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Eagle and Robin Redbreast, i. 117, n. 1. EARLY HABITS, ii. 366. EARLY RISING. See under BOSWELL, early rising, and JOHNSON, rising. EARTHQUAKE, at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3; in Staffordshire, iii. 136. EAST INDIANS, barbarians, iii. 339. EAST INDIES, Johnson receives a letter thence, iii. 20, 23; once thought of going there, iii. 20; quest of wealth, iii. 400; Scotch soldiers refuse to go there, v. 142, n. 2. See INDIA. EASTER. See under JOHNSON. EASTER to Whitsuntide, propitious to study, ii. 263. EASTON MAUDIT, i. 486; iii. 437, 451. EATING. See under JOHNSON. ECCLES, Mr., an Irish gentleman, i. 423. Ecclesiastes, iv. 300, n. 2. ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE, iii. 59, 91. ECONOMY, anxious saving, ii. 131; art of — , iii. 265, 362; blundering — , iii. 300. EDDYSTONE, i. 377. EDENSOR INN, iii. 208. EDIAL, i. 97; ii. 143. Edinburgh Magazine and Review, iii. 334, n. 1. Edinburgh Review, Campbell’s Diary of a Visit to England, ii. 338, n. 2, 343, n. 2; payment to writers in it, iv. 214, n. 2. Edinburgh Review of 1755, i. 298, n. 2. Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions, iv. 25, n. 4. EDITIONS OF A BOOK, iv. 279. EDUCATION, by-roads, ii. 407; ‘Dick Wormwood’ in The Idler, ii. 407, n. 5; fear, use of, i. 46; v. 99; influence of it compared with nature, ii. 436; Johnson attacks and defends the ‘common way,’ ii. 407, n. 5; defends popular — , ii. 188; iii. 37; his plan, iii. 358, n. 2; Locke’s plan, iii. 358; Mill, J. S., on the new system, ii. 146, n. 4; Milton’s plan, iii. 358; ‘wonders’ performed by him, ii. 407, n. 5; perfection attained in it, ii. 407; refine, not to, in it, iii. 169; Socrates’s plan, iii. 358, n. 2; iv. 444; what should be taught first? i. 452. See BOOKS, KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, SCHOOLS, and SCOTLAND, Education, Learning, and Schools. EDWARD, Prince, brother of George III, iii. 139, n. 4. EDWARDS, Rev. Dr., Johnson’s letter to him, iii. 367; editing Xenophon, ib.; death, ib., n. 1. EDWARDS, Jonathan, On Grace, iii. 290. EDWARDS, Oliver, Johnson, meets, iii. 302-7; iv. 90; sends him The Rambler, ib; tried philosophy, iii. 305. EDWARDS, Thomas, Canons of Criticism, i. 263, n. 3. EDWIN, the comedian, iv. 381, n. 1. EEL, iii. 381. EGLINTOUNE, Alexander, tenth Earl of, calls Johnson a dancing-bear, ii. 66; his character, v. 374; death, iii. 188. EGLINTOUNE, Archibald, eleventh Earl of, iii. 107, 214, 316; v. 149. EGLINTOUNE, Countess of, Johnson visits her, v. 373-5; is adopted by her, iii. 366; v, 375, 401. Epilogues, i. 277. EGMONT, second Earl of, iv. 198, n. 3; v. 449, n. 1. EGOTISM, iv. 323. EGOTISTS, iii. 171. EGYPT, iii. 233. EGYPTIANS, ancient, iv. 125. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, ii. 408, n. 3. ELD, Mr., iii. 326. ELDON, Earl of. See SCOTT, John. ELECTION, General, of 1768, ii. 60, n. 2; of 1774, ii. 285; of 1780, iii. 440; of 1784, iv. 165, n. 3. ELECTION-COMMITTEES, iv. 74. ELECTIONS, boroughs bought, ii. 153; by Nabobs, v. 106; lost by vice, iii. 350; rascals to be driven out of the county, ii. 167, 340. Elegy in a Country Churchyard. See GRAY. Elements of Criticism. See KAMES. Elements of Orthoepy, iv. 389, n. 6. Elfrida, ii. 335. ELGIN, Earls of, v. 25, n. 2. ELIBANK, Patrick, fifth Lord, account of him, v. 386; Boswell, correspondence with, v. 14, 16, 181, 316; death, v. 181, n. 2; epitaph on his wife, iv. 