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.