METHODISTS, bitterness, their, v. 392;
  cannot explain their excellence, v. 392;
  Cock Lane Ghost, adopt the, i. 407, n. 1;
  convicts, effects on, iv. 329;
  Dodd’s Address, offended by, iii. 121;
  Johnson consulted by two young women, ii. 120;
  Humphry Clinker, mentioned in, ii. 123, n. 2;
  Hypocrite, The, ii. 321;
  inward light, ii. 126;
  Moravians, quarrel with the, iii. 122, n. 1;
  origin of the name, i. 458, n. 3;
  Oxford, expulsion of six from, ii. 187;
  rise of the sect, i. 68, n. 1;
  sincere, how far, ii. 123;
  success in preaching, i. 458; ii. 123; v. 391-2;
  term of reproach, i. 458, n. 3;
  Wales, in, v. 451. 
METTERNICH, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1. 
MEYER, Dr., ii. 253, n. 2. 
MEYNELL, ‘old,’ Johnson intimate with his family, i. 82;
  saying about foreigners, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15;
    about London, iii. 379. 
MEYNELL, Miss (Mrs. Fitzherbert), i. 83. 
MICKLE, William Julius, account of him, ii. 182, n. 3;
  Boswell and Johnson dine with him at Wheatley, iv. 308;
  Cumnor Hall and Sir Walter Scott, v. 349, n. 1;
  Garrick, quarrel with, ii. 182, n. 3; v. 349, n. 1;
  Johnson, never had a rough word from, iv. 250;
  Lusiad, The, ii. 182;
    dispute with Johnson about it, iv. 250;
  mentioned, iii. 37. 
MICROSCOPES, ii. 38. 
MICYLLUS, v. 430. 
MIDDLE AGES, iv. 133, 170. 
MIDDLE CLASS, absence of it abroad, ii. 402, n. 1;
  in France, ii. 394, 402;
  in Scotland, ib., n. 1;
  happy in England, ii. 402. 
MIDDLE STATE after death, i. 240; ii. 105; v. 356. 
MIDDLESEX, Earl of, i. 367. 
MIDDLESEX, Under-sheriff and Dr. Shebbeare, iii. 315, n. 1. 
MIDDLESEX Election, Boswell’s difference with Johnson, iii. 221;
  Johnson’s discussion with Lord Newhaven, iii. 408;
  False Alarm, i. 134; ii. 111;
  Patriot, ii. 286;
  petitions, ii. 103;
  Townshend refuses to pay the land-tax, iii. 460. 
MIDDLETON, Lady Diana, v. 97, n. 5. 
MIDDLEWICH, v. 432. 
MIDGELEY, Dr., iv. 200. 
MIGRATION of birds, ii. 55, 248. 
MILITARY character and life.  See SOLDIERS.
Military Dictionary, i. 138. 
MILITARY spirit, injured by trade, ii. 218. 
MILITIA BILL of 1756, i. 36, n. 4; 307, n. 4; ii. 321, n. 4;
  Act of 1757, iii. 360, n. 3;
  for Scotch Militia Bill:  See under SCOTLAND;
  drillings in 1778, iii. 360, 365, n. 4;
  Scotch officers of Militia, iii. 399, n. 2. 
‘MILKING the bull,’ i. 444. 
MILL, James, birth, v. 75, n. 2;
  in the East India House, ii. 289, n. 2;
  likeness to Johnson, iv.  III, n. 3. 
MILL, John Stuart,
  difference in pay of men and women, on the, ii. 217, n. 1;
  in the East India House, ii. 289, n. 2;
  precocity, i. 148, n. 1;
  teaching, old and new systems of, ii. 146, n. 4. 
MILLAR, Andrew, the bookseller, account of him, i.