1; 'Don't be afraid, Sir, you will soon make a very pretty rascal,' iv. 200; 'Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal than accused of deficiency in the graces,' iii. 54.

RASCALS. 'Sir, there are rascals in all countries,' iii. 326.

RATIONALITY. 'An obstinate rationality prevents me,' iv. 289.

RATTLE. 'The lad does not care for the child's rattle,' ii. 14.

READ. 'We must read what the world reads at the moment,' iii. 332.

REAR. 'Sir, I can make him rear,' iv. 28.

REASON. 'You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four,' iii. 375.

REBELLION. 'All rebellion is natural to man,' v. 394.

RECIPROCATE. 'Madam, let us reciprocate,' iii. 408.

RECONCILED. 'Beware of a reconciled enemy' (Italian proverb), iii. 108.

REDDENING. 'It is better she should be reddening her own cheeks than blackening other people's characters,' iii. 46.

REFORM. 'It is difficult to reform a household gradually,' iii. 362.

RELIGION. 'I am no friend to making religion appear too hard,' v. 316; 'Religion scorns a foe like thee' (Epigram), iv. 288.

RENT. 'Amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent,' iv. 38.

REPAID. 'Boswell, lend me sixpence--not to be repaid,' iv. 191.

REPAIRS. 'There is a time of life, Sir, when a man requires the repairs of a table,' i. 470, n. 2.

REPEATING. 'I know nothing more offensive than repeating what one knows to be foolish things, by way of continuing a dispute, to see what a man will answer,' iii. 350.

REPUTATION. 'Jonas acquired some reputation by travelling abroad, but lost it all by travelling at home,' ii. 122.

RESENTMENT. 'Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury,' iv. 367.

RESPECTED. 'Sir, I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen; they told me none of these things,' iii. 8.

REVIEWERS. 'Set Reviewers at defiance,' v. 274; 'The Reviewers will make him hang himself,' iii. 313.

RICH. 'It is better to live rich than to die rich,' iii. 304.

RIDICULE. 'Ridicule has gone down before him,' i. 394; 'Ridicule is not your talent,' iv. 335.

RIDICULOUS. See CHIMNEY.

RIGHT. 'Because a man cannot be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?' iii. 410; 'It seems strange that a man should see so far to the right who sees so short a way to the left,' iv. 19.

RISING. 'I am glad to find that the man is rising in the world,' ii. 155, n. 2.

ROCK. 'It is like throwing peas against a rock,' v. 30; 'Madam, were they in Asia I would not leave the rock,' v. 223.

ROCKS. 'If anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle,' iii. 136.

ROPE-DANCING. 'Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dancing,' ii. 440.

ROTTEN. 'Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him,' ii. 210; 'Then your rotten sheep are mine,' v. 50.

ROUND. 'Round numbers are always false,' iii. 226, n. 4.

RUFFIAN. 'I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian,' ii. 298.

RUFFLE. 'If a mere wish could attain it, a man would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle,' ii. 357.

RUFFLES. 'Ancient ruffles and modern principles do not agree,' iv. 81.

RUINING. 'He is ruining himself without pleasure,' iii. 348.

RUNTS. 'Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts' (Mrs. Salusbury), iii. 337.

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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.

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