first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1. ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1. ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349. ELLIOT,--, iii. 352, n. 2. ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2. ELLIS, 'Jack,' a scrivener, iii. 21. ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4. ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116. ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289. ELOCUTION, iv. 206. ELPHINSTON, James, Forty Years Correspondence, ii. 305; Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters; Martial, translation of, iii. 258; manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379; mother, loses his, i. 211; Rambler, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210; translates the mottoes, i. 225; reading books through, on, ii. 226; school, his, ii. 171, 226; mentioned, ii. 30. ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91. ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1. Elvira, i. 408. ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251. ELWALLIANS, ii. 164. ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope's Universal Prayer, iii. 346, n. 3. Embellishment, iii. 209. EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231; effects of it on population, iii. 232; on happiness, v. 27; caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3; immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration. EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222. EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464. EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT. EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234. EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99. ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7. ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3; Condition (1780), 'difficulty very general,' iii. 420; (1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4; (1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173; dreadful confusion, iv. 249: times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2; Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1; common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1; cruelty to black men, ii. 479; Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186; felicity in its inns, ii. 451; genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1; government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; history of it scarcely credible, v. 340; knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3; language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3; literature: See LITERATURE; lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78; loyal in general, ii. 370; poor, provision for the, ii. 130; reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125; Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1; reserve, English, iv. 191, 284; roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2; slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480; stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217. England's Gazetteer, iv. 311. English Humourists, i. 199, n, 2. English Malady, The, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1. English Poets, Bell's, ii. 453, n. 2. ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE Englishman in Paris, ii. 395, n. 2. ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428; Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423; Johnson's letters on it, ii. 415-423; limits should be set, ii. 428-9; nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101. ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7; in farming, v. 111. ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33. Enucleated, iii. 346. ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271. EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1. EPICTETUS, v. 279. EPICUREAN in Lucian, iii. 10. EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259. EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY. Epistle of St. Basil, iv. 20. EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1; Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366; man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212; mixed languages or styles, iv. 444; the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443. Epitaphs, Essay on, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1. Epocha, iii. 128. EPSOM, iii. 453. EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219; none happy in it, iii. 26; mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1; natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202. See SUBORDINATION. Equitation, v. 131. ERASMUS, Adagiorum Chiliades, iv. 379, n. 2; battologia, v. 444; Ciceronianus, iv. 353; Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2; epigram on him, v. 430; Letter to the Nuns, v. 446; Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3; Manita Paedagogica, quoted, i. 418, n. 2. ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1. ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103; says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104; his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104; educates a surgeon, v. 101; portrait by Reynolds, v. 102. ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130. ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204. ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse. ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew, Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4; Critical Strictures, i. 408; poet and critick, iii. 150. ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387. ERSKINE, Hon. Archibald, v. 387. ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386. ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4. ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine), account of him, ii. 173, n. 1; Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177; Richardson tedious, finds, ii.

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