82, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 84.
BICKNELL, J. L., i. 315.
_Big_, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 348; v. 425.
_Big man_, ii. 14.
BIGAMY, v. 217.
_Bills_, i. 376.
BINDLEY, James, i. 15.
BINNING, Lord, ii. 186; iii. 331.
_Biographia Britannica_, first edition, iv. 272, n. 4;
Dr. John Campbell a contributor, ii. 447;
Johnson asked to edit a new edition, iii. 174;
edited by Kippis, ib.;
account of it, ib. n. 3.
BIOGRAPHICAL CATECHISM, iv. 376.
BIOGRAPHY, authentic material difficult to get, iii. 71;
best when autobiography, i. 25;
can be written only by a man's intimates, ii. 166, 446; iii. 155, n. 3;
Goldsmith's praise of it, v. 79, n. 3;
Johnson's excellence in it, i. 256; iv. 34, n. 5;
fondness for it, i. 425; iii. 206, n. 1; iv. 34; v. 79;
literary, ii. 40; v. 240;
method of writing it, i. 32;
men should be drawn as they are, i. 31; iv. 53, 395; v. 238;
'common cant' against it, iii. 275, n. 2;
minute particulars to be given, i. 33;
and peculiarities, iii. 154;
rarely well executed, ii. 446;
vices, how far to be mentioned, iii. 155;
writing trifles with dignity, iv. 34, n. 5.
BIRCH, Rev. Thomas, D.D.,
account of him by H. Walpole, i. 29, n. 2;
by I. D'Israeli, i. 159, n. 4;
anecdotes, full of, v. 255;
conversation and writings, i. 159;
correspondence with Mrs. Carter, i. 138;
Cave, i. 139, 150-3;
Johnson, i.
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