born in the wilds of Christianity, and the briars and thorns still hang about me' (Marshall), iii. 313.

BRIBED. 'You may be bribed by flattery,' v. 306.

BRINK. 'Dryden delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning,' ii. 241, n. 1.

BROTHEL. 'This lady of yours, Sir, I think, is very fit for a brothel,' iii. 25.

BRUTALITY. 'Abating his brutality he was a very good master,' ii. 146.

BUCKRAM'D. 'It may have been written by Walpole and buckram'd by Mason' (T. Warton), iv. 315.

BULL. 'If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim, "Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?"' ii. 228.

BULL'S HIDE. 'This sum will...get you a strong lasting coat supposing it to be made of good bull's hide,' i. 440.

BURDEN. 'Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of himself,' v. 358, n. 1.

BURROW. 'The chief advantage of London is that a man is always so near his burrow' (Meynell), iii. 379.

BURSTS. 'He has no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions,' iv. 27

BUSINESS. 'It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it' (Franklin), iv. 97 n. 3.

Buz. 'That is the buz of the theatre,' v. 46.

C.

CABBAGE. 'Such a woman might be cut out of a cabbage, if there was a skilful artificer,' v. 231.

CALCULATE. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.

CANDLES. 'A man who has candles may sit up too late,' ii. 188.

CANNISTER. 'An author hunted with a cannister at his tail,' iii. 320.

CANT. 'Clear your mind of cant,' iv. 221; 'Don't cant in defence of savages,' iv. 308; 'Vulgar cant against the manners of the great,' iii. 353.

CANTING. 'A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the last,' iii. 270.

CAPITULATE. 'I will be conquered, I will not capitulate,' iv. 374.

CARD-PLAYING. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing,' iii. 23; 'It generates kindness and consolidates society,' v. 404.

CARROT. 'You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot,' ii. 439.

CAT. 'She was a speaking cat,' iii. 246.

CATCH. 'God will not take a catch of him,' iv. 225.

CATCHING. 'That man spent his life in catching at an object which he had not power to grasp,' ii. 129.

CATEGORICAL. 'I could never persuade her to be categorical,' iii. 461.

CAUTION. 'A strain of cowardly caution,' iii. 210.

CAWMELL. 'Ay, ay, he has learnt this of Cawmell,' i. 418.

CENSURE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323.

CHAIR. 'He fills a chair,' iv. 81.

CHARACTER. 'Ranger is just a rake, a mere rake, and a lively young fellow, but no character ii. 50; 'Derrick may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over,' i. 394; 'The greater part of mankind have no character at all,' iii. 280, n. 3.

CHARITY. 'There is as much charity in helping a man down-hill as in helping him up-hill,' v. 243.

CHEERFULNESS. 'Cheerfulness was always breaking in' (Edwards), iii. 305.

CHEQUERED. 'Thus life is chequered,' iv. 245, n. 2.

CHERRY-STONES. 'A genius that could not carve heads upon cherry-stones,' iv. 305.

CHIEF. 'He has no more the soul of a chief than an attorney who has twenty houses in a street, and considers how much he can make by them,' v. 378.

CHILDISH. 'One may write things to a child without being childish' (Swift), ii. 408, n. 3.

CHIMNEY. 'To endeavour to make her ridiculous is like blacking the chimney,' ii. 336.

CHUCK-FARTHING. 'A judge is not to play at marbles or at chuck-farthing in the Piazza,' ii. 344.

CHURCH. 'He never passes a church without pulling off his hat,' i. 418; 'Let me see what was once a church,' v. 41.

CITIZEN. 'The citizen's enlarged dinner, two pieces of roast-beef and two puddings,' iii. 272.

CIVIL. 'He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it,' iii. 183

CIVILITY. 'We have done with civility,' iii. 273.

CLAIMS. 'He fills weak heads with imaginary claims,' ii. 244.

CLAPPED. 'He could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped on the back by Tom Davies' (Beauclerk), ii. 344.

CLARET. 'A man would be drowned by claret before it made him drunk,' iii. 381; iv. 79; 'Claret is the liquor for boys,' iii. 381.

CLEAN. 'He did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it,' i. 397.

CLEANEST. 'He was the cleanest-headed man that he had met with,' v. 338.

CLERGYMAN. 'A clergyman's diligence always makes him venerable,' iii. 438.

CLIPPERS. 'There are clippers abroad,' iii. 49.

COAT. 'A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one,' iii. 188, n. 4.

COCK. 'A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution,' ii. 334.

COCK-FIGHTING. 'Cock-fighting will raise the spirits of a company,' iii. 42.

COMBINATION. 'There is a combination in it of which Macaulay is not capable,' v. 119.

COMEDY. 'I beg pardon, I thought it was a comedy' (Shelburne), iv. 246, n. 5; 'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233.

COMMON—PLACES. 'Criticism disdains to chase a school-boy to his common-places,' iv. 16, n. 4.

