all

himself, 207; on the Scottish
clergy, 215; on anecdotes, 218,
231; an old man should not re-
sign himself to the management
of anybody, 232; manners well
learned in small courts, 236;
dedications not to be judged
exactly as history, 245;
places (speaking of antiquities)
that are filled up were of great
depths," 251; Et hoc secundum
sententiam philosophorum est esse
beatus, 251; it is not every man
that can carry double, 253;
on diffusion in writing, 254;
on landlords and tenants, 262;
against low life, 265; on French
literature, 268; on the descrip-
tion of Hell, applied to a print-
ing-house, 269; longs to get to
a country of saddles and bridles,
275; on Dr. Campbell's writings,
280; he has learned much by the
vox viva, 280; on trade and the
wealth made by trade, 284;
young Col, a noble animal, 286;
on the credulity of Frenchmen,
287; Roving among the He-
brides," 289; on politics, Mr. Pitt
a meteor; Sir Robert Walpole
a fixed star, 294; Mr. Pulteney,
a Whig who pretended to be
honest, 294; on the improba-
bility of all history when related
shortly, 295; stony Scotland like
a man in rags, 295; more sense
in a line of Cowley, than in a page
of Pope, 300; on fanciful and sen-
timental writing, parodied by a
meditation on a pudding, 305;
on Mr. Archibald Campbell, the
nonjuring Bishop, 310, 311;
though a Whig, he had huma-
nity, 311; on luxury, 311;
nothing good but what is con-
sistent with truth or probability,
314; on dress, 317; on "solid
talk," 318; on the distribution
of charity, 325; political dif-
ferences increased by opposition,
336; on Ossian's poems, 337;

he could write a poem on Robin
Hood, which half England
should declare they had heard
from their earliest years, 338;
compares Garrick and Foote,
and calls Foote a most incom-
pressible fellow, 340; on Metho-
dism, 341; on the method of
collecting materials for history,
342; on Lord Mansfield's know-
ledge of English law, 344; on
Richardson's character, 344. See
Sayings.

Conversations, the power of re-
porting them faithfully, 361.
Conway, visited, 388.

Cooke, J., the translator of Hesiod
and Plautus, 23.

Coote, Sir Eyre, entertains John-
son at Fort George, 97.
Copyright and literary property,

53.

Dunbui, rock covered with sea-
fowl, 75.

Duncan's monuiment near Fores,
90.

Dundee, John, Viscount of, Dry-

den's epitaph on, 41.
Dungeon, Johnson called a dun-
geon of wit, 297.
Dunvegan reached, 173; descrip-
tion of, by Walter Scott, 188;
Boswell describes, 198.

The loch of, Macleod pro-
mises to give Johnson an island
in, 213.

Duppa, Mr. R., editor of the "Tour
in Wales," 375.

Dyott, Mr. and Mrs., visit Johnson

at Ashbourne, 376.

Early rising, commended, but not

practised by Johnson, 176.
Edinburgh, Johnson arrives at, 9;
only three inns in, 9; state of,
11; the sights of, 24; Johnson
at, on his return from the tour,
341, 345.

Education, should it be public or
private? 64.

Eglintoune, the aged Countess of,

326 n.

The Earl of, 119; his fine
character and early death, 326.
Elgin, ruined Cathedral of, 87,
88 n.

Elibank, Lord, his letters to Bos-

well and Johnson desiring to see

Johnson, 147; Johnson's an-
swer, 148; he meets Johnson
after the tour, 335, 342; his
happy retort to Johnson, 335 n.
Eloquence, the peculiar excellence
of Burke's, 179.

Emigration, discussed, 14, 58, 171;
the effect of in Sky, contagious,
237; very early practised, 258.
Englishmen compared with Scotch-
men, 8.

Enquiry, historical and critical,
into the evidence against Mary
Queen of Scots, by Mr. Tytler,
337; account of, 337 n.
Entails, Johnson approves, 77.
Epictetus, quoted, on the voyage
of death, 239.

Epigram, the celebrated, quoted
by Mr. Whitbread in the House
of Commons, 198; Dr. Dod-
dridge wrote one of the finest,

232.

Errol, Lord, described, 78 n. ; his
picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds,
77; account of his family, 78,
79 n.
Erskine, Mr. Henry, gives Bos-
well a shilling for the sight of
"his bear," 24 n.

Erskine, the Ladies Elizabeth and
Anne, 327.

Euphan Macullan, described by
Lord Hailes, 24.
Evil, the origin of, discussed, 90.

Fairlie, Mr., Boswell's "

respec-
table" farming neighbour, 331..
Falconer, Mr., husband to the
Countess of Errol, collector of
the library at Slains Castle, 78.
Falstaff, the Boar's Head, where
he and his companions met, 211.
Fame, "a shuttlecock, must be
struck from both sides to keep
it up," 348.
Fashionable Lover, The, Mr. Cum-
berland's Comedy, 143.
Fasting, Johnson's power of, 243.
Faulkener, George, curious con-
versation with, 28.

Happiness, not to be found in this
life, 146.

Harper, the famous Irish, O'Kane,'
272.

Harris, Mr. James, " an eminent
Grecian," Johnson calls a 66 COX-
comb," 329.

Hawkestone, the seat of Sir Row-
land Hill, visited, 379, 380.
Hawkins, Sir John, his general
History of Music, 53 n.
Hawthornden visited, 349, 350.
Hay, his translation of Martial,
321.

John, one of the Highland
guides, 102, 107, 113.
Headache, Boswell's, after the
punch, 221.

Hebrides, Johnson and Boswell de-
termine to visit, 1, 2; Martin's
account of the, 1, 2.

Hell, Virgil's description of the
entrance to, applied by Johnson
to the press, 268, 269.
Hermes, by Mr. Harris, discussed,