10; Home, patronises, v. 386; Johnson’s definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8; and the great, iv. 117; letter to him, v. 182 meets him in Edinburgh, v. 385-8, 393-4; visits him, v. 394; power of arguing, iii. 24; praises him, iii. 24; v. 182, 385; society, loves, v. 181-2; Robertson, patronises, v. 386; admires the moderation of, v. 393; talk, nothing conclusive in his, iii. 57; mentioned, ii. 140, 147, 187, 192, 275; v. 307. ELIOT, Edward, of Port Eliot, first Lord Eliot, Chesterfield, Lord, praised by, iv. 334, n. 5; dines at Sir Joshua’s, iv. 78, 332; Goldsmith, sarcasm on, ii. 265, n. 4; Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, 333; Johnson and the graces, iii. 54; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iv. 326; latiner, story of a, iv. 185, n. 1; young Lord, a, iv. 334. ELIZA, epigram to. See MRS. CARTER. ELIZABETH, Madame, ii. 394. ELIZABETH, Queen, authors of her age, iii. 194, n. 2; fashion to exalt her reign, i. 354; had learning enough for a bishop, iv. 13. ELLENBOROUGH, first Lord, iv. 414, n. 1. ELLIOCK, Lord, iii. 213. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, third Baronet, ii. 160. ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, fourth Baronet (afterwards first Earl of Minto), ii. 71, n. 1. ELLIOT, Mr., i. 349. ELLIOT, — , iii. 352, n. 2. ELLIS, Sir Henry, i. 260, n. 2; v. 444, n. 2. ELLIS, ‘Jack,’ a scrivener, iii. 21. ELLIS, Welbore, ii. 337; n. 4. ELLIS, Mr., ii. 116. ELLSFIELD, i. 273, 289. ELOCUTION, iv. 206. ELPHINSTON, James, Forty Years Correspondence, ii. 305; Johnson, letters from: See JOHNSON, letters; Martial, translation of, iii. 258; manner, his, ii. 171; iii. 379; mother, loses his, i. 211; Rambler, brings out a Scotch edition of the, i. 210; translates the mottoes, i. 225; reading books through, on, ii. 226; school, his, ii. 171, 226; mentioned, ii. 30. ELPHINSTONE, Bishop, v. 91. ELRINGTON, Bishop, ii. 39, n. 1. Elvira, i. 408. ELWALL, E., ii. 164, 251. ELWALLIANS, ii. 164. ELWIN, Rev. W., Pope’s Universal Prayer, iii. 346, n. 3. Embellishment, iii. 209. EMIGRATION, complaints of it, iii. 231; effects of it on population, iii. 232; on happiness, v. 27; caused by oppressive landlords, ib. n. 3; immersion in barbarism, v. 78. See SCOTLAND, Highlands, emigration. EMINENT PUBLIC CHARACTER, an, ii. 222. EMMET, Mrs., ii. 464. EMPHASIS. See COMMANDMENT. EMPLOYMENTS, their end is to produce amusement, ii, 234. EMULATION, i. 46; v. 99. ENGHIEN, Duke of, ii. 393, n. 7. ENGLAND, air too pure for slaves to breathe in, iii. 87, n. 3; Condition (1780), ‘difficulty very general,’ iii. 420; (1782) seems to be sinking, iv. 139, n. 4; (1783) all things as bad as they can be, iv. 173; dreadful confusion, iv. 249: times dismal and gloomy, iv. 260, n. 2; Corsica, treatment of, ii. 71, n. 1; common people, courage of the, iii. 262, n. 1; cruelty to black men, ii. 479; Englishman to a Frenchman, proportion of an, i. 186; felicity in its inns, ii. 451; genius and learning little respected, iv. 117, n. 1; government loan raised at 8 per cent. in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; history of it scarcely credible, v. 340; knowledge of the common people, ii. 170, n. 3; language injured by foreign words, iii. 343, n. 3; literature: See LITERATURE; lost, found by the Scotch, iii. 78; loyal in general, ii. 370; poor, provision for the, ii. 130; reason and soil best cultivated, ii. 125; Reign of Terror, a kind of, iv. 328, n. 