COMPANY. 'A fellow comes into our company who is fit for no company,' v. 312; 'The servants seem as unfit to attend a company as to steer a man of war,' iv. 312.

COMPARATIVE. 'All barrenness is comparative,' iii. 76.

COMPLETES. 'He never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57.

CONCENTRATED. 'It is being concentrated which produces high convenience,' v. 27.

CONCENTRATES. 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.

CONCLUSIVE. 'There is nothing conclusive in his talk,' iii. 57.

CONE. 'A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone,' iii. 283.

CONGRESS. 'If I had bestowed such an education on a daughter, and had discovered that she thought of marrying such a fellow, I would have sent her to the Congress,' ii. 409.

CONSCIENCE. 'No man's conscience can tell him the right of another man,' ii. 243.

CONTEMPT. 'No man loves to be treated with contempt,' iii. 385.

CONTEMPTIBLE. 'There is no being so poor and so contemptible who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible,' ii. 13.

CONTRADICTED. 'What harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?' iv. 280.

CONVERSATION. 'In conversation you never get a system,' ii. 361; 'We had talk enough, but no conversation,' iv. 186.

COUNT. 'He had to count ten, and he has counted it right,' ii. 65; 'When the judgment is so disturbed that a man cannot count, that is pretty well,' iv. 176.

COUNTING. 'A man is often as narrow as he is prodigal for want of counting,' iv. 4, n. 4.

COUNTRY. 'They who are content to live in the country are fit for the country,' iv. 338.

Cow. 'A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden,' ii. 187; 'My dear Sir, I would confine myself to the cow' (Blair), v. 396, n. 4; 'Nay, Sir, if you cannot talk better as a man, I'd have you bellow like a cow,' v. 396.

COWARDICE. 'Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace,' iii. 326; 'Such is the cowardice of a commercial place,' iii. 429.

COXCOMB. 'He is a coxcomb, but a satisfactory coxcomb'(Hamilton), iii. 245, n. i; 'Once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb,' ii. 129.

CRAZY. 'Sir, there is no trusting to that crazy piety,' ii. 473.

Credulite. 'La Credulite des incredules' (Lord Hailes), v. 332.

CRITICISM. 'Blown about by every wind of criticism,' iv. 319.

CROSS-LEGGED. 'A tailor sits crosslegged, but that is not luxury,' ii. 218

CRUET. 'A mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet,' v. 269.

Cui bono. 'I hate a cui bono man' (Dr. Shaw), iv. 112.

CURE. 'Stay till I am well, and then you shall tell me how to cure myself,' ii. 260.

CURIOSITY. 'There are two objects of curiosity-the Christian world and the Mahometan world,' iv. 199.

D.

DANCING-MASTER. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master,' i. 266.

DARING. 'These fellows want to say a daring thing, and don't know how to go about it,' iii. 347.

DARKNESS. 'I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total darkness, and sent him a set' [of the Ramblers], iv. 90.

DASH. 'Why don't you dash away like Burney?' ii. 409.

DEATH. 'If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still,' v. 316; 'The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death,' ii. 93; 'We are getting out of a state of death,' ii. 461; 'Who can run the race with death?' iv. 360.

DEBATE. 'When I was a boy I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate,' i. 441.

DEBAUCH. 'I would not debauch her mind,' iv. 398, n. 2.

DEBAUCHED. 'Every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge,' i. 458.

DECLAIM. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.

DECLAMATION. 'Declamation roars and passion sleeps' (Garrick), i. 199, n. 2.

DEFENSIVE. 'Mine was defensive pride,' i. 265.

DESCRIPTION. 'Description only excites curiosity; seeing satisfies it,' iv. 199.

Desidiae. 'Desidiae valedixi,' i. 74.

DESPERATE. 'The desperate remedy of desperate distress,' i. 308, n. 1.

DEVIL. 'Let him go to some place where he is not known; don't let him go to the devil where he is known,' v. 54.

DIE. 'I am not to lie down and die between them,' v. 47; 'It is a sad thing for a man to lie down and die,' iii. 317; 'To die with lingering anguish is generally man's folly,' iv. 150, n. 2.

DIES. 'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives,' ii. 106.

Dieu. 'Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer' (Voltaire), v. 47, n. 4.

DIFFERING. 'Differing from a man in doctrine was no reason why you should pull his house about his ears,' v. 62.

DIGNITY. 'He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his power,' iv. 62; 'The dignity of danger,' iii. 266.

DINNER. 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' i. 467, n. 2; 'Amidst all these sorrowful scenes I have no objection to dinner,' v. 63; 'Dinner here is a thing to be first planned and then executed,' v. 305; 'This was a good enough dinner, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to,' i. 470.

DIP. 'He had not far to dip,' iii. 35.

DIRT. 'By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen,' ii. 82, n. 3.

DISAPPOINTED. 'He had never been disappointed by anybody but himself,' i. 337, n. 1.

DISCOURAGE. Don't let us discourage one another,' iii. 303.

