_Eagle and Robin Redbreast,_ i. 117, n. 1.
EARLY HABITS, ii. 366.
EARLY RISING. See under BOSWELL, early rising, and JOHNSON, rising.
EARTHQUAKE, at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
in Staffordshire, iii. 136.
EAST INDIANS, barbarians, iii. 339.
EAST INDIES,
Johnson receives a letter thence, iii. 20, 23;
once thought of going there, iii. 20;
quest of wealth, iii. 400;
Scotch soldiers refuse to go there, v. 142, n. 2.
See INDIA.
EASTER. See under JOHNSON.
EASTER to Whitsuntide, propitious to study, ii. 263.
EASTON MAUDIT, i. 486; iii. 437, 451.
EATING. See under JOHNSON.
ECCLES, Mr., an Irish gentleman, i. 423.
_Ecclesiastes,_ iv. 300, n. 2.
ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE, iii. 59, 91.
ECONOMY, anxious saving, ii. 131;
art of--, iii. 265, 362;
blundering--, iii. 300.
EDDYSTONE, i. 377.
EDENSOR INN, iii. 208.
EDIAL, i. 97; ii. 143.
_Edinburgh Magazine and Review,_ iii. 334, n. 1.
_Edinburgh Review,
_Campbell's _Diary of a Visit to England,_ ii. 338, n. 2, 343, n. 2;
payment to writers in it, iv. 214, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Review_ of 1755, i. 298, n. 2.
_Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions,_ iv. 25, n. 4.
EDITIONS OF A BOOK, iv. 279.
EDUCATION, by-roads, ii. 407;
'Dick Wormwood' in _The Idler,_ ii. 407, n. 5;
fear, use of, i. 46; v. 99;
influence of it compared with nature, ii. 436;
Johnson attacks and defends the 'common way,' ii. 407, n. 5;
defends popular--, ii. 188; iii. 37;
his plan, iii. 358, n. 2;
Locke's plan, iii. 358;
Mill, J. S., on the new system, ii. 146, n. 4;
Milton's plan, iii. 358;
'wonders' performed by him, ii. 407, n. 5;
perfection attained in it, ii. 407;
_refine,_ not to, in it, iii. 169;
Socrates's plan, iii. 358, n. 2; iv. 444;
what should be taught first? i. 452.
See BOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOOLS,
and SCOTLAND, Education, Learning, and Schools.
EDWARD, Prince, brother of George III, iii. 139, n. 4.
EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson's letter to him, iii. 367;
editing Xenophon, ib.;
death, ib., n. 1.
EDWARDS, Jonathan, _On Grace_, iii. 290.
EDWARDS, Oliver,
Johnson, meets, iii. 302-7; iv. 90;
sends him _The Rambler_, ib;
tried philosophy, iii. 305.
EDWARDS, Thomas, _Canons of Criticism_, i. 263, n. 3.
EDWIN, the comedian, iv. 381, n. 1.
EEL, iii. 381.
EGLINTOUNE, Alexander, tenth Earl of,
calls Johnson a dancing-bear, ii. 66;
his character, v. 374;
death, iii. 188.
EGLINTOUNE, Archibald, eleventh Earl of, iii. 107, 214, 316; v. 149.
EGLINTOUNE, Countess of,
Johnson visits her, v. 373-5;
is adopted by her, iii. 366; v, 375, 401.
_Epilogues_, i. 277.
EGMONT, second Earl of, iv. 198, n. 3; v. 449, n. 1.
EGOTISM, iv. 323.
EGOTISTS, iii. 171.
EGYPT, iii. 233.
EGYPTIANS, ancient, iv. 125.
_Eighteen Hundred and Eleven_, ii. 408, n. 3.
ELD, Mr., iii. 326.
ELDON, Earl of. See SCOTT, John.
ELECTION, General, of 1768, ii. 60, n. 2;
of 1774, ii. 285;
of 1780, iii. 440;
of 1784, iv. 165, n. 3.
ELECTION-COMMITTEES, iv. 74.
ELECTIONS,
boroughs bought, ii. 153;
by Nabobs, v. 106;
lost by vice, iii. 350;
rascals to be driven out of the county, ii. 167, 340.
