time for
seven years, iii. 460;
(1778) 'now there is no power,' iii. 356;
(1779) Johnson has no delight in talking of public affairs, iii.
408;
Horace Walpole's account, ib., n. 4;
(1780), afraid to repress persecution of Papists in Scotland, iii.
427, n. 1;
feebleness at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430;
(1781), Johnson against it, iv. 81, 100;
gives thanks for its dissolution, iv. 139;
bunch of imbecility, ib.;
successors could hardly do worse, iv. 140, n. 3;
timidity, iv. 200;
struggles between two sets of ministers in 1784, iv. 260,
n. 2.
MINORCA, ii. 176; iii. 246.
'_Mira cano_,' iii. 304.
MIRABEAU, 'dramatised his death,' v. 397, n. 1;
his motion about Corsica, ii. 71, n. 1.
MIRACLES, i. 444; iii. 188.
_Mirror, The_, iv. 390.
MIRTH, the measure of a man's understanding, ii. 378, n. 2.
_Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces
by the Authour of the Rambler_, ii. 270.
_Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth_,
published 1745, i. 175;
praised by Warburton, i. 176;
criticism on Hanmer, i. 178.
MISDEMEANOUR, defined, iii. 214.
_Misella_, i. 223.
MISERS, contemptible philosophically, v. 112;
few in England, v. 112;
must be miserable, iii. 322;
no man born a miser, iii. 322.
MISERY, balance of misery, iv. 300;
'doom of man,' iii. 198;
hypocrisy of misery, iv. 71;
misery of want, iii. 26.
MISFORTUNES, talking of one's, iv. 31.
_Miss_, a, v. 185, n. 1.
MISSIONARIES, sanguine and untrustworthy, v. 391.
MISTRESSES, i. 381.
MITCHELL, Mr., English Minister at Berlin, iii. 463, n. 2.
MITCHELL, a tradesman, i. 238, n. 2.
MOB rule, iii. 383.
See RIOTS.
_Modern Characters from Shakespeare_, iii. 255.
_Modern Characters from the Classics_, iii. 279.
MODERN TIMES, better than ancient, iv. 217; v. 77.
MODERNISING an author, iv. 315.
MODESTY, how far natural, iii. 352.
_Modus_, i. 283; iii. 323.
MOLIERE, _Avare_, v. 277;
goes round the world, v. 311;
_Misanthrope_, iii. 373, n. 4.
MOLINISTS, iii. 341, n. 1.
MOLTZER, Jacques, v. 430, n. 2.
MONARCHY, iii. 46.
MONASTERIES,
austerities treated of in _Rambler_ and _Idler_, ii. 435;
bodily labour wanted, ii. 390;
Carthusian, unreasonableness of becoming a, ii. 435;
their silence absurd, ib.;
Johnson curious to see them, i. 365;
saying to a Lady Abbess, ii. 435;
men enter them who cannot govern themselves, i. 365; ii. 24;