Horace, remarks on feveral paffages of, ix. 35. Lib. iv. Ode ́vii.
tranflated, xi. 372.

Horfes, account of thofe in the islands of Sky, x. 415.

of Barra not more than 26 inches in height, 474-
Horfe Racing, the folly of, jx. 26.

In the island

Hjpitals for the Sick, the ufe and advantages of, viii. 15. Their be
ing made permanent recommended, 15. Danger from the compe-
titions between different hofpitals, 16.

Howard, Sir Robert, joins Dryden in writing the Indian Queen, ii.
312. Has a controverfy with Dryden on dramatick rhyme, 314.
Hudibras, Part I. published 1663, Part II 1664. Part III. pub-
lished 1678, i. 180. The idea taken from Don Quixote, 184.
The characters compared, 184. Being written on a temporary
fubject, is now nearly forgotten, viii. 237.

Hughes, John, his life, iii. 112. Born at Marlborough, in Wiltshire,
112. Educated in a diffenter's academy, 112. Became skilled in
poetry and mufick, 113. Held a place in the office of Ordnance,
113. Tranflated Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead, and added
two new ones, which he dedicates to Lord Wharton, who promised
to provide for him in Ireland, 115. Affitted in the Tatler, Specta
tor, and Guardian, 115. Made Secretary to the Commiffioners of
Peace, 1717, 116. Died in 1719-20, 117. Account of his works,
118. His character according to Swift and Pope, 118.

Hum, ftory of Burnet and Sprat refpecting the practice of humming,
when fermons were approved of, ii. 10.

Human Wishes, the Vanity of, in imitation of the Tenth Satire of Ju-
venal, x. 331.

Humour, good, the peculiar value of this quality, vi. 7, 8.
Humourifts, confiderations on that character, ix. 145.

Hungary, Queen of, oppofes the King of Prufha's claim on Silefia, iv.
543. Surrenders half of Silefia to the King of Pruffia, 548. Op-
pofed on every fide, prepares for refiftance, 555. 500,000l. voted
to her by the English Parliament, 555. Makes peace with the King
of Pruffia, and furrenders the remaining half of Silefia to him, 560.
Proceedings against the army of France, 562.

Hunt, Arabella, account of her, iii. 169.

Hymenæus, his account of the difagreeable qualities of fome ladies, vi.
265. 271. 278. 284. His marriage with Tranquilla, and the hap-
piness connected with it, vii. 159.

Hyperboles, examples of, enormous and disgusting, ii. 32.

Hyperdulus, account of his treatment by his relations, vii. 51.

Hypertatus, his reflections upon the conveniences and advantages of a
garret, vi. 292. 299.

Hypocrify, not always to be charged upon fuch as are zealous for virtues
which they neglect to practife, v. 90. Wherein it differs from
affectation, 134.

I. and J.

AMAICA characterized, x. 167.

JAMAI

James I. King, a remarkable converfation between him and the Bishops of Durham and Winchester, ii. 223.

Witchcraft, ix. 314. Characterized, x. 162.

Ianthe, her character, v. 121.

Wrote in defence of

Java island of, account of, and of the inhabitants, iv. 436.

Icolmkill, account of, x. 501.

Idleness, its fatal effects, vi. 89. Its competition with pride, viii. 121. Character of the true votaries of, 121. Under the appearance of business, ridiculed, 191.

Idler, definition of an, viii. 1. The peculiar characteristick of man, 2. Has no rivals or enemies, 3. His privilege to form fchemes, 3. Always inquifitive, and feldom retentive, 3. Naturally cenforious, 4. May fometimes be stimulated to vigour and activity, 4. Invites correfpondents, 4. Laments his not having received any effays, 6. A genuine one defcribed, 34. Enemies to the Idler, 36. Journal of a genuine one, 129. His farewell, 408.

Idlers, the various employment of, vii. 64. Cruel Idlers reprobated, 65.

Jenyns, Soame, review of his Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, x. 220.

Ignorance of ourselves, the fource of moft errors in human conduct, v. 158. And admiration, their mutual and reciprocal operation, vi.

25.

Images, how the fame images ftrike the mind in a fimilar manner, as Spring, Night, Grove, &c. ix 103.

Imagination, the danger of indulging the excurfions and amufements. of it, vi. 110. On the diforders of, xi. 121.

Imitation of others, when attended with fervility, highly cenfurable, vii. 145.

