iii. 13;
recommending and praying for them, i. 190, n. 2, 236, 240; ii. 163;
iv. 137, 158, n. 3;
their spirits perhaps present, i. 212;
why we wish for their return, i. 240, n. 1.
DEAF AND DUMB, Academy for the, v. 399.
DEAN, Rev. Richard, ii. 53.
DEATH, act of dying not of importance, ii. 107;
affectation in dying, v. 397;
best men most afraid of it, iii. 154;
Browne, Sir T., on it, iii. 153, n. 1;
business preparation for it, v. 316;
change beyond man's understanding, ii. 163, n. 3;
dispositions on one's death-bed, v. 239;
'dying with a grace,' iv. 300, n. 1;
fear of it cannot be got over, ii. 106, 298; iii. 295;
natural to man, ii. 93; iii. 153, 158, 294; v. 179;
resolution, met with, iii. 295;
sight, kept out of, iii. 154;
some die well, few willingly, i. 365;
sudden death in sin, iv. 225;
Swift dreads it, ii. 93, n. 4;
describes what reconciles man to it, iii. 295, n. 2;
thinking constantly of it, v. 316;
violent, i. 338;
'a whole system of hopes swept away,' i. 236, n. 3.
See under JOHNSON, death, dread of.
DEATH WARRANTS, iii. 121, n. 1; v. 239-40.
_Debate on the Proposal of Parliament to Cromwell_, i. 150.
DEBATES OF PARLIAMENT,
account of them, i. 115-118, 150-152, 501-512;
written at first by Guthrie and corrected by Johnson, i. 115-6,
136, 503, 509;
written solely by Johnson, i. 118, 150-2, 157, 503;
wrongly assigned to Johnson, i. 509;
authenticity generally accepted, i. 152, 505;
Chesterfield, speeches attributed to, iii. 351;
Croker's inaccuracy about them, i. 509!
'debating,' absence of, i. 506;
discontinued, i. 176, n. 2, 512;
Gent. Mag., increased sale of, i. 152, n. 1;
House of Commons passes resolutions against publication, i. 115, 502, 510;
House of Lords 'a Court of Record,' i. 502;
'Hurgoes,' 'Clinabs,' 'Walelop,' 'Hon. Marcus Cato,' i. 502;
'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503;
Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408;
_Debates_ not authentic, i. 118, 503-9;
rapid composition, i. 504; iv. 409;
successor, i. 512;
_London Magazine_, reports of the, i. 502, 508-510;
monument to Walpole's greatness, i. 512;
Murphy's account of them, i. 504;
prosecution of Cave, i. 501;
of Cooley and the printer of the _Daily Post_, i. 503;
of the printers in 1771, iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1;
reports published chiefly in the recess, i. 501, 510;
reporters, 'fellows who thrust themsel