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SABBATH. See SUNDAY. SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry, Johnson heard him preach at Lichfield, i. 39; sale of his Trial, i. 34, n 5. SACHEVERELL, W., Account of the Isle of Man, v. 309, n. 1, 336. SACRAMENT, preparation for it, iv. 122; in one kind, ii. 105. See under JOHNSON. SADNESS. ‘Sadness only multiplies self,’ iii. 136, n. 2. SAGACITY, iv. 335. SAILORS, estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6; generosity, v. 400; Johnson’s description of their life, i. 348; ii. 438; iii. 266; iv. 250; v. 137; mortality among them, i. 348, n. 3; iii. 266, n. 2; noble animal, v. 400; riot in London, iii. 46, n. 5; rudeness, i. 378, n. 1. SAINT MARTIN, iii. 36, n. 2; iv. 374, n. 5. SAINTS, Invocation of the, ii. 105, 255; iii. 407; iv. 289; resurrection of the bodies of the, iv. 95. SALAMANCA, University of, i. 455; ii. 479. SALE, avoiding a, v. 321. SALE, George, iii. 424, n. 1. SALISBURY, iv. 233, 237. SALISBURY, Bishop of. See Rev. Dr. DOUGLAS. SALLUST, characters, his, ii. 79; Catiline’s character, i. 32; Johnson takes a copy on his tour in Scotland, v. 122; translates part of the De Bella Catilinario, iv. 381, n. 1; quoted, ii. 181, n. 2; translation by a Spanish prince, iv. 195. SALMASIUS, iv. 444. SALONICA, iv. 364, n. 2. SALT HILL, v. 458, n. 5. SALTER, Dr., i. 190, n. 5. SALUSBURY FAMILY, v. 435, n. 2. SALUSBURY, H.L., afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi, i. 492. SALUSBURY, Lady, v. 276. SALUSBURY, Mr., Mrs. Thrale’s father, v. 438, n. 5. SALUSBURY, Mrs., Mrs. Thrale’s mother, her death, ii. 263; saying about Johnson and runts, iii. 337. SALUSBURY, Mr., iv. 343, n. 4. SALVATION, divine intimation of acceptance, iii. 295; conditional, iv. 278, 299. Samson Agonistes, i. 231, n. 2. SANADON’S Horace, iii. 74, n. 1. SANCROFT, Archbishop, iv. 287, n. 2. SANDERSON, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, Johnson’s style partly formed on his, i. 219; use of the word polluted, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 406, n. 1. SANDFORD, Mr., v. 263. SANDS, MURRAY, and COCHRAN, printers of Edinburgh, i. 210, n. 3. SANDWICH, fourth Earl of, confounded with Bishop Seeker, i. 508; disposal of a crown living, iv. 296, n. 3; Fox’s motion for his removal, iii. 383, n. 3; Hawkesworth and Cook’s Voyages, ii. 247, n. 5; Ray, Miss, iii. 383, n. 3. SANDYS, second Lord, Johnson visits him, v. 455; portrait of him at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1. SANDYS, Sir Edwin, View of the State of Religion, i. 219. SANDYS, George, Travels, iv. 311. SANDYS, Samuel, the ‘Motionmaker,’ i. 509. SANQUHAR, Lord, v. 103, n. 2. SANSTERRE THE BREWER, ii. 396. SAPPER, Thomas, iv. 358, n. 2. SAPPHO IN OVID, ii. 181. SARDINIA, Island of, its lingua rustica, ii. 82. SARDINIA, Charles Emmanuel III, King of, death, iv. 325, n. 1. SARPEDON, v. 103, n. 1. SARPI, Father Paul, i. 135, 136; dying prayer, i. 478, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 139; v. 67, n. 2. Sartum tectum, ii. 417. Sassenach More, ii. 267, n. 2. SASTRES, Signor, the Italian master, Johnson’s bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2; letters to him, iv. 368, n. 1, 374, n. 5; mentioned, iii. 22; iv. 405, n. 1. SATISFACTION OF CHRIST, v. 88. SAULT, Mr., iv. 200. SAUNDERS, Dr., iii. 32, n. 5. SAUNDERS, Prince, a negro, iv. 108, n. 4. SAUNDERSON, Professor, ii. 190. SAURIN, v. 42, n. 1, 47, n. 4. SAURUS, iv. 446. SAVAGE, Richard, account of him, i. 125, n. 4, 161-174; Ad Ricardum Savage, i. 162, n. 3; Addison’s loan to Steele, iv. 53; author, an, without paper, i. 350, n. 3; iii. 115, n. 1; Bastard, The, i. 166; Caroline, Queen, gives him a yearly bounty, i. 125, n. 4; character and mode of life, i. 161-4, 166, n. 4, 173, 416, n. 1; correction for the press, iv. 321, n. 2; death, i. 156, n. 1, 164; dignity, asserted his, i. 77, n. 2; epitaph, i. 156, n. 3; equality of man, asserted the, ii. 479; evidence of his story examined, i. 170-4; Johnson gathers materials for his Life, i. 156; publishes it, i. 165; payment for it and editions, ib., n. 1; reviewed in The Champion, i. 169; wrote forty-eight pages at a sitting, i. 166; v. 67; intimacy with, i. 162-4; likeness to him, i. 166, n. 4; quotes The Wanderer, iv. 288 virtue, impairs, i. 164; iv. 395; letter to a lord, i. 161, n. 3; life, knowledge of, iii. 237, n. 1; On Public Spirit, ii. 13, n. 1; oppressed by the booksellers, i. 305, n. 1; pension from Lord Tyrconnel, i. 372, n. 1; Reynolds reads his Life, i. 165; Sinclair, stabs: See below, trial for murder; Sir Thomas Overbury revived at Covent-Garden, iii. 115; its composition, ib., n. 1; subscribes to Husbands’s Miscellany, i. 61, n. 3; subscription, lived on a, i. 125, n. 3; Thales of Johnson’s London, i. 125, n. 4; Thomson, intimacy with, iii. 117, n. 7; trial for murder, i. 125, n. 4, 162, n. 3; vanity, ii. 281, n. 1; veracity, i. 170, n. 2; Wales, sets out for, i. 125, n. 4, 161, n. 2; Walpole’s, Sir Robert, talk, iii. 57, n. 2; Wanderer, i. 124, n. 4. Savage, Life of, an earlier one than Johnson’s, i. 170. SAVAGE GIRL, a, v. 110. SAVAGES, affection, have no, iv. 210; Boswell’s defence of savage life, ii. 73, 475; iv. 308; bread-tree, reported saying about the, ii. 248; compared with London shopkeepers, v. 81, 83; cruel always, i. 437; happiness of their life maintained by a learned gentleman, ii. 228; ignorant of the past, iii. 49; inferiority, their, v. 125; marriage state, ii. 165; Monboddo talks nonsense about them, ii. 74; and Rousseau, ii. 12, 74; saying attributed to one, iii. 180; superiority of civilised life, ii. 12, 73; v. 125, 365; traditions worthless, v. 225; wretches, who live willingly with them, iii. 246. SAVILE, Sir George, iii. 428. SAVILLE, Mr., saying about ‘Ned’ Waller, iii. 327, n. 2. SAVINGS. See ECONOMY. SAVOY, Duke of, Rousseau’s anecdote of one, ii. 256, n. 3. SAWBRIDGE, Alderman, Lord Mayor, iii. 459; bill for shortening duration of parliaments, iii. 460; mentioned, i. 242, n. 4; ii. 135, n. l. SAWBRIDGE, Catherine (Mrs. Macaulay), i. 242, n. 4. SAXON k added to the c, iv. 31. SAXONS, iv. 133. SCALIGERS, The, Accurata Burdonum (i.e. Scaligerorum) Fabulae Confutatio, ii. 263, n. 5; Buchanan, praise, ii. 96; ‘cum Scaligero errare,’ ii. 