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SAILOR. 'No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol,' v. 137.
SAT. 'Yes, Sir, if he sat next you,' ii. 193.
SAVAGE. 'You talk the language of a savage,' ii. 130.
SAVAGES. 'One set of savages is like another,' iv. 308.
SAY. 'The man is always willing to say what he has to say,' iii. 307.
SCARLET BREECHES. 'It has been a fashion to wear scarlet breeches; these men would tell you that, according to causes and effects, no other wear could at that time have been chosen,' iv. 189.
SCHEME. 'Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment,' i. 331, n. 5.
SCHEMES. 'It sometimes happens that men entangle themselves in their own schemes,' iii. 386; 'Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things,' ii. 102.
SCHOOLBOY. 'A schoolboy's exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy, but it is no treat for a man,' ii. 127.
SCHOOLMASTER. 'You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill,' ii. 88.
SCOTCH. 'I'd rather have you whistle a Scotch tune,' iv. 111;
'Scotch conspiracy in national falsehood,' ii. 297;
'Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost
as that the Scotch have found it,' iii. 78;
'Why, Sir, all barrenness is comparative. The Scotch would not
know it to be barren,' iii. 76.
SCOTCHMAN. 'Come, gentlemen, let us candidly admit that there is one Scotchman who is cheerful,' iii. 387; 'Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy,' v. 346; 'He left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death,' i. 268; 'Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young,' ii. 194; 'One Scotchman is as good as another,' iv. 101; 'The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England,' i. 425; v. 387; 'Though the dog is a Scotchman and a Presbyterian, and everything he should not be,' &c., iv. 98; 'Why, Sir, I should not have said of Buchanan, had he been an Englishman, what I will now say of him as a Scotchman, —that he was the only man of genius his country ever produced,' iv. 185; 'You would not have been so valuable as you are had you not been a Scotchman,' iii. 347.
SCOTCHMEN. 'Droves of Scotchmen would come up and attest anything for the honour of Scotland,' ii. 311; 'I shall suppose Scotchmen made necessarily, and Englishmen by choice,' v. 48; 'It was remarked of Mallet that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend,' ii. 159, n. 3; 'We have an inundation of Scotchmen' (Wilkes), iv. 101.
SCOTLAND. 'A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not
love Scotland better than truth,' ii. 311, n. 4; v. 389, n. 1;
'Describe the inn, Sir? Why, it was so bad that Boswell wished to
be in Scotland,' iii. 51;
'If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds,
what remains for all the rest of the nation?' iv. 101;
'Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses,
but in Scotland supports the people,' i. 294, n. 8;
'Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England,' iii. 248;
'Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland,' ii. 75;
'Things which grow wild here must be cultivated with great care in
Scotland. Pray, now, are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfection?'
ii. 77;
'Why so is Scotland your native place,' ii. 52.
SCOUNDREL. 'Fludyer turned out a scoundrel, a Whig,' ii. 444;
'I told her she was a scoundrel' (a carpenter), ii. 456, n. 3;
'Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam,' iii. 1;
'Sir, he was a scoundrel and coward,' i. 268.
SCREEN. 'He stood as a screen between me and death' (Swift), iii. 441, n. 3.
SCRIBBLING. 'The worst way of being intimate is by scribbling,' v. 93.
SCRUPLES. 'Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples,' &c., ii. 72, n. 1.
SEE. 'Let us endeavour to see things as they are,' i. 339.
Semel Baro semper Baro (Boswell), i. 492, n. 1.
SEND. 'Nay, Sir; we'll send you to him,' iii. 315.
SENSATION. 'Sensation is sensation,' v. 95.
SENSE. 'He grasps more sense than he can hold,' iv. 98: 'Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it,' iii. 381.
SERENITY. 'The serenity that is not felt it can be no virtue to feign,' iv. 395.
SEVERITY. 'Severity is not the way to govern either boys or men'
(Lord Mansfield), ii. 186.
SHADOWY. 'Why, Sir, something of a shadowy being,' ii. 178.
SHALLOWS. 'All shallows are clear,' v. 44, n. 3.
SHERRY. 'Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,' i. 453.
SHIFT. 'As long as you have the use of your tongue and your pen, never, Sir, be reduced to that shift,' iv. 190, n. 2.
SHINE. 'You shine, indeed, but it is by being ground,' iii. 386.
SHIP. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned,' i. 348; v. 137; 'It is getting on horseback in a ship' (Hierocles), v. 308.
SHIRT. 'It is like a shirt made for a man when he was a child and enlarged always as he grows older,' v. 217.
SHIVER. 'Why do you shiver?' i. 462.
