Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
  Henault, ii. 383, n. 1;
  History of the War in 1741, v. 272;
  Histoire de Louis XIV, v. 393;
  Holbach’s Systeme de la Nature, v. 47, n. 4;
  Hume, his echo, ii. 53;
  insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414;
  Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1;
    praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2;
      his reply, i. 499;
    and Frederick the Great, i. 434;
  Julia Mandeville, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1;
  Le desastre de Lisbonne, iv. 302, n. 1;
  Le Monde comme il va, i. 344, n. 2;
  Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5;
  Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123;
    and Mlle. de la Valliere, v. 49, n. 3;
    loved a striking story, iii. 414;
  Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1;
  Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5;
  master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1;
  Maupertuis’s death, ii. 54, n. 3;
  middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Montagu’s, Mrs., Essay, ii. 88;
  Moreri, v. 311, n. 1;
  narrator, good, ii. 125;
  Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2;
  Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5;
  Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1;
  Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200;
  read less than formerly, iv. 288;
  Reynolds’s allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4;
  Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12;
  Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3;
  made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2;
  Stuart, House of, v. 200;
  torture in France, i. 467, n. 1;
  trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311;
  Universal History, v. 311;
  Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum, ii. 406;
  Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
  witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1;
  wonders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3. 
Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2. 
Voting, privilege of, ii. 340. 
Vows, Cowley’s lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1;
  Johnson’s warning against them, ii. 21;
  a snare for sin, iii. 357;
  if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1.
Vox Viva, v. 324.
Voyage to Lisbon, i. 269, n. 1.
Voyages to the South Sea.  See SOUTH SEA. 
Vranyken, University of, i. 475. 
Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216. 
Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125;
  Johnson’s letter to him, iii. 125;
  mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.

W.

Wade, General,
  calls the M’Farlane Mr. M’Farlane, v. 156, n. 3;
  his Hut, v. 134. 
Wager, Charles, ii. 164, n. 5. 
Wages, raising those of day-labourers wrong, iv. 176; v. 263;
  women-servants’ less than men-servants’, ii. 217. 
Wake, Archbishop, ii. 342, n. 1. 
Waldegrave, Lady, ii. 224, n. 1. 
Wales, Abergeley, v. 446;
  Angle-sea, ii. 284; v. 447;

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