444; Dictionary-makers, on, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson takes a motto from the Poeticks, i. 62; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; Mantuan’s Bucolics, complaint about, iv. 182, n. 1. SCARBOROUGH, iii. 45, n. 1. SCARSDALE, Lord, iii. 160-1. SCEPTICISM, v. 47. Scheme for the Classes of a Grammar School, i. 99. School for Scandal. See SHERIDAN, R.B. Schools, arguing in the, iv. 74. SCHOOLS, authority lessened, iii. 262; Bolingbroke, described by, v. 85, n. 3 (See under SCHOOLMASTERS); boys’ restless desire of novelty, iii. 385, n. 1; flogging and learning, less of, ii. 407; happiness of schoolboys, i. 451; north of England schools cheap and good, ii. 380; poor, for the, ii. 188; iii. 352, n. 1; public, best for a boy of parts, iii. 12; bad for the timid, iv. 312; compared with private, ii-4O7; v. 85; studies not suited to all, iii. 385, n. 1. SCHOOLMASTERS, described by Lord Cockburn, ii. 144, n. 2; by Johnson, ii. 146, n. 4; J.S. Mill, ib.; Steele, i. 44, n. 2; famous men, of, i. 43, n. 2; Johnson’s writings about them, i. 97, n. 2, 98, n. 2; maimed boys, ii. 157; respect due to them, i. 97; Scotch masters — one criminally prosecuted, iii. 212, 214; one dismissed for barbarity: See under HASTIE; severity, how far lawful, ii. 146, 157, 183-5. SCHOTANUS, i. 475. Sciolus, iii. 341, n. 1; iv. 14, n. 2. SCLAVONIC LANGUAGE, ii. 156. Sconces, i. 59, n. 3. Score, ii. 327, n. 2. SCORPIONS, ii. 54. SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTCH, [For the Hebrides and Highlands’, See immediately after SCOTLAND. See also in the Concordance of Johnson’s sayings at the end of the Index, SCOTCH and SCOTLAND] Aberbrothick, v. 71, 279; Aberdeen, Cathedral, v. 114, n. 2; English Church, v. 97, n. 5; Cromwell’s soldiers, v. 84; duel fought for the honour of its butter, v. 342, n. 2; freedom given to English students, v. 90, n. 2; Infirmary, ii. 291; New Inn, v. 84; New Aberdeen, ib., n. 3; Old Aberdeen, v. 91; population in 1769, v. 90, n. 2; Town Hall, v. 90; Johnson made a freeman of the city, ii. 291; iii. 242; v. 90; no officer gaping for a fee, ib., n. 2; plaids, v. 85, n. 1; stocking-knitting, iii. 242; v. 86; University, education, v. 85, 92, n. 1; cost of it, v. 96, n. 1; English students, v. 85; Gray offered a doctor’s degree, ii. 267, n. 1; King’s College, iv. 265, n. 2; v. 90, n. 2, 91, n. 1; Malloch’s poem on repairing the University, iv. 216; Marischal College, ii. 149, 264; v. 90; picture of Arthur Johnston, v. 95, n. 2; professors awed by Johnson, v. 92; ‘not a mawkin started,’ v. 96; student from Col, v. 301; mentioned, iii. 362, 434, 436; v. 312; Aberdeenshire dialect, v. 84, 100; absence of ‘a certain accommodation’ in modern houses, v. 172; accent, i. 386; Account of Scotland in 1702, iii. 242; Advocate’s admission Thesis, ii. 20; America, would not discover barrenness of, iii. 76; American war popular, iv. 259,
