Beattie, Dr. ii. 143, 147, 273; iv. 200.

letter from Johnson to, iii. 467.

Beauclerk, Topham, Esq. i. 223; ii. 305; iii. 301, 418, 457;
iv. 9, 194.

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his violent altercation with Johnson, iii. 412.

his death, iii. 458.

Beauty, manly, described by Shakspeare and Milton, iv. 77, 78.
Beauties of Johnson, i. 192; iv. 160.

Bedlam, ii. 386; iv. 220.

Beggars, iii. 431: iv. 141.

Beggars Opera,' ii. 378, 379; iii. 346.

Belchier, Surgeon, iii. 54.

Bellamy, Mrs. her letter to Johnson, iv. 259.

Belsham, Mr. his Essay on Dramatick Poetry, i. 369, n.

Bentham, the Rev. Dr. ii. 464.

Bentley, Dr. verses by, iv. 22.

Berenger, Richard, Esq. iv. 95.

Beresford, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 304.

Berkeley, Bishop, i. 449; ii. 132; iv. 27.

Berwick, Duke of, his Memoirs, iii. 310.

Beville, Rev. Mr. his ingenious defence of Hammond, iv. 67.
Bewley, Mr. his enthusiastick veneration for Johnson, iv. 143.
Bible, the, should be read with the comments by Lowth, Patrick,
and Hammond, iii. 55.

Biography, remarks on, i. 1, 11, 405; ii. 227, 481; iii. 72, 169;

iv. 435.

Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, i. 127, 129, n. 139, 204.

.... Johnson's letters to, i. 204, 263.

.... his letter to Johnson on his Dictionary, i. 263.

Birds, their migration, ii. 255.

Bishops, iv. 298, 346. See Clergy.

Blackfriars Bridge, i. 330.

Black-letter books, their value, ii. 119.

Blacklock's poetry, i. 444.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, assisted in his Creation,' ii. 104.

Blackstone, Sir William, ii. 366, 429; iv. 96.

Blackstone, Sir William, Johnson's Life of, iv. 56.

Blackwell, Anthony, i. 57.

Blagden, Dr. iv. 30.

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, his Sermons, iii. 99, 107, 183, 188, 366;

iv. 103.

his account of Pope's Essay on Man,' iii. 431.

Rev. Robert, author of The Grave,' iii. 45.

Robert, Esq. Solicitor General for Scotland, iii. 45.

Blake, Admiral, Johnson's Life of, i. 124.

Blaney, Elizabeth, i. 14; iv. 403.

Blank verse, i. 407; ii. 123; iii. 279, 359; iv. 19, 42, 63.
Blenheim Park, ii. 469.

Blue-stocking Club, iv. 113.

Boerhaave, Johnson's Life of, i. 117.

Boetius magis Philosophus quàm Christianas, ii. 127.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first Viscount, his works, i. 243.
Bolton, Mr. Birmingham, ii. 478.

Bonaventura, i. 477.

Books and Booksellers, ii. 444; iii. 188, 309; iv. 299, 300.
Boothby, Miss Hill, some account of, iv. 59, n.

Johnson's letter to, iv. 59, n.

Boscawen, Hon. Mrs. iii. 357.

Boscovitch, Pere, ii. 125, 421.

Bosville, Godfrey, Esq. iii. 474.

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Mrs. ii. 172.

BOSWELL, (the Authour of this Work.)

introduced to Johnson, i. 371, 374, 375.
his Account of Corsica,' ii. 48, 58, 59, 69.
elected of the LITERARY CLUB, ii. 245.

his 'Letter to the People of Scotland,' iv. 186.
his Letter on Fox's India Bill, iv. 276, 278.

For other matters, see i. 450; ii. 4, 46, 102, 103, 220, 427;
iii. 316, 373, 390, 394, 442, 445; iv. 167.

Johnson's argument in favour of his trying his fortune
in London, iv. 374.

Johnson's excellent letter to him on his succeeding to
his estate, iv. 167.

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Johnson's other letters to him, i. 451; ii. 2, 20, 58,
70, 106, 141, 147, 210, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 280,
281, 283, 285, 287, 288, 289, 295, 298, 299, 302, 304,
307, 310, 323, 389, 392, 394, 398, 424, 426, 430, 431,
436, 438, 440, 441, 442; iii. 43, 89, 95, 97, 107, 110, 114,

129, 132, 137, 141, 142, 143, 148, 227, 232, 234, 300, 396,
420, 424, 426, 445, 448, 452, 468, 479; iv. 75, 160, 164,
244, 256, 264, 276, 278, 279, 282, 284, 372, 409, & seq.
BOSWELL, letters to Johnson from him, ii. 23, 24, 25, 26, 59, 141,

143, 146, 208, 278, 279, 288, 289, 293, 294, 302, 306, 308,
322, 397, 421, 440; iii. 87, 90, 95, 108, 111, 113, 128,
130, 140, 142, 145, 220, 242, 299, 387, 419, 425, 441, 446,
466; iv. 256.

Mrs. ii. 277, 280; iii. 175, 234, 448.

Johnson's letters to, iii. 87, 140; iv. 169; her an-

swer, iv. 11.

