256. asop at Play, iii. 191. AFFAIRS, managing one's, iv. 87. AFFECTATION, distress, of, iv. 71; dying, in, v. 397; familiarity with the great, of, iv. 62; rant of a parent, iii. 149; silence and talkativeness, iii. 261; studied behaviour, i. 470; bursts of admiration, iv. 27. See SINGULARITY. AFFECTION, descends, iii. 390; natural, ii. 101; iv. 210; AGAMEMNON, v. 79, 82, n. 4. AGAR, Welbore Ellis, iii. 118, n. 3. AGE, old. See OLD AGE. AGE, present, better than previous ones, ii. 341, n. 3; except in reverence for government, iii. 3; and authority, iii. 262; not worse, iv. 288; querulous declamations against, iii. 226. Agis, Home's, v. 204, n. 6. Agriculture, Memoirs of, by R. Dossie, iv. 11. AGUTTER, Rev. William, iv. 286, n. 3, 298, n. 2, 422. AIKIN, Miss. See BARBAULD, Mrs. AIR, new kinds of, iv. 237. AIR-BATH, iii. 168. AJACCIO, i. 119, n. 1. AKENSIDE, Mark, M.D., Gray and Mason, superior to, iii. 32; Life, by Johnson, iv. 56; medicine, defence of, iii. 22, n, 4; Odes, ii. 164; Pleasures of the Imagination, i. 359; ii. 164; Rolt's impudent claim, i. 359; Townshend, friendship with, iii. 3. AKERMAN,--, Keeper of Newgate, Boswell's esteemed friend, iii. 431; courage at the Gordon riots, and at an earlier fire, ib.; praised by Burke and Johnson, iii. 433; profits of his office, iii. 431, n 1. mentioned, iii. 145. ALBEMARLE, Lord, Memoirs of Rockingham, iii. 460; v. 113, n. 1. ALBERTI, LEANDRO, ii. 346; v. 310 Albin and the Daughter of Mey, v. 171. ALCHYMY, ii. 376. Alciat's Emblems, ii. 290. n. 4. ALCIBIADES, his dog, iii. 231; alluded to by William Scott, iii. 267. ALDRICH, Dean, ii. 187, n. 3. ALDRICH, Rev. S., i. 407, n. 3. ALEPPO, iii. 369; iv. 22. ALEXANDER THE GREAT, i. 250; ii. 194; iv. 274. Alexandreis, iv. 181, n. 3. ALFRED, Life, i. 177; will, iv. 133, n. 2. Alias, iv. 217. ALKERINGTON, iv. 335, n. 1. All for Love, iv. 114, n. 1. ALLEN, Edmund, the printer, dinner at his house, i. 470; Dodd, kindness to, iii. 141, 145; Johnson's birth-day dinners, at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1, 239, n. 2; imitated, iii. 269-270; iv. 92; landlord and friend, iii. 141, 269; letter from, iv. 228; loan to, i. 5l2, n. 1; pretended brother, exposes, v. 295; grieves at his death, iv. 354, 360, 366, 369, 379. Marshall's Minutes of Agriculture, iii. 313; Smart's contract with Gardner, ii. 345; mentioned, iii. 380. ALLEN, Ralph, account of him, v. 80, n. 5; Warburton married his niece, ii. 37, n. 1. ALLEN, H., of Magdalen Hall, i. 336. ALLEN, ----, i. 36, n. 2. ALLESTREE, Richard, ii. 239, n. 4. ALMACK'S, iii. 23, n. 1. ALMANAC, history no better than an, ii. 366. ALMON'S Memoirs of John Wilkes, i. 349, n. 1. Almost nothing, ii. 446, n. 3; iii. 154, n. 1. ALMS-GIVING, Fielding, condemned by, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2; Johnson's practice, ii. 119; ib. n. 4; money generally wasted, iv. 3; better laid out in luxury, iii. 56; Whigs, condemned by true, ii, 212. ALNWICK CASTLE, Johnson, visited by, iii. 272, n. 3; Pennant, described by, iii. 272-3; mentioned, iv. 117, n. 1. ALONSO THE WISE, ii. 238, n. 1. ALTHORP, Lord (second Earl Spencer), iii. 424. ALTHORP, Lord (third Earl Spencer), iii. 424, n. 4. AMBASSADOR, a foreign, iii. 410; Wotton's, Sir H., definition, ii. 170, n. 3. AMBITION, iii. 39. Amelia. See FIELDING. AMENDMENTS OF A SENTENCE, iv. 38. AMERICA; Beresford, Mrs., an American lady, iv. 283; Boston Port Bill, ii. 294, n. 1; Burgoyne's surrender, iii. 355, n. 3; Carolina library, i. 309, n. 2; Chesapeak, iv. 140, n. 2. City address to the King in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4; Clinton, Sir Henry, iv. 140, n. 2; Concord, iii. 314, n. 6; Congress, ii. 312, 409, 479; Constitutional Society, subscription raised by the, iii. 314, n. 6; Convict settlements, ii. 312, n. 3; Cornwallis's capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2; discovery of, i. 455, n. 3; ii. 479; dominion lost, iv. 260, n. 2; emigration to it an immersion in barbarism, v. 78: See Emigration, and Scotland, emigration; English opposition to the American war, iv. 81; France, assistance from, iv. 21; Franklin's letter to W. Strahan, iii. 364, n. 1: See Dr. Franklin; Georgia, i. 90, n. 3, 127, n. 4; v. 299; Hume's opinion of the war, iii. 46, n. 5; iv. 194, n. 1; independence, chimerical, i. 309, n. 2; influence on mankind, i. 309, n. 2; Irish Protestants well-wishers to the rebellion, iii. 408, n. 4; Johnson 'avoids the rebellious land,' iii. 435, n. 4; feelings towards the Americans, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-1; iv. 283; calls them a 'race of convicts,' ii. 312; 'wild rant,' ii. 315, n. 1; iii. 290; abuse, 315; parody of Burke on American taxation, iv. 318; Patriot, ii. 286; relicks of, in America, ii. 207; Taxation no Tyranny, ii. 312; Lee, Arthur, agent in England, iii. 68, n. 3; Lexington, iii. 314, n. 6; libels in 1784, i. 116, n. 1; life in the wilds, ii.