n. 1; Athelstanford, iii. 47, n. 3; Athol porridge, iv. 78; Auchinleck, account of it, iii. 178; v. 379; Barony, ii. 413; Boswell’s management, under, iv. 163; castle, ii. 270; v. 379; chapel, ancient, v. 380; Field of Stones, v. 55, 379; hornless cattle, v. 380; mansion, v. 379, n. 1; inscription on it, v. 381; Johnson desires to visit it, i. 462; visits it, v. 375-85; laird, past greatness of the, iii. 177; present glories, iii. 178; library, iv. 241; v. 376; Paoli visits it, v. 382, n. 2; pronounced Affléck, ii. 413; v. 116, n. 1; Reynolds’s portrait of Johnson, v. 385, n. l; ‘rocks and woods of my ancestors,’ ii. 69, n. 3; v. 348; Via sacra, v. 381; authors, ii. 53; authority lessened by the Scotch coming in, iii. 262; Ayr, v. 375, n. 3; Ayrshire, cars, v. 235; elections, ii. 169, n. 4; election petition, iv. 73; Johnson’s argument, iv. 74; contest in 1773, v. 354; mentioned, v. 107, n. 1, 372; Balmerino, v. 406; Balmuto, v. 70; Banff, v. 109; bare-footed people, v. 55; beggars, v. 75, n. 1; Belhelvie, sands of, v. 101, n. 4; Blackshieids, v. 404; Blair in Ayrshire, iii. 47, n. 3; books printed before the Union, ii. 216; Boswell a Scotchman without the faults of one, iii. 347; Scotland too narrow a sphere for him, iii. 176; breakfasts, merit of Scotch, v. 123, n. 2; bring in other Scotch in their talk, ii. 242; broth, v. 87; Buchanan, Scotland’s single man of genius, iv. 185; Buchanmen showing their teeth, v. 100; Buller of Buchan, v. 100; cabbage, introduction of the, ii. 455; v. 84, n. 3; Calder, v. 118; castle, v. 119; Caledonian Mercury, iv. 129; v. 323; career open in England, i. 387; Carron, The, v. 343, n. 3; castles, smallness of the, ii. 285; v. 374, n. 1; cattle without horns, v. 380; Charles I, sold, iv. 169; Christian Knowledge Society, ii. 27-30, 279; Church of Scotland Book of Discipline, ii. 172; churches dirty, v. 41-2; one clean one, v. 73, n. 4; in the Hebrides, v. 289, n. 1; church holidays not kept, ii. 459; form of prayers, absence of a, v. 365; Lord’s Prayer omitted, v. 121, 365, n. 1; judicatures, ii. 242; practice at the bar of the General Assembly coarse, ii. 381, n. 1; ‘the Presbyterian Kirk has its General Assembly,’ i. 464; probationer, case of a, ii. 171; lay-patrons, ii. 149; Johnson’s argument on their rights, ii. 242-6; parties, two contending, v. 213; civility, persevering, iv. 11; ‘cleanliness, Scottish,’ v. 21; clergy, assiduity, v. 251; card-playing, v. 404, n. 1; compared with English, v. 251, 382; described by Warburton, v. 92; homely manners, i. 460; learning, want of, v. 251-2, 383; liberality of leading men, v. 21, n. 1; second sight, disbelieve in, v. 227; coaliers, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; combination among the Scotch, ii. 121, 307, n. 3; iv. 169, n. 1; v. 409: See below, nationality; ‘conspiracy to cheat the world,’ ii. 307; ‘conspiracy in national falsehood,’ ii. 297, 307; Constable, Lord High, v. 103; council-post, v. 181; Court of Justiciary, Palmer and Muir’s case, iv. 125, n. 2; Court of Session, account of it, ii. 291, n. 6; Johnson sees the Courts, v. 40; attends a sitting, v. 384, 400; ‘casting pearls before swine,’ ii. 201; date of rising, ii. 265; v. 21; titles of the judges, ii. 291, n. 6; Cases — Chesterfield Letters, i. 266; Corporation of Stirling, ii. 373; ecclesiastical censure, iii. 59; Hastie the schoolmaster, ii. 144; Knight, a negro, iii. 86, 212; literary property, v. 