119; calls him 'a bigot to laxness,' v. 120; praises his magnanimity, ii. 51, 150; v. 278. MACAULAY, Mrs. Kenneth, Johnson offers to get a servitorship for her son, ii, 380; v. 122; mentioned, v. 119. MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay), ancestors, ii. 51, n. 2; v. 118, n. 1, 355, n. 1; Addison, Essay on, iv. 53, n. 3; anfractuosity, iv. 4, n. 1; Bentley and Boyle, v. 238, n. 1; 'brilliant flashes of silence,' v. 360, n. 1; Boswell as a biographer, i. 30, n. 3; Burke's first speech, ii. 16, n. 2; Campbell's, Dr., Diary, ii. 338, n. 2; Chesterfield, Earl of, eminence of the, ii. 329, n. 3; Crisp, Mr., account of, iv. 239, n. 3; Croker's 'blunders,' ii. 338, n. 2; criticism on Ad Lauram Epigramma, i. 157, n. 5; Greek, v. 234, n. 1; Latin, iv. 144, n. 2; and the Marquis of Montrose, v. 298, n. 1; and Prince Titi, ii. 391, n. 4; feeling and dining, on, ii. 94, n. 2; Gibbon's reported Mahometanism, ii. 448, n. 2; Hastings's answer to Johnson's letter, iv. 70, n. 2; Hastings and the study of Persian, iv. 68, n. 2; House of Ormond, i. 281, n. 1; imagination, described, iii. 455; Johnson's blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; and Boswell on the non-jurors, iv. 286, n. 3, 287, n. 2; called, iv. 94, n. 4; and Cecilia, iv. 223, n. 5, 389, n. 4; contempt of histories, iv. 312, n. 1; etymologies, i. 186, n. 5; and Horne Tooke, i. 297, n. 2; household, i. 232; ill-fed roast mutton, iv. 284, n. 4; knowledge of the science of human nature, iii. 450; of London and the country, ib.; talk and style of writing, iv. 237, n. 1; v. 145, n. 2; translation of his own sayings, iv. 320, n. 2; on travelling, Appendix B, iii. 449-59; King's evil, i. 42, n. 3; Literary Club, i. 477, n. 4; Mattaire's use of Carteret as a dactyl, iv. 3; Pitt's peerages, iv. 249, n. 4; treatment of Johnson and Gibbon, iv. 350, n. 1; Prendergrass, ii. 183, n. 1; Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2; Thrale's, Mrs., second marriage, iii. 49, n. 1; Warburton, the, of our age, ii. 36, n. 2; William III and Dodwell, v. 437, n. 3; window tax, v. 301, n. 1. MACAULEY, Dr. (Cock Lane Ghost), (probably Dr. Macaulay, the husband of Mrs. Macaulay the historian), i. 407, n. 3. MACBEAN, Alexander, Johnson's amanuensis, account of him, i. 187; calling, on, iv. 94; Charterhouse, brother of the, i. 187; iii. 440-1; death, iii. 44l, n. 3; stood as a screen between Johnson and death, ib.; Johnson's Preface to his Geography, i. 187; ii. 204; learning, a man of great, iii. 106; starving, ii. 379, n. 1; mentioned, i. 138, 139; iii. 25. MACBEAN, the younger, i. 187. Macbeth, Miscellaneous Observations on, i. 175. For Macbeth, See under SHAKESPEARE. Maccabees, Johnson looks into the, ii. 189, n. 3. Maccaroni, a, v. 84. MACCARONIC verses, iii. 283. MACCLESFIELD, v. 432. MACCLESFIELD, Charles Gerard, Earl of, Bill of Divorce, i. 170, n. 5. MACCLESFIELD, Countess of, account of her, i. 174, n. 2; divorced, i. 170; marries Colonel Brett, i. 174, n. 2; Savage's reputed mother, i. 166, n. 4; evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4; reproached at Bath, i. 174, n. 1. MACCLESFIELD, Thomas Parker, first Earl of, i. 157. MACCLESFIELD, George Parker, second Earl of, i. 267, n. 1. MACCONOCHIE--, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213. MACCRUSLICK, v. 166, n. 2. MACDONALD, Clan of, ii. 269, 270. MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, of Slate (father of Sir James and Sir Alexander Macdonald), v. 174, 188, 260. MACDONALD, Sir Alexander, first Lord Macdonald, arms rusty, his, v. 151, 355; Boswell and Johnson try to rouse him, v. 150-1; feudal system, attacks the, ii. 177; flees from his tenants, v. 150, n. 3; Johnson, introduced to, ii. 157; invites him to visit him, v. 14; inhospitality, ii. 303, n. 1; v. 148, n. 1, 157, n. 2; 'a very penurious gentleman,' v. 277, 279; anecdotes of his penuriousness, v. 315-6; passages suppressed by Boswell, v. 148, n. 1, 415, n. 4; landlord, an oppressive, v. 149, 161; Latin verses, his bad, v. 419; sugar-tongs in his house, absence of, v. 22, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 169, n. 2, 173, 191, n. 2; v. 275. MACDONALD, Lady, wife of the first Lord Macdonald, ii. 169, n. 2; v. 147. MACDONALD, Alexander, of Kingsburgh (old Kingsburgh), his annuity, v. 257-8; helps the Pretender, v. 188-9; examined, v. 259-60; mentioned, v. 160-1. MACDONALD of Kingsburgh, the younger, account of him, v. 184; emigrates, v. 185; mentioned, v. 205-6. MACDONALD, old Mrs. of Kingsburgh, v. 190. MACDONALD, Archibald, M.P., v. 153, n. 1. MACDONALD of Clanranold, v. 158. MACDONALD, Sir Donald, v. 147. MACDONALD, Donald, v. 149. MACDONALD, Donald (Donald Roy), v. 190-1. MACDONALD, Flora, wife of Macdonald of Kingsburgh, Account of her adventures, v. 187-191, 201, 259; Courtenay's Poetical Review, mentioned in, ii. 268; emigrates, v. 185, n. 3; courage on board ship, ib.; health drunk on Jan.

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