The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [698]
Middlesex Election 78, 313 and n. 289, 318, 414, 643, 743, 905
migration of birds 291, 393
military character and life, see soldiers
military spirit 327, 376
militia 13 and n. 7, 717, 738
‘milking the bull’ 234
mimicry 342
mind 500, 517, 611, 704; see also weather and seasons
ministers of the Church 390–92, 548–52
ministries 208, 448, 450, 452, 519, 521, 542, 716, 744, 755–6, 801, 809, 818, 842, 873; see also Coalition Ministry
minuteness 767
‘mira cano’ 688
miracles 234–5, 625
misdemeanour 639
misers 697
misery 532, 630, 779, 803, 929
misfortunes 779
mistresses 202
mob rule 730; see also riots
modern times 883
modernizing an author 938
modesty 714
‘modus’, 154 and n. c, 698
monarchy 224, 542
monasteries 195, 266, 275, 470, 497, 681
money 232–3, 309–10, 342, 349, 380, 435, 450, 494–5, 529, 546, 609, 619, 620, 622, 629, 658, 665, 666, 682, 694, 697, 707, 729, 770, 777, 833, 850, 856, 861, 885; see also debts
monks, see monasteries
Montrose, family of 730
monuments 387, 1001; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
moon, the 779
Moors of Barbary 470
morality 328
Moravians 586 and n. 679, 995; see also Index of Persons, Others: La Trobe, Revd B.
mosaical chronology 195
motives 211
‘muddy’ 455, 510
muffins 730
mummies 833
music 347, 380, 630, 752, 774; see also fiddling; French horn; German flute; Index of Persons, Johnson I: music; Others: Burney, Dr Charles; Hawkins, Sir John
mustard 828
‘mutual’ friend 574
‘Mysargyrus’ (Boswell’s misspelling of ‘Misargyrus’, the name with which Johnson signed four letters of The Adventurer) 137
mystery 698, 708, 815 n. a
mythology 543, 771
nail, growth of the 738 n. b
‘namby-pamby’ 102
names 204 n. b, 559
nap, after dinner 480
narrow place 657
narrowness 869
national character, no permanence 362
national debt 327
national faith 773
native country or place, attachment to/love of 312, 335, 846
natural history 670
natural philosophy 136, 291
nature 243, 360, 543, 669; see also savages; Index of Persons, Johnson I: nature
‘navigation’ 332, 720
Negroes, see slaves; for law cases, see Index of Persons, Others: Knight, Joseph; Somerset, James
neologisms, see Index of Persons, Johnson IV: words
nerves, weak 918
‘network’ 161 and n. 127
never 302, 517, 813, 876
New Flood-gate Iron 870
new place 590–91
newspapers 171, 351, 371, 427, 561, 662, 674, 702
nicknames 204 n. b
nidification 393 and n. 391
night, Shakespeare’s description of 306
‘No, Sir’ 505, 556, 619, 623, 687, 938
nobility 236, 327, 715, 826, 899, 900
noble authors 812
nobleman 825
non-jurors 434, 922; see also Index of Persons, Others: Campbell, Archibald; Falconer, Revd William
nonsense 302
‘nose’ of the mind 947
‘not at home’ 231
notes 373, 399
novelty 232, 536, 726
November the Fifth 39
‘nullum numen adest ‘ 864
numbers, science of, see arithmetic; mathematics
nurse 518 ‘$$’ 292
oaths 377, 434 n. a, 435; see also swearing
oats 161 and n.128, 512, 858
obedience 683
objections 327, 532
obligations 134, 462
obscenity 927
observance of days 509
obstinacy of children 358
occupation 310, 620
odd 504
ode 769
Odin 671 and n. 795
Ofellus 61
officers, see soldiers
oil of vitriol 343
old age 626, 661, 705, 709, 852; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Old Man’s Wish
‘one… the other’ 923
opera girls 859
opinion 112, 728
opium 859; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
opponents in controversy 501, 524
opposition, the 809, 856
orange butter 876
orange peel 439, 876
oratory 178–9, 372, 443, 537, 820, 877, 885
orchards 329, 876–7
original sin 831 and n. a
Orpheus 241
Ossian, see Index of Persons, Others: Macpherson, James
ostentation 245, 766, 865
oysters, S.J. buys for Hodge 872
pain 243, 515
painters 541 n. b
painting 499, 675, 941; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
palaces 472
‘pamphlet’ 433
‘panting Time’, phrase in a poem by S.J. 776
parish 390, 679, 760, 833
Parliament 68, 89, 299, 321–2, 332–4, 443–4, 451–2, 634, 649–51, 884, 885; see also debates in Parliament;