foolish to indulge it, iii. 135;
madness, allied to, iii. 175;
remedies against it,
'Be not solitary, be not idle,' iii. 415;
employment and hardships, iii. 176, 180, 368;
exercise, i. 64, 446;
hidden, should be, iii. 368, 421;
moderation in eating and drinking, i. 446; iii. 5;
occupation of the mind and society, i. 446; ii. 423; iii. 5;
thinking it down madness, ii. 440;
retreats for the mind, as many as possible, ib.;
some men free from it, iii. 5.
See BOSWELL, hypochondria, and JOHNSON, melancholy.
MELANCHTHON,
Boswell's letter from his tomb, ii. 3, n. 1; iii. 118, 122, n. 2;
punctuality, his, i. 32;
'the old religion,' ii. 105; iii. 122, n. 2.
MELCHISEDEC,
an authority on the law of entail, ii. 414, n. 2;
Warburton's reply to Lowth's version of his story, v. 423.
MELMOTH, William (Pliny),
at Bath, iii. 422;
belief in a particular Providence, iv. 272, n. 4;
_Fitzosborne's Letters_, iii. 424;
reduced to whistle, ib.
MELTING-DAYS, ii. 337.
MELVILLE, Viscount. See under DUNDAS, Henry.
MEMIS, Dr., a litigious physician, ii. 291, 296; iii. 95, 101;
Johnson's argument in his case, ii. 372.
_Memoirs of Frederick III_ [_II_], _King of Prussia_, i. 308.
_Memoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph_, i. 358, n. 4, 389.
_Memoirs of Scriblerus_. See ARBUTHNOT.
_Memorials of Westminster Abbey_. See STANLEY, DEAN.
MEMORY, art of attention, iv. 126, n. 6;
failure of it, iii. 191;
morbid oblivion, v. 68;
remembering and recollecting distinguished, iv. 126;
scenes improve by it, v. 333;
tricks played by it, v. 68.
See under JOHNSON, memory.
MEN, have the upper hand of women, iii. 52.
See MANKIND.
MENAGE, Gilles, Bayle's character of him, iv. 428, n. 2;
_Menagiana_, epigram on the Molinists and the Jansenists, iii. 341, n. 1;
puns on _corps_ and _fort_, ii. 241;
Queen of France and the hour, iii. 322, n. 3.
MENANDER, quoted, iii. 9, n. 3.
MENTAL DISEASES. See MELANCHOLY.
MENZIES, Mr., of Culdares, v. 394.
MERCHANTS, Addison's Sir Andrew Freeport, v. 328;
Chatham praises fair merchants, v. 327, n. 4;
compared with Scotch landlords, i. 409;
munificence in spending, iv. 4;
'a new species of gentleman,' i. 491, n. 3.
_Mercheta Mulierum_, v. 320.
MERCIER, L.S., ii. 366, n. 2.
MERIT, weighed against money, i. 440-3;
men of merit, iv. 172.
MERRIMENT, scheme of it hopeless, i. 331, n. 5.
_.Messiah_, Johnson's Latin version of Pope's, i. 61.
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