Scotch, Johnson's feelings towards, i.
208.; iii. 43. 78. 136. 188. 231. 286.;
iv. 32. 87. 272.; v. 80. 236. 240. 248.
310.; vi. 58 n.; vii. 79. 262. 359.;
viii. 79. 113. 156 n. 176, 177.
Scotch, accent, overcome by perseve-
rance, iii. 189. Clergy, iv. 276. Im-
pudence, v. 241. Origin of John-Sentimental Journey,' Sterne's, vi
son's antipathy to, viii. 156 n. Ex-
treme nationality of, iii. 286. High-Serious Call,' Law's, i. 69.; iii. 137. ;
lander, v. 153. Learning of the, v.
310. Cause of their success in Lon-
don, viii. 177. Lairds, ii. 185. Jea-
lousy of the, v. 240. Nationality of
the, v. 240, 241. 263.; viii. 177.
Scotland, episcopal church of, vii.
239.
379.
Scotland, peers of, their interference
in the elections of the commons,
viii. 244, 245.
Scots, Mary, Queen of, ii. 119.; iv. 32.
Scott, Sir Walter, iv. 168. 185. 240,
241. 257. 263.; v. 7. 9. 15. 37. Cha-
racter of Johnson by, x. 166.
Scott, George Lewis, i. 224; vi. 250.
Scott, John, of Amwell, v. 280. 296.
Scott, Sir William. See Lord Stowell.
'Scoundrel,' Johnson's use and ap-
plication of the epithet, vi. 87 n.
115 n. ; ix. 137.
Scoundrelism, iv. 109.
Scripture phrases, iii. 250.
Scriptures, proposal to translate them
into Erse, iii. 10. 12.
Scruples, viii. 396.; ix. 44. 82.
Sea-life, vi. 66.
Seasons, influence of, iii. 307.
Secker, Archbishop, vii. 376.
Second sight, ii. 313.; iii. 175.; iv. | Sharp, Dr. John, ii. 283.
171. 177. 245 n. 329.
Sellette, vi. 6 n.
'Semel insanivimus omnes,' &c.
whence taken, viii. 171 n.
Seneca, v. 24.
Selwyn, George, vii. 263.
'Senectus,' use of the word, vii. 203 n.
Sensual intercourse, vii. 76. 201.
ix. 153.
Sermons, the best English, for style,
vii. 79. Collections of, viii. 83.
Advice on the composition of, vii.
340.
Settle, Elkana, vi. 196 n.
Sêves china, vi. 304.
Sevigné, Madame de, iii. 26 n.; vi.
175.; vii. 301 n.
Seward, Rev. Mr., of Lichfield, vi.
102.291.
Seward, William, iii. 76 n.; vi. 256.
260.; vii. 312.; viii. 314. Anec-
dotes by, ix. 255. ; x. 110.
Seward, Miss Anna, i. 36 n. 95. 98, 99.
280 n.; v. 194. 269 n.; vi. 102.; vii.
72. 126. 133. 141, 142 n. 144 m.; viii.
333. Anecdotes by, x. 9.
Shakspeare, i. 204.; ii. 74. 84. 138. 275.
298. 300. 302.; iii. 87. 97.; iv. 129.;
vii. 90. 256. 365. 372 n.; viii. 45, 46
n.; ix. 19. 86. 256. ; x. 6. 31. 91. 139.
'Shall' and 'will,' use of the words,
i. 96.; vii. 258.
Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrew's,
his monument, iv. 62 n. 65 n.
Sharp, Samuel, his 'Letters on Italy,
vi. 177 n.
Sharpe, Rev. Dr. Gregory, i. 145 n.
Shaving, varieties in, vi. 304.
Secrecy, ix. 131.; x. 112.
Sedley, Catherine, Countess of Dor- Shaw, Cuthbert, iii. 16.
chester, iv. 42 n.
6
Seduction, vii. 211.; ix. 42.
"
Seed, Rev. Jeremiah, his Sermons,'
vii. 79.
Self-importance, vi. 314.
Self-praise, vii. 176.
Shaw, William, his Analysis of the
Scotch Celtic Language,' vi. 234.
237. His pamphlet on Ossian, viië.
247, 248.
Shebbeare, Dr., iii. 59 n.; vii. 165.;
viii. 90. 208.
Selden's 'Table Talk,' i. 113 n. ; v. 42.; Sheep's head, v. 83 n.
viii. 176 n.
VOL. X.
Shelburne, William Petty, second
Earl, afterwards first Marquis of
Lansdowne, vii. 101.; vii. 163 n.
