Montaigne, his affection for Paris compared
to Johnson's love of London, i. 377 n.
Montausier, Duke de, the Misanthrope'
of Molière, iii. 371 n.
Montesquieu, ii. 430; iv. 150 n.

. Letter lxix. of his Lettres Persannes'
recommended, iv. 150 n.
Monthly Review, ii. 39; iii. 396, 409.
Montrose, William Graham, second Duke
of, anecdote of his shooting a highway-
man, iv. 95 n.

James, third Duke of, iv. 253, 481.
Monuments, ii. 226.

- inaccuracy of inscriptions on, iv. 238 n.
Moody, Mr., the actor, iii. 214, 217.
Moore, Thomas, his Life of Lord By-
ron' quoted, iii. 200 n., 397 n.

- his Irish Melodies, ii. 207 n.

Morality, iv. 221, 376.

More, Sir Thomas, iii. 127 n.

Miss Hannah, iii. 413 n.; iv. 112,
152 n., 310 n., 470, 473; v. 172,
201, 255.

her flattery of Johnson, iv. 152.
Johnson's saying to, respecting Milton,
v. 201.

- Dr. Henry, the Platonist, ii. 155.
Morell, Dr. Thomas, iii. 45.
Moreri's Dictionary, iii. 4.

Morgann, Maurice, esq., his

Essay on
70, 70 n.

the Character of Falstaff,' v.
Morris, Corbyn, his Essay on Wit,' iv.
478 n.

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Miss, v. 473, 473 n.

Mosaic account of the creation, i. 356.
Moss, Dr., iv. 443.

Motto on the dial-plate of Johnson's

watch, ii. 59.

Mounsey, Dr. Messenger, his character,
ii. 65.

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his extraordinary direction in his will,
ii. 65 n.

Mount Edgecumbe, ii. 335.

Mountstuart, Lord (afterwards first Mar-

quis of Bute), ii. 22; iii. 317, 317 n.,
366, 455, 455 n.; iv. 289, 502; v.
86 n., 103 n.

Muck, Isle of, ii. 448.

Mudge, Rev. Zachariah, i. 367; iv. 447;
v. 41 n.

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Johnson's character of, iv. 447.
character of his Sermons,' iv. 472.
Dr. John, i. 367.

Johnson's letter to, v. 126.

Mr. Thomas, the eminent watchmaker,
i. 367 n.

Mulgrave, Constantine Phipps, Lord, iii.
374 n.

Mull, Isle of, iii. 7, 12, 34, 561.
Muller, Mr., the engineer, i. 341 n.
Mulso, Miss, afterwards Mrs. Chapone,
i. 178, 223; iv. 305 n., 325; v. 136.
Mummies, iv. 500.

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- William, Attorney-General, i. 280 n.
See Mansfield, Lord.

his opinion respecting Johnson's de-
finition of the word 'Excise,' i.
281 n.

Patrick, fifth Lord Elibank, ii. 130 n.
Mr., Solicitor-General of Scotland,
afterwards Lord Henderland, iii. 374.
- Mr. John, the bookseller (father of the
publisher of this work), iv. 152,
152 n.

prosecution of, by Mason the poet, iv.

152.

his Letter to W. Mason, A.M.' iv.
153 n.

- Mr. John, junior, his account of the
various Portraits of Dr. Johnson, v.
378.

'Muses' Welcome to King James,' ii.
293.

Musgrave, Sir Richard, v. 99, 220 n.
some account of, v. 99 n.

- Dr. Samuel, iv. 177.

some account of, iv. 177 n.

Music, ii. 156, 247 n.; iv. 51, 96, 354.
the only sensual pleasure without vice,
iv. 354.

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in heaven, i. 120 n.; ii. 156.

- Johnson's wish to learn the scale of,
six months before his death, ii. 247.
Johnson's insensibility to the charms
of, i. 355; iii. 8, 295.

Musk, used medicinally by Johnson, iv.
231.
Myddleton, Mr., of Gwaynynog, iii. 153.
urn erected by him, to commemorate
Johnson's visit, iii. 153 n.; iv. 2.
Mylne, Robert, the architect, i. 340.
Mysteriousness in trifles, iv. 373.
Mystery, iv. 80, 184; v. 223.
Mythology, iv. 348, 349 n.

