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RABELAIS, Garagantua, iii. 256;
  surpassed by Johnson, ii. 231.
Race, The, by Mercurius Spur, Esq., ii. 31. 
RACINE, ‘goes round the world,’ v. 311. 
RACKSTROW, Colonel, of the Trained Bands, iv. 319. 
RADCLIFFE, Charles, his execution, i. 180. 
RADCLIFFE, Dr., Master of Pembroke College, i. 271. 
RADCLIFFE, Dr. John, travelling fellowships, iv. 293. 
RADICALS, iii. 460. 
RALEIGH, Sir Walter, autograph letter, i. 227;
  Birch edits his smaller pieces, i. 226;
  execution, his, i. 180, n. 2;
  Johnson mentions his Works in the preface to his_ Dictionary_,
iii. 194, n. 2. 
RALPH, James, The Champion, i. 169, n. 2.
Rambler, account of it, i. 201-226;
  contributors, i. 203, 208, n. 3;
  editions and sale, i. 208, 212, 255;
    Scotch edition, i. 210;
  revision of collected edition, i. 203, n. 6;
  publication, i. 202;
  sale of a sixteenth-share, ii. 208, n. 3;
  hastily written, i. 203; iii. 42;
  could be made better, iv. 309;
  hints for essays, i. 204-7;
  origin of the name, i. 202;
  style, i. 217;
  club in an Essex town incensed by it, i. 215;
  friend, learning one’s faults from a, iv. 281, n. 1;
  Garrick and Prospero, i. 216;
  ‘hard words,’ i. 208, n. 3;
  index, iv. 325;
  in Italian, Il Genio errante and Il Vagabondo, iii. 411;
  Johnson’s epitaph, quotation from it in, iv. 445;
    gives a copy to Edwards, iv. 90;
    opinion of it, i. 210, n. 1;
      thinks it ‘too wordy,’ iv. 5;
    portrait prefixed, iv. 421, n. 2;
    wife praises it, i. 210;
  ladies strangely formal, i. 223;
  Langton admires it, i. 247;
  last number, i. 226, 233;
  lessons taught by it, i. 213;
  mottoes translated, i. 210, n. 3, 211, 225;
  Murphy’s translation from the French, i. 356;
  Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, v. 82, n. 2;
  quotation in Colonel Myddelton’s inscription, iv. 443;
  Russian translation, iv. 277;
  Shenstone, praised by, ii. 452;
  suicide, supposed to recommend, iv. 150, n. 2;
  virtuoso, description of a, iv. 314, n. 2; v. 61, n. 5;
  Young’s, Dr., copy, i. 214.
Rambler, Beauties of the, i. 214.
Raniblefs Magazine, i. 202. 
RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet,
  dedication to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3;
  Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220;
  Highland Laddie, v. 184, n. 1. 
RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-painter,
  death, iv. 260, n. 1, 366, n. 1;
  dinners at his house, iii. 331-6,382-3, 407-9;
  house in Harley Street, iii. 391, n. 2;
  Italy, visits, iii. 250; iv. 260;
  Johnson loves him, iii. 336;
    politeness, praises, iii. 331;
  Pope’s poetry less admired than formerly, iii. 332;
  Select Society, founds the, v. 393, n.