DISLIKE. 'Nothing is more common than mutual dislike where mutual approbation is particularly expected,' iii. 423.

DISPUTE. 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged,' iii. 11.

DISSENTER. 'Sir, my neighbour is a Dissenter' (Sir R. Chambers), ii. 268, n. 2.

DISTANCE. 'Sir, it is surprising how people will go to a distance for what they may have at home,' v. 286.

DISTANT. 'All distant power is bad,' iv. 213.

DISTINCTIONS. 'All distinctions are trifles,' iii. 355.

DISTRESS. 'People in distress never think that you feel enough,' ii. 469.

DOCKER. 'I hate a Docker,' i. 379, n. 2.

DOCTOR. 'There goes the Doctor,' ii. 372.

DOCTRINE. 'His doctrine is the best limited,' iii. 338.

DOG. 'Ah, ah! Sam Johnson! I see thee!—and an ugly dog thou art,' ii. 141, n. 2; 'Does the dog talk of me?' ii. 53; 'He, the little black dog,' i. 284; 'He's a Whig, Sir; a sad dog,' iii. 274; 'What he did for me he would have done for a dog,' iii. 195; 'I have hurt the dog too much already,' i. 260, n. 3; 'I hope they did not put the dog in the pillory,' iii. 354; 'I love the young dogs of this age,' i. 445; 'I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it,' i. 504; 'I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head,' iv. 221; 'If you were not an idle dog, you might write it,' iii. 162; 'It is the old dog in a new doublet,' iii. 329; 'Presto, you are, if possible, a more lazy dog than I am,' iv. 347, n. 1; 'Some dogs dance better than others,' ii. 404; 'The dogs don't know how to write trifles with dignity,' iv. 34, n. 5; 'The dogs are not so good scholars,' i. 445; 'The dog is a Scotchman,' iv. 98; 'The dog is a Whig,' v. 255; 'The dog was so very comical,' iii. 69; 'What, is it you, you dogs?' i. 250.

DOGGED. 'Dogged veracity,' iii. 378.

DOGGEDLY. 'A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it,' i. 203; v. 40, 110.

DOGMATISE. 'I dogmatise and am contradicted,' ii. 452, n. 1.

DONE. 'What a man has done compared with what he might have done,' ii. 129; 'What must be done, Sir, will be done,' i. 202.

DOUBLE. 'It is not every name that can carry double,' v. 295; 'Let us live double,' iv. 108.

DOUBTS. 'His doubts are better than most people's certainties' (Lord Chancellor Hardwicke), iii. 205.

DRAW. 'Madam, I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds' (Addison), ii. 256.

DRIFT. 'What is your drift, Sir?' iv. 281.

DRIVE. 'I do not now drive the world about; the world drives or draws me,' iv. 273, n. 1; 'If your company does not drive a man out of his house, nothing will,' iii. 315; 'Ten thousand Londoners would drive all the people of Pekin,' v. 305.

DRIVING. 'You are driving rapidly from something, or to something,' iii. 5.

DROPPED. 'There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by,' iv. 73.

DROVES. 'Droves of them would come up, and attest anything for the honour of Scotland,' ii. 311.

DROWNED. 'Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned,' v. 137.

DRUNK. 'Never but when he is drunk,' ii. 351; 'Equably drunk,' iii. 389; 'People who died of dropsies, which they contracted in trying to get drunk,' v. 249; 'A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk,' iii. 389.

DUCKING-STOOL. 'A ducking-stool for women,' iii. 287.

DULL. 'He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others' (Foote), iv. 178; 'He was dull in a new way,' ii. 327.

DUNCE. 'It was worth while being a dunce then,' ii. 84; 'Why that is because, dearest, you're a dunce,' iv. 109.

E.

EARNEST. 'At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest,' v. 288, n. 3.

EASIER. 'It is easier to write that book than to read it' (Goldsmith), ii. 90; 'It is much easier to say what it is not,' iii. 38.

EAST. 'The man who has vigour may walk to the east just as well as to the west, if he happens to turn his head that way,' v. 35.

ECONOMY. 'The blundering economy of a narrow understanding,' iii. 300.

Emptoris sit eligere, i. 155.

EMPTY-HEADED. 'She does not gain upon me, Sir; I think her emptyheaded,' iii. 48.

END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in imitation of Johnson), iii. 301; 'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82; 'What the boys get at one end they lose at the other,' ii. 407.

ENDLESS. 'Endless labour to be wrong,' iii. 158, n. 3.

ENGLAND. 'It is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost, as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78.

ENGLISHMAN. 'An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say,' iv. 15; 'We value an Englishman highly in this country, and yet Englishmen are not rare in it,' iii. 10.

ENTHUSIAST. 'Sir, he is an enthusiast by rule,' iv. 33.

EPIGRAM. 'Why, Sir, he may not be a judge of an epigram; but you see he is a judge of what is not an epigram,' iii. 259.

Esprit. 'Il n'a de l'esprit que contre Dieu,' iii. 388.

