;
Pitt's pertness, iv. 297, n. 2;
poetry _truth_, not history, ii. 366, n. 1;
Reynolds too much under him, iii. 261;
Sandwich's, Lord, removal, motion for, iii. 383, n. 3;
subscription to the Articles, ii. 150, n. 7;
_Sydney Biddulph_, praises, i. 390, n. 1;
Treasury, dismissal from the, ii. 274, n. 7;
Westminster election, iv. 266, 292, n. 3.
FOX, Henry. See HOLLAND, First Lord.
FOX, Lady Susan, ii. 328, n. 3.
FOX, Mrs., iv. 279, n. 2.
FOX-(Faux, or Vaux) HALL, iv. 26, n. 1.
FOX-HUNTING, i. 446, n. 1.
FRA PAOLO. See SARPI.
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH,
Academy takes forty years to compile their _Dictionary_,
i. 186, 301, n. 2;
sends Johnson a copy, i. 298;
on the resistance of the air, v. 253;
affectation of philosophy and free-thinking, iii. 388, n. 3;
Americans, assistance to the, iv. 21;
_Ana_, their, v. 311;
anglomania, ii. 126;
Assembly, iv. 434;
authors and their pensions, i. 372, n. 1;
authors superficial, i. 454;
commercial policy, masters of the world in, iii. 232, n. 1;
commercial treaty, v. 232, n. 1;
contented race, v. 106, n. 4;
cookery, ii. 385, 403;
Corsica, government of, ii. 71, n. 1;
credulity, v. 330;
crossroads, ii. 391;
difference between English and French, iv. 14;
England, contrasted with, i. 227, n. 4;
English language injured by Gallicisms, iii. 343;
'fluency and ignorance,' iv. 15, n. 4;
invasion feared, iii. 326, 360, n. 3, 365, n. 4;
'French maxims abolish mercy,' iii. 204, n. 1.
Garrick's account of their sameness, iv. 15, n. 3;
gay people, not a, ii. 402, n. 1;
great people live magnificently, ii. 402;
houses gloomy, ii. 388, n. 2;
hunting, v. 253;
Irish, contrasted with the, ii. 402, n. 1;
Jersey, attack on, v. 142, n. 2;
Johnson's tour, ii. 384-404;
_Journal_, ii. 389-401;
account given by him to Boswell, 401;
made more satisfied with England, iii. 352;
saw little of French society, ii. 385, 401, 403, n. 4;
Lewis XIV, under, ii. 170;
literati, v. 229;
literature, art of accommodating, v, 310;
book on every subject, iv. 237;
high in every department, ii. 125;
little original, v. 311;
not so general as in England, iii. 254;
in its second spring, ib.;
literary society described by Gibbon and Walpole, iii. 254, n. 1;
magistrates and soldiers, ii. 391, 395;
manners
indelicate, ii. 403;
gross, iii. 352;
habit of spitting, ii. 403;
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