368; iii. 198; projected work on it, v. 91, n. 2; Burke thinks it has no merit, iii. 321; Cibber, refused by, iii. 321, n. 3; Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1; Johnson's opinion of it, iii. 321; Johnson turns Captain Macheath, IV. 95; morality, its, ii. 367; 'labefactation,' ib.; 'practical philosophers,' ii. 442; Rich made gay and Gay rich, iii. 321, n. 3; run of 63 nights, iii. 116, n. 1; children, writing for, ii. 408, n. 3; Letters, iv. 36, n. 4; Life by Johnson, ii. 367; Orpheus of highwaymen, ii. 367, n. 1; Queensberry, Duke of, ii. 368. Gazetteer, The, v. 245, n. 2. GELALEDDIN, iv. 195, n. 1. 'GELIDUS, the philosopher,' i. 101, n. 3. GELL, Mr. and Mrs., v. 430-1. GELL, Sir William, ii. 408, n. 3; v. 431, n. 4. General Advertiser, i. 227. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. See under SCOTLAND. GENERAL CENSURE, iv. 313. GENERAL COMPLAINTS, Johnson's dislike of, ii. 357. GENERAL WARRANTS, ii. 72. GENERALS, great, ii. 234. GENIUS, ii. 436-7; iii. 385, n. 1; v. 34-5; made feminine, iii. 374. GENOA, Corsican revolt, ii. 59, n. 2, 71, n. 1; the Doge at Versailles, iv. 270, n. 2. GENTEEL PEOPLE, swear less than formerly, ii. 166, n. 1. GENTILITY, not inseparable from morality, ii. 340; new system, i. 491-2; women more genteel than men, iii. 53. Gentle Shepherd, ii. 220; v. 374, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, Francis, i. 384. GENTLEMAN, English merchant a new species, i. 491, n. 3. GENTLEMAN, a, of eminence in the literary world, iv. 274; one whose house was frequented by low company, iv. 312; a penurious one, iv. 176; one recommending his brother, iv. 21; one who was rich, but without conversation, iv. 83. GENTLEMAN FARMER, at Ashbourne, iii. 188, 197. Gentleman's Magazine, account of it, i. III; effect on it of rebellion of 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; Hanoverian in 1745-6, i. 176, n. 2; indecency in earlier numbers, i. 112, n. 2; Johnson, Ad Urbanum, i. 113; becomes a regular contributor, i. 115; writes Addresses, Letters, and Prefaces, i. 139-40, 147, 149,153, 157, 161: (for his other contributions See under their several titles); school advertised in it, i. 97; verses wrongly assigned to, i. 178, n. 1; Nichols, edited by, iv. 437; described by Southey, ib.; numbers sold, i. 112, n. i, 152, n. 1; iii. 322; obituaries, i. 237, n. I; prize poems, i. 91; published at the end of the month, i. 340, n. 3; 'Sciolus,' iii. 341, n. 1; value of, in 1754, i. 256, n. 1. See under CAVE and DEBATES. Gentleman's Religion, iv. 311. Gentlewoman, the born, ii. 130. GENTLEWOMAN, a, in liquor, ii. 434. Geographical Grammar, iv. 311. Geography, Dictionary of Ancient. See MACBEAN, Alexander. GEOLOGY, of Etna, ii. 468, n. 1; Johnson's ignorance of it, v. 290, n. 4. GEOMETRY, principles soon comprehended, v. 138, n. 2. GEORGE I, Brett, Miss, i. 174, n. 2; burnt two wills made in favour of his son, ii. 342, n. 1; death, his, ii. 342, n. 1; knew nothing, ii. 342; Oxford, sends a troop of horse to, i. 281, n. i; Shebbeare, satirised by, iii. 15, n. 3; will, his, destroyed by George II, ii. 342; iv. 107, n. 1; wish to restore the crown, ii. 342. GEORGE II, Augustus, not an, i. 209; barbarity, his, i. 147; challenged by Elwall, ii. 164, 251; clemency, his, i. 146; English weary of him, i. 363; fast day of Jan. 30, observed the, ii. 152, n. 1; George I's will, destroys, ii. 342; quarrels with Frederick the Great about it, iv. 107; Johnson's epigram on him, i. 149; v. 348, 350, 404; roars against him, ii. 342; would tell the truth of him, v. 255; Pelham's death, i. 269, n. 1. Pretender's visit to London, v. 201, n. 4; quiet times under the Whigs, iv. 100; mentioned, i. 149, n. 3, 311, n. 2. GEORGE III, Addresses in 1784, iv. 265; authority partly reestablished, iv. 264; baronetcies, ii. 354, n. 2; Beattie, interview with, v. 90, n. 1; Beckford's speech, iii. 201, n. 3; birthday, iv. 128; 'born a Briton', i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204; Boswell's relation, v. 379; Capability Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2; carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; Chatham's and Garrick's funerals, iv. 208, n. 1; city address in 1781, iv. 139, n. 4; concessions to the people, ii. 353; contempt of Irish peerages, iii. 407, n. 4; coronation, iii. 9, n. 2; Corsica offered to him, ii. 71, n. 1; Dalrymple, Sir John, ii. 210, n. 2; Dodd's case, iii. 121; fast of Jan. 30, ii. 152, n. 1; Fox, the King's competitor, iv. 279; divides the kingdom with him, iv. 292; Gordon Riots, iii. 429, 431; Great Personage, i. 219; Gustavus III, death of, iii. 134, n. 1; Heroic Epistle, reads the, iv. 113, n. 4; hopes formed of him, i. 363; Hume on the weakness of his government, iii. 46, n. 5; Hutton the Moravian, iv. 410, n. 6; indecency, treated with, iv. 261; Irene, has the sketch of, i. 108; Johnson, asks, to write a Life of Spenser, iv. 410; compliments him in The False Alarm, ii.

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