Etudiez. 'Ah, Monsieur, vous etudiez trop,' iv. 15.

EVERYTHING. 'A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything,' iv. 176.

EXCELLENCE. 'Compared with excellence, nothing,' iii. 320; 'Is getting L100,000 a proof of excellence?' iii. 184.

EXCESS. 'Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in nature,' i. 453.

EXERCISE. 'He used for exercise to walk to the ale-house, but he was carried back again,' i. 397; 'I take the true definition of exercise to be labour without weariness,' iv. 151, n. 1.

EXISTENCE. 'Every man is to take existence on the terms on which it is given to him,' iii. 58.

F.

FACT. 'Housebreaking is a strong fact,' ii. 65.

FACTION. 'Dipped his pen in faction,' i. 375, n. 1.

FAGGOT. 'He takes its faggot of principles,' v. 36.

FALLIBLE. 'A fallible being will fail somewhere,' ii. 132.

FAME. 'Fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400; 'He had no fame but from boys who drank with him,' v. 268.

FARTHING CANDLE. 'Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover to show light at Calais,' i. 454.

FAT. 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,' iv. 313.

FEELING. 'They pay you by feeling,' ii. 95.

FEET. 'We grow to five feet pretty readily, but it is not so easy to grow to seven,' iii. 316.

FELLOW. 'I look upon myself as a good-humoured fellow,' ii. 362; 'When we see a very foolish fellow we don't know what to think of him,' ii. 54.

FELLOWS. 'They are always telling lies of us old fellows,' iii. 303.

FIFTH. 'I heartily wish, Sir, that I were a fifth,' iv. 312.

Filosofo. 'Tu sei santo, ma tu non sei filosofo' (Giannone), iv. 3.

FINE. 'Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out' (a college tutor), ii. 237; 'Were I to have anything fine, it should be very fine,' iv. 179; v. 364.

FINGERS. 'I e'en tasted Tom's fingers,' ii. 403.

FIRE. 'A man cannot make fire but in proportion as he has fuel,' &c., v. 229; 'If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire I should like to stand upon the hearth myself,' iv. 304, n. 4; 'Would cry, Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood' (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.

FISHES. 'If a man comes to look for fishes you cannot blame him if he does not attend to fowls,' v. 221.

FLATTERERS. 'The fellow died merely from want of change among his flatterers,' v. 396, n. 1.

FLATTERY. 'Dearest lady, consider with yourself what your flattery is worth, before you bestow it so freely,' iv. 341.

FLEA. 'A flea has taken you such a time that a lion must have served you a twelvemonth,' ii. 194; 'There is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea,' iv. 193.

FLING. 'If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head,' &c., i. 398.

FLOUNDERS. 'He flounders well,' v. 93, n. 1; 'Till he is at the bottom he flounders,' v. 243.

FLY. 'A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince, but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still,' i. 263, n. 3.

FOLLY. 'There are in these verses too much folly for madness, and too much madness for folly,' iii. 258, n. 2.

FOOL. 'I should never hear music, if it made me such a fool,' iii. 197; 'There's danger in a fool' (Churchill), v. 217, n. 1.

FOOLISH. 'I would almost be content to be as foolish,' iii. 21, n, 2; 'It is a foolish thing well done,' ii. 210.

FOOLS. 'I never desire to meet fools anywhere,' iii. 299, n. 2.

FOOTMAN. 'A well-behaved fellow citizen, your footman,' i. 447.

FOREIGNERS. 'For anything I see foreigners are fools' ('Old' Meynell), iv. 15.

FORTUNE. 'It is gone into the city to look for a fortune,' ii. 126.

FORWARD. 'He carries you round and round without carrying you forward to the point; but then you have no wish to be carried forward,' iv. 48.

FOUR-PENCE. 'Garrick was bred in a family whose study was to make four-pence do as much as others made fourpence halfpenny do,' iii. 387.

FRANCE. 'Will reduce us to babble a dialect of France,' iii. 343, n. 3.

FRENCH. 'I think my French is as good as his English,' ii. 404.

FRENCHMAN. 'A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not,' iv. 15.

FRIEND. 'A friend with whom they might compare minds, and cherish private virtues,' iii. 387.

FRIENDSHIP. 'A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair,' i. 300.

FRIENDSHIPS. 'Most friendships are formed by caprice or by chance, mere confederacies in vice or leagues in folly,' iv. 280.

FRISK. 'I'll have a frisk with you,' i. 250.

FROTH. 'Longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar,' v. 440, n. 2.

FROWN. 'On which side soever I turn, mortality presents its formidable frown,' iv. 366.

FRUGAL. 'He was frugal by inclination, but liberal by principle,' iv. 62, n. 1.

FULL MEAL. 'Every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal,' ii. 363.

FUNDAMENTALLY. 'I say the woman was fundamentally sensible,' iv. 99.

FUTILE. 'Tis a futile fellow' (Garrick), ii. 326.

G.

