Prayer for the dead, ii. 101, 166.

Prayers and Meditations, Johnson's, iv. 408.-His extraordinary
prayer for his departed wife, i. 212.

Preaching of the established Clergy, i. 435, 436; ii. 122.

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of Female Quakers, i. 440.

Preceptor,' Dodsley's, i. 168.

Predestination, ii. 99. See Liberty and Necessity.

Prendergast, Mr. remarkable anecdote of, ii. 186.
Presentiment, a remarkable story concerning, ii. 186.

Presbyterians, ii. 99.

Price, Dr. iv. 252.

Priestley, Dr., Johnson's opinion of, ii. 123; iv. 251, 252.
Prince of Wales, his happiness, iv. 196.

Pringle, Sir John, iii. 65, 193, 268.

Printing, iii. 35.

ancient, ii. 414.

Prior's poetry, ii. 77; iii, 210.

Pritchard, Mrs., ii. 360; iv. 258.

Probationer, ii. 175.

Procurators of Edinburgh, their case, iv. 136.

Professions, some objections to all, ii. 127.

'Project, the,' a poem, iii. 343.

Pronunciation, ii. 162, 163; iii. 215:

Prostitution, i. 434; iii. 17.

Providence, a particular, iv. 293.

Prussia, Frederick, King of, his writings, i. 413.

Psalmanazer, George, iii. 339; iv. 200, 295.

Psalms, best metrical translation of, iii. 5.

Public amusements keep people from vice, ii. 173.

speaking, no true test of a man's powers, ii, 351; iv.

Quotation, classical, the parole of literary men, iv. 107.

Quos DEVS vult perdere, &c. traced to its source, iv. 194, n.

R.

Rackstrow, of Fleet-street, Johnson's Colonel in the Train Bands,

iv. 342.

Radcliffe, Rev. Dr. Master of Pembroke College, i. 246.
John, M. D. his travelling fellowship, iv. 315.

Ralph, Mr. James, iv. 60, n.

'Rambler,' Johnson's, published, i. 177, 178, 179, 203.
remarks on, i. 196; iii. 41; iv. 162, 297.

Shenstone's criticism on, ii. 470, 471.

Ramsay, Allan, Esq. (painter to his Majesty,) iii. 271, 357, 362;
iv. 396.

Ranby, John, Esq., iii. 222.

Rank, its importance in Society, i. 420, 425; ii. 155.

'Rasselas,' Prince of Abyssinia, Johnson's, i. 64, 320, 321, 412;
iii. 342; iv. 124.

translated into four languages, ii. 214.

American edition of, ibid.

Reading, the manner and effect of, i. 36; ii. 232, 372; iii. 42,
210, 308, 359; iv. 19, 231, 332.

Reed, Isaac, Esq., iv. 37.

Rehearsal, the,' Johnson's opinion of that Farce, iv. 343.
criticisms on, ii. 171.

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Rein-deer, project for introducing them into England, ii. 171.
Relationship, attachment grounded on, diminished by commerce,

ii. 180.

Religion and religious establishments, i. 44, 431; ii. 99, 100,
101, 102, 153, 154, 248, &c. 455, 477, 494; iii. 17, 322,
338, 341; iv. 98, 127, 131, 228.

Roman Catholick and Presbyterian, ii. 99, 101, 102,
264; iii. 437; iv. 311.

that he who does not feel joy in it is far from the king-
dom of heaven, a rash doctrine, iii. 366.

Religious orders, ii. 455.

Republicans wish to level down as far as theinselves, but cannot

Review, Johnson's plan of one, i. 285.

Reviews, and Reviewers, ii. 42; iii. 31, 42; iv. 60, 227.

Revolution, celebration of, iv. 183.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, i. Advert. xiv. 220, 272, 307; ii. 305, 319;

iii. 39; iv. 5, 339, 452.

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his Disoourses,' iii. 399; iv. 343.

his even and placid temper, iii. 5.

Johnson's letters to, i. 464; ii. 142, 145; iii. 82, 83,

92; iv. 142, 174, 239, 395.

anecdotes of Johnson by him, i. 358; ii. 106; iv. 196.

Rheumatism, receipt for, ii. 286.

Rhyme, i. 407; iii. 279.

