1;
    in Paris, ii. 401, n. 4;
    praise of Scotch writers, iv. 186, n. 2;
    predecessors in history, ii. 53, n. 2;
    Scotticisms, ii. 72, n. 2;
    Toryism, iv. 194, n. 1;
  King’s College, Aberdeen, v. 91, n. 1;
  Scotch Militia Bill, iii. 360, n. 3. 
BURTON, Robert,
  Anatomy of Melancholy made Johnson rise earlier, ii. 121;
    recommended by him, 440;
  ‘Be not solitary; be not idle,’ iii. 415;
  elected student of Christ Church, i. 59.
Burton’s Books, iv. 257. 
BURTON-ON-TRENT, i. 86, n. 2. 
BUSCH, Dr., iv. 27, n. 1. 
BUSINESS, retiring from, ii. 337. 
BUSTLING, v. 307.
Busy Body, i. 325, n. 3.
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, ii. 281. 
BUTCHER, the art of a, v. 246-7. 
BUTE, third Earl of,
  Adams the architect, patronises, ii. 325, n. 3;
  a book-minister, ii. 353;
  his Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 135, n. 2;
  concessions to the people, ii. 353;
  daughter-in-law, his, ii. 378, n. 1;
  favourite of George III, i. 386;
    and of the Princess Dowager of Wales, iv. 127, n. 3;
  Humphry Clinker, mentioned in, ii. 81, n. 2;
  Jenkinson, his secretary, iii. 146, n. 1;
  Johnson’s letters to him, i. 376, 380;
  Johnson’s pension, i. 372-377; iv. 168, n. 1;
  Luton Hoe, iv. 118;
    purchase of the estate, 127, n. 3;
  minister, when once, should not have resigned, ii. 470;
  pensions conferred by him, i. 373, n. 1;
  Scotchmen, partiality to, ii. 354;
  Scotland, never goes to, iv. 131;
  Shelburne on his strengthening the power of the Crown, iii. 416, n. 2;
  Shelburne’s ‘pious fraud,’ iv. 174, n. 5;
  son, his, Colonel James Stuart, iii. 399;
  took down too fast, ii. 356;
  Wilkes attacks him, ii. 300, n. 5;
    dedicates to him Mortimer, iii. 78. 
BUTE, first Marquis of.  See MOUNTSTUART, Lord. 
BUTLER, Bishop, Analogy, v. 47. 
BUTLER, Samuel,
  Hudibras,
    bullion which will last, ii. 369;
    not a poem, iii. 38;
    shows strength of political principles, ii. 369;
    seldom read, ii. 370, n. 1;
    quotations from it: 
      ‘H’ was very shy of using it,’ iii. 282, n. 1;
      ‘Indian Britons made from Penguins,’ v. 225;
      ‘Jacob Behmen understood,’ ii. 122, n. 6;
      ‘True as the dial to the sun,’ iv. 296, n. 2;
      ‘Thou wilt at best but suck a bull,’ i. 444, n. 1;
      ‘The Devil was the first,’ &c., iii. 326, n. 3;
  Remains, v. 57. 
BUTT, Mr., i. 47, n. 1. 
BUTTER, Dr., ii. 475, n, 1; iii. 1, 154, 163; iv. 110, 399, 402, n. 2. 
BUTTER, Mrs., iii. 164. 
BUTTON-HOLE ACT, v. 18, n. 5. 
BUXTON, iii. 152; v. 432. 
BYNG, Admiral,
  Appeal to the People concerning, i. 309, 314;
  Letter on the case of, i. 309;
  Some further particulars by a gentleman of Oxford, i. 309;