N.

Nairne, Mr. William, afterwards Sir
William, ii. 273, 289, 297, 298.

- some account of, ii. 289 n.

right, iii. 302.

Near-sightedness, Johnson's, i. 14; iii.
286 n., 419; iv. 200, 384, 396.
Necessity, doctrine of, v. 237.
Needlework, iv. 374.

Negro, Johnson's argument in favour of
one claiming his liberty, iv. 54, 66, 507.
Nelson, Robert, his 'Festivals and Fasts,'
iii. 346.

"Network,' Johnson's definition of, i. 279.
Newdigate, Sir Roger, ii. 60.

Newhaven, William Mayne, Lord, iv. 284.
some account of, iv. 284 n.
Newspapers, ii. 165; iv. 361.

New Testament, iii. 65; iv. 156.
Newton, Sir Isaac, i. 466; ii. 514; iv.

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355; v. 6, 6 n., 98.

Johnson's praise of, i. 384; ii. 270.
Lord King's Life' of, i. 466 n.

- Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Bristol, v. 184,

184 n.

Johnson's character of, v. 184.

his character of Johnson, v. 184 n.
'Nice' people, iv. 374.

Nichols, Dr. Frank, iii. 230; iv. 12.

his discourse De Animâ Medicâ,'
iv. 12.

Mr. John, i. 59; iv. 403, 409, 434 n.
Johnson's notes and letters to, iv. 403,
404 n.; v. 283, 299 n.
Johnson's character of his 'Anecdotes,'
v. 38.

some account of, v. 283.

his Literary Anecdotes' a storehouse
of facts and dates, v. 283 n.

Nicol, Mr. George, v. 141, 466.

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Johnson's letter to, v. 280.

Nightcaps, ii. 495, 534.

'No, sir,' in what sense used by Johnson,
v. 212.

Nobility, i. 385; ii. 335; iv. 220, 486 n.
usurpation of the, v. 139.
'Noble Authors,' Park's edition of, i.
336 n.

Nollekens, Mr., iv. 63, 72, 72 n.

his bust of Johnson, iv. 63, 72.
'Nonjuror,' Cibber's play of the, iii. 196,

197 n.

Nonjurors, iii. 196; v. 185.

Nores, Jason de, his comments on Horace,
iii. 332.

Nores, Jason de, some account of, iii.
332 n.

North, Dudley, esq., iv. 444, 444 n., 453,
453 n., 456.

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- Frederick, Lord, ii. 122, 138; iii. 103,
207 n., 244 n., 524; iv. 74.

his letter, as Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, in favour of John-
son, iii. 205.

North Pole, Johnson's conjectures respect-
ing, ii. 459.

Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 91; iii. 362,
362 n.

'Nose of the mind,' sagacity the, v. 244.
Nourse, Mr., the bookseller, iii. 380 n.
Novels, i. 384; iv. 396.

Novelty, the paper on, in the 'Spectator,'
one of the finest pieces in the English
language, iii. 397.

Nowell, Rev. Dr., ii. 143 n.

his sermon before the Commons, v. 194.
'Nugæ Antiquæ,' Harington's, v. 59.
Nugent, Robert, Lord, ii. 123 n.

'Nullum numen adest, ni sit Prudentia,'
iv. 19.

Numbers, science of, iii. 325.
Nuremberg Chronicle, iii. 156.
'Nuğ yag eexeta,' (for the night cometh,')
the motto on the dial-plate of Johnson's
watch, ii. 59.

O.

Oath of abjuration, profligate boast of its
framer, iii. 196 n.

impolicy and inefficacy of such tests,
iii. 197 n.

Oaths, i. 302; ii. 208; iii. 86, 405.

morality of taking, iii. 196 n.

"Oats,' Johnson's definition of, i. 280;
iii. 81 n., 349 n., 351; iv. 131.
Obedience, iv. 153.

Obscenity, always repressed in Johnson's

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company, v. 195.

