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.