SHOE. 'Had the girl in The Mourning Bride said she could not cast her shoe to the top of one of the pillars in the temple, it would not have aided the idea, but weakened it,' ii. 87.
SHOEMAKER. 'As I take my shoes from the shoemaker and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest' (Goldsmith), ii. 214.
SHOES. 'Mankind could do better without your books than without my shoes,' i. 448.
SHOOT. 'You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another,'
ii. 450;
'You have set him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,'
iv. 83.
SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 254.
SHORT-HAND. 'A long head is as good as short-hand' (Mrs. Thrale), iv. 166.
SHOT. 'He is afraid of being shot getting into a house, or hanged when he has got out of it,' iv. 127.
SICK. 'Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of
both,' iii. 57;
'To a sick man what is the public?' iv. 260, n. 2.
SIEVE. 'Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding.
It is stopping one hole in a sieve,' iii. 300.
SINNING. 'The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning'
(Dr. Barrowby), iv. 292.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. 'Let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky.
But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.
SLIGHT. 'If it is a slight man and a slight thing you may [laugh at a man to his face], for you take nothing valuable from him,' iii. 338.
SLUT. 'She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and thief,' iv. 103.
SMALL. 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan), ii. 323.
SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.
SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him,' ii. 188.
SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out of it,' v. 178.
SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
SOFT. 'Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,' iv. 323.
SOLDIERS. 'Soldiers die scattering bullets,' v. 240.
SOLEMNITY. 'There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a professional man,' iv. 310.
SOLITARY. 'Be not solitary, be not idle' (Burton), iii. 415.
SOLITUDE. 'This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 147, n. 2.
SORROW. 'There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii. 137, n. 1.
SORRY. 'Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry for it,' ii. 436.
SPARROWS. 'You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows, but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge,' v. 261.
Spartam. 'Spartam quam nactus es orna,' iv. 379.
SPEAK. 'A man cannot with propriety speak of himself, except he relates simple facts,' iii. 323.
SPEND. 'He has neither spirit to spend nor resolution to spare,' iii. 317.
SPENDS. 'A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man,' iii. 322.
SPIRITUAL COURT. 'Sir, I can put her into the Spiritual Court,' i. 101.
SPLENDOUR. 'Let us breakfast in splendour,' iii. 400.
SPOILED. 'Like sour small beer, she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled,' v. 449, n. 1.
SPOONS. 'If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons,' i. 432.
STAMP. 'I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp in the argument' (Parr), iv. 15, n. 5.
STAND. 'They resolved they would stand by their country,' i. 164.
STATELY. 'That will not be the case [i.e. you will not be imposed on] if you go to a stately shop, as I always do,' iv. 319.
STOCKS. 'A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers
enough,' ii. 251;
'Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for
beasts,' iii. 287.
STONE. 'Chinese is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe,' iii. 339.
STONES. 'I don't care how often or how high he tosses me when only friends are present, for then I fall upon soft ground; but I do not like falling on stones, which is the case when enemies are present' (Boswell), iii. 338; 'The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 193.
STORY. 'If you were to read Richardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 175.
STORY-TELLER. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as story-teller to a company,' iv. 192, n. 2.
STRAIGHT. 'He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,' iv. 225.
STRANGE. 'I'm never strange in a strange place' (Journey to London), iv. 284.
STRATAGEM. 'This comes of stratagem,' iii. 275.
STRAW. 'The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose… deserved the applause of mankind,' iii. 231.
STRETCH. 'Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 8, n. 3.
STRIKE. 'A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,' iii. 316.
STUFF. 'It is sad stuff; it is brutish,' ii. 228; 'This now is such stuff as I used to talk to my mother, when I first began to think myself a clever fellow, and she ought to have whipped me for it,' ii. 14.
STUNNED. 'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv. 83.
STYE. 'Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,' iii. 152.
STYLE. 'Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if once you begin,' v. 388.
SUCCEED. 'He is only fit to succeed himself,' ii. 132.
SUCCESSFUL. 'Man commonly cannot be successful in different ways,' iv. 83.
SUICIDE. 'Sir, It would be a civil suicide,' iv. 223.
SULLEN. 'Harris is a sound sullen scholar,' iii. 245.
SUNSHINE. 'Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man,' iii. 355.
SUPERIORITY. 'You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it,' ii. 220.
SURLY. 'Surly virtue,' i. 130.
SUSPICION. 'Suspicion is very often an useless pain,' iii. 135.
SWEET. 'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv. 320.
SWORD. 'It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,' ii. 161.
SYBIL. 'It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration,' iv. 59.
SYSTEM. 'No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it is difficult to disturb the system of life,' ii. 102.
SYSTEMATICALLY. 'Kurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for everything systematically,' iv. 189.