218, n. 3; India Bill, i. 311, n. 1; iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 258, n. 2; Johnson's epitaph, iv. 443; 'friend,' iv. 292; for the King against Fox, but for Fox against Pitt, iv. 292; in parliament, defends, iv. 318, n. 3; presence, silent in, iii. 267; iv. 166; thinks highly of his abilities, iii. 267; accounts for his silence in company, iv. 167; Kirkwall, returned for, iv. 266, n. 2; Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479, 481, n. 3; ii. 274, 318; iii. 128, n. 4; Lyttelton, second Lord, character of the, iv. 298, n. 3; Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2; Pitt's pertness, iv. 297, n. 2; poetry truth, not history, ii. 366, n. 1; Reynolds too much under him, iii. 261; Sandwich's, Lord, removal, motion for, iii. 383, n. 3; subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7; Sydney Biddulph, praises, i. 390, n. 1; Treasury, dismissal from the, ii. 274, n. 7; Westminster election, iv. 266, 292, n. 3. FOX, Henry. See HOLLAND, First Lord. FOX, Lady Susan, ii. 328, n. 3.

FOX, Mrs., iv. 279, n. 2. FOX-(Faux, or Vaux) HALL, iv. 26, n. 1. FOX-HUNTING, i. 446, n. 1. FRA PAOLO. See SARPI. FRANCE AND THE FRENCH, Academy takes forty years to compile their Dictionary, i. 186, 301, n. 2; sends Johnson a copy, i. 298; on the resistance of the air, v. 253; affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3; Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21; Ana, their, v. 311; anglomania, ii. 126; Assembly, iv. 434; authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1; authors superficial, i. 454; commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1; commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1; contented race, v. 106, n. 4; cookery, ii. 385, 403; Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1; credulity, v. 330; crossroads, ii. 391; difference between English and French, iv. 14; England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4; English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343; 'fluency and ignorance,' iv. 15, n. 4; invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4; 'French maxims abolish mercy,' iii. 204, n. 1. Garrick's account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3; gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1; great people live magnificently, ii. 402; houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2; hunting, v. 253; Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1; Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2; Johnson's tour, ii. 384-404; Journal, ii. 389-401; account given by him to Boswell, 401; made more satisfied with England, iii. 352; saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4; Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170; literati, v. 229; literature, art of accommodating, v, 310; book on every subject, iv. 237; high in every department, ii. 125; little original, v. 311; not so general as in England, iii. 254; in its second spring, ib.; literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1; magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395; manners indelicate, ii. 403; gross, iii. 352; habit of spitting, ii. 403; iii. 352; iv. 237; meals gross, ii. 389; meat, fit for a gaol, ii. 402, 403; described by Smollett as good, ii. 402, n. 2; by Goldsmith as bad, ib.; men know no more than the women, iii. 253; middle rank, no, ii. 394, 402; military character respected, iii. 10; mode of life not pleasant, ii. 388; national petulance, ii. 126; novels, ii. 125; opera girls, iv. 171; Paris: See PARIS; peace of 1762, i. 382, n. 1; of 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1; people, misery of the, ii. 402; philosophy, pursuit of, iii. 305, n. 2; players, ii. 404; politeness, iv. 237; poor laws, no, ii. 390; prisoners in England, i. 353; private life unaffected by despotic power, ii. 170; privileges little abused, v. 106, n. 4; Provence, gaiety of, ii. 402, n. 1; Scotland, compared with, ii. 403; sentiments, ii. 385, n. 5; soldiers and a woman, story of some, ii, 391; stage, delicacy of the, ii. 50, n. 3; subordination, happy in, v. 106; talking, must be always, iv, 15; tavern life in no perfection, ii. 451; torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1; treatment of Indians, i. 308, n. 2; trees along a road, ii. 395; words, use big, i. 471: See under ROUSSEAU, SMOLLETT, MRS. THRALE, H. WALPOLE. FRANCE, Queen of, flattered, iii. 322. FRANCIS, Rev. Dr. Philip, praises Johnson's Debates, i. 504; translates Horace, iii. 356. FRANCIS, Sir Philip, censures Burke's style, iii. 187, n. 1. Francklin, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Johnson, inscribes his Lucian to, iv. 34; Murphy, attacks, i. 355; Rosciad, in the, iv. 34, n. 1; Round Robin, did not sign the, iii. 83, n. 3. FRANCK, Johnson's servant. See BARBER. FRANCK, post office, ii. 266; iv. 361, n. 3. FRANCKLAND, Sir Thomas, iv. 235, n. 5. FRANKLIN, Dr. Benjamin, books bought in his youth, iv. 257, n. 2; books, high price of English, i. 438, n. 2; Boswell, dines with, ii. 59; civil liberty compared with liberty of trading, ii. 60, n. 4; conversion from vegetarianism, iii.

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