City and County, i. 36, n. 4;
freedom given to Chief Justice Pratt, ii. 353, n. 2;
George III visits it, iv. 165, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 457; iv. 77.
EXETER, Dr. Ross, Bishop of, iv. 273.
EXHIBITION. See ROYAL ACADEMY.
EXISTENCE, complaints of existence being imposed on man, iii. 53;
terms on which it is offered, iii. 58. See LIFE.
EXPECTATIONS, i. 337, n. 1; iv. 234, n. 2.
EXPENDITURE. See ECONOMY.
EXPERIENCE, great test of truth, i. 454.
_Explanatory Notes on Paradise Lost_, i. 128, n. 2.
EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTERS, ii. 450.

F.

_Fable of the Bees_, iii. 291, n. 4, 292, ns. 1, 2, and 3.
_Fable of the Glow-worm,_ ii. 232.
FACTION, iv. 200.
FACTS, mingled with fiction, iv. 187.
_Faculty, The_, iii. 285, n. 2.
FAIRIES, iv. 17.
FADEN, W., i. 330, n. 3; iv. 440.
FAIRFAX, Edward, iv. 36, n. 4.
FAIRLIE, Mr., v. 380.
FAITH, merit in, iv. 123.
FALCONER, Rev. Mr., iii. 371.
FALCONER, Alexander, v. 103.
FALKLAND, Lord, iv. 428, n. 2.
_Falkland's Islands, Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting_,
account of it, ii. 134;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
'softened' in later copies, ii. 135;
sale delayed by Lord North, ii. 136;
mentioned, i. 373, n. 2; ii. 312; iii. 19, n. 2.
FALMOUTH, Viscount, iii. 331.
_False Alarm_, account of it, ii. 111;
answers to it, ii. 112;
election committees described, iv. 74, n. 3;
Johnson's estimate of it, ii. 147;
petitions described, ii. 90, n. 5;
rapidly written, i. 71, n. 3, 373, n. 2;
Wilkes, answer attributed to, iv. 30;
Wilkes attacked, iii. 64, n. 2; iv. 104.
FALSE CRIES, transmitted from book to book, iii. 55.
_False Delicacy_, ii. 48.
FALSEHOOD, due mostly to carelessness, iii. 228, 229, n. 1;
prevalence of it, iii. 229.
FALSTAFF, Beauclerk adopts his 'humorous phrase,' i. 250;
'I deny your Major,' iv. 316;
proved no coward, iv. 192, n. 1;
mentioned, i. 506.
FAME, general desire for it, iii. 263;
literary, hard to get, ii. 358;
a shuttlecock, v. 400;
solicitude about it, i. 451.
FAMILIES, Great, chaplains and state servants, ii. 96;
continuance of them, ii. 421;
desire to propagate the name, ii. 469;
estate, living on the, iii. 177, 249;
founding one, ii. 429;
household, number in the, iii. 316;
preference shown them, ii. 153;
ruined by extravagance, ii. 428.
See under BOSWELL and JOHNSON, Birth.
FAMILY, affected by commerce, ii. 177.
FANCIES, apprehensions, fanciful, i. 470; iii. 4.
See_ B