June 22. 1781.

ALMIGHTY God, who art the giver of all good, enable me to remember, with due thankfulness, the comforts and advantages which I have enjoyed by the friendship of Henry Thrale, for whom, so far as is lawful, I humbly implore thy mercy in his present state. O Lord, since thou hast been pleased to call him from this world, look with mercy on those whom he has left; continue to succour me by such means as are best for me, and repay to his relations the kindness which I have received from him; pro. tect them in this world from temptations and calamities, and grant them happiness in the world to come, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

On leaving Mr. THRALE's Family.

October 6. 1782. ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercy, help me, by thy grace, that I may with humble and sincere thankfulness remember the comforts and conveniencies which I have enjoyed at this place, and that I may resign them with holy submission, equally trusting in thy protection when Thou givest and when Thou takest away. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, have mercy upon me.

To thy fatherly protection, O Lord, I commend this family. Bless, guide, and defend them, that they may so pass through this world, as finally to enjoy in thy presence everlasting happiness, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

[The following Prayer was composed and used by Doctor Johnson previous to his receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, on Sunday, December 5. 1784.]

ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it seems, about to commemorate, for the * last time, the death of thy Son Jesus Christ our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and thy mercy; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son Jesus Christ effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.

He died the 13th following.

INDE X.

The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, and the
Figures to the Page.

A.

ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, viii. 212. Of the ruins of the monastery there, 214.

Aberdeen, account of, viii. 217. Dr. Johnson meets with an old acquaintance, Sir Alexander Gordon, there, 217. Account of the King's College, 219. Account of the Marischal College, 220. Account of the Library, 220. The course of education there, 221. Account of the English chapel, 222. Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not sought for in another place, exemplified in the story of Gelaleddin of Bassora, vii. 300.

Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vi. 289. Absence, a destroyer of friendship, vii. 89.

Abyssinia, preface to the translation of Father Lobo's voyage to, ii. 265.

Academical education, one of Milton's objections to it, ix. 89. Acastus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiosity, vi. 60.

Achilles, his address to a Grecian prince supplicating life, improper for a picture, vii. 180.

Action (dramatick), the laws of it stated and remarked, vi. 97. Action (exercise), necessary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the mind, v. 81. 87. The source of cheerfulness and vivacity, 86.

Action (in oratory), the want of, considered, vii. 361. Tends to no good in any part of oratory, 362.

Actions, every man the best relater of his own, vii. 259. injustice of judging of them by the event, iii. 218.

The

Adam unparadised, a MS. supposed to be the embryo of Paradise Lost, viii. 3.

Adams, Parson, of Fielding, not Edward, but William Young,

xi. 341.

Addison, Joseph, supposed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues on Medals from Dryden's Essay on Dramatick Poetry, ix. 322.

