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never wrote a line a saint would blot, iv. 295, n. 3; his obligation to, i. 245, n. 3; on painting, i. 128, n. 2; pension, i. 374; proposed addition to it, iv. 327-8, 336-9, 348, 367-8; pride, no meanness in it, iv. 429, n. 3; proud of Reynolds's approbation, iv. 368; portraits: See under JOHNSON; prejudice against foreigners, iv. 15, n. 3; prejudices and obstinacy, i. 293, n. 1; pride, iii. 345, n. 1; quarrel with Dr. Warton, ii. 41, n. 1; Rambler, origin of the name, i. 202; readiness for a reconciliation, ii. 100, n, 1, 256, n. 1; 'rough as winter, mild as summer,' iv. 396, n. 3; rudeness partly due to his truthfulness, iv. 221, n. 2; and Savage in St. James's Square, i. 164; 'school,' one of, i. 7, n. 1, 245, n. 3; iii. 230,261, n. 1, 369; influenced his writings, i. 222; qualified his mind to think, iii. 369, n. 3; 'Reynolds's oracle,' i. 245, n. 3; Shakespeare, i. 319, n. 4; talking to a 'blackguard boy,' iv. 184; and Thrale's copper, i. 363, n. 3; Tracts, his copy of, ii. 315, n. 2; trip to Devonshire with, i. 377; iv. 322; truth sacred to, ii. 433, n. 1; unsuspicious of hypocrisy, i. 418, n. 3; iii. 444; vocation to public life, iv. 359; watch over himself, iv. 396, n. 3; writings, 'won't read,' ii. 317, n. 2; Johnsoniana, his, iv. 182; Journey to Flanders, iv. 423, n. 2; knighted, i. 103, n. 3; Leicester Fields, house in, ii. 384; liberality, iv. 133; literary characters, a nobleman's terror of, i. 450, n. 1; Literary Club, founder of the, i. 477; attendance at it, ii. 17; iii. 128, n. 4, 230, n. 5; London, loves, iii. 178, n. 1; Lowe, the painter, iv. 202, n. 1; Macbeth, note on, v. 129; Malone one of his executors, iv. 133; Shakespeare, praises, v. 129, n. 1; matrimonial wishes about him, iv. 161, n. 5; militia camps, visits the, iii. 365; modesty, unaffected, iv. 133; Monckton's, Miss, at, iv. 108, n. 4; Montagu's, Mrs., Essay, likes, ii. 88-9; v. 245; Morris, Miss, picture of, iv. 417, n. 3; Moser, Keeper of the Academy, eulogium on, iv. 227, n. 4; Muddy, ii. 362, n. 3; Mudge, Rev. Mr., influenced by the, i. 378, n. 3; Sermons, praises, iv. 98; obligations, the relief from, i. 246; observant in passing through life, iv. 6; Oxford degree of D.C.L., v. 90, n. 1; painter to the King, iv. 366, n. 2, 368, n. 3; paralytic attack, iv. 161, n. 5; Parr's defence of Johnson, iv. 422; persuaded, easily, v. 286; pictures, runs to, ii. 365; placidity, i. 1; planet, always under some, iii. 261; players, defends, ii. 234-5; Pope's hand, touches, i. 377, n. 1; portrait of himself holding his ear in his hand, iii. 273, n. 1; at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1; price of portraits and income, i. 326, 363, 370, 382; professor in the imaginary college, v. 109; prosperity, not to be spoilt by, v. 102, n. 3; Reviews, wonders to find so much good writing in the, iii. 44; Richardson's talk, iv. 28; 'rival, without a,' i. 363; round of pleasures, in a, ii. 274, n. 3; Round Robin, signs the, iii. 83; carries it to Johnson, iii. 84; Royal Academy, intends to resign the presidency of the, iv. 366, n. 2; same all the year round, iii. 5, 192; Savage, The Life of, reads, i. 165, 245; Shelburne, Lord, portrait of, iv. 174, n. 5; Siddons, Mrs., portrait of, iv. 242, n. 2; sister, dislikes the paintings by his, i. 326, n. 7; iv. 229, n. 4; Smith's, Adam, talk, iv. 24, n. 2; St. Paul's, proposes monuments in, iv. 423, n. 2; Streatham library, pictures by him in, iv. 158, n. 1; Suard visits him, iv. 20, n. 1; Sunday painting, iv. 414; taste, taking the altitude of a man's, iv. 316; how acquired, ii. 191, n. 1; Thurlow, letter from, iv. 350, n. 1; titles, in addressing people did not use, i. 245, n. 3; truthfulness of his stories, ii. 433, n. 2; understanding, judging a man's, iv. 316; Vanburgh, defends, iv. 55; Vesey's, Mr., at, iii. 425; virtue in itself preferable to vice, iii. 342, 349; Voltaire, supposed attack on, v. 273, n. 4; weather, ridicules the influence of, i. 332, n. 2; wine, defends the use of, iii. 41; his fondness for it, ii. 292; iii. 329-30; reproached by Johnson with being far gone, iii. 329; mentioned, ii. 82, 83, n. 2, 232, 265, n. 4, 347; iii. 43, 301, 305, 386, 390, 434; iv. 1, n. 1, 32, 76, 84, 88, 159, 178, 219, n. 3, 224, n. 2, 334, 341, 344, 355, n. 4; v. 215. Rhedi de generations insectarum, iii. 229, n. 4. RHEES, David ap, Welsh Grammar, v. 443. RHEUMATISM, medicine for it, ii. 361. Rhodochia, i. 223. RHONE, iv. 277. RHOPALIC VERSES, v. 269, n. 3. RHYME, essential to English poetry, iii. 257. See BLANK-VERSE. RICCOBONI, Mme., credulity of the English, v. 330, n. 3; French and English stage in point of decency, ii. 50, n. 3; sentimentalists of Paris, iii. 149, n. 2; want of respect to nobility on the English stage, v. 106, n. 4. RICH, the manager of Covent Garden Theatre, brings out the Beggar's Opera, iii. 321, n. 3; 'is this your tragedy or comedy?' iv. 246, n. 5; refuses a play in false English, iii. 259. RICHARD II, iv. 268, n. 2. RICHARDS, John, R.A., iii. 464. RICHARDS, Thomas, i. 186, n. 3. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the elder, Treatise on Painting, i. 128, n. 2. RICHARDSON, Jonathan, the younger, i. 128, 142. RICHARDSON, Samuel, Chesterfield's estimate of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Cibber, respects, ii. 93; iii. 184; Clarissa, German translation of, iv. 28; Lovelace's character, ii. 341; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; death, i. 370, 382; Familiar Letters—description of a visit to Bedlam, ii. 374, n. 1; and the procession to Tyburn, iv. 189, n. 1; Fielding, compared with, ii. 49, 174, ib., n. 2; disparages, ii. 49, 174, 175, n. 2; Fielding, Miss, letter to, ii. 49, n. 2, 174, n. 1; flattery, love of, v. 396, n. 1, 440, n. 2; foreigners, read by, ii. 49, n. 2; Hanoverian, a, i. 146, n. 1; Johnson asks for an index for Clarissa, ii. 175, n. 1; Dictionary, cited in, iv. 4; draws his character, v. 395; gives him a pheasant, i. 326; letters to him; i. 303, n. 1; ii. 175, n. 1; meets Hogarth at his house, i. 145; and Young, v. 269; sought after him, iii. 314; under arrest, helps, i. 303, n. 1; King, Dr. W., a Jacobite speech by, i. 146, n. 1; literary ladies, his, iv. 246, n. 6; v. 396; Macaulay's high praise of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Nelson, Robert, the original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3; novels, his, compared with the French, ii. 125; Oxford University, the Jacobitism of, i. 281, n. 1; portrait, i. 434, n. 3; Rambler, praised in the, i. 203; praises it, i. 209, n. 1; contributes to it, i. 203; read for the sentiment, not story, ii. 175; rear, Johnson can make him, iv. 28; talks of his own works, iv. 28; Tunbridge Wells, at, i. 190, n. 1; vanity, iv. 28, n. 7; v. 396; Walpole's, Horace, contempt of him, ii. 174, n. 2; Williams, Mrs., visits him, i. 232, n. 1. RICHARDSON, William, i. 303, n. 1. RICHELIEU, Cardinal, ii. 134, n. 4. RICHES. See MONEY. RICHMOND, third Duke of, attacks Lord Sandwich and Miss Ray, iii. 383, n. 3; discusses history and poetry, ii. 366, n. 1; libelled by Henry Bate, iv. 296, n. 3. RIDDELL, Mr., of the Horse Grenadiers, iv. 211, n. 1. RIDDOCH, Rev. Mr., v. 87, 91, 95-96. RIDICULE, abuse of it, iv. 17; Johnson defends its use, iii. 379. Riding, the, i. 36, n. 4. RIDLEY, the bookseller, iii. 325. RIGBY, Richard, iii. 76, n. 2. Rio verde, Rio verde, ii. 212, n. 4. RIOT ACT, iii. 46, n. 5. RIOTS, Franklin's description of the street riots in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5; Gordon riots in 1780, iii. 46, n. 5, 428; St. George's Fields in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5. RISEN IN THE WORLD, jealousy of men who have, iii. 2. RISING early, its difficulty, iii. 168. RITTER, Joseph, Boswell's Bohemian servant, accompanies Boswell to the Hebrides, v. 53, 74, 76, 83,163, 286, 318, 363, 371; mentioned, ii. 103, 411; iii. 216. RIVERS, Earl, Savage's reputed father, i. 166, n. 4, 170, 172. RIVINGTON, Mr., the bookseller, i. 135, n. 1. RIZZIO, David, v. 43. ROADS, described by Arthur Young, iii. 135, n. 1; toll gates, v. 56, n. 2. See under SCOTLAND, roads. ROBERT BRUCE, ii. 386-7. ROBERT II, v. 373. ROBERTS, J., the bookseller, i. 165, 175. n. 3. ROBERTS, Mr., Register of Bangor, v. 447, 452. ROBERTS, Miss, old Mr. Langton's niece, i. 336; 430. ROBERTSON, Mr., of Cullen, v. 110, 111. ROBERTSON, Mr., a publisher, of Edinburgh, iv. 129. ROBERTSON, Professor James, v. 42. ROBERTSON, Dr. William, Beattie, compared with, ii. 195, n. 1; Boswell appears against him in Court, ii. 381, n. 1; letters to, v. 15, 32; Charles V, criticised by Wesley, ii. 236, n. 4; price offered for it, ii. 63, n. 2; Clive's character, expatiates on, iii. 334; companionable and fond of wine, iii. 335; conversation, iii. 339, n. 1; Elibank, Lord, his early patron, v. 386; Gibbon, complimented by, ii. 236, n. 3; Histories, his, romances, ii. 237; pictures, but not likenesses, iii. 404; History of America, iii. 270; History of Greece, projects a, ii. 237, n. 4; History of Scotland, Johnson 'won't talk of it,' ii. 53; published in 1759, iv. 78, n. 2; sale, iii. 334; L6000 made by the publishers, ib.; editions, ib., n. 2; mentioned, ii. 270; Johnson, awe of, ii. 63; iii. 332; v. 371; criticises his History and style, ii. 236-7; v. 57, n. 3; estimation of him, ii. 30, n. 1; v. 397; introduced to, iii. 331; asks him to translate the Iliad, iii. 333; dines with him in Boswell's house, v. 32-4; breakfasts, v. 38-9; shows him St. Giles, v. 41; the College, v. 42; Holyrood, v. 43; dines with him, v. 44; welcomes him on his return, v. 392; 'love' for him, ii. 53; proposed tour to the Hebrides, writes about, ii. 232; refusal to hear Scotch preachers, iii. 336; v. 121; style, recognises, i. 308; imitates it, iii. 173; iv. 388; worship, complains of, iii. 331; liberality of sentiment, v. 393; packs his gold in wool, ii. 237; paraphrased other people's thoughts, v. 397, n. 3; party in the church, his, v. 213; preferment, his church, iii. 334, n. 2; Principal of Edinburgh College, v. 41, n. 2; romantic humour, his, iii. 335; Southey calls him a rogue, ii. 238, n. 1; style, i. 439, n. 2; ii. 236-7; corrected by Strahan, v. 92, n. 3; verbiage, ii. 236; Voltaire's Louis XIV, v. 393; Whist, learns, v. 404, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 66, 275, 354, n. 4; iii. 278. ROBIN HOOD, v. 389. ROBIN ROY, v. 127, n. 3. ROBINHOOD SOCIETIES, account of them, iv. 92, n. 5; Boswell attends one, iv. 95. ROBINSON, H.C., account of Capel Lofft, iv. 278, n. 3; Bishop Hampden's 'confirmation,' iv. 323, n. 3; Burncy's account of Johnson, i. 410, n. 2. ROBINSON, Sir Thomas, account of him, i. 434; Chesterfield sends him to Johnson, i. 259, n. 2; talks the language of a savage, ii. 130. Robinson Crusoe, i. 71, n. 1; ii. 238, n. 5; iii. 268. ROCHEFORT, expedition to, i. 321. ROCHEFOUCAULD, i. 246. ROCHESTER, Mr. Colson, master of the Free School, i. 101, n. 3; Johnson visits it, iv. 8, n. 3, 22, 232-3. ROCHESTER, Wilmot, second Earl of, Flatman, verses upon, iii. 29; Imitations of Horace, i. 118, n. 5; v. 52, n. 5; Letter from Artemisia, iii. 386, n. 4; Life by Burnet, iii. 191; Poems, castration of his, iii. 191; wrote short pieces iv. 370, n. 1. ROCHFORD, Earl of, i. 317. ROCKINGHAM, Marquis of, his ministry, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 170, n. 1; Burke's advice about it, ii. 355, n. 2; his party, ii. 181. Rockingham, Memoirs of, iii. 460. ROD, use of the, i. 46; v. 99. Roderick Random. See SMOLLETT. RODNEY, Sir George, ii. 398. