al_, i. 118;
imitated by Murphy, i. 356, n. 1;
'Le vainqueur des vanqueurs,' &c., i. 261, n. 2;
_Life by Desmaiseaux_, i. 29;
on the neglect of a book, iii. 375, w.i.
BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, first Viscount,
Burnet's _History of his Own Time_, ii. 213, n. 3;
Booth's _Cato_, v. 126, n. 2;
crown revenues, ii. 353, n. 4;
dictionary-makers, i. 296, n. 3;
English historians, ii. 236, n. 2;
Garrick's _Ode_, i. 269;
history to be read with suspicion, ii. 213, n. 3;
authorised romance, ii. 366, n. 1;
House of Commons, describes the, iii. 234, n. 2;
Johnson's attack on his fame, i. 268, 330;
Leslie and Bedford, iv. 286, n. 3;
Mallet's edition of his _Works_, i. 268, 329, n. 3;
Oxford, Lord, character of, iii. 236, n. 3;
Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3;
Pope, enmity against, i. 329;
_Essay on Man_, share in, iii. 402-3;
executor, iv. 51;
friendship with, iv. 50, n. 4;
Rome, references to, iii. 206, n. 1;
schools, v. 85, n. 3;
Shelburne's (Lord) character of him, i. 268, n. 3;
Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4;
_transpire_, iii. 343.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, iii. 324.
BOLINGBROKE, second Viscount, ii. 246, n. 1; iii. 349, n. 3.
BOLINGBROKE, Lady, divorced from the second Viscount.
See BEAUCLERK, Lady Diana.
BOLOGNA, ii. 195; v. 115.
BOMBAY, v. 55, n. 1.
_Bon Chretien_, v. 414, n. 2.
_Bon-mots_, instances of, iii. 322;
'carrying' one, ii. 350.
_Bon Ton_, ii. 325.
BONAVENTURA, i. 500.
BOND, Mrs. iv. 402, n. 2.
BONES, uses of old, iv. 204;
Johnson's horror at the sight of them, v. 169, 327.
BONIFACE in _The Beaux Stratagem_, ii. 461; iii. 89, n. 2.
BONNER, Bishop, i. 75, n. 3.
BONNETTA of Londonderry, v. 319-20.
BONSTETTEN, ----, v. 384, n. 1.
_Book of Discipline_, ii. 172.
BOOK-BINDING, i. 56, n. 2.
BOOK-TRADE, ii. 425.
BOOKS, abundance of modern, iii. 332;
death, leaving one's books at, iii. 312;
early printed ones, ii. 399; v. 459;
every house supplied with them, iv. 217, n. 4;
getting boys to have entertainment from them, iii. 385;
high price, complaints of their, i. 438, n. 2;
Johnson's letter on the book-trade, ii. 425;
knowledge of the world through books, i. 105;
talking from them, v. 378;
looking over their backs in a library, ii. 364;
poorest book, if the first, a prodigious effort, i. 454;
prices at which they were sold:
Boswell's edition of _Johnson's Letter to Chesterfield_, 105. 6d.,
i. 261, n. 1;
Churc