Dr. his character of Johnson, iii. 8.

Thomas David, Esq. iii. +68; iv. 455.

James, Esq. (the authour's second son,) iii. 12, 296, n.
Veronica, (the authour's eldest daughter,) iii. 142, n.

Bourchier, Governour, iv. 92.

Boufflers, Mad. de, ii. 42.

"Boulter's Monument," a poem, i. 295.

Bowles, William, Esq. iv. 246.

Bowyer, Printer, his life, iv. 399.

Boyse, Mr. Samuel, iv. 446.

Braithwaite, Daniel, Esq. iv. 299.

Bramhall, Archbishop, his work on Liberty and Necessity, ii. 100.
Bribery, ii. 360.

Brocklesby, Dr. his kind attention to Johnson, iv. 189, 242, 247,

281, 284, 361, 435, 452.

Johnson's letters to, iv. 247, 377, & seq.

Brodie, Captain, i. 56; ii. 486.

Brown, Mr. Thomas, Johnson's English teacher, i. 21.

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Isaac Hawkins, Esq. ii. 351.

Dr. John, ii. 131.

Rev. Mr. Robert, of Utrecht, his confutation of Hume,
iii. 312.

Browne, Sir Thomas, Johnson's Life of, i. 199, 285; his style
how far imitated by Johnson, i. 199.

Brutes, the hardships suffered by them recompensed by the care
iii. 50.

of man,

Burke, Right Hon. Edmund, anecdotes f, and remarks on, i. 62,
324; ii. 14, 140, 468; iii. 80, 335, 407; iv. 26, 180,
296, 297, 326, 341, 445.

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his Bon-mots, iii. 348.

his universal knowledge, iv. 18.

the Authour, introduced to him, ii. 245.

his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol censured by Johnson,
iii. 204.

his Essay on the Sublime,' &c. ii. 86.

his 'Letter on the Affairs of America,' iii. 204,
Richard, junr. Esq. iv. 231, 232.

Burman, Johnson's Life of, i. 130.

Burnet's History of his own Times, ii. 218.

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his Life of Rochester, iii. 209.

Burney, Dr. iii. 395; iv. 199, 419.

Johnson's letters to him, i. 265, 300, 304, 477; iv. 253,
386, 409.

Burney, his Ancedotes of Johnson, i. 305; ii. 422; iv. 143.
Mrs. i. 471; iv. 220.

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Miss, and her works, iv. 235, 296, 388, 424.
Burrowes, Rev. Robert, remarks and imitations by, iv. 420.
Burton's books, iv. 274.

'Anatomy of Melancholy,' i. 37; ii. 120, 461.
Books, iv. 268.

Bute, Earl of, i. 353; ii. 365, 487; iii. 79; iv. 134.
Johnson's letters to, i. 356, 359.

Butter, Dr. iii. 1, 169, 177; iv. 435.

Byng, Admiral, ii. 128.

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his epitaph, i. 291.

Hon. John, his Letter to Mr. Malone, iv. 456.

Calimachus, iv. 2.

C

Cambridge, Richard Owen, Esq. ii. 376; iii. 271; iv. 207, 208.

University, Johnson's visit to, i, 465.

Camden, Charles, first Lord, iii. 336.

Cameron, Dr. Archibald, i. 123.

Campbell, Hon. Archibald, ii, 222; iv. 308.

Dr. John, i. 396; ii. 52, 221; iii. 264.

Candidates at Elections, instructions for them, iii. 50.

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Johnson's excellent advice to them, for their conduct

during the contest, iv. 284.

Canus Melchior, ii. 404.

Capel's Shakspeare, iv. 5.

Cardan, his method of composing his mind, iii, 193.

Careless, Mrs. Johnson's love, ii. 479.

Careless Husband,' Comedy of, i. 154.

Carleton, Captain, his Memoirs,' iv. 356.

Carlisle, Earl of, iv. 119, 262.

Carte, Thomas, the historian, i. 20.

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, i. 100, 115, 179; iii. 183; iv. 102, 103,

296.

Carthusians, ii. 455.

Cathcart, Lord; iii. 374.

Catholicks, See Religion.

Cator, John, Esq. Johnson's character of him, and his fine seat,
iv. 337.

Cattle Extraordinary, iii. 165.

Cave, Mr. Edward, Johnson's Life of, i. 231; ii. 181; iii. 347;
iv. 447.

Johnson's letters to him, i. 65, 83, 97, 98, 99, 100, 112,

114, 116, 132, 134.

Chamberlayne, Rev. Mr. iv. 309.

Chambers, Catherine, i. 316; ii. 45.

Chambers, Ephraim, his proposal for his Dictionary, (probably for
the second edition of it,) and Sir W. Temple's writings con-
tributed to form Johnson's style, i. 197, 198.

Sir Robert, ii. 269, 272.

Johnson's letter to him, i. 249.

Sir William, iv. 201.

proved by Johnson, iv. 118.

Heroick Epistle' to him ap-

Chamier, Antony, Esq. i. 457; iii. 274.

Chapone, Mrs. i. 179.

Johnson's letter to, iv. 262.

Charade, Johnson's on Dr. Bernard, Lord Bishop of Limerick,

iv. 206.