Chapter 4

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. 127,131, 135-208; Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379; authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2; iv. 83; v. 1, 419; avidity for delight, iii. 415; bar, enters at the: See below, English Bar; Barbauld's, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1; Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1; Bath, visits, iii. 45; Bristol, 50; bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1; Beauclerk's hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2; birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3; birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380; birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1; bishops, on, iv. 75; 'Blood:' See above, Birth and Gentility; boastful, iv. 193; Bologna, at, v. 115; books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360; Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91; _Boswell_, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1; 'Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,' i. 190, n. 4; boy, longer than others, v. 308; 'Bozzy,' ii. 258; _British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans_, ii. 59, n. 1; Burke, visits, iv. 210; bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372 Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1; cards, spends a night at, iii. 377; Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127; celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64: See below, Great Men; changefulness, wretched, iii. 193; character, Johnson's account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52; Paoli's, i. 6, n. 2; Lord Stowell's, v. 52, n. 6: See above, Account of himself; Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Chester, visits, iii. 413; his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415; 'Chief, my Yorkshire,' ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439; children, his, ii. 265, 280, 386; iii. 366; blessed by a non-juring Bishop, iii. 372; loved by Johnson, iii. 436; church, not easy unless he goes to it, i. 418, n. 1; fondness for going, iii. 180; 'would pray with a Dean and Chapter,' iii. 375, n. 2; chymistry, his intellectual, iii. 65; citizen of the world, a, ii. 306; v. 20; classical quotation apt, v. 56; _Clubable,_ iv. 254, n. 2; Cocoa-tree Club, at the, v. 386, n. 1; _Collection of Original Poems_, i. 383, n. 3; collection of Scotch words, begins a, ii, 91; and of Scotch antiquities, ii. 92; iii. 414, n. 3; consecrated ground, comfort in nearness to, v. 169; divinely cheered by the nearness of Carlisle Cathedral, iii. 416, 417; consecutive paragraphs, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 223, n. 2; _Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, &c_., ii. 34, n. 1; _conspicuonsness, his_, iv. 248, n. 2; convict unjustly condemned, ii. 285; correspondence with Adams, i. 8; iv. 376; Beattie, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15; Blair, iii. 402; v. 398; Blacklock, v. 417; Chatham, Earl of, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Cullen, iv. 263; Dempster, v. 407; Dilly, iii. 110; Elibank, Lord, v. 181; Forbes, Sir W., v. 413; Garrick, ii. 279, n. 1; iii. 371; v. 347-50, 382, n. 2; Hailes, Lord, i. 432; v. 406; Hastings, Warren, iv. 66; Hector, iv. 375; Johnson: See below, JOHNSON, and under JOHNSON; Langton, iii. 424; Monboddo, v. 74; Parr, iv. 47, n. 2; Percy, iii. 278; Pitt, iv. 261, n, 3; Rasay, v. 410-1; Robertson, v. 14, 32; Reynolds, iv. 259, n. 2; Thurlow, iv. 327, 336; Vyse, iii. 125; Wilkes, ii. 11, n. 3; iv. 224, n. 2; _Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine_, i. 383; _Corsica, Account of_: See CORSICA; Corsica, his head filled too much with it, ii. 22, 58, 59; his memory honoured there, ii. 3, n. 1; a tradition of him, ii. 451, n. 3; Corsicans, raises a subscription for the, ii. 59, n. 1; Counsel, engaged as, Douglas Cause, iii. 219, n. 2; v. 378, n. 2; Ecclesiastical censure case, iii. 58; House of Lords, before the, ii. 144, 375, n. 4, 377, n. 1; iii. 219; House of Commons, iii. 224; iv. 73, 259, n. 1; Dr. Memis's case, ii. 291; schoolmaster, prosecution of a, iii. 212; Society of Solicitors' case, iv. 128; country-house, takes a little, iii. 116, 128; Court of General Assembly, despises pleading at the, ii. 381, n. 1; Court of Sessions, little dull labours, ii. 381, n. 1; _Court of Session Garland_, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 