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., of Berkley, iv. 402, n. 2. ROGERS, Rev. Mr., Sermons, i. 89, n. 3. ROGERS, Samuel, Beauclerk's absence of mind, i. 249, n. 1; Beckford's speech to the King, iii. 201, n. 3; Fitzpatrick and Hare, iii. 388, n. 3; Fordyce's, Dr., intemperance, ii. 274, n. 6; Fox's conversation, iv. 167, n. 1; on Burnet's style, ii. 213, n. 2; love of Homer, iv. 218, n. 3; and the wicked Lord Lyttelton, iv. 298, n. 3; and Mrs. Sheridan, i. 390, n. 1; heads on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hume and his opponents, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson, wishes to call on, i. 247, n. 3; and Lady Lucan, iii. 425, n. 3; Marley, Dean, iv. 73, n. 1; Mounsey, Dr., ii. 64, n. 2; Murphy, Arthur, i. 356, n. 2; Piozzi, Signor, iv. 339, n. 2; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Rambler, i. 210, n. 1; Reynolds's last lecture, iii. 369, n. 2; Shelburne and Carlisle, Earls of, iv. 246, n. 5; Wilkes as City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Williams, Miss H.M., iv. 282, n. 3; Wordsworth and the Edinburgh Review, iv. 115, n. 2. ROKEBY, Lord, i. 434, n. 3. ROKEBY HALL, i. 434, n. 3. Rolliad, The, Fitzpatrick, partly written by, iii. 388; Graham, Lord, ridiculed, iii. 382, n. 1; humorous but scurrilous, i. 116, n. 1; 'Painful pre-eminence,' iii. 82, n. 2. Rollin's Ancient History, iv. 311. ROLT, Richard, Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, i. 358; ii. 344; Universal Visitor, wrote for the, ii. 345; vanity and impudence, his, i. 359. ROMAN CATHOLICISM and Roman Catholics, attacked by Wesley, v. 35, n. 3; clergy accused of lazy devotion, v. 170, n. 1; Communion in one kind, ii. 105; iv. 289; convicts should be attended by a Popish priest, iv. 329; converts part with nothing, ii. 105; not interrogated strictly, iv. 289; doctrines and practice, ii. 105; England and Ireland, in, ii. 255, n. 3; Gordon Riots, iii. 428-431; good timorous men, suited to, iv. 289; and women, ib.; gross corruptions, iii. 17; James II's attempt to bring England over to it, ii. 341; Johnson attacks it, iii. 407; calls their chapel a mass-house, iii. 429, n. 2; defends it, i. 465, 476; iv. 289; prefers it to Presbyterianism, ii. 103; respects it, ii. 105; laity and the Bible, ii. 27; 'old religion, the,' ii. 105; penal laws relaxed, iii. 427-8; still in force, iii. 427, n. 1; Popish books burnt in 1784, ib.; Popery understood by the nation, v. 276, n. 4; Presbyterianism, differs chiefly in form from, ii. 150; priests and people deceived, iii. 17; transubstantiation, v. 71. Roman Gazetteers, i. 147, n. 4. ROMANCES, fit for youth, iv. 16, n. 3; historically valuable, iv. 17; Johnson loved the old ones, i. 49; iii. 2. ROME and the Romans, ancient, barbarians mostly, ii. 170; Bolingbroke's references to them, iii. 206, n. 1; cant in their praise, i. 311; iii. 206, n. 1; Carthaginian, no feeling for a, iv. 196; empire, iii. 36; fountain of elegance, iii. 333; 'Happy to come, happy to depart,' v. 82; known of them, very little, ii. 153; secession to Mons Sacer, v. 142, n. 2; Senate, iii. 206; temples built by Saurus and Batrachus, iv. 446; Tiber, its duration compared with that of the, iii. 251. ROME, modern, Johnson eager to see it, iii. 19; expected there, iv. 326, n. 3; licensed stews, iii. 17; London, mentioned in, i. 119; pilgrimages to it, iii. 446; mentioned, iii. 217; v. 153, n. 1. ROMILLY, Sir Samuel, capital punishments, iv. 328, n. 1; Hume and the French atheists, ii. 8, n. 4; Parr, letter from, iv. 15, n. 5; Robinhood Societies, iv. 92, n. 5; Windham's opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4. ROMNEY, George, Cumberland's Odes dedicated to him, iii. 43, n. 4. ROPE DANCING, ii. 440. RORIE MORE. See SIR RODERICK MACLEOD. Rosamond, v. 376, n. 3. Roscommon, Life of, i. 192. ROSE, Dr., i. 46, n. 1; iv. 168, n. 1. Rosicrucian Infallible Axiomata, iv. 402, n. 2. Ross, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 90, 92. Ross,—, a soldier, v. 197. ROSSLYN, Earl of. See LOUGHBOROUGH, Lord. ROTHERAM, John, Origin of Faith, ii. 478. ROTHES, Countess Dowagers of, ii. 136, n. 3. ROTHES, Lady, Bennet Langton's wife, ii. 77, n. 1, 142, 146; iii. 104, 368; iv. 8, n. 3, 146, 159, n. 3, 240. ROTTERDAM, iii. 84, n. 2. ROUBILIAC, i. 328, n. 1. ROUGHNESS, breedeth hate, iv. 168, n. 2. ROUND ROBIN, The, iii. 83-5. ROUS, FRANCIS, i. 75, n. 3. ROUSSEAU, J.J., beating time, iv. 283, n. 1; Boswell, sympathy with, ii. 11, n. 3; visits him, ii. 12, 215; Contrat-Social, ii. 249, n. 2; coxcomb and cynic, v. 378, n. 1; exile and visit to England, ii. 11; Foundling Hospital, put his children into the, ii. 398, n. 4; French not a gay people, ii. 402, n. 1; Geneva, first departure from, i. 58, n. 2; Goldsmith, resemblance to, i. 413, n. 1; Hume on Rousseau's heroes, the Greeks and Romans, i. 353, n. 2; inequality of mankind, i. 439; Johnson's character of him, ii. 11; justification of himself, ii. 12, n. 2; liberty of teaching, opposed to, ii, 249, n. 2; novelty, love of, i. 441; pension from George III, ii. 12, n. 1; Profession de Foi du Vicaire Savoyard, ii. 12; read less than formerly, iv. 288; savage life, preference of, ii. 12; talked nonsense well, ii. 74; untruthfulness, ii. 434, n. 2; Voltaire, compared with, ii. 12; want of readiness, ii. 256, n. 3; writings, effect of his, ii. 11. ROWE, Elizabeth, i. 312. ROWE, Nicholas, an indecent poem included in his Works, iv. 36, n. 4; Johnson's memory of his plays, iv. 36, n. 3. ROWLANDSON, Thomas, caricature of Boswell revising the Second Edition, v. 148, n. 1. Rowley's Poetry. See CHATTERTON. ROYAL ACADEMY, Boswell Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, ii. 67, n. 1; his letters of acceptance of office, iii. 370, 462-4; and Robertson at the Exhibition, iii. 278; club-nights, ii. 97, n. 1; dinners, Goldsmith, Johnson, Reynolds and Walpole present, iv. 314, n. 3; Goldsmith, Johnson and Walpole, talk about Chatterton, iii. 51, n. 2; Johnson speaks Latin to a Frenchman at dinner, ii. 404; in 1780 sits over against an Archbishop, iv. 198, n. 2; in 1784 has a race upon the stairs, iv. 355; is kept waiting by the Prince of Wales, iv. 270, n. 2; Exhibition of 1780, ii. 400, n. 3; iv. 198, n. 2; Johnson's monument, subscription to, iv. 423, n. 2; intercession for Lowe's picture, iv. 201-3; minister, not dependent on a, iii. 464; Moser, the keeper, iv. 227, n. 4; origin, its, i. 363, n. 2; professors and secretaries, ii. 67; iv. 220; Reynolds's influence in it, iv. 219, n. 4; his intention to resign the presidency, iv. 366, n. 2; travelling students, iv. 202, n. 1. ROYAL FAMILY, Johnson's dedications, ii. 2, 225; unpopular, ii. 234. ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL, ii. 152. Royal Recollections, i. 116, n. 1. ROYAL SOCIETY, Dryden's lines, ii. 241; Johnson improves the method of the Philosophical Transactions, ii. 40, n. 2; Presidents—Earl of Macclesfield, i. 267, n. 1; Sir John Pringle, iii. 65, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5. RUDD, Mrs., account of her, ii. 450, n. 1; Boswell's acquaintance with her, iii. 79; approved by Johnson, iii. 79, 80, 330. RUDDIMAN, Thomas, Boswell projects his Life, ii. 216; Johnson's regard for him, i. 211; Laurence Kirk, projected monument at, v. 75; Librarian of Advocates' Library, ii. 216; 'Ruddiman is dead,' ii. 21; mentioned, iii. 372. RUFFHEAD, Owen, Life of Pope, ii. 166; iv. 50, n. 1. RUFFLES, laced, iv. 80. RUINS, artificial, v. 456. RUNDEL, Bishop, ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1. Runick Inscription, i. 156, n. 3. Runts, iii. 337. RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1; Bibliotheca Pastorum, iii. 94, n. 2; New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1. RUSSELL, Alexander, Natural History of Aleppo, i. 309; iv. 171. RUSSELL, Lady, ii. 210, n. 3. RUSSELL, Lord William, ii. 210. RUSSIA, alchymist, a Russian, ii. 377; Beauclerk's library offered to the ambassador, iii. 420; Bell's Travels, ii. 55; Lapouchin's, Mme., punishment, iii. 340; population increasing, ii. 101; rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 131, n. 2: See CATHERINE II. RUSTIC HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE, iv. 175; v. 293. RUTLAND, Duchess of, iv. 224, n. 1. RUTLAND, Roger, Earl of, i. 431. RUTTY, Dr., account of him, iii. 170, n. 4; extracts from his Diary, iii. 170-2. RYLAND, Mr., Johnson's friend in 1752, i. 242; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 360; and Ivy Lane Club, iv. 435. RYMER, Thomas, i. 498, n. 4; ii. 444, n. 2. RYSWICK, peace of, iii. 446.



