The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and
the Figures to the Page.
ROTHICK, account of the town of, viii. 191.
Of the ruins of the monastery there, 192.
Aberdeen, account of, viii. 195. Dr. Johnson meets with
an old acquaintance, Sir Alexander Gordon, there, 195.
Account of the King's College, 196. Account of the Ma-
rischal College, 197. Account of the Library, 197. The
course of education there, 197. Account of the English
chapel, 199.
Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and
not sought for in another place, exemplified in the story
of Gelaleddin of Bassora, vii. 244.
Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him,
vi. 245.
Absence, a destroyer of friendship, vii. 74.
Abyssinnia, preface to the translation of Father Lobo's
voyage to, ii. 285.
Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it,
ix. 77.
▲castus, an instance of the commanding influence of curi
osity, vi. 51.
Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life,
improper for a picture, vii. 148.
Action, (dramatick) the laws of it stated and remarked,
Action, (exercise) necessary to the health of the body, and.
the vigour of the mind, v. 78. 81. The source of cheer-
fulness and vivacity, 80.
Action (in oratory), the want of considered, vii. 292.
Tends to no good in any part of oratory, 293.
Actions, every man, the best relater of his own, vii. 212.
The injustice of judging of them by the event, iii. 206.
Adam unparadised, a MS. supposed to be the embryo of
Paradise Lost, viii. 3..
Adams, Parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William
Young, xi. 293.
Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his
Dialogues on Medals from Dryden's Essay on Dramatick
Poetry, ix. 286. His life, x. 66. Born at Milston, in
Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, 66. The various schools at
which he received instruction, 66. Cultivates an early
friendship with Steele, 67. Lends, 100l. to Steele, and
reclaims it by an execution, 69. Entered at Oxford,
1687, 68. Account of his Latin poems, 69. Account
of his English poems, 69. On being introduced by Con-
greve to Mr. Montague, becomes à courtier, 70. Obtains
a pension of 3007. a year that he might be enabled to tra-
vel, 71. Publishes his travels, 72. Succeeds Mr. Locke
as Commissioner of Appeals, as a reward for his poem,
The Battle of Blenheim, 73. Went to Hanover with
Lord Halifax, 73. Made Under-secretary of State, 73.
Writes the opera of Rosamond, 73. Assists Steele in
writing the Tender Husband, 73. Goes to Ireland with
Lord Wharton as Secretary, 74. Made Keeper of the
Records in Birmingham's Tower, 74. The opposite
characters of him and Wharton, 74. His reason for re-
solving not to remit any fees to his friends, 74. Wrote in
the Tatler, 75. Wrote in the Spectator, 75. His trage
dy of Cato brought on the stage, and supported both by
the Whigs and Tories, 81, 83. Cato warmly attacked
by Dennis, 83. Other honours and enmities shewed to
Cato, 84. Cato translated both into Italian and Latin, 84.
Writes in the Guardian, 85. His signature in the Spec-
tator and Guardian, 85. Declared by Steele to have
been the author of the Drummer, with the story on which
that comedy is founded, 86. Wrote several political
pamphlets, 86. Appointed Secretary to the Regency,
88. In 1715, publishes the Freeholder, 88. Marries the-
Countess of Warwick, Aug. 2, 1716, 89. Secretary of
State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore resigns -
it, 90. Sir J. Hawkins's defence of the character he had
given of Addison in his History of Musick against the au-
thor of the Biog. Brit. 93. Purposes writing a tragedy on
the death of Socrates, 90. Engages in his Defence of
the Christian religion, 91. Had a design of writing an
English Dictionary, 91. His controversy with Steele on
the Peerage Bill, 92. During his last illness sends for
Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promises
if he recovreed, to recompense him, 94. Sends for the
young Earl of Warwick, that he might see how a Chris
ian ought to die, 95. Died June 17, 1719, 95. His cha-
racter 95. The course of his familiar day, 98. His li-
terary character, 101. Account of his works, 102. Ex-
tracts from Dennis's Observations on Cato, 107. Consi-
dered as a critick, 122. Commended as a teacher of
wisdom, 125. Character of his prose works, 125. Ex-
ample of his disinterested conduct in disposing of places,
126. A conversation with Pope on Tickell's translation
of Homer, 237. Becomes a rival of Pope, xi. 84.
Supposed to have been the translator of the Iliad, pub-
lished under the name of Tickell, 88. His critical capa-
city remarked, v. 85. 130. 132. Observations on his
tragedy of Cato, x. 83.
Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal ope-
ration, v. 23.
Adventurer, No. 34. iii. 105. No. xxxix. 111. No. xli.
117. No. xlv. 123. No. 1. 128. No. liii. 134. No.
1viii. 139. No. Ixii. 146. No. lxvii. 152. No. Ixix.
159. No. lxxiv. 166. No. lxxxi. 172. No. lxxxiv.
179. No. lxxxv. 186. No. xcii. 192. No. xev. 200.
No. xcix. 206. No. cii. 212. No. evii. 219. No..
cviii. 225. No. cxi. 231.
243. No. cxx. 249. No.
261. No. cxxxi. 268. No. cxxxvii. 274. No.
cxxxviii. 281.
No. cxy. 237. No. cxix.
cxxvi. 255. No, cxxviii.
Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious
ones, xii. 185.
Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and
useful instruction to the mind, vi. 50. The appointed
instrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 51.
Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, vii. 131.
Advice, good, too often disregarded, v. 90. The causes of
this assigned, 91. Vanity often the apparent motive
of giving it, 92. When most offensive and ineffectual,
Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality,
Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, iv. 116.
118. Wherein it properly differs from hypocrisy, 119.
The great absurdity of it exposed in the character of
Gelasimus, vi. 193.
Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under
them, iv. 100. 299. Inseparable from human life, vii.
134. The benefits of, 136.
Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by
the Portuguese, ii. 242.
Age, the present an age of authors, iii. 237.
Agriculure, its extensive usefulness considered, vi. 25.
Thoughts on, both antient and modern, ii. 395. Pro-
ductions of, alone sufficient for the support of an indus-
trious people, 395. In high consideration in Egypt,
395. The many antient writers on that subject, 398
The enrichment of England, 399. A proper subject for
honorary rewards, 402. Superior to trade and manufac-
tures, 403. Danger to be apprehended from the neglect
of, 407. An art which government ought to protect,
every proprietor of lands to practise, and every enquirer
into nature to improve, 407. Account of at Raarsay, one
of the Hebrides, viii. 250. Bad state of, at Ostig,
in Sky, 269. The raising of the rents of estates in Scot-
land considered, 287.
Ajut, his history, vi. 227. 234.
Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, xi. 238.
His life, 307. Son of a butcher at Newcastle upon Tyne,
born 1721, 307. Designed for a dissenting minister, but turns
his mind to physick, 307. Pleasures of imagination pub-
lished, 1744, 308. Studies at Leyden, and becomes
M. D. 1744, 308. An enthusiastick friend to liberty, and
a lover of contradiction, 308. Practises physick at North-
ampton and Hampstead, 309. Settles at London, 309.
Allowed 3001. a year by Mr. Dyson, 310. By his
writings obtains the name both of a wit and a scholar,
310. Died 1770, 310. Character of his works, 311,
Alabaster, Roxana, commended, ix. 75.
Alacrity, the cultivation of it the source of personal and
social pleasure, v. 17.
Albion, in lat. 3°, account of the friendly inhabitants
found there by Drake, xii. 131.
Alexandrian Library, its loss lamented, vii. 214.
Aliger, his character, vi. 301.
Allen, Mr. of Bath, praised by Pope in his Satires, xi. 119,
All's Well, that Ends Well, observations on Shakespeare's,
ii. 178.
Almamoulin, the dying speech of Nouradin, his father, to
him, v. 289. His thoughtless extravagance, 291. The
excellent advice which the sage gave him, 293.
Altilia, her coquetry described, vi. 208.
Amazons, observations on the history of the, vii. 285.
Old maids in England, most like Amazons, 286.
Amazons, of the Pen, iii. 238.
Ambition, generally proportioned to capacity, xii. 17.
A quality natural to youth, iv. 86. The peculiar vanity
of it in the lower stations of life, 380, 381: A destroyer
of friendship, vii. 75.
America, Taxation no Tyranny, or, an Answer, to the Re-
solutions and Address of the American Congress [1775],
viii. 139. Motives urged by patriots against the taxation
of, 141. Examination into our claim to the right of tax-
ing it, and of their objections to be taxed, 145. . The
plea of want of representation examined, 154. Their
claims of exemption from taxation from their charters ex-
amined, 160. Objection to taxation made by an old
member examined, 162. Proceedings of the congress of
Philadelphia examined, 166. Pleas of the Bostonians
exposed, 168. Their resolutions and address exposed,
in a supposed address from the Cornish men, 173. -Some
of the arguments made use of against our taxing it exa-
mined, 179. First incited to rebellion from European in-
telligence, 180. Considerations on the Indians granting
their lands to foreign nations, ii. 301. Difficulty of as-
certaining boundaries, 301. The power of the French
there, 1756, 309. Colonies first settled there in the time
of Elizabeth, 312. Continued in the reign of James I.
315. Colony first sent to Canada by the French, 318.
The first discovery of Newfoundland by Cabot, and the
sattlement from thence to Georgia considered, 329. The
encroachment of the French on our back settlements ex-
amined, 330.
Amicus, his reflections on the deplorable case of prostitutes,
v. 213.
Amoret, Lady Sophia Murray, celebrated by Waller un-
der that name, ix. 204.
Amusements, by what regulations they may be rendered use-
ful, v. 105.
Anacreon, Ode, ix. translated, i. 277.
Anatomy, cruelty in anatomical researches reprobated.
vii. 56.
Andrew's St. account of the city of, viii. 186. The ruins of
the cathedral, 187. Account of the university, 188.
Expence of education there for a scholar of the highest
class, for the term of 7 months, 15l. for the lower class,
101. 189.
Angelo, Michael, observations on his style of painting, vii. 259.
'Anger, the necessity of checking and regulating it, iv. 55.
A tumultuous and dangerous passion, derived from pride,
60. Exposed to contempt and derision, 61. The perni-
cious effects of it, 61, 62.
Animal food, on the choice and rejection of various sorts off
viii. 248.
Anningate and Ajut, the Greenland lovers, their history,
wi. 227. 234.
|