112; Dedications, ii. 44; iii. 113; for the King against Fox, iv. 292; gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290; four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3; interview with, ii. 33; account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1; second interview, ii. 42, n. 2; pension, i. 372; v. 379; proposed addition to it, iv. 350, n. 1; projected works, has the list of, iv. 381, n. 1; madness, iv. 165, n. 3; manners, his, described by Adams, Johnson and Wraxall, ii. 40-1; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; minister, his own, i. 424, n. 1; ii. 355, n. 1; ministers his tools, iii. 408, n. 4; oppressed by them, iv. 170; Norton's speech to him as Speaker, ii. 472, n. 2; Paoli, notices, v. 1, n. 3; patron of science and the arts, i. 372; petitions in 1769, ii. 90, n. 5; Pretender, proper designation for the, v. 185, n. 4; recruiting, complains of the difficulty of, iii. 399, n. 3. reign very factious, iv. 200, 296; very unfortunate, iv. 200; respectable empire, his, iii. 241, n. 2; Reynolds, slights, iv. 366, n. 2; Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1; Scotch favourites, i. 363; sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1; Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1; Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv. 174, n. 5; slave-trade, upholder of the, ii. 480; She Stoops to Conquer, sees, ii. 223; Toryism or Whiggism, prevalence in his reign of, ii. 221; tour in the West of England, iv. 165, n. 3; unpopularity maintained by Johnson, iii. 155; iv. 165; changed into popularity, iii. 156, n. 1; iv. 165; Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4. GEORGE IV, i. 108, n. 1. See PRINCE OF WALES. GEORGIA, i. 127, n. 4. GERARD, Dr., v. 90, 92-3, 130. GERMAINE, Lord George, i. 424, n. 1. GERMAN BARON, story of a, ii. 462. GERMANY, academies at the smaller Courts, v. 276; language, ii. 156; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; stocking industry, v. 86. GERVES, John, v. 297, n. 1, 327. GESTICULATION RIDICULED, i. 334; ii. 211; Johnson's aversion to it, iv. 322. GHERARDI, Marchese, iii. 326. GHOSTS, Addison's belief, iv. 95; argument against their existence, belief for it, iii. 230; Boswell introduces the subject, iv. 94, n. 2; Cave, one seen by, ii. 178, 182; Coachmakers' Hall, discussion at, iv. 95; Cock Lane ghost, i. 406-8; iii. 268; evidence for them, iv. 94; experience and imagination, i. 405; Goldsmith's brother, one seen by, ii. 182; Johnson's prayer on his wife's death, i. 235; his state of mind as regards them, i. 343, 406; iii. 297; iv. 94, 298; 'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17; objection to their appearing, ii. 163; Parson Ford's, iii. 349; question undecided after 5000 years, iii. 230,298; Southey on the good end they answer, iii. 298, n. 1; Villiers, Sir George, iii. 351; Wesley's story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. GIANNONE, iv. 3. GIANO VITALE, iii. 251, n. 2. GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, iii. 410. GIANTS, A Great Personage's, i. 219. GIARDINI, ii. 225. GIBBON, Edward, author best judge of his own performance, iv. 251, n. 2; Autobiography, ii. 448, n. 2; Beggar's Opera, influence of the, ii. 367, n. 1; Boswell attacks him, ii. 67, n. 1, 443, n. 1, 447-8; v. 203, n. 1; name passed over by him, ii. 348, n. 1; and Johnson, replies to, ii. 448, n. 2; Cecilia, reads, iv. 223, n. 5; Clarendon's History and the Oxford riding-school, ii. 424, n. 1; Decline and Fall, 'artful infidelity' of the, ii. 447; composition of vol. I, ii. 236, n. 2, 366; publication, ii. 136, n. 6; iii. 97, n. 3; rough MS. sent to the press, iv. 36, n. 1; the two offensive chapters, iii. 244; domestic discipline, i. 46, n. 2; dress, his, ii. 443, n. 1; Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2; Edinburgh society, ii. 53, n. 1; fame, enjoyment of his, i. 451, n. 3; Foster, Dr. James, iv. 9, n. 5; Fox at Lausanne, iv. 167, n. 1; Fox commenced patriot, iv. 87, n. 1; French Assembly, iv. 434; French society, iii. 254, n. 1; Gloucester, Duke of, affability of the, ii. 2, n. 2; Hailes's Annals, iii. 404, n. 3; history attacked in his presence, ii. 366; Holroyd, visits to, iii. 178, n. 1; 'hornets, accustomed to the buzzing of the,' ii. 448, n. 1; Horsley, Bishop, praises, iv. 437; hospitality, on, iv. 222, n. 2; House of Commons and Nowell's sermon, iv. 296, n. 1; Hume and Robertson, compliment to, ii. 236, n. 3; Hume congratulates him, ii. 447, n. 5; Hume's style, i. 439, n. 2; Inquisition, defends the, i. 465, n. 1; Johnson and the bear, ii. 348; and the ladies, iv. 73: did not like to trust himself with, ii. 366; and Fox, iii. 267; and the graces, iii. 54; matched with, ii. 348; 'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3; scarcely mentioned in his writings, ii. 348, n. 1; iii. 128, n. 4; style, imitates, iv. 389; talks: of his ugliness, iv. 73; Journal des Savans, ii. 39, n. 3; Law, William, character of, i. 68, n. 2; lectures, teaching by, ii. 8, n. 1; Literary Club, i.