B.

B—­D, Mr., Johnson’s letter to, ii, 207. 
BABY, Johnson as nurse to one newborn, ii. 100. 
BABYLON, i. 250. 
BACH, ii. 364, n. 3. 
BACON, Francis, Advancement of Learning, i. 34, n. 1;
  argument and testimony, on, iv. 281;
  conversation, precept for, iv. 236;
  death, the stroke of, ii. 107, n. 1;
  delight in superiority natural, iv. 164, n. 1;
  Essays estimated by Burke and Johnson, iii. 194, n. 1;
  Essay of Truth quoted, iv. 221, n. 3;
  Essay on Vicissitude, v. 117, n. 4;
  healthy old man like a tower undermined, iv. 277;
  History of Henry VII., v. 220;
  introduction of new doctrines, on the, iii. 11, n. 1;
  Johnson intends to edit his works, iii. 194;
  ‘Kings desire the end, but not the means,’ v. 232, n. 4;
  Life by Mallet, iii. 194;
  ‘roughness breedeth hate,’ iv. 168, n. 2;
  Sanquhar’s trial, v. 103, n. 2;
  style, i. 219;
  Turks, their want of Stirpes, ii. 421;
  ‘who then to frail mortality,’ &c., v. 89;
  mentioned, i. 431, n. 2; ii. 53, n. 2, 158. 
BACON, John, R.A., Johnson’s monument, iv. 424, 444. 
BADCOCK, Rev. Samuel, anecdotes of Johnson, iv. 407, n. 4;
  White’s Bampton Lectures, iv. 443, n. 5. 
BADENOCH, Lord of, v. 114. 
BAGSHAW, Rev. Thomas, Johnson’s letters to him, ii. 258, n. 3; iv. 351. 
BAILEY, Nathan, v. 419. 
BAILY, Hetty, iv. 143. 
BAKER, Sir George, iv. 165, n. 3, 355. 
BAKER, ——­, an engraver, iv. 421, n. 2. 
BAKER, Mrs., ii. 31.
Bakers Biographia Dramatica, iv. 37, n. 1.
Baker’s Chronicle, v. 12. 
BALDWIN, Henry, the printer, i. 10, 15; ii. 34, n. 1; iv. 321; v. 1, n. 5. 
BALFOUR, John, v. 39, n. 2. 
BALIOL, John, v. 204. 
BALLADS, modern imitations ridiculed, ii. 212. 
BALLANTYNE, Messrs., v. 253, n. 3. 
BALLINACRAZY, a young man of, iii. 252. 
BALLOONS, account of them, iv. 356, n. 1;
  failure of one, iv. 355-6;
  first ascent, iv. 357, n. 3;
  mere amusement, iv. 358;
  one burnt, ib.;
  paying for seats, iv. 359;
  wings, ib.;
    ‘do not write about the balloon,’ iv. 368;
      at Oxford, iv. 378. 
BALLOW, Henry, a lawyer, iii. 22. 
BALMERINO, Lord, i. 180; v. 406, n. 3. 
BALMUTO, Lord, v. 70, n. 1. 
BALTIC, Johnson’s projected tour, ii. 288, n. 3; iii. 134, 454. 
BALTIMORE, Lord, iii. 9, n. 4. 
BAMBALOES, v. 55, n. 1. 
BANCROFT, Bishop, i. 59. 
BANKS, Sir Joseph,
  admires Johnson’s description of Iona, iii. 173, n, 3; v. 334 n. 1;
  letter to him, and motto for his goat, ii. 144;
    funeral, at, iv. 419;
  Literary Club, i. 479; iii. 365, 368;
  proposed expedition, ii. 147, 148; iii. 454;
    accompanies Captain Cook, v. 328, n. 2, 392, n. 6;
    account of Otaheite, v. 246. 
BANKS, ——­, of Dorsetshire, i. 145.