GABBLE. 'Nay, if you are to bring in gabble I'll talk no more,' iii. 350.

GAIETY. 'Gaiety is a duty when health requires it,' iii. 136, n. 2.

GAOL. See SAILOR.

GAOLER. 'No man, now, has the same authority which his father had, except a gaoler,' iii. 262.

GARRETS. 'Garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie,' iii. 267, n. 1.

GENERAL. 'A man is to guard himself against taking a thing in general,' iii. 8.

GENEROUS. 'I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze,' v. 400.

GENIUS. 'A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself,' i. 381.

GENTEEL. 'No man can say "I'll be genteel,"' iii. 53.

Gentilhomme. 'Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme' (Boswell), i. 492.

GENTLE. 'When you have said a man of gentle manners you have said enough,' iv. 28.

GENTLEMAN. 'Don't you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman?' iii. 268.

GEORGE. 'Tell the rest of that to George' (R. O. Cambridge), iv. 196, n. 3.

GHOST. 'If I did, I should frighten the ghost,' v. 38.

GLARE. 'Gave a distinguished glare to tyrannic rage' (Tom Davies), ii. 368, n. 3.

GLASSY. 'Glassy water, glassy water,' ii. 212, n. 4.

GLOOMY. 'Gloomy calm of idle vacancy,' i. 473.

GOD. 'I am glad that he thanks God for anything,' i. 287.

GOES ON. 'He goes on without knowing how he is to get off,' ii. 196.

GOOD. 'Sir, my being so good is no reason why you should be so ill,' iii. 268; 'Everybody loves to have good things furnished to them, without any trouble,' iv. 90; 'I am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly,' iv. 239; 'A look that expressed that a good thing was coming,' iii. 425.

GRACES. 'Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal than accused of deficiency in the graces,' iii. 54.

GRAND. 'Grand nonsense is insupportable,' i. 402.

GRATIFIED. 'Not highly gratified, yet I do not recollect to have passed many evenings with fewer objections,' ii, 130.

GRAVE. 'We shall receive no letters in the grave,' iv. 413.

GRAZED. 'He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature,' i. 418, n. 1.

GREAT. 'A man would never undertake great things could he be amused with small,' iii. 242; 'I am the great Twalmley,' iv. 193.

GREYHOUND. 'He sprang up to look at his watch like a greyhound bounding at a hare,' ii. 460.

GRIEF. 'All unnecessary grief is unwise,' iii. 136; 'Grief has its time,' iv. 121; 'Grief is a species of idleness,' iii. 136, n. 2.

GUINEA. 'He values a new guinea more than an old friend,' v. 315; 'There go two and forty sixpences to one guinea,' ii. 201, n. 3.

GUINEAS. 'He cannot coin guineas but in proportion as he has gold,' v. 229.

H.

HANDS. 'A man cutting off his hands for fear he should steal,' ii. 435; 'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,' iv. 224.

HANGED. 'A friend hanged, and a cucumber pickled,' ii. 94; 'Do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of a royal family?' iii. 270; 'He is not the less unwilling to be hanged,' iii. 295; 'If he were once fairly hanged I should not suffer,' ii. 94; 'No man is thought the worse of here whose brother was hanged,' ii. 177; 'So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain us,' iii. 318; 'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's son being hanged,' iii. 11; 'You may as well ask if I hanged myself to-day,' iv. 173; 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.

HAPPINESS. 'These are only struggles for happiness,' iii. 199.

HAPPY. 'It is the business of a wise man to be happy,' iii. 135.

HARASSED. 'We have been harassed by invitations,' v. 395.

HARE. 'My compliments, and I'll dine with him, hare or rabbit,' iii. 207.

HATE. 'Men hate more steadily than they love,' iii. 150.

HATER. 'He was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2.

HEAD. 'A man must have his head on something, small or great,' ii. 473, n. 1.

HEADACHE. 'At your age I had no headache,' i. 462; 'Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it,' iii. 381.

HEAP. 'The mighty heap of human calamity,' iii. 289, n. 3.

HELL. 'Hell is paved with good intentions,' ii. 360.

HERMIT. 'Hermit hoar in solemn cell,' iii. 159.

HIDE. 'Exert your whole care to hide any fit of anxiety,' iii. 368.

HIGH. 'Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is not seven,' v. 222.

HIGHLANDS. 'Who can like the Highlands?' v. 377.

HISS. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him,' i. 451.

HISTORIES. 'This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery,' iv. 362.

HOG. 'Yes, Sir, for a hog,' iv. 13.

HOGSTYE. 'He would tumble in a hogstye as long as you looked at him, and called to him to come out,' i. 432.

HOLE. 'A man may hide his head in a hole ... and then complain he is neglected,' iv. 172.

HONESTLY. 'I who have eaten his bread will not give him to him; but I should be glad he came honestly by him,' v. 277.

Honores. 'Honores mutant mores' iv. 130.

HONOUR. 'If you do not see the honour, I am sure I feel the disgrace' (fathered on Johnson), iv. 342.

