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UDSON, Mr., ii. 398. ULYSSES, i. 12. UNCLUBABLE, i. 27, n. 2, 480, n. 1; iv. 254, n. 2. UNDERSTANDING, inverted, iii. 379; man’s superiority over woman, iii. 52; propagating it, ii. 109, n. 2; Reynolds’s rule for judging it, iv. 316. UNEASINESS, iv. 273. UN-IDEA’D, ‘A set of wretched unidea’d girls,’ i. 251. Union, The, i. 117, n. 1. UNITARIANS, ii. 408, n. i; iv. 125, n. 2. Unius lacertae, iii. 255. Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette, i. 330, 345, n. 1. Universal History, iii. 443; iv. 311. Universal Visiter, i. 178, n. 2, 306; ii. 345. UNIVERSITY, conversation of a man taught at an English one, v. 370; English and Scotch compared, i. 63, n. 1; v. 85, n. 2; fellowships, value of, iii. 13; foreign professorships, iii. 14; Gibbon, attacked by, iii. 13, n. 3; rich, not too, as Adam Smith asserts, iii. 13; school where everything may be learnt, should be a, ii. 371; subscription to the Articles, ii. 151; v. 64; theory and practice, ii. 52; iii. 138: See under CAMBRIDGE and OXFORD, and under SCOTLAND, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews. Unscottified, ii. 242; v. 55, n. 1. UNWINS, the, Cowper’s friends, i. 522. UPPER-OSSORY, Lord, iii. 230, n. 5. UPSTARTS, getting into parliament, ii. 153, 339. URBINO, v. 276. URIE, Captain, v. 135. URNS, iv. 421, n. 2; v. 453, n. 1. Ursa Major. See JOHNSON, bear. USHER, Archbishop, assists Lydiat, i. 194, n. 2; luminary of the Irish Church, ii. 132. USHER, at a school, i. 84. USURY, law against, iii. 26. UTILITY, beauty not dependent on it, ii. 166; iv. 167. Utopia, iii. 202, n. 3. UTRECHT, Boswell a student there, i. 400, 473; ii. 9; William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), a student, ii. 177, n. 1. UTTOXETER MARKET, Johnson does penance there, i. 56, n. 2; iv. 373; Michael Johnson’s shop, i. 36, n. 3. UZàS, Duke of, iii. 322, n. 3.
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VACANCIES, eagerness for, iii. 251. VACHELL, William, iii. 83, n. 3. VACUUM, i. 444, n. 2. ‘VAGABOND, Mr.,’ iii. 411, n. 1. Vagabondo, Il, i. 202; iii. 411. VAILS, ii. 78. VALENCIA, ii. 195, n. 3; iii. 434. VALETUDINARIANS, ii. 460; Johnson’s disgust at them, iii. 1, 152. VALLANCY, Colonel, iv. 272, 278. VANBRUGH, Sir John, attempted to answer Jeremy Collier, iv. 286, n. 3; Provoked Husband, ii. 48, n. 3; iv. 284, n. 2; Reynolds’s tribute to him, iv. 55. VANE, Anne, v. 49, n. 4. VANE, Lady, v. 49, n. 4. Vanessa, ii. 389, n. 1. Vanity of Human Wishes, account of it, i. 192-5; price paid for it, i. 193, n. 1; rapidly composed, i. 192; ii. 15; written mostly at Hampstead, i. 192; Boswell finds in it the means of happiness, iii. 122, n. 2; Byron’s admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; death, ‘kind nature’s signal of retreat,’ ii. 106; De Quincey on the opening lines, i. 193, n. 3; Garrick’s sarcasm on it, i. 194; Johnson reads it with tears, iv. 45, n. 3; misery, ‘the doom of man,’ iii. 198; v. 179; ‘Patron and the jail,’ i. 264; Rasselas, resemblance to, i. 342; Scott’s admiration of it, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3; spreads changed into burns, iii. 357-8; Vane and Sedley, v. 49; Wolsey, Cardinal, iii. 221, n. 4. VANSITTART, Dr., account of