SENSATION. 'Sensation is sensation,' v. 108.

SENSE. 'He grasps more sense than he can hold,' iv. 113; Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it,' iii. 434.

SERENITY. The serenity that is not felt it can be no virtue to feign,' iv. 456.

SEVERITY. 'Severity is not the way

to govern either boys or men' (Lord Mansfield), ii. 214.

SHADOWY. Why, Sir, something of a shadowy being,' ii. 205. SHALLOWS. All shallows are clear,' v. 49, n. 2.

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. 525.

SHOE.

'Why do you shiver?' i. 534. '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.

100.

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. 246. SHOES. 'Mankind could do better without your books than without my shoes,' i. 519.

SHOOT. 'You do not see one man

shoot a great deal higher than another,' ii. 515; You have set him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,' iv. 96.

SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 288.

SICK. Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of both,' iii. 66; To a sick man what is the public?' iv. 300, n. 2.

SIEVE. Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding. It is stopping one hole in a sieve,' iii. 341. SINNING. 'The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning' (Dr. Barrowby), iv. 337. SLAUGHTER - HOUSE.

'Let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky. But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 24.

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. 385. SLUT. She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and thief,' iv. 119.

SMALL. Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan), ii. 369.

SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 90. SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him,' ii. 216. SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out of it,' v. 203.

SOCKET. The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 481. SOFT.

Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,' iv. 374.

SOLITUDE. This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 170, n. 2. SORROW. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii.

155, n. 2. SORRY. Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry for it,' ii. 499. SPARROWS.

'You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows, but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge,' v. 297. Spartam. Spartam quam nactus es orna,' iv. 437.

SPEAK. 'A man cannot with propriety speak of himself, except he relates simple facts,' iii. 368.

361. SPENDS.

'A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man,' iii. 366. SPIRITUAL COURT. 'Sir, I can put her into the Spiritual Court,' i. 117. SPLENDOUR. 'Let us breakfast in splendour,' iii. 454.

SPOILED. 'Like sour small beer, she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled,' V. 512, n. I. SPOONS. 'If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he

Spoons.

Suspicion.

spoons,' i. 500. STAMP.

'I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp in the argument' (Parr), iv. 18, n. 2. STAND. They resolved they would stand by their country,' i. 189. STATELY. 'That will not be the case [i. e. you will not be imposed on] if you go to a stately shop, as I always do,' iv. 368. STOCKS. A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers enough,' ii. 288; 'Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for beasts,' iii. 326. STONE. Chinese is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe,' iii. 386. STONES. 'I don't care how often or how high he tosses me when only friends are present, for then I fall upon soft ground; but I do not like falling on stones, which is the case when enemies are present' (Boswell), ii. 385; 'The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 222.

STORY. If you were to read Rich

ardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 200-I. STORY TELLER. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as storyteller to a company,' iv. 222, n. I. STRAIGHT. 'He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,' iv. 260.

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STRAW. The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose . . . deserved the applause of mankind,' iii. 262. STRETCH. Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 9, n. 5.

STRIKE. A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,' iii. 359.

STUFF.

It is sad stuff; it is brutish,'

ii. 262; This now is such stuff as I used to talk to my mother, when I first began to think myself a clever fellow, and she ought to have whipped me for it,' ii. 16. STUNNED. 'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv. 96. STYE. 'Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,' iii. 172. STYLE. 'Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if once you begin,' v. 442. SUCCEED. 'He is only fit to succeed himself,' ii. 151.

SULLEN. Harris is a sound sullen scholar,' iii. 277. SUNSHINE. 'Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man,' iii. 404. SUPERIORITY. 'You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it,' ii. 253.

Sweet.

SWEET. It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv. 369. SWORD. It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,' ii. 185. SYBIL. 'It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration,' iv. 69.

SYSTEM. No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it is difficult to disturb the system of life,' ii. 117.

SYSTEMATICALLY. Hurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for everything systematically,' iv. 219.

T.

TABLE. Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he'd wish to creep under the table,' iii. 301; 'As to the style, it is fit for the second table,' iii. 36.

TAIL. If any man has a tail, it is Col,' v. 376; 'I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' iii. 304. TAILS.

'If they have tails they hide them,' v. 126. TALK. Solid talk,' v. 416; 'There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,' iii. 212, n. 1; Well, we had good talk,' ii. 75; You may talk as other people do,' iv. 255. TALKED. 'While they talked, you said nothing,' v. 43. TALKING. People may come to do anything almost, by talking of it,' v. 326.

Think.

never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,' iii. 280. TASKS. Never impose tasks upon mortals,' iii. 477.

TAVERN. 'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 517,

n. 2.

TEACH. It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 523. TEA-KETTLE. 'We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle here with the roaring of the ocean,' ii. 99, n. I.

TELL. 'It is not so; do not tell this again,' iii. 260; 'Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,' iv. 220. TENDERNESS. 'Want of tenderness is want of parts,' ii. 140. TERROR. Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,' iv. 292, n. 4.

TESTIMONY. 'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow' (Boyle), iv. 325. Tête-à-tête.

'You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a tête-à-tête man all your life,' iii. 427.

THINK. 'You may talk in this manner, . . . . but don't think foolishly,' iv. 256; To attempt to think them down is madness,' ii. 504.