111; answers to it, ii. 112; election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3; Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147; petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5; rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2; Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30; Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104. FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55. False Delicacy, ii. 48. FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1; prevalence of it, iii. 229. FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his 'humorous phrase,' i. 250; 'I deny your Major,' iv. 316; proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1; mentioned, i. 506. FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263; literary, hard to get, ii. 358; a shuttlecock, v. 400; solicitude about it, i. 451. FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96; continuance of them, ii. 421; desire to propagate the name, ii. 469; estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249; founding one, ii. 429; household, number in the, iii. 316; preference shown them, ii. 153; ruined by extravagance, ii. 428. See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth. FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177. FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4. See BOSWELL, Fancies. FANCY, compared with reason, ii. 277. Fantoccini, i. 414. FARMER, Dr., Colman, criticised by, iv. 18; Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare, iii. 38; Johnson praises it, ib., n. 6; letters to him, i. 368; ii. 114; iii. 427; Percy, in his Ancient Ballads, helps, iii. 276, n. 2; Steevens, friendship with, iii. 281, n. 3; Tristram Shandy, despises, ii. 449, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 141. FARMERS, worthless fellows, often, iii. 353; described by Wesley, ib., n. 5. FARQUHAR, George, Johnson's opinion of his writings, iv. 7. See Beaux Stratagem. Fashionable Lover, v. 176. FASTING, examined medically, ii. 476-7; justified, ii. 352, n. 2; peevishness caused by it, ii. 435: See JOHNSON, fasting. FAT MEN, iv. 213. FATE. See FREE WILL. FATHER, control over his daughters in marriage, iii. 377; not bound to tell of his children's faults, iii. 18. Father's Revenge, The, iv. 246. FAULDER, a bookseller, iv. 387, n. 1. FAULKNER, G., Chesterfield's account of him, v. 44, n. 2; Ireland drained by England, v. 44; mimicked by Foote, ii. 154; v. 130; mentioned, i. 321. FAWKENER, Sir Everard, i. 181, n. 1. FAWKES, Rev. Francis, i. 382. FAVOUR, granting a, ii. 167. FAVOURITE defined, i. 295, n. 1. FEAR, Charles V's saying, ii. 81; nothing left to fear when a man is bent on killing himself, ii. 229. See COURAGE. FEELING FOR OTHERS. See SYMPATHY. Felixmarte of Hircania, i. 49. FELL, John, Demoniacs, v. 36, n. 3. Fellow, ii. 362. FENCING, v. 66. FENELON, Archbishop, v. 175, n. 5, 311. FENTON, Elijah, his advice to Gay, v. 60, n. 4; Mariamne, i. 102, n. 2; non-juror, a, ii. 321, n. 4. FERGUSON, James, the self-taught philosopher, ii. 99; v. 149. FERGUSON, James, a Scotch advocate, iii. 213, 214, n. 1. FERGUSSON, Dr. Adam, account of him, v. 42; mentioned, ii. 53, n. 1; v. 45. FERGUSSON, Sir Adam, ii. 169. FERMOR, Arabella, ii. 392, n. 8. FERMOR, Mrs., the Abbess, ii. 392. FERNE, Mr., v. 123-5. FERNEY, i. 434; v. 14. FERNS, Burke's pun on, iv. 73. Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458. FEUDAL ANTIQUITIES, ii. 202; iii. 414. 'FEUDAL GABBLE,' ii. 134, n. 4. FEUDAL SYSTEM, Boswell for, and Johnson against it, ii. 177-8; v. 106; Johnson has the old feudal notions, iii. 177; male succession, origin of, ii. 417, 419; ridiculed by Smollett, v. 106, n. 3. FICTION, small amount of real, iv. 236. FIDDLERS, ii. 191. FIDDLING, dangerous fascination, iii. 242; little thing, but not disgraceful, iii. 242; power of art shown in it, ii. 226. FIELDING, Henry, alms-giving, on, ii. 119, n. 4, 212, n. 2; Amelia, dedicated to Ralph Allen, v. 80, n. 5; Johnson reads it at a sitting, iii. 43: complains of the heroine's broken nose, ib., n. 2; Richardson could not read it, ii. 174, n. 1; 'sad stuff,' iii. 43, n. 2; sale rapid, ib.; description of a buck, v. 184, n. 3; Westminster Round-house, i. 249, n. 2; attacks on authors, on, v. 275, n. 1; blockhead, a, ii. 173; barren rascal, a, ii. 174; Burney, Miss, admired by, ii. 174, n. 2; Champion, The, i. 169, n. 2; died at Lisbon, iv. 260; foreigners, not understood by, ii. 49, n. 2; Gibbon's tribute to him, ii. 175, n. 2; hospitals, on, iii. 53, n. 5; Johnson praises him, ii. 173, n. 2: See above, Amelia, blockhead, and below, Tom Jones; Jonathan Wild, compared with St. Austin, iv. 291; Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1; Joseph Andrews, never read by Johnson, ii. 174; Parson Adams, the original of, iii. 426, n. 1; Cato and The Conscious Lovers, praised by Adams, i. 491, n. 3; Richardson, compared with, ii. 48, 174, ib., n. 2; Richardson's description of his heroes, ii. 49; of Fielding, ii. 174; of Tom Jones, ii. 175, n. 2; Robinhood Society described, iv. 92, n. 5; Tom Jones, Boswell praises it, ii. 175; Johnson despises it, ii.