him, i. 348, n. 1; v. 460, n. 1; story of the flea and the lion, ii. 194, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 192. VASS, Lauchland, v. 131, 144. VEAL, Mrs., her ghost, ii. 163. VEALE, Thomas, iv. 77, n. 3. VENICE, Beauclerk plundered there by a gambler, i. 381, n. 1; Johnson wishes to visit it, iii. 19; mentioned, i. 362; v. 69, n. 3. VENUS, of Apelles, iv. 104. Veracious, iv. 39, n. 3. VERACITY. See TRUTH. Verbiage ii. 236; iii. 256. Verecundulus, i. 68, n. 1. VERNON’S Parish Clerk, v. 268, n. 1. VERSAILLES, ii. 385, 395; theatre, ii. 395, n. 2. VERSES, in a dead language, ii. 371; making them, ii. 15. Verses on Ireland, iii. 319. Verses on a Sprig of Myrtle, i. 92. Verses to Mr. Richardson on his Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 26. VERTOT, ii. 237; iv. 311. VESEY, Right Hon. Agmondesham, gentle manners, his, iv. 28; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; ii. 318; professor in the imaginary college, v. 108. VESEY, Mrs., evenings at her house described by Langton, iii. 424; iv. 1, n. 1; by Hannah More, iii. 424, n. 3; by Horace Walpole, iii. 425, n. 3; by Miss Burney, iii. 426, n. 3; by Johnson, ib., n. 4; wishes to introduce Johnson to Raynal, iv. 435. VESTRIS, the dancer, iv. 79. Vexing Thoughts, iii. 5. Vicar of Wakefield. See GOLDSMITH. VICE, character not hurt by it, iii. 349; compared with virtue, iii. 342; Mandeville’s doctrine: See MANDEVILLE. Vicious Intromission, Johnson’s argument, ii. 196-201, 206; iii. 102; v. 48. VICTOR, Benjamin, iv. 53. VICTORIA, Queen, death-warrants, iii. 121, n. 1. VIDA, i. 230, n. 1. Vidit et erubuit, iii. 304. VILETTE, Rev. Mr., Dodd’s dedication to him, iii. 167, n. 1; his virtues, iv. 329. Village, The, a poem, iv. 121, n. 4, 175. VILLIERS, Sir George, his ghost, iii. 351. VINCENT, William, Dean of Westminster, i. 302, n. 1. Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage, i. 140; ii, 60, n. 3. VIRGIL, Aeneid, its story, iv. 218; Aeneas’s treatment of Dido, iv. 196; Burke’s ragged copy, iii. 193, n. 3; farming, love of, v. 78; Homer, compared with, iii. 193; Johnson reads him, ii. 288; iv. 218; juvenile translations, i. 51; machinery, his, iv. 16; Pope, less talked of than, iii. 332; printing-house, describes a, v. 311-12; Theocritus, compared with, iv. 2; quotations: Eclogues i. 5 — i. 460; Eclogues i. 11 — iii. 310, n. 4; Eclogues ii. 16 — iii. 87, n. 3; 212, n. 2; Eclogues iii. 64 — v. 291, n, 1; Eclogues iii. 111 — v. 279, n. 3; Eclogues viii. 43 — i. 261, n. 3; Georgics ii. 173 — iv. 372, n. 1; Georgics iii. 9 — ii. 329, n. 3; Georgics iii. 66 — ii. 129; Georgics iv. l32 — iv. 173, n. 2; Aeneid i. 3 — v. 392, n. 4; Aeneid i. l99 — iv. 258, n. 1; Aeneid i. 2O2 — v. 333, n. 3; Aeneid i. 204 — v. 392, n. 3; Aeneid i. 378 — iv. 193, n. 2; Aeneid i. 460-iii. 162, n. 1; Aeneid ii. 5 — iii. 64, n. 1; Aeneid ii. 6 — ii. 262, n. 1; Aeneid ii. 49 — iii. 108, n. 3; Aeneid ii. l98 — iii. 212, n. 1; Aeneid ii. 368 — v. 50, n. 1; Aeneid ii. 544 — i. 142; Aeneid iii. 461 — ii. 22; Aeneid vi. 273 — v. 311; Aeneid vi. 4l7 — v. 311, n. 4; Aeneid vi. 660 — iv. 193, n. 2; Aeneid vi. 730 — 1. 