182.282.
Shenstone, William, iv. 299.; v. 86.
215.; vi. 82 n.; viii. 129. 219.; ix.
135. 141.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, i. 192 n. ;
ii. 124. 156.; v. 316.; vi. 210. 248.;
vii. 59.
Sheridan, Mrs., formerly Miss Linley, Smart, Mrs., viii. 363.
x. 260.
Sheridan, Thomas, ii. 142, 143. 156 n.
158. 160, 161. 167. 239, 240. 280 n. ;
iii. 88, 89 n. 136. 143. 189. 191. 301.;
v. 105. 257. 293.; vi. 116.; vii. 174.
248.; viii. 155, 156 n. 197. 216.
Sheridan, Mrs., her 'Sydney Bid-
dulph,' some account of, ii. 124,
124 n. 161.
Sheridan, Charles, his 'Revolution in
Sweden,' vii. 126.
'She Stoops to Conquer,' iii. 244. 253.
264. 276.
Shiels, Mr. Robert, i. 216.; vi. 149 n.
156. 250. 331.
'Ship of Fools,' Barclay's, ii. 25.
Shipley, Dr. Jonathan, Bishop of St.
Asaph, v. 200.; vi. 203.; viii. 49.
241.
Shippen, William, ix. 146.
Shoe-buckles, iv. 9.
Shop-keepers of London, iv. 80. 82.
Short-hand, iii. 265.; vii. 106 n.;
riii. 154.
Sibbald, Sir Robert, vii. 55.
Sick, duty of telling truth to the, viii.
308 n.
Siddons, Mrs., viii. 236.; ix. 125.
Silk, disadvantages of wearing, iv.
229.
Slains Castle, iv. 98. 100. 102. 104. 107.
Slave-trade, vii. 21. 375.
Sleep, vi. 310, 311.; vii. 353.
Smalbroke, Dr., his Sermons,' i.
146 n.
Smalridge, Dr., his 'Sermons,' vii. 79.;
ix. 138.
Smart, Christopher, ii. 60. 170, 171.;
vii. 378.; ix. 168.
Simpson, Joseph, vi. 147 n.
son's letter to, ii. 110.
Simpson, Thos., engineer, ii. 116 n.
Sin, original, iv. 89.; viii. 103.
Sinclair, Sir John, viii. 119 n.
Sins, iii. 205.
'Sixteen-string Jack,' vi. 157 n.
Skaiting, ix. 49.
Skie, Isle of, iv. 71. 161. Johnson's
ode on, iv. 166 n.
Smith, Rev. Edward, his verses on
Pococke, the oriental linguist, vii.
105.
·
Smith, Dr. Adam, i. 72.; ii. 212.; iv.
9. 21.; v. 114; vi. 128 n.; vii. 187.
His Wealth of Nations,' vi. 56.
His interview with Johnson, v.
114 n.; vii. 187 n. Difference be-
tween Johnson and, vii. 372. Gar-
rick's opinion of, vii. 372.
Smithson, Sir Hugh, first Duke of
Northumberland, iii. 147.
Smoking, iv. 56 n.
Smollett, Dr. Tobias, ii. 113. ; v. 112.
Smollett's Commissary, v. 110.
Society, ii. 224. 227. 233. 312 n.; vii.
136, 137.; ix. 136. 242.
Socrates, vii. 102.; viii. 54.
'Solamen miseris socios,' &c., author
of, undiscovered, viii. 172 n.
Solander, Dr., iii. 168. 172.; v. 64.
Soldiers, vi. 125.; vii. 101.
Solitude, iii. 33.; ix. 42. 115.; x. 87.
93. 266.
Somerville, James, thirteenth Lord,
viii. 19.
Sorrow, iv. 61.; ix. 119.; x. 255, 256.
Souls, middle state of, after death, i.
286.
Sounds, iii. 227.
John South, Dr., his 'Sermons,' iii, 110.;
vii. 79.
Southwell, Robert, his stanzas' upon
the Image of Death,' v. 205.
Southwell, Thomas, second Lord, vii.
345.; viii. 163.
Southwell, Lady Margaret, vii. 345.
Spain, no country less known tha
ii. 133. 186. 212.
Spanish plays, vii, 363.
Stirling, corporation of, Johnson's ar.
gument in favour of, v. 320.
Stockdale, Rev. Percival, iii. 122,
122 n.; viii. 321. Anecdotes by, x.
51.
Steevens, George, Esq., iii. 116, 116 n.