Observance of days and months, iii. 346.
Observer,' Cumberland's, iv. 435.
Occupation, iv. 31.

Occupations, hereditary, ii. 351.

O'Connor, Charles, esq., Johnson's letters
to, on his Dissertations on the History
of Ireland,' i. 311; iii. 476.

some account of, i. 311; ïïi. 476 n.
Ode, by Johnson, ‘Ad ornatissimam Pu-
ellam,' i. 133.

to Friendship, by Johnson, i. 134.
Johnson's, Ad Urbanum,' i. 84.
translation of, by Mr. Jackson, of Can.
terbury, i. 527.

- Johnson's, upon the Isle of Skie, ii.
385.

- Johnson's, to Mrs. Thrale, ii. 388.
in Theatro, ii. 123.

- respect paid to, iii. 375.

Ogden, Dr. Samuel, ii. 508; iv. 498.
on prayer, ii. 273, 303.

- his Sermons,' ii. 265, 322; iii. 20,
45; iv. 103.

Ogilvie, Dr. John, i. 434.

- his Day of Judgment,' i. 437 n.
Oglethorpe, General, i. 97, 118; ii. 173,
174, 175, 178, 178 n.; iii. 225, 227,
227 n., 422; v. 49, 49 n., 50 n., 140,
484.

“Οι φιλοι, ον φίλος, ( he that has friends

has no friend') a phrase frequently
quoted by Johnson, i. 182; iv. 148, 258.
O'Kane, the Irish harper, iii. 9.
Old age, iv. 44, 110, 110 n., 197, 210,
353, 391; v. 60, 174.

Old Bailey dinners, iv. 202 n.
Oldfield, Dr., story of, iii. 423.
Oldham's imitation of Juvenal, i. 89.

Old men, folly of putting themselves to
nurse, iii. 364.

Oldmixon, John, i. 281 n.
Oldys, William, i. 129.

his part in the Harleian Miscellany,
i. 151.

Omai, iii. 374 n.

Opera girls, v. 50.

Opie, John, his picture of Johnson, v. 251.
Opium, v. 50.

Johnson's use of, ii. 5.
Opposition, the, iv. 473.

Orange peels, use to which Johnson ap-
plied them, iii. 204.

Orator, Johnson's qualifications as an, ii.
126, 127.

Oratory, ii. 199; iv. 477; v. 83, 103.
Orchards, i. 391.

Ord, Mrs., a celebrated blue-stocking, iv.

305, 307, 319.

Orde, Lord Chief Baron, ii. 265.

Orford, Earl of, iv. 44 n.; v. 210.

his pictures, v. 243, 243 n.

Organ, iii. 211.

Origin of evil, iii. 61.

Original sin, iv. 498.

Orme, Mr., the Irishman, his character of
Johnson's Journey,' iii. 102, 176.
his eulogy on Johnson, iv. 142.

Ormond, Duke of, ii. 372.
Orrery, John, fifth Earl of, ii. 462.
-John Boyle, Earl of, i. 226, 283, 336,

461; iv. 105, 171, 406; v. 53.
his letter on receiving the specimen of
Johnson's Dictionary, i. 159.
some account of, i. 226.

Ostervald's Sacred History,' ii. 42 n.

Otaheite, inhabitants of, iii. 414.

'Othello,' morality of the tragedy of, iii.
404.

Otway, Thomas, his pathetic powers, ii.
127; iv. 352, 352 n.,

Oughton, Sir Adolphus, ii. 279, 279 n.,
355.

Ouran-outang, ii. 281.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, ii. 78.

Overell, Bishop, on a Future State,' iii.
52 n.

Oxford University, advantages of, ii. 53.
Johnson's attachment to, iv. 198.
Oxford, Earl of, his library, i. 129.

Palsy, Johnson's attack of, v. 109, 110,
111, 112.

Pamphlet, iv. 178, 178 n.

Pamphlets, Johnson's, i. 361 n. ; iii. 190.
Panegyrick, iii. 521.

Pantheon, in Oxford-street, ii. 163.
Panting, Dr. Matthew, i. 42.

