DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
  account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
    written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
    written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
    wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
  authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
  Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
  Croker’s inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
  ‘debating,’ absence of, i. 506;
  discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
  Gent.  Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
  House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
  House of Lords ‘a Court of Record,’ i. 502;
  ‘Hurgoes,’ ‘Clinabs,’ ‘Walelop,’ ‘Hon. Marcus Cato,’ i. 502;
  ‘Pretor of Mildendo,’ i. 503;
  Johnson’s conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
    Debates not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
    rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
    successor, i. 512;
  London Magazine, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
  monument to Walpole’s greatness, i. 512;
  Murphy’s account of them, i. 504;
  prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
    of Cooley and the printer of the Daily Post, i. 503;
    of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
  reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
  reporters, ‘fellows who thrust themselves into the gallery,’ i. 502;
  reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
  Seeker’s reports, i. 507, 509;
  ‘Senate of Lilliput,’ i. 115, 502;
  speakers’ names disguised, i. 501;
  speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
    many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
  sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
  table of the order of publication, i. 510;
  translated, i. 505;
  unreality, i. 506;
  volumes, collected in, i. 152;
  Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
Debrett’s Royal Kalendar, iv. 350, n. 1. 
DEBTOR.  ‘The pillow of a debtor,’ iv. 152, n. 1. 
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
  for Johnson’s warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
  law of arrest, iii. 77;
  small and great, i. 347.
Decay of Christian Piety, v. 227.
De Claris Oratoribus, iv. 316. 
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
  flattery allowed, v. 285;
  Johnson’s to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
    skill in them, ii. 1;
    Works without any, i. 257, n. 2;
  means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
  one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
  studied conclusions, v. 239.
Defence of Pluralities, ii. 242. 
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1. 
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245. 
DEFINITIONS.  See under DICTIONARY, and separate words. 
DE FOE, Daniel, Captain Carleton’s Memoirs, iv. 334, n. 4;
  Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163, n. 4;
  his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;