POST. 'Sir, I found I must have gilded a rotten post,' i. 266, n. 1.
POSTS. 'If you have the best posts we will have you tied to them and
whipped,' v. 292.
POUND. 'Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms and consider any single
atom; it is to be sure good for nothing; but put all these atoms
together, and you have St. Paul's Church,' i. 440.
POVERTY. 'When I was running about this town a very poor fellow,
I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty,' i. 441.
POWER. 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have--Power'
(Boulton), ii. 459.
PRACTICE. 'He does not wear out his principles in practice'
(Beauclerk), iii. 282.
PRAISE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323;
'I know nobody who blasts by praise as you do,' iv. 8l;
'Praise and money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind,' iv. 242;
'There is no sport in mere praise, when people are all of a mind,'
v. 273.
PRAISES. 'He who praises everybody praises nobody,' iii. 225, n. 3.
PRANCE. 'Sir, if a man has a mind to _prance_ he must study at
Christ Church and All Souls,' ii. 67, n. 2.
PRECEDENCY. See above, FLEA.
PRE-EMINENCE. 'Painful pre-eminence' (Addison), iii. 82, n. 2.
PREJUDICE. 'He set out with a prejudice against prejudices,' ii. 51.
PRESENCE. 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always
indelicate, and may be offensive,' ii. 472;
'Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,' i. 457.
PRIG. 'Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,' iii. 245;
'What! a prig, Sir?' 'Worse, Madam, a Whig. But he is both,' iii. 294.
PRINCIPLES. 'Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as
not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without
having good practice,' v. 359.
PROBABILITIES. 'Balancing probabilities,' iv. 12.
PRODIGALITY. See above, PARSIMONY.
PROFESSION. 'No man would be of any profession as simply opposed to
not being of it,' ii. 128.
PROPAGATE. 'I would advise no man to marry, Sir, who is not likely
to propagate understanding,' ii. 109, n. 2.
PROPORTION. 'It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity
between them,' ii. 12.
PROSPECTS. 'Norway, too, has noble wild prospects,' i. 425.
PROSPERITY. 'Sir, you see in him vulgar prosperity,' iii. 410.
PROVE. 'How will you prove that, Sir?' i. 410, n. 2.
PROVERB. 'A man should take care not to be made a proverb,' iii. 57.
PRY. 'He may still see, though he may not pry,' iii. 61.
PUBLIC. 'Sir, he is one of the many who have made themselves public
without making themselves known,' i. 498.
PUDDING. 'Yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice
of plum-pudding the less,' ii. 94.
_Puerilites. 'Il y a beaucoup de puerilites dans la guerre_,' iii. 355.
PURPOSES. 'The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes,'
iv. 396, n. 4.
PUTRESCENCE. 'You would not have me for fear of pain perish in
putrescence,' iv. 240, n. 1.
Q.
_Quare_. 'A writ of _quare adhaesit pavimento_' (wags of the Northern
Circuit), iii. 261, n. 2.
QUARREL. 'Perhaps the less we quarrel, the more we hate,'
iii. 417, n. 5.
QUARRELS. 'Men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels,'
iii. 277, n. 2.
QUESTIONING. 'Questioning is not the mode of conversation among
gentlemen,' ii. 472.
QUIET. 'Your primary consideration is your own quiet,' iii. 11.
QUIVER. 'The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,'
iii. 38, n. 6.
R.
RAGE. 'He has a rage for saying something where there is nothing
to be said,' i. 329.
RAGS. 'Rags, Sir, will always make their appearance where they have
a right to do it,' iv. 312.
RAINED. 'If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand,' iii. 344.
RASCAL. 'I'd throw such a rascal into the river,' i. 469;
'With a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete
rascal,' iii. 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.
S.
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. 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. 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan),
ii. 323.
SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.
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. 188.
