icised by, v. 373;
_Epistles of Phalaris_, iv. 443;
_Horace, Comments on_, ii. 444; iii. 74, n. 1;
Johnson, celebrated by, i. 153, n. 7; v. 174;
'no man written down but by himself,' i. 381, n. 3; v. 274;
Pope and Homer, iii. 256, n. 4;
Preface to his edition of _Paradise Lost_, iv. 24, n. 1;
scholarship perhaps unequalled, iv. 217;
Scotchman, not a, ii. 363, n. 4;
studied hard, i. 71; iv. 21; v. 316;
verses, his, iv. 23;
Wasse's _Greek Trochaics_, v. 445.
BENTLEY, Richard, Junior, iv. 289, n. 1.
BERESFORD, Mrs. and Miss, iv. 283-4.
BERESFORD, Rev. Mr., iii. 284.
BERKELEY, Bishop,
Burke's projected answer to his theory, i. 471;
non-existence of matter, on the, i. 471; iv. 27;
profound scholar, ii. 132;
'reverie,' his, iii. 165;
Warburton's ignorant criticism on him, v. 81, n. 1.
BERRENGER, Richard, iv. 88, 90.
BERWICK, ii. 266.
BERWICK, Duke of, Memoirs, iii. 286.
BESBOROUGH, Earl of, v. 263.
BEST, H. D.,
Gibbon and the Duke of Gloucester, ii. 2, n. 2;
George Langton, and his pedigree, i. 248, n. 1;
Johnson's visit to Langton, i. 477, n. 1.
BETHUNE, Rev. Mr., v. 208.
BETTERTON, Thomas, iii. 185.
BETTESWORTH, Rev. E., i. 464, n. 2.
BETTESWORTH, Sergeant, iii. 377, n. 1.
_Betty Broom_, iv. 246.
BEWLEY, William, the Philosopher of Massingham, iv. 134.
BEZA, ii. 289.
BIAS the philosopher, iii. 312, n. 5.
BIBLE, The,
calculation for reading it in a year, i. 72, n. 2;
Johnson reads it through, ii. 189, n. 3;
should be read with a commentary, iii. 58;
subscribing it instead of the Articles, ii. 151.
_Bibliopole_, ii. 345.
_Bibliotheca Harleiana_, i. 153.
_Bibliotheca Literaria_, v. 445.
_Bibliotheque, Johnson's scheme of a, i. 283-285.
_Bibl. des Fees_, ii. 391.
_Bibliotheque des Savans_, i. 323.
BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, _account of him_, ii. 82, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 84.
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315.
_Big_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425.
_Big man_, ii. 14.
BIGAMY, v. 217.
_Bills_, i. 376.
BINDLEY, James, i. 15.
BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331.
_Biographia Britannica_, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4;
Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447;
Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174;
edited by Kippis, ib.;
account of it, ib. n. 3.
BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376.
BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71;
best when autobiography, i. 25;
can be written only by a man's intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3;