Abbreviations, Johnson's, of his friends' names, ii. 240. Abercrombie, Mr. James, sends Boswell copies of Johnson's letters to Americans, ii. 197, 226. Abernethy, Life of Dr., in Biog. Brit. quoted on special providence, iv. 198. Abington, Lord, his joke with Miss Hervey on Johnson's devotion, iii. 419. Mrs., asks Johnson to come to her benefit, ii. 296, 298. Abolition of the Slave trade, Doubts on by John Ranby recommended by Boswell, iii. 225. Absenteeism discussed by Johnson, iii. 263. Absolute government, and popular factions discussed, ii. 336. Abstinence, Johnson could practise, but not temperance, i. 372, ii. 25, iii. 24, iv. 33. Abyssinia, Voyage to, by Lobo, Johnson's translation of, i. 51-54; shown to him as a curiosity, iii. 62. Abyssinia, Rasselas, Prince of, Johnson writes to defray his mother's funeral expenses, i. 269. "Academia della Crusca" send Johnson their Vocabulario, i. 234; could hardly believe the Dictionary was the work of one man, i. 352. "Académie Française," Voltaire's invective against Shakespeare read at a sitting of, ii. 93 n.; send Johnson their Dictionnaire, i. 234. Academy of Arts, Royal, instituted, ii. 77. Accounts, Johnson's idea of its being unnecessary to keep, iv. 121. Accuracy and veracity, Johnson insists on, iii. 246, 392. Acquaintance, Johnson's numerous and varied, iii. 73; the more a man extends and varies his, the better, iv. 120. Action, a ludicrous, in the Court of Sessions, in which Boswell was counsel, iv. 78. Johnson's argument for, 78. Action, rhetorical, Johnson ridi cules, i. 260. Adams, Rev. Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 30, 31, 42, 45, 94; accuses Johnson of great pride, 206; his conversation with Johnson about the Dictionary, 138; gives Boswell many particulars of Johnson's academical life, iii. 28; answers Hume's Essay on Miracles, 28 n.; entertains Johnson twice in the last year of his life, at Oxford, iv. 209, 286; his kind attention to Johnson, 228; gives Boswell an account of Johnson's last visit to him, 286; on Johnson's prejudices, 319; Johnson's letter to, on some literary work, 362. Addison, his morality, humour, and elegance of writing, i. 338; his Notanda for the Spectator compared with Johnson's Sketches for the Rambler, 152; "whoever wishes to attain a good style must give days and nights to the study of," 170; his travels and his learning, ii. 316; his preparation for travelling, 316 n.; wrote, or very much improved, Budgel's papers in the Spectator, iii. 92; his illustration of the difference between his powers in conversation and in writing, 339; Johnson's Life of, iv. 16; Malone's note on his harsh conduct to Steele, 16; various readings in the Life of, 17; said to have written some of his best papers in the Spectator warm with wine," 48. Address of the Painters to George III. written by Johnson, i. 279. Admiration, judgment better than, ii. 327. Adultery, Johnson on the heinousness of, ii. 68. Adventurer, The, commenced, i. 154, 192, 193, 197. Advertisement, of Johnson's school, i. 61; about the Idler in the Universal Chronicle, i. 273; in the Edinburgh papers, correcting a mistake in the Journey, ii. 280. Adye, Miss Mary, her accounts of Johnson's early days, i. 13, 14; Johnson visits at Lichfield, iii. 49. Egri Ephemeris, a journal of his illness, kept by Johnson, from July 6th to Nov. 8th, iv. 290. Affectation, of silence, iii. 273. Affection, the erect of habit, or instinct? ii. 102; descends, iii. 381. Agar, Wellbore Ellis, his exquisite collection of pictures, iii. 152. Age, old age, iii. 215; a man's own fault if the mind grows torpid in, 267, 336; iv. 124. Agriculture, Marshall's absurd and offensive book on, iii. 316. Agutter, Rev. Mr., gives Boswell some notes of Johnson's conversation, iv. 210; his sermon on Johnson's death, 325. Aikin, Anna Letitia, marries Mr. Barbauld, ii. 369 n.; her essay on Imitation, iii. 199. Air bath, Lord Monboddo's, iii. 195. Akenside, his Pleasures of Imagination, ii. 161; Johnson prefers, to Gray and Mason, iii. 80; various readings in Johnson's Life of, iv. 19. Akerman, Mr., the keeper of Newgate, his house burned in the Gordon riots, iii. 415. Alarm, The False, Johnson's first and favourite political pamphlet, ii. 112, 144. Alberti, Leandro, Addison bor- "Alias," exemplified by Mallet or Malloch in Johnson's Dictionary, octavo ed. 1756, iv. 152. Allen, Mr., the printer, his famous dinner "worthy of a synod of cooks," i. 373; imitates Johnson, iii. 279; brings Marshall's Agriculture to Johnson, 316; Johnson sends for, when seized with a paralytic stroke, iv. 160; one of Johnson's" best and tenderest friends," 263; Johnson's letter to, 351. Ally Croker, the Irish song in her Almack's, a new gaming club, iii. 75. Alnwick Castle, the cause of high Amanuenses, six, employed on the Amelia, Fielding's, Johnson read ter discovered by his, iv. 232. Anfractuosities, one of the, of the Angel, Mr., the stenographer, ii. the, Inn, Oxford, Johnson Animals, Johnson's fondness for Annals, Johnson's, i. 381-390; Anne, Queen,' touches' Johnson, Annotator, Johnson's opinion of Annus Mirabilis, an historical 115. Anson, Lord, his seat at Moor 369. Ant, the, a paraphrase from the Anthologia, epigrams in the, trans- Antient Literature, Johnson ap- Apparitions, Johnson on the proba- bility of, i. 271; ii. 160; iv. 49. Apprentice, Johnson and the Arbuthnot, Dr., his great genius, Architecture, ornamental, John- scription, "When his pistol on vicious intromission, ii. defending lay patronage, ii. 227-30. against Dr. Memis' action, about the Corporation of on liberty of censure in the in favour of the negro claim- the passions discussed, iii. 86. Arts, Royal Academy of, founded, Asceticism, Johnson's dislike of, iii. 23. Ascham, Johnson's Life of, i. 369. melian Club, iv. 302. Asthma, Johnson attacked by, iv. Astle, Mr. Thomas, Johnson's Rev. Mr., brother of the Astley, Philip, a celebrated horse- Aston, Sir Thomas, account of, i. Molly, a beauty, a wit, and a Mrs., Johnson writes to, de- Lady Cutts, quoted, iii. 245; "Attitudinize, don't," to a gentle- Attorney-General, absurd title of, |