Paoli, General, ii. 73, 82, 159, 183, 212,
245; iii. 148, 399, 520; iv. 183, 235,
263, 288, 475; v. 98, 123 n., 145.
Papier maché, iii. 157.

Papists, v. 188.

22 n., 104, 145, 279.

- some account of, v. 279 n.

Johnson's letter to, v. 279.

Parallel, Johnson's readiness at finding a,

his habit of drinking to excess, iii. 521.
Parr, Rev. Dr. Samuel, iv. 415; v. 123 n.
Johnson's opinion of his conversation,
iv. 347.

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recommended by Johnson to the mas-
tership of the Norwich grammar school,
iv. 347 n.

his description of Mrs. Sheridan, the
author of Sydney Biddulph,' i. 348 n.
anecdotes of Johnson by, v. 414.

his epitaph on Johnson, v. 355, 356 n.
Parson, the life of a, iv. 163.

Party, necessity of sticking to, ii. 272.
Party opposition, iii. 525.

Passion week, iv. 462.

Passions, the, iii. 403.

'Pastern,' Johnson's wrong definition of,
i. 279, 368.

Paten, Rev. Dr. Thomas, v. 40.

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Johnson's letter to, v. 40 n.

some account of, v. 40 n.

Pater Noster, ii. 353.

Paternity, iv. 118.

Paterson, Mr. Samuel, author of 'Coriat,
Junior,' ii. 169, 169 n.; iii. 454 n.; v.
108, 163 n.

'Patriot,' a political pamphlet by John-
son, iii. 162, 165, 393.

Patriotism, iii. 525.

- Johnson's definition of, iii. 223.
Patriots, self-styled, iv. 461.
Patronage, ii. 294; v. 51.

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- lay, Johnson's argument in defence of,
ii. 229, 546.

Paul, Sir George Onesiphorus, iii. 17 n.
Payne, Mr. William, Johnson's Preface
to his work on 'Draughts,' i. 305; v.
143.

Pearce, Dr. Zachary, Bishop of Rochester,
i. 278; iii. 334, 476.

Johnson's dedication to his Posthumous
Works, iii. 477.

curious anecdote of, iii. 477 n.

supplied Johnson with some etymolo-
gies for his Dictionary, i. 278.
Pearson, Rev. Mr., iii. 361, 361 n.; iv.
241; v. 115.

Mrs., of Lichfield, i. 175 n.; iii. 340,
361 n., 498; v. 72 n.

Pecuniary embarrassment, evil of, v. 33.
- profit, the only genuine motive to
writing, i. 113.

Peel, Right Honourable Robert, iii. 21 n.,
344 n.

Peerages, great inaccuracy of, as to dates,
iv. 307 n.

Peers, House of, ii. 335.

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judicial powers of the, iv. 213.
influence of, in the House of Commons,
ii. 292.

Peers of Scotland, their interference in

elections of the Commons, v. 138, 139.
Peiresc, his death lamented in forty lan-
guages, iii. 246.

Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, Garrick's
Ode on the Death of, i. 256.
Pellet, Dr., iv. 216.

Pembroke, Lord, his description of John-
son's conversation, ii. 256.
Penance in church, ii. 429.
Penitence, gloomy, only madness turned
upside down, iii. 392.
Penmean Mawr, iii. 146.

Penn, Governor Richard, iv. 324 n.
Pennant, Mr., ii. 387, 443; iii. 134 n., 135,

222, 491; iv. 127.

his Tour in Scotland, iv. 128, 130.

his merit as a zoologist, iv. 131.

Pepys, William Waller, esq., his letters
to Mrs. Montagu respecting Johnson's
Life of Lord Lyttleton, v. 224.
Perceval, Lady Catherine, iii. 149 n.
Percy, Dr., Bishop of Dromore, i. 24, 26,
43, 114, 166, 494, 499; ii .64, 65,
123, 342, 480; iii. 248 n., 340 n.,
342; iv. 3 n., 5 n., 127, 134, 135,
170, 233, 204 n., 301, 325 n., 472.

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difference between Johnson and, iv.
127, 132.

heir male of the ancient Percies, iv.
127, 127 n.