50, 72; Memis, Dr., ii. 372; shipmaster, v. 390; Society of Solicitors, iv. 128; vicious intromission, ii. 196, 201, 206; Court of Session Garland: See BOSWELL; Covenanted magistrates, v. 382, n. 2; Cranston, v. 401; Cunninghame, v. 373; Cupar, v. 56; Danes, colony of them said to be at Leuchars, v. 70; Danish names in the Hebrides, v. 172; their retreat commemorated by Swene’s Stone, v. 116, n. 3; De Gestis Scotorum, v. 406; debt, law of arrest for, iii. 77; Dictionary, Johnson’s, the amanuenses and contractors chiefly Scotch, i. 287; Dictionary of Scotch Words, ii. 91; dinners good, v. 115; drinking at old Sir A. Macdonald’s, v. 260; ‘droves of Scotch,’ ii. 311; Duff House, v. 109; Duke, ignorance of a Scotch, v. 43, n. 4; Dumfermline, iii. 58; v. 399; Dumfries, iv. 281, n. 2; Dunbarton, v. 368; Dunbui, v. 100; Duncan’s monument, v. 116; Dundee, iv. 125, n. 2; v. 71; Dundonald Castle, v. 373; dungeon of wit, v. 342; Dunnichen, v. 407; Dunsinane, iii. 73; Dutch, Scotch regiment in the pay of the, iii. 447; eating, modes of, v. 21, n. 3, 206; Edinburgh, See p. 234; education, English and Scotch, iii. 12, n. 2; Eglintoune Castle, i. 457; elections and electors, iv. 248, n. 1; controverted elections, iv. 101; interference of the Peers, iv. 248, 250; v. 354; Elgin, v. 113-15; Ellon, landlord at, ii. 336; v. 96; England found by the Scotch, iii. 78; Scotland a worse England, iii. 248; ‘English better animals than the Scotch,’ v. 20; English education, iii. 12, n. 2; iv. 131; chiefly tamed into insignificance by it, v. 149; English prejudice, ii. 300, n. 5; virulent antipathy, v. 408; English pronunciation, attainment of, ii. 158-60; entail, law of, ii. 414; Episcopal Church, iii. 371-2; its Liturgy, ii. 163; episcopals are dissenters in Scotland, v. 73; facile man, a, v. 342; factor, v. 122; ‘famine, a land of,’ iii. 77; fear in London of the Scotch at the Gordon Riots, iii. 430, n. 6; fencers, good, v. 66; feudal system, ii. 202; iii. 414; Findlater’s, Lord, wood, v. 112; fine and recovery unknown there, ii. 429, n. 1; Fochabers, iv. 206, n. 1; v, 114; food enough to give them strength to run away, iii. 77; Fores, v. 116, 347; France, compared with, ii. 403; Frith of Forth, v. 54-5; gaiety, want of, iii. 387; gardeners, ii. 77; gardens, v. 84, n. 3; Garrick ridicules their nationality, ii. 325; General Assembly: See under SCOTLAND, church; Glasgow, coal-fire, a, v. 369; compared with Brentford, iv. 186; Foulis, the printers, v. 370; newspaper, extract from a, v. 344; Papists persecuted in 1780, iii. 427, n. 1; parentheses, supplies Carlisle with, iii. 402, n. 1; riches, its, v. 54; Saracen’s Head, v. 369; St. Kilda’s man visits it, i. 450; University — Boswell a student there, i. 465; v. 19, n. 1; home-students fewer than of old, v. 59; Johnson’s observations on it, ii. 304; v. 408; Leechman, Principal, v. 68, n. 4; professors meet Johnson, v. 369-371; afraid of him, v. 371; Young, Professor, iv. 392; Windham a student there, iii. 119; Goldsmith’s description of the landscape, ii, 311, n. 5; Gordon Castle, v. 114; Gordon Riots, ii. 300, n. 5; iii. 430, n. 6; grace at meals, v. 123; Grampian Hills, v. 