v. 213;
  accuracy:  See below, Authenticity;
  activity, v. 52, n. 6, 168;
  Address to the King, carries an, iv. 265, 267;
  Advocate, admitted as an, ii. 20:  See below, Counsel;
  affectation of distress, iv. 71, 379;
  allowance from his father of L300 a year, iii. 93, n. 1;
  Alnwick, visits, ii. 142;
  ambiguous prayer, his, iii. 391, n. 3;
  ambition, iii. 179, n. 1;
  America, ignorance of, ii. 293, 312, n. 4;
  Americans, sides with the, ii. 294, 312; iii. 205-7; iv. 81, 259;
  ancestry, Thomas Boswell, ii. 413; iv. 198;
  Veronica Sommelsdyck, v. 25, n. 2;
  Robert Bruce, ib.;
  Boswells of Balmuto, v. 70;
  anonymous mention of himself, ii. 14, 56, 84, 193, 227, n. 1, 330,
n. 2, 436, n. 1, 449, n. 1; iii. 49, n 2, 57, n. 3, 237, n. 3, 407, n. 1;
iv. 173, 274;
  antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3;
  archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1;
  army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52;
  fancies himself a military man, v. 125;
  Ashbourne, visits, iii. 127,131, 135-208;
  Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379;
  authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2;
iv. 83; v. 1, 419;
  avidity for delight, iii. 415;
  bar, enters at the:  See below, English Bar;
  Barbauld’s, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1;
  Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1;
  Bath, visits, iii. 45;
  Bristol, 50;
  bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1;
  Beauclerk’s hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2;
  birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3;
  birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380;
  birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1;
  bishops, on, iv. 75;
  ‘Blood:’  See above, Birth and Gentility;
  boastful, iv. 193;
  Bologna, at, v. 115;
  books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360;
    Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91;
  Boswell, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1;
  ‘Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,’ i. 190, n. 4;
  boy, longer than others, v. 308;
  ‘Bozzy,’ ii. 258;
  British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1;
  Burke, visits, iv. 210;
  bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372
  Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1;
  cards, spends a night at, iii. 377;
  Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127;
  celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64: 
    See below, Great Men;
  changefulness, wretched, iii. 193;
  character,
    Johnson’s account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52;
    Paoli’s, i. 6, n. 2;
    Lord Stowell’s, v. 52, n. 6: 
    See above, Account of himself;
  Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
  Chester, visits, iii. 413;
    his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415;
  ‘Chief, my Yorkshire,’ ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439;