HOOKS. 'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57.

HOPE. 'He fed you with a continual renovation of hope to end in a constant succession of disappointment,' ii. 122.

HOTTENTOT. 'Sir, you know no more of our Church than a Hottentot,' v. 382.

HOUSEWIFERY. 'The fury of housewifery will soon subside,' iv. 85, n. 2.

HUGGED. 'Had I known that he loved rhyme as much as you tell me he does, I should have hugged him,' i. 427.

HUMANITY. 'We as yet do not enough understand the common rights of humanity,' iv. 191, 284.

HUNG. 'Sir, he lived in London, and hung loose upon Society,' i. 226.

HUNTED. 'Am I to be hunted in this manner?' iv. 170.

HURT. 'You are to a certain degree hurt by knowing that even one man does not believe,' iii. 380.

HYPOCRISY. 'I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of misery,' iv. 71.

HYPOCRITE. 'No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures,' iv. 316.

I.

I. 'I put my hat upon my head,' ii. 136, n. 4.

IDEA. 'That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one,' ii. 126; 'There is never one idea by the side of another,' iv. 225.

IDLE. 'If we were all idle, there would be no growing weary,' ii. 98; 'We would all be idle if we could,' iii. 13.

IDLENESS. 'I would rather trust his idleness than his fraud,' v. 263.

IGNORANCE. 'A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance,' iii. 335; 'He did not know enough of Greek to be sensible of his ignorance of the language,' iv. 33, n. 3; 'His ignorance is so great I am afraid to show him the bottom of it,' iv. 33, n. 3 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance,' i. 293; 'Sir, you talk the language of ignorance,' ii. 122.

IGNORANT. 'The ignorant are always trying to be cunning,' v. 217, n. 1; 'We believe men ignorant till we know that they are learned,' v. 253.

ILL. 'A man could not write so ill if he should try,' iii. 243.

ILL-FED. 'It is as bad as bad can be; it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept and ill-drest,' iv. 284.

IMAGERY. 'He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves to lose her,' v. 268, n. 2.

IMAGINATION. 'There is in them what was imagination,' i. 421; 'This is only a disordered imagination taking a different turn,' iii. 158.

IMMORTALITY. 'If it were not for the notion of immortality he would cut a throat to fill his pockets,' ii. 359.

IMPARTIAL. 'Foote is quite impartial, for he tells lies of everybody,' ii. 434.

IMPORTS. 'Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll never go far wrong,' iv. 226.

IMPOSSIBLE. 'That may be, Sir, but it is impossible for you to know it,' ii. 466, n. 3; 'I would it had been impossible,' ii. 409, n. 1.

IMPOTENCE. 'He is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence to spend his money,' iii. 40.

IMPRESSIONS. 'Do not accustom yourself to trust to impressions,' iv. 122.

IMPUDENCE. 'An instance how far impudence could carry ignorance,' iii. 390.

INCOMPRESSIBLE. 'Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I ever knew,' &c., v. 391.

INDIA. 'Nay, don't give us India,' v. 209.

INEBRIATION. 'He is without skill in inebriation,' iii. 389.

INFERIOR. 'To an inferior it is oppressive; to a superior it is insolent,' v. 73.

INFERIORITY. 'There is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it,' ii. 169.

INFIDEL. 'If he be an infidel he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel,' ii. 95; 'Shunning an infidel to-day and getting drunk to-morrow' (A celebrated friend), iii. 410.

INGRAT. 'Je fais cent mecontens et un ingrat' (Voltaire), ii. 167, n. 3.

INNOVATION. 'Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation,' iv. 188.

INSIGNIFICANCE. 'They will be tamed into insignificance,' v. 148, n. 1.

INSOLENCE. 'Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out,' iii. 316.

INTENTION. 'We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad,' ii. 12.

INTREPIDITY. 'He has an intrepidity of talk, whether he understands the subject or not,' v. 330.

INVERTED. 'Sir, he has the most inverted understanding of any man whom I have ever known,' iii. 379.

IRONS. 'The best thing I can advise you to do is to put your tragedy along with your irons,' iii. 259, n. 1.

IRRESISTIBLY. 'No man believes himself to be impelled irresistibly,' iv. 123.

IT. 'It is not so. Do not tell this again,' iii. 229.

J.

JACK. 'If a jack is seen, a spit will be presumed,' ii. 215, n. 4; iii. 461.

JACK KETCH. 'Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with Jack Ketch' (Boswell), iii. 66.

JEALOUS. 'Little people are apt to be jealous,' iii. 55.

JOKE. 'I may be cracking my joke, and cursing the sun,' iv. 304.

JOKES. 'A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of chance,' ii. 231.

JOSTLE. 'Yes, Sir, if it were necessary to jostle him down,' ii. 443.

JOSTLED. 'After we had been jostled into conversation,' iv. 48, n. 1.

JUDGE. 'A judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs,' ii. 344.

JURY. 'Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime once a week,' iii. 11.