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SABBATH. See SUNDAY. SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry, Johnson heard him preach at Lichfield, i. 39; sale of his Trial, i. 34, n 5. SACHEVERELL, W., Account of the Isle of Man, v. 309, n. 1, 336. SACRAMENT, preparation for it, iv. 122; in one kind, ii. 105. See under JOHNSON. SADNESS. 'Sadness only multiplies self,' iii. 136, n. 2. SAGACITY, iv. 335. SAILORS, estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6; generosity, v. 400; Johnson's description of their life, i. 348; ii. 438; iii. 266; iv. 250; v. 137; mortality among them, i. 348, n. 3; iii. 266, n. 2; noble animal, v. 400; riot in London, iii. 46, n. 5; rudeness, i. 378, n. 1. SAINT MARTIN, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. SAINTS, Invocation of the, ii. 105, 255; iii. 407; iv. 289; resurrection of the bodies of the, iv. 95. SALAMANCA, University of, i. 455; ii. 479. SALE, avoiding a, v. 321. SALE, George, iii. 424, n. 1. SALISBURY, iv. 233, 237. SALISBURY, Bishop of. See Rev. Dr. DOUGLAS. SALLUST, characters, his, ii. 79; Catiline's character, i. 32; Johnson takes a copy on his tour in Scotland, v. 122; translates part of the De Bella Catilinario, iv. 381, n. 1; quoted, ii. 181, n. 2; translation by a Spanish prince, iv. 195. SALMASIUS, iv. 444. SALONICA, iv. 364, n. 2. SALT HILL, v. 458, n. 5. SALTER, Dr., i. 190, n. 5. SALUSBURY FAMILY, v. 435, n. 2. SALUSBURY, H.L., afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi, i. 492. SALUSBURY, Lady, v. 276. SALUSBURY, Mr., Mrs. Thrale's father, v. 438, n. 5. SALUSBURY, Mrs., Mrs. Thrale's mother, her death, ii. 263; saying about Johnson and runts, iii. 337. SALUSBURY, Mr., iv. 343, n. 4. SALVATION, divine intimation of acceptance, iii. 295; conditional, iv. 278, 299. Samson Agonistes, i. 231, n. 2. SANADON'S Horace, iii. 74, n. 1. SANCROFT, Archbishop, iv. 287, n. 2. SANDERSON, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, Johnson's style partly formed on his, i. 219; use of the word polluted, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 406, n. 1. SANDFORD, Mr., v. 263. SANDS, MURRAY, and COCHRAN, printers of Edinburgh, i. 210, n. 3. SANDWICH, fourth Earl of, confounded with Bishop Seeker, i. 508; disposal of a crown living, iv. 296, n. 3; Fox's motion for his removal, iii. 383, n. 3; Hawkesworth and Cook's Voyages, ii. 247, n. 5; Ray, Miss, iii. 383, n. 3. SANDYS, second Lord, Johnson visits him, v. 455; portrait of him at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1. SANDYS, Sir Edwin, View of the State of Religion, i. 219. SANDYS, George, Travels, iv. 311. SANDYS, Samuel, the 'Motionmaker,' i. 509. SANQUHAR, Lord, v. 103, n. 2. SANSTERRE THE BREWER, ii. 396. SAPPER, Thomas, iv. 358, n. 2. SAPPHO IN OVID, ii. 181. SARDINIA, Island of, its lingua rustica, ii. 82. SARDINIA, Charles Emmanuel III, King of, death, iv. 325, n. 1. SARPEDON, v. 103, n. 1. SARPI, Father Paul, i. 135, 136; dying prayer, i. 478, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 139; v. 67, n. 2. Sartum tectum, ii. 417. Sassenach More, ii. 267, n. 2. SASTRES, Signor, the Italian master, Johnson's bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 368, n. 1, 374, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 22; iv. 405, n. 1. SATISFACTION OF CHRIST, v. 88. SAULT, Mr., iv. 200. SAUNDERS, Dr., iii. 32, n. 5. SAUNDERS, Prince, a negro, iv. 108, n. 4. SAUNDERSON, Professor, ii. 190. SAURIN, v. 42, n. 1, 47, n. 4. SAURUS, iv. 446. SAVAGE, Richard, account of him, i. 125, n. 4, 161-174; Ad Ricardum Savage, i. 162, n. 3; Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 53; author, an, without paper, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 115, n. 1; Bastard, The, i. 166; Caroline, Queen, gives him a yearly bounty, i. 125, n. 4; character and mode of life, i. 161-4, 166, n. 4, 173, 416, n. 1; correction for the press, iv. 321, n. 2; death, i. 156, n. 1, 164; dignity, asserted his, i. 77, n. 2; epitaph, i. 156, n. 3; equality of man, asserted the, ii. 479; evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4; Johnson gathers materials for his Life, i. 156; publishes it, i. 165; payment for it and editions, ib., n. 1; reviewed in The Champion, i. 169; wrote forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67; intimacy with, i. 162-4; likeness to him, i. 166, n. 4; quotes The Wanderer, iv. 288 virtue, impairs, i. 164; iv. 395; letter to a lord, i. 161, n. 3; life, knowledge of, iii. 237, n. 1; On Public Spirit, ii. 13, n. 1; oppressed by the booksellers, i. 305, n. 1; pension from Lord Tyrconnel, i. 372, n. 1; Reynolds reads his Life, i. 165; Sinclair, stabs: See below, trial for murder; Sir Thomas Overbury revived at Covent-Garden, iii. 115; its composition, ib., n. 1; subscribes to Husbands's Miscellany, i. 61, n. 3; subscription, lived on a, i. 125, n. 3; Thales of Johnson's London, i. 125, n. 4; Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 7; trial for murder, i. 125, n. 4, 162, n. 3; vanity, ii. 281, n. 1; veracity, i. 170, n. 2; Wales, sets out for, i. 125, n. 4, 161, n. 2; Walpole's, Sir Robert, talk, iii. 57, n. 2; Wanderer, i. 124, n. 4. Savage, Life of, an earlier one than Johnson's, i. 170. SAVAGE GIRL, a, v. 110. SAVAGES, affection, have no, iv. 210; Boswell's defence of savage life, ii. 73, 475; iv. 308; bread-tree, reported saying about the, ii. 248; compared with London shopkeepers, v. 81, 83; cruel always, i. 437; happiness of their life maintained by a learned gentleman, ii. 228; ignorant of the past, iii. 49; inferiority, their, v. 125; marriage state, ii. 165; Monboddo talks nonsense about them, ii. 74; and Rousseau, ii. 12, 74; saying attributed to one, iii. 180; superiority of civilised life, ii. 12, 73; v. 125, 365; traditions worthless, v. 225; wretches, who live willingly with them, iii. 246. SAVILE, Sir George, iii. 428. SAVILLE, Mr., saying about 'Ned' Waller, iii. 327, n. 2. SAVINGS. See ECONOMY. SAVOY, Duke of, Rousseau's anecdote of one, ii. 256, n. 3. SAWBRIDGE, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459; bill for shortening duration of parliaments, iii. 460; mentioned, i. 242, n. 4; ii. 135, n. l. SAWBRIDGE, Catherine (Mrs. Macaulay), i. 242, n. 4. SAXON k added to the c, iv. 31. SAXONS, iv. 133. SCALIGERS, The, Accurata Burdonum (i.e. Scaligerorum) Fabulae Confutatio, ii. 263, n. 5; Buchanan, praise, ii. 96; 'cum Scaligero errare,' ii. 444; Dictionary-makers, on, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson takes a motto from the Poeticks, i. 62; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; Mantuan's Bucolics, complaint about, iv. 182, n. 1. SCARBOROUGH, iii. 45, n. 1. SCARSDALE, Lord, iii. 160-1. SCEPTICISM, v. 47. Scheme for the Classes of a Grammar School, i. 99. School for Scandal. See SHERIDAN, R.B. Schools, arguing in the, iv. 74. SCHOOLS, authority lessened, iii. 262; Bolingbroke, described by, v. 85, n. 3 (See under SCHOOLMASTERS); boys' restless desire of novelty, iii. 385, n. 1; flogging and learning, less of, ii. 407; happiness of schoolboys, i. 451; north of England schools cheap and good, ii. 380; poor, for the, ii. 188; iii. 352, n. 1; public, best for a boy of parts, iii. 12; bad for the timid, iv. 312; compared with private, ii-4O7; v. 85; studies not suited to all, iii. 385, n. 1. SCHOOLMASTERS, described by Lord Cockburn, ii. 144, n. 2; by Johnson, ii. 146, n. 4; J.S. Mill, ib.; Steele, i. 44, n. 2; famous men, of, i. 43, n. 2; Johnson's writings about them, i. 97, n. 2, 98, n. 2; maimed boys, ii. 157; respect due to them, i. 97; Scotch masters—one criminally prosecuted, iii. 212, 214; one dismissed for barbarity: See under HASTIE; severity, how far lawful, ii. 146, 157, 183-5. SCHOTANUS, i. 475. Sciolus, iii. 341, n. 1; iv. 14, n. 2. SCLAVONIC LANGUAGE, ii. 156. Sconces, i. 59, n. 3. Score, ii. 327, n. 2. SCORPIONS, ii. 54. SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTCH, [For the Hebrides and Highlands', See immediately after SCOTLAND. See also in the Concordance of Johnson's sayings at the end of the Index, SCOTCH and SCOTLAND] Aberbrothick, v. 71, 279; Aberdeen, Cathedral, v. 114, n. 2; English Church, v. 97, n. 5; Cromwell's soldiers, v. 84; duel fought for the honour of its butter, v. 342, n. 2; freedom given to English students, v. 90, n. 2; Infirmary, ii. 291; New Inn, v. 84; New Aberdeen, ib., n. 3; Old Aberdeen, v. 91; population in 1769, v. 90, n. 2; Town Hall, v. 90; Johnson made a freeman of the city, ii. 291; iii. 242; v. 90; no officer gaping for a fee, ib., n. 2; plaids, v. 85, n. 1; stocking-knitting, iii. 242; v. 86; University, education, v. 85, 92, n. 1; cost of it, v. 96, n. 1; English students, v. 85; Gray offered a doctor's degree, ii. 267, n. 1; King's College, iv. 265, n. 2; v. 90, n. 2, 91, n. 1; Malloch's poem on repairing the University, iv. 216; Marischal College, ii. 149, 264; v. 90; picture of Arthur Johnston, v. 95, n. 2; professors awed by Johnson, v. 92; 'not a mawkin started,' v. 96; student from Col, v. 301; mentioned, iii. 362, 434, 436; v. 312; Aberdeenshire dialect, v. 84, 100; absence of 'a certain accommodation' in modern houses, v. 172; accent, i. 386; Account of Scotland in 1702, iii. 242; Advocate's admission Thesis, ii. 20; America, would not discover barrenness of, iii. 76; American war popular, iv. 259, n. 1; Athelstanford, iii. 47, n. 3; Athol porridge, iv. 78; Auchinleck, account of it, iii. 178; v. 379; Barony, ii. 413; Boswell's management, under, iv. 163; castle, ii. 270; v. 379; chapel, ancient, v. 380; Field of Stones, v. 55, 379; hornless cattle, v. 380; mansion, v. 379, n. 1; inscription on it, v. 381; Johnson desires to visit it, i. 462; visits it, v. 375-85; laird, past greatness of the, iii. 177; present glories, iii. 178; library, iv. 241; v. 376; Paoli visits it, v. 382, n. 2; pronounced Affleck, ii. 413; v. 116, n. 1; Reynolds's portrait of Johnson, v. 385, n. l; 'rocks and woods of my ancestors,' ii. 69, n. 3; v. 348; Via sacra, v. 381; authors, ii. 53; authority lessened by the Scotch coming in, iii. 262; Ayr, v. 375, n. 3; Ayrshire, cars, v. 235; elections, ii. 169, n. 4; election petition, iv. 73; Johnson's argument, iv. 74; contest in 1773, v. 354; mentioned, v. 107, n. 1, 372; Balmerino, v. 406; Balmuto, v. 70; Banff, v. 109; bare-footed people, v. 55; beggars, v. 75, n. 1; Belhelvie, sands of, v. 101, n. 4; Blackshieids, v. 404; Blair in Ayrshire, iii. 47, n. 3; books printed before the Union, ii. 216; Boswell a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347; Scotland too narrow a sphere for him, iii. 176; breakfasts, merit of Scotch, v. 123, n. 2; bring in other Scotch in their talk, ii. 242; broth, v. 87; Buchanan, Scotland's single man of genius, iv. 185; Buchanmen showing their teeth, v. 100; Buller of Buchan, v. 100; cabbage, introduction of the, ii. 455; v. 84, n. 3; Calder, v. 118; castle, v. 119; Caledonian Mercury, iv. 129; v. 323; career open in England, i. 387; Carron, The, v. 343, n. 3; castles, smallness of the, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1; cattle without horns, v. 380; Charles I, sold, iv. 169; Christian Knowledge Society, ii. 27-30, 279; Church of Scotland Book of Discipline, ii. 172; churches dirty, v. 41-2; one clean one, v. 73, n. 4; in the Hebrides, v. 289, n. 1; church holidays not kept, ii. 459; form of prayers, absence of a, v. 365; Lord's Prayer omitted, v. 121, 365, n. 1; judicatures, ii. 242; practice at the bar of the General Assembly coarse, ii. 381, n. 1; 'the Presbyterian Kirk has its General Assembly,' i. 464; probationer, case of a, ii. 171; lay-patrons, ii. 149; Johnson's argument on their rights, ii. 242-6; parties, two contending, v. 213; civility, persevering, iv. 11; 'cleanliness, Scottish,' v. 21; clergy, assiduity, v. 251; card-playing, v. 404, n. 1; compared with English, v. 251, 382; described by Warburton, v. 92; homely manners, i. 460; learning, want of, v. 251-2, 383; liberality of leading men, v. 21, n. 1; second sight, disbelieve in, v. 227; coaliers, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; combination among the Scotch, ii. 121, 307, n. 3; iv. 169, n. 1; v. 409: See below, nationality; 'conspiracy to cheat the world,' ii. 307; 'conspiracy in national falsehood,' ii. 297, 307; Constable, Lord High, v. 103; council-post, v. 181; Court of Justiciary, Palmer and Muir's case, iv. 125, n. 2; Court of Session, account of it, ii. 291, n. 6; Johnson sees the Courts, v. 40; attends a sitting, v. 384, 400; 'casting pearls before swine,' ii. 201; date of rising, ii. 265; v. 21; titles of the judges, ii. 291, n. 6; Cases—Chesterfield Letters, i. 266; Corporation of Stirling, ii. 373; ecclesiastical censure, iii. 