fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79;
  literary, ii. 40; v. 240;
  method of writing it, i. 32;
  men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238;
    ‘common cant’ against it, iii. 275, n. 2;
  minute particulars to be given, i. 33;
    and peculiarities, iii. 154;
  rarely well executed, ii. 446;
  vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155;
  writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5. 
BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D.,
  account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2;
    by I. D’Israeli, i. 159, n. 4;
  anecdotes, full of, v. 255;
  conversation and writings, i. 159;
  correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138;
    Cave, i. 139, 150-3;
    Johnson, i. 160, 226, 285;
    Earl of Orrery, i. 185;
  History of the Royal Society, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2;
  Johnson’s epigram to him, i. 140;
  Raleigh’s smaller pieces, edits, i. 226;
  Rambler, anecdote of the, i. 203, n. 6;
  Society for the Encouragement of Learning, member of the, i. 153, n. 2. 
BIRDS, migration of, ii. 248;
  nidification, 249. 
BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 57, n. 2. 
BIRMINGHAM,—­Birmingham Journal, i. 85, n. 3;
  Birmingham Daily Post_, i. 85, n. 3; ‘boobies of Birmingham,’ ii. 464;
  book-shops, i. 36, 85, n. 3;
  buttons, v. 458;
  Castle Inn, i. 92, n. 1;
  cost of living in 1750, i. 103, n. 2;
  Directory for 1770, v. 458, n. 1;
  Edinburgh, likeness to, v. 23, n. 2;
  Hector’s house, ii. 456, n. 2;
  in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
  Johnson’s head on copper coins, iv. 421, n. 2;
    reads The History of Birmingham, iv. 218, n. 1;
    resides there, i. 85-7, 90-6;
    visits it in 1761-2, i. 370, n. 5;
      in 1774, v. 458;
      in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 456;
      in 1781, iv. 135;
      in 1784, iv. 375;
    jealousy of the manufacturers, ii. 459, n. 1;
  Old Square, ii. 456, n. 2;
  rapid growth of population, iii. 450;
  riots of 1791, i. 86, n. 3; iv. 238, n. 1;
  Soho, ii. 459;
  St. Martin’s Church, i. 90, n. 3;
  Stork Hotel, ii. 456, n. 2;
  Swan Tavern, i. 85, n. 3. 
BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 73. 
BIRTH, respect for.  See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON.
Bis dat qui cito dat, ii. 290, n. 4. 
BISCAY, language of, i. 322. 
BISHOP, contradicting one, iv. 274;
  House of Lords, in the, ii. 171;
  how made, ii. 352; v. 80;
  Johnson dines with two Bishops in Passion Week, iv. 88-9;
  learning, their, iv. 13;
    dulness, ib. n. 3;
  liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295;
  losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1;
  ‘necessity of holding preferments in commendam,’ iv. 118, n. 2;
  ‘Seven Bishops,’ iv. 287;
  tippling-house, at a, iv. 75;
  a rout, ib.  See HIERARCHY.
Bishop, a bowl of, i. 251. 
BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62. 
BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2.