The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [719]
–6; Jacobite tendencies 28, 101, 276–7, 377, 610, 938; never ardent in the cause 227; never in a non-juring meeting-house 922; Jean Bull philosophe 246; Johnson’s Court, house in 263; kindness: advises others to practise it 243; Goldsmith’s testimony 221; in small matters 874, 953; to individuals: an Academy student 567; – to Boswell, 217–18, 237; – to a poor country boy 435; – to Tom Davies, 405–6, 645; – to Heely 279; – to a poor schoolfellow 512; – to Saunders Welch 640; – to Miss Williams 415; to servants and dependants 463, 644, 872; ‘to the unthankful’ 50, 723; the king’s evil, afflicted with and touched for 28–9; knee, takes a young Methodist on his 323; knotting, tried 654, 920; knowledge: at the age of eighteen 235; exact 695–6; of human nature 676; varied and extensive 530, 1004–5; well informed in common affairs 877; ladies, could be very agreeable to 766–7, 804; language: delicate in it 687; makes his intelligible to the meanest capacity 866; zeal for it 277; languages: interest in 173, 250; see also Dutch; French; Greek; Italian; Latin; late hours 373, 480, 634; Latin: corrects J.B.’s 272–73; knowledge of 29, 39, 40, 66, 979, 994; speaks 326, 479, 480; writes after his stroke 889; for his writings in it, see IV; laughter: hearty 463; like a rhinoceros 463; over small matters 400; resounds from Temple Bar to Fleet-ditch 401; ‘shakes laughter out of you’ 383; law, knowledge of the 495, 530, 574; consulted by J.B. 336–7, 357, 363, 461, 547; for his assistance to J.B. in writing legal papers, see IV: law arguments; lawyer: ought to have been a 690; seeks to become a 78; would have excelled as a 78; laxity of talk 251, 299; letters from and to him, see II; III; levee 134, 322; liberality 256, 644, 869; liberty: contempt of popular 293, 350–51; love of 167, 225, 294, 322, 350–51; of election 349, 444; library described by J.B. 230; S.J. puts his books in order and dusts them 522, 554; Lichfield, house at, see Index of Places: Lichfield; in the Lichfield play-house 423; lie, use of the word 789; life: balance of misery in 929–32; dark views of it 1004; horror of it 102; more to be endured than enjoyed 325; not wish to live over again 326; struggles hard for it 963; would give one of his legs for a year of it 994; Literary Club, see Club, the; literary property, see Index of Subjects: copyright; lives and memoirs of 19; Lords, did not quote authority of 865; see also great; Lord Chancellor, might have been 690; loses: five guineas by hiding them 773; his spurs and stick, see stick; in love: with Hector’s sister 510; with Mrs Emmet, an actress 513; with Olivia Lloyd 54; madness: confounds it with melancholy 618; dreaded 42; ‘mad, at least not sober’ 25, 42; often near it 572; mankind: less expected of 894; opinion of 651; manners: had been an advantage 927; Malone and Mickle never heard a severe thing or rough word from him 900–901, 951; ‘nice observer of behaviour’ 545; only external 455, 562; refuted 218; roughness 210, 267, 296, 316, 462, 670–71, 918; marriage 56; MA degree of Oxford 77, 149, 152–4; medicine, see physic; melancholy: confounds it with madness 618; constitutional 107, 1004; distressed by it 235–6; inherited ‘a vile melancholy’ 25; ‘morbid’ 40, 183; remedies against it 107, 235, 500; see also health; memory: complains of its failure 256; extraordinary early instances 27, 31; Latin verses discussed at college 687–8; Lewis’s lines on Pope 933; The Old Man’s Wish 772; other obscure verse 769–70, 922; men, willing to take them as they are 676; metaphysics, fond of 44; method in life, want of 570; Middle Ages, interest in the 838, 859; military matters, interest in 719; Militia, drawn from the 939; his mind: always ready for use 114, 1005; means of quieting it 171; moderation: absence of in his character 804; in wine difficult 498; see also abstinence; modesty 562; money, awkward at counting 777; monuments: epitaph 1002; in Lichfield Cathedral 1001; in St Paul’s Cathedral 1001; see also inscriptions; mother: ‘called’ by her 815; last illness and death 181, 325; takes her debt upon himself 93; wishes to visit