ABERCROMBIE, James, Philadel- |
phia, sends author two letters
from Dr. J. to American gentle-
men, ii. 127.

Aberdeen, city of, visited by J.
and Boswell, v. 56; its former
condition, 57; its University
system similar to that at Oxford,
57; freedom of city conferred on
Dr. J., 62.

Abington, Mrs., the actress, ii. 200,
202, 216.

Absenteeism, its effects discussed,
iii. 119, 167.

Abstemiousness easier to Dr. J.
than temperance, i. 272; v. 169.
Absurdities, use of delineating,
iv. 19.

Abuse, difference between coarse
and refined, iv. 203.
Abyssinia, Lobo's voyage to, i. 35;
iii. 5.

Academy, Royal, Dr. J. made Pro-
fessor of Ancient Literature in,
ii. 41; Della Crusca Academy at
Florence send J. their "Vocabu-
lario," i. 168.
Accent, Scotch, may be overcome
by perseverance; instance of
Mallet, ii. 97.

Accounts, remarks on keeping,
iv. 126.
Acquaintances, desirableness of
extending, i. 168; iv. 125; J.'s
early, i. 134.
Acting, observations on, iv. 167;
v. 90.

Active sports recommended to
the young by Lord Chesterfield,
i. 10.

Addison, Joseph, his Notanda, i.
111; his style, i. 123; his lite-
rary character, i. 246; found
himself unfit for conversation,
ii. 157; in delicate humour su-
perior to Swift, v. 26, 246; cor-
rects Budgell's writings, iii. 28;
conduct to Steele, iv. 42, 69;
readings in J.'s life of, 43.
Adelphi Terrace, residences of
Beauclerk and Garrick, iv. 74.
Adey, Miss, Lichfield, i. 4; iii. 275.
Admiration and judgment com-
pared, ii. 223.

Adventurer, The," J.'s contri-
butions to, i. 113.
"Adventures of a Guinea," v. 218.
Adversaries not to be treated with
respect, v. 13,
"Adversoria, or Hints for Essays,"
J.'s, i. 111.

Adultery, heinousness of, ii. 34;
v. 164.
Affectation, J.'s aversion to, iv. 26;

Swift's, 29; in letter-writing, v.
189; in dying men, v. 314.
Affection, natural, iii. 261; iv. 147.
Agriculture, Marshall's Minutes
of, iii. 210; iv. 45.

Aiken, Miss (Mrs. Barbauld), her

232.

Alcibiades' dog, antique marble,
iii. 155.

Alfred, J., contemplates writing
life of, i. 94; his will, iv. 99.
Allan of Muidart, Captain of Clan-
ronald, song in praise of, v. 229.
Allen, Mr., the printer, iii. 181;
iv. 69; his death, 238.
Alnwick Castle, Pennant's descrip-
tion of, iii. 182.
"Ambassador says well," phrase
of, iii. 275.

"Amelia," Fielding's novel of,
Dr. J. read through without
stopping, iii. 26.
America, payment of army in, iv.
77; J. writes on the subject of,
ii. 182; the American war, iv.
63 (see Johnson).
Amusements, a man's character
found out by, iv. 215; those of
J.'s leisure hours, iii. 267.
Ana, the French, v. 247.
'Anacreon," Baxter's translation
of, v. 300.

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Anaitis, supposed temple of, in
Skye, v. 172, 174.
Anatomy of Melancholy, J.'s ad-
miration of, ii. 73, 275.
Ancient times inferior to modern,
iv. 151.

Anderson, Professor, Glasgow, v.
296.

Anderson, Mr. Glasgow, relates

anecdotes of J., v. 295.
Andrews, St., town of, v. 36;
cathedral, 40; castle, 41.
Anne, Queen, touches J. for the
king's evil; and his remem-
brance of her, i. 7.
Anecdotes, J.'s regard for, v. 20.
Annihilation, remarks on, iii. 198.
Anonymous publication, right to
deny, iii. 254.

Anoch in Glenmoriston, v. 101.
Anthologia, J. translates epigrams
in, iv. 262.

Antiquarian researches, iii. 224;
iv. 262.

Apelles' Venus, iv. 78.
Arabs, their fidelity and long fast-
ing, v. 90.

Arbuthnot, Dr., a universal genius,
i. 246; superior to Swift in
coarse humour, v. 26.
Arbuthnot, Mr. Robert, Edin-
burgh, v. 13.

Arches, semi-circular and ellipti-
cal, i. 200.

Architecture, J.'s disapproval of
ornamental, ii. 274.

Argument and testimony defined,
iv. 192.

Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, a
narrow man, v. 275.