66; Aeneid xii. 424 — ii. 272, n. 1. VIRTUE, how far followed by happiness, i. 389, n. 2; men naturally virtuous compared with those who overcome inclinations, iv. 224; not natural to man, iii. 352; practised for the sake of character, iii. 342, 349; scholastic, ii. 223; why preferable to vice, iii. 342. Virtue, an Ethick Epistle, iii. 199, n. 2. Vision of Theodore the Hermit, i. 192, 483, n. 2. VIVACITY, an art, ii. 462. VOLCANOES, strata of earth in them, ii. 467. VOLGA, iv. 277. VOLTAIRE, ‘Après tout, c’est un monde passable,’ i. 344; attacks, on answers to, v. 274, n. 4; Boswell visits him, i. 434, 435, n. 2; ii. 5; iii. 301, n. 1; v. 14; Bouhours, ii. 90, n. 3; Byng, Admiral, i. 314; Candide, i. 342; iii. 356; ‘Cerbères de la littérature,’ v. 311, n. 4; Charles XII’s dress, ii. 475, n. 3; Derham, William, v. 323, n. 4; Des Maizeaux’s Life of Bayle, i. 29, n, 1; Dubos, ii. 90, n. 2; Essai sur les Moeurs, ii. 53, n. 2; fame, his, iii. 263, 332; forgotten ideas, the situation of, i. 435, n. 2; Frederick the Great, contest with, i. 434; v. 103, n. 2; Ganganelli’s Letters, iii. 286; Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 8, n. 3; Hénault, ii. 383, n. 1; History of the War in 1741, v. 272; Histoire de Louis XIV, v. 393; Holbach’s Système de la Nature, v. 47, n. 4; Hume, his echo, ii. 53; insurrection of 1745-6, account of the, iii. 414; Johnson attacks him, i. 498, 499, n. 1; praises his knowledge, but attacks his honesty, i. 435, n. 2; his reply, i. 499; and Frederick the Great, i. 434; Julia Mandeville, reviews, ii. 402, n. 1; Kames, Lord, ii. 90, n. 1; Le désastre de Lisbonne, iv. 302, n. 1; Le Monde comme il va, i. 344, n. 2; Leroi, the watch-maker, ii. 391, n. 5; Lewis XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123; and Mlle. de la Vallière, v. 49, n. 3; loved a striking story, iii. 414; Macdonald, Sir James, v. 152, n. 1; Malagrida, iv. 174, n. 5; master of English oaths, i. 435, n. 1; Maupertuis’s death, ii. 54, n. 3; middle class in England and France, ii. 402, n. 1; Montagu’s, Mrs., Essay, ii. 88; Moréri, v. 311, n. 1; narrator, good, ii. 125; Newton, Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287, n. 2; Pope and Dryden, distinguishes, ii. 5; Pope, visits, i. 499, n. 1; Pretender, reflections on the, v. 199-200; read less than formerly, iv. 288; Reynolds’s allegorical picture, v. 273, n. 4; Rousseau, compared with, ii. 12; Shakespeare, attacks, i. 498; ii. 88, n. 3; made him known to the French, ii. 88, n. 2; Stuart, House of, v. 200; torture in France, i. 467, n. 1; trial, has not yet stood his, v. 311; Universal History, v. 311; Vir est acerrimi ingenii et paucarum literarum, ii. 406; Wesley calls him coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1; witchcraft, v. 46, n. 1; w
onders, caught greedily at, i. 498, n. 4; iii. 229, n. 3. Vossius, Isaac, i. 186, n. 2. Voting, privilege of, ii. 340. Vows, Cowley’s lines on them, iii. 357, n. 1; Johnson’s warning against them, ii. 21; a snare for sin, iii. 357; if unnecessary a folly and a crime, iii. 357, n. 1. Vox Viva, v. 324. Voyage to Lisbon, i. 269, n. 1. Voyages to the South Sea. See SOUTH SEA. Vranyken, University of, i. 475. Vulgar, The, children of the State, ii. 14; iv. 216. Vyse, Rev. Dr., Boswell, letter to, iii. 125; Johnson’s letter to him, iii. 125; mentioned, iv. 372, n. 2.
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