Imlac, the hiftory of, xi. 21. Son of a merchant at Goiama, 22. Receives 10,000 pieces of gold of his father, for the purpose of trading, 24. Refolves on travelling instead of trading, 25. Arrives at Surat, and is plundered by his fervants and dependants, 26. Arrives at Agra, the capital of Indoftan, 27. Proceeds through Pería and Arabia, 28. Becomes a poet, 30. Refides three years in Palestine, 33. Becomes impatient to return to his native country, 37. His difappointment of finding happiness, on his return, his father being dead, and divided his eftate amongft his brothers, they left the country, and he found hardly a perfon who knew him, 38. His retreat to the happy valley, 39. Leaves the happy valley with Raffelas and Nekayah, 44.

Impatience of fudy, the mental dife fe of the prefent generation, vii. 82. Imperia, her ambition and pride, vi. 283.

Inch Keith, island of, ac ount of, x. 215.

Inch Kenneth, account of, x. 494. Account of a remarkable cav

there, 498.

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Inconfifleny,

Inconsistency, diftinguished from diversity, xi. 23.

Incontinence, the effect of the magnet in the detection of, vii. 341. A
scheme for the detection of it proposed, 344.

Independants and Prefbyterians, account of the difputes between them
at Oxford, on the authority of minifters, iv. 510.

Indian, fpeech of an Indian on the European encroachments, viii. 325.
Indians of America, confiderations on their granting their lands to fo-
reign nations, x. 146. The English and French both to be con-
fidered as robbers quarrelling for the fpoil, 148.

Indians on the coast of Brazil, their method of taking offriches, iv. 422,
Account of them, 423.

Indolence, the difficulty of being reformed from it, vii. 93.

Industry neceffary, as well as genius, to acquire an eminence in literary
productions, v. 165. 167.

Ingratitude, the peculiar batenefs and infamy of it, vii. 51. The effect
of great depravity of mind, 51.

Injuries, the forgivene's of them neceffary to happiness, vii. 260.
When eafieft to be practifed, 261. The motives to encourage it,

261.

Innocence, the great prerogative of this excellent quality, v. 434.
Intereft, the influence of it upon the refolutions and actions of life,
vii. 250. A deftroyer of friendship, viii. 90.

Inverary, account of, x. 515.

Inverness, account of, x. 343. Account of the caftle of Macbeth, 343.
John, King, obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ix, 315.
Johnson, bis Tour to the Western Islands. See Hebrides.

Johnson, Dr. is prefented with the freedom of Aberdeen, x. 332.
Conceived the first thoughts of the Journey to the Hebrides whilft
refling by the fide of a river in the Highlands, 361. His opinion
of the authenticity of the poems of Oflian, 462. Prayers and
Devotional Exercifes, xi. 191. Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opi-
nions, and occafional Reflections, 197.

Johnson, Mr. (of the Lay Monaftery), his character, iii. 179.
Johnson, Mrs. See Stella.

lona, account of, x. 502.

Jonfon, Ben, made his own plots, ii. 323. Defcribed in the affembly
of bards, xi. 167. Characterized as a writer of plays, 344.
Fortin, Mr. affifts Pope in the notes to the Iliad, iv. 26.

Journal of a fenior fellow of a college, viii. 129. Of a scholar, 267.
Journey into Devonshire, exaggeratingly related, viii. 198.

Journies, more pleafing in theory than in practice, 233,

Ireland, may date its riches and profperity from the patronage of Dean
Switt, ii. 403.

Irene, a tragedy, xi. 221.

Iron, every where to be found, viii. 146. More valuable for the ufe
of man than gold, 146. Neceffaries of life plentiful as iron, super-
fluities fcarce as gold, 146.

Julian Port, account of the inhabitants, iv, 427.

Julius Cæjar, obfervations on Shakespeare's tragedy of, ix. 325.
Junius, his writings characterized, x. 67.

Junius (the Grammarian), account of his writings, ix. 201.

Juftice,

Juftice, the measure of it prefcribed to us, clear and comprehenfive, vi. 60. A ftrict regard to it ought to regulate the diftributions of mercy, 61. The exercife of it fhould be foftened by prudence and lenity, 271. First impelled by injuftice, viii. 358. State of the administration of, in the Hebrides, x. 428.

Juvenal, Satire III. imitated, in London, a Poem, xi. 319. Satire X. imitated, in the Vanity of Human Wishes, xi. 331.

K.

KAIL, account of that plant, x. 344.

Kaimes, Lord, Johnfon's opinion of his Elements of Criticifm, xi. 209.

Kelly, Hugh, Dr. Johnson's opinion of, xi. 202.

Kelp, account of the manufacture of, in Sky, x. 414.