Richardson, Mr. Samuel, anecdotes of, i. 104, 123, 179, 225; ii.
88; iii. 201, 339; iv. 28.

compared with Fielding, ii. 50.

with French Novelists, ii. 124.

his works, ii. 177.

Riches, i. 418; ii. 170; iii. 286, 340; iv. 133, 165, 186.

Ridicule, iv. 16.

Riots in 1780, account of, iii. 460, 473.

Rising early, iii. 183.

Roberts, Miss, i. 410.

Robertson, Rev. Dr. William, ii. 32; iii. 357, 360, 361.
his first introduction to Johnson, iii. 357.

his works, ii. 54, 242.

his imitation of Johnson's style, iii. 189; iv. 423.

Robinson, Sir Thomas, i. 413; ii. 130.

Rochester's Poems, iii. 209.

Rolt, Richard, his Dictionary of Trade and Commerce,' i.

122.

Johnson's Life of, i. 140, 147.

enquiry as to his birth, i. 147.

his Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury,' represented, iii.

Schools, Scottish, do not make critical scholars, ii. 174.
Schoolmasters, i. 72; ii. 149.

law cases respecting them, ii. 160, 187, 188,

190; iii. 230, 232.

Scorpions, curious anecdote concerning, ii. 55.

Scotch, their pronunciation, ii. 162.

... lairds, i. 388. See Landlord and Tenant.

Scotchmen, their steady perseverance to attain an object, iv. 10.
their great nationality, iv. 199.

Scotland, and the Scotch, Johnson's opinion of, and bon-mots on,
i. 405, 427; ii. 53, 76, 120, 247, 314, 318, 320, 321, 452,
493; ii. 178, 185, 252, 263, 269, 440; iv. 107, 198,
199.

Scottish Literature, ii. 374.

Scott, Sir Willliam, i. 439; ii. 102; iii. 283; iv. 96.
Mr. of Amwell, his Elegies, ii. 363.

George Lewis, Esq. iii. 125.

Scriptures, the Holy, iii. 55.

Johnson's letter on the proposals to translate them into

Erse, ii. 28.

Scripture phrases, ii. 218.

Secker, Archbishop, i. 10; iv. 29.

Second sight, ii. 9, 153, 332.

Seduction, iii. 17; iv. 434.

Selected works, iii. 28, 29, 247.

Semel insanivimus omnes, traced to its source, iv. 194, Re

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William, Esq. iii. 131, 182; iv. 149, 193, 209, 228.
Shakspeare, compared with Congreve, ii. 83, 84.

with Corneille, iv. 15.

with Milton, iv. 77.

his description of night, in 'Macbeth,' faulty, ii. 862
his description of Dover Cliff, faulty, ii. 48
his Witches, of his own creation, iii. 411.

Johnson's opinion of, iii. 411; iv. 17, 24.

Johnson's edition of his Plays, i. 154, 155, 295,
297, 338, 460, 477; ii. 112, 210; iv. 309.

Johnson's opinion of his learning, iv. 17.

remarks on, i. 475; ii. 87, 191; iii. 52; iv. 15.
See Othello and Mrs. Montagu.

the second folio edition of his Plays (1632) adul-

terated in every page, iii. 144, n.

Sharpe, Rev. Dr. Gregory, ii. 129.

Sharpe's Letters on Italy,' iii. 51.

Shaw, Cuthbert, his poem of The Race,' ii. 34.
Rev. Mr. his Erse Grammar, iii. 110, 112.

his pamphlet on Ossian, iv. 268.

Dr. Thomas, the traveller,) iv. 117.

Shebbare, Dr., iv. 118.

Shenstone, his verses at an inn, ii. 470.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, Esq., iii. 122, 123.

Thomas, Esq., i. 365, 366, &c. 430; ii. 84, 128, 164,

334; iii. 2, 406; iv. 228, 234, 353.

Mrs., i. 363.

Shiels, Mr. Robert, i.165; iii. 29.

Shipley, Dr. Jonathan, (late Bishop of St. Asaph,) iv. 262.

Short Hand, ii. 230; iii. 291.

Shrewsbury, ii. 197.

Siam, embassy from the King of, to Louis the Fourteenth, ii. 362.
Siddons, Mrs. her visit to Johnson, iv. 257,258, &c.

Sibbald, Sir Robert, M. D. iii. 248.

Sidney, Sir Philip, his receipt to preserve a wife's chastity, iii.