315, n. 1. MIDDLESEX Election, Boswell's difference with Johnson, iii. 221; Johnson's discussion with Lord Newhaven, iii. 408; False Alarm, i. 134; ii. 111; Patriot, ii. 286; petitions, ii. 103; Townshend refuses to pay the land-tax, iii. 460. MIDDLETON, Lady Diana, v. 97, n. 5. MIDDLEWICH, v. 432. MIDGELEY, Dr., iv. 200. MIGRATION of birds, ii. 55, 248. MILITARY character and life. See SOLDIERS. Military Dictionary, i. 138. MILITARY spirit, injured by trade, ii. 218. MILITIA BILL of 1756, i. 36, n. 4; 307, n. 4; ii. 321, n. 4; Act of 1757, iii. 360, n. 3; for Scotch Militia Bill: See under SCOTLAND; drillings in 1778, iii. 360, 365, n. 4; Scotch officers of Militia, iii. 399, n. 2. 'MILKING the bull,' i. 444. MILL, James, birth, v. 75, n. 2; in the East India House, ii. 289, n. 2; likeness to Johnson, iv. III, n. 3. MILL, John Stuart, difference in pay of men and women, on the, ii. 217, n. 1; in the East India House, ii. 289, n. 2; precocity, i. 148, n. 1; teaching, old and new systems of, ii. 146, n. 4. MILLAR, Andrew, the bookseller, account of him, i. 287, n. 3; Hume's History of England, publishes, v. 31, n. 1; Johnson's Dictionary, one of the proprietors of, i. 183; Robertson's Scotland, publishes, iii. 334; 'thanks God,' i. 287; mentioned, i. 243, 303, n. 1. MILLER, Sir John, ii. 338; iii. 68. MILLER, John, printer of the Evening Post, iv. 140, n. 1. MILLER, Lady, ii. 336. MILLER, Philip, v. 78, n. 3, 456, n. 2. MILLER, Professor John, v. 369, n. 5. MILMAN, Dean, iv. 202, n. 1. MILNER, Joseph, i. 458, n. 3. MILTON, John, Adam, description of, iv. 72, n. 3; Areopagitica, ii. 60, n. 3; blank verse, iv. 42-3; puzzles a shepherd, iv. 43, n. 1; Boccage's translation, iv. 331, n. 1; books, few called for in his time, iv. 217, n. 4; borrows out of pride, v. 92, n. 4; Boswell, a wonder to, iv. 42; Malone's explanation, ib., n. 6; character, equal to his, ii. 257, n. 1; confidence in himself, i. 199, n. 3; college exercises, i. 60, n. 6; condescension in writing for children, ii. 408, n. 3; disdainful of help or hindrance, i. 131, n. 2; Dryden's lines on him: ii. 336; v. 86; early manuscripts, i. 204, n. 1; iv. 184, n. 1; education, 'wonders' in, ii. 407, n. 5; frugality of a commonwealth, iii. 292, n. 3; giant among the pigmies, iv. 19, n. 2; grand-daughter, benefit for his, i. 227; Johnson writes the Prologue, ib.; recommends a subscription for her, i. 230; habitations, i. 111; iii. 405; Johnson's abhorrence of his political principles, i. 227; iv. 41-2; admiration of his blank verse, iv. 42, n. 7; blazon of his excellence, iv. 40; does him 'illustrious justice,' i. 227, 230-1; criticises minor poems, iv. 99, n. i, 305; Samson Agonistes, i. 231, n. 2; earlier and later estimates of him, ii. 239; supposed enmity to him, i. 230; ii. 239, n. 2; iv. 64; Lauder's imposition, i. 229; Lawrence, Dr., descended from 'Lawrence of virtuous father virtuous son,' ii. 296, n. 1; Life, by Johnson, iv. 40-4; monument in Westminster Abbey, i. 227, n. 4; one suggested in St. Paul's, ii. 239; 'Milton, Mr. John,' iv. 325; Milton no Plagiary, i. 229, n. 1; Paradise Lost, the war of Heaven, ii. 239, n. 3; Phidias, a, iv. 99, n. 1; public prayers omitted, i. 67, n. 2, 418, n. 1; schoolmaster, i. 85, n. 2, 97, n. 2; ii. 407, n. 5; shoe-latchets, wore, v. 19; style, distinguished by his, iii. 280; 'thinking in him,' ii. 239; Tractate on Education, iii. 358; quotations-- Allegro, 1. 49, iii. 159, n. 2; l. 118, i. 130;--1. 134, i. 387; Lycidas, 1. 156, v. 282, n. 1; Paradise Lost (i. 263), iii. 326, n. 3; (i. 596), iii. 363, n. 1; (ii. 94, 146), iii. 296, n. 1; (ii. 146), iv. 399, n. 6; (ii. 561), i. 82, n. 2; (ii. 846), iv. 273, n. 1, v. 48, n. 1; (iv. 35), iv. 304, n. 2; (iv. 343), iv. 305, n. 2; (v. 353), iv. 27, n. 6; (vii. 26), iv. 42, n. 1; (x. 743), iii. 53, n. 3; Penseroso, 1. 63, i. 323, n. 4; Sonnets, xxi., iv. 254, n. 5. MIMICRY, ii. 154. MIND, management of it, ii. 440; mechanical, looked at as, v. 35; physician's art useless to one not at ease, iii. 164; putting one's whole mind to an object, ii. 472; retreats for it, ii. 440. See WEATHER. MINISTERS of the Church, popular election of, ii. 244. MINISTRIES, attempt at silence in the House of Commons, iii. 235; concessions to the people, ii. 353; iii. 3; list of ministries from 1770-1784, iv. 170, n. 1; Lord North's ministry, its duration, iv. 170, n. 1; (1771) contest with the City, iv. 140, n. 1; (1773) much enfeebled, ii. 208; want of power, v. 57; (1774) feeble, iv. 69; (1775) merit not rewarded, ii. 352; neither stable nor grateful, ii. 348; feeble and timid, ii. 355; too little power, ii. 352; (1776) 'timidity of our scoundrels,' iii. 1; imbecility, iii.