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.
  See MACBEAN, Alexander. 
GEOLOGY, of Etna, ii. 468, n. 1;
  Johnson’s ignorance of it, v. 290, n. 4. 
GEOMETRY, principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. 
GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2;
  burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1;
  death, his, ii. 342, n. 1;
  knew nothing, ii. 342;
  Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i;
  Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3;
  will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv. 107, n. 1;
  wish to restore the crown, ii. 342. 
GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209;
  barbarity, his, i. 147;
  challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251;
  clemency, his, i. 146;
  English weary of him, i. 363;
  fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1;
  George I’s will, destroys, ii. 342;
    quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv. 107;
  Johnson’s epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404;
    roars against him, ii. 342;
    would tell the truth of him, v. 255;
  Pelham’s death, i. 269, n. 1. 
  Pretender’s visit to London, v. 201, n. 4;
  quiet times under the Whigs, iv. 100;
  mentioned, i. 149, n. 3, 311, n. 2. 
GEORGE III, Addresses in 1784, iv. 265;
  authority partly reestablished, iv. 264;
  baronetcies, ii. 354, n. 2;
  Beattie, interview with, v. 90, n. 1;
  Beckford’s speech, iii. 201, n. 3;
  birthday, iv. 128;
  ‘born a Briton’, i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204;
  Boswell’s relation, v. 379;
  Capability Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2;
  carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1;
  Chatham’s and Garrick’s funerals, iv. 208, n. 1;
  city address in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4;
  concessions to the people, ii. 353;
  contempt of Irish peerages, iii. 407, n. 4;
  coronation, iii. 9, n. 2;
  Corsica offered to him, ii. 71, n. 1;
  Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2;
  Dodd’s case, iii. 121;
  fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1;
  Fox, the King’s competitor, iv. 279;
    divides the kingdom with him, iv. 292;
  Gordon Riots, iii. 429, 431;
  Great Personage, i. 219;
  Gustavus III, death of, iii. 134, n. 1;
  Heroic Epistle, reads the, iv. 113, n. 4;
  hopes formed of him, i. 363;
  Hume on the weakness of his government, iii. 46, n. 5;
  Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6;
  indecency, treated with, iv. 261;
  Irene, has the sketch of, i. 108;
  Johnson, asks, to write a Life of Spenser, iv. 410;
    compliments him in The False Alarm, ii. 112;
    Dedications, ii. 44; iii. 113;
    for the King against Fox, iv. 292;
    gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290;
    four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3;
    interview with, ii. 33;
      account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1;
      second interview, ii. 42, n. 2;
    pension, i. 372; v. 379;
      proposed addition
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