124, 125. 239.; v. 180. 323.; vi. 227.;
vii. 10. 122.; viii. 272. 406. Anec-
dotes by, ix. 192.
Sterne, Lawrence, iii. 209. 262.; vii.
379.; viii. 86. His • Tristram
Shandy,' vi. 79. His 'Sermons,' ix.
246.
Stews, licensed, vi. 134.
Stewart, Dugald, on the Lives of
the Poets,' x. 163.
Stonehenge, x. 270.
Stories, and story telling, vi. 61, 62. ;
ix. 62. 138.; x. 142.
Stowell, Lord, ii. 22 n. 111 n. 250.; iii.
112. 156. 158.; iv. 6. 11. 15. 37.; v.
172. 215 n.; vii. 97. 103. 158. 320. ;
viii. 67.
Strahan, Rev. Mr., i. 278.; ii. 286.;
iii. 23. 154, 155.; iv. 92.; viii. 268.
Strahan, William, iii. 155.; vii. 228.;
viii. 78.
Strahan, Mrs., Johnson's letters to,
viii. 78.
Stratagem, vii. 114.
Streatfield, Mrs., x. 106.
Strichen, Lord, iv. 110, 110 n.
Strickland, Mrs., vi. 15. 251.
Stuart family, ii. 119. 215; iii. 258. ;
vi. 295.
Stuart, Hon, and Rev. William, Arch-
bishop of Armagh, viii. 188.
Stuart, Hon. Colonel James, vii. 280.
305.
Stuart, Andrew, iii. 272.; vi. 113,
Stuart, Rev. James, translator of the
Scriptures into Erse, iii. 13.
Study, ii. 187. 213. 245. 249. 253.; vii.
126.290. 357. 368.; ix. 218.; x. 59.
Style, ii. 255, 255 n. 266. ; iii. 227. 307.;
vii. 91. 120. 317.; viii. 7. 29. ; x 309.
Subordination, ii. 227. 233. 316.
Subscription to the Thirty-nine Ar-
ticles, iii. 110. 177, 177 n.; iv. 61.; vii.
97.257.
Succession, vi. 36. 41.
Suicide, iii. 270.; iv. 50.; viii. 135. 219.
Sunday, iii. 72. 252.; iv. 66.; v. 324.;
ix. 221.
Superiors, deference to, iv. 106, 106 n.
Superstitions, iii. 175.; v. 37.
Suppers, vii. 154.
Suspicion, vi. 270.; ix. 148.
Stewart, Francis, i.216; vii. 307. 312.; Swallows, iii. 46.
viii. 256.
Stillingfleet, Benjamin, viii. 85.
Swearing in conversation, iii. 197.
Swene's stone, iv. 120.
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Swift, Dr. Jonathan, his Tale of a
Tub,' ii. 239,239 n. Johnson's opinion
of, ii. 160, 160 n.; 339.; iii. 57, 57
n.; iv. 36.; v. 256. His 'Gulliver's
Travels,' v. 256. Johnson's Life of,
viii. 33. Character of his Journal,'
ibid. His verses on his own death,
quoted by Johnson on his death-bed,
ix. 316.
Sydenham, Dr., his description of St.
Vitus's dance, i. 160. Johnson's
Swinfen, Dr., i. 63. 317.
Sympathy, vi. 104. ; ix. 209.
Sympathy with others in distress, iii. Terence, vii. 365.
95.
T.
'Table Talk,' Selden's, v. 42.
Taciturnity, ix. 122.
Tacitus, style of, iii. 225.
'Tale of a Tub,' ii. 239, 239 n.; iv. 36.;
v. 256.
Taylor, Chevalier, vii. 264.
Tea, ii. 67 n.; iv. 13. vii. 100.; ir.
141. 170.; x. 3.
Teapot, Johnson's, ii. 68. ; x. 105.
Telemachus,' v. 43. 329.; vi. 232.
Temple, Sir William, i. 258. ; vii. 91 n.
184.
Testimony, viii. 281.
Thatching, iv. 293.
Theobald, Lewis, ii. 84.
Theocritus, vii. 350.
Life of, i. 33. 175.
Sydney, Sir Philip, his 'Arcadia,' vi. | Thicknesse, Philip, his' Travels,' vii.
266 n.
Sydney, Algernon, iii. 248.
Sydney Biddulph,' ii. 161.
6 Système de la Nature, iv. 40.
Talisker, iv. 276. 283.; viii. 177.
Talkers, exuberant public, ridiculed,
iii. 288.
