359, 362; corresponds with him, v. 363-4; lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 101, 102. ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 246. ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 353, n. 1; at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1; dislikes Boswell, v. 353; slights him, v. 354, 358-9; he drinks to her, v. 356; Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 356, 363; is 'all attention' to her, v. 359, 363; calls her 'a Duchess with three tails', v. 359. ARIAN HERESY, iv. 32. ARIOSTO, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1. ARISTOTLE, Barrow, quoted by, iv. 105, n. 4; difference between the learned and unlearned, iv. 13; friendship, on, iii. 386, n. 3; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; lying, on, ii. 221, n. 2; purging of the passions, iii. 39. ARITHMETIC, Johnson's fondness for it, i. 72; iv. 171, n. 3, 271; principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. ARKWRIGHT, Richard, ii. 459, n. 1. ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ii. 179. ARMS, piling, iii. 355. ARMSTRONG, Dr., iii. 117. ARMY. See SOLDIERS. ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 347. ARNE, Dr., v. 126, n. 5. ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., Observations on Insanity, iii. 175, n. 3. ARRAN, Earl of, i. 281. ARRIGHI, A., Histoire de Pascal Paoli, ii. 3, n. I; v. 51, n. 3. Art of Living in London, i. 105, n. 1. 'ART'S CORRECTIVE,' v. 299. ARTEMISIA, ii. 76. ARTHRITICK TYRANNY, i. 179. ARTICLES. See THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. ARTIFICIALLY, iii. 50, n. 4. ARTISTS, Society of. See SOCIETY OF ARTISTS. Ascertain, iii. 402, n. 2. ASCHAM, Roger, bachelor's degree, takes his, i. 58, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 464; quoted, i. 307, n. 2. ASH, Dr., iv. 394, n. 4. ASHBOURNE, church, iii. 180; earthquake, iii. 136; Green Man Inn, iii. 208; Johnson's visits, iii. 451-3; and the Thrales visit it in 1774, v. 430; and Boswell in 1776, ii. 473-6; in 1777, iii. 135-208; school, ii. 324, n. 1; iii. 138; two convicts of the town hang themselves, iv. 359; water-fall, iii. 190. ASHBY, i. 36, n. 3, 79, n. 2. ASHMOLE, Elias, iii. 172; iv. 97, n. 3. ASIATIC SOCIETY, ii. 125, n. 4. ASSENT, a debt or a favour, iv. 320. ASSYRIANS, ii. 176; iii. 36. ASTLE, Rev. Mr., iv. 311. ASTLE, Thomas, letter from Johnson, iv. 133; mentioned, i. 155; iv. 311. ASTLEY, the equestrian, iii. 409. ASTOCKE, i. 79, n. 1. ASTON, Catherine (Hon. Mrs. Henry Hervey), i. 83, n. 4. ASTON, Margaret (Mrs. Walmsley), i. 83, n. 4; ii. 466. ASTON, Miss (Mrs.), ii. 466, 469; iii. 132, 211, 412, 414; iv. 145, n. 2. ASTON, 'Molly' (Mrs. Brodie), account of her, i. 83; ii. 466; interest of money, on the, iii. 340-1; Johnson's epigram on her, i. 83, n. 3; 140, n. 4; iii. 341, n. 1; her letters to, iii. 341, n. 1; quoted by, iii. 341, n. 1; Lyttelton, Lord, preference for, iv. 57. ASTON, Sir Thomas, i. 83, 106, n. 1. ASTON HALL, ii. 456, n. 2. ATHEISM, v. 47. Athelstan, ii. 131, n. 2. Athenoeum, The, Boswell's letters of acceptance as Secretary of the Royal Academy, iii. 370, n. 1; mistake in Forster's Goldsmith, ii. 208, n. 5. Athenian Letters, i. 45, n. 2. ATHENIANS, barbarians, ii. 171; brutes, 211. ATHOL, Earl of, ii. 7; family of, v. 234. Athol porridge, iv. 78. ATLANTIC, Johnson on the, v. 163. ATONEMENT, The, v. 88. ATTACKS ON AUTHORS; attack is the reaction, ii. 335 better to be attacked than unnoticed, iii. 375 v. 273 part of a man's consequence, iv. 422 'fame is a shuttlecock,' v. 400 very rarely hurt an author, iii. 423 useful, in subjects of taste, v. 275 felt by authors, ib. n. 1 Addison, Hume, Swift, Young on them, ii. 61, n. 4 Bentley, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 274, n. 4; Boerhaave, ii. 61, n. 4 Fielding, v. 275, n. 1 Rambler, Vicar of Wakefield, Hume, and Boileau, iii. 375, n. 1 Johnson's solitary reply to one, i. 314; ii. 61, ib. n. 4. ATTERBURY, Bishop, elegance of his English, ii. 95, n. 2 Funeral Sermon on Lady Cutts, ii. 228 Sermons, iii. 247 mentioned, i. 157. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Diabolus Regis, iii. 78. ATTORNEYS converted into Solicitors, iv. 128, n. 3 Johnson's hits at them, ii. 126, ib. n. 4; iv. 313. AUCHINLECK, Lord, account of him, v. 375-6, 382, n. 2 Baxter's Anacreon, collated, iv. 241 attentive to remotest relations, v. 131 Boswell's ignorance of law, ii. 21, n. 4; v. 108, n. 2 Boswell, his disposition towards: See BOSWELL, father contentment, iii. 241; v. 381 death, iv. 154 'in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 385 described in a Hypochondriack, i. 426, n. 3 Douglas Cause, ii. 50, n. 4 entails his estate in perpetuity, ii. 413-4 Gillespie, Dr., honorarium to, iv. 262 heirs general, preference for, ii. 414-5 calls Johnson a dominie, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2 a Jacobite fellow, v. 376 Ursa Major, v. 384 a brute, ii. 381, n. 1; v. 384, n. 1 proposes to send him the Lives, iii. 372 visits him, v. 375-385 three topics in which they differ, v. 376 contest, v. 382-4 polite parting, v. 385 Knight the negro's case, iii. 216 Laird of Lochbury, trial of the, v.