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; 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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