John, fifth Duke of, J.
visits at Inverary, v. 281; letter
from the Duke, and J.'s answer,

289.

Elizabeth Gunning, Du-
chess of, dislikes Boswell, but is
very attentive to J., v. 285.
Aristotle, his doctrine on the pur-
pose of tragedy, iii. 23; saying
of, iv. 14.

Armidale, Isle of Skye, v. 112,

218.

Armorial bearings, antiquity of,
ii. 109.

Arms, piling of, why insisted upon,
iii. 240; collection at Inverary
Castle, v. 282.

Army, officers of the, well received
in society, iii. 7; ignorance of,
v. 316.

Articles, subscription to the thirty-
nine, ii. 61, 93; v. 86.
Ashbourne, J.'s visits to, ii. 85,
297; iii. 88, 91; iv. 100.
Astle, Rev. Mr., J.'s advice to, on
his studies, iv. 212.

Thomas, Esq., letter to, on
will of King Alfred, iv. 99.
Aston, Sir Thomas, and family,
i. 32.

Mrs. Elizabeth, ii. 290, 294;
iii. 88.

-, Molly, i. 32; iii. 230, 276;
iv. 46.
Atheism, v. 29.

Atonement, doctrine of, iv. 91;

v. 60.

Attachment, family, not much oc-
casion for, in this commercial
country, ii. 108.

Atterbury, Bishop, his expression
on the use of a diary, iii. 154; style
of his sermons commended, 155.
Attitudinising, J.'s aversion to, in
company, iv. 218.

Attorney. J.'s contempt for, ii. 77.
Auchinleck, estate and house of, i.
267; ii. 164; v. 302; deed of en-
tail, ii. 256, 263; v. 302.

Lord, Boswell's father,
character of, v. 299; entertains J.
at Auchinleck, 300; comes into
collision with J., 304; styles J.
the Ursa Major, 305.
Authors, J.'s kindness to small, iii.
250; attacks upon authors
serviceable to them, iii. 253; v.
217; Virgil's description of the
entrance into hell applicable to
authors and printing offices, v.
247.

Avarice, iii. 44, 216.

BACON, Lord, his works, and Mal-
lett's life of, iii. 130; precepts on
conversation, iv. 161; History of
Henry VII., v. 173.

Badenoch, Wolf of, burns Elgin
Cathedral, v. 79.
Bad management, its miserable ef-
fects, iii. 213.

Bagpipe, J. fond of, v. 250.
Bagshaw, Rev. Mr., Bromley, let-
ter to, on Dictionary, ii. 158; on
Mrs. Johnson's death, iv. 235.
Ballow, Mr., J.'s law instructor, iii.

14.

Baltic, J.'s proposed voyage up the,
iii. 89.

Banff, town of, v. 76.
Banks, Sir Joseph, J. writes motto

for his goat, ii. 88; admiration
of J.'s sentence on Iona, v. 266.
Barber, Francis, J.'s servant, i. 129,
130, 131, 199,; ii. 90; placed at
school by J., ii. 37; letters from
J. to, ii. 37, 69, 70; J.'s liberality
to, iv. 272.

Barclay, W., Oxford student, de-
fends J,'s Shakspeare, i. 290:

V. 217.

Barclay and Perkins's brewhouse
(successors to Thrale), v. 95.
Baretti, Signor, ii. 35, 279; iii. 4,
61; letters from J. to, i. 207, 212,
218; trial of, for murder, ii. 56;
J.'s liberality to, iv. 272.
Barnard, Mr., librarian to George
III., ii. 22.

Dr., Bishop of Killaloe, J.'s
regard for, iv. 85.

Barnes, Joshua, J.'s estimate of his
Greek scholarship, iv. 21,
Barrington, Hon. Daines, his Es-
say on the Migration of Birds,
ii. 152.

Barry, Dr., his Treatise on Physic,
iii. 20.

-, James, the artist, letter to
from J., iv. 140; grasp of mind
in his pictures, 154.
Bartalozzi, the engraver, the father
of Madame Vestris, iii. 72.
Bateman, Mr., of Christchurch
College, excellence of his lec-
tures, i. 28.

Bath, J.'s visit to, iii. 26; letter
from a clergyman of, with J.'s
answer, iv. 109.
Bathurst, Lord, his testimony as
to "Pope's Essay on Man," iii.
270.

Dr. Richard, a valued
friend of J.'s, i. 97, 102, 129, 133,
138, 140; iv. 27.

Baxter, Richard, his works com-
mended, iv. 155, 162.

Bayle's Dictionary, a very useful
work, i. 246; discussion on his
works with Highland minister,
v. 227.

