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tion to him, or the diftreffes they severally laboured under. Any other supposition would be injurious to the memory of a man, who, by his private memoranda in my poffeffion, appears to have applied near a fourth part of his income in acts of beneficence,

The above facts are fo connected with the tranfactions of Dr. Johnson in the latter days of his life, that they are part of his hiftory; and the mention of them may serve as a caveat against oftentatious bounty, favour to negroes, and teftamentary difpofitions in extremis.

*. It will afford fome fatisfaction to the compaffionate reader to know, that the means of benefiting Heely, and fome others of Dr. Johnson's relations, whom he had either totally neglected, or slightly noticed, have been found out and rendered practicable by Mr. Langton. That gentleman, to whom the doctor had given his ma pufcript Latin poems, having got for them of the bookfellers 201. with that benignity which is but one of his excellent qualities, had determined to divide the fame among the doctor's relations. And whereas the doctor died indebted to the eftate of the late Mr. Beauclerk, in the fum of 301. lady Diana Beauclerk, his relict and executrix, upon the receipt thereof, and being informed of Mr. Langton's intention, in a spirit of true benevolence requested, that the might be permitted to add that fum to the former, and, accordingly, depofited it in his hands. Part of this money has been applied in relieving the wants of Heely and his wife, and the reft will be difpofed of among thofe relations that shall appear to ftand moft in need of help; and, as a farther relief to Heely, and for the benefit of the idiot-boy, meafures are taking to compel the father to maintain him, and eventually to fettle him with the parish, upon which he has ultimately a legal claim for relief and maintenance.

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AB

A.

Biffinia, account of the Portuguese miffion to
Act for licensing plays, the occafion thereof

Adventurer, history of that publication

Advertisement, a spirited one, respecting the Idler

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Ebuda, fee Hebrides.

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- account of a day spent with him in the country

247

Amburft, (editor of the Craftfman) memoirs of him

157

Annet, anecdote of his inveterate hatred of the holy scrip

tures

566

Arches, obfervations on the controverfy on the strength of

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inftances of generofity of bookfellers to

the frequent contrariety between their lives and writings 410

B.

Bailey's Dictionary, the foundation of Johnson's

Ballow, Mr. a lawyer, anecdotes of him

affronts Dr. Akenfide and is challenged by him, but de

clines a meeting

Baret, John, the preface to his dictionary of four languages

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- Lady Diana, his relict, her benevolence to the neglected

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Birch, Dr. Thomas, account of him

account of a perambulation by him round London Blackfriars Bridge, obfervations on the architecture of Blackmore, Sir Richard, his contempt of calumny

Sf

374 348 Blaney,

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extent of the Proud & Johnson

Blaney, Elizabeth, infcription to her memory, by Johnson's

father

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- 158

Bookfellers, inftances of their generofity to authors
Boswell, Mr. James, accompanies Dr. Johnson to the Hebrides 472
Boyfe, Samuel, a diftreffed poet, account of him
Breakfafts of perfons of quality before the introduction of tea 353
Brett, Dr. Thomas, his fentiments of prayer for the dead
Brockleby, Dr. his generous offer to Johnson

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448
573

Brooke, Mr. Henry, account of his tragedy of Guftavus Vafa 76

C.

Camden, (the antiquary) ftory of the mutilation of his monu-

ment in Westminster Abbey

Campbell, (the architect)

Campbell, Dr. John, account of him

Catalogue of the Harleian Library, extracts from

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Canton, Mr. John, a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine

Cave, Edward, (the printer) account of him

his correfpondents

Chamier, Anthony, Efq; account of him

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Chesterfield, Earl of, his fpeech on the act for licensing the

retailing of fpirituous liquors

- his character as a fpeaker

pretends to patronize Johnfon's Dictionary

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ftory of his attempt on a married lady of quality

the immoral tendency of his letters to his fon examined
his letters contrafted with a letter of Sir Henry Sidney's
to his fon Philip

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373
210

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134

46
ibid.