_Elegy in a Country Churchyard_. See GRAY.
_Elements of Criticism_. See KAMES.
_Elements of Orthoepy_, iv. 389, n. 6.
_Elfrida_, ii. 335.
ELGIN, Earls of, v. 25, n. 2.
ELIBANK, Patrick, fifth Lord, account of him, v. 386;
Boswell, correspondence with, v. 14, 16, 181, 316;
death, v. 181, n. 2;
epitaph on his wife, iv. 10;
Home, patronises, v. 386;
Johnson's definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8;
and the great, iv. 117;
letter to him, v. 182
meets him in Edinburgh, v. 385-8, 393-4;
visits him, v. 394;
power of arguing, iii. 24;
praises him, iii. 24; v. 182, 385;
society, loves, v. 181-2;
Robertson, patronises, v. 386;
admires the moderation of, v. 393;
talk, nothing conclusive in his, iii. 57;
mentioned, ii. 140, 147, 187, 192, 275; v. 307.
ELIOT, Edward, of Port Eliot, first Lord Eliot, Chesterfield, Lord,
praised by, iv. 334, n. 5;
dines at Sir Joshua's, iv. 78, 332;
Goldsmith, sarcasm on, ii. 265, n. 4;
Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, 333;
Johnson and the graces, iii. 54;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iv. 326;
_latiner_, story of a, iv. 185, n. 1;
_young_ Lord, a, iv. 334.
ELIZA, epigram to. See MRS. CARTER.
ELIZABETH, Madame, ii. 394.
ELIZABETH, Queen, authors of her age, iii. 194, n. 2;
fashion to exalt her reign, i. 354;
had learning enough for a bishop, iv. 13.
ELLENBOROUGH, first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1.
ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160.
ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert,
fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1.
ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349.
ELLIOT,--, iii. 352, n. 2.
ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2.
ELLIS, 'Jack,' a scrivener, iii. 21.
ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4.
ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116.
ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289.
ELOCUTION, iv. 206.
ELPHINSTON, James, _Forty Years Correspondence_, ii. 305;
Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters;
_Martial_, translation of, iii. 258;
manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379;
mother, loses his, i. 211;
_Rambler_, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210;
translates the mottoes, i. 225;
reading books through, on, ii. 226;
school, his, ii. 171, 226;
mentioned, ii. 30.
ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91.
ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1.
_Elvira_, i. 408.
ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251.
ELWALLIANS, ii. 164.
ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope's _Universal Prayer_, iii. 346, n. 3.
_Embellishment_, iii. 209.
EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231;
effects of it on population, iii. 232;
on happiness, v. 27;
caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3;
immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration.
EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222.
EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464.
EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT.
EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234.
EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99.
ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7.
ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3;
Condition (1780), 'difficulty very general,' iii. 420;
(1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4;
(1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173;
dreadful confusion, iv. 249:
times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2;
Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1;
common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1;
cruelty to black men, ii. 479;
Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186;
felicity in its inns, ii. 451;
genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1;
government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
history of it scarcely credible, v. 340;
knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3;
language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3;
literature: See LITERATURE;
lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78;
loyal in general, ii. 370;
poor, provision for the, ii. 130;
reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125;
Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1;
reserve, English, iv. 191, 284;
roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2;
slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480;
stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217.
_England's Gazetteer_, iv. 311.
_English Humourists_, i. 199, n, 2.
_English Malady, The_, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1.
_English Poets, Bell's_, ii. 453, n. 2.
ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE
_Englishman in Paris_, ii. 395, n. 2.
ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428;
Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423;
Johnson's letters on it, ii. 415-423;
limits should be set, ii. 428-9;
nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101.
ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7;
in farming, v. 111.
ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33.
_Enucleated_, iii. 346.
ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271.
EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1.
EPICTETUS, v. 279.
EPICUREAN in _Lucian_, iii. 10.
EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259.
EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY.
_Epistle of St. Basil_, iv. 20.
EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1;
Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366;
man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212;
mixed languages or styles, iv. 444;
the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443.
_Epitaphs, Essay on_, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1.
