The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [692]
Arian heresy 780
arithmetic 45, 635
armorial bearings 355
arms 716
army, see soldiers
art, see painting and statuary
Artemisia 300
arthritick tyranny
102 articles, see Thirty-nine Articles
‘artificially’ 544
Artists, Society of, see Society of Artists
‘ascertain’ 740
assent 940
Assyrians 354, 537
atheism 265
Athenians 45, 351
‘Athol porridge’ 808
attacks on authors 294, 442, 726, 753, 1001; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: attacks
Attorney-General 560
attorneys 327, 834, 937
Augustan Age 384
austerities, religious, see monasteries
author, an 316, 818, 940, 942
authority 501, 665
authors 66, 68, 112, 209, 289, 297 n. c, 326, 363, 386, 446, 495, 533–4, 571, 610, 621, 675, 696, 704, 725–6, 817–18, 826, 830, 860, 932–3, 938
avarice 556, 697
baby 311
ballads 251, 332, 358, 373, 607–9
balloons 960, 962, 963, 969
baptism 54 n. a, 509, 924
bar, see law; lawyers
barbarous society 209
Barclay, Perkins and Co., see Index of Persons, Others: Perkins, John
baron 67 n. b
baronet 713
barristers, see lawyers
bat 709
baths 54 n. a, 310
bear, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
beauty, independent of utility 348, 857
Bedfordshire militia 166 n. 131, 738
Bedlam 463, 878
beer 474; see also Index of Persons, Others: Thrale, Henry
beggars 532, 739–40, 780; see also charity
Belgrade, siege of 356
belief 524
benevolence 539, 543, 680
Benevolists, the 603 n. a
‘Betty or Betsey’ 58
‘bibliopole’ 446
‘Bibliothèque’ 154, 154–5
‘big’ 712
‘Big man’, an Irishism 267
‘bill’ 200
biographical catechism 973
biography 6, 19–24, 139, 225, 284, 302, 349, 502–3, 556, 606, 671 n. b, 781, 792, 985
birds 393
birth, respect for, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I; Boswell II
‘bis dat qui cito daf 417
Biscay, language of 173
‘bishop’ 136
bishops 351, 450, 769, 805, 812, 828 n. b, 922, 927; see also hierarchy, English
bleeding 604–5
blind, the 361; see also Index of Persons, Others: Hetherington, William
‘blockhead’ 222, 352, 508
‘blood’ 400
Blue-stockings, the 823
boars 649
Bohemian language 343
bones 875–6
‘bon-mots’ 449, 626 n. a, 697
books 43, 61, 239, 323, 346, 382, 456, 464, 476, 627, 692, 703, 731; see also copyright; editions; reading
bookseller, a drunken 156, 388
booksellers 51, 165, 231, 446, 492, 579, 679 n. a, 724, 904; see also copyright
Boswell family 243, 872
Boswelliana 685 n. a
botanical garden 834
botanist 201 n. a
bottom 594 n. a, 594 n. 688, 818
bounty on corn, see corn
‘bouts-rimes’ 443
Boyle, family of, see Index of Places: Orrery Brahmins 769 n. a, 812
brandy 729, 808
bravery 985
bread tree 393
breeches 868
breeding, see good breeding
brewers 257
brewing 474; see also Index of Persons, Others: Thrale, Henry
bribery 444
Britain 75 n. b, 704
British Coffee-House, London 363
British Museum Library 20, 88, 143 n. a, 422 n. a, 427, 476 n. a, 770
Briton 75 n. b, 188
brooks 659
‘Brownism’ 166
Brunswick, House of, see Hanover, House of
brutes, see animals
buckles, for shoes, made of silver 699
‘bulk’ (see OED s.v. bulk sb.) 240
bull-dog, on the excellence of a 625–6
‘Bulse’ 715
burgess-ticket, see Aberdeen
burrow, a man near his 728
business 443
‘Busy, curious, thirsty fly’ 412
cabbages 507
Cabiri, the 148
calculation, see under Index of Persons, Johnson I
‘Caliban of literature’ 328
‘called’ 815
Calypso 151
camp 718; see also Index of Places: Coxheath Camp; Warley Common
‘can, to leave one’s’ 512
cant: 209, 629, 884
capital punishments, see executions; Index of Places: Tyburn
cards 171, 531
carelessness 773
carpenter, anecdote of a 827
‘Cartaret’, a dactyl 764
castes of the Hindoos 769 n. a, 812
Catalogue raisonne 89
catalogues 456
catechism: Larger & Shorter Catechism 411
cathedrals, English 577
cats 872; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
celibacy 328
censure 548, 692–3, 698
certainties, small, the bane of men of talents 435
chair of veracity or verity 548
‘Cham of literature’ 186 n. e
Chancellors, Lord, how chosen 344
chances 945
change, silver 869
chaplains 309
character 288,