BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1. 
BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401.
Black dog, the, iii. 414. 
BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251. 
BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120. 
BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1. 
BLACKIE’S Etymological Geography, v. 237, n. 3. 
BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466;
  Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2;
    tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3;
  Johnson, meets, v. 47;
    talks of scepticism, ib.;
  letter in explanation, v. 417;
  Poems, quotation from his, i. 334;
  mentioned, v. 394. 
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4;
    teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2;
  Creation, his, ii. 108;
  honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107;
  Johnson adds him to the Lives, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6;
    describes himself in the Life, iv. 55;
    saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1;
  Literary Club of Lay Monks, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2;
  supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108;
  Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1. 
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, Borough English, v. 320;
  Commentaries written when he had little practice, ii. 430;
  composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91;
  crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4;
  Hackman’s trial, iii. 384;
  Hawkins’s Siege of Aleppo, approves of, iii. 259;
  House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202;
  legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2;
  Pembroke College, member of, i. 75;
  portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 91, n. 2;
  stultifying oneself, v. 342, n. 1. 
BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4. 
BLACKWELL, Thomas, Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, i. 309, 311. 
BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1. 
BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30. 
BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346. 
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402;
  Boswell’s lowing like a cow, v. 396;
  composed slowly, v. 67;
  conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3;
  Dissertation on Ossian, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50;
  Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63;
    ‘den,’ i. 395;
    misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278;
    record of a talk with, v. 398;
  Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172;
  Lectures on Rhetoric, iii. 172;
  Pope, anecdotes of, iii. 402-3;
  preached in a shamefully dirty church, v. 41;
  ‘Scotchman, though the dog is a,’ &c., iv. 98;
  Sermons, publication, iii. 97;
    price paid, iii. 98;
    popularity, iii. 167, n. 2, 211;
    Johnson praises them, iii. 97, 104, 109, 167, 211; iv. 98;
      but criticises the Sermon on Devotion, iii. 338;
  whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1;
  mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 387, 394. 
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. John, iii. 402. 
BLAIR, Rev. Robert, iii. 47, n. 3. 
BLAIR, Robert, Solicitor-General of Scotland, iii. 47, n. 3.