1; reserve, English, iv. 191, 284; roads, iii. 135, n. 1; v. 56, n. 2; slave trade, upholds the, ii. 480; stature of the people not lessened, ii. 217. England’s Gazetteer, iv. 311. English Humourists, i. 199, n, 2. English Malady, The, i. 65; iii. 27, n. 1. English Poets, Bell’s, ii. 453, n. 2. ENGLISH PROSE. See STYLE Englishman in Paris, ii. 395, n. 2. ENTAILS, advantage of them, ii. 428; Barony of Auchinleck, ii. 413-423; Johnson’s letters on it, ii. 415-423; limits should be set, ii. 428-9; nobles must be kept from poverty, ii. 421, n. 1; v. 101. ENTHUSIASM, of curiosity, iii. 7; in farming, v. 111. ENTHUSIAST, by rule, iv. 33. Enucleated, iii. 346. ENVY, all men naturally envious, iii. 271. EPICHARMUS, ii. 107, n. 1. EPICTETUS, v. 279. EPICUREAN in Lucian, iii. 10. EPIGRAM, judge of an, iii. 259. EPISCOPACY, iii. 371; iv. 277. See BISHOPS and HIERARCHY. Epistle of St. Basil, iv. 20. EPITAPHS addressed to the passersby, iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1; Latin for learned men, iii. 84, n. 2; v. 154, 366; man killed by a fall, on a, iv. 212; mixed languages or styles, iv. 444; the writer not upon oath, ii. 407; iii. 387, n. 5; iv. 443. Epitaphs, Essay on, i. 148, 335; iv. 85, n. 1; v. 367, n. 1. Epocha, iii. 128. EPSOM, iii. 453. EQUALITY OF MANKIND, would turn men into brutes, ii. 219; none happy in it, iii. 26; mercy abolished by it, iii. 204, n. 1; natural, ii. 13; n. 1, 479; iii. 202. See SUBORDINATION. Equitation, v. 131. ERASMUS, Adagiorum Chiliades, iv. 379, n. 2; battologia, v. 444; Ciceronianus, iv. 353; Dutch epitaph on him would be offensive, iii. 84, n. 2; epigram on him, v. 430; Letter to the Nuns, v. 446; Militis Christiani Enchiridion, iii. 190, n. 3; Manita Paedagogica, quoted, i. 418, n. 2. ERROL, Earls of, their property, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1. ERROL, thirteenth Earl of, account of him, v. 103; says grace with decency and sees the hand of Providence, v. 104; his drinking, iii. 170, n. 2, 329; v. 104; educates a surgeon, v. 101; portrait by Reynolds, v. 102. ERROL, Lady, v. 98-9, 105, 130. ERROR, taking delight in, iv. 204. ERSE. See IRELAND and SCOTLAND, Highlands, Erse. ERSKINE, Hon. Andrew, Correspondence with James Boswell, Esq., i. 383, n. 3; iii. 150, n. 4; Critical Strictures, i. 408; poet and critick, iii. 150. ERSKINE, Lady Anne, v. 387. ERSKINE, Hon. Arch
ibald, v. 387. ERSKINE, Sir Harry, i. 386. ERSKINE, Hon. Henry, v. 39, n. 4. ERSKINE, Hon. Thomas (afterwards Lord Erskine), account of him, ii. 173, n. 1; Johnson, meets, ii. 173-177; Richardson tedious, finds, ii. 174; sermons, preached two, ii. 176. ERSKINE, Rev. Dr., v. 391. ESAU’S BIRTHRIGHT, i. 255. Esdras, ii. 189, n. 3. ESQUIMAUX, ii. 247. ESQUIRE, title of, i. 34; ii. 332, n. 1. Essay on Account of the Conduct of the Duchess of Marlborough, i. 153. Essay on Architecture, i. 306. Essay on Death, ii. 107, n. 1. Essay of Dramatick Poesie, i. 197, n. 2. Essay on Epitaphs. See EPITAPHS. Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost, i, 230. Essay on the Future Life of Brutes, ii. 54, n. 1. Essay on the Origin of Evil. See KING, Archbishop. Essay on Truth. See BEATTIE, Dr. Essay on Wit, Humour, and Ridicule, iv. 105, n. 4. Essays on the History of Mankind, iii. 436, n. 1. Essays on Husbandry, iv. 78, n. 3. ESSEX, Club in one of the towns, i. 215; militia, i. 307, n. 4. ESSEX, Arthur Capel, first Earl of, v. 403, n. 2. ESSEX, Robert Devereux, second Earl of, advice about travelling, i. 431; Queen Elizabeth’s Champion, written in his honour, v. 241. ESTATE, residence on it a duty, iii. 177, 249; settling, supposed obligation in, ii. 432; succession in ancient estates, ii. 261; in those got by trade, ib. ESTE, House of, i. 383. ETERNAL PUNISHMENT, iii. 200. ETERNITY, v. 154. ETHICS, ii. 408, n. 3. ETNA, strata of lava, ii. 468, n. 1. ETON COLLEGE, Boswell places his son there, iii. 12; dines with the Fellows, v. 15, n. 5; boys cowed there, iii. 12, n. 1; line attributed to a boy, iii. 304; Macdonald, Sir James, a pupil, i. 449, n. 2; iv. 82, n. 1; Porson on Eton boys, i. 224, n. 1; Walpole, Horace, revisits it, iv. 127, n. 1; mentioned, i. 411; iv. 315; v. 97. Etymologicon Lingua; Anglicanae, i. 186, n. 2. Etymologicum Anglicanum, i. 186, n. 2. ETYMOLOGIES. See Dictionary. EUGENE, Prince, ii. 180. Eugenio, i. 122; ii. 240. EUMELIAN CLUB, iv. 394. EUPHRANOR, iv. 104, n. 2. EUPOLIS, iii. 267, n. 4. EURIPIDES, Agamemnon in Hecuba, v. 79; armorial bearings, ii. 179; ‘every verse a precept, ii. 86, n. 1; fragments, iv. 181, n. 3; Barnes’s edition, ib.; Johnson reads him, i. 70, 72; iv. 311; Markland’s edition, iv. 161, n. 3; quoted, i. 277; mentioned, iv. 2. European Magazine, i. 361, n. 2. EUTROPIUS, ii. 237. Evangelical History Harmonized, iv. 381, n. 1. EVANS, Dr., epigram on Marlborough, ii. 451. EVANS, Evan, addicted to strong drink, v. 443. EVANS, John, i. 36, n. 2. EVANS, Lewis, Map, &c., of the Middle Colonies, i. 309. EVANS, Thomas, bookseller, ii. 209. EVANS, Mr., iii. 422. Evelina. See Miss BURNEY. Evening Post, iv. 140, n. 1. EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT, iv. 299. Every island is a prison, iii. 269; v. 256. EVIL, origin of, v. 117, 366. EVIL SPIRIT, personality of the, v. 36, n. 3. EVIL SPIRITS, their agency, v. 45. EXAGGERATION, causes of it, iii. 136; checked by arithmetic, iv. 171, n. 3; instances of it — depths of places filled up, v. 292; earthquake at Lisbon, i. 309, n. 3; editions of Thomas à Kempis, iii. 226, n. 4; opera girls in France, iv. 171. Examen of Pope’s Essay on Man, i. 137. Examiner, The (1873), iv. 202, n. 1. EXCELLENCE, how acquired, iv. 184, n. 1. EXCISE, Commissioners of, i. 294, n. 9. EXCISE, defined, i. 294; origin of Johnson’s violence against it, i. 36, n. 5. Excursion, The, ii. 26. EXECUTIONS, account of the capital convictions in 1783-5, iv. 328, n. 1, 329, n. 2, 359, n. 2; Boswell’s love of seeing them: See under BOSWELL; condemnation sermon at Oxford, i. 273; capital punishment, cruel instance of, i. 147, n. 1; Newgate, removed to, iv. 188; Rambler, mentioned in the, iv. 188, n. 3; Tyburn, procession to, iv. 188-9. EXECUTORS, v. 106. EXERCISE, defined, iv. 151, n. 1; relief for melancholy, i. 64, 446; renders death easy, iv. 150, n. 2. EXETER, City and County, i. 36, n. 4; freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2; George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77. EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273. EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY. EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53; terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE. EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2. EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY. EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454. Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost, i. 128, n. 2. EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.