200, n. 1; Courtenay's lines on him, i. 223; cow, lows like a, v. 396; cowardly caution, iii. 210-1; critical skill, v. 214; _Critical Strictures_, i. 383, n. 3, 409; critics 'cannot or will not understand him,' v. 259, n. 1; _Cub at Newmarket_, i. 383, n. 3; curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59; Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116; daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1; 'dazzled' by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460; death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153; debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275; paid by his father, iii. 93; Johnson's warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163; dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249; describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219; desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75; Devonshire, visits, ii. 371; dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3; acquires 'dignity in London,' 375, n. 4; dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3; gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380; goes without one, ii. 178; displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5; dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225; _Dorando, A Spanish Tale_, ii. 50, n. 4; 'Drawing-room' dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1; Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2; drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1; duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3; early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168; Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2; elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215; _Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady_, i. 383, n. 3; elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122; English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178; eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1; called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5; discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1; takes chambers, ib.; attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2; discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309; enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2; to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7; to go to the wall of China, iii. 269; feudal, iii. 178; v. 223; genealogical, v. 379; envy of Dundas's success, ii. 160, n. 1; _Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas_, i. 383, n. 3; _Essays_, his, iv. 179; _Essence of the Douglas Cause_, ii. 230, n. 1; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2; estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; exact likeness, draws an, i. 486; executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328; executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1; 'facility of manners,' v. 19, n. 1; fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2; fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135; that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410; that his wife or children are ill, iii. 4; at Stains Castle, v. 105; in a Highland inn, v. 139; farm, purchases a, iii. 207; father, his (Lord Auchinleck), death, iv. 154; disagreement with, i. 346, n. 2; ii. 311, n. 1; iii. 95; about heirs general and male, ii. 414-5; iii. 86; uneasy with him, i. 426; a timid boy in his presence, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1; on better terms with him, iii. 93, 95, 108, 212, 368, 442; dulls his faculties by strong beer before him, ii. 382, n. 1; Johnson, reproached by him as regards, ii. 381,72. i; v. 384, n. 1; Johnson's advice about him, iii. 417; likeness to him in face, v. 84; feelings, avows his ardent, ii. 69; 'fervour of Loyalty,' iii. 113; fees made before the House of Lords, ii. 377, n. 1; feudal system, love of the, ii. 177; iii. 178; feudal enthusiasm, his, v. 223: see SUCCESSION, male; forwardness, ii. 449; Franklin, Dr., dines with him, ii. 59, n. 3; Free-will, love of discussing: see FREE-WILL; 'gab like Boswell,' v. 52, n. 4; Garrick, friendship with, iii. 371: see above, under Correspondence; genealogist, a, iii. 271, n. 5; George III, relation to, v. 379; ghosts, talks of, iv. 94, n. 2; disturbed by the cry of one, v. 237, n. 2; fearful of them, v. 327, n. 1; Gibbon, dislike of: see GIBBON, Edward; Glasgow University, a student of, i. 