His life, x.74. Born at Milston, in Wiltshire, May 1. 1672, 74.
The various schools at which he received instruction, 75. Cul-
tivates an early friendship with Steele, 76. Lends 100l. to
Steele, and reclaims it by an execution, 77. Entered at Oxford,
1687, 77. Account of his Latin poems, 78. Account of his.
English poems, 78. On being introduced by Congreve to Mr.
Montague, becomes a courtier, 79. Obtains a pension of 300%.
a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 80. Publishes his
travels, 82. Succeeds Mr. Locke as Commissioner of Appeals,
as a reward for his poem The Battle of Blenheim, 83. Went to
Hanover with Lord Halifax, 83. Made Under-secretary of State,
83. Writes the opera of Rosamond, 83. Assists Steele in writ-
ing the Tender Husband, 84. Goes to Ireland with Lord
Wharton as Secretary, 84. Made Keeper of the Records in
Birmingham's Tower, 84. The opposite characters of him and
Wharton, 84. His reason for resolving not to remit any fees to
his friends, 85. Wrote in the Tatler, 85. Wrote in the Spec-
tators, 86. His tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and sup-
ported both by the Whigs and Tories, 92. 95. Cato warmly
attacked by Dennis, 95. Observations on his tragedy of Cato,
96. Other honours and enmities shewed to Cato, 97. Cato
translated both into Italian and Latin, 97. Writes in the
Guardian, 97. His signature in the Spectator and Guardian,
98. Declared by Steele to have been the author of the
Drummer, with the story on which that comedy is founded,
99. Wrote several political pamphlets, 99. Appointed Secre
tary to the Regency, 101. In 1715 publishes the Freeholder,
102. Marries the Countess of Warwick, Aug. 2. 1716, 102.
Secretary of State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore
resigns it, 103. Sir J. Hawkins's Defence of the Character
he had given of Addison in his History of Musick against the
author of the Biog. Brit. 104. Purposes writing a tragedy on-
the Death of Socrates, 104. Engages in his Defence of the
Christian religion, 104. Had a design of writing an English
dictionary, 105. His controversy with Steele on the Peerage
Bill, 105. During his last illness sends for Gay, informs him
that he had injured him, and promises, if he recovered, to re-
compence him, 109. Sends for the young Earl of Warwick,
that he might see how a Christian ought to die, 109. Died
June 17. 1719, 110. His character, 110. The course of his
familiar day, 113. His literary character, 115. Account of his
works, 117. Extracts from Dennis's Observations on Cato, 124.
Considered as a critick, 141. Commended as a teacher of
wisdom, 144. Character of his prose works, 144. A con-
versation with Pope on Tickell's translation of Homer, 274.
Becomes a rival of Pope, xi. 95. Supposed to have been the
translator of the Iliad, published under the name of Tickell,
99. His critical capacity remarked, v. 91. 140. 143.
Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation,

Adventurer, No. xxxiv. iii. 109.

No. 1. 135.

No. xxxix. 116.
No. liii. 141.

No. xli. 123. No. lviii. 147.

No. lxvii. 162. No. lxix. 170.
183.. No. lxxxiv. 190.

No. lxxiv.

No. lxxxv. 197.

No. xcix. 218. No. cii. 225.

No. xcv. 212.

No. cviii. 238.

No. cxx. 263.

No. cxi. 244.
No. cxxvi. 269.

No. cxv. 250.
No. cxxviii.

No. xlv. 129. No. Ixii. 155. 177. No. lxxxi. No. xcii. 203. No. cvii. 232. No. cxix. 257. 275. No. cxxxi. 282. No. cxxxvii. 288. No. cxxxviii. 295. Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, xii. 194.

Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to the mind, vi. 58. The appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 60..

Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, vii. 160.

Advice, good, too often disregarded, v. 97. The causes of this assigned, 98. Vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, 99. When most offensive and ineffectual, vi. 90..

Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, vi. 2. Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, iv. 131. 133. Wherein it properly differs from hypocrisy, 134. The great absurdity of it exposed in the character of Gelasimus, vi. 228. Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, iv. 113. 332. Inseparable from human life, vi. 268. The benefits of, 270.

Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, ii. 217.

Age, the present an age of authors, iii. 251.

Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, vi. 28. Thoughts on, both ancient and modern, ii. 384. Productions of, alone sufficient for the support of an industrious people, 384. In high consideration in Egypt, 385. The many ancient writers on that subject, 388. The enrichment of England, 389. A proper subject for honorary rewards, 391. Superior to trade and manufactures, 392. Danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, 397. An art which government ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every enquirer into nature to improve, 397. Account of, at Raasay, one of the Hebrides, viii. 279. Bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 301. The raising of the rents of estates in Scotland considered, 322. Ajut, his history, vi. 267. 276.

Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, xi. 277. His life, 357. Son of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. Designed for a dissenting minister, but turns his mind to physick, 357. Pleasures of Imagination published, 1744, 358. Studies at Leyden, and becomes M. D. 1744, 358. An enthusiastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, 359. Practises physick at Northampton and Hampstead, 360. Settles at London, 360. Allowed 300l. a year by Mr. Dyson, 360. By his writings obtains the name both of a wit and scholar, 361. Died 1770, 361. Character of his works, 362. Alabaster, Roxana, commended, ix. 87.