SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out
of it,' v. 178.
SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often
dies in the socket,' iii. 423.
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. 323.
SOLDIERS. 'Soldiers die scattering bullets,' v. 240.
SOLEMNITY. 'There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a
professional man,' iv. 310.
SOLITARY. 'Be not solitary, be not idle' (Burton), iii. 415.
SOLITUDE. 'This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 147, n. 2.
SORROW. 'There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii.
137, n. 1.
SORRY. 'Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry
for it,' ii. 436.
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. 261.
_Spartam. 'Spartam quam nactus es orna_,' iv. 379.
SPEAK. 'A man cannot with propriety speak of himself, except he
relates simple facts,' iii. 323.
SPEND. 'He has neither spirit to spend nor resolution to spare,' iii.
317.
SPENDS. 'A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest
man,' iii. 322.
SPIRITUAL COURT. 'Sir, I can put her into the Spiritual Court,' i.
101.
SPLENDOUR. 'Let us breakfast in splendour,' iii. 400.
SPOILED. 'Like sour small beer, she could never have been a good
thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled,' v. 449, n. 1.
SPOONS. 'If he does really think that there is no distinction between
virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our
spoons,' i. 432.
STAMP. 'I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp
in the argument' (Parr), iv. 15, n. 5.
STAND. 'They resolved they would _stand by their country,'_ i. 164.
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. 319.
STOCKS. 'A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers
enough,' ii. 251;
'Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for
beasts,' iii. 287.
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. 339.
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), iii. 338;
'The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 193.
STORY. 'If you were to read Richardson for the story your impatience
would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 175.
STORY-TELLER. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement,
but I will not be dragged in as story-teller to a company,' iv.
192, n. 2.
STRAIGHT. 'He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,'
iv. 225.
STRANGE. 'I'm never strange in a strange place' (Journey to London),
iv. 284.
STRATAGEM. 'This comes of stratagem,' iii. 275.
STRAW. 'The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose... deserved
the applause of mankind,' iii. 231.
STRETCH. 'Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat
which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 8, n. 3.
STRIKE. 'A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,' iii. 316.
STUFF. 'It is sad stuff; it is brutish,' ii. 228;
'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. 14.
STUNNED. 'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv. 83.
STYE. 'Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,'
iii. 152.
STYLE. 'Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if
once you begin,' v. 388.
SUCCEED. 'He is only fit to succeed himself,' ii. 132.
SUCCESSFUL. 'Man commonly cannot be successful in different ways,'
iv. 83.
SUICIDE. 'Sir, It would be a civil suicide,' iv. 223.
SULLEN. 'Harris is a sound sullen scholar,' iii. 245.
SUNSHINE. 'Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than
almost any man,' iii. 355.
SUPERIORITY. 'You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing
it,' ii. 220.
SURLY. 'Surly virtue,' i. 130.
SUSPICION. 'Suspicion is very often an useless pain,' iii. 135.
SWEET. 'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv. 320.
SWORD. 'It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,' ii. 161.
SYBIL. 'It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the
inspiration,' iv. 59.
SYSTEM. 'No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it
is difficult to disturb the system of life,' ii. 102.
SYSTEMATICALLY. 'Kurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for
everything systematically,' iv. 189.
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. 265;
'As to the style, it is fit for the second table,' iii. 31.
TAIL. 'If any man has a tail, it is Col,' v. 330;
'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. 268.
TAILS. 'If they have tails they hide them,' v. 111.
TALK. 'Solid talk,' v. 365:'
There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,' iii. 186, n. 3;
'Well, we had good talk,' ii. 66;
'You may talk as other people do,' iv. 221.
TALKED. 'While they talked, you said nothing,' v. 39.
TALKING. 'People may come to do anything almost, by talking of it,'
v. 286.
TALKS. 'A man who talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man
who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,' iii. 247.
TASKS. 'Never impose tasks upon mortals,' iii. 420.
TAVERN. 'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 452,
n. 1.
TEACH. 'It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than
what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452.
TEA-KETTLE. 'We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle
here with the roaring of the ocean,' ii. 86, n. i.
TELL. 'It is not so; do not tell this again,' iii. 229;
'Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,' iv. 191.
TENDERNESS. 'Want of tenderness is want of parts,' ii. 122.
TERROR. 'Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,' iv.
253, n. 4.
TESTIMONY. 'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow'
(Boyle), iv. 281.
_Tete-a-tete._ 'You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or
you will be a _tete-a-tete_ man all your life,' iii. 376.
THE. 'The tender infant, meek and mild,' ii. 212, n. 4.
THEOLOGIAN. 'I say, Lloyd, I'm the best theologian, but you are the
best Christian,' vi. liv.
THIEF. See SLUT.
THINK. You may talk in this manner,....but don't _think_ foolishly,'
iv. 221;
'To attempt to think them down is madness,' ii. 440.
THOUGHT. 'Thought is better than no thought,' iv. 309.
THOUSAND. 'A man accustomed to throw for a thousand pounds, if
set down to throw for sixpence, would not be at the pains to count
his dice,' iv. 167.
_Tig._ 'There was too much _Tig_ and _Tirry_ in it,' ii. 127, n. 3.
TIMBER. 'Consider, Sir, the value of such a piece of timber here,' v.
319.
TIME. 'He that runs against time has an antagonist not subject to
casualties,' i. 319, n. 3.
TIMIDITY. 'I have no great timidity in my own disposition, and am no
encourager of it in others,' iv. 200, n. 4.
TIPTOE. 'He is tall by walking on tiptoe,' iv. 13, n. 2.