King, William, his life, iii. 1. Born in London, 1663, and allied to Clarendon, 1. Scholar at Westminster, and elected to Chrift-Church, 1. Was faid to have read over and made remarks on more than 22,000 books and MSS. before he was of eight years standing, 1. Took his Master's degree as Grand Compounder, 2. Admitted Advocate at Doctors Commons, 2. Wrote a Confutation of Varillas's Account of Wickliffe, 2. Tranflates feveral books from the French, 2. Answers Molefworth's Account of Denmark, 2. Mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley, 2. In 1699, writes A Journey to London, 2. Satirizes Sir Hans Sloane in the Tranfactioneer, 2. Signalizes himself in defence of the Earl of Anglefea against his Lady, 3. Made Judge of the Admiralty, and Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's Tower, 3. Finds an idle and thoughtless friend in Upton, 3. Returns to London in 1708, 3, Account of his works, 3. Made Gazetteer, which he foon refigned, 4. Died on Christmas-day, 1712, 5.

Kings, advantages from their being acquainted with the lower lines of lite, iv. 537.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, Pope's Epitaph on him, with the Vifitor's criticifms, iv. 152.

Knolles, Sir Francis, the peculiar excellence of his History of the Turks, vi. 331.

Knowledge, its greatest importance, when useful to virtue and happinefs, vi. 72. The defire of acquiring it fhould be fubfervient to some nobler principle, 202. The defire of it, in many, of feeble and tranfient influence, vii. 223. The failures to which men devoted to the study of it are peculiarly expofed, 233. The difficulty in obtaining it, viii. 364. The folly of fearching for it in foreign languages, and neglecting our own, 365.

Knowledge of ourselves, its great ufe and importance, v. 158. The indifcretions and difadvantages which arife from the neglect of it, 158, 159. Neceffary to preferve us from crimes as well as follies, 181. Promoted by fcenes of adverfity, 186. Knowledge, Tree of, metaphyfically described, ii. 27,

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L.

ABOUR and reft, the parents of health and vigour, v. 218.
The neceffity of it confidered, x. 237.

Ladies, many of their indifcretions and errors arife from unacquaint-
ance with themselves, v. 161. Some of their appropriate virtues
related, vi. 165. Several of their degrading qualities defcribed
in the characters of Ferocula, Mifothea, and Sophronia, 268. The
folly of rendering themselves cheap, vi. 171.

Lady, unfortunate, on whom Pope wrote verfes, ftory of, iv. 14.
Lairds in Sky. defcribed, x. 420.

Landfdown, Lord. See Granville, George.

Language, a plan for a fociety for the reformation, formed by the Earl
of Rofcommon affifted by Dryden, ii, 208. The plan revived by
Dr. Swift, 208. The probable confequences of fuch a society, 209.
Remarks on the purity and propriety of it, vii. 165. The progres
of, viii. 253. The impoffibility of reducing it to a fixed ftandard,
ix. 222. Refinement in, obtained only from books, x. 459.
Laft, the general dread of the laft, viii. 408. Reflections on the use
to be made of the last of any human action, 409.

Latrona, her character, vii. 247•

Laud, Abp. account of a difpute between him and Cheynel, iv. 504.
Laurence, Th. M. D. ad, cum filium peregre agentem defiderio nimis
trifti perfequeretur, xi. 391.

Lay Monaftery, account of a periodical paper of that name, published
as a fequel to the Spectators, iii. 179.

Laziness, commonly affociated with timidity, vi. 402.

Lear, King, obfervations on Shakespeare's tragedy of, ix. 329.
Learned Men, their complaints of ill treatment and neglected merit
examined, vi. 36. The neglect of fome occafioned by their own
inconfiftency of conduct, 38. Such become objects of juft contemp:,
who by their writings feduce others to vice, 41. By various actions
expofed to contempt, 420. Their condefcenfion and affability
fources of great efteem, 422. Advantages from their living in
focieties, ix. 18.

Learning, Sir R. Blackmore's opinion of, iii. 188. Eminence in, not
to be obtained without labour, v. 139. The poffeffion of applause
on that account, a precarious tenure, 140. Its origin and excellence,
144. Wherein it differs from wit, 145. The mutual advantages
from a union with wit, 145. The proper business of youth, vi. 238.
Degraded by promifcuous and indecent dedications, 413. Wherein
the chief art confifts, 418. Literary eminence not to be acquired
from the study of books, vii. 86. Advanced by adhering to a fet-
tied plan, viii. 265. Sometimes improved by accident, 266. Ob
structions to, 375. Not confined to time or place, 376. The ad-
vantages of, ix. 62. Perfius's opinion of, 63. History of a man

of, xi. 114.

Leaforves, rendered elegant by the taste of Shenstone, iv. 216.

Lee, Nath. in conjunction with Dryden wrote the Duke of Guise and
Oedipus, ii. 333 338. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 181.

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