59; Hastie the schoolmaster, ii. 144; Knight, a negro, iii. 86, 212; literary property, v. 50, 72; Memis, Dr., ii. 372; shipmaster, v. 390; Society of Solicitors, iv. 128; vicious intromission, ii. 196, 201, 206; Court of Session Garland: See BOSWELL; Covenanted magistrates, v. 382, n. 2; Cranston, v. 401; Cunninghame, v. 373; Cupar, v. 56; Danes, colony of them said to be at Leuchars, v. 70; Danish names in the Hebrides, v. 172; their retreat commemorated by Swene's Stone, v. 116, n. 3; De Gestis Scotorum, v. 406; debt, law of arrest for, iii. 77; Dictionary, Johnson's, the amanuenses and contractors chiefly Scotch, i. 287; Dictionary of Scotch Words, ii. 91; dinners good, v. 115; drinking at old Sir A. Macdonald's, v. 260; 'droves of Scotch,' ii. 311; Duff House, v. 109; Duke, ignorance of a Scotch, v. 43, n. 4; Dumfermline, iii. 58; v. 399; Dumfries, iv. 281, n. 2; Dunbarton, v. 368; Dunbui, v. 100; Duncan's monument, v. 116; Dundee, iv. 125, n. 2; v. 71; Dundonald Castle, v. 373; dungeon of wit, v. 342; Dunnichen, v. 407; Dunsinane, iii. 73; Dutch, Scotch regiment in the pay of the, iii. 447; eating, modes of, v. 21, n. 3, 206; Edinburgh, See p. 234; education, English and Scotch, iii. 12, n. 2; Eglintoune Castle, i. 457; elections and electors, iv. 248, n. 1; controverted elections, iv. 101; interference of the Peers, iv. 248, 250; v. 354; Elgin, v. 113-15; Ellon, landlord at, ii. 336; v. 96; England found by the Scotch, iii. 78; Scotland a worse England, iii. 248; 'English better animals than the Scotch,' v. 20; English education, iii. 12, n. 2; iv. 131; chiefly tamed into insignificance by it, v. 149; English prejudice, ii. 300, n. 5; virulent antipathy, v. 408; English pronunciation, attainment of, ii. 158-60; entail, law of, ii. 414; Episcopal Church, iii. 371-2; its Liturgy, ii. 163; episcopals are dissenters in Scotland, v. 73; facile man, a, v. 342; factor, v. 122; 'famine, a land of,' iii. 77; fear in London of the Scotch at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430, n. 6; fencers, good, v. 66; feudal system, ii. 202; iii. 414; Findlater's, Lord, wood, v. 112; fine and recovery unknown there, ii. 429, n. 1; Fochabers, iv. 206, n. 1; v, 114; food enough to give them strength to run away, iii. 77; Fores, v. 116, 347; France, compared with, ii. 403; Frith of Forth, v. 54-5; gaiety, want of, iii. 387; gardeners, ii. 77; gardens, v. 84, n. 3; Garrick ridicules their nationality, ii. 325; General Assembly: See under SCOTLAND, church; Glasgow, coal-fire, a, v. 369; compared with Brentford, iv. 186; Foulis, the printers, v. 370; newspaper, extract from a, v. 344; Papists persecuted in 1780, iii. 427, n. 1; parentheses, supplies Carlisle with, iii. 402, n. 1; riches, its, v. 54; Saracen's Head, v. 369; St. Kilda's man visits it, i. 450; University—Boswell a student there, i. 465; v. 19, n. 1; home-students fewer than of old, v. 59; Johnson's observations on it, ii. 304; v. 408; Leechman, Principal, v. 68, n. 4; professors meet Johnson, v. 369-371; afraid of him, v. 371; Young, Professor, iv. 392; Windham a student there, iii. 119; Goldsmith's description of the landscape, ii, 311, n. 5; Gordon Castle, v. 114; Gordon Riots, ii. 300, n. 5; iii. 430, n. 6; grace at meals, v. 123; Grampian Hills, v. 74; Greek, study of, iii. 407; Gregory, sixteen professors of the family of, v. 48, n. 3; haddocks, dried, v. 110; Hamilton Palace, v. 385; Hawthornden, v. 402; head-dress of the ladies, v. 178, n. 3; heads of rebels on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hebrides: See after SCOTLAND; hedges, absence of, v. 69, n. 3; 'hedges of stone,' v. 75; 'High English,' attainment of, ii. 159; Highlands: See after SCOTLAND; History of the Insurrection of 1745 projected, iii. 162, 414; v. 393; Homer, Pindar and Shakespeare of Scotland, iv. 186, n. 2; honest man, v. 264; horses get oats as well as the people, iv. 168, n. 3; hospitality, old-fashioned, iv. 222, n. 2; House of Commons contemptible, not sorry to see the, ii. 300, n. 5; humble cows, v. 380, n. 3; humour, not distinguished for, iv. 129; improvements for immediate profit, v. 115, n. 1; Inch Keith, v. 55; inns described by Goldsmith, v. 146, n. 1; inoculation, v. 226; insurrections in 1779, iii. 408, n 4; invasion, need not fear, ii. 431; Irish, compared with the, ii. 307; iv. 169, n. 1; jealousy, ii. 306; Johnson's amanuenses Scotch, i. 187; ii. 307; antipathy to the Scotch, cannot account for his, iv. 169; attacks the Scotch historians, ii. 236; awes Scotch literati, ii. 63; Boswell's introduction to, i. 392; consults Scotch physicians, iv. 261-4; praises two settled in London, iv. 220, n. 2; damned rascal! to talk as he does of the Scotch,' iii. 170; desires portraits of their men of letters, iv. 265; friends among the Scotch, ii. 121, 306; good-humoured wit, ii. 77; iii. 51; holds a Scotchman not less acceptable than any other man, ii. 307; hospitality shown to, ii. 267, 303; v. 80; welcomed by the great, iv. 117, n. 1; joke at the scarcity of barley, iii. 231; 'meant to vex them,' iv. 168; prejudice, shown in London, i. 130; v. 19; of the head, not of the heart, ii. 301; explanation of it by Reynolds, iv. 169, n. 1; by Boswell, v. 20; justification of it, ii. 121, 306; iv. 169; slights their advancement in literature, ii. 53; would not attend a Scotch service, iii. 336; v. 121, 384; judges, titles of, v. 77, n. 4; juries, no civil, ii. 201, n. 1; Killin, ii. 28, n. 2; Kilmarnock, iv. 94; v. 375; King Bob, v. 374; Kinghorn, v. 56; Kirkwall, C. J. Fox member for it, iv. 266, n. 2; known to each other, ii. 473; Knox's 'reformations,' v. 61-2; Kyle, v. 107, n. 1; lady-like woman, v. 157; Lanark, ii. 64; iii. 116, 359; land permanently unsaleable, ii. 414, n. 1; landlords 'a high situation,' i. 409; land-tax, ii. 431; Laurence Kirk, v. 75-6; law (Kelly law), v. 237; law arguments in writing, ii. 220; law life, vulgar familiarity of, iii. 179, n. 1; lawyers great masters of the law of nations, ii. 292; learning, decrease of it, v. 57, 80; in James VI's time, v. 57, 182; 'like bread in a besieged town,' ii. 363; mediocrity of it, ii. 307, n. 3; leases, setting aside, v. 342; legitimation, law of, ii. 456; Leith, v. 54; to a Scotchman often Lethe, ib.; Leuchars, v. 70; Lismore, ii. 308, n. 1; v. 86; literature, rapid advancement in, ii. 53; Logie Pert, v. 75, n. 2; Lord High Constable, v. 103; Loudoun, v. 371; 'love Scotland better than truth,' ii. 311; v. 109, n. 6; lowns, v. 218; Lugar, River, v. 379; Macbeth's heath, v. 115; castle, v. 129, 347-8; Mackinnon's Cave, v. 331; main honest, v. 303; Mallet the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend, ii. 159, n. 3; manse, v. 70; Mauchline, v. 375, n. 3; mawkin, v. 96; Mercheta Mulierum, v. 320; metaphysics, what passes for, iv. 25, n. 4; middle class, want of a, ii. 402, n. 1; Middleburgh, iii. 104; Militia, fear of giving Scotland a, in 1760, ii. 431, n. 1; bill of 1776, ii. 431; iii. 1; fear still remained, iii. 360, n. 3; established in 1793, iii. 360, n. 3; Scots as officers in English militia, iii. 399, n. 2; Mirror, The, iv. 390; mix with the English worse than the Irish, ii. 242; Monboddo (Lord Monboddo's residence), v. 77; Monimusk, iii. 103; Montrose, v. 72-4; muir-fowl, or grouse, v. 44; Muses' Welcome to King James, v. 57, 80, 81; nation, if we allow the Scotch to be a, iii. 387; nationality, extreme, ii. 242, 307, 325; iv. 186; v. 20, 409 (See above, combination); Newhailes, v. 407; 'noblest prospect,' i. 425; v. 387; non-jurors, iv. 287; v. 66; northern circuit, v. 120; oatmeal, v. 133, n. 2, 308, 406; oats defined, i. 294; iv. 168; Old Deer, v. 107; old Scottish sentiments, v. 40; enthusiasm, v. 374; orchard, Johnson sees an, iv. 206, n. 1; general want of them, v. 115; Ossian, national pride in believing in, iv. 141 (See under MACPHERSON, James); outer gate locked at dinner-time, v. 60, n. 5; pains-taking, of all nations most, ii. 300, n. 5; past so unlike the present, iii. 414; patience in winning votes, iv. 11; pay of English soldiers spent in it, ii. 431; Peers, interference in elections, iv. 248, 250; Perth, an execution at, v. 104; Perthshire, Justices and Sheriff of, iii. 214, n. 1; Peterhead Well, v. 101; 'petty national resentment,' v. 3; piety, compared with English, v. 123, n. 2; planting, era of, v. 406; players, do not succeed as, ii. 242; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1; polished at Newcastle, v. 87; postal service, v. 312, n. 3, 347, 369, n. 1, 385; post-chaises, v. 56, n. 2; poverty, escaped being robbed by their, iii. 410; supposed poverty, iv. 102; Presbyterian fanatics, v. 39; prescription of murder, v. 24, 87; Preston-Pans, v. 401, n. 3; prisoners of 1745, treatment of, v. 200; resentment at having the truth told, ii. 306; iii. 128; revenue, contributions to the, ii. 432; robbers, no danger from, v. 53, 177, n. 2; Roman Catholics, penal legislation against, iii. 427, n. 1; Roslin Castle, v. 402; sacrament, preparation for the, v. 119, n. 1; sailors, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; sands laying the fields waste, v. 291; 'savages,' iii. 77; scandal in Church law, ii. 172; scholars incorrect in quantity, ii. 132; schoolmaster, brutality of a, ii. 186, n. 1; schools inferior to English in classics, ii. 171; cannot prepare for English Universities, ii. 380; Scone, v. 237; Scotch oat-cakes and Scotch prejudices,' ii. 380; 'Scotchmen made necessarily,' v. 48; Scots Magazine, i. 112; v. 171, 265; serfs, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; v. 401, n. 3; Shakespeare of Scotland, the, iv. 186, n. 2; Sheep's head, v. 342; Shelburne, Lord, described by, ii. 296, n. 2; Sheriff-muir, v. 290; Sheughy Dikes, v. 70, n. 2; shoes, want of, v. 84, n. 3; short days in winter, ii. 189; Slains Castle, Johnson visits it, ii. 311, n. 5; v. 97-107; its situation, v. 99-100; house, v. 102; sloe, brought to perfection, ii. 78; Society of Procurators or Solicitors, iv. 128; Johnson's argument in their case, iv. l29-31; Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, ii. 27, 279; v. 370; speldings, v. 55; spinnet, a, v. 314; St. Andrews, Boswell and Johnson visit it, v. 29, 57-70, 72; castle, v. 63; cathedral, v. 62-3; Glass's Inn, v. 57; grotto, v. 70; inscriptions, v. 63; 'Knox's reformations,' v. 61; Marline's Reliquiae, v. 61, n. 2; Sharp's monument, v. 65; Smollett's description of the town, v. 61, n. 5; St. Rule's Chapel, v. 61; story of an old woman, v. 408; streets deserted, v. 65; tree, large, v. 69; University, professors, v. 65, n. 4, 66; grace at dinner, v. 65; St. Leonard's College, v. 58; St. Salvador's College, v. 65; library, v. 63; session, v. 96, n. 1; students, their number and fees, v. 65, n. 4; windows broken by them, v. 63, n. 2; mentioned, i. 359, n. 3; Stirling, its corporation corrupt, ii. 373; Stirling, county of, iii. 224; stone and water, Scotland consists of, v. 340; study of English, i. 439, n. 2; succession of heirs general, ii. 418; Swene's Stone, v. 116, n. 3; tenures, ancient, ii. 202; iii. 414; territorial titles, v. 77, n. 4; tokens, v. 119, n. 1; Tories generally, v. 272; torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1; trade leaving the east coast, v. 54; Tranent, v. 401, n. 3; trees, bareness of them, ii. 301, 304, 311; v. 69-70, 75; those on the eastern coast younger than Johnson, ii. 311; v. 69, n. 3; two large trees in one county, v. 69, 406; old trees at Calder, v. 120; at Inverary, v. 355; elms of Balmerino, v. 406; Jeffrey's comparison with England, ii. 301, n. 1; Johnson's sarcasms caused love of planting, ii. 301, n. 1; iii. 103; his stick 'a piece of timber,' v. 319; Treesbank, v. 372; truth, Scotchmen love Scotland better than, ii. 311; v. 389, n. 1; disposition to tell lies in favour of each other, ii. 296; turn-pike roads, v. 56, n. 2; turrets, two, mark of an old baron's residence, v. 77; tyrannical laws, iv. 125, n. 2; Union, benefits to Scotland, v. 128, 248; discussed in the Laigh, v. 40; few printed books before it, ii. 216; how it happened, ii. 91; money brought by it into Scotland, v. 61; 'no longer we and you,' ii. 431; Universities, education given in them, ii. 363, n. 4; no degree conferred on Johnson, ii. 267, n. 1; professorships, iii. 14, n. 1 (See under ABERDEEN, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, and ST. ANDREWS); veal, v. 32; waiters at the inns, v. 22, 72; Walpole, Horace, described by, iii. 430, n. 6; water, too much, v. 340; Westport murderers, v. 227, n. 4; whisky, the thing that makes a Scotchman happy, v. 346; windows without pullies, v. 109, n. 6; wine, the refuse of France, v. 248; witchcraft, executions for, v. 46, n. i; write English wonderfully well, iii. 109; Writers to the Signet, v. 343, n. 3.

