EXCISE, defined, i. 294;
  origin of Johnson’s violence against it, i. 36, n. 5.
Excursion, The, ii. 26. 
EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5,
iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2;
  Boswell’s love of seeing them:  See under BOSWELL;
  condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273;
  capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1;
  Newgate, removed to, iv. 188;
  Rambler, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3;
  Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9. 
EXECUTORS, v. 106. 
EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1;
  relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446;
  renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2. 
EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
  freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2;
  George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3;
  mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77. 
EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273. 
EXHIBITION.  See ROYAL ACADEMY. 
EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53;
  terms on which it is offered, iii. 58.  See LIFE. 
EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2. 
EXPENDITURE.  See ECONOMY. 
EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454.
Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost, i. 128, n. 2. 
EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.

F.

Fable of the Bees, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3.
Fable of the Glow-worm, ii. 232. 
FACTION, iv. 200. 
FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187.
Faculty, The, iii. 285, n. 2. 
FAIRIES, iv. 17. 
FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440. 
FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4. 
FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380. 
FAITH, merit in, iv. 123. 
FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371. 
FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103. 
FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2.
Falkland’s Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting,
  account of it, ii. 134;
  Johnson’s estimate of it, ii. 147;
  ‘softened’ in later copies, ii. 135;
  sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136;
  mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2. 
FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331.
False Alarm, account of it, ii. 111;
  answers to it, ii. 112;
  election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3;
  Johnson’s estimate of it, ii. 147;
  petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5;
  rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2;
  Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30;
  Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104. 
FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55.
False Delicacy, ii. 48. 
FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1;
  prevalence of it, iii. 229. 
FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his ‘humorous phrase,’ i. 250;
  ‘I deny your Major,’ iv. 316;
  proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1;
  mentioned, i. 506. 
FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263;
  literary, hard to get, ii. 358;
  a shuttlecock, v. 400;
  solicitude about it, i. 451.