2; iii. 448. SPIRIT, evidence for. See JOHNSON, spirit. SPIRITS. See GHOSTS. SPIRITS, evil, iv. 290. Spiritual Quixote, its author, a member of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3; and a friend of Shenstone, i. 94, n. 5; ii. 452, n. 4; on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4. SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, felicity of drunkenness cheaply attained by them, iii. 381, n. 3; misery caused by them, ii. 435, n. 7; iii. 292, n. 1; pleasant poison, v. 346, n. 2. Spleen, The, iii. 38, 405. SPLENDOUR, iv. 337. SPOONER, Rev. Mr., v. 73. SPOTTISWOODE, Dr., ii. 323, n. 2. SPOTTISWOODE, John, iii. 326-7. SPRAT, Bishop, History of the Royal Society, iv. 311; Life quoted, i. 34, n. 5; meets Bentley, v. 274, n 4; style, iii. 257, n. 3. SQUILLS, iv. 355. Squire Richard, iv. 284. SQUIRES, Rev. Mr., i. 208, n. 3. STAGE, Mr., iv. 257, n. 2. STAFFORD, ii. 164, n. 5. STAFFORDSHIRE, fruit, very little, iv. 206; Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1; nursery of art, iii. 299, n. 2; Toryism, its, ii. 461; two young Methodists from it, ii. 120; Whig, a Staffordshire, iii. 326. STAGE. See PLAYERS. STAGE-COACHES, i. 340, n. 1. See COACH. STAIR, Earl of, v. 372. ST. ALBAN'S, Boswell and Johnson pass the night there, iii. 4; monument to John Thrale, i. 491, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 459; iv. 80, n. 1. ST. ALBAN'S, first Duke of, i. 248, n. 2. ST. ASAPH, ii. 284; v. 436. ST. AUBYN, Sir John, i. 508. ST. AUGUSTINE, 'misericordia domini inter pontem et fontem' iv. 212, n. 2; weighed against Jonathan Wild plus three-pence, iv. 291. ST. CAS, expedition to, i. 338, n. 2. ST. COLUMBA, v. 335, 337, 338. ST. CROSS, at Winchester, iii. 124. ST. CUTHBERT'S DAY, at University College, ii. 445. ST. GLUVIAS, i. 436. ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA, i. 77. ST. JEROME, ii. 358, n. 3. ST. JOHN. See BOLINGBROKE. ST. MALO, expedition sent against it, i. 338, n. 2; mentioned, ii. 82, n. 3. ST. PAUL, 'chief of sinners,' iv. 294; converted by supernatural interposition, iii. 295; fear of being a cast-away, iv. 123; saw unutterable things, ii. 123; thorn in the flesh, v. 64; 'warring against the law of his mind,' iv. 396. ST. PETERSBURGH, iv. 277, n. 1. ST. QUINTIN, ii. 401. ST. VITUS'S DANCE, i. 143. STAMP ACT, Burke's speeches, ii. 16. STANHOPE, first Earl, i. 160. STANHOPE, third Earl, presided at a meeting of the Revolution Society, iv. 40, n. 4. STANHOPE, fifth Earl, on the author of Captain Carleton's Memoirs, iv. 334, n. 4. STANHOPE, Mr. (Lord Chesterfield's son), Boswell's description of him, i. 266, n. 2; Johnson's, iv. 333, n. 1; Harte, Dr., his tutor, iv. 78, n. 1. 333: See CHESTERFIELD, Earl of, Letters to his Son. STANHOPE, Mr., mentioned in Tickell's Epistle, iii. 388, n. 3. STANISLAUS, King, ii. 405, n. 1. STANLEY, Dean, Memorials of Westminster Abbey--Ephraim Chambers's epitaph, i. 219, n. 1; Goldsmith's epitaph and Johnson's Latin, iii. 82, n. 3; Johnson's and Macpherson's graves, ii. 298, n. 2. STANTON, Mr., manager of a company of actors, ii. 464, 465. STANYAN, Temple, iii. 356. STAPYLTON, family of, v. 442, n. 3. Starvation, ii. 160, n. 1. STATE, its right to regulate religion, ii. 14; iv. 12; the vulgar are its children, ii. 14; iv. 216. State used for statement, iii. 394. STATE OF NATURE, v. 365. State Trials, i. 157. STATIONERS' COMPANY, ii. 345. STATIUS, i. 252. STATUARY, ii. 439. STATUES, reason of their value, iii. 231. STAUNTON, Dr. (afterwards Sir George), Johnson's letter to him, i. 367; Debates, iv. 314. 'Stavo bene, &c.,' ii. 346. STEELE, Joshua, Prosodia Rationalis, ii. 327. STEELE, Mr., of the Treasury, i. 141. STEELE, Sir Richard, Addison's loan, iv. 52, 91; Apology, ii. 448, n. 3; British Princes, ridicules the, ii. 108, n. 2; Christian Hero, ii. 448; Conscious Lovers, i. 491, n. 3; grammar-schools, account of, i. 44, n. 2; Ince, praise of, iii. 33; Marlborough's, Duke of, papers, v. 175, n. 1; old age, ii. 474, n. 3; 'practised the lighter vices,' ii. 449. STEEVENS, George, Boswell complains of his unkindness, iii. 281, n. 3; praises his principles, iii. 282; character by Garrick and Parr, iii. 281, n. 3; Chatterton's poems, iii. 50, n. 5; Courtenay's Poetical Review, mentioned in, i. 223; Davies, Tom, sneers at, i. 390, n. 3; Fox's election to the Club, ii. 274, n. 7; generosity, iii. 100; assists Mrs. Goldsmith, ib.; Hamlet, proposed emendation of, ii. 204, n. 3; Hawkins, attacked by, iv. 406, n. 1; Johnson, anecdotes of, iv. 324; not trustworthy, ib., n. 1; epitaph, iv. 444; aids, in the Lives, iv. 37; interpretation of two passages in Hamlet, iii. 55, n. 2; letters to him, ii. 273; iii. 100; levee, attends, ii. 118; 'the old lion,' ii. 284, n. 2; reflection on Garrick, ii. 192, n. 2; and the spunging-house, i. 303, n. 1; and Torre's fireworks, iv. 324; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; election, ii. 273; present, ii. 318; literary impostures, his, iv.