EDINBURGH, Academy for the deaf and dumb, v. 399; Advocates' Library, ii. 216; v. 13, n. 3, 40; Apollo Press, iii. 118; Arthur's Seat, iii. 116; v. 142, n. 2; beggars, v. 75, n. 1; Boyd's Inn, ii. 266; v. 21; Cadies or Cawdies, iv. 129; Canongate, ii. 30; v. 21; capital, a, yet small, ii. 473; carrier to London, ii. 272; Castle, v. 142, n. 2; would make a good prison in England, v. 387; Castle Hill, v. 54, 387; Church of England Chapel, iv. 152, n. 3; v. 27; College, v. 42; College Wynd, v. 24, n. 4; country round it, i. 425; Cow-gate, v. 42; 'dangers of the night,' i. 119, n. i; described by Cockburn, v. 21, n. I; by R. Chambers, v. 39, n. 3, 43, n. 4; dinners in 1742, i. 103, n. 2; Enbru, v. 87; fortifying against the Pretender, v. 49, n. 6; General Assembly, Chamber of the, v. 41, n. 1; Grey Friars churchyard, v. 50, n. 2; Hanoverian faction, v. 21, n. 2; High School, ii. 144, n. 2; v. 80; High Street, v. 22; Holyrood House, iv. 50, n. 2, 101; v. 43; James's Court, v. 22; Johnson arrives, v. 21; starts on his tour, v. 51; returns, v. 385; describes the town, v. 23, n. 2; his lemonade, v. 22; his levee, v. 395; Laigh, v. 40; signatures of the Hanoverian Kings preserved in it, v. 41; laigh-shops, v. 40, n. 2; masquerades, ii. 205, n. i1 New Town designed by Craig, iii. 360; described by Ruskin, v. 68, n. 1; 'obscure corner, an,' ii. 381, n. 1; Papists persecuted in 1780, iii. 427, n. 1; Parliament-close, v. 42; Parliament House, v. 39, 79, n. 1; Post-housestairs, v. 42; Royal Infirmary, v. 42, 43; Select Society, v. 393; streets, the smells and perils of the, v. 22-3; St. David Street, v. 22, n. 2, 28, n. 2; St. Giles, v. 41; St. Giles's churchyard, v. 61, n. 4; Sunday dinner hour, v. 32; theatre, v. 362, n. I; Transactions of the Royal Society, iv. 25, n. 4; University, v. 301, n. 2: See above, College; Wesley visits it, iii. 394; describes the streets, v. 23, n. 1; White Horse Inn, v. 21, n. 2.

HEBRIDES AND THE HIGHLANDS, a M'Queen, v. 135,_ n._ 3; Ainnit, v. 220; ancestors, reciting a series of, v. 237, n. 2; Anoch, v. 135, 185; Ardnamurchan, v. 380, 341; Argyll, Presbyterian Synod of, iii. 133; Armidale, Johnson visits it, v. 147-56; a second time, v. 275-9; arms forbidden, v. 151, n. 1, 212; Arran, v. 99; Auchnasheal, v. 141-2; bag-pipes, v. 315; bards, v. 324, n. 5; Barra, v. 236, 265, 297, n. 1; beer brewed in Iona, v. 338; Benbecula, v. 121; Bernera, v. 145, 319; boats without benches, v. 179, n. 2; bones in the windows of churches, v. 169; books in the houses, v. 136, 149, 158, 166, 181, 261, 265, 285, 287, 294, 302, 314, 323; Borneo, as unknown as, v. 392, n. 6; Bracadale, v. 224; Breacacha, v. 291; breakfast, cheese served up at, v. 167; bridles, want of, v. 345; Broadfoot, v. 156; brogues, v. 162, n. 1; Brolos, iii. 126; _Buy_, v. 341; Caithness, iv. 136; Cameron, v. 365; Campbell-town, v. 284; Camuscross, v. 267; chapels in ruins, v. 170, n, 1; charms for milking the cows, v. 164; chiefs, how addressed, v. 156, n. 3; arbitrary sovereign needful to restrain them, v. 206; attachment to them, v. 337-8; authority destroyed, v. 177; change of system, v. 231; degenerating into rapacious landlords, i. 409, n. 2; v. 27, n. 3, 378; displaced by landlords, iii. 127, 262, n. 2; house should be like a Court, v. 275; people, how they should treat their, v. 143, 250; chieftainship, 'an ideal point of honour,' v. 410; not to be sold, i. 254; children compared with London children, ii. 101; churches, v. 289, n. 1; civility, v. 131, n. 3; Clanranald, v. 121; Clans, their order, ii. 269, 270; claymores, v. 212, 229; climate, v. 173, 377; _cloth_, in the sense of _sail_, v. 283; coin, scarcity of, v. 254; Col, Isle of, Johnson visits it, v. 284-308; castle, v. 292; church in ruins, v. 289; Col's house, v. 291; charter-room in it, v. 327; complaints of trespasses, v. 301; curious custom of the lairds, v. 329; large stone, v. 290, 302; lead mine, v. 302; more boys born than girls, v. 209, n. 3; people and productions, v. 300-1; sandhills, v. 291; storm, v. 304; student of Aberdeen University, v. 301; superstitions, v. 306; mentioned, ii. 275; iii. 246; College of the Templars, v. 224; Colvay, v. 309, n. l; common land in Rasay, v. 171; computation of distances, v. 183; cordiality increased by Boswell's drinking, iii. 330; _Corpach_, v. 227, n. 4; Corrichatachin, Johnson visits it, v. 156-162; a second time, v. 257-65; mentioned, iv. 155; costume of the gentlemen, v. 162, 184; cottages in Sky, v. 256; in Col, v. 293; 'country of saddles and bridles,' not a, v. 375; Cuchillin's well, v. 254; Cuillin, v. 236; Cullen, v. 110; custom-houses, no, in the islands, v. 165, n. 2; dancing, v. 166, 178, 277; dangers of the tour, v. 13, 282, 283, n. 1; deer, freedom to shoot, v. 140; desolation and penury of the islands, v. 377, n. 3; discomforts suffered by travellers, v. 377, n. 2; disgust properly felt at the Hebrides, v. 317; distinctness in narration, general want of, v. 294; drinking in Sky, v. 258, 262; Dun Can, v. 168, 170; Duntulm, v. 148; Dunvegan, description of the castle, v. 207, 223, 233; Johnson visits it, v. 207-234; stays with pleasure, v. 208, 221, 224; mentioned, ii. 275; iii. 271; v. 150; 176, n. 2; Durinish, v. 234; education, want of it in Iona, v. 338, n. 1; Egg, Isle of, ii. 309; English spoken well, v. 136, n. 1; emigration of Highlanders due to rapacious landlords, v. 27, n. 3, 136-7, 148, n. 1, 150, n. 3, 161, 205; dance called _America_, v. 277; early emigrants, v. 299; emigrant ships, v. 180, 212, 236, 277-8; leaves a lasting vacuity, v. 294, n. 1; people getting hardened to it, v. 278; episcopacy, inclined to, v. 162, n. 4; Erse, Irish, similarity to, ii. 156, 347; Nairne, first heard at, v. 117, n. 3; scriptures in it, ii. 27-30, 156, 279, 479; v. 370; other books, ii. 279, 285; Shaw's _Erse Grammar_, iii. 106-7; _Gaelick Dictionary_, iv. 252; songs, v. 117, 162, 178; never explained to Johnson v. 24l; one interpreter found, v, 318, n. 1; written language, not a, iii. 107; written very lately, ii. 297, 309, 347, 383; estates, size of, v. 165, n. 2, 176, n. 2, 412, n. 2; fabulous tradition, v. 171; Fladda, v. 172, 412, n. 2; _forest_, v. 237; Fort Augustus, Johnson visits it, v. 134-5; has a good night there, iii. 99, n. 4, 369; military road, ii. 305; officers who had served in America, iii. 246; v. 135; mentioned, v. 140, 142, 188; Fort George, v. 123-7; fowls, method of catching, v. 179; foxes, price set on their heads, v. 173, n. 2; funerals, v. 235; spirits consumed at them, v. 332; gardens very rare in Sky, v. 237, 261; _gaul_, a plant, v. 174; General's Hut, v. 134; Glencroe, v. 183, n. 2, 341; Glenelg, v. 141, 145-7; Glenmorison, v. 135; Glensheal, v. 140; graddaned meal, v. 167; greyhounds, v. 330, n, 1; Gribon, v. 331; Grishinish, v. 205; Grissipol, v. 289; Harris, v. 176, n. 2, 227, n. 4, 338, n. 1, 410; _Halyin foam'eri_, v. 162, 290; food, v. 133; George III, faithful to, v. 202; grain carried home on horses, v. 235; hereditary occupations, v. 120; heritable jurisdictions, v. 46, n. 1, 177, 343; _Highland Laddie_, v. 184, n. 1; houses of the gentry, small and crowded, v. 160, 262, 291, 321; mire in a bedroom, ib.; huts, v. 132, 136; Icolmkill: See Iona; idleness, v. 218; inaccuracy of their reports, v. 150, n. 2, 237, 324, n. 5, 336; Inchkenneth, Johnson visits it, v. 322-331; Scott's description of it, v. 322, n. 1; Johnson's _Ode_, ii. 293; v. 325; Boswell in the ruined chapel, v. 327; mentioned, v. 310; Indians, not so terrifying as, v. 142; black and wild as savages, v. 143; like wild Indians, v. 257; infidelity in a gentleman, v. 168; inns, v. 134, n. 1, 138, 145-6, 181, 309, 346-7; want of one in Iona, v. 335; interrogated, not used to be, ii. 310, n. 1; Inverary, castle, built by Duke Archibald, v. 345; the total defiance of expense, v. 355; Johnson visits it, v. 346-362; and Wilkes, iii. 73; mentioned, v. 312; Inverness, v. 128-131; Boswell preached at, v. 128; writes to Garrick, v. 347; Johnson buys _Cocker_, v. 138; Inverness-shire, v. 150, n. 3; Iona, Boswell and Johnson visit it, v. 334-338; Johnson wades to the shore, v. 368; his famous description, iii. I73, 455; v. 334; Duke of Argyle present owner, v. 335; building stones from Nuns' Island, v. 333; monuments, v. 336; account of the inhabitants, v. 338; mentioned, ii. 277; v. 317; Irish understood by Highlanders, ii. 156; Isa, v. 249, 286; island, life in an, v. 290, 295; Johnson shows the spirit of a Highlander, v. 324; _Johnson_ and _Johnston_, v. 341; joyous social manners, v. 157; Kingsburgh, Johnson visits it, v. 179, 183-7; sleeps in a celebrated bed, v. 185, 187, 189; Knoidart, v. 149, 190, 199; landlords diminish their people, v. 300; infatuated, v. 294; restraint to be placed on raising the rents, v. 27, n. 3 (See above under chiefs, and below under rents and tenants); law, want of, ii. 126; Leven, River, v. 365, n. 2, 367; Lewis, v. 410; Little Colonsay, iii. 133; little wants of life ill supplied, ii. 303; Loch-Awe, v. 345, n. 1; Loch-Braccadil, v. 236, 253; Lochbradale, v. 212; Lochbroom, v. 194; Lochiern, v. 283; Lochlevin, ii. 283; Loch Lomond, its climate, iii. 382; Johnson visits it, iv. 179; v. 363-4; Loch Ness, v. 132, 297, n. 1; Long Island, v. 187; longevity, no extraordinary, v. 358, n. 1; Lorn, v. 120; Lowlanders scorned, v. 136, n. 1; M'Craas, the, or Macraes, v. 142-3, 225; M'Cruslick, v. 166, n. 2; Macfarlane, Laird of, _the_ Macfarlane, v. 156, n. 3; Macgregors forced to change their name, v. 127, n. 3; mapping of the country, ii. 356; march to Derby, iii. 162; mile stones removed, v. 183, n. 2; ministers, v. 224, n. 2; Moidart, v. 149; money, admission of, iii. 127; Morven, v. 280; Moy, v. 341; Muck, Isle of, v. 225, 249; Mugstot, v. 148, 188, 259; Mull, compared with Fleet Street, iii. 302; Johnson sails for it, v. 279; carried away to Col, v. 281; arrives, v. 308; no post, v. 312, n. 3; ride through it, v. 318; 'a most dolorous country,' ib., 341; a great cave, v. 331-2; _woods_, v. 332; moonlight sail along the coast, v. 333; ferry to Oban, v. 343; Nairne, v. 117; newspaper, sight of a, v. 323; noble animal, v. 400; nomenclature in the Highlands, v. 156, n. 3; Nuns' Island, v. 333; Oban, v. 344; Officers of Justice, want of, v. 177; Orkneys, ii. 119, n. 1; Ostig, Johnson visits it, v. 265-75; parishes, v. 289, n. 1; peat fires first seen at Nairne, v. 117, n. 3; cutting peat, v. 306; periphrastic language, v. 198; Portawherry, v. 338; Portree, v. 180-1, 189, 190, 254, 278; prayer before milking a cow, v. 123; prisons in the lairds' houses, v. 292, 343; _quern_, v. 256; 'raise their clans in London,' iii. 399, n. 3; Rasay, Isle of, approach, v. 164; explored by Boswell, v. 168-74; men out in the '45, v. 171; old castle and new mansion, v. 172; cave, ib.; people