415; pleasing distraction, in a, iii. 256; political speculation, owns himself unfit for, ii. 312, n. 4; portrait by Reynolds, i. 2, n. 2; Praeses, elected, iv. 248; preached at in Inverness chapel, v. 128; Quare adhaesit pavimento, iii. 261, n. 2; quotations sometimes inaccurate, i. 7, n. 1; quotes himself, v. 204, n. 1, 348, n. 4; changes words, ii. 45, n. 3; Rasselas, yearly reading of, i. 342; read, promises Johnson to, ii. 377, n. 1, 378, n. 1; sat up all night reading Gray, ii. 335, n. 2; reads Ovid's Epistles, v. 295; reserve, practises some, i. 4; ii. 84, n. 3; retaliates for attacks on Johnson made by Lord Monboddo, ii. 74, n. 2; by Foote, ii. 95, n. 2; Reynolds, introduced to, i. 417, n. 1: See REYNOLDS, Boswell; ridicule, defies, i. 33; iii. 190; right-headed, said by Baretti to be not, iii. 135, n. 2; Rousseau, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2; visits him, ii. 11-12, 215; sympathy with him, ii. II, n. 3; Royal Academy, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1; letters of acceptance, iii: 370, n. 1, 462-4; seat reserved for him at a lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Rudd, Mrs., acquaintance with, ii. 450, n. 1; iii. 79-80; rural beauties, little taste for, i. 461; v. 112; Scot, 'Scarce esteemed a Scot,' i. 223; Scotch accents, ii. 158, 159; Scotticisms, corrected, iii. 432, n. 2; v. 15, n. 4; criticised, 425; Scotch shoeblack, his, ii. 326; Scotland, forty years' absence from it suggested to him, iii. 26; finds it too narrow a sphere, 176; its manners disagreeable to him, ii. 381, n. 1; vulgar familiarity of its law life, iii. 179, n. 1; suffers from its rudeness, ii. 381, n. 1; Scotchman, the one cheerful, iii. 388; a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347; Scots Magazine, contributes to the, i. 112; self-tormentor, i. 470; Seward, controversy with Miss, i. 92, n. 2; iv. 331, n. 2; Shakespeare Jubilee, ii. 68; short-hand, uses a kind of, iii. 270; his long head equal to it, iv. 166; slavery, approves of, iii. 200, 203-5, 212; Smith, Adam, opinion of, ii. 430, n. 1; praises his facility of manners, v. 19, n. 1; Socrates, does not affect to be a, ii. 25; sophist, plays the, iii. 386; spy, charge of being a, ii. 383, n. 2; St. Paul's, Easter worship in, ii. 171, 215, 275-7, 360; iii. 24, 316, 380; iv. 91; stepmother, on ill terms with his, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 95; storm, among the Hebrides, in a, v. 281-2; studies, Johnson's advice as to his, i. 410, 457, 460, 464, 474; study, has a kind of impotency of, ii. 21, n. 4; succession, preference of male, ii. 387, n. ii, 411, n. 1, 420, n. 1; succession to the Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-23; superstition an enjoyment, ii. 318, n. 3; iv. 94, n. 2; dreams, i. 235, 236; iv. 379; Johnson's relief from dropsy, iv. 272: See above, MYSTERY, and below, GHOSTS, and SCOTLAND-HEBRIDES, second sight; swearing, blameless of, ii. 166, n. 1; talk, not from books, v. 378; tanti-man, a, iv. 112; Temple, enter at the Inner: See above, English Bar; tenants, kindness to his, iv. 155, n. 1, 163; tenderness, calls for, iii. 216; Thesis in Civil Law, ii. 20, 23; Thrale, Mrs., introduction to, ii. 77; her 'love' for him, ii. 145, 206, 383; attacked by her, iv. 318, n. 1; v. 245, n. 2; argument with her, iv. 72; see under, MRS. THRALE; Thurlow bows the intellectual knee to, iv. 179, n. 2; toleration, discusses, ii. 252; Tory, boasts of the name of, iii. 113, 375, n. 2; confirmed in his Toryism, iii. 392, n. 2; town, pleasure in seeing a new, iii. 163; Travels, wishes to publish his, iii. 300, 301, n. 1; truthfulness: See AUTHENTICITY; 'universal man, a,' iii. 375, n. 2; 'unscottified,' ii. 242; Utrecht, goes to, i. 400, 473; vanity, avows his, i. 12; in his youth, i. 436, n. 3; variety of men and manners, sees a, ii. 352, n. 1, 378, n. 1; Voltaire, wishes to see, iii. 463, n. 2; visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; vows, love of making, ii. 20, 24: see below, WINE, vows of sobriety; Walpole, Horace, calls on, iv. 110, n. 3; who is silent in his presence, iv. 314, n. 5; Warren, Dr., attended on his death-bed by, iv. 399, n. 5; water-drinking, tries: See below, WINE; welcome where-ever he goes, iii. 414; wife, his search of a, ii. 47, n. 2, 56, n. 2, 169, n. 2; wife, his, 'a true Montgomerie,' ii. 140, n. 1; his praise of her, v. 24; bargain with her, ib. n. 3; death, i. 236, n. 1; See BOSWELL, Mrs.; will, his, iii. 400, n. 1; Williams, Miss, tea with, i. 421, 463; ii. 99; Wilkes, dines with, ii. 378, n. 1: See under Wilkes, John; Wine, bruised and robbed when drunk, i. 13, n. 3; 'intoxicated, but not drunk,' ii. 436, n. 1; intoxicated at Bishop Shipley's, iv. 88, n. 1; at Miss Monckton's, 109; in Sky on punch, v. 258; penitent, v. 259; thinks it good for health, v. 260; Johnson advises him to drink less, ii.