2. 
Ross, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 90, 92. 
Ross,—­, a soldier, v. 197. 
ROSSLYN, Earl of.  See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. 
ROTHERAM, John, Origin of Faith, ii. 478. 
ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3. 
ROTHES, Lady,
  Bennet Langton’s wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368;
iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240. 
ROTTERDAM, iii. 84, n. 2. 
ROUBILIAC, i. 328, n. 1. 
ROUGHNESS, breedeth hate, iv. 168, n. 2. 
ROUND ROBIN, The, iii. 83-5. 
ROUS, FRANCIS, i. 75, n. 3. 
ROUSSEAU, J.J.,
  beating time, iv. 283, n. 1;
  Boswell, sympathy with, ii. 11, n. 3;
    visits him, ii. 12, 215;
  Contrat-Social, ii. 249, n. 2;
  coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1;
  exile and visit to England, ii. 11;
  Foundling Hospital, put his children into the, ii. 398, n. 4;
  French not a gay people, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Geneva, first departure from, i. 58, n. 2;
  Goldsmith, resemblance to, i. 413, n. 1;
  Hume on Rousseau’s heroes, the Greeks and Romans, i. 353, n. 2;
  inequality of mankind, i. 439;
  Johnson’s character of him, ii. 11;
  justification of himself, ii. 12, n. 2;
  liberty of teaching, opposed to, ii, 249, n. 2;
  novelty, love of, i. 441;
  pension from George III, ii. 12, n. 1;
  Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard, ii. 12;
  read less than formerly, iv. 288;
  savage life, preference of, ii. 12;
  talked nonsense well, ii. 74;
  untruthfulness, ii. 434, n. 2;
  Voltaire, compared with, ii. 12;
  want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3;
  writings, effect of his, ii. 11. 
ROWE, Elizabeth, i. 312. 
ROWE, Nicholas,
  an indecent poem included in his Works, iv. 36, n. 4;
  Johnson’s memory of his plays, iv. 36, n. 3. 
ROWLANDSON, Thomas,
  caricature of Boswell revising the Second Edition, v. 148, n. 1.
Rowley’s Poetry.  See CHATTERTON. 
ROYAL ACADEMY,
  Boswell Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1;
    his letters of acceptance of office, iii. 370, 462-4;
    and Robertson at the Exhibition, iii. 278;
  club-nights, ii. 97, n. 1;
  dinners,
    Goldsmith, Johnson, Reynolds and Walpole present, iv. 314, n. 3;
    Goldsmith, Johnson and Walpole, talk about Chatterton, iii. 51, n. 2;
    Johnson speaks Latin to a Frenchman at dinner, ii. 404;
      in 1780 sits over against an Archbishop, iv. 198, n. 2;
      in 1784 has a race upon the stairs, iv. 355;
      is kept waiting by the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2;
  Exhibition of 1780, ii. 400, n. 3; iv. 198, n. 2;
  Johnson’s monument, subscription to, iv. 423, n. 2;
    intercession for Lowe’s picture, iv. 201-3;
  minister, not dependent on a, iii. 464;
  Moser, the keeper, iv. 227, n. 4;
  origin, its, i. 363, n. 2;
  professors and secretaries, ii. 67; iv. 220;
  Reynolds’s influence in it, iv. 219, n. 4;