4;
  ‘There lived a young man’ &c., quotes, iii. 252;
  mentioned, iii. 254; iv.  I, n. 1. 
RANBY, John,
  Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, iii. 205. 
RANGER, the character of, ii. 50. 
RANK,
  its claims, iii. 55;
  Johnson’s respect for it, i. 443, 447-8;
  morals of high people, iii. 353. 
RANKE, Professor, Sixtus Quintus, v. 239, n. 
RAPHAEL,
  Johnson admires his pictures, ii. 392;
  mentioned, i. 248, n. 3. 
RAPTURIST, ii. 41, n. 1. 
RASAY, the Macleods of,
  account of them, v. 165, 167;
  estates, v. 412, n. 2;
  family happiness, v. 178;
  league with the Macdonalds, v. 174;
  Johnson compliments them in his Journey, ii. 304;
  they praise him, ib. 
RASAY, John Macleod, Laird of, ‘Macgillichallum,’ v. 161, n. 2;
  his carriage, v. 162, 179, n. 2;
  income, v. 165, n. 2;
  patriarchal life, v. 167;
  befriends the Pretender, v. 190-5;
  Johnson’s mistake about the chieftainship, ii. 303, 380, 382, 411;
    correspondence about it, v. 410-413;
    entertained by, ii. 305; iv. 155; v. 413, n. 1;
    visits him, v. 165-179, 183. 
RASAY, old Laird of, out in the ’45, v. 174, 188, 190, 199.
Rascal, Johnson’s use of the term, iii. 1.
Rasselas,
  account of its publication, i. 340-4;
    date of its composition and publication, i. 342, n. 2, 516;
    editions,
      first, i. 340, n, 3;
      fifth, ii. 208, n. 3;
      an American one, ii. 207;
    origin of the name, i. 340, n. 3;
    price paid for it, i. 341;
    translations, i. 341; ii. 208;
      in French by Baretti, ib., n. 2;
    written in the evenings of one week to pay the expenses of
Johnson’s mother’s funeral, i. 341;
  Boswell’s yearly reading, i. 342; iii. 133;
    made unhappy by it, iii. 317;
  Candide, compared with, i. 342; iii. 356;
  choice of life, ii. 22, n. l;
  civilisation, advantages of, ii. 73, n. 3;
  Europeans, the power of the, iv. 119;
  Gough Square, written in, iii. 405, n. 6;
  Imlac and the Great Mogul, ii. 40, n. 4;
  influence of places on the mind, v. 334, n. 1;
  Johnson reads it in 1781, iv. 119;
  Lobo’s Abyssinia, partly suggested by, i. 89;
  Macaulay’s, Dr. J., Bibliography, ii. 208, n. 3;
  marriages, late, ii. 128, n. 4;
  misery of life, the, iii. 317;
  praise to an old man, i. 339, n. 3;
  resolutions, ii. 113, n. 3;
  retirement from the world, v. 62, nn. 1 and 4;
  scholar, the business of a, ii. 119, n. 1;
  solitude of a great city, iii. 379, n. 2;
  sorrow, the cure for, iii. 6;
  spirits of the dead, i. 343;
  travelling in Europe, i. 340, n. 1;
  Vanity of Human Wishes, resemblance to the, i. 342. 
RAT,
  grey or Hanover, ii. 455;
  ‘Now, Muse, let’s sing of Rats,’ ii. 453. 
RAWLINSON, Dr., iv. 161.