Savile.

SAVILE, Sir George, iii. 487.
SAVILLE, Mr., saying about 'Ned'
Waller, iii. 372, n. 2.
SAVINGS. See ECONOMY.
SAVOY, Duke of, Rousseau's anecdote
of one, ii. 294, n. 2.
SAWBRIDGE, Alderman, Lord Mayor,
iii. 522; bill for shortening duration
of parliaments, iii. 522; mentioned,
i. 281, n. 3; ii. 155, n. 2.
SAWBRIDGE, Catherine (Mrs. Macau-
lay), i. 281, n. 3.

SAXON added to the c, iv. 37.
SAXONS, iv. 154.

SCALIGERS, The, Accurata Burdonum
(i. e., Scaligerorum) Fabulæ Confu-
tatio, ii. 302, n. 5: Buchanan, praise,
ii. 110;
cum Scaligero errare,' ii.
508; Dictionary-makers, on, i. 343,
n. 3; Johnson takes a motto from the
Poeticks, i. 72; Lydiat, attacked by,
i. 225, n. 2; Mantuan's Bucolics,
complaint about, iv. 210, n. I.
SCARBOROUGH, iii. 52, n. I.

SCARSDALE, Lord, iii. 181-3.
SCEPTICISM,

52.

Scheme for the Classes of a Grammar School, i. 115.

School for Scandal. See SHERIDAN,

R. B.

Schools, arguing in the, iv. 86. SCHOOLS, authority lessened, iii. 297; Bolingbroke, described by, v. 97, n. I (see under SCHOOLMASTERS); boys' restless desire of novelty, iii. 438, n. I; flogging and learning, less of, ii. 467; happiness of schoolboys, i. 522; north of England schools cheap and good, ii. 435; poor, for the, ii. 216; iii. 400, n. 2; public, best for a boy of parts, iii. 13; bad for the

Scotland and the Scotch.

timid, iv. 360; compared with private, ii. 467; v. 96; studies not suited to all, iii. 438, n. I. SCHOOLMASTERS, described by Lord Cockburn, ii. 166, n. 1; by Johnson, ii. 168, n. 3; J. S. Mill, ib., Steele, i. 51, n. 3; famous men, of, i. 50, n. 3; Johnson's writings about them, i. 113, n. 1, 114, n. 2; maimed boys, ii. 180; respect due to them, i. 113; Scotch masters-one criminally prosecuted, iii. 240, 243; one dismissed for barbarity: see under HASTIE; severity, how far lawful, ii. 168, 180, 211-13.

SCHOTANUS, i. 550.

Sciolus, iii. 388, n. 1; iv. 16, n. 4. SCLAVONIC LANGUAGE, ii. 179. Sconces, i. 68, n. 3. Score, ii. 374, n. 3. SCORPIONS, ii. 61-2. SCOTLAND AND THE SCOTCH,1 Aberbrothick, v. 80, 318; Aberdeen, Cathedral, v. 129, n. 2; English Church, v. 110, n. 5; Cromwell's soldiers, v. 95; duel fought for the honour of its butter, v. 390, n. 1; freedom given to English students, v. 102, n. 1; Infirmary, ii. 333; New Inn, v. 95; New Aberdeen, ib., n. 3; Old Aberdeen, v. 103; population in 1769, v. 102, n. 1; Town Hall, v. 102; Johnson made a freeman of the city, ii. 333; iii. 275; v. 102; no officer gaping for a fee, ib., n. 1; plaids, v. 96, n. 1; stocking-knitting, iii. 275; v. 99; University, education, v. 96, 104, n. 1; cost of it, v. 107, n. 2; English students, v. 96; Gray offered a doctor's degree, ii. 306, n. 2; King's College, iv. 306, n. 2; v. 102,