never ride, v. 173; animal life, ib.; burnt in '45, v. 174, n. 1; no officers of justice, v. 177; dancing, v. 178; Johnson's praise of the Isle, iii. 128; v. 178, n. 1, 413; the Pretender hides there, v. 190-4; mentioned, ii. 275; v. 150; Rattakin, v. 144; reapers singing, v. 165; reels, iii. 198; regiments raised by Pitt, iii. 198; v. 149-50; rentals, v. 165, n. 2, 176, n. 2; rents paid in bills, v. 254; in kind, ib., n. 2; racked, v. 137, 148, n. 1, 149, 150, n. 3, 205, 221, n. 3, 250; riding in Sky, v. 205; roads, want of, v. 173; soldiers at work on them, v. 136; beginning of one, v. 235, n. 2; sight of one, v. 322; Rona, Isle of, v. 165, 172, 412, n. 2; Rorie More's Cascade, v. 207, 215; Rosedow, v. 363; Ross-shire, v. 150, n. 3; sailors, very unskilful, v. 283, n. 1; _scalch_ or _skalk_, v. 166; Scalpa, v. 162; Sconser, v. 179, 257; second-sight, believed by all the islanders but the clergy, v. 227, n. 3; Boswell's belief, ii. 318; v. 358, 390-1; Dempster's criticism, v. 407; Johnson's curiosity never advanced to conviction, ii. 10, n. 3; 'willing to believe,' ii. 318; hears instances, v. 159-60, 320; loose interpretations, v. 163-4; arguments for and against, v. 407, nn. 3 and 4; _Senachi_, v. 324; sense, native good, v. 147; servants in Sky faithless, v. 167; sheets, want of, in the Highlands, v. 216; shelties, v. 284; _shielings_, v. 141; shops, want of, v. 27, n. 4; Slate, v. 147, 151, 156, 255; sleds, v. 235; Sky, church bells, no, v. 151; Johnson arrives, v. 147; leaves for Rasay, v. 162; returns, v. 180; leaves finally, v. 279; his _Ode_, v. l55; Macdonald, Lady Margaret, beloved there, iii. 383; one justice of the peace, v. 177; price upon the heads of foxes, v. 173, n. 2; Snizort, v. 166; South Uist, v. 236; spades used in Sky, v. 235, 261; Spanish invasion in 1719, v. 140, n. 3; strangers will never settle in the isles, v. 294, n. 1; Strath, v. 156, 195; St. Kilda, Boswell proposes to buy it, ii. 149; cold-catching, ii. 51; v. 278; explanation suggested, ii. 52; fire-penny tax, iii. 243, n. 2; Glasgow, St. Kilda's man at, i. 450; Horace and Virgil studied there, v. 338; Lady Grange a prisoner, v. 227; Macaulay's _History of St. Kilda_, ii. 51; v. 118-9; Martin's _Voyage to St. Kilda_, ii. 51, n. 3, 52, n. 1; poetry, v. 228; Staffa, Johnson sees it at a distance, v. 332; sold, iii. 126, 133; Strathaven, iii. 360; Strichen, v. 107; Strolimus, v. 257; superstitions, v. 306, n. 1; tacksmen, v. 156, n. 3, 205, n. 3; tailors, v. 226; _taiscks_, v. 160; Talisker, Johnson visits it, v. 250-56, 266, n. 2, 306, 383; Tarbat, v. 363; targets, v. 212; tartan dress prohibited, v. 162, n. 2; Teigh Franchich, v. 293; tenants, combination among them, v. 150, n. 3; dependent on their landlords, v. 177, n. 1; fine on marriage, v. 320-1; Thurot's descent on some of the isles, iv. 101, n. 4; Tobermorie, v. 308-10, 332; tradition, not to be argued out of a, v. 303; translate their names in the Lowlands, v. 341, n. 4; trusted, little to be, ii. 310; turnips introduced, v. 293; Tyr-yi, v. 209, n. 3, 287, 3l2; Ulinish, v. 224; Johnson visits it, v. 235-48; sees a subterraneous house, v. 236; and cave, v. 237; gleanings of his conversation there, v. 249, 389; Ulva's Isle sold, iii. 133; Johnson visits it, v. 319-22; violence, Johnson and Boswell fear, v. 139-40; waves, size of the, v. 251, n. 2; _wawking_ cloth, v. 178; wheat bread never tasted by the M'Craas, v. 142; wheel-carriages, no, v. 235, n. 2; whisky served in a shell, v. 290; whistling, a gentleman shows his independence by, v. 358; 'Who _can_ like the Highlands?' v. 377; _wood_, bushes called, v. 250; heath, v. 332; wretchedness of the people in 1810 and 1814, v. 338, n. 1; Zetland, v. 338, n. 1. _Scots Magazine_. See under SCOTLAND. SCOTSMAN, a violent, iii. 170. SCOTT, Archibald, i. 117, n. 1. SCOTT, Mr. Benjamin, iii. 459. SCOTT, George Lewis, iii. 117. SCOTT, John, afterwards first Earl of Eldon, Boswell, never mentioned by, iii. 261, n. 2; trick played on, ib.; and taste, ii. 191, n. 2; church-going, iv. 414, n. 1; deathwarrants, iii. 121, n. 1; Dunning's way of getting through business, iii. 128, n. 5; George III, on the making of baronets, ii. 354, n. 2; Heberden's, Dr., kindness to him, iv. 228, n. 2; Johnson's visit to Oxford in 1773, ii. 268, n. 2; Lee, 'Jack,' on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1; on the India Bill, iii. 224, n. 1; Norton, Sir Fletcher, character of, ii. 472, n. 2; Oxford tutor, unwilling to be an, iv. 92, n. 2; Pitt on the honesty of mankind, iii. 236, n. 3; port, liking for, iv. 91, n. 2; Porteus, Bishop, on knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2; retirement, after his, ii. 337, n. 4; Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2; sermons written by Lord Stowell, v. 67, n. 1; small certainties, ii. 323, n. 1; Taylor, Chevalier, anecdote of the, iii. 389, n. 4; Warton's, Rev. T., lectures, i. 279, n. 2; Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4. SCOTT, Mrs. John (Lady Eldon), ii. 268, n. 2. SCOTT, John, of Amwell, _Elegies_, ii. 351; meets Johnson, ii. 338; dread of small-pox, ib., n. 1. SCOTT, Sir Walter, Abel Sampson, a _probationer_, ii. 171, n. 3; _accommodate_, v. 310, n. 3; Auchinleck, Lord, anecdote of, v. 382, n. 2; birth, v. 24, n. 4; Blair, mistaken about, v. 361, n. 1; Boswell and the Douglas Cause, v. 353, n. 1; spoils one of his anecdotes, v. 396, n. 4; Burns, sees, v. 42, n. 1; Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2; charms in the Hebrides, v. 164, n. 1; clans, order of the, ii. 270, n. 1; coursing, v. 330, n. 1; Culloden, cruelties after, v. 196, n. 3; _Detector's_ letter to him, i. 230, n. 1; _Dirleton's Doubts_, iii. 205, n. 1; Dunvegan Castle, v. 2O7, n, 2, 208, n. 1, 233, n. 1; Errol, Earls of, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1; Erskine, Dr., v. 391, n. 3; Finnon haddocks, v. 110, n. 2; Forbes's generosity to him, v. 253, n. 3; Forbes, Sir W., lines on, v. 25, n. 1; Grange, Lady, v. 227, n. 4; halls of old Scotch houses, v. 60, n. 5; _Hardyknute_, ii. 91, n. 2; Highlands, discomforts in the, v. 377, n. 2; Highlanders forbidden to carry arms, v. 151, n. 1; Home's tragedies, ii. 320, n. 1; hospitality, old-fashioned, iv. 222, n. 2; humble-cow, v. 380, n. 3; Inch Keith, v. 55, n. 3; Inchkenneth, v. 322, n. 1; Iona, v. 338, n. 1; Johnson and Auchinleck, Lord, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2; and Boswell's voyage highly perilous, v. 283, n. 1, 313, n. 1; definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8; on dinners, v. 342, n. 2; at Dunvegan, v. 208, n. 1; and _Johnston_, v. 341, n. 4; _Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, v. 157, n. 3; and Pot, iv. 5, n. 1; the 'Sassenach More,' ii. 267, n. 2; and the Scotch love of planting trees, ii. 301, n. 1; and Adam Smith, inaccuracy about, v. 369, n. 5; Kames, Lord, ii. 200, n. 1; Lovat's monument, v. 235, n. 1; Mackenzie, Sir George, v. 212, n. 3; Mackenzie, Henry, i. 360, n. 2; Maclaurin's mottoes, iii. 212, n. 1; _Marmion_ quoted, iv. 217, n. 2; Mickle's _Cumnor Hall_, v. 349, n. 1; Monboddo, Lord, ii. 74, n. 1; v. 77, n. 3, 78, n. 2; Nairne, William, v. 53, n. 3; _Ossian_, v. 164, n. 2; Pitcairne's poetry, v. 58, n. 1; Pleydell, Mr. Counsellor, ii. 376, n. 1; v. 22, n. 2; _Redgauntlet_, introduction, i. 146, n. 2; Reynolds and Sunday painting, iv. 414, n. 1; Roslin Chapel, v. 402, n. 4; scarcity of coin in the Hebrides, v. 254, n. 1; Scotticism, a, v. 15, n. 4; second sight, v. 159, n. 3; sheep's-head, v. 342, n. 2; Southey, letter from, v. 40, n. 3; Tobermory, v. 309, n. 1; _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3; Walpole's _History of his own Time_, v. 212, n. 3; _waulking the cloth_, v. 178, n. 2; Woodhouselee, Lord, v. 387, n. 4; writers to the Signet and Sir A. Maclean, v. 343, n. 3; Young's parody of Johnson's style, iv. 392, n. 1. SCOTT, Dr., afterwards Sir William Scott, and Lord Stowell; Blackstone's bottle of port, iv. 91; Boswell, describes, v. 52, n. 6; Coulson, Rev. Mr., ii. 381, n. 2; v. 459, n. 4; Crosbie, Andrew, ii. 376, n. 1; dinner at his chambers, iii. 261; exercise of eating and drinking, iv. 91, n. 2; Johnson, accompanies, to Edinburgh, i. 462; v. 16, 20-22, 24, 27, 32; to the scene of the Gordon Riots, iii. 429; bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; on conversions, ii. 105; epitaph, iv. 444-5; executor, iv. 402, n. 2; friendship with, ii. 25, n. 2; v. 21; gown, i. 347, n. 2; horror at the sight of the bones of a whale, v. 169, n. 1; on innovation, iv. 188; as a member of parliament, ii. 137, n. 3, 139; mezzotinto, possesses, iv. 421, n. 2; presents it to University College, iii. 245, n. 3; might have been Lord Chancellor, iii. 309; lectures at Oxford, gave, iv. 92; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; 'Ranelagh girl,' describes a, iii. 199, n. 1; sermons, a writer of, v. 67, n. 1; University College, fellow of, ii. 440; mentioned, iv. 344; v. 51. SCOTT, Mr., 'You, and I, and Hercules,' iv. 45, n. 3. SCOTTICISMS, Guthrie's, i. 118, n. 1; Hume's short collection, ii. 72: See under BOSWELL, Scotch accents. _Scottifying_, v. 55. SCOUNDREL, applied to a clergyman's wife, ii. 456, n. 3; Johnson's use of the term, iii. 1. _Scoundrelism_, v. 106. SCRASE, Mr., v. 455, n. 3. SCREEN, Johnson dines behind one, i. 163, n. 1. SCRIPTURE PHRASES, ii. 213. SCRIPTURES, in Erse: See under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, Erse; evidence for their truth: See under CHRISTIANITY. SCRIVENERS, iii. 21, n. 1. SCROFULA, i. 41. SCRUB in the _Beaux Stratagem_, iii. 70. SCRUPLES, Baxter's, ii. 477; Johnson afraid of them, ii. 421; distracted by them, ii. 476; no friend to them, v. 62; warns against them, ii. 423; people load life with them, ii. 72, n. 1. _Scrupulosity_, iv. 5. SCYTHIANS, v. 224. SEA, feeling its motion after landing, v. 285. SEA-LIFE. See SAILORS and SHIPS. SEAFORD, first Lord, iv. 176, n. 1; v. 142. SEAFORTH, Lord, v. 227, n. 4. SEASONS, forgotten in London, iv. 147; their influence: See under WEATHER. SECKER, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 'decent,' i. 508; ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1; described by H. Walpole, iv. 29, n. 1; Johnson requested to seek his patronage, i. 368; _Life_, iv. 29; _Reports of Debates_, i. 507; sermon quoted, i. 33; toast of church and king, iv. 29. SECOND SIGHT, in Wales, ii. 150. See under SCOTLAND, HEBRIDES, second sight. SECTARY, a religious, ii. 472. SEDUCTION, imaginary case of, iii. 18. SEED, Rev. Jeremiah, iii. 248. _Seeking after_, iii. 314. SEGUED, Emperor of Abyssinia, i. 87, 340, n. 3. SELDEN, John, knowledge varied, ii. 158; Table-talk, v. 311, 414; mentioned, iv. 23, n. 3; v. 225, n. 3. SELECTIONS FROM AUTHORS, Johnson disapproves