232; refusal to hear Scotch preachers, iii. 336; v. 121; style, recognises, i. 308; imitates it, iii. 173; iv. 388; worship, complains of, iii. 331; liberality of sentiment, v. 393; packs his gold in wool, ii. 237; paraphrased other people's thoughts, v. 397, n. 3; party in the church, his, v. 213; preferment, his church, iii. 334, n. 2; Principal of Edinburgh College, v. 41, n. 2; romantic humour, his, iii. 335; Southey calls him a rogue, ii. 238, n. 1; style, i. 439, n. 2; ii. 236-7; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; verbiage, ii. 236; Voltaire's Louis XIV, v. 393; Whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 66, 275, 354, n. 4; iii. 278. ROBIN HOOD, v. 389. ROBIN ROY, v. 127, n. 3. ROBINHOOD SOCIETIES, account of them, iv. 92, n. 5; Boswell attends one, iv. 95. ROBINSON, H.C., account of Capel Lofft, iv. 278, n. 3; Bishop Hampden's 'confirmation,' iv. 323, n. 3; Burncy's account of Johnson, i. 410, n. 2. ROBINSON, Sir Thomas, account of him, i. 434; Chesterfield sends him to Johnson, i. 259, n. 2; talks the language of a savage, ii. 130. Robinson Crusoe, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; iii. 268. ROCHEFORT, expedition to, i. 321. ROCHEFOUCAULD, i. 246. ROCHESTER, Mr. Colson, master of the Free School, i. 101, n. 3; Johnson visits it, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3. ROCHESTER, Wilmot, second Earl of, Flatman, verses upon, iii. 29; Imitations of Horace, i. 118, n. 5; v. 52, n. 5; Letter from Artemisia, iii. 386, n. 4; Life by Burnet, iii. 191; Poems, castration of his, iii. 191; wrote short pieces iv. 370, n. 1. ROCHFORD, Earl of, i. 317. ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of, his ministry, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 170, n. 1; Burke's advice about it, ii. 355, n. 2; his party, ii. 181. Rockingham, Memoirs of, iii. 460. ROD, use of the, i. 46; v. 99. Roderick Random. See SMOLLETT. RODNEY, Sir George, ii. 398. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., of Berkley, iv. 402, n. 2. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., Sermons, i. 89, n. 3. ROGERS, Samuel, Beauclerk's absence of mind, i. 249, n. 1; Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Fitzpatrick and Hare, iii. 388, n. 3; Fordyce's, Dr., intemperance, ii. 274, n. 6; Fox's conversation, iv. 167, n. 1; on Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2; love of Homer, iv. 218, n. 3; and the wicked Lord Lyttelton, iv. 298, n. 3; and Mrs. Sheridan, i. 390, n. 1; heads on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hume and his opponents, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson, wishes to call on, i. 247, n. 3; and Lady Lucan, iii. 425, n. 3; Marley, Dean, iv. 73, n. 1; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Murphy, Arthur, i. 356, n. 2; Piozzi, Signor, iv. 339, n. 2; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Rambler, i. 210, n. 1; Reynolds's last lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Shelburne and Carlisle, Earls of, iv. 246, n. 5; Wilkes as City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Williams, Miss H.M., iv. 282, n. 3; Wordsworth and the Edinburgh Review, iv. 115, n. 2. ROKEBY, Lord, i. 434, n. 3. ROKEBY HALL, i. 434, n. 3. Rolliad, The, Fitzpatrick, partly written by, iii. 388; Graham, Lord, ridiculed, iii. 382, n. 1; humorous but scurrilous, i. 116, n. 1; 'Painful pre-eminence,' iii. 82, n. 2. Rollin's Ancient History, iv. 311. ROLT, Richard, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, i. 358; ii. 344; Universal Visitor, wrote for the, ii. 345; vanity and impudence, his, i. 359. ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics, attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1; Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289; convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329; converts part with nothing, ii. 105; not interrogated strictly, iv. 289; doctrines and practice, ii. 105; England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431; good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.; gross corruptions, iii. 17; James II's attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341; Johnson attacks it, iii. 407; calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2; defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289; prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103; respects it, ii. 105; laity and the Bible, ii. 27; 'old religion, the,' ii. 105; penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8; still in force, iii. 427, n. 1; Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.; Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4; Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150; priests and people deceived, iii. 17; transubstantiation, v. 71. Roman Gazetteers, i. 147, n. 4. ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3; historically valuable, iv. 17; Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; Bolingbroke's references to them, iii. 206, n. 1; cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1; Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196; empire, iii. 36; fountain of elegance, iii. 333; 'Happy to come, happy to depart,' v. 82; known of them, very little, ii. 153; secession to Mons Sacer, v. 142, n. 2; Senate, iii. 206; temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv.

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