215; friend, learning one's faults from a, iv. 281, n. 1; Garrick and Prospero, i. 216; 'hard words,' i. 208, n. 3; index, iv. 325; in Italian, Il Genio errante and Il Vagabondo, iii. 411; Johnson's epitaph, quotation from it in, iv. 445; gives a copy to Edwards, iv. 90; opinion of it, i. 210, n. 1; thinks it 'too wordy,' iv. 5; portrait prefixed, iv. 421, n. 2; wife praises it, i. 210; ladies strangely formal, i. 223; Langton admires it, i. 247; last number, i. 226, 233; lessons taught by it, i. 213; mottoes translated, i. 210, n. 3, 211, 225; Murphy's translation from the French, i. 356; Necessity of Cultivating Politeness, v. 82, n. 2; quotation in Colonel Myddelton's inscription, iv. 443; Russian translation, iv. 277; Shenstone, praised by, ii. 452; suicide, supposed to recommend, iv. 150, n. 2; virtuoso, description of a, iv. 314, n. 2; v. 61, n. 5; Young's, Dr., copy, i. 214. Rambler, Beauties of the, i. 214. Raniblefs Magazine, i. 202. RAMSAY, Allan, the elder, the poet, dedication to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3; Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; Highland Laddie, v. 184, n. 1. RAMSAY, Allan, the son, the portrait-painter, death, iv. 260, n. 1, 366, n. 1; dinners at his house, iii. 331-6,382-3, 407-9; house in Harley Street, iii. 391, n. 2; Italy, visits, iii. 250; iv. 260; Johnson loves him, iii. 336; politeness, praises, iii. 331; Pope's poetry less admired than formerly, iii. 332; Select Society, founds the, v. 393, n. 4; 'There lived a young man' &c., quotes, iii. 252; mentioned, iii. 254; iv. I, n. 1. RANBY, John, Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, iii. 205. RANGER, the character of, ii. 50. RANK, its claims, iii. 55; Johnson's respect for it, i. 443, 447-8; morals of high people, iii. 353. RANKE, Professor, Sixtus Quintus, v. 239, n. RAPHAEL, Johnson admires his pictures, ii. 392; mentioned, i. 248, n. 3. RAPTURIST, ii. 41, n. 1. RASAY, the Macleods of, account of them, v. 165, 167; estates, v. 412, n. 2; family happiness, v. 178; league with the Macdonalds, v. 174; Johnson compliments them in his Journey, ii. 304; they praise him, ib. RASAY, John Macleod, Laird of, 'Macgillichallum,' v. 161, n. 2; his carriage, v. 162, 179, n. 2; income, v. 165, n. 2; patriarchal life, v. 167; befriends the Pretender, v. 190-5; Johnson's mistake about the chieftainship, ii. 303, 380, 382, 411; correspondence about it, v. 410-413; entertained by, ii. 305; iv. 155; v. 413, n. 1; visits him, v. 165-179, 183. RASAY, old Laird of, out in the '45, v. 174, 188, 190, 199. Rascal, Johnson's use of the term, iii. 1. Rasselas, account of its publication, i. 340-4; date of its composition and publication, i. 342, n. 2, 516; editions, first, i. 340, n, 3; fifth, ii. 208, n. 3; an American one, ii. 207; origin of the name, i. 340, n. 3; price paid for it, i. 341; translations, i. 341; ii. 208; in French by Baretti, ib., n. 2; written in the evenings of one week to pay the expenses of Johnson's mother's funeral, i. 341; Boswell's yearly reading, i. 342; iii. 133; made unhappy by it, iii. 317; Candide, compared with, i. 342; iii. 356; choice of life, ii. 22, n. l; civilisation, advantages of, ii. 73, n. 3; Europeans, the power of the, iv. 119; Gough Square, written in, iii. 405, n. 6; Imlac and the Great Mogul, ii. 40, n. 4; influence of places on the mind, v. 334, n. 1; Johnson reads it in 1781, iv. 119; Lobo's Abyssinia, partly suggested by, i. 89; Macaulay's, Dr. J., Bibliography, ii. 208, n. 3; marriages, late, ii. 128, n. 4; misery of life, the, iii. 317; praise to an old man, i. 339, n. 3; resolutions, ii. 113, n. 3; retirement from the world, v. 62, nn. 1 and 4; scholar, the business of a, ii. 119, n. 1; solitude of a great city, iii. 379, n. 2; sorrow, the cure for, iii. 6; spirits of the dead, i. 343; travelling in Europe, i. 340, n. 1; Vanity of Human Wishes, resemblance to the, i. 342. RAT, grey or Hanover, ii. 455; 'Now, Muse, let's sing of Rats,' ii. 453. RAWLINSON, Dr., iv. 161. RAY, John, British insects, ii. 248; Collection of north-country words, ii. 91; Nomenclature, ii. 361. RAY, Miss, iii. 383. RAYMOND, S., ii. 338, n. 2. RAYNAL, Abbe, iv. 434-5. READING, advice of an old gentleman, i. 446; art, its, iv. 207; boys should read any book they will, iii. 385; iv. 21; general amusement, iv. 217, n. 4; hard reading, i. 446; inclination to be followed, i. 428; iii. 43, 193; knowledge got by it compared with that got by conversation, ii. 361; people do not willingly read, iv. 218; reading books to the end, i. 71; ii. 226; iv. 308; reading no more than one could utter, iv. 31; snatches useful, iv. 21; Voltaire testifies to its increase in England, ii. 402, n. 1; youth the season for plying books, i. 446. See JOHNSON, reading. REBELLION, natural to men, v.