174; sermons, preached two, ii. 176. ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391. ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255. Esdras, ii. 189, n. 3. ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247. ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1. Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough, i. 153. Essay on Architecture, i. 306. Essay on Death, ii. 107, n. 1. Essay of Dramatick Poesie, i. 197, n. 2. Essay on Epitaphs. See EPITAPHS. Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost, i, 230. Essay on the Future Life of Brutes, ii. 54, n. 1. Essay on the Origin of Evil. See KING, Archbishop. Essay on Truth. See BEATTIE, Dr. Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule, iv. 105, n. 4. Essays on the History of Mankind, iii. 436, n. 1. Essays on Husbandry, iv. 78, n. 3. ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215; militia, i. 307, n. 4. ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2. ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, advice about travelling, i. 431; Queen Elizabeth's Champion, written in his honour, v. 241. ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249; settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432; succession in ancient estates, ii. 261; in those got by trade, ib. ESTE, House of, i. 383. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200. ETERNITY, v. 154. ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3. ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1. ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12; dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5; boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1; line attributed to a boy, iii. 304; Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1; Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1; mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97. Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae, i. 186, n. 2. Etymologicum Anglicanum, i. 186, n. 2. ETYMOLOGIES. See Dictionary. EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180. Eugenio, i. 122; ii. 240. EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394. EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2. EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4. EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in Hecuba, v. 79; armorial bearings, ii. 179; 'every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1; fragments, iv. 181, n. 3; Barnes's edition, ib.; Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311; Markland's edition, iv. 161, n. 3; quoted, i. 277; mentioned, iv. 2. European Magazine, i. 361, n. 2. EUTROPIUS, ii. 237. Evangelical History Harmonized, iv. 381, n. 1. EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451. EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443. EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2. EVANS, Lewis, Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies, i. 309. EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209. EVANS, Mr., iii. 422. Evelina. See Miss BURNEY. Evening Post, iv. 140, n. 1. EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299. Every island is a prison, iii. 269; v. 256. EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366. EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3. EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45. EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136; checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3; instances of it--depths of places filled up, v. 292; earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3; editions of Thomas a Kempis, iii. 226, n. 4; opera girls in France, iv. 171. Examen of Pope's Essay on Man, i. 137. Examiner, The (1873), iv. 202, n. 1. EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1. EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9. EXCISE, defined, i. 294; origin of Johnson's violence against it, i. 36, n. 5. Excursion, The, ii. 26. EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5, iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2; Boswell's love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL; condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273; capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1; Newgate, removed to, iv. 188; Rambler, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3; Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9. EXECUTORS, v. 106. EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1; relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446; renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2. EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4; freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2; George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77. EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273. EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY. EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53; terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE. EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2. EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY. EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454. Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost, i. 128, n. 2. EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.

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Fable of the Bees, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3. Fable of the Glow-worm, ii. 232. FACTION, iv. 200. FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187. Faculty, The, iii. 285, n. 2. FAIRIES, iv. 17. FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440. FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4. FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380. FAITH, merit in, iv. 123. FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371. FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103. FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2. Falkland's Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting, account of it, ii. 134; Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147; 'softened' in later copies, ii. 135; sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136; mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2. FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331. False Alarm, account of it, ii.

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