K.

KEEP. 'You have Lord Kames, keep him,' ii. 53.

KINDNESS. 'Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness,' iv. 115; 'To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life,' iii. 182.

KNEW. 'George the First knew nothing and desired to know nothing; did nothing, and desired to do nothing,' ii. 342.

KNOCKED. 'He should write so as he may live by them, not so as he may be knocked on the head,' ii. 221.

KNOWING. 'It is a pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196.

KNOWLEDGE. 'A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind,' i. 458; 'A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge,' iii. 302.

L.

LABOUR. 'It appears to me that I labour when I say a good thing,' iii. 260; v. 77; 'No man loves labour for itself,' ii. 99.

LACE. 'Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues,' iii. 188, n. 4.

LACED COAT. 'One loves a plain coat, another loves a laced coat,' ii. 192.

LACED WAISTCOAT. If everybody had laced waistcoats we should have people working in laced waistcoats,' ii. 188.

Laetus. 'Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi,' iii. 405.

LANGUAGES. 'Languages are the pedigree of nations,' v. 225.

LATIN. 'He finds out the Latin by the meaning, rather than the meaning by the Latin,' ii. 377.

LAWYERS. 'A bookish man should always have lawyers to converse with,' iii. 306.

LAY. 'Lay your knife and your fork across your plate,' ii. 51.

LAY OUT. 'Sir, you cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours,' ii. 194.

LEAN. 'Every heart must lean to somebody,' i. 515.

LEARNING. 'He had no more learning than what he could not help,' iii. 386; 'I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning,' iii. 385; 'I never frighten young people with difficulties [as to learning],' v. 316; 'Their learning is like bread in a besieged town; every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal,' ii. 363.

LEGS. 'Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452; 'A man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk,' iii. 230; 'His two legs brought him to that,' v. 397.

LEISURE. 'If you are sick, you are sick of leisure,' iv. 352.

LEVELLERS. 'Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves,' i. 448.

LEXICOGRAPHER. 'These were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer,' v. 47, n. 2.

LIAR. 'The greatest liar tells more truth than falsehood,' iii. 236.

LIBEL. 'Boswell's Life of Johnson is a new kind of libel' (Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2.

Liber. 'Liber ut esse velim,' &c., i. 83, n. 3.

LIBERTY. 'All boys love liberty,' iii. 383; 'I am at liberty to walk into the Thames,' iii. 287; 'Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as religion in mine' (Wilkes), iii. 224; 'No man was at liberty not to have candles in his windows,' iii. 383; 'People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of talking,' ii. 249.

LIBRARIES, 'A robust genius born to grapple with whole libraries' (Dr. Boswell), iii. 7.

LIE. 'Do the devils lie? No; for then Hell could not subsist' (attributed to Sir Thomas Browne), iii. 293; 'He carries out one lie; we know not how many he brings back,' iv. 320; 'If I accustom a servant to tell a lie for me, have I not reason to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself?' i. 436; 'Sir, If you don't lie, you are a rascal' (Colman), iv. 10; 'It is only a wandering lie,' iv. 49, n. 3; 'It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive,' v. 217; 'Never lie in your prayers' (Jeremy Taylor), iv. 295.

LIED. 'Why, Sir, I do not know that Campbell ever lied with pen and ink,' iii. 244.

LIES. 'Campbell will lie, but he never lies on paper,' i. 417, n. 5; 'Knowing as you do the disposition of your countrymen to tell lies in favour of each other,' ii. 296; 'He lies and he knows he lies,' iv. 49; 'The man who says so lies,' iv. 273; 'There are inexcusable lies and consecrated lies,' i. 355.

LIFE. 'A great city is the school for studying life,' iii. 253; 'His life was marred by drink and insolence,' iv. 161, n. 4; 'It is driving on the system of life,' iv. 112; 'Life stands suspended and motionless,' iii. 419; 'The tide of life has driven us different ways,' iii. 22.

LIGHTS. 'Let us have some more of your northern lights; these are mere farthing candles,' v. 57, n. 3.

LIMBS. 'The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,' iii. 38, n. 6.

LINK. 'Nay. Sir, don't you perceive that one link cannot clank,' iv. 317.

LITTLE. 'It must be born with a man to be contented to take up with little things,' iii. 241.

LOCALLY. 'He is only locally at rest,' iii. 241.

LONDON. 'A London morning does not go with the sun,' iv. 72; 'When a man is tired of London he is tired of life,' iii. 178.

LORD. 'His parts, Sir, are pretty well for a Lord,' iii. 35; 'Great lords and great ladies don't love to have their mouths stopped,' iv. 116; 'A wit among Lords': See below, WITS.

LOUSE. See above, FLEA.

LOVE. 'It is commonly a weak man who marries for love,' iii. 3; 'Sir, I love Robertson, and I won't talk of his book,' ii. 53; 'You all pretend to love me, but you do not love me so well as I myself do,' iv. 399, n. 6.

