his portraits, iv. 77, n. 1. 
KNIGHT, Captain, i. 378, n. 1. 
KNIGHT, Joseph, a negro,
  account of him, iii. 214, n. 1;
  Cullen’s answer, iii. 127;
  Maclaurin’s plea, iii. 86, 88;
  Johnson offers a subscription, ib.;
    interested in him, iii. 95, 101, 129;
    argument, iii. 200, 202-3;
  decision, iii. 212, 216, 219. 
KNIGHTON, i. 132, n. 1. 
KNITTING, iii. 242. 
KNIVES not provided in foreign inns, ii. 97, n. 1. 
KNOLLES, Richard, Turkish History, i. 100. 
KNOTTING, iii. 242; iv. 284. 
KNOWLE, near Bristol, i. 353, n. 2. 
KNOWLEDGE,
  all kinds of value, ii. 357;
  desirable per se, i. 417;
  desire of it innate, i. 458;
  diffusion of it not a disadvantage, iii. 37, 333;
  question of superiority, ii. 220;
  two kinds, ii. 365. 
  See EDUCATION and LEARNING. 
KNOWLES, Mrs., the Quakeress,
  courage and friendship, on, iii. 289;
  death, on, iii. 294;
  Johnson, meets, in 1776, iii. 78;
  in 1778, iii. 284-300;
  her account of the meeting, iii. 299, n. 2;
  describes his mode of reading, iii. 284;
  liberty to women, argues for, iii. 286;
  proselyte to Quakerism, defends a, iii. 298;
  sutile pictures, her, iii. 299, n. 2. 
KNOX, John, the Reformer,
  Cardinal Beaton’s death, v. 63, n. 3;
  his ‘reformations,’ v. 6l;
  burial-place, ib., n. 4;
  set on a mob, v. 62;
  his posterity, v. 63. 
KNOX, John, bookseller and author, ii. 304, 306. 
KNOX, Rev. Dr. Vicesimus,
  Boswell’s Life of Johnson, praises, iv. 391, n. 1;
  Johnson’s biographers, attacks, iv. 330, n. 2;
  imitates his style, i. 222, n. 1; iv. 390;
  Oxford, attacks, iii. 13, n. 3; iv. 391, n. 1;
  popularity as a writer, iv. 390, n. 2. 
KRISTROM, Mr., ii. 156.

L.

Labefactation, ii. 367. 
LABOUR, all men averse to it, ii. 98-99; iii. 20, n. 1. 
LABRADOR, iv. 410, n. 6. 
LA BRUYERE.  See BRUYERE. 
LACE, a suit of, ii. 352.
Laceration, ii. 106; iii. 419, n. 1.
Lactantius, iii. 133. 
LADD, Sir John.  See LADE. 
LADE, Sir John,
  account of him, iv. 412, n. 1;
  Johnson’s advice to him about marriage, ii. 109, n. 2;
  lines on him, iv. 413. 
LADIES OF QUALITY, iii. 353. 
LADY AT BATH, an empty-headed, iii. 48. 
LAFELDT, battle of, iii. 251. 
LAMB, Charles,
  account of Davies’s recitation, i. 391, n. 2;
  Methodists saying grace, v. 123, n. 1;
  no one left to call him Charley, iii. 180, n. 3. 
LANCASHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4. 
LANCASTER, Boswell at the Assizes, iii. 261, n. 2. 
LANCASTER, Dr., Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford, i. 61, n. 1. 
LANCASTER, House of, iii. 157. 
LAND,
  advantage produced by selling it all at once, ii. 429;
  entails and natural right, ii. 416;
  investments in it, iv. 164; v. 232;