iii. 363, n. 1; (ii. 94, 146), iii. 296, n.
            1; (ii. 146), iv. 399, n. 6; (ii. 561), i. 82,
            n. 2; (ii. 846), iv. 273, n. 1, v. 48,
            n. 1; (iv. 35), iv. 304, n. 2; (iv. 343),
            iv. 305, n. 2; (v. 353), iv. 27, n. 6; (vii.
            26), iv. 42, n. 1; (x. 743), iii. 53, n. 3;
      Penseroso, 1. 63, i. 323, n. 4;
      Sonnets, xxi., iv. 254, n. 5. 
MIMICRY, ii. 154. 
MIND, management of it, ii. 440;
  mechanical, looked at as, v. 35;
  physician’s art useless to one not at ease, iii. 164;
  putting one’s whole mind to an object, ii. 472;
  retreats for it, ii. 440. 
  See WEATHER. 
MINISTERS of the Church, popular election of, ii. 244. 
MINISTRIES, attempt at silence in the House of Commons, iii. 235;
  concessions to the people, ii. 353; iii. 3;
  list of ministries from 1770-1784, iv. 170, n. 1;
  Lord North’s ministry, its duration, iv. 170, n. 1;
    (1771) contest with the City, iv. 140, n. 1;
    (1773) much enfeebled, ii. 208;
      want of power, v. 57;
    (1774) feeble, iv. 69;
    (1775) merit not rewarded, ii. 352;
      neither stable nor grateful, ii. 348;
      feeble and timid, ii. 355;
      too little power, ii. 352;
    (1776) ‘timidity of our scoundrels,’ iii. 1;
      imbecility, iii. 46, ib., n. 5;
      ministers asked to the Lord Mayor’s feast for the first time for
         seven years, iii. 460;
    (1778) ‘now there is no power,’ iii. 356;
    (1779) Johnson has no delight in talking of public affairs, iii.
         408;
      Horace Walpole’s account, ib., n. 4;
    (1780), afraid to repress persecution of Papists in Scotland, iii.
         427, n. 1;
      feebleness at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
    (1781), Johnson against it, iv. 81, 100;
      gives thanks for its dissolution, iv. 139;
      bunch of imbecility, ib.;
      successors could hardly do worse, iv. 140, n. 3;
      timidity, iv. 200;
    struggles between two sets of ministers in 1784, iv. 260,
            n. 2. 
MINORCA, ii. 176; iii. 246.
‘Mira cano,’ iii. 304. 
MIRABEAU, ‘dramatised his death,’ v. 397, n. 1;
  his motion about Corsica, ii. 71, n. 1. 
MIRACLES, i. 444; iii. 188.
Mirror, The, iv. 390. 
MIRTH, the measure of a man’s understanding, ii. 378, n. 2.
Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces
  by the Authour of the Rambler, ii. 270.
Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth,
  published 1745, i. 175;
  praised by Warburton, i. 176;
  criticism on Hanmer, i. 178. 
MISDEMEANOUR, defined, iii. 214.
Misella, i. 223. 
MISERS, contemptible philosophically, v. 112;
  few in England, v. 112;
  must be miserable, iii. 322;
  no man born a miser, iii. 322. 
MISERY, balance of misery, iv. 300;