3;
liberties taken in their presence, iv. 295;
losses and gain by preferment, iv. 286, n. 1;
'necessity of holding preferments _in commendam_,' iv. 118, n. 2;
'Seven Bishops,' iv. 287;
tippling-house, at a, iv. 75;
a rout, ib. See HIERARCHY.
_Bishop_, a bowl of, i. 251.
BISHOP STORTFORD, ii. 62.
BISHOPRIC, resignation of a, iii. 113, n. 2.
BISMARCK, Prince, iv. 27, n. 1.
BLACK, why part of mankind is, i. 401.
_Black dog, the_, iii. 414.
BLACK-GUARDS, and red-guards, ii. 164, 251.
BLACK-LETTER BOOKS, ii. 120.
BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1.
BLACKIE'S _Etymological Geography_, v. 237, n. 3.
BLACKLOCK, Dr., blindness and poetry, i. 466;
Hume, extolled by, iv. 186, n. 2;
tutor to his nephew, v. 47, n. 3;
Johnson, meets, v. 47;
talks of scepticism, ib.;
letter in explanation, v. 417;
_Poems_, quotation from his, i. 334;
mentioned, v. 394.
BLACKMORE, Sir Richard, attorney, son of an, ii. 126, n. 4;
teaches a school, i. 97, n. 2;
_Creation_, his, ii. 108;
honoured too much by attacks, ii. 107;
Johnson adds him to the _Lives_, iii. 370; iv. 35, n. 3, 54-6;
describes himself in the _Life_, iv. 55;
saves him from the critics, ib., n. 1;
_Literary Club of Lay Monks_, i. 388, n. 3; v. 384, n. 2;
supposed lines on Prince Voltiger, ii. 108;
Swift, ridiculed by, iv. 80, n. 1.
BLACKSTONE, Sir William, _Borough English_, v. 320;
_Commentaries_ written when he had little practice, ii. 430;
composed with the help of port wine, iv. 91;
crown revenues, ii. 353; n. 4;
Hackman's trial, iii. 384;
Hawkins's _Siege of Aleppo_, approves of, iii. 259;
House of Hanover, right of the, v. 202;
legal succession, ii. 414, n. 2;
Pembroke College, member of, i. 75;
portrait in the Bodleian, iv. 91, n. 2;
_stultifying_ oneself, v. 342, n. 1.
BLACKWALL, Anthony, i. 84; iv. 311, 407, n. 4.
BLACKWELL, Thomas, _Memoirs of the Court of Augustus_, i. 309, 311.
BLACKWELL, Dr., a physician, i. 467, n. 1.
BLAGDEN, Dr., iv. 30.
BLAINVILLE, H., ii. 346.
BLAIR, Rev. Dr. Hugh, Boswell, letter to, iii. 402;
Boswell's lowing like a cow, v. 396;
composed slowly, v. 67;
conversation, his, iii. 339, n. 1; v. 397, n. 3;
_Dissertation on Ossian_, i. 396; ii. 296, 302, n. 2; iii. 50;
Johnson, in awe of, ii. 63;
'den,' i. 395;
misunderstanding with, ii. 275, 278;
record of a talk with, v. 398;
Johnsonian style, remarks on the, iii. 172;
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