TONGUE. 'What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity? Or
what more than to hold your tongue about it?' iv. 71.
TOPICS. See SICK.
TORMENTOR. 'That creature was its own tormentor, and, I believe,
its name was Boswell,' i. 470.
TORPEDO. 'A pen is to Tom a torpedo; the touch of it benumbs his
hand and his brain,' i. 159, n. 4.
TOSSED. 'You tossed and gored several persons' (Boswell), ii. 66;
iii. 338
TOWERING. 'Towering in the confidence of twenty-one,' i. 324.
TOWN. 'The town is my element,' iv. 358.
TOWSER. 'As for an estate newly acquired by trade, you may give it,
if you will, to the dog Towser, and let him keep his own name,' ii. 261.
TRADE. 'A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind; but
there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind, v. 328;
'This rage of trade will destroy itself,' v. 231.
TRADESMEN. 'They have lost the civility of tradesmen without acquiring
the manners of gentlemen,' ii. 120.
TRAGEDY. 'I never did the man an injury; but he would persist in
reading his tragedy to me,' iv. 244, n. 2.
TRANSLATION. 'Sir, I do not say that it may not be made a very good
translation,' iii. 373.
TRANSMITTER. 'No tenth transmitter of a foolish face' (Savage), i.
166, n. 3.
TRAPS. 'I play no tricks; I lay no traps,' iii. 316.
TRAVELLERS. 'Ancient travellers guessed, modern measure,' iii. 356;
'There has been, of late, a strange turn in travellers to be
displeased,' iii. 236.
TRAVELLING. 'When you set travelling against mere negation, against
doing nothing, it is better to be sure,' iii. 352.
TRICKS. 'All tricks are either knavish or childish,' iii. 396.
TRIM. 'A mile may be as trim as a square yard,' iii. 272.
TRIUMPH. 'It was the triumph of hope over experience,' ii. 128.
TRUTH. 'I considered myself as entrusted with a certain portion of
truth,' iv. 65;
'Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every
other man has a right to knock him down for it,' iv. 12;
'Nobody has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he
must either hurt the person by telling the truth, or hurt himself
by telling what is not truth,' iii. 320;
'Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,' v. 42.
TUMBLING. 'Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the Bar into
the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling
upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he
should walk on his feet,' ii. 48.
TURN. 'He had no turn to economy' (Langton), iii, 363, n. 2.
TURNPIKE. 'For my own part now, I consider supper as a turnpike
through which one must pass in order to get to bed' (Boswell or
Edwards), iii. 306.
TURNSPIT. 'The fellow is as awkward as a turnspit when first put
into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,' iv. 411.
TYRANNY. 'There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny,' ii. 170.
U.
UNCERTAINTY. 'After the uncertainty of all human things at Hector's
this invitation came very well,' ii. 456.
UNCHARITABLY. 'Who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably? iv. 97.
UNCIVIL. 'I _did_ mean to be uncivil, thinking _you_ had been uncivil,'
iii. 273;
'Sir, a man has no more right to _say_ an uncivil thing than
to _act one_,' iv. 28.
UNDERMINED. 'A stout healthy old man is like a tower undermined'
(Bacon), iv. 277.
UNDERSTANDING. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not
obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 313;
'When it comes to dry understanding, man has the better
[of woman],' iii. 52.
UNEASY. 'I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. II.
UNPLIABLE. 'She had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable
understanding,' v. 296.
UNSETTLE. 'They tended to unsettle everything, and yet settled
nothing,' ii. 124.
USE. 'Never mind the use; do it,' ii. 92.
V.
VACUITY. 'I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor
pleasure,' iii. 380, n. 3;
'Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,' ii. 410.
VERSE. 'Verse sweetens toil' (Gifford), v. 117.
VERSES. 'They are the forcible verses of a man of a strong mind,
but not accustomed to write verse,' iv. 24.
VEX. 'He delighted to vex them, no doubt; but he had more delight in
seeing how well he could vex them,' ii. 334;
'Sir, he hoped it would vex somebody,' iv. 9;
'Public affairs vex no man,' iv. 220.
VICE. 'Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue,' i. 250;
'Madam, you are here not for the love of virtue but the fear of
vice,' ii. 435.
VIRTUE. 'I think there is some reason for questioning whether virtue
cannot stand its ground as long as life,' iv. 374, n. 5.
_Vitam. 'Vitam continet una dies,'_ i, 84.
VIVACITY. 'There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow,' ii. 465;
'Depend upon it, Sir, vivacity is much an art, and depends greatly
on habit,' ii. 462.
_Vivite. 'Vivite laeti_,' i. 344, n. 4.
VOW. 'The man who cannot go to heaven without a vow may go--,' iii. 357.
W.
WAG. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,'
iv. I, n. 2.
WAIT. 'Sir, I can wait,' iv. 21.
WALK. 'Let us take a walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel, through,
I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world,' ii. 218.
WANT. 'You have not mentioned the greatest of all their wants--the
want of law,' ii. 126;
'Have you no better manners? There is your want,' ii. 475.
WANTS. 'We are more uneasy from thinking of our wants than happy
in thinking of our acquisitions' (Windham), iii. 354.
WAR. 'War and peace divide the business of the world,' iii. 361, n. 1.
WATCH. 'He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a
certain watch, but will not enquire whether the watch is right or
not,' ii. 213.
WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,'
v. 34;
'Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
'Water is the same everywhere,' v. 54.
WAY. 'Sir, you don't see your way through that question,' ii. 122.
WEAK-NERVED. 'I know no such weak-nerved people,' iv. 280.
WEALTH. 'The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better,'