Talking above the capacity of one's
company, viii. 175.
Tallow-chandler, Johnson's story of
one, v. 278.
Tasker, Rev. William, vii. 245.
Tasso, vii. 185.
Taste, iii. 227.; refinement of, viii.
342.
Temple, Rev. Mr., Vicar of St. G
vias, ii. 221. 314.; v. 254.; viii. 133.
Temptation, vii. 67.
Tenants, v. 21. 34.
65.
Things, attention to small, viii. 181.
Thirty-nine Articles, the, iii. 110. 177,
177 n.; iv. 61.
Thirlby, Dr. Styan, viii. 147 n.
Thomas, Mr. Nathaniel, vi. 219.
Thompson, William, v. 171 n.
Thomson, the poet, ii. 239.; iii. 55.; vi.
156. 239.249.268.; vii. 223.; viii. 20 m.
Thomson, Rev. James, his case, vi.
182. 334.
Thornton, Bonnel, i. 243. 255 n. Ode
on St. Cecilia's Day,' ii. 197.
Thornton, Henry, vii. 348.
Thrale, Mrs. See Piozzi.
Thrale, Henry, ii. 292. 295. ;
iii. 65;
iv. 136.; v. 217.; vi. 104. 120. 125,
204. 238.264.; vii. 272. 338. 344. 348.;
viii. 45. 55. 59. 78. His death, viii.
60. 128. Johnson's epitaph on, x.
175..
Threshing, iv. 293.
Thuanus, Johnson's proposed trans-
lation of, viii. 410.
Thucydides, vii. 185.
Taverns, vi. 82, 82 n.
Taxation no Tyranny,' v. 248. 276.; Thurlow, Lord, vi. 184. ; vii. 347.; viii.
vii. 46. 126.
169. 330. 339. 352, 353.
vii. 78.
Taylor, Jeremy, ii. 259 n.; viii. 290. Tillotson, Archbishop, his Sermo
297.; ix. 141.
Taylor, Rev. Dr. John, i. 84, 84 n. 193.
-213. 227. 283, 284.; iii. 198 n.; vi.
111. 272.; vii. 275. 289. 294. 326.;
viii. 7. 10. 27. 266.; x. 60.
Time, ix. 148.
Time and space, vii. 372.
Titi, History of Prince, vi. 5.
Toasts, vii. 376.
Toleration, iii. 291. 296.; vii, 252. 359.
Tom Jones, ix. 322.
His
To-morrow, ix. 114.
Tooke, John Horne, vii. 164.
'Letter to Mr. Dunning,' vii. 217.
His 'Diversions of Purley,' ibid.
Tories, iv. 304.; vii. 179.; viii. 183.;
ix. 11.
Tory, Johnson's definition of, ii. 48.
Tory and Whig, Johnson's description
of, viii. 95. 293.; x. 24.
Torture in Holland, ii. 257.
Towers, Dr. Joseph, his
Letter to
Johnson on his Political Publica-
tions,' v. 253. His Essay on John-
son,' viii. 9.
"
Town life, vi. 321.; vii. 86.
Townley, Charles, vi. 251.
Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, iii.
262.; vi. 117 n.
Trade, iii. 101. 210.; v. 63.; vi. 56.
Tradesmen, opulence of, v. 63.
Tradeswomen, vii. 217.
Tradition, iv. 69.
Tragedy, vi. 158.
Tragic acting, iv. 27.
Translation, vi. 154.
Transubstantiation, iv. 69. 88.
'Transpire,' definition of, vii. 203 n.
Trapaud, Mr., iv. 141.
'Traveller,' Goldsmith's, ii. 192. 200.
275. 308.; iii. 280.; v. 85.; vii. 85.
Travelling, the use of, ix. 115. In
quest of health, rules for, viii. 138.
Treason, constructive, viii. 63.
'Trees in Scotland, iv. 67 n. 74.
Trial by duel, iii. 14.
Trifles, duty of attending to, ii. 72.
218.; vii. 219.
Trimlestown, Lord, vii. 55.
Trinity, iii. 297, 298.; iv. 88.
'Tristram Shandy,' ix. 244.
Troughton, Lieutenant, v. 208 n.
Trusler, Rev. Dr. John, his' Princi-
ples of Politeness,' vi. 175.
Truth, ii. 220. 229.; vi. 61, 62.; vii.
57. 137. 285. 354.; viii. 306. 365. 396.;
X. 23. 35.
Tunbridge Wells, Johnson at, i. 218.
Tull's Husbandry, v. 59.
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