4; v. 174;
  Barnes’s Greek, iv. 19, n. 2;
  Boyle, attacked by, v. 238, n. 1;
  Cunninghame, criticised by, v. 373;
  Epistles of Phalaris, iv. 443;
  Horace, Comments on, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1;
  Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174;
  ‘no man written down but by himself,’ i. 381, n. 3; v. 274;
  Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4;
  Preface to his edition of Paradise Lost, iv. 24, n. 1;
  scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217;
  Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4;
  studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316;
  verses, his, iv. 23;
  Wasse’s Greek Trochaics, v. 445. 
BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1. 
BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4. 
BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284. 
BERKELEY, Bishop,
  Burke’s projected answer to his theory, i. 471;
  non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27;
  profound scholar, ii. 132;
  ‘reverie,’ his, iii. 165;
  Warburton’s ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1. 
BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90. 
BERWICK, ii. 266. 
BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286. 
BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263. 
BEST, H. D.,
  Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
  George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1;
  Johnson’s visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1. 
BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208. 
BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185. 
BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2. 
BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1.
Betty Broom, iv. 246. 
BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134. 
BEZA, ii. 289. 
BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5. 
BIBLE, The,
  calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2;
  Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3;
  should be read with a commentary, iii. 58;
  subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151.
Bibliopole, ii. 345.
Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153.
Bibliotheca Literaria, v. 445.
Bibliotheque, Johnson’s scheme of a, i. 283-285.
Bibl. des Fees_, ii. 391.
Bibliotheque des Savans, i. 323. 
BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, account of him, ii. 82, n. 3;
  mentioned, ii. 84. 
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315.
Big, Johnson’s use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425.
Big man, ii. 14. 
BIGAMY, v. 217.
Bills, i. 376. 
BINDLEY, James, i. 15. 
BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331.
Biographia Britannica, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4;
  Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447;
  Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174;
    edited by Kippis, ib.;
      account of it, ib. n. 3. 
BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376. 
BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71;
  best when autobiography, i. 25;
  can be written only by a man’s intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3;
  Goldsmith’s praise of it, v. 79, n. 3;
  Johnson’s excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5;