150; martyrdom a kind of voluntary suicide, ii. 250; motives that lead to it, ii. 228-9. SUIDAS, i. 277, n. 4. SULPITIUS, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. SUNDAY, abroad a day of festivity, ii. 72, n. 1; bird-catching on it, ii. 72, n. 1; harvest work, iii. 313; heavy day to Johnson when a boy, i. 67; legal consultations, ii. 376; militia exercise, i. 307, n. 4; reading, v. 323; relaxation allowed but not levity, v. 69; scheme of life for it, i. 303; throwing stones at birds, v. 69. SUNDERLAND, iii. 297, n. 2. SUNDERLAND, third Earl of, Lowther the miser, v. 112, n. 4; mentioned, i. 160. 'Sunk upon us,' ii. 148. SUPERFOETATION of the Press, iii. 332. SUPERIORITY, iv. 164. SUPERNATURAL AGENCY, general belief in it, v. 45. SUPERNATURAL APPEARANCES, evidence of them, ii. 150; use of them, iii. 298, n. 1: See GHOSTS, WITCHES; and under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, second-sight. SUPERSTITIONS, not necessarily connected with religion, v. 306. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. SUPPER, a turnpike, iii. 306. SURINAM, v. 25, n. 2, 357. SURNAMES, easily mistaken, iv. 190. SURREY, militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4. SUSPICION, often a useless pain, iii. 135. Suspicious Husband, The, ii. 50. Suspirius, i. 213; ii. 48. SUSSEX, militia bill of 1756, i. 307, n. 4; price of wheat in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2; violence of the waves on its coast, v. 251, n. 2. SUSSEX, Duke of, ii. 152, n. 2. SUTER, Mr., v. 164, n. 2. SWALLOWS, their hibernation, ii. 55, 248. SWAN, Dr., i. 153. SWANSEA, i. 164. SWARKSTONE, i. 79, n. 2. SWEARING, Court of Justice, in a, v. 390; conversation, in,--causes of the custom, ii. 166; genteel people swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1; Johnson disapproves of it, ii. 111; iii. 4l; represented as swearing in Dr. T. Campbell's Diary, ii. 338, n. 2; shows his displeasure, iii. 189. SWEDEN, Johnson promised a letter of good-will from it, i. 323; wishes to visit it, iii. 454; v. 215; torture used there, i. 467, n. 1. SWEDEN, King of, knights Dr. Hill, ii. 38, n. 2. SWEDEN, King of (Gustavus III), Boswell wishes to see him, v. 215; his death, iii. 134, n. 1. Sweden, History of, by Daline, ii. I56. SWEET-MEATS, iii. 186; iv. 90. SWIFT, Jonathan, Advice to the Grub-Street Verse Writers, i. 143, n. 1; affectation of familiarity with the great, iv. 62; anonymously, published, ii. 319; Apology for the Tale of a Tub, ii. 319, n. 1; Artemisia, ii. 76, n. 3; Beggar's Opera, opinion of the, ii. 369, n. 1; Bettesworth, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1; Blackmore, Sir Richard, ii. 108, n. 2; iv. 80, n. 1; broomstick, could write finely on a, ii. 389, n. 1; Conduct of the Allies, ii. 65; death, troubled by thoughts of, ii. 93, n. 4; what reconciles us to it, iii. 295, n. 2; Delany's Observations: See DELANY; Drapier's Letter, ii. 319; Dryden's prefaces, iv. 114, n. 1; Epistle to Captain Gulliver, v. 139; Eugenia, ii. 240, n. 4; Faulkner, G., ii. 154, n. 3; feared by a country squire, iv. 295, n. 5; flowered late, iii. 167, n. 3; French writers superficial, i. 454, n, 3; frugal but liberal, iii. 265, n. 1; Gay's writings for children, ii. 408, n. 3; geniuses united, the power of, i. 206; Glover's Leonidas, v. 116, n. 4; Goldsmith on his 'strain of pride,' iii. 165, n. 3; Grimston, Viscount, iv. 80, n. 1; Gulliver's Travels, ii. 319; quoted in Johnson's Dictionary, ib., n. 3; brought its author money, iii. 20, n. 1; happiness, definition of, ii. 351, n. 1; Hawkesworth's Life of him, i. 190, n. 3; History of John Bull, v. 44, n. 4; Howard, Hon. Edward, ii. 108, n. 2; inferior to his contemporaries, v. 44; Ireland his debtor, ii. 132; reception there in 1713, iii. 249, n. 6; return to it in 1714, iii. 249, n. 6; Johnson's attacks on him, i. 452; ii. 65, 318; iv. 61; v. 44; recommended to him, i. 133; iv. 61; worse than Swift,' v. 211; writes his Life, iv. 61-3; Journal, iv. 177; laugh, did not, ii. 378, n. 2; Letter to Tooke the Printer, ii. 319, n. 1; Lines on Censure, ii. 61, n. 4; low life, love of, v. 307, n. 3; Manley, Mrs., satirised in Corinna, iv. 200, n. 1; Memoirs of Scriblerus, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4; Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, i. 125, n. 4; Ode for Music, ii. 67, n. 1; On the death of Dr. Swift, iii. 441, n. 3; original in a high degree, ii. 319, n. 2; Orrery's, Lord, Remarks: See ORRERY, fifth Earl of; 'paper-sparing Pope,' i. 142; payment for writing, iii. 20, n. 1; Plan for the Improvement of the English Language, ii. 319; Poetry; a Rhapsody, ii. 108, n. 2; Pope's condensation of sense, v. 345, n. 2; parting with, iii. 312; P. P. clerk of this parish, i. 383, n. 3; Prendergast, attacks, ii. 183, n. 1; projectors, i. 301, n. 3; Rules to Servants, ii. 148, n. 2; Sacheverell's sermon at the end of his suspension, i. 39, n. 1; saving, habit of, iv. 61-2; scoundrel, use of, iii. 1, n. 2; 'screen between me and death,' iii.