410, n. 1; knowledge and reading, his, iii. 69; Law-Lord, on a dull, iv. 178; leg, loses a, ii. 95, n. 1, 155, n. 1; iii. 97, n. 2; depeditation, v. 130; Life of him, by W. Cooke, iv. 437; Macdonald, Sir A., should ridicule, v. 277; making fools of his company, ii. 98; mimic, not a good, ii. 154; iii. 69; 'Monboddo, an Elzevir Johnson,' ii. 189 n. 2; v. 74, n. 3; Murphy and The Rambler, i. 356; Murphy's account of a dinner at his house, i. 504; Nabob, The, iii. 23, n. 1; Orators, The, ii. 154, n. 3; v. 130, n. 2; patent, sells his, iii. 97; Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 2; rising in the world, ii. 155, n. 2; small-beer and the black boy, iii. 70; stories, his, dismissed from the mind, ii. 433, n. 2; Townshend, Charles, surpassed by, ii. 222, n. 3; wit of escape, has the, iii. 69; wit under no restraint, iii. 69; Worcester College, Oxford, at, ii. 95, n. 2; wicked pleasure in circulating an anecdote, i. 453. FOPPERY never cured, ii. 128. FORBES, Bishop, v. 252. FORBES, Rev. Mr., v. 75. FORBES, Sir William, and Co., v. 253. FORBES, Sir William, of Pitsligo, sixth Baronet, Beattie, Life of, v. 25, n. 1, 273, n. 4; Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 24, 413, n. 3; executor, iii. 301, n. 1; children, guardian to, iii. 400, n. 1; journals, reads, iii. 208; v. 413; letter to, v. 413; Carre's Sermons, edits, v. 28; Errol, Lord, account of, v. 103, n. 1; honest lawyers, on the duty of, v. 26-7, 72; Johnson at Garrick's funeral, iii. 371, n. 1; Round Robin, account of the, iii. 82-5; Scott's tribute to him, v. 25, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 41, 42, 221; v. 32, 44, 46, 393. FORBES, Sir William, seventh baronet, v. 253, n. 3. FORD, Cornelius (Johnson's uncle), i. 49. FORD, Rev. Cornelius (Johnson's cousin), Hogarth's 'Parson Ford,' i. 49; iii. 348; Johnson's account of him, ib.; his ghost, iii. 349. FORD, Dr. Joseph, i. 49, n. 3. FORD FAMILY, i. 34; pedigree, i. 49, n. 3. FORDYCE, Dr. George, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; ii. 274, 318; iii. 230, n. 5; iv. 326; anecdote of his drinking, ii. 274, n. 6. FORDYCE, Rev. Dr. James, i. 396; iv. 411. Foreign History in Gent. Mag. i. 154. FOREIGNER, an eminent, iv. 14. FOREIGNERS, 'are fools,' i. 82, n. 3; iv. 15; writing a book in England, ii. 221; attaching themselves to a party, ib.: see JOHNSON, Foreigners. Forenoon, changed into morning, ii. 283, n. 3. FORGETFULNESS, iv. 126. Form, iv. 321. Former, the, the latter, iv. 190. FORMOSA, iii. 443; v. 209. Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of, iii. 444. FORMS, tenacity of, iv. 104. Formular, ii. 234. FORNICATION, heinous sin, not a, ii. 172; misery caused by it, i. 457; penance for it, v. 208; probationer, cause of a, ii. 171; a sectary guilty of it, ii. 472; should be punished by law, iii. 17, 407. FORRESTER, Colonel, iii. 22. FORSTER, George, Voyage to the South Sea, iii. 180. FORSTER, John, Bickerstaff, I., ii. 82, n. 3; Boswell's stories, on variations of, i. 445, n. 1; Bute's pensioners, i. 373, n. 1; Churchill's Rosciad, i. 419, n. 5; Davies and 'Goldy,' ii. 258, n. 2; Drelincourt on Death, ii. 163, n. 4; George III's pensioners, ii. 112, n. 3; Goldsmith's assault on Evans, ii. 209, n. 2; Good-Natured Man, ii. 48, n. 2; quarrel with Johnson, ii. 253, n. 4, She Stoops to Conquer, and the Royal Marriage Act, ii. 224, n. 1; its production on the stage, ii. 208, n. 5; its title, ii. 205, n. 4; and Sterne, ii. 173, n. 2; Traveller, the first line in, iii. 253, n. 1; inaccuracy about 'Hesiod' Cooke, v. 37, n. 1; Johnson's letter to Goldsmith, ii. 235, n. 2; and the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2; Moore, Edward, mistakes for Dr. John Moore, iii. 424, n. 1; taste, changes in public, iii. 192, n. 2. Fort, a pun on it, ii. 241, n. 3. FORTITUDE, iv. 374, n. 5. Fortune, a Rhapsody, i. 124. FORTUNE, wasting a, iii. 317. FORTUNE-HUNTERS, ii. 131. FORWARDNESS, ii. 449. FOSSANE, ii. 400, n. 2. Fossilist, ii. 304, n. 1; v. 408, n. 1. FOSTER, Dr. James, iv. 9. FOSTER, John, head-master of Eton, iv. 8, n. 3. FOSTER, Mrs., i. 227. See MILTON, granddaughter. FOTHERGILL, Rev. Dr. ii. 331, 333. FOULIS, Sir James, v. 150, 242. FOULIS, Messrs., Glasgow booksellers, ii. 380; 'Elzevirs of Glasgow,' v. 370. Foundling Hospital for Wit, iv. 289, n. 1. Fountains, The, ii. 26, 232. FOWKE, Mr., iii. 71, n. 5; iv. 34, n. 5. FOWLER, Mr., ii. 63. FOX, Charles James, Boswell on the India Bill, iv. 258, n. 2; Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2; Charles II, descended from, iv. 292, n. 2; 'commenced patriot,' iv. 87, n. 2; Covent Garden mob, iv. 279, n. 2; described by Lord Holland, Gibbon, Mackintosh, and Rogers, iv. 167, n. 1; Walpole and Hannah More, iv. 292, n. 3; Fitzpatrick's 'sworn brother,' iii. 388, n. 3; George III's competitor, iv. 279; divides the kingdom with Caesar, 292; George III his own minister, i. 424, n. 1; Goldsmith's Traveller, praises, iii. 252, 261; Homer, reads, iv.

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