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Strahan's, Mr Wm., effort to get Johnson into,
Parliament, 161

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reconciliation with Johnson,

Strahan, William, entertains Johnson and Bos-
well, 214

Stuart, the House of, 185, 302

Stuart, Colonel, raises a regiment of militia, 372
Stuart, Rev. James, translator of the New Testa-
ment into Gaelic, 133

Students expelled from Oxford University for
Methodism, 176

Studies at Oxford, Johnson's, 10

Study of Greek, on the, 374

Style of Addison compared with Johnson s, 51
Style of writing, Johnson's, 307
Suasorium, Johnson's, 281

Subordination, Johnson on, 333, 359

Subscribers, list of, reason for not publishing, 417
Succession to landed property, Johnson's opinion
on, 239-40, 241

Suicide, Johnson defends himself on the question
of, 429

Suicide, remarks on, 187

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Sugar Cane," by Dr. Grainger, 250

Sunday consultations among lawyers, 228
Superiority of Johnson at school, 4
Surviving friends, on, 347

Swearing in common conversation, 170
Swift, Dean, 112, 329, 403

Swinfen, Dr., consulted by Johnson, 8

Sympathy of Johnson for Collins the poet, 65

TALKING, remarks on, 409

'Taxation no Tyranny," a pamphlet by Johnson,

212, 321

Taylor, Rev. Dr., 55, 256, 301, 310, 450
Taylor, Chevalier, the celebrated oculist, 369
Taylor, Jeremy, 470

Tea, Johnson's defence of, as a beverage, 75
Temperate habits of Johnson, 19
Temple's, Sir William, writings, 332
Thicknesse's Travels, 325

Thompson's, Rev. James, Dunfermline, the case
of; argument by Dr. Johnson, 272-273.
Thomson's poetical writings eulogised by John-
son, 141, 266

Thomson's, James, sister, 361

"Thoughts in Prison," by Dr. Dodd, 335
Thrale, Mr., Johnson's introduction to, 122
Thrale, Mrs., letter to, 450

Thrale, Mr. and Mrs. at Bath, correspondence
with Johnson, 379

Thrale, Mr. and Mrs., Johnson offended with, 258
Thrale, Mr. and Mrs., their hospitable enter-
tainment of Dr. Johnson, 124, 192
Thrale's, Mr., election defeat, 385
Thrale, Mrs., shows coolness to Johnson, 431
Thrale's, Mr., family connections, 123
Thrale, Mr., death of, 410

Thrale, Mrs., marries Signor Piozzi, 482
Thrale Place, summerhouse at, 424

Thurlow, E. (afterwards Lord Chancellor), 274

Thurlow's, Lord, letter in favour of Johnson, 481
Toleration, religious, 389
Tooke, Horne, 348, 360
Tories and Whigs, 351, 419

Towers, Dr., on Johnson's Life of Milton, 297.
Towers', Dr., reply to Johnson's political publica-
tions, 213

Townshend, Charles, 185
Train bands of London, 477

Trade, its influence on national wealth, 149
Translation of the Bible into Gaelic, advocated
by Johnson, 132

Translations, &c., at Stourbridge school, 5
"Transpire," and "Get Abroad," 357
Travel, books of, 344.

"Traveller," Goldsmith's, eulogised, 126
Travelling, advantages of, 335
Trimlestown, Lord, 323.

Truth, importance of adherence to, 323
Truth, physical and moral, 387.

Tunbridge Wells, Johnson's visit to (1748), 42
Turk's Head Coffee House, 114, 115
Tyers, Tom, 346

UNEQUAL marriages, remarks on, 216
Unitarians, doctrines of the, 421
"Universal Visiter," essays in, 73
Universities and public schools, 26c
Usury laws, 263

Utility and beauty, discussion on, 170
Uttoxeter, Johnson does penance at, 493

"VANITY of Human Wishes," 42

"Vanity of Human Wishes," Extract from, 43
Veracity, Johnson on, 410
Veracity of Johnson, 246
Vesey, Mr., 393

Vesey's, Mr., distinguished coterie at, 380
"Vicar of Wakefield," criticism on, 366

"Vicar of Wakefield," sale of copyright for sixty
pounds, 102

Villiers' (Sir George) ghost, 359

Virtue and vice, 342, 356, 358
Virtuous principles of Johnson, 44

Voltaire's comparison of Pope and Dryden, 126
"Voyage to Abyssinia" (Lobo's), translated by
Johnson, 13, 258

Vyse, Rev. Dr., Lambeth, 292, 293

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Welch, Mr. Saunders, 320, 438
Welwyn, Johnson visits, 419

Wentworth, Mr., Stourbridge School, 5
Wesley, John, 324, 343, 370
Wesley's ghost story, 343

Wetherell, Rev. Dr., Oxford, 242, 247
Wheeler, Rev. Dr., Oxford, 363, 383
Whigs and Tories, 351, 419, 469
Whitehead, Paul, 25

White, Rev. Mr., letter to, 182
Whitefield's pulpit oratory, 145, 375

Whole Duty of Man," authorship of, 190
Wilkes and the Attorney-General, 278

John, active in suppressing the Gordon
Riots, 381

John, Esq., meeting between Tohnson
and, 274
Will and codicil of Johnson, 501

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