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Establishment of the balance of moral and intellectual influence in Europe.
The species of misrepresentation which abounds most in modern historians.
Hume, Gibbon, and Mitford.
Neglect of the art of narration.
Effect of historical reading compared to that produced by foreign travel.
Character of the perfect historian.
Instruction derived from the productions of such a writer.
Hoche, General, refuses to obey the cruel decree of the Convention.
Holy War, Bunyan's.
Homer, intense desire to know something of him.
Quintillian's criticisms on.
His inappropriate epithets.
His description of Hector at the Grecian wall.
Hoole, the metaphysical tailor, his friendship with Samuel Johnson.
Horace, his comparison of poems to certain paintings.
Hume, David, charges brought against him as a historian.
Hyder Aly, his successes.
Idler, Johnston's publication of the.
Imagination and judgment.
Power of the imagination in a barbarous age.
Inaugural Speech at Glasgow College.
India Bill, Fox's.
Inferno, Dante's, character of the.
Ireland, William Pitt the first English minister who formed great designs for the benefit of Ireland.
Isocrates, his defence of oligarchy and tyranny.
Italian language, Dante's first work on the.
Italian Writers, Criticisms on the Princ.i.p.al.
Dante.
Petrarch.
Italy, revolution of the poetry of.
Monti's imitation of the style of Dante.
Jacobins of Paris, policy of the.
Excesses of the.
Materials of which the party was composed.
Their cruelties in Paris and in the provinces.
Review of the policy of the Jacobins.
Jacobite, Epitaph on a.
Jacobites, revival of their spirits in 1721.
Plan for a Jacobite insurrection.
Jenyns, Soame, Dr Johnson's review of his Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil.
Jewish Disabilities, Speech on.
Jews, the sacred books of the, unknown to the Romans.
Johnson, Dr Samuel, his contemptuous derision of the civilisation of the Athenians.
His remark on history and historians.
Oliver Goldsmith introduced to.
Story of the publication of the Vicar of Wakefield.
Johnson's birth and early life.
His father.
Goes to Oxford.
His attainments at this time.
His struggles with poverty.
Becomes an incurable hypochondriac.
His literary drudgery.
His marriage.
His school near Lichfield.
Sets out for London.
Effect of his privations on his temper and deportment.
Engaged on the "Gentleman's Magazine."
His political opinions.
His Jacobite views.
His poem of London.
His a.s.sociates.
His life of Richard Savage.
His dictionary.
His treatment by Lord Chesterfield.
His Vanity of Human Wishes compared with the Satire of Juvenal.
Relation between him and his pupil David Garrick.
Irene brought out.
Publication and reception of the Rambler.
Death of Mrs Johnson.
Publication of the Dictionary.
His review of Soame Jenyn's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil.
His Idler.
Death of his mother.
Circ.u.mstances under which Ra.s.selas was published.
His hatred of the Whigs.
