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 Junius, his writings characterized, vi. 204.

Junius, (the Grammarian) account of his writings, v. 29.

Justice, the measure of it prescribed to us, clear and comprehensive, ii. 379. a strict regard to it ought to regulate the distributions of mercy, ii. 380. the exercise of it should be softened by prudence and lenity, iii. 39. first impelled by injustice, v. 358.

Juvenal, satire iii. imitated, in London, a poem, i. 1. satire x. imitated, in the Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 12.

Kelp, account of the manufacture of, in Sky, ix. 85.

King, William, his life, vii. 384. born in London, 1663, and allied to Clarendon, ibid. scholar at Westminster, and elected to Christ Church, ibid. was said to have read over and made his remarks on more than twenty-two thousand books and manuscripts before he was of eight years' standing, ibid. took his master's degree as grand compounder, ibid. admitted advocate at Doctors' Commons, ibid. wrote a confutation of Varillas's account of Wickliffe, ibid. translates several books from the French, ibid. answers Molesworth's account of Denmark, ibid. mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley, 385. in 1699, writes a Journey to London, ibid. satirizes sir Hans Sloane in the Transactioner, ibid. signalizes himself in the defence of the earl of Anglesea against his lady, ibid. made judge of the admiralty, and keeper of the records in Birmingham's tower, ibid. finds an idle and thoughtless friend in Upton, ibid. returns to London in 1708, 386. account of his works, ibid. made Gazetteer, which he soon resigned, ibid. died on Christmas-day, 1712, 387.

Kings, advantages from their being acquainted with the lower lines of life, vi. 440.

Kneller, sir Godfrey, Pope's epitaph on him, viii. 356.

Knolles, sir Francis, the peculiar excellence of his history of the Turks, iii. 83.

Knowledge, its greatest importance, when useful to virtue and happiness, ii. 389. the desire of acquiring it should be subservient to some nobler principle, 486. the desire of it, in many, of feeble and transient influence, iii. 335. the failures to which men devoted to the study of it are peculiarly exposed, 342. the difficulty in obtaining it, iv. 417. the folly of searching for it in foreign languages, and neglecting our own, ibid.

Know yourself, translation of Dr. Johnson's [Greek: gnôthi seauton], i. xxxviii.

Knowledge of ourselves, its great use and importance, ii. 119. the indiscretions and disadvantages which arise from the neglect of it, ibid. 120. necessary to preserve us from crimes as well as follies, 136. promoted by scenes of adversity, 138.

Knowledge, tree of, metaphysically described, vii. 18.

Labour and rest the parents of health and vigour, ii. 164.

Ladies, many of their indiscretions and errours arise from unacquaintance with themselves, ii. 121. some of their appropriate virtues related, 459. several of their degrading qualities described in the characters of Ferocula, Misothea, and Sophronia, iii. 36. the folly of rendering themselves cheap, 388.

Lady, unfortunate, on whom Pope wrote verses, story of, viii. 244.

Lansdown, lord. See Granville, George.

Language, the impossibility of reducing it to a fixed standard, v. 46. remarks on the purity and propriety of it, iii. 292. the progress of, iv. 336. a plan for a society for the reformation, formed by the earl of Roscommon assisted by Dryden, vii. 167. the plan revived by Dr. Swift, ibid. the probable consequences of such a society, ibid.

Last, the general dread of the last, iv. 448. reflections on the use to be made of the last of any human action, 449.

Latronia, her character, iii. 352.

Laud, archbishop, account of a dispute between him and Cheynel, vi. 415.

Lauder, William, letter from, to Mr. Douglas, written by Johnson, v. 271. testimonies concerning, 283.

Laurence, Th. M.D. ad, cum filium peregre agentem desiderio nimis tristi prosequeretur, i. 165.