A;
amused, easily, ii. 261; v. 249;
amusements, his, iii. 398;
ancestors, asked in the Highlands about his, v. 237, n. 2;
[Greek: Anax andron], i. 47;
anecdotes, love of: see ANECDOTES;
_Annales_: see JOHNSON, diary;
annihilation, horror of, iii. 295, 298, n. 1;
anniversaries, observed, i. 483;
anxiety about his writings, felt no, iii. 33;
apology, ready to make an, iv. 321,409, n. 1, 431;
_Apophthegms_, i. 190, n. 4;
Appius, compared by Burke to, iv. 374, n. 2;
Appleby School, applies for mastership of, i. 132;
apprentice, talking to an, ii. 323;
approbation, pleasure of, iv. 255, n. 2;
Arabic, wishes to study, iv. 28;
architecture and statuary, opinion of, ii. 439;
arguing before an audience, iii. 331; iv. 111, 324, 429;
Burke refers to it, iii. 24, n. 2;
butt end of the pistol, ii. 100; iv. 274; v. 292;
delight in it, ii. 452, n. 1;
described by Burke, iv. 316, n. 1;
Hamilton, iv. iii;
Reynolds, ii. 100, n. 1; iii. 81, n. 1;
Seaford, Lord, iv. 176, n. 1;
either side indifferently, ii. 105; iii. 24;
kick of the Tartar horse, ii. 100, n. 1;
promptitude for it, ii. 365; iii. 24, n. 1;
reasoned close or wide, iv. 429; v. 17;
rudeness, iii. 81, n. 1;
spirit of contradiction, v. 83, 222;
thinking which side he should take, iii. 24;
wrong side, on the, iii. 23; iv. iii, 429;
see JOHNSON, talk;
Argyll Street, room in, iv. 158, n. 4;
_Armiger_, i. 489; ii. 332, n. i;
art: see PAINTING;
art of making people talk of what they know best, v. 130;
assertions, love of contradicting, i. 410, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2;
attacked in the streets, ii. 299;
attacks, never but once replied to, i. 314;
enjoyed them, ii. 308, 363; iv. 55;
looked on them as part of his consequence, iv. 422; v. 400, n. 4:
see ATTACKS;
attendance, required the least, ii. 474, n. 3;
iv. 181, n. 1, 340, n. 3; v. 309, n. 2;
Auchinleck, hopes again to see, iv. 156, 264;
auction of his effects, i. 363, n. 3;
austere, but not morose, ii. 122;
author, an, without pen, ink, or paper, i. 350, n. 3;
authors asking his opinion: see AUTHORS;
autobiography, projects his, i. 26, n. 1;
awe, admiration, love, regarded with, v. 272;
awe of him, felt by Aberdeen professors, v. 92;
Lord B----, iv. 116, n. 1;
Englishmen of great eminence, iii. 85;
Fox, iii. 267;
at Mrs. Garrick's, iv. 99;
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