85-7, 96; Old Bachelor, iii. 187; Pope's Iliad dedicated to him, iv. 50, n. 4; Way of the World, i. 494, n. 1; ii. 227; writings, his, make no man better, i. 189, n. 1. CONINGTON, Professor, Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3. CONJECTURES, how far useful, ii. 260. CONJUGAL INFIDELITY, ii. 56; iii. 347, 406. Connoisseur, The, i. 420; ii. 334, n. 3. CONNOR, ----, (Conn), a priest, v. 227, n. 4. CONSCIENCE, defined by Johnson, ii. 243; liberty of it, ii. 249. Conscious Lovers, i. 491, n. 3. Considerations on the Case of Dr. Trapp's Sermons. See Dr. TRAPP. Considerations on Corn. See under CORN. Considerations on the Dispute between Crousaz and Warburton, i. 157. Considerations upon the Embargo, i. 503. CONSOLATION, ii. 13. Consort defined, i. 149, n. 2. CONST, Mr., iii. 16, n. 1. CONSTANTINOPLE, iv. 28. CONSTITUENT, iv. 30, n. 4. CONSTITUTION, Johnson asked to write on it, ii. 441. CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY, iii. 314, n. 6. Construction of Fireworks, v. 246, n. 1. CONSTRUCTIVE TREASON, iv. 87. Contemplation, v. 117, n. 4. CONTENT, nobody is content, iii. 241. CONTI, Prince of, ii. 405, n. 1. Continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of Gray, iv. 392, n. 1. Continuity, iii. 419, n. 1. CONTRADICTION, iii. 386; iv. 280. CONTROVERSIES, ii. 442; iii. 10. CONVENTS. See MONASTERIES. Conversable, v. 437, n. 1. CONVERSATION, coming close to a man in it, iv. 179; contest, not animated without a, ii. 444; is a contest, ii. 450; eminent men often have little power in it, iv. 19; envy excited by superiority, iv. 195; game, like a, ii. 231; Johnson's description of the happiest kind, ii. 359; iv. 50; knowledge got by reading compared with that got by it, ii. 361; old and young, of the, ii. 443, 444, n. 1; praise instantly reverberated, v. 59; requisites for it, iv. 166; rich trader without it, iv. 83; solid, unsuitable for dinner parties, iii. 57; talk, distinguished from, iv. 186. See JOHNSON, Conversation. Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, etc., ii. 34, n. 1. CONVERSIONS, ii. 105; iii. 228. CONVICT, a, unjustly condemned to death, ii. 285, n. 1. CONVICTS, punished by being set to work, iii. 268; religious discipline for them, iv. 329; sent to America, ii. 312, n. 3. CONVOCATION, i. 464; iv. 277. CONWAY, General, ii. 12, n. 1. CONWAY, Mr. Moncure, i. 85, n. 2. COOK, Captain, Boswell meets him, iii. 7; Hawkesworth's edition of his Voyages, ii. 247, n. 5; iii. 7; iv. 308. COOK, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64. COOKE, Thomas (Hesiod Cooke), v. 37. COOKE, Thomas, the engraver, iv. 421, n, 2. COOKE, William (Conversation Cooke), ii. 100, n. 1; iv. 254, 437. COOKERY, Mrs. Glasse's Cookery, iii. 285. See JOHNSON, Cookery. COOKSEY, John, ii. 319, n. 1. COOLEY, William, i. 503. COOPER, John Gilbert, last of the Benevolists, iii. 149, n. 2; story of his sick son, ib.; Johnson the Caliban of literature, calls, ii. 129; anecdote of--and Garrick, iv. 4; 'Punchinello,' ii. 129. COOPER, M., a bookseller, v. 117, n. 4. COOTE, Sir Eyre, account of him, v. 124, n. 2; travels in Arabia, v. 125. COOTE, Lady, v. 125-6. COPENHAGEN, v. 46, n, 2. COPLEY, John, iv. 402, n. 2. COPPER WORKS, at Holywell, iii. 455; v. 441. Copy, manuscript for printing, iii. 42, n. 2. COPY-MONEY, in Italy, iii. 162. COPY-RIGHT, Act of Queen Anne, i. 437, n. 2; iii. iii. 294; debate on the copy-right bill, i. 304, n. 1; Donaldson's invasion of supposed right, i. 437; judgment of the House of Lords, ib.; ii. 272, n, 2; iii. 370; opinion of the Scotch judges, v. 50,72; Thurlow's speech, ii. 345, n. 2; honorary copy-right, iii. 370; Johnson's plea for one, i. 437, n. 1; should not be a perpetuity, i. 439; ii. 259; London Booksellers, claim of the, iii. 110; metaphysical right in authors, ii. 259. CORBET, Andrew, i. 45, n. 4, 58, n. 1. CORDELIA, i. 70, n. 2. CORELLI, ii. 342. CORIAT (Coryat) Tom, ii, 175; Crudities, 176, n. 1. Coriat Junior, ii. 175. CORKE AND ORRERY, fifth Earl of. See ORRERY. CORKE AND ORRERY, sixth Earl of, i. 257, n. 3. CORN, bounty on corn (Irish), ii. 130, n. 3; (English), i. 519; iii. 232; corn-riots in 1766, 1. 519; iv. 317, n. 1; exportation, prohibited by proclamation, iv. 317, n. 1; last year of it, iii. 232, n. 1; Johnson's Considerations on Corn, i. 518; iii. 232, n. 1; plentiful in the spring of 1778, iii. 226; previous bad harvests, ib., n. 2; price artificially raised, iii. 232, n. 1. CORNBURY, Lord, ii. 425. CORNEILLE, character of Richelieu, ii. 134, n. 4; compared with Shakespeare, iv. 16; goes round the world, v. 311. CORNELIUS NEPOS, iv. 180. CORNEWALL, Speaker, iii. 82, n. 2. CORNISH FISHERMEN, iv. 78. CORNWALLIS, Archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 125. CORNWALLIS, Lord, his capitulation, iii. 355, n. 3; iv. 140, n. 2. Corps, a pun on it, ii, 241. CORPULENCY, iv. 213. CORRECTION OF PROOF-SHEETS, iv. 321, n. 2. CORSICA, Antipodes, like the, ii. 4, n. 1; Boswell's subscription for ordnance, ii.

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