n. I, 103, n. I; Malloch's poem on
repairing the University, iv. 250;
Marischal College, ii. 171, 303; v.
101; picture of Arthur Johnston, v.
108, n. 1; professors awed by John-
son, v. 104; 'not a mawkin started,'
V. 109; student from Col, v. 343;
mentioned, iii. 412, 493, 495; v. 355;
Aberdeenshire dialect, v. 95, 114;
absence of a certain accommoda-
tion' in modern houses, v. 196; ac-
cent, i. 447; Account of Scotland in
1702, iii. 275; Advocate's admission
Thesis, ii. 23; America, would not
discover barrenness of, iii. 88; Amer-
ican war popular, iv. 298, n. 2;
Athelstanford, iii. 55, n. 3; Athol
porridge, iv. 91; Auchinleck, ac-
count of it, iii. 203; v. 431-2;
Barony, ii. 473; Boswell's manage-
ment, under, iv. 188; castle, ii. 309;
v. 432; chapel, ancient, v. 433; Field
of Stones, v. 61, 432; hornless cattle,
v. 433; mansion, v. 432, n. 1; in-
scription on it, v. 434; Johnson de-
sires to visit it, i. 535; visits it, v.
427-38, laird, past greatness of the,
iii. 201; present glories, iii. 203;
library, iv. 278; v. 428; Paoli visits
it, v. 435, n. 3; pronounced Affleck,
ii. 473; v. 132, n. 1; Reynolds's por-
trait of Johnson, v. 438, n. 3; rocks
and woods of my ancestors,' ii. 79,
n. 2; v. 397; Via sacra, v. 435;
authors, ii. 60; authority lessened by
the Scotch coming in, iii. 297; Ayr,
v. 427, n. 3; Ayrshire, cars, v. 268;
elections, ii. 194, n. 4; election peti-
tion, iv. 85; Johnson's argument, iv.
85-6; contest in 1773; v. 403; men-
tioned, v. 122, n. 1, 423; Balmerino,
v. 463; Balmuto, v. 79; Banff, v.
124; bare-footed people, v. 61; beg-
gars, v. 84, n. 1; Belhelvie, sands of,

v. 115, n. 3; Blackshields, v. 461;
Blair in Ayrshire, iii. 55, n. 3; books
printed before the Union, ii. 248;
Boswell a Scotchman without the
faults of one, iii. 395: Scotland too
narrow a sphere for him, iii. 201;
breakfasts, merit of Scotch, v. 140,
n. 2; bring in other Scotch in their
talk, ii. 278; broth, v. 98; Buchanan,
Scotland's single man of genius, iv.
214; Buchanmen showing their teeth,
v. 114; Buller of Buchan, v. 113;
cabbage, introduction of the, ii. 521;
v. 95, n. 3; Calder, v. 135; castle,
v. 136; Caledonian Mercury, iv. 149;
v. 367; career open in England, i.
448; Carron, The, v. 391, n. 2; cas-
tles, smallness of the, ii. 326; v. 425,
n. 2; cattle without horns, v. 433;
Charles I, sold, iv. 194; Christian
Knowledge Society, ii. 30-4, 319;
Church of Scotland
- Book of
Discipline, ii. 197; churches dirty,
v. 46; one clean one, v. 83, n. 1; in
the Hebrides, v. 329, n. 1; church
holidays not kept, ii. 325; form of
prayers, absence of a, v. 415; Lord's
Prayer omitted, v. 138, 415, n. 2; ju-
dicatures, ii. 278; practice at the bar
of the General Assembly coarse, ii.
436, n. 4; the Presbyterian Kirk
has its General Assembly,' i. 537;
probationer, case of a, ii. 197; lay-
patrons, ii. 171; Johnson's argument
on their rights, ii. 278-82; parties,
two contending, v. 242; civility, per-
severing, iv. 14; 'cleanliness, Scot-
tish, v. 23; clergy, assiduity, v. 286;
card-playing, v. 461, n. 1; compared
with English, v. 286, 435; described
by Warburton, v. 105; homely man-
ners, i. 532; learning, want of, v.
286-7, 437; liberality of leading
men, v. 22, n. 1; second sight, dis-

