RAY, John,
  British insects, ii. 248;
  Collection of north-country words, ii. 91;
  Nomenclature, ii. 361. 
RAY, Miss, iii. 383. 
RAYMOND, S., ii. 338, n. 2. 
RAYNAL, Abbe, iv. 434-5. 
READING,
  advice of an old gentleman, i. 446;
  art, its, iv. 207;
  boys should read any book they will, iii. 385; iv. 21;
  general amusement, iv. 217, n. 4;
  hard reading, i. 446;
  inclination to be followed, i. 428; iii. 43, 193;
  knowledge got by it compared with that got by conversation, ii. 361;
  people do not willingly read, iv. 218;
  reading books to the end, i. 71; ii. 226; iv. 308;
  reading no more than one could utter, iv. 31;
  snatches useful, iv. 21;
  Voltaire testifies to its increase in England, ii. 402, n. 1;
  youth the season for plying books, i. 446. 
   See JOHNSON, reading. 
REBELLION, natural to men, v. 394. 
REBELLION OF 1745-6,
  Boswell’s projected history of it, iii. 162;
    would have to be printed abroad, ib.;
  cruelty shown to the rebels, i. 146;
  effect on the Gent. Mag., i. 176, n. 2;
  Highlanders’ wants, ii. 126;
  Johnson’s occupation at the time, i. 176;
  noble attempt, iii. 162. 
REBELS, never friends to arts, ii. 223;
  successful, ii. 223.
Recollecting, iv. 126.
Recreations and Studies of a Country Clergyman, iv 190, n. 2. 
RECRUITING, iii. 399, n. 3.
Recruiting Officer, iv. 7. 
RECUPERO, Signor, ii. 468, n. 1.
Red Coat, v. 140. 
RED SEA, iii. 134, n. i, 455. 
REDRESS FOR RIDICULE, v. 295. 
REED, Isaac, aids Johnson in the Lives, iv. 37;
  mentioned, i. 169, n. 2; ii. 240, n. 4; iii. 201, n. 3; v. 57, n. 2. 
REED, John, iii. 281, n. 3. 
REES, Dr., ii. 203, n. 3. 
REFINEMENT, in education, iii. 169.
Reflections on a grave digging in Westminster Abbey, ii. 26;
v. 117, n. 4.
Reflections on the State of Portugal, i. 306. 
REFORMATION, Church revenues lessened, iii. 138;
  freedom from bondage, iii. 60;
  the light of revelation obscured upon political motives, ii. 28. 
REFORMERS, why burnt, ii. 251.
Regale, iii. 308, n. 2; v. 347, n. 1. 
REGATTA, iii. 206, n. 1. 
REGICIDES, ii. 370. 
REGISTRATION OF DEEDS, iv. 74.
Rehearsal, The, ii. 168; iv. 320. 
REID, Andrew, iii. 32, n. 5. 
REID, Professor Thomas, meets Johnson in Glasgow, v. 369, 370;
  original principles, his, i. 471;
  Scotticisms corrected by Hume, ii. 72, n. 2;
  mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1. 
REIGN OF TERROR, i. 465, n. 1. 
REINDEER, ii. 168. 
RELATIONS, a man’s ready friends, v. 105;
  in London, ii. 177. 
  See FRIENDS, natural. 
RELIGION, amount of religion in the country, ii. 96;
  ancients not in earnest as to it, iii. 10;
  balancing of accounts, iv. 225;
  changing it, ii. 466; iii. 298;