Bear, epithet applied to J., with
Goldsmith's happy remark upon,
ii. 40, 215.

Beaton, Cardinal, his murder, v. 42.
Beattie, Dr. James, introduced to J.,
ii. 85; admired by J. and Mrs.
Thrale, i. 99; letter to, iii. 291;
his poem of the Hermit, iv. 132;
letter from Boswell to, v. 3; his
Essay on Truth, 13; his ode on
Birth of Lord Hay, 72; his pen-
sion, 287.

Beauclerk, Topham, Esq., his cha-
racter, i. 136; J.'s night ramble
with, i. 137; dinner at his house,
ii. 144; dispute with J., iii. 258;

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rature, i. 162, 173.

Boothby, Mrs. Hill, i. 32; Miss,

iv. 46.

Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., iii. 223.
Boswell. James (the author), his
ancestors, v. 11, 62; his charac-
ter drawn by himself, v. 32; his
introduction to J., i. 225; his ac-
count of Corsica, ii. 43 ; elected a
member of the Literary Club, 147;
accompanies J. to the Hebrides,
164; his Journal of the Tour
praised by J., v. 178; resolves to
write the Life of J., v. 248; in-
stance of his servile attentions to
J., v. 211; insulted by J. at Sir
Joshua Reynolds's, iii. 227; his
tendency to jollity, v. 196, 205; a
clubable man, iv. 174; letters
from J. to, i. 274; ii. 2, 12, 35, 43,
65, 126, 162, 163, 169-176, 181-5,
193, 233, 234-236, 239, 255, 256,
258-264; iii. 26, 55, 56, 59, 60, 66,
67, 69, 79, 81, 84, 86, 89, 141, 143,
144, 187, 244, 248, 252, 265, 266,
277, 278, 280, 292, 297; iv. 56,
101, 108, 110-114, 117, 158, 171,
178, 180, 181, 182, 235, 256-258;
his Letters to J., ii. 13-15, 35, 85,
89, 166, 171, 172, 175, 181-184,
192, 238, 253, 263; iii. 55, 56, 57,
64, 67, 68, 69, 76, 80, 83, 85, 86,
88, 140, 142, 144, 147, 148, 186,
242, 251, 262, 265, 275, 277, 291,
294; Letters from E. Dilley, iii.
72; from Dr. Vyse, 82; from Mr.
Langton, 283; from Dr. Blair,
270; from Warren Hastings, iv.
53; from Lord Thurlow, 225; to
Garrick, from Inverness, with
Garrick's answer, v. 276.
Boswell, Mrs. (the author's wife),
her marriage, ii. 84; her at-
tentions to J., ii. 166; v. 9; her
witticism on J.'s influence over
her husband, ii. 166; Letters of
J. to, iii. 54, 85; iv. 113; answer,

115.

252.

Bowles, W., Esq., Heale, visited
by J., iv. 159.

Boyd, Hon. Charles, Slains Castle,
v. 67.

Boyd's Inn (White Horse), Edin-
burgh, v. 7.

Boy at school, happiest of beings,

ì. 260.

Braidwood, his academy for deaf
and dumb, v. 316.
Brandy, drink for heroes, iii. 257;
iv. 62.

Brett, Colonel, Mrs. and Miss, i. 93.
Bristol, J.'s excursion to, iii. 29.
British Poets, J.'s Lives of, terms
with publishers, iii. 77.
Brocklesby, Dr. Richard, iv. 125;
his liberality, 227; letters from
J. to, iv. 160, 237.
Brothers and sisters born to
friends, i. 184.

Brown, Sir Thomas, his Anglo-
Latin diction and elevated style
imitated by J., i. 121; his re-
mark concerning devils, iii. 197.
Brown, Tom, dedicates his spel-
ling-book to the universe, i. 7.

Capability, the landscape
gardener, iii. 269.

Brooks, Mrs., the actress, and her
father, v. 121.

Bruce, James, Esq., the Abyssinian
traveller, ii. 208.

Brutes not endowed with reason,
ii. 152.
Buchan, Earl of, his refusal to go
to Spain as secretary, ii. 107.
Buller of, v. 69.
Buchanan, George, his elegant
verses to Queen Mary, i. 265;
his learning and genius, ii. 56;
iv. 131.

Buckles, shoe, v. 64; J's silver
buckles, iii. 219.

Buck, a term ludicrously applied
to J., v. 145.

Budgell, Eustace, his suicide, ii.

140.

Bull-dogs, iii. 127.

Bull, one uttered by J., iv. 218.
Bunyan, John, praise of his "Pil-
grim's Progress," ii. 146.
Burgoyne, General, his disaster at
Saratoga, iii. 240.