believe in, v. 258; coaliers, iii. 229,
n. I, 243, n. I; combination among
the Scotch, ii. 140, 351, n. 2; iv. 194,
n. 3; v. 466: see below, nationality;
'conspiracy to cheat the world,' ii.
351; conspiracy in national false-
hood,' ii. 339, 351; Constable, Lord
High, v. 117; council-post, v. 206;
Court of Justiciary, Palmer and
Muir's case, iv. 144, n. 2; Court of
Session, account of it, ii. 333, n. 3;
Johnson sees the Courts, v. 44; at-
tends a sitting, v. 438, 456; casting
pearls before swine,' ii. 231; date of
rising, ii. 304 v. 22; titles of the
judges, ii. 333, n. 3; Cases-Chester-
field Letters, i. 309; Corporation of
Stirling, ii. 333, n. 3; ecclesiastical
censure, iii. 68; Hastie the school-
master, ii. 166; Knight, a negro, iii.
99, 241; literary property, v. 56, 81;
Memis, Dr., ii. 426; shipmaster, v.
445; Society of Solicitors, iv. 149;
vicious intromission, ii. 225, 229,
236; Court of Session Garland: see
BOSWELL; Covenanted magistrates,
v. 435, n. 3; Cranston, v. 458; Cun-
ninghame, v. 424; Cupar, v. 63;
Danes, colony of them said to be at
Leuchars, v. 79; Danish names in
the Hebrides, v. 195; their retreat
commemorated by Swene's Stone, v.
132, n. 3; De Gestis Scotorum, v.
463, debt, law of arrest for, iii. 88;
Dictionary, Johnson's, the amanu-
enses and contractors chiefly Scotch,
i. 332; Dictionary of Scotch Words,
ii. 105; dinners good, v. 131; drink-
ing at old Sir A. Macdonald's, v.
296; droves of Scotch,' ii. 356;
Duff House, v. 124; Duke, igno-
rance of a Scotch, v. 48, n. 3; Dum-
fermline, iii. 67; v. 455; Dumfries,
iv. 325, n. 1; Dunbarton, v. 419;

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Dunbui, v. 113; Duncan's monu-
ment, v. 132; Dundee, iv. 144, n. 2;
v. 80; Dundonald Castle, v. 425;
dungeon of wit, v. 390; Dunnichen,
v. 464; Dunsinane, iii. 83; Dutch,
Scotch regiment in the pay of the,
iii. 508; eating, modes of, v. 23, n.
1, 234; Edinburgh, see p. 231; edu-
cation, English and Scotch, iii. 14,
n. I; Eglintoune Castle, i. 529; elec-
tions and electors, iv. 286, n. 2;
controverted elections, iv. 117;
interference of the Peers, iv. 286,
288; v. 404; Elgin, v. 129-30; Ellon,
landlord at, ii. 384; v. 109; England
found by the Scotch, iii. 89; Scot-
land a worse England, iii. 282;
English better animals than the
Scotch,' v. 21; English education,
iii. 14, n. 1; iv. 152; chiefly
tamed into insignificance by it, v.
170; English prejudice, ii. 343, n.
4; virulent antipathy, v. 466;
English pronunciation, attainment
of, ii. 182-5; entail, law of, ii. 474 ;
Episcopal Church, iii. 422; its Lit-
urgy, ii. 187; episcopals are dissent-
ers in Scotland, v. 83; facile man, a,
v. 389; factor, v. 139; ‘famine, a
land of,' iii. 88; fear in London of
the Scotch at the Gordon Riots, iii.
489, n. 3; fencers, good, v. 74; feu-
dal system, ii. 232; iii. 471; Find-
later's, Lord, wood, v. 127; fine and
recovery unknown there, ii. 491, n.
2; Fochabers, iv. 237, n. 3; v. 130;
food enough to give them strength
to run away, iii. 88; Fores, v. 132,
395; France compared with, ii. 462;
Frith of Forth, v. 61-2; gaiety, want
of, iii. 441; gardeners, ii. 89; gar-
dens, v. 95, n. 3; Garrick ridicules
their nationality, ii. 372; General
Assembly see under SCOTLAND,

