Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.

'Dartineuf's' footman, ii. 447; 'Doddy,' ii. 258, n. 1; Garrick, quarrel with, i. 325; Goldsmith, dispute on poetry with, iii. 38; imprisoned by the House of Lords, i. 125, n. 3...

New Street, Strand, Johnson dined at the Pine Apple, i. 103; Newgate, Akerman the keeper, iii. 431-433; profits of his office, iii. 431, n. 1; Baretti imprisoned, ii. 97, n. 1;...

titles of the judges, ii. 291, n. 6; Cases--_Chesterfield Letters_, i. 266; Corporation of Stirling, ii. 373; ecclesiastical censure, iii. 59; Hastie the schoolmaster, ii. 144;...

'And yet I did usually put in something in my Sermon which was above their own discovery, and which they had not known before; and this I did, that they might be kept humble, an...

In my notes I have often given but brief references to the authors whom I quote. The following list, which is not, however, so complete as I could wish, will, I hope, do much to...

election of ministers, ii. 244; neglected ones, iii. 437. PARISH-CLERKS, iv. 125. PARKER, Chief Baron, i. 45, n. 4. PARKER, John, of Browsholme, v. 431. PARKER, Sackville, the O...

human life great object of remark, iii. 301, n. 2; idle habits broken off, i. 409; Johnson's love of it, iii. 449-459; _Rasselas_, described in, i. 340, n. 1; rates of travellin...

described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3; Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280; Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128; first meeting of the winter, iii. 210; Fordyce elected, ii. 27...

criticised by Dempster, ii. 303; iii. 301; v. 405, 407-9; Dick, iii. 103; Hailes, v. 405-7; _Hermes_ Harris, ii. 265; Knox, ii. 304; Tytler, ii. 305; Highlanders like it more th...

Northcote's description of them, iii. 375, n. 2; iv. 312, n. 3; Discourses on Painting, Empress of Russia's testimony of a snuffbox, iii. 370; first volume published, in. 369; J...

mended his _Spectators_, ib.; his suicide, ii. 229; v. 54. BUDWORTH, Captain, iv. 407, n. 4. BUDWORTH, Rev. Mr., i. 84, n. 3; iv. 407, n. 4. BUFFIER, Claude, i. 471. BUFFON, acc...

condemns them in the Rambler, iii. 23, n. 2. CARELESS, Mrs., Johnson's first love, ii. 459-461; mentioned, iv. 146-8, 378. _Careless Husband_. See CIBBER, Colley. CARELESSNESS,...

advised by Johnson to keep one, i. 433; Johnson pleased with it, iii. 260; helps to record a conversation, ib.; v. 307; reminded that it is kept, iii. 439; kept in quarto and oc...

character, his, not to be gathered from his works, iii. 117, n. 7; cloud of words, iii. 37; _Edward and Eleonora_ not licensed, i. 141, n. 1; family, account of his, iii. 359; J...

Bishop Percy in a letter to Boswell says: 'When in 1756 or 1757 I became acquainted with Johnson, he told me he had lived twenty years in London, but not very happily.' --Nichol...

antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3; archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1; army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52; fancies himself a military man, v. 125; Ashbourne, visits, iii...

jealousy, iii. 55; Johnson's attention to her, iii. 341; pleasure in her society, i. 232, n. 1; iii. 462; iv. 235, 239, 241, 249, n. 2; takes the sacrament in her room, iv. 235,...

Welch, Saunders, iii. 217; Wesley, John, iii. 394; v. 35, n. 3; Westcote, Lord, iv. 57, n. 1; Wetherell, Rev. Dr., ii. 424; Wheeler, Dr., iii. 366; White, Rev. Mr., ii. 207; Wil...

to members of the Ivy Lane Club, iv. 436; 'huffed his wife' about, i. 239, n. 2; on the way to Oxford, iv. 284; one in Devonshire, i. 379, n. 2; at the Pine Apple, i. 103; talke...

ARGUMENT. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 313; 'Nay, Sir, argument is argument,' iv. 281; 'All argument is against it...

LIE. 'Do the devils lie? No; for then Hell could not subsist' (attributed to Sir Thomas Browne), iii. 293; 'He carries out one lie; we know not how many he brings back,' iv. 320...

Miss Burney describes his life there, iv. 340, n. 3; his 'home,' i. 493, n. 3; ii. 77, 141, n. 1; iii. 451; iv. 340; his late hours there, ii. 407; his farewell to it, iv. 158;...

'_incredulus odi_,' iii. 229; independence, always asserted his, i. 443; indolence, his, described by Hawkins, iii. 98, n. 1; by Murphy, i. 307, n. 2; 'inclination to do nothing...

SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him,' ii. 188.

'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most honest principles,' iv. 224.

COMPANY. 'A fellow comes into _our_ company who is fit for _no_ company,' v. 312; 'The servants seem as unfit to attend a company as to steer a man of war,' iv. 312.