74; Greek, study of, iii. 407; Gregory, sixteen professors of the family of, v. 48, n. 3; haddocks, dried, v. 110; Hamilton Palace, v. 385; Hawthornden, v. 402; head-dress of the ladies, v. 178, n. 3; heads of rebels on Temple Bar, ii. 238, n. 3; Hebrides: See after SCOTLAND; hedges, absence of, v. 69, n. 3; ‘hedges of stone,’ v. 75; ‘High English,’ attainment of, ii. 159; Highlands: See after SCOTLAND; History of the Insurrection of 1745 projected, iii. 162, 414; v. 393; Homer, Pindar and Shakespeare of Scotland, iv. 186, n. 2; honest man, v. 264; horses get oats as well as the people, iv. 168, n. 3; hospitality, old-fashioned, iv. 222, n. 2; House of Commons contemptible, not sorry to see the, ii. 300, n. 5; humble cows, v. 380, n. 3; humour, not distinguished for, iv. 129; improvements for immediate profit, v. 115, n. 1; Inch Keith, v. 55; inns described by Goldsmith, v. 146, n. 1; inoculation, v. 226; insurrections in 1779, iii. 408, n 4; invasion, need not fear, ii. 431; Irish, compared with the, ii. 307; iv. 169, n. 1; jealousy, ii. 306; Johnson’s amanuenses Scotch, i. 187; ii. 307; antipathy to the Scotch, cannot account for his, iv. 169; attacks the Scotch historians, ii. 236; awes Scotch literati, ii. 63; Boswell’s introduction to, i. 392; consults Scotch physicians, iv. 261-4; praises two settled in London, iv. 220, n. 2; damned rascal! to talk as he does of the Scotch,’ iii. 170; desires portraits of their men of letters, iv. 265; friends among the Scotch, ii. 121, 306; good-humoured wit, ii. 77; iii. 51; holds a Scotchman not less acceptable than any other man, ii. 307; hospitality shown to, ii. 267, 303; v. 80; welcomed by the great, iv. 117, n. 1; joke at the scarcity of barley, iii. 231; ‘meant to vex them,’ iv. 168; prejudice, shown in London, i. 130; v. 19; of the head, not of the heart, ii. 301; explanation of it by Reynolds, iv. 169, n. 1; by Boswell, v. 20; justification of it, ii. 121, 306; iv. 169; slights their advancement in literature, ii. 53; would not attend a Scotch service, iii. 336; v. 121, 384; judges, titles of, v. 77, n. 4; juries, no civil, ii. 201, n. 1; Killin, ii. 28, n. 2; Kilmarnock, iv. 94; v. 375; King Bob, v. 374; Kinghorn, v. 56; Kirkwall, C. J. Fox member for it, iv. 266, n. 2; known to each other, ii. 473; Knox’s ‘reformations,’ v. 61-2; Kyle, v. 107, n. 1; lady
-like woman, v. 157; Lanark, ii. 64; iii. 116, 359; land permanently unsaleable, ii. 414, n. 1; landlords ‘a high situation,’ i. 409; land-tax, ii. 431; Laurence Kirk, v. 75-6; law (Kelly law), v. 237; law arguments in writing, ii. 220; law life, vulgar familiarity of, iii. 179, n. 1; lawyers great masters of the law of nations, ii. 292; learning, decrease of it, v. 57, 80; in James VI’s time, v. 57, 182; ‘like bread in a besieged town,’ ii. 363; mediocrity of it, ii. 307, n. 3; leases, setting aside, v. 342; legitimation, law of, ii. 456; Leith, v. 54; to a Scotchman often Lethe, ib.; Leuchars, v. 70; Lismore, ii. 308, n. 1; v. 86; literature, rapid advancement in, ii. 53; Logie Pert, v. 75, n. 2; Lord High Constable, v. 103; Loudoun, v. 371; ‘love Scotland better than truth,’ ii. 311; v. 109, n. 