465; god, makes another man his, v. 129, n. 1; Goldsmith's lodgings, visits, ii. 182; takes leave of him, ii. 260; affected by his death, ii. 279, n. 2; good-nature, described by Burke, iii. 362, n. 2; great men, hopes from, iii. 80, n. 2; Burke, iv. 223, 249, n. 1, 258, n. 2; Lonsdale, Lord, ii. 10, n. 1; iv. 220, n. 4; Pembroke, Lord, ii. 371, n. 3, iii. 80, n. 2; Pitt, iv. 261, n. 3; Rockingham ministry, iv. 148; seeking great men's acquaintance, iii. 189; v. 215-6; _Great man_, really the, ii. 59, n. 3, 83, n. 1; quite the _great man_, iii. 396, n. 2, 413, n. 4; Greek, ignorance of, iii. 407; 'Griffith, an honest chronicler as,' i. 24; guardians to his children, iii. 400; Hague, at the, v. 25, n. 2; Handel musical meeting, at the, iv. 283, 285-6; happiest days, one of his, iv. 96-7; Hebrides, first talk of visiting the, i. 450; ii. 291; _homme grave_, ii. 3, n. 1; Horne Tooke, altercation with, iii. 354, n. 2; house in Edinburgh, his, iii. 155; v. 22, n. 2; Hume, intimacy with, ii. 59, n. 3, 437, n. 2; has memoirs of him, v. 30; humorous vein, v. 409; _Hypochondriack, The_, iv. 179, n. 5; hypochrondria, suffers from, i. 65, n. 1, 343; ii. 381, n. 1, 423; iii. 86-9, 215, 366, 418; iv. 379; pride in it, i. 65, n. 1; iii. 87, 421; 'hypocrisy of misery,' his, iv. 71; idleness, i. 465; imaginary ills: See FANCIES; imagination, should correct his, iii. 363; independency of spirit, v. 305; infidelity, his, in his youth, i. 404; says that 'it causes _ennui_,' ii. 442, n. 1; infidels, keeping company with, iii. 409; intellectual excesses, iii. 416; 'intoxicated not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1: See below, WINE; Ireland, visits, ii. 156, n. 3; isthmus, compares himself to an, ii. 80; Italy, visits, ii. 11, 54; Jacobitism when a boy, i. 431, n. 1; associations connected with it, v. 140; January 30, old port and solemn talk on, iii. 371; Jeffrey, helped to bed by, v. 24, n. 4; Jockey Club, member of the, i. 383, n. 3; Johnson's acquaintance, makes, i. 391; ii. 349; and calls on him, i. 395; under his roof for the last time, iv. 337; last talk, ib.; last farewell, iv. 339; advice on his coming into his property, iv. 155; advises him to stay at home in 1782, iv. 155; affection, tries an experiment on, iii. 394-7; assigns him a room in his house, ii. 376; iii. 104, 222; company, time spent in, i. 11, n. 1; complains of the length of his letters, iii. 86, n. 4; constant respectful attention to, ii. 357; consulted about America by, ii. 292, 312; conversation reported at first with difficulty, i. 421; copartnership in the tour to the Hebrides with, v. 264, 278; _Custos Rotulorum_, offers himself as, v. 364; describes him as 'worthy and religious,' iii. 394; _Diary_, reads, iv. 405-6; regrets that Mrs. Boswell did not copy it, v. 53; differed in politics on two points only from, iii. 221; iv. 259; dines for the first time at the house of, ii, 215; drawn by him as too 'awful,' ii. 262, n. 2; regrets losing some of his awe, iii. 225; easier with him than with almost any body, iv. 194; encourages him to turn author, i. 410; not encouraged to share reputation with, ii. 300, n. 2; exhorts him to plant, v. 380; faults, does not hide, i. 30; iii. 275, n. 2; firmness, supported by, v. 154; gaps in correspondence with, ii. 1, 43, 116, 140; iii. 394-5; gives him _Les Pensées de Paschal_, iii. 380; gives him a thousand pounds in praise, iii. 382; his guest for the first time, i. 422; his 'Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,' iii. 6; iv. 122, 420; imitates, ii. 326, n. 2; iv. 1, n. 2; invited to visit Scotland, ii. 51, 201, 232,264; joins in his bond at the Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; _Journey_, reads in one night, ii. 290; projects a Supplement to it, ii. 300, n. 2; keeps him up late drinking port, i. 434; iii. 381; leads, to talk, i. 6, n. 2, 398, n. 2; ii. 187; iii. 39; v. 159, 264, 278; letters to, ii. 2, 20, 22, 58, 107, 139, 141, 144, 203, 269, 270, 278, 279, 283-4, 290, 293, 295, 308, 380, 386, 406, 410, 422; iii. 86, 89, 91, 101, 105, 106, 107, 116, 122, n. 2, 126, 129, 132, 209, 211, 215, 219-222, 277, 359, 371, 391, 395, 411, 415, 433, 438; iv. 259, 379, 380; three letters kept back, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122; keeps his letters, ii. 2; life, would add ten of his years to, iii. 438; love for, iii. 105; iv. 226, 259, n. 2, 337; v. 19; love for him, i. 405, 434, n. 1, 450, 462; ii. 3, 70, iii. 145, 205, 266, 359, 375, n. 4, 377, n. i, 383-4, 411;