of them, iii. 29. SELF-IMPORTANCE, iii. 171. SELWIN, Mr., iii. 166, n. 3. SELWYN, George, Beauclerk at Venice, i. 381, n. 1. _Semel insanivimus omnes_, iv. 182. SENATE OF LILLIPUT. See under DEBATES. SENECA, iii. 296, n. 1; v. 296. _Senectus_, iii. 344. SENEGAL, v. 98, n. 1. _Senilia_, iv. 2. SENSATIONS, 'la theorie des sensations agreables,' i. 344. _Sentimental Journey_. See STERNE. SENTIMENTALISTS, iii. 149, n. 2. SERFS IN SCOTLAND. See SCOTLAND, serfs. _Serious Call_. See LAW, William. SERJEANTSON, Rev. James, iv. 393, n. 3. SERMONS, attended to better than prayers, ii. 173; considerable branch of literature, iv. 105; Johnson's advice about their composition, iii. 437; v. 68; his opinion of the best, iii. 247 (See under JOHNSON, sermons); passions, addressed to the, iii. 248; style, improvement in, iii. 248. SERVANTS, male and female, ii. 217. SERVITORS. See OXFORD. SESSIONAL REPORTS. See OLD BAILEY. SETTLE, Elkanah, City-Poet, iii. 76; Dryden's rival, ib.; mentioned, i. 55. SETTLEMENT OF ESTATES, ii. 432. _Seven Champions of Christendom_, iv. 8, n. 3. SEVEN PROVINCES, i. 475. SEVERITY, government by, ii. 186. SEVIGNE, Mme. de, existence, the task of, iii. 53; misprints of her name, iii. 53, n. 2; Pelisson, her friend, i. 90, n. 1; style copied by Gray and Walpole, iii. 31, n. 1; truthfulness on a death-bed, v. 397, n. 1. SEWARD, Miss Anna, _Acis and Galatea_, quotation from, iii. 242, n. 2; Boswell introduced to her, ii. 467; calls on her, iii. 412; controversy with her, i. 92, n. 2; ii. 467, n. 4; iv. 331, n. 2; dines at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 284-300; fanciful reflection, i. 40, n. 3; ghosts, iii. 297; Hayley, correspondence with, iv. 331, n. 2; Johnson and the learned pig, iv. 373; praises her poetry, iv. 331; _Ode on the death of Captain Cook_, iv. 331; mentioned, iv. 307, 372, n. 4. SEWARD, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield, account of him, ii. 467; iii. 151; valetudinarian, iii. 152, 412; mentioned, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 471. SEWARD, William, F.R.S., account of him, iii. 123; Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2; Harington's _Nugae Antiquae_, suggests a motto for, iv. 180; Johnson and Bacon, iii. 194; bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198; epitaph, iv. 423, n, 3, 445; on the Ministry and Opposition, iv. 139; recommends him to Boswell, iii. 124; tetrastrick on Goldsmith, translates, ii. 282, n. 1; Langton's ancestor and Sir M. Hale, iv. 310, n. 2; Parr, Dr., letter from, iv. 423, n. 3; people without religion, iv. 215; retired tradesman, anecdote of a, iii. 176, n. 1; Scotland, visits, iii. 123-4, 126; mentioned, i. 367; ii. 76, 308; iii. 167, 354; iv. 43, 83, n. 1, 444. SEXES, equality in another world, iii. 287; intercourse between the two, ii. 473; iii. 341; irregular, should be punished, iii. 17. SHAFTESBURY, fourth Earl of, i. 464. SHAKESPEARE, William, Boar's Head Club, v. 247; 'Boswell,' needed a, v. 415; 'brought into notice,' ii. 92; Capel's edition, iv. 5; Catharine of Aragon, character of, iv. 242; Congreve, compared with, ii. 85-7, Corneille and the Greek dramatists, compared with, iv. 16 diction of common life, iii. 194 Dogberry boasting of his losses, i. 65, n. 1; editions published between 1725-1751, v. 244, n. 2; fame, his, iii. 263; fault, never six lines without a, ii. 96; Hamlet's description of his father, iv. 72, n. 3; the ghost, iv. 16, n. 2; v. 38, (see below under Johnson's edition); Hanmer's edition, i. 178, n. 1; imitations, ii. 225, n. 2; Johnson's admiration of him, ii. 86, n. 1; Johnson's edition, account of it, _Proposals_, i. 175, n. 3, 318, 327; delayed, i. 176, 319, 322, 327, 329, 496, n. 3; ii. 1, n. 1; subscribers, i. 319, n. 3, 323, 327, 336, 499; list lost and money spent, iv. 111; published, i. 496; went through several editions, ii. 204; re-published by Steevens, ii. 114, 204; attacked by Churchill, i. 319-320; confesses his ignorance where ignorant, i. 327; edited it from necessity, iii. 19, n. 3; Garrick not mentioned, ii. 92; reflection on him, ii. 192; Kenrick's attack, i. 497; newspaper criticisms, ii. notes on two passages in _Hamlet_, iii. 55; preface, i. 496, 497, n. 3; Warburton criticised, i. 329; Warton, J. and T., notes by, i. 335; ii. 114-5; Johnson's _Prologue_, iv. 25; Jubilee, ii. 68; Ladies' Shakespeare Club, v. 244, n. 2; Latin, knowledge of, iv. 18; _Macbeth_, description of night, ii. 90; never read through by Mrs. Pritchard, ii. 349; speech to the witches, v. 76, 115; castle, v. 129, 348; worse for being acted, ii. 92; Malone's edition, i. 8; iv. 142, 181, n. 3; mulberry tree, i. 83, n. 4; Mulberry Tree, a poem i. 101; name omitted in an _Essay on the English Poets_, i. 140; night, descriptions of, ii. 87, 90; _Othello_, dialogue between Iago and Cassio, iii. 41; moral, iii. 39; plays worse for being acted, ii. 92; representations of his plays, v. 244, n. 2; Reynolds's note on Macbeth's castle, v. 129; _Romeo and Juliet_ neglected, v. 244, n. 2; altered by Otway and Garrick, ib. Shakspeare, _Mr._ William, iv. 325, n. 3; _Shakespearian ribbands_, ii. 69; spelling of his name, v. 124; style ungrammatical, iv. 18, n. 2; terrifies the lonely reader, i. 70; Timon's scolding, iv. 26; tragedies inferior to Home's _Douglas_, ii. 320, n. 1; Warburton's edition, i. 175, 176, n. 1, 329; witches, iii. 382; quotations _As you Like it_, iii. 2. 210-iii. 255, n. 4 _Coriolanus_, iii. 1 325-iii. 256, n. 1; iv. 4, 5-i. 263, n. 3; _Cymbeline_, iii. 3. 38-iii. 450; iv. 2. 261-iv. 235, n. 1; _Hamlet_, i. 2. 133-v. 155, n. 1; i. 2 185-iv. 335, n. 3; i. 3. 41-iii. 178, n. 3; iii. 1. 56-v. 279, n. 2; iii. 1. 78-ii. 298, n. 3; iii. 2. 40-ii. 159, n. 5; iii. 2. 68-ii. 384; iii. 2 371-ii. 291, n. 2; iii. 4. 60-v. 19, n. 3; iii. 4. 63-i. 118; _1 Henry IV_, v. 4. 161-i. 250; _2 Henry IV_, i. 2. 9-iv. 178, n. 5; iii. 1. 9-v. 140, n. 2; iii. 2. 67-v. 310, n. 3; iv. 1 179-iv. 406, n. 1; _1 Henry VI_, i. 2. 12-v. 284, n. 1; _2 Henry VI_, iii. 3. 29-v. 113, n. 1; iv. 2. 141-iii. 51, n. 1; _Henry VIII_, iii. 2. 358-i. 315, n. 3; iv. 2. 51—67-iv. 71, n. 3; iv. 2. 76-i. 24; _Julius Caesar_, i. 2. 92-i. 180, n. 1 _King Lear_, ii. 2. 17-iv. 26, n. 2; ii. 2. 160-ii. 446, n. 3; ii. 4. 18-iii. 381, n. 1; iii. 4. 140-v. 145, n. 1; _Love's Labour Lost_, ii. 1. 66-iv. 97, n. 1; _Macbeth_, i. 3. 72-v. 119, n. 4; ii. 2. 12-ii. 322; ii. 3. 91-i. 299; ii. 4. 12-i. 263, n. 3; iii. 4. 17-ii. 472, 1; v. 3. 40-iv. 400, n. 2; v. 5. 23-ii. 92, n. 2; v. 8. 30-v. 347, n. 5; _Measure for Measure_, iii. 1. 115-iv. 399, n. 6; iv. 3. e-iii. 196, n. 1; _Much Ado about Nothing_, iii. 5. 35-iii. 287, n. 2; _Othello_, ii. 1. 59-ii. 408; iii. 3. 165-v. 30, n. 3; iii. 3. 346-iii. 347, n. 3; v. 2. 345-v. 416, n. 1; _Rape of Lucrece_, l. IIII, iv. 181, n. 3; _Richard II_, i. 3. 309-i. 129, n. 3; ii. 300; iv. 191; v. 20; _Romeo and Juliet_, ii. 2. 115-ii. 85; v. i. 40-ii. 148; _Taming of the Shrew_, i. 1. 39-i. 428, n. 1; _Tempest_, i. 2. 355-iv. 5, n. 3; iv. 1. l0-iv. 25, n. 3; iv. 1. 53-ii. 467, n. 1. _Shakespeare Illustrated_, i. 255. _'Sh'apprens t'etre vif,'_ ii. 463. SHARP, James, Archbishop of St. Andrews, v. 39, n. 2, 61, 65, 68. SHARP, John, Archbishop of York, i. 452, n. 2. SHARP, Dr. John, i. 487, 517. SHARP, J., ii. 69, n. 1. SHARP, Miss, v. 68. SHARP, Samuel, _Letters from Italy_, ii. 57, n. 2; iii. 55. SHARPE, Rev. Gregory, ii. 130. SHARPE, Mr., a surgeon, i. 357. SHAVERS, a thousand, iii. 163. SHAVINGTON HALL, v. 433, n. 2. SHAW, Cuthbert, account of him, ii. 31; tutor to Lord Chesterfield, iii. 140, n. 1. SHAW, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64, 68, 70. SHAW, Dr. Thomas, iv. 112. SHAW, Rev. William, _Erse Grammar_, iii. 106, 107; _Proposals_ written by Johnson, ib.; pamphlet on _Ossian_, iv. 252-3; mentioned, iii. 214. _She Stoops to Conquer_. See GOLDSMITH. SHEBBEARE, Dr. John, _Battista Angeloni_, iv. 113; Boswell becomes acquainted with him, iv. 112; praises him, iii. 315; iv. 113; Johnson, joined with, in the _Heroic Epistle_, v. 113; and in parliament, iv. 318, n. 3; _Letters on the English Nation_, iv. 113; _Letters to the People of England_, iii. 315, n. 1; iv. 113; libel, tried for, iii. 15, n. 3; payment as a reviewer, iv. 214; pension, ii. 112, n. 3; iii. 79, n. 1; pillory, sentenced to the, iii. 315: iv. 113, n. 1; 'She-bear,' iv. 113, n. 2. SHEET OF A REVIEW, iv. 214, n. 2. SHEFFIELD, Lord. _See _HOLROYD, John. SHEFFORD, iv. 131. SHELBURNE, second Earl of (afterwards first Marquis of Lansdowne), Bentham praises him as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4; Bolingbroke, Lord, i. 268, n. 3; Burke, speaks with malignity of, iv. 191, n. 4; Bute's, Lord, character, ii. 353, n. 1, 363, n. 4; Chambers, Sir R., ii. 264, n. 1; Chatham's, Lord, opinion of schools, iii. 12, n. 1; coarse manners, iv. 174; Crown—its power increased by Lord Bute, iii. 416, n. 2; Douglas, last Duke of, v. 43, n. 4; Douglas, Lord, ii. 230, n. 1; Dunning and Lord Loughborough, iii. 240, n. 3; economy, rules of, iii. 265; education, iii. 36, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3; Fitzpatrick's brother-in-law, iii. 388, n. 3; French—their superficial knowledge, ii. 363, n. 4; George III, letter from, iii. 241, n. 2; Ingenhousz, Dr., ii. 427, n. 4; 'Jesuit of Berkeley Square,' iv. 174, n. 5; Johnson's character of him, iv. 174; intimacy with him, iv. 191, 192, n. 2; King, Dr. William, i. 279, n. 5; 'Lord, his parts pretty well for a,' iii. 35; Lowther the miser, v. 112, n. 4; _Malagrida_, iv. 174; Mansfield, Lord, in the copyright case, 1. 437, n. 2; at Oxford, ii. 194, n. 3; untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2; ministry, iv. 158, n. 4, 170, n. 1, 174, n. 3; peace of 1782-3, iv. 158, n. 4, 282, n. 1; petition for his impeachment, ii. 90, n. 5; portrait by Reynolds, iv. 174, n. 5; Price, Dr., iv. 434; Priestley's account of the company at his house, iv. 191, n. 4; Scotch—their superficial knowledge, ii. 363, n. 4; untruthfulness, ii. 296, n. 2, 301, n. 5; painstaking habits, ib.; Secretary of State at the age of twenty-nine, iii. 36, n. 1; Streatham, rents Mrs. Thrale's house at, iv. 158, n. 4; Tories and Jacobites, i. 429, n. 4; Townsend, Alderman, iii. 460; iv. 175, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 177, n. 1. SHELLEY, Lady, iv. 159, n. 3. SHENSTONE, William, Dodsley's _Cleone_, the sale of, i. 325, n. 3; hair, wore his own, i. 94, n. 5; 'I prized every hour,' &c., iv. 145, n. 6; inn, lines in praise of an, ii. 452; Johnson, admiration of, ii. 452; account of him, v. 267, 457, nn. 2 and 4; estimate of his poems, ii. 452; writes to him, v. 268, n. 1; layer-out of land, v. 267; Leasowes, v. 457; letters, his, v. 268; London streets in 1743, i. 163, n. 2; _Love Pastorals_, v. 267; Pembroke College, member of, i. 75; iv. 151, n. 2; pension, v. 457; Pope's condensation of thought, v. 345; 'She gazed as I slowly withdrew,' v. 267; witty remark on divines and the tree falling, iv. 226. SHERIDAN, Charles, iii. 284. SHERIDAN, Mrs. Frances, wife of Thomas Sheridan the son, i. 358, 386, n. 1, 389. