FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96;
  continuance of them, ii. 421;
  desire to propagate the name, ii. 469;
  estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249;
  founding one, ii. 429;
  household, number in the, iii. 316;
  preference shown them, ii. 153;
  ruined by extravagance, ii. 428. 
  See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth. 
FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177. 
FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4. 
   See_ BOSWELL, Fancies. 
FANCY, compared with reason, ii. 277.
Fantoccini, i. 414. 
FARMER, Dr., Colman, criticised by, iv. 18;
  Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare, iii. 38;
  Johnson praises it, ib., n. 6;
    letters to him, i. 368; ii. 114; iii. 427;
  Percy, in his Ancient Ballads, helps, iii. 276, n. 2;
  Steevens, friendship with, iii. 281, n. 3;
  Tristram Shandy, despises, ii. 449, n. 3;
  mentioned, iv. 141. 
FARMERS, worthless fellows, often, iii. 353;
  described by Wesley, ib., n. 5. 
FARQUHAR, George, Johnson’s opinion of his writings, iv. 7.
  See Beaux Stratagem.
Fashionable Lover, v. 176. 
FASTING, examined medically, ii. 476-7;
  justified, ii. 352, n. 2;
  peevishness caused by it, ii. 435: 
  See JOHNSON, fasting. 
FAT MEN, iv. 213. 
FATE.  See FREE WILL. 
FATHER, control over his daughters in marriage, iii. 377;
  not bound to tell of his children’s faults, iii. 18.
Father’s Revenge, The, iv. 246. 
FAULDER, a bookseller, iv. 387, n. 1. 
FAULKNER, G., Chesterfield’s account of him, v. 44, n. 2;
  Ireland drained by England, v. 44;
  mimicked by Foote, ii. 154; v. 130;
  mentioned, i. 321. 
FAWKENER, Sir Everard, i. 181, n. 1. 
FAWKES, Rev. Francis, i. 382. 
FAVOUR, granting a, ii. 167. 
FAVOURITE defined, i. 295, n. 1. 
FEAR, Charles V’s saying, ii. 81;
  nothing left to fear when a man is bent on killing himself, ii. 229. 
  See COURAGE. 
FEELING FOR OTHERS.  See SYMPATHY.
Felixmarte of Hircania, i. 49. 
FELL, John, Demoniacs, v. 36, n. 3.
Fellow, ii. 362. 
FENCING, v. 66. 
FENELON, Archbishop, v. 175, n. 5, 311. 
FENTON, Elijah, his advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4;
  Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2;
  non-juror, a, ii. 321, n. 4. 
FERGUSON, James, the self-taught philosopher, ii. 99; v. 149. 
FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1. 
FERGUSSON, Dr. Adam, account of him, v. 42;
  mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 45. 
FERGUSSON, Sir Adam, ii. 169. 
FERMOR, Arabella, ii. 392, n. 8. 
FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, ii. 392. 
FERNE, Mr., v. 123-5. 
FERNEY, i. 434; v. 14. 
FERNS, Burke’s pun on, iv. 73.
Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458. 
FEUDAL ANTIQUITIES, ii. 202; iii. 414. 
‘FEUDAL GABBLE,’ ii. 134, n. 4. 
FEUDAL SYSTEM,
  Boswell for, and Johnson against it, ii.