_Epocha_, iii. 128.
EPSOM, iii. 453.
EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219;
none happy in it, iii. 26;
mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1;
natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202.
See SUBORDINATION.
_Equitation_, v. 131.
ERASMUS, _Adagiorum Chiliades_, iv. 379, n. 2;
_battologia_, v. 444;
_Ciceronianus_, iv. 353;
Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2;
epigram on him, v. 430;
_Letter to the Nuns_, v. 446;
_Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3;
_Manita Paedagogica_, quoted, i. 418, n. 2.
ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1.
ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103;
says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104;
his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104;
educates a surgeon, v. 101;
portrait by Reynolds, v. 102.
ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130.
ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204.
ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse.
ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew,
_Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 408;
poet and critick, iii. 150.
ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Hon. Archibald, v. 387.
ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386.
ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4.
ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine),
account of him, ii. 173, n. 1;
Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177;
Richardson tedious, finds, ii. 174;
sermons, preached two, ii. 176.
ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391.
ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255.
_Esdras_, ii. 189, n. 3.
ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247.
ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1.
_Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough_, i. 153.
_Essay on Architecture_, i. 306.
_Essay on Death_, ii. 107, n. 1.
_Essay of Dramatick Poesie_, i. 197, n. 2.
_Essay on Epitaphs. See_ EPITAPHS.
_Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise
Lost_, i, 230.
_Essay on the Future Life of Brutes_, ii. 54, n. 1.
_Essay on the Origin of Evil. See_ KING, Archbishop.
_Essay on Truth. See_ BEATTIE, Dr.
_Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule_, iv. 105, n. 4.
_Essays on the History of Mankind_, iii. 436, n. 1.
_Essays on Husbandry_, iv. 78, n. 3.
ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215;
militia, i. 307, n. 4.
ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2.
ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of,
advice about travelling, i. 431;
_Queen Elizabeth's Champion_, written in his honour, v. 241.
ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249;
settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432;
succession in ancient estates, ii. 261;
in those got by trade, ib.
ESTE, House of, i. 383.
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200.
ETERNITY, v. 154.
ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3.
ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1.
ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12;
dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5;
boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1;
line attributed to a boy, iii. 304;
Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1;
Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1;
Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97.
_Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae_, i. 186, n. 2.
_Etymologicum Anglicanum_, i. 186, n. 2.
ETYMOLOGIES. _See Dictionary_.
EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180.
_Eugenio,_ i. 122; ii. 240.
EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394.
EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2.
EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4.
EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in _Hecuba_, v. 79;
armorial bearings, ii. 179;
'every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1;
fragments, iv. 181, n. 3;
Barnes's edition, ib.;
Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311;
Markland's edition, iv. 161, n. 3;
quoted, i. 277;
mentioned, iv. 2.
_European Magazine,_ i. 361, n. 2.
EUTROPIUS, ii. 237.
_Evangelical History Harmonized,_ iv. 381, n. 1.
EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451.
EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443.
EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2.
EVANS, Lewis, _Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies_, i. 309.
EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209.
EVANS, Mr., iii. 422.
_Evelina. See_ Miss BURNEY.
_Evening Post,_ iv. 140, n. 1.
EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299.
_Every island is a prison_, iii. 269; v. 256.
EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366.
EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3.
EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45.
EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136;
checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3;
instances of it--depths of places filled up, v. 292;
earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3;
editions of _Thomas à Kempis_, iii. 226, n. 4;
opera girls in France, iv. 171.
_Examen of Pope's Essay on Man_, i. 137.
_Examiner, The_ (1873), iv. 202, n. 1.
EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1.
EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9.
EXCISE, defined, i. 294;
origin of Johnson's violence against it, i. 36, n. 5.
_Excursion, The,_ ii. 26.
EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5,
iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2;
Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL;
condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273;
capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1;
Newgate, removed to, iv. 188;
_Rambler_, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3;
Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9.
EXECUTORS, v. 106.
EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1;
relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446;
renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2.
EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2;
George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77.
EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273.
EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY.
EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53;
terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE.
EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2.
EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY.
EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454.
_Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost_, i. 128, n. 2.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.