Johnson's character of, iv. 134.
forms a sermon out of Johnson's fourth
Idler, iv. 135.

Johnson's ludicrous parody on his
'Hermit of Warkworth,' iv. 136.
Mrs., iii. 127; iv. 511.

Peregrinity,' ii. 361.

Perfection, to be aimed at, v. 248.
Perkins, Mr., the brewer, iii. 162 n.; iv.
452, 455, 492.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 162; v. 31,
148.

Peruvian bark, v. 192.
Peter the Great, ii. 473.

Peterborough, Earl of, iv. 418 n.; v. 243.
Peters, Mr., iii. 364.

Petitions, facility of getting them up, ii.
90.

Petty, Sir William, iv. 335.

Peyton, Mr., Johnson's amanuensis, i.
161, 162; ii. 146, 147, 184; iii.
252 n.

Philips, the musician, Johnson's epitaph
on, i. 119.

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'Cyder,' a poem, ii. 312.

Miss, the singer, afterwards Mrs.
Crouch, v. 107, 107 n.

Philosophers, ancient, their good-humour
in disputation accounted for, iii. 376.
Philosophical necessity, iv. 150, 150 n.
'Transactions,' ii. 39.
Philosophy, iii. 365; iv. 164.
Phipps, Rev. James, leaves his fortune

to Pembroke College, iv. 165, 165 n.
-Voyage to the North Pole,' ii. 459.
Physic, successful irregular practitioners
in, iv. 261.

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Johnson's knowledge of, iii. 387.
Physician, Johnson's reply to a foppish
one, v. 216.

anecdote of one, iii. 342, 354.
Physicians, iii. 354; iv. 376; v. 156.

141 n.,

Piozzi, Mrs., i. 5, 10, 39 n., 62, 165,
186 n., 214 n., 428 n., 508, 509, 512;
ii. 181 n., 469 n.; iii. 125 n.,
149 n., 159 n., 202 n., 239 n., 240,
370, 408, 413 n.; iv. 77 n., 85 n.,
321 n., 328, 360, 365, 377 n., 378 n.,
381 n., 386 n., 468; v. 249, 252, 254,
255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261, 267,
307, 423. See Thrale.

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- her Three Warnings,' i. 511.
commencement and progress of John-
son's acquaintance with, i. 512.

receives 5007. for her collection of John-
son's letters, ii. 42 n.

- Johnson's letters to, ii. 43, 60, 70,
118, 131, 132, 191, 193, 197; iii. 249,
252, 253, 260, 359, 392, 442, 443,
444, 460; iv. 1, 59, 61, 202, 230,
245, 267, 274, 275, 283, 288, 296,
302, 304, 306, 308, 312, 319, 320,
324, 458, 460; v. 8, 26, 30, 98, 99,
108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118,
128, 133, 144, 159.

- her letters to Johnson, iii. 257; iv.
305, 308; v. 182, 249.

bequeaths her patrimonial estate to a
foreigner, to the exclusion of her own
children, iii. 135 n.

her description of the regatta, iii. 257.
Baretti's strictures on her marriage
with Piozzi, iii. 413 n.

Johnson's verses on her birthday, iii.
463.

her miserable mésalliance, v. 249 n.,
251, 252 n.

Boswell's proneness to distrust her cha-
racter, iv. 81 n., 85, 97, 97 n.; V.
254, 255, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261,
307.

- her handwriting an almost perfect spe-
cimen of calligraphy, iv. 404.
anecdotes of Johnson by, v. 422 n.
her poetical character of Johnson, v.
427.

- her Collectanea of Johnson's sayings,
iv. 365.

Piozzi, Signor, v. 249, 249 n.
Pitcairne, his Latin poetry, ii. 293.
Pitt, Right Hon. William, first Earl of
Chatham, i. 100; ii. 188, 215; iii. 34;
v. 213.

Pitt, Right Hon. William, his son, v. 154,
159, 192, 282 n.

Johnson's expectation from, v. 159 n.
Pitt and Fox, v. 192.
Pitts, Rev. John, v. 60 n.
Pity, i. 451.