8; Dialogues on Natural Religion, i. 268, n, 4; dines with those who had written against him, ii. 441, n. 5; Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; education and disposition, opinion on, ii. 437, n. 2; England on the decline, ii. 127, n. 4; English and French politeness, iv. 237, n. 3; English, his hatred of the, ii. 300, n. 5; v. 19, n. 4; neglect of polite letters, ii. 447, n. 5; prejudice against the Scotch, ii. 300, n. 5; prose, iii. 257, n. 3; and Scotch education, iii. 12, n. 2; Essays Moral and Political, sale of his, iv. 440; fame, his, v. 31; Fergusson's Essay on Civil Society, v. 42, n. 1; France on the decline, thinks, ii. 127, n. 4; his reception there, ii. 401, n. 4; French, ignorance of, i. 439, n. 2; French prisoners, account of the, i. 353, n. 2; Germany, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4; Gibbon's praise of him, ii. 236, n. 3; Glasgow professorship, sought a, v. 369, n. 2; 'gone to milk the bull,' i. 444; happiness, equality in, ii. 9; iii. 288; happy with small means, i. 372, n. 1; Henry's History, reviews, iii. 334, n. 1; History of England, his alterations in it on the Tory side, iv. 194, n. 1; Adam Smith's Letter prefixed, v. 30, n. 3; slow sale of the first volume, v. 31, n. 1; written for want of occupation, iii. 20, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 78, n. 2; Hobbist, a, v. 272; Home, John, and Shakespeare, ii. 320, n. 1; Home, bequest to, ii. 320, n. 1; house, his, in James Court, v. 22, n. 2; in St. David Street, v. 28, n. 2; Hurd and the Warburtonian school, iv. 190, n. 1; hypocrite, longs to be a successful, iv. 194, n. 1; 'infidel pensioner,' called an, ii. 317; infidels, attacks, iii. 334, n. 1; infidelity, his death-bed, iii. 153; infidelity, his, less read, iv. 288; Johnson and Convocation, i. 464; Dictionary, absurdities in, ii. 317, n. 1; in the Green Room, i. 201; had not (in 1773) read his History, ii. 236; likes him better than Robertson, v. 57, n. 3; violent against him, v. 30; Kames and Voltaire, ii. 90, n. 1; Keeper of the Advocates' Library, v. 40, n. 1; Leechman's Sermon on Prayer, v. 68, n. 4; Life, with Adam Smith's letter prefixed, iii. 119; Macdonald, Sir James, i. 449, n. 2; Macpherson's Homer and History of Britain, ii. 298, n. 1; Mallet and Bolingbroke, i. 268, n. 4; Mallet's Life of Marlborough, iii. 386, n. 1; middle class in Scotland, absence of a, ii. 402, n. 1; Millar, Andrew, i. 287, n. 3; ministry, imbecility of Lord North's, iii. 46, n. 5; Miracles, Essay on, i. 444; iii. 188: see under Dr. ADAMS and BEATTIE; Monboddo's Origin of Language, ii. 259, n. 5; Murray (Lord Mansfield), at Lovat's trial, speech of, i. 181, n. 1; national debt, ii. 127, n. 4; neglect of a book, iii. 375, n. 1; New Testament, ignorance of the, ii. 9; iii. 153; Ossian, ii. 302, n. 2; Parties in General, iii. 11, n. 1; Parties of Great Britain, ii. 402, n. 1; pension, ii. 317, n. 1; philosopher, anecdote of a, iii. 305, n. 2; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; Political Discourses, ii. 53, n. 2; Pretender's base character, v. 200, n. 1; visit to London, i. 279, n. 5; v. 201, n. 3; priests and dissenters, v. 255, n. 5; 'principle, has no,' iv. 194, n. 1; v. 272; Reynolds's allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4; resistance, doctrine of, ii. 170. n. 2: Robertson's Scotland, price offered for, iii. 334, n. 2; Rousseau's visit to England and his pension, ii. 11, n. 4, 12, n. 1; Russia, barbarians of, ii. 127, n. 4; Sanquhar's trial, v. 103, n. 2; Scotch writers, foolish praise of, iv. 186, n. 2; Scotticisms, ii. 72; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; second-sight, ii. 10, n. 3; Select Society, member of the, v. 393, n. 4; sentiments, unanimity and contrariety of, iii. 11, n. 1; Smith's, Adam, Letter, v. 30; answered by Dr. Home, ib., n. 3; Smith's, suggested knocking of his head against, iii. 119; soldiers, iii. 9, n. 3; Strahan, leaves his MSS. to, ii. 136, n. 6; style, i. 439; Swift's style, ii. 191, n. 3; Tory by chance, iv. 194; v. 272; Toryism, growth of his, iv. 194, n. 1; touchstones of party-men, i. 354, n. 1; tragedy, anecdote of a, iii. 238, n. 2; Treatise of Human Nature, i. 127, n. 1; Tytler, attacked by, v. 274; 'Voltaire, an echo of,' ii. 53; mentioned, ii. 160, n. 2. HUME, Mrs., James Thomson's grandmother, iii. 359. Humiliating, ii. 155. HUMMUMS, The, iii. 349. HUMOUR. See GOOD HUMOUR. HUMOUR, Scotch nation not distinguished for it, iv. 129. Humours of Ballamagairy, ii. 219, n. 1. HUMPHRY, Ozias, account of him, iv. 268, n. 2; Johnson's letters to him, iv. 268-9; his miniature, iv. 421, n. 2. Humphry Clinker. See SMOLLETT. HUNGARY, hospitality to strangers, iv. 18. HUNTER, John, the surgeon, i. 243, n. 3; iv. 220, n. 1. HUNTER, Dr. William, iv. 220. HUNTER, ----, Johnson's schoolmaster, i. 44-6; ii. 146, 467. HUNTER, Miss, iv. 183, n. 2. HUNTER, Mrs., i. 516. HUNTING, v.

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