:

church; Glasgow, coal-fire, a, v.
420; compared with Brentford, iv.
214; Foulis, the printers, v. 422;
newspaper, extract from a, v. 392;
Papists persecuted in 1780, iii. 485,
1. I; parentheses, supplies Carlisle
with, iii. 456, n. 4; riches, its, v. 61;
Saracen's Head, v. 420; St. Kilda's
man visits it, i. 521; University
Boswell a student there, i. 538; v.
20, n. 1; home-students fewer than
of old, v. 66; Johnson's observations
on it, ii. 347; v. 465; Leechman,
Principal, v. 77, n. 2; professors meet
Johnson, v. 420-22; afraid of him,
v. 422; Young, Professor, iv. 452;
Windham a student there, iii. 135;
Goldsmith's description of the land-
scape, ii. 356, n. 2; Gordon Castle, v.
130; Gordon Riots, ii. 343, n. 4; iii.
489, n. 3; grace at meals, v. 140;
Grampian Hills, v. 84; Greek, study
of, iii. 463; Gregory, sixteen profess-
ors of the family of, v. 53, n. 4; had-
docks, dried, v. 125; Hamilton Pal-
ace, v. 439; Hawthornden, v. 459 ;
head-dress of the ladies, v. 203, n. 2;
heads of rebels on Temple Bar, ii.
273, n. 4; Hebrides: see after SCOT-
LAND; hedges, absence of, v. 78, n.
2; hedges of stone,' v. 84; 'High
English,' attainment of, ii. 183;
Highlands: see after SCOTLAND;
History of the Insurrection of 1745
projected, iii. 184, 471; v. 448; Ho-
mer, Pindar and Shakespeare of
Scotland, iv. 215, n. 1; honest man,
v. 301; horses get oats as well as the
people, iv. 194, n. 2; hospitality, old-
fashioned, iv. 256, n. 4; House of
Commons contemptible, not sorry to
see the, ii. 343, n. 4; humble cows,
v. 433, n. 2; humour, not distin-
guished for, iv. 149; improvements

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at-

for immediate profit, v. 130, n. 2;
Inch Keith, v. 62; inns described by
Goldsmith, v. 166, n. 3; inoculation,
v. 257; insurrections in 1779, iii. 464,
n. 3; invasion, need not fear, ii. 494;
Irish, compared with the, ii. 351; iv.
194, n. 3; jealousy, ii. 350; John-
son's amanuenses Scotch, i. 216; ii.
350; antipathy to the Scotch, can-
not account for his, iv. 195;
tacks the Scotch historians, ii. 271-2;
awes Scotch literati, ii. 72; —,
Boswell's introduction to, i. 454;
consults Scotch physicians, iv. 301-5;
praises two settled in London, iv.
254, n. 3; 'damned rascal! to
talk as he does of the Scotch,' iii.
193; desires portraits of their
men of letters, iv. 306; friends
among the Scotch, ii. 129, 350;
good-humoured wit, ii. 88-9;. iii. 59;

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holds a Scotchman not less ac-
ceptable than any other man, ii. 350;
hospitality shown to, ii. 306, 346;
v. 90; welcomed by the great, iv.
135, n. 3; joke at the scarcity of
barley, iii. 262; 'meant to vex
them,' iv. 194;
prejudice, shown
in London, i. 150; v. 20; of the head,
not of the heart, ii. 343-4; explana-
tion of it by Reynolds, iv. 194, n. 3;
by Boswell, v. 21; justification of it,
ii. 139, 350; iv. 195; slights their
advancement in literature, ii. 60;
would not attend a Scotch service,
iii. 382; v. 138, 438; judges, titles of,
v. 87, n. 3; juries, no civil, ii. 230, n.
2; Killin, ii. 32, n. 1; Kilmarnock,
iv. 109; v. 427; King Bob, v. 426;
Kinghorn, v. 63; Kirkwall, C. J. Fox
member for it, iv. 307, n. 2; known
to each other, ii. 542; Knox's 'ref-
ormations,' v. 69; Kyle, v. 122, n. 1;
lady-like woman, v. 179; Lanark, ii.