LUXURY. 'No nation was ever hurt by luxury,' ii. 218.

LYING. 'By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him, but all comfort in his conversation,' iv. 178.

M.

MACHINE. 'If a man would rather be the machine I cannot argue with him,' v. 117.

MADE DISH. 'As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt,' i. 469.

MADHOUSES. 'If you should search all the madhouses in England, you would not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense,' iv. 170.

MADNESS. 'With some people gloomy penitence is only madness turned upside down,' iii. 27.

MANKIND. 'As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,' iv. 239.

MANY. 'Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,' i. 396.

MARKET. 'A horse that is brought to market may not be bought, though he is a very good horse,' iv. 172; 'Let her carry her praise to a better market,' iii. 293.

MARTYRDOM. 'Martyrdom is the test,' iv. 12.

MAST. 'A man had better work his way before the mast than read them through,' iv. 308.

MEAL. 'He takes more corn than he can make into meal,' iv. 98.

MEANLY. 'Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea,' iii. 265.

MEMORY. 'The true art of memory is the art of attention,' iv. 126, n. 6.

MEN. 'Johnson was willing to take men as they are' (Boswell), iii. 282.

MERCHANT. 'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i. 491, n. 3.

MERIT. 'Like all other men who have great friends, you begin to feel the pangs of neglected merit,' iv. 248.

MERRIMENT. 'It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without his pistols,' iii. 389.

MIGHTY. 'There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,' i. 422.

MILK. 'They are gone to milk the bull,' i. 444.

MILLIONS. 'The interest of millions must ever prevail over that of thousands,' ii. 127.

MIND. 'A man loves to review his own mind,' iii. 228; 'Get as much force of mind as you can,' iv. 226; 'He fairly puts his mind to yours,' iv. 179; 'The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small,' iii. 334; 'They had mingled minds,' iv. 308; 'To have the management of the mind is a great art,' ii. 440.

MISER. 'He has not learnt to be a miser,' v. 316.

MISERY. 'It would be misery to no purpose,' ii. 94; 'Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it,' iv. 31.

MISFORTUNES. 'If a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him,' iv. 31.

MISS. 'Very well for a young Miss's verses,' iii. 319.

MONARCHY. 'You are for making a monarchy of what should be a a republic' (Goldsmith), ii. 257.

MONEY. 'Getting money is not all a man's business,' iii. 182; 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money,' iii. 19; 'Perhaps the money might be found, and he was sure that his wife was gone,' iv. 319; 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money,' ii. 323; 'You must compute what you give for money,' iii. 400.

MONUMENT, 'Like the Monument,' i. 199.

MOUTH. 'He could not mouth and strut as he used to do, after having been in the pillory,' iii. 315.

MOVE. 'When I am to move, there is no matter which leg I move first,' ii. 230.

MUDDY. 'He is a very pious man, but he is always muddy,' ii. 460.

MURDER. 'He practised medicine by chance, and grew wise only by murder,' v. 93, n. 4.

N.

NAMES. 'I do not know which of them calls names best,' ii. 37; 'The names carry the poet, not the poet the names,' iii. 318.

NAP. 'I never take a nap after dinner, but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me,' ii. 407.

NARROWNESS. 'Occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness' (Boswell), iv. 191.

NATION. 'The true state of every nation is the state of common life,' v. 109, n. 6.

NATIONAL. 'National faith is not yet sunk so low,' iv. 21.

NATIVE PLACE. 'Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place,' ii. 141.

NATURE. 'All the rougher powers of nature except thunder were in motion,' iii. 455; 'You are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 359; 'Nature will rise up, and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system,' i. 424.

NECESSITY. 'As to the doctrine of necessity, no man believes it,' iv. 329.

NECK. 'He gart Kings ken that they had a lith in their neck' (Lord Auchinleck), v. 382, n. 2; 'On a thirtieth of January every King in Europe would rise with a crick in his neck' (Quin), v. 382, n. 2; 'If you have so many things that will break, you had better break your neck at once, and there's an end on't,' iii. 153.

NEGATIVE. 'She was as bad as negative badness could be,' v. 231.

NEVER. 'Never try to have a thing merely to show that you cannot have it,' iv. 205.

NEW. 'I found that generally what was new was false' (Goldsmith), iii. 376.

NEWSPAPERS. 'They have a trick of putting everything into the newspapers,' iii. 330.

NICHOLSON. 'My name might originally have been Nicholson,' i. 439.

NINEPENCE. See DRAW.

No. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i. 166.

NON-ENTITY. 'A man degrading himself to a non-entity,' v. 277.

NONSENSE. 'A man who talks nonsense so well must know that he is talking nonsense,' ii. 74; 'Nonsense can be defended but by nonsense,' ii. 78.

NOSE. 'He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army,' ii. 229.

NOTHING. 'Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind,' iv. 352; 'Sir Thomas civil, his lady nothing,' v. 449.

NOVELTIES. 'This is a day of novelties,' v. 120.

NURSE. 'There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse,' ii. 474.