6; lowns, v. 218; Lugar, River, v. 379; Macbeth’s heath, v. 115; castle, v. 129, 347-8; Mackinnon’s Cave, v. 331; main honest, v. 303; Mallet the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend, ii. 159, n. 3; manse, v. 70; Mauchline, v. 375, n. 3; mawkin, v. 96; Mercheta Mulierum, v. 320; metaphysics, what passes for, iv. 25, n. 4; middle class, want of a, ii. 402, n. 1; Middleburgh, iii. 104; Militia, fear of giving Scotland a, in 1760, ii. 431, n. 1; bill of 1776, ii. 431; iii. 1; fear still remained, iii. 360, n. 3; established in 1793, iii. 360, n. 3; Scots as officers in English militia, iii. 399, n. 2; Mirror, The, iv. 390; mix with the English worse than the Irish, ii. 242; Monboddo (Lord Monboddo’s residence), v. 77; Monimusk, iii. 103; Montrose, v. 72-4; muir-fowl, or grouse, v. 44; Muses’ Welcome to King James, v. 57, 80, 81; nation, if we allow the Scotch to be a, iii. 387; nationality, extreme, ii. 242, 307, 325; iv. 186; v. 20, 409 (See above, combination); Newhailes, v. 407; ‘noblest prospect,’ i. 425; v. 387; non-jurors, iv. 287; v. 66; northern circuit, v. 120; oatmeal, v. 133, n. 2, 308, 406; oats defined, i. 294; iv. 168; Old Deer, v. 107; old Scottish sentiments, v. 40; enthusiasm, v. 374; orchard, Johnson sees an, iv. 206, n. 1; general want of them, v. 115; Ossian, national pride in believing in, iv. 141 (See under MACPHERSON, James); outer gate locked at dinner-time, v. 60, n. 5; pains-taking, of all nations most, ii. 300, n. 5; past so unlike the present, iii. 414; patience in winning votes, iv. 11; pay of English soldiers spent in it, ii. 431; Peers, interference in elections, iv. 248, 250; Perth, an execution at, v. 104; Perthshire, Justices and Sheriff of, iii. 214, n. 1; Peterhead Well, v. 101; ‘petty national resentment,’ v. 3; piety, compared with English, v. 123, n. 2; planting, era of, v. 406; players, do not succeed as, ii. 242; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1; polished at Newcastle, v. 87; postal service, v. 312, n. 3, 347, 369, n. 1, 385; post-chaises, v. 56, n. 2; poverty, escaped being robbed by their, iii. 410; supposed poverty, iv. 102; Presbyterian fanatics, v. 39; prescription of murder, v. 24, 87; Preston-Pans, v. 401, n. 3; prisoners of 1745, treatment of, v. 200; resentment at having the truth told, ii. 306; iii. 128; revenue, contributions to the, ii. 432; robbers, no danger from, v. 53, 177, n. 2; Roman Catholics, penal legislation against, iii. 427, n. 1; Roslin Castle, v. 402; sacrament, preparation for the, v. 119, n. 1; sailors, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; sands laying the fields waste, v. 291; ‘savages,’ iii. 77; scandal in Church law, ii. 172; scholars incorrect in quantity, ii. 132; schoolmaster, brutality of a, ii. 186, n. 1; schools inferior to English in classics, ii. 171; cannot prepare for English Universities, ii. 380; Scone, v. 237; Scotch oat-cakes and Scotch prejudices,’ ii. 380; ‘Scotchmen made necessarily,’ v. 48; Scots Magazine, i. 112; v. 171, 265; serfs, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; v. 401, n. 3; Shakespeare of Scotland, the, iv. 186, n. 2; Sheep’s head, v. 