Farrar's-Buildings, Boswell lodges there, i. 437; Fetter Lane, Johnson lodges there, iii. 405, n. 6; has sudden relief by a good night's rest, iii. 99, n. 4; Levett woos his fut...

Wilkes and the letter _H_, i. 300; words, big, i. 2l8; written in sickness and sorrow, i. 263, n. 1; iv. 427. _Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_ projected by Goldsmith, ii. 204,...

thinks himself very polite, iii. 337; v. 363; political economy, ignorance of, ii. 430, n. 1; political principles, his, described by Dr. Maxwell, ii. 117-8; politician, intenti...

POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody that stood in the way,' iii. 264.

REPEATING. 'I know nothing more offensive than repeating what one knows to be foolish things, by way of continuing a dispute, to see what a man will answer,' iii. 350.

'If it were not for depriving the ladies of the fire I should like to stand upon the hearth myself,' iv. 304, n. 4; 'Would cry, Fire! Fire! in Noah's flood' (Butler), v. 57, n. 2.

£100 added, ib.; £100 more for a new edition, ib., n. 3; world, knowledge of the, iii. 20; 'a man of the world,' i. 427; had been long 'running about it,' i. 215; never complain...

PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.

(Johnson loves to dine with him, ib.); drinks to the great vagabond, iii. 411, n. 1; England, arrives in, ii. 71; Goldsmith, compliments, ii. 224; _Good-Natured Man_, mentioned...

END. 'I am sure I am right, and there's an end on't' (Boswell in imitation of Johnson), iii. 301; 'We know our will is free, and there's an end on't,' ii. 82; 'What the boys get...

TRADE. 'A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind; but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind, v. 328; 'This rage of trade will destroy itself,' v...

'I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head,' iv. 221; 'If you were not an idle dog, you might write it,' iii. 162; 'It is the old dog in a new doublet,' iii. 329; 'Pres...

UNDERSTANDING. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 313; 'When it comes to dry understanding, man has the better [of woman...

Bank of England, Jack Wilkes defends it against the rioters, iii. 430; Barking Creek, iii. 268, n. 4; Barnard's Inn, No. 6, Oliver Edward's chambers, iii. 303; Batson's coffee-h...

435, 439, 442; iv. 71, 81, n. 3, 166, 226, 337, 379, 380; v. 398; loved by him and Mrs. Thrale, ii. 427; monument, circular-letter about, iv. 423, n. 1; projected monument at Au...

SCOUNDREL. 'Fludyer turned out a scoundrel, a Whig,' ii. 444; 'I told her she was a scoundrel' (a carpenter), ii. 456, n. 3; 'Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam,' iii. 1; 'Sir,...

CHARACTER. 'Ranger is just a rake, a mere rake, and a lively young fellow, but no _character_ ii. 50; 'Derrick may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the m...

'He left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death,' i. 268; 'Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young,' ii. 194; 'One Scotchman is...

Compters, The, iii. 432; Conduit Street, Boswell lodges there, ii. 166; Cornhill, iv. 233, n. 2; Covent Garden, election mob, iv. 279, n. 2; Hummums, iii. 349, n. 1; Johnson hel...

DOG. 'Ah, ah! Sam Johnson! I see thee!--and an ugly dog thou art,' ii. 141, n. 2; 'Does the dog talk of me?' ii. 53; '_He_, the little black dog,' i. 284; 'He's a Whig, Sir; a s...

severe things, how mainly extorted from him, iv. 341; Shakespeare, read in his childhood, i. 70; See under SHAKESPEARE; shoes worn out, i. 76; sight, account of it by Boswell, i...

same one day as another, not the, iii. 192; sarcastic in the defence of good principles, ii. 13; _Sassenach More_, ii. 267, n. 2; satire, explosions of, iii. 80; ignorant of the...

'Poets who go round the world,' v. 311; 'One may be so much a man of the world as to be nothing in the world,' iii. 375; 'The world has always a right to be regarded, ii. 74, n....

WIT. 'His trade is wit,' iii. 389; 'His trade was wisdom' (Baretti), iii. 137, n. 1; 'Sir, Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit,' iv. 275; 'This man, I thought, had bee...

without any trouble,' iv. 90; 'I am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly,' iv. 239; 'A look that expressed that a good thing was coming,' iii...

WHIG. 'A Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so' (Horace Walpole), iv. 117, n. 5; 'He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater,' i. 190,...

WHIGGISM. 'They have met in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 385; 'Whiggism was latterly no better than the politics of stock-jobbers, and the religion of infide...

LACE. 'Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues,' iii. 188, n. 4.

LEGS. 'Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452; 'A man who loves to fold his legs and have out his...

PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327; 'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176; 'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be...

suffers from it, iv. 163, n. 1: See under JOHNSON, household; 'soothed,' ii. 113; sophistry, love of, ii. 61; recourse to it, iv. iii; sought after nobody, iii. 314; Southwark e...

Recorder's report to the King of sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; relations in London, ii. 177; Reynolds's love of it, iii. 178, n. 1; riots in 1768. ii. 60, n. 2; iii. 46, n...