464. BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 45. BENSON, William, his monument to Milton, i. 227, n. 4; v. 95, n. 2. BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 445. BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 268, n. 4; Shelburne's, Lord, wretched education, iii. 36, n. 1; fearlessness as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4. BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n. 4; v. 174; Barnes's Greek, iv. 19, n. 2; Boyle, attacked by, v. 238, n. 1; Cunninghame, criticised by, v. 373; Epistles of Phalaris, iv. 443; Horace, Comments on, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1; Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174; 'no man written down but by himself,' i. 381, n. 3; v. 274; Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4; Preface to his edition of Paradise Lost, iv. 24, n. 1; scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217; Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4; studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316; verses, his, iv. 23; Wasse's Greek Trochaics, v. 445. BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1. BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4. BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284. BERKELEY, Bishop, Burke's projected answer to his theory, i. 471; non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27; profound scholar, ii. 132; 'reverie,' his, iii. 165; Warburton's ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1. BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90. BERWICK, ii. 266. BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286. BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263. BEST, H. D., Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1; Johnson's visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1. BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208. BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185. BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2. BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1. Betty Broom, iv. 246. BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134. BEZA, ii. 289. BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5. BIBLE, The, calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2; Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3; should be read with a commentary, iii. 58; subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151. Bibliopole, ii. 345. Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. Bibliotheca Literaria, v. 445. Bibliotheque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 283-285. Bibl. des Fees, ii. 391. Bibliotheque des Savans, i. 323. BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, account of him, ii. 82, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 84. BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315. Big, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425. Big man, ii. 14. BIGAMY, v. 217. Bills, i. 376. BINDLEY, James, i. 15. BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331. Biographia Britannica, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4; Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447; Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174; edited by Kippis, ib.; account of it, ib. n. 3. BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376. BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71; best when autobiography, i. 25; can be written only by a man's intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3; Goldsmith's praise of it, v. 79, n. 3; Johnson's excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5; fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79; literary, ii. 40; v. 240; method of writing it, i. 32; men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238; 'common cant' against it, iii. 275, n. 2; minute particulars to be given, i. 33; and peculiarities, iii. 154; rarely well executed, ii. 446; vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155; writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5. BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D., account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2; by I. D'Israeli, i. 159, n. 4; anecdotes, full of, v. 255; conversation and writings, i. 159; correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138; Cave, i. 139, 150-3; Johnson, i. 160, 226, 285; Earl of Orrery, i. 185; History of the Royal Society, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2; Johnson's epigram to him, i. 140; Raleigh's smaller pieces, edits, i. 226; Rambler, anecdote of the, i. 203, n. 6; Society for the Encouragement of Learning, member of the, i. 153, n. 2. BIRDS, migration of, ii. 248; nidification, 249. BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, v. 57, n. 2. BIRMINGHAM,--Birmingham Journal, i. 85, n. 3; Birmingham Daily Post, i. 85, n. 3; 'boobies of Birmingham,' ii. 464; book-shops, i. 36, 85, n. 3; buttons, v. 458; Castle Inn, i. 92, n. 1; cost of living in 1750, i. 103, n. 2; Directory for 1770, v. 458, n. 1; Edinburgh, likeness to, v. 23, n. 2; Hector's house, ii. 456, n. 2; in 1741, i. 86, n. 2; Johnson's head on copper coins, iv. 421, n. 2; reads The History of Birmingham, iv. 218, n. 1; resides there, i. 85-7, 90-6; visits it in 1761-2, i. 370, n. 5; in 1774, v. 458; in 1776 with Boswell, ii. 456; in 1781, iv. 135; in 1784, iv. 375; jealousy of the manufacturers, ii. 459, n. 1; Old Square, ii. 456, n. 2; rapid growth of population, iii. 450; riots of 1791, i. 86, n. 3; iv. 238, n. 1; Soho, ii. 459; St. Martin's Church, i. 90, n. 3; Stork Hotel, ii. 456, n. 2; Swan Tavern, i. 85, n. 3. BIRNAM-WOOD, iii. 73. BIRTH, respect for. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON. Bis dat qui cito dat, ii.