ves into the gallery,' i. 502;
reporting, method of, i. 117, 150, 503, 504;
Seeker's reports, i. 507, 509;
'Senate of Lilliput,' i. 115, 502;
speakers' names disguised, i. 501;
speeches assigned to Pitt and Chesterfield, i. 504;
many thrown into one, i. 501, 506-7;
sent by the speakers, i. 151, 501, 508;
table of the order of publication, i. 510;
translated, i. 505;
unreality, i. 506;
volumes, collected in, i. 152;
Walpole, unfair to, i. 502, 504; iv. 314.
_Debrett's Royal Kalendar_, iv. 350, n. 1.
DEBTOR. 'The pillow of a debtor,' iv. 152, n. 1.
DEBTS, carelessly contracted and rapidly swelling, iii. 127;
for Johnson's warnings, see BOSWELL, debts;
law of arrest, iii. 77;
small and great, i. 347.
_Decay of Christian Piety_, v. 227.
_De Claris Oratoribus_, iv. 316.
DEDICATIONS, books written for their sake, iv. 105, n. 4;
flattery allowed, v. 285;
Johnson's to all the Royal Family, ii. 2;
skill in them, ii. 1;
_Works_ without any, i. 257, n. 2;
means of getting money, ii. 1, n. 2;
one scholar dedicating to another, iv. 162, n. 1;
studied conclusions, v. 239.
_Defence of Pluralities_, ii. 242.
DEFFAND, Mme. du, v. 152, n. 1.
DEFINITION, things sometimes made darker by it, iii. 245.
DEFINITIONS. See under DICTIONARY, and separate words.
DE FOE, Daniel, _Captain Carleton's Memoirs,_ iv. 334, n. 4;
_Drelincourt on Death,_ ii. 163, n. 4;
his grandson, iv. 37, n. 1;
Johnson's praise of him, iii. 267;
the opposite of him, i. 506;
_Robinson Crusoe_, iii. 268.
_Deformities of Johnson_, iv. 148-9.
DEGENERACY OF MANKIND, ii. 217, v. 77.
DE GROOT, Isaac, iii. 125.
DEIST, no honest man one, ii. 8.
DELANY, Dr., _Observations on Swift_, iii. 249; iv. 39; v. 238.
DELAP, Rev. Dr., i. 521.
DELAY, danger of, i. 324.
_Dementat_, iv. 181, n. 3.
DEMOCRITUS, iv. 105, n. 4.
DEMONAX, iv. 34.
DE MORGAN, Professor, i. 284, n. 3.
DEMOSTHENES, Johnson compared with him, i. 504;
spoke to barbarians, ii. 171;
to brutes, ii. 211;
mentioned, iii. 351; v. 214.
DEMPSTER, George, account of him, i. 408, n. 4;
argues for merit, i. 440-2;
Boswell, letter to, v. 407;
Boswell's eulogium on him, v. 409, n. 3;
_Critical Strictures_, i. 409;
Johnson's conversation, struck with, i. 434;
dines with, ii. 195;
_Journey_, praises, ii. 303; iii. 301;
sister, his, iii. 242; iv. 284;
unfixed in his principles, i. 443;
virtuous and candid, ii. 305.
DENB