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (grandson of Dr. Thomas Sheridan and son of Thomas Sheridan), birth, i. 358, n. 2; Comedies, dates of his, iii. 116, n, 1; _Duenna_, run of the, iii. 116, n. 1; father, estranged from his, i. 388, n. 1; despises his oratory, i. 394, n. 2; funeral, i. 227, n. 4; Johnson, compliments, in a Prologue, iii. 115; praises his comedies, iii. 116; projects an attack on, ii. 315, n. 3; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; election, iii. 116; present, iii. 230, n. 5; marriage, ii. 369; Round-Robin, signs the, iii. 83; _Sydney Biddulph_ and _The School for Scandal_, i. 390, n. 1. SHERIDAN, Dr. Thomas (the father), anecdote of Swift and a country-squire, iv. 295, n. 5; 'Sherry,' ii. 258, n. 1. SHERIDAN, Thomas (the son, father of R. B. Sheridan), Addison's loan to Steele, iv. 91; America, threatens to go to, iv. 2l5; Boswell's instructor in pronunciation, ii. 159; puns with, iv. 316; conversation, ii. 122; _Dictionary_, ii. 161; Dublin Theatre, i. 386; dull naturally, i. 453; _Earl of Essex_, iv. 312, n. 5; formal endings of letters, criticises, v. 239; good, but a liar, iv. 167; Home's gold medal, ii. 320; v. 360; house in Bedford Street, i. 485, n. 1; insolvent debtor, iii. 377; Irish Parliament compliments him, iii. 377; Johnson, account of, i. 385; antipathy to the Scotch, iv. 169; attack on Swift, iv. 61; v. 44, n. 3; describes his acting, i. 358; ii. 88; his reading, iv. 207; pension, i. 374; quarrels with, i. 385; iii. 115; attacks him, i. 388; ii. 88; irreconcileable, i. 387; iv. 222, 330; _Lectures on the English Language_, i. 385 (See below, Oratory); lies of vanity, iv. 167; _Life of Swift_, i. 388; ii. 88, 319, n. 1; miser, maintains the happiness of a, iii. 322; 'Old Mr. Sheridan,' iv. 207, n. 1; oratory, at Bath, i. 394; at Dublin, ib., n. 2; described by Dr. Parr, ib.; despised by his son, ib.; laughed at by Johnson, i. 453; ii. 87; iv. 222; 'enthusiastic about it as ever,' iv. 207; pension, i. 385-6; 'Sherry derry,' ii. 258; son's marriage, his, ii. 369; quarrels with him, i. 388, n. 1; Wedderburne, taught, i. 386; found him ungrateful, iii. 2; vanity and Quixotism, ii. 128. SHERLOCK, Dr., _On Providence_, iv. 300, n. 2; style elegant, iii. 248; mentioned, iv. 311. SHERLOCK, Rev. Martin, iv. 320, n. 4. SHERWIN, J. K., iii. 111. SHIELS, R., Johnson's amanuensis, i. 187, 241; share in Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_, i. 187; iii. 29-31, 37, 117. SHIP, worse than a gaol, i. 348; ii. 438; v. 137, 249; misery of the sailors' quarters, iii. 266; hospital, ib,, n. 2; worse than a Highland inn, v. 147. See SAILORS. _Ship of Fools_, i. 277. SHIPLEY, Bishop of St. Asaph, army chaplain, an, iii. 251; v. 445; assemblies, his, iv. 75, n. 3; Franklin, Dr., a friend of, iv. 246, n. 4; Johnson dines with him in Passion-week, iv. 88, n. 1; visits his palace, v. 437; knowing and conversible, iii. 250, n. 2; iv. 246; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; election, iv. 75, n. 3; present, iv. 326; Reynolds's dinner, at, iii. 250-5; rout, at a, iv. 75; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 48, n. 1. SHIRT, changes of, v. 60; clean-shirt days, i. 105. SHOE-BUCKLES, iii. 325; v. 19. SHOP-KEEPERS, of London, v. 81, 83. SHOPS, a stately one, iv. 319; turn the balance of existence, v. 27, n. 4. SHORE, Jane, v. 49, n. 2. SHORT-HAND, i. 136; ii. 224; iii. 270. SHREWSBURY, Circuit, ii. 194; Johnson visits it, v. 454-5; mentioned, ii. 441. SHROPSHIRE, i. 39, n. 1. SHRUBBERY, a, iv. 128. _Shuckford's Connection_, iv. 311. SIAM, King of, iii. 336. _Sibbald, Life of Sir Robert_, iii. 227. _Sicilian Gossips_, iv. 2. SICK MAN, consolation in finding himself not neglected, iv. 234; duty of telling him the truth, iv. 306; impossible to please, iv. 311; his thoughts, iv. 362. SICK WOMAN, church service for a, v. 444. SICKNESS, at a friend's house, iv. 181. SIDDONS, Mrs., described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 103, n. 1; Johnson, visits, iv. 242; Reynolds compliments her, ib., n. 2; in _The Stranger_, iv. 244, n. 1. _Side_, ii. 155. SIDNEY, Algernon, ii. 210. SIDNEY, Sir Philip, as an authority for a _Dictionary_, iii. 194, n. 2; misprint in a quotation from him, iii. 131, n. 2. _Sidney Biddulph_, i. 358, n. 4, 389. _Siege_, a popular title for a play, iii. 259, n. 1; v. 349, n. 1. _Siege of Aleppo_, iii. 259, n. 1. _Siege of Marseilles_, v. 349, n. 1. SIENNA, iv. 373, n. 1. SIGHT of great buildings, ii. 385, 393. SIGNS, conversation by, ii. 247. SILENCE of Carthusians, absurd, ii. 435. SILK, v. 216. SILK-MILL, iii. 164. SILVER BUCKLES, iii. 325. SIMCO, John, iv. 421, n. 2. SIMILE, when made by the ancients, iii. 73. SIMPSON, Joseph, account of him, iii. 28; Johnson's letter to him, i. 346; mentioned, i. 488; ii. 476. SIMPSON, Thomas, the mathematician, i. 351, n. 1. SIMPSON, Rev. Mr., iii. 359. SIMPSON, Mr., of Lichfield (father of Joseph Simpson), i. 81, 346. SIMPSON, Mr., Town-clerk of Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 2. SIMPSON, Mr., of Lincoln, ii. 16. SIMPSON, Mr., owner of a vessel, v. 279-284, 286. SIN, balancing sins against virtues, iv. 398; heinous, ii. 172; original, iv. 123. SINCLAIR, Sir John, iv. 136. SINCLAIR, Robert, iii. 335, n. 1. SINCLAIR, Mr., stabbed by Savage, i. 125, n. 4. SINGULARITY, Johnson's dislike of it, ii. 74, n. 3; making people stare, ii. 74; the gentleman in _The Spectator_, ii. 75. See under AFFECTATION. SINNERS, chief of, iv. 294. SION HOUSE, iii. 400, n. 2. _Sister, The_, iv. 10, n. 1. SIXTEEN-STRING JACK, iii. 38. SIXTUS QUINTUS, V. 239. SKENE, General, v. 142, n. 2. SKENE, Sir John, iii. 414, n. 3. SKINNER, Stephen, i. 186. SLANDER, action for, iii. 64. SLATER, Mr., the druggist, iii. 68. SLAUGHTER'S COFFEE-HOUSE, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15. SLAVES and SLAVERY, Bathurst, Dr., on it, iv. 28; Boswell's justification of it, iii. 200, 203-5, 212; drivers of negroes, iii. 201; England's guilt, ii. 479; Georgia, i. 127, n. 4; Grainger's _Sugar Cane_, i. 481, n. 4; Johnson's hatred of it, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-4; toast to an insurrection, ii. 478; iii. 200; religious education, ii. 27, n. 1; Slavetrade, abolition of it attempted, iii. 203-4; England's hypocrisy in upholding it, ii. 480; London Alderman's defence of it, iii. 203, n. 1; Walpole's, Horace, hatred of slavery, iii. 200, n. 4. See KNIGHT, Joseph, SOMERSET, James, and under SCOTLAND, serfs. SLEEP, quantity needful, iii. 169; sleep-walking, v. 46. SLEEPLESSNESS, 'light a candle and read,' iv. 409, n. 1. SLOE, 'bringing the sloe to perfection,' ii. 78. SLUYS, iii. 447. SMALBROKE, Dr., i. 134. SMALRIDGE, George, Bishop of Bristol, iii. 248. SMART, Christopher (Kit), account of him, i. 306, n. 1; Derrick, compared with, iv. 192; _Hop Garden_, ii. 454, n. 3; madness, i. 397; ii. 345; _Rambler_, praises the, i. 208, n. 3; _Universal Visitor_, contract about the, ii. 345; Johnson wrote for him, ib.; mentioned, iv. 183, n. 2. SMART, Mrs. Christopher, Johnson's letters to her, in. 454! iv. 358, n. 2. SMART, Mrs. Newton, iv. 8, n. 3. SMELT, Mr., iv. i, n. 1. SMITH, Adam, absence of mind, iv. 24, n. 2; Barnard's verses, mentioned iii, iv. 433; blank verse, dislikes, i. 427; Boswell attends his lectures, v. 19; praised by him, ib., n. 1; attacks his _alliance_ with Hume, v. 30, n. 3; bounty on corn, iii. 232, n. 1; on herring-busses, v. 161, n. 1; composed slowly, v. 66, n. 3; conversation, iii. 307, n. 2; iv. 24, n. 2; decisive professorial manner, iv. 24; Glasgow and Brentford, iv. 186; v. 369; gold, importation of, iv. 104, n. 3; 'hotbed of genius,' raised in a, ii. 53, n. 1; Hume's _Dialogues on Natural Religion_, i. 268, n. 4; letter from, iv. 194, n. 1; _Life_, iii. 119; v. 30-2, 369, n. 5; suggested knocking of his head against, iii. 119; Johnson, altercation with, iii. 331; imaginary altercation, v. 369, n. 5; compared with, iv. 24, n. 2; Dictionary_, reviews, i. 298, n. 2; knowledge of books, i. 71; meeting with, i. 427; preface to his _Shakespeare_, i. 496, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; iii. 128, n. 4; elected when the club had 'lost its select merit,' ii. 430, n. 1; Macdonald, Sir J., death of, i. 449, n. 2; Macpherson's _Ossian_, ii. 302, n. 2; Milton's shoe-latchets, v. 19; Oxford student, i. 503; iv. 391, n. 1; philosophers and porters, i. 102, n. 2; Professor of Logic, v. 369, n. 2; Professor of Moral Philosophy, v. 369, n. 3; Select Society, member of the, v. 393, n. 4; _Theory of Moral Sentiments_, v. 30, n.; Universities, reflection on English, iii. 13, n. 1, 14, n. 1; iv. 391. n. 1. _Wealth of Nations_, publication of, ii. 429-30; condemned by the Inquisition, i. 465, n. 1; Johnson's ignorance of it, ii. 430, n. 1; valued by Boswell, v. 30, n. 3. SMITH, Captain, iii. 362. SMITH, Edmund, expulsion from Oxford, ii. 187, n. 3; _Life, quoted, i. 75, n. 5, 81; lines on Pococke, iii. 269. SMITH, General, Foote's _Nabob,_ iii. 23, n. 1. SMITH, 'Gentleman,' the actor, ii. 208, n. 5. SMITH, John, Lord Chief Baron, iv. 152, n. 3; v. 27. SMITH, Rev. Mr., vicar of Southill, iv. 126, 330. SMITH, Sydney, v. 360, n. 1. SMITH, William, Bishop of Lincoln, v. 445, n. 3. SMITH, Mr., ii. 116. SMOKING, gone out, v. 60; sedative effect, i. 317; v. 60. SMOLLETT, Commissary, 'solid talk,' v. 365; monument to Dr. Smollett, v. 366. SMOLLETT, Dr. Tobias, Blackfriars Bridge, praises, i. 351, n. 1; British coffee-house club, iv. 179, n. 1; Churchill, attacked by, i. 419, n. 1; _Critical Review_, edits the, iii. 32, n. 2; attacks Griffiths and the _Monthly_, ib.; Cumming the Quaker, v. 98, n. 1; epitaph, v. 367; feudal system, v. 106, n. 3; French houses, ii. 388, n. 2; meat and cookery, ii. 402, n. 2; _valets de place_, ii. 398, n. 2; grumbler, a great, as a traveller, iii. 236, n. 2; Hamilton the bookseller, ii. 226, n. 3; heritable jurisdictions, v. 177, n. 1; _Humphry Clinker_ described by H. Walpole, i. 351, n. 1; Johnson's _Debates_, i. 505-6; Johnson and he 'never cater-cousins,' i. 349; Londoners and the Battle of Culloden, v. 196, n. 3; Lyttelton, Lord, afraid of him, iii. 33; monument, v. 366; Johnson corrects the inscription, v. 367; _Ode on Leven Water_, v. 367, n. 2; _Tears of Scotland_, v. 196, n. 3; _Travels_ criticised by Thicknesse, iii. 235-6; Wilkes, letter to, i. 348; quotations, &c. from his works— _Humphry

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