The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [700]
propitiation, doctrine of the 16, 832
proposals: for numerous proposals by S.J., see under Index of Persons, Johnson IV
prose, English, see style
prosperity 745
Prospero, character in The Rambler 121
prostitutes, see women of the town
prostitution 528
Protestantism 314
proverbs and proverbial sayings: ‘all is not gold that glitters’ 969; amica fures temporis 878 and n. 1120; ‘as obstinate as a pig’ 771; ‘as sleepy as a dormouse’ 995; ‘beware of a reconciled enemy’ 578; bis dat qui cito dat 417 and n. 418; ‘to cast pearls before swine’ 367; Delenda est Carthago 749; deus vult perdere, prius dementat 865 and n. 1100; (a man whose) ‘geese were all swans’ 625; honores mutant mores 173 and n. 139, 835; in bello non licet bis errare 635; in vino veritas 360; ‘a jest breaks no bones’ 835; ‘nothing venture, nothing have’ 625; nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia 864 and n. 1096; ‘old dog in a new doublet’ 701; omne ignotum pro magnifico est 698 and n. 843, 875 and n. 1114; ‘one man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink’ 226; pour encourager les autres 169; ‘to read like a Turk’ 994; semel insanivimus omnes 865 and n. 1101; simile non est idem 409 and n. 408; ‘set a thief to catch a thief 707; Spartam quam nactus es orna 975 and n. 1247; ‘tell truth and shame the devil’ 378; Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes 578 and n. 674
Providence 488, 489, 914 n. a
Psalms 521 n. a; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Bible
public, the, see world
public affairs 744, 884
public amusements, entertainment, see amusements
public dinner 968
public institutions 545
public life 863
public ovens 374
public schools, see schools
public speaking 333, 372, 443
public worship 221 n. a
publication, by subscription 78 n. a
publications, spurious 496
publishers, see authors; booksellers
pulpit 16, 548–51, 568
pulsation 536
punch (the liquor) 179
punctuation 535–6
punishment 631, 929
puns 373, 388, 938; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: puns; Others: Burke, Edmund
Purgatorians 347
Purgatory 314, 347; see also middle state
Pyramids, the 714
Pythagorean discipline 665
quack doctors 733
Quakers 244, 509, 684, 880; see also Index of Persons, Others: Brocklesby, Richard; Cumming, Tom; Knowles, Mrs; Lloyd, Sampson
‘qualifying’ a wrong 552 and n. a
‘qualitied’ 861
quality, women of 715
Queen’s Arms Club 811
Queensberry, family of 611
‘quern (quosj Deus (Juppiterj vult perdere, prius dementaf 865 and n. 1100
questioning 517, 547, 667
quotation 819, 865
Raleigh, the 339
Ranger, character in Hoadly’s Suspicious Husband 288
rank 234, 236, 546, 715
Ranz des Vaches 630 ‘rascal’ 247, 519, 545, 768, 874
rat 506–7
reading 38, 44, 227, 235, 380, 454, 540, 627, 695, 703, 704, 731, 733, 769, 779, 877, 883, 934; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
rebellion 379
Rebellion of 1745–6 85, 101, 326, 610; see also Index of Persons, Others: Charles Edward
rebels 379
‘recollecting’ 833–4
recruiting 738
refinement 614
Reformation, the 277, 395, 549, 596
refreshments 813 ‘regale’ 690
regicides 459
registration of deeds 16, 805
reindeer 350 and n. a
relations 354; see also friends
religion 267, 309, 325, 328, 513, 524, 543, 684, 706, 768, 784, 882, 886, 923, 925
religious orders, see monasteries remedies 400
‘remembering’, distinguished from ‘recollecting’ 833
‘renegade’, ‘renegado’ 161
rents 619, 772; see also landlords
repentance in dying 880
reports, law, see law
Republic of Letters 398
republics 342
‘Republics’, see Index of Works and Literary Characters: Respublicce Elzeviriance
reputation 497
resentment 539, 968
Resolution, the 339
resolutions 319, 454
respect 501
rest 660
Restoration, the 459
restraint, need of 293, 522
Resurrection of the Body 815, 816
retirement 325, 443, 618 n. b, 885
‘Retreat of the Ten Thousand’ 780 and n. 977
Revelation 277, 347, 524; see also Index of Works and Literary Characters: Bible
reverence 521, 818
reviews and reviewers 535, 541, 795, 881
Revolution of 1688 444, 447, 521, 856, 859 and n. b
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