n. 1. 
APPLICATION, to one thing more than another, v. 34-5. 
APPREHENSIONS.  See FANCIES. 
ARABIC, iv. 28. 
ARABS, v. 125. 
ARBUTHNOT, Dr. John, Dunciad, annotations on the, iv. 306, n. 3;
  History of John Bull, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
  illustrious physician, an, ii. 372;
  Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, i. 452, n. 2; v. 44, n. 4;
    universal genius, i. 425; v. 29, n. 2;
  superior to Swift in coarse humour, v. 44. 
ARBUTHNOT, Robert, v. 29, 32.
Archaeological Dictionary, iv. 162. 
ARCHBISHOP, Johnson’s bow to an, iv. 198. 
ARCHES, semicircular, and elliptical, i. 35l. 
ARCHITECTURE, ornamental, ii. 439. 
ARESKINE, Sir John, v. 293. 
ARGENSON,—­, ii. 391. 
ARGONAUTS, i. 458. 
ARGUING, good-humour in, iii. 11. 
ARGUMENT, compared with testimony, iv. 281-2;
  getting the better of people in one, ii. 474;
  opponent, introducing one’s, ii. 475. 
ARGYLE, first Marquis of, v. 357, n. 3. 
ARGYLE, ninth Earl of, v. 357, n. 3. 
ARGYLE, tenth Earl (first Duke) of, v. 227, n. 4. 
ARGYLE, John, second Duke of, Beggar’s Opera, sees the, ii. 369, n. 1;
  Elwall, challenged by, ii. 164, n. 5;
  Walpole as sole minister, attacks, ii. 355, n. 2. 
ARGYLE, Archibald, third Duke of,
  librarian, neglects his, i. 187; a narrow man, v. 345;
  Wilkes visits him, iii. 73. 
ARGYLE, John, fifth Duke of, at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
  Boswell calls on him, v. 353-4;
  estates in Col. v. 293;
    Tyr-yi, v. 312;
    Iona, v. 335;
  Gordon riots, rumour about him at the, iii. 430, n. 6;
  Johnson dines with him, v. 355-9;
    is provided by him with a horse, v. 359, 362;
    corresponds with him, v. 363-4;
  lawsuit with Sir A. Maclean, ii. 380, n. 4; iii. 101, 102. 
ARGYLE, Duchess of (in 1752), i. 246. 
ARGYLE, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, account of her, v. 353, n. 1;
  at Ashbourne, iii. 207, n. 1;
  dislikes Boswell, v. 353;
    slights him, v. 354, 358-9;
  he drinks to her, v. 356;
  Johnson undertakes to get her a book, v. 356, 363;
    is ‘all attention’ to her, v. 359, 363;
    calls her ‘a Duchess with three tails’, v. 359. 
ARIAN HERESY, iv. 32. 
ARIOSTO, i. 278; v. 368, n. 1. 
ARISTOTLE, Barrow, quoted by, iv. 105, n. 4;
  difference between the learned and unlearned, iv. 13;
  friendship, on, iii. 386, n. 3;
  Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2;
  lying, on, ii. 221, n. 2;
  purging of the passions, iii. 39. 
ARITHMETIC, Johnson’s fondness for it, i. 72; iv. 171, n. 3, 271;
  principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. 
ARKWRIGHT, Richard, ii. 459, n. 1. 
ARMORIAL BEARINGS, ii. 179. 
ARMS, piling, iii. 355. 
ARMSTRONG, Dr., iii. 117. 
ARMY.  See SOLDIERS. 
ARNAULD, Antoine, iii. 347. 
ARNE, Dr., v. 126, n. 5. 
ARNOLD, Thomas, M.D., Observations on Insanity,