Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
  anglomania, ii. 126;
  Assembly, iv. 434;
  authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1;
  authors superficial, i. 454;
  commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1;
  commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1;
  contented race, v. 106, n. 4;
  cookery, ii. 385, 403;
  Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1;
  credulity, v. 330;
  crossroads, ii. 391;
  difference between English and French, iv. 14;
  England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4;
  English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343;
  ‘fluency and ignorance,’ iv. 15, n. 4;
  invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4;
  ‘French maxims abolish mercy,’ iii. 204, n. 1. 
  Garrick’s account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3;
  gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1;
  great people live magnificently, ii. 402;
  houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2;
  hunting, v. 253;
  Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2;
  Johnson’s tour, ii. 384-404;
    Journal, ii. 389-401;
      account given by him to Boswell, 401;
    made more satisfied with England, iii. 352;
    saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4;
  Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170;
  literati, v. 229;
  literature, art of accommodating, v, 310;
    book on every subject, iv. 237;
    high in every department, ii. 125;
    little original, v. 311;
    not so general as in England, iii. 254;
    in its second spring, ib.;
  literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1;
  magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395;
  manners
    indelicate, ii. 403;
    gross, iii. 352;
    habit of spitting, ii. 403; iii. 352; iv. 237;
  meals gross, ii. 389;
  meat, fit for a gaol, ii. 402, 403;
    described by Smollett as good, ii. 402, n. 2;
      by Goldsmith as bad, ib.;
  men know no more than the women, iii. 253;
  middle rank, no, ii. 394, 402;
  military character respected, iii. 10;
  mode of life not pleasant, ii. 388;
  national petulance, ii. 126;
  novels, ii. 125;
  opera girls, iv. 171;
  Paris:  See PARIS; peace of 1762, i. 382, n. 1;
    of 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1;
  people, misery of the, ii. 402;
  philosophy, pursuit of, iii. 305, n. 2;
  players, ii. 404;
  politeness, iv. 237;
  poor laws, no, ii. 390;
  prisoners in England, i. 353;
  private life unaffected by despotic power, ii. 170;
  privileges little abused, v. 106, n. 4;
  Provence, gaiety of, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Scotland, compared with, ii. 403;
  sentiments, ii. 385, n. 5;
  soldiers and a woman, story of some, ii,
  391;
  stage, delicacy of the, ii. 50, n. 3;
  subordination, happy in, v. 106;
  talking, must be always, iv, 15;
  tavern life in no perfection, ii. 451;
  torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1;
  treatment of Indians, i. 308, n. 2;
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