361-4; Cambridge's, Mr., villa, ii. 361; highwaymen, iii. 239, n. 1; society, ii. 120. TWINING, Rev. Thomas, Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman, Johnson's dislike of 'the former, the latter,' iv. 190, n. 2; funeral, iv. 420, n. 1; the old willow-tree at Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 1. TWISS, Richard, Travels, ii. 345. TYBURN, executions there abolished, iv. 188; procession to it, iv. 189, n. 1; 'Tyburn's elegiac lines,' ib.: See EXECUTIONS. TYERS, Jonathan, iii. 308. TYERS, Thomas, account of him, iii. 308-9; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Johnson, iii. 308; v. 73, n. 2; Johnson like a ghost: See JOHNSON, Ghost; rapid composition, i. 192, n. 1; talked as if on oath, ii. 434, n. 2; wish to visit India and Poland, iii. 456; Tom Restless of The Idler, iii. 308, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 107. TYRANNY, remedy against it, ii. 170. TYRAWLEY, Lord, account of him, ii. 211, n. 4; Chesterfield's saying, ii. 211. TYRCONNEL, Lord, Savage's letter to him, i. 161, n. 3; patronised by him, i. 173, 372, n. 1. TYRWHITT, Thomas, Chatterton's poems, iii. 50, n. 5; iv. 141, n. 1. TYTLER, A. F. (son of W. Tytler, afterwards Lord Woodhouselee), meets Johnson, v. 387, n. 4, 388, n. 2, 402. TYTLER, William, History of Mary Queen of Scots, i. 354; v. 274, n. 2, 387; Johnson's Journey, praises, ii. 305-6; meets him, v. 394, 396.

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UDSON, Mr., ii. 398. ULYSSES, i. 12. UNCLUBABLE, i. 27, n. 2, 480, n. 1; iv. 254, n. 2. UNDERSTANDING, inverted, iii. 379; man's superiority over woman, iii. 52; propagating it, ii. 109, n. 2; Reynolds's rule for judging it, iv. 316. UNEASINESS, iv. 273. UN-IDEA'D, 'A set of wretched unidea'd girls,' i. 251. Union, The, i. 117, n. 1. UNITARIANS, ii. 408, n. i; iv. 125, n. 2. Unius lacertae, iii. 255. Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette, i. 330, 345, n. 1. Universal History, iii. 443; iv. 311. Universal Visiter, i. 178, n. 2, 306; ii. 345. UNIVERSITY, conversation of a man taught at an English one, v. 370; English and Scotch compared, i. 63, n. 1; v. 85, n. 2; fellowships, value of, iii. 13; foreign professorships, iii. 14; Gibbon, attacked by, iii. 13, n. 3; rich, not too, as Adam Smith asserts, iii. 13; school where everything may be learnt, should be a, ii. 371; subscription to the Articles, ii. 151; v. 64; theory and practice, ii. 52; iii. 138: See under CAMBRIDGE and OXFORD, and under SCOTLAND, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. Unscottified, ii. 242; v. 55, n. 1. UNWINS, the, Cowper's friends, i. 522. UPPER-OSSORY, Lord, iii. 230, n. 5. UPSTARTS, getting into parliament, ii. 153, 339. URBINO, v. 276. URIE, Captain, v. 135. URNS, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1. Ursa Major. See JOHNSON, bear. USHER, Archbishop, assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2; luminary of the Irish Church, ii. 132. USHER, at a school, i. 84. USURY, law against, iii. 26. UTILITY, beauty not dependent on it, ii. 166; iv. 167. Utopia, iii. 202, n. 3. UTRECHT, Boswell a student there, i. 400, 473; ii. 9; William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a student, ii. 177, n. 1. UTTOXETER MARKET, Johnson does penance there, i. 56, n. 2; iv. 373; Michael Johnson's shop, i. 36, n. 3. UZa^S, Duke of, iii. 322, n. 3.

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VACANCIES, eagerness for, iii. 251. VACHELL, William, iii. 83, n. 3. VACUUM, i. 444, n. 2. 'VAGABOND, Mr.,' iii. 411, n. 1. Vagabondo, Il, i. 202; iii. 411. VAILS, ii. 78. VALENCIA, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 434. VALETUDINARIANS, ii. 460; Johnson's disgust at them, iii. 1, 152. VALLANCY, Colonel, iv. 272, 278. VANBRUGH, Sir John, attempted to answer Jeremy Collier, iv. 286, n. 3; Provoked Husband, ii. 48, n. 3; iv. 284, n. 2; Reynolds's tribute to him, iv. 55. VANE, Anne, v. 49, n. 4. VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4. Vanessa, ii. 389, n. 1. Vanity of Human Wishes, account of it, i. 192-5; price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1; rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15; written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192; Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2; Byron's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; death, 'kind nature's signal of retreat,' ii. 106; De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3; Garrick's sarcasm on it, i. 194; Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3; misery, 'the doom of man,' iii. 198; v. 179; 'Patron and the jail,' i. 264; Rasselas, resemblance to, i. 342; Scott's admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3; spreads changed into burns, iii. 357-8; Vane and Sedley, v. 49; Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4. VANSITTART, Dr., account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1; story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 192. VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144. VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163. VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3. VENICE, Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1; Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19; mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3. VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104. Veracious, iv. 39, n. 3. VERACITY. See TRUTH. Verbiage ii. 236; iii. 256

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