Scientific cookery, importance of, [35]
— writers and thinkers, independence, [258]
— at variance with clergy, [274]

Scott, Sir Walter, physical exercise, [24]
— habits of, [33]
— writing-closet, [549]

Secular power resists ecclesiastical, [258]

Selection of knowledge, [108]

Selfishness of authors, [471]

Senses, usefulness to intellectual life, [60]

Separation of languages, [159]

Shelley, boating exercise, [24]
— the morality of, [99]
— writings unprofitable, [232]
— desire for solitude, [409]

Ships of the line, old, [262]

Shopkeepers, treatment by English authors, [348]