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 Affleck, 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;
