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 Edin