422

113
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Cosper, Bishop of Lincoln, note refpecting his dictionary
Coram, Captain, his noble reply to an offer of affiftance

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Corbet, Mr. Andrew, fends Johnson with his fon to Pembroke
College, Oxford

Cornelys, Mrs. the fuperintendant of our public diverfions

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is banished the cities of Turin and Bruffels

Courts of Justice, their tendernefs to prisoners

Craftfman, character of that paper

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Creditor, merciless, a character now hardly known in England 523
Crichton, James, furnamed the Admirable, account of him and

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D.

Dead, praying for them a conftant ufage in the primitive

church

Dictionaries, account of the old English

Diverfions, the inceffant round of them in London

Dixie, Sir Wolftan, his treatment of Johnson
Dod (the decalogift) anecdote of him

Dodd, Dr. William, account of him

further account of him and his forgery

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524

526 527

329 ibid.

330

his petition to the king for pardon, written by Dr. John

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Mrs. Dodd's, to the queen

motives for mercy in his cafe affigned by Johnson Dodington, Bubb, Lord Melcombe, feeks the friendship of John

fon

- account of his favourites and dependants

- note on his diary

Douglas, Dr. John, detects Lauder of accufing Milton falfely of plagiarism

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extracts from Lauder's conceffion Duck, epitaph on a, written by Johnfon when only three years of age

Ducket, his atheistical letter

Duick, Mr. John, a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine
Dyer, Mr. Samuel, character and memoirs of
Dyson, Jer. Efq; particulars refpecting him

E.

Eames, Mr. John, account of his academy

Editha, the wife of Edward the Confeffor, ftory of her meeting with Ingulphus when a boy, and examining him as to his progress in learning

Egmont, Lord, author of "Faction detected"

Emigration, its legal confequences

F.

276 ibid

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Falkland Islands, the difpute concerning them

characterized by Johnfon

advantages and disadvantages of

Falfe Alarm, account of that pamphlet

Felons, the tendernefs with which they are now treated
chances in favour of their efcaping juftice multifold

Fielding, Henry, character of him and his works
Fleetwood, anecdote of a converfation between him and

Foote, Samuel, deterred by Johnfon from his defign of ridi

fuppofed to be the parfon intended in Hogarth's Modern

1

Fothergill, Dr. John, account of him
Fournier, itory of his forgery on Bishop Hoadly
Free-Mafonry, a mock proceffion in ridicule of

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Garrick, Mr. placed in his youth under the tuition of Johnson 35 comes to London with Johnson,

acts a part in the Mock Doctor with fome journeymen
printers, before Cave at his house

anecdote of him and Fleetwood

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purchases Drury-lane theatre, in conjunction with Lacy 194
Ines by him on the publication of Johnfon's Dictionary
his notion of the importance of his profeffion

his conduct in a chancery-fuit

his pleafantry

his liberality

his reformation of the flage

his arts to enfure the favour of the public General Warrants, a good ufe of them Gentleman's Magazine, the origin and progrefs of account of fome of the early contributors to it Johníon undertakes a biographical article in it contest between it and the London Magazine

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427

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parliamentary fpeeches therein, first published in July

Johnfon undertakes to write the debates

1736, under the direction of Guthrie

the fale greatly increafed thereby

Johnson continues the debates to the end of 1743

the debates continued by Hawkefworth, to 1760

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416

417

review of books, by Owen Ruff head, continued by
Hawkesworth

note of feveral pieces in it, written by Johnson

George II. King, an elegant compliment of his to the wife of

Mr. Thornton

Gibbs, (the architect)

Glasgow, account of the voyage of an inhabitant of St.
Kilda to

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relation of fome of his abfurdities, and of a trick played
upon him by Roubiliac the fcalptor

flighted the patronage of the Duke of Northumberland 419 Good-breeding a favourite quality with Johnfon

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Goodman's-Fields Theatre, history of its erection and fuppreffion 73 Grenville, Mr. characterized

Grub-ftreet Journal, origin and progress of

Grub-freet writers and politicians, why fo called

Guftavus Vafa, written by Mr. Brooke

paffages in it

Guthrie compiles the parliamentary fpeeches in the Gentle

man's Magazine

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ibid.

72

77

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