174; biography, excellence in, i. 25, 256; love of it: see BIOGRAPHY; Birmingham Journal, writes for the, i. 85; birth and rank, respect for, ii. l30, l53, 26l, 328; v. 103, 353; birth and parentage, i. 34; birth-day, disliked mention of his, at Ashbourne, iii. 157; at Dunvegan, v. 222; escaped from Streatham on it, iii. 398, n. 1; cheerful entry in 1780, iii. 440; gave a dinner on it in 1781, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. l35. n. 1; in 1783, iv. 239, n. 2; reflected on it, v. 457; kept at Streatham, iii. 157, n. 3; bishop, looks like a, v. 363; bleeding, undergoes, iii. 104, 152, n. 3; blood, irritability of his, iv. 190; blushing, iii. 329; Bolt-court, house--ii. 427; drawing-room, iii. 316; kitchen, iii. 461; prints in his dining-room, iv. 202, n. 1; silver salvers, iv. 92; garden, ii. 427, n. 1; iii. 398; stone-seats, iv. 203; Boswell in it for the last time, iv. 337: see JOHNSON, household; bones, horror at, v. 169, 327; books, bidding them farewell, iv. 359; judgment as to their success, iv. 121; loan of them, iv. 371, n. 2; runs to them, ii. 365; tears out their heart, iii. 284; uses them slovenly, ii. 192: see BOOKS, and JOHNSON, library; book-binding, i. 56, n. 2; booksellers, in a company of, iii. 311; borrowed small sums, iv. 191; BOSWELL: see BOSWELL and JOHNSON, letters; bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198; bow-wow way, ii. 326, n. 5; v. 18, n. 1; boxing, conversant in the art of, v. 229, n. 2; breakfast, i. 243, n. 3; ii. 214, 376; iv. 171; in splendour, iii. 400; breeding, good, iii. 54, n. 1; brother, his pretended, v. 295; 'buck, a young English,' v. 184, 261; buffoonery, incomparable at, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2; bull, made a, iv. 322; Burke content to have rung the bell to him, iv. 26-7; respect for him, iv. 318; attacked by him, v. 15, n. 1: see BURKE; burlesque, turns a dispute into, iv. 80, n. 4; business, love of, Clarendon Press, ii. 441; Dr. Taylor's law suit, iii. 44, n. 3; 51, n. 3; Thrale's brewery, iv. 85, n. 2; calculation, fondness for, i. 72; ii. 288-9, 344; iii. 207; error in, ib. n. 3; forgets to use it, iii. 226, n. 4; 'Caliban of literature,' ii. 129, 155, n. 2; called, iv. 94; candour, iv. 192, 239; cards, wished he had learnt, iii. 23; v. 404; careless of documents, v. 364; caricatured, glad to be, v. 400, n. 4; cat, Hodge, his, iv. 197; catalogue of his works: see JOHNSON, works; cathedrals, had seen most of the, iii. 107, 118, 456; ceremonies of life, attentive to the, iii. 54, n. 1; chambers: see JOHNSON, habitations; Chancellor, Lord, might have been, iii. 310; character, his, drawn by himself, iii. 398, n. 3; iv. 45, 168, n. 2, 239; by Baretti, iii. 429, n. 2; Boswell, iv. 420, n. 3, 424-30; v. 17-19; Burney, Miss, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 440, n. 1; iv. 245, n. 2, 426, n. 2; Dodd, iii. 140, n. 2; Hamilton, iv. 420; Mickle, iv. 250; Parr, iv. 47, n. 2; at Ramsay's, iii. 331; Reynolds: see REYNOLDS, Johnson; Robertson, iii 331-2; Taylor, iii. 150; Towers, iv. 41, n. 1; like Baker's character of James I, v. 12; Bayle's of Menage, iv. 428, n. 2; Boerhaave's, iv. 430, n. 1; Clarendon's character of Falkland, iv. 428, n. 2; Dryden's, i. 264, n. 1; iv. 45; Harington's of Bishop Still, iv. 420, n. 3; Milton's, i. 97, n. 2, 131, n. 2, 199, n. 3; Savage's, i. 166, n. 4; character, said by Baretti to be ignorant of, v. 17, n. 2; characters, saw a great variety, iii. 20; drew strong yet nice portraits, ib.; too much in light and shade, ii. 306; overcharged, iii. 332; charity to the poor, iv. 132, 191: see JOHNSON, Almsgiving; Charles of Sweden, i. 153, n. 4; chastity in his youth, i. 94; Savage's example, i. 164; iv. 395-7; chemistry, love of, i. 140, 436; iii. 398; iv. 237; chief, would have made a good, v. 136, 143; child, never wished to have a, iii. 29; childhood, companions of his, iii. 131; children, books for, iv. 8, n. 3; children, love of little, iv. 196; Christianity, projected work on, v. 89; church, attendances due at, i. 67, n. 2; iii. 401; behaviour in it, ii. 214; lateness in arriving at it, ii. 476; iii. 302, n. 1, 313, n, 1; perturbation, without, at it, ii. 476; some radiations of comfort at it, iii. 17, n. 2, 25, n. l; reluctance to go to it, i. 67; ii. 142, n. 2, 214, n. 2; resolutions at it, i. 500; Church of England, devotion to the, iii. 331; iv. 426; v. 17; church preferment, offer of, i. 320, 476; ii. 120; civilized life in the Hebrides, longs for, v. 183; clergymen should not be taught elocution, iv. 206; Clerkenwell ale-house, i. 113, n. 1; climb over a wall at Oxford, proposes to, i. 348; Club, Literary, attendance, i. 480, n. 2; ii. 136; iii. 106, n. 4; dislike of some of the members, iii.