342; Shelburne, Lord, described by, ii. 296, n. 2; Sheriff-muir, v. 290; Sheughy Dikes, v. 70, n. 2; shoes, want of, v. 84, n. 3; short days in winter, ii. 189; Slains Castle, Johnson visits it, ii. 311, n. 5; v. 97-107; its situation, v. 99-100; house, v. 102; sloe, brought to perfection, ii. 78; Society of Procurators or Solicitors, iv. 128; Johnson’s argument in their case, iv. l29-31; Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, ii. 27, 279; v. 370; speldings, v. 55; spinnet, a, v. 314; St. Andrews, Boswell and Johnson visit it, v. 29, 57-70, 72; castle, v. 63; cathedral, v. 62-3; Glass’s Inn, v. 57; grotto, v. 70; inscriptions, v. 63; ‘Knox’s reformations,’ v. 61; Marline’s Reliquiae, v. 61, n. 2; Sharp’s monument, v. 65; Smollett’s description of the town, v. 61, n. 5; St. Rule’s Chapel, v. 61; story of an old woman, v. 408; streets deserted, v. 65; tree, large, v. 69; University, professors, v. 65, n. 4, 66; grace at dinner, v. 65; St. Leonard’s College, v. 58; St. Salvador’s College, v. 65; library, v. 63; session, v. 96, n. 1; students, their number and fees, v. 65, n. 4; windows broken by them, v. 63, n. 2; mentioned, i. 359, n. 3; Stirling, its corporation corrupt, ii. 373; Stirling, county of, iii. 224; stone and water, Scotland consists of, v. 340; study of English, i. 439, n. 2; succession of heirs general, ii. 418; Swene’s Stone, v. 116, n. 3; tenures, ancient, ii. 202; iii. 414; territorial titles, v. 77, n. 4; tokens, v. 119, n. 1; Tories generally, v. 272; torture, use of, i. 467, n. 1; trade leaving the east coast, v. 54; Tranent, v. 401, n. 3; trees, bareness of them, ii. 301, 304, 311; v. 69-70, 75; those on the eastern coast younger than Johnson, ii. 311; v. 69, n. 3; two large trees in one county, v. 69, 406; old trees at Calder, v. 120; at Inverary, v. 355; elms of Balmerino, v. 406; Jeffrey’s comparison with England, ii. 301, n. 1; Johnson’s sarcasms caused love of planting, ii. 301, n. 1; iii. 103; his stick ‘a piece of timber,’ v. 319; Treesbank, v. 372; truth, Scotchmen love Scotland better than, ii. 311; v. 389, n. 1; disposition to tell lies in favour of each other, ii. 296; turn-pike roads, v. 56, n. 2; turrets, two, mark of an old baron’s residence, v. 77; tyrannical laws, iv. 125, n. 2; Union, benefits to Scotland, v. 128, 248; discussed in the Laigh, v. 40; few printed books before it, ii. 216; how it happened, ii. 91; money brought by it into Scotland, v. 61; ‘no longer we and you,’ ii. 431; Universities, education given in them, ii. 363, n. 4; no degree conferred on Johnson, ii. 267, n. 1; professorships, iii. 14, n. 1 (See under ABERDEEN, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, and ST. ANDREWS); veal, v. 32; waiters at the inns, v. 22, 72; Walpole, Horace, described by, iii. 430, n. 6; water, too much, v. 340; Westport murderers, v. 227, n. 4; whisky, the thing that makes a Scotchman happy, v. 346; windows without pullies, v. 109, n. 6; wine, the refuse of France, v. 248; witchcraft, executions for, v. 46, n. i; write English wonderfully well, iii. 109; Writers to the Signet, v. 343, n. 3.
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