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King James, v. 64, 90, 92; nation, if
we allow the Scotch to be a, iii. 441;
nationality, extreme, ii. 278, 351, 372;
iv. 215; v. 21, 466 (see above, combi-
nation); Newhailes, v. 464; noblest
prospect,' i. 493; v. 441; non-jurors,
iv. 332; v. 74; northern circuit, v. 137;
oatmeal, v. 152, n. 1, 350, 464; oats
defined, i. 341; iv. 194; Old Deer, v.
121; old Scottish sentiments, v. 44;
- enthusiasm, v. 426; orchard, John-
son sees an, iv. 237, n. 3; - general
want of them, v. 130; Ossian, na-
tional pride in believing in, iv. 163
(see under MACPHERSON, James);
outer gate locked at dinner-time, v.
68, n. 1; pains-taking, of all nations
most, ii. 343, n. 4; past so unlike the
present, iii. 471; patience in win-
ning votes, iv. 14; pay of English
soldiers spent in it, ii. 494; Peers, in-
terference in elections, iv. 286, 288;
Perth, an execution at, v. 118; Perth-
shire, Justices and Sheriff of, iii. 243,
n. 1; Peterhead Well, v. 114; 'petty
national resentment,' v. 3; piety,
compared with English, v. 140, n. 2;
planting, era of, v. 463; players, do
not succeed ii. 278; Poker Club, ii.
431, n. 1, 493, n. 2; polished at New-
castle, v. 98; postal service, v. 356, n.
I, 395, 420, n. 1, 439; post-chaises, v.
63, n. 2; poverty, escaped being rob-
bed by their, iii. 467; supposed
poverty, iv. 118; Presbyterian fanat-
ics, v. 43; prescription of murder, v.
25, 98; Preston-Pans, v. 458, n. 1;
prisoners of 1745, treatment of, v.
228; resentment at having the truth
told, ii. 350; iii. 145; revenue, con-
tributions to the, ii. 494; robbers, no
danger from, v. 59, 202, n. 1; Roman
Catholics, penal legislation against,
iii. 485, n. 1; Roslin Castle, v. 459;

72; iii. 132, 409; land permanently
unsaleable, ii. 474, n. 1; landlords 'a
high situation,' i. 474; land-tax, ii.
494; Laurence Kirk, v. 85; law
(Kelly law), v. 270; law arguments
in writing, ii. 252; law life, vulgar
familiarity of, iii. 203, n. 2; lawyers
great masters of the law of nations,
ii. 334; learning, decrease of it, v. 64,
90; in James VI's time, v. 64,
207;
'like bread in a besieged
town,' ii. 416; mediocrity of it, ii.
351, n. 2; leases, setting aside, v. 389;
legitimation, law of, ii. 523; Leith, v.
60; to a Scotchman often Lethe, ib.;
Leuchars, v. 79; Lismore, ii. 352, n.
I; v. 99; literature, rapid advance-
ment in, ii. 60; Logie Pert, v. 84, n.
2; Lord High Constable, v. 117:
Loudoun, v. 423; 'love Scotland
better than truth,' ii. 356; v. 124, n.
3; lowns, v. 248; Lugar, River, v.
432; Macbeth's heath, v. 131;
castle, v. 147, 396; Mackinnon's
Cave, v. 377; main honest, v. 345;
Mallet the only Scot whom Scotch-
men did not commend, ii. 182, n. 4;
manse, v. 79; Mauchline, v. 427, n.
3; mawkin, v. 109; Mercheta Muli-
erum, v. 364; metaphysics, what
passes for, iv. 30, n. 4; middle class,
want of a, ii. 461, n. 1; Middleburgh,
iii. 119; Militia, fear of giving Scot-
land a, in 1760, ii. 493, n. 2; bill of
1776, ii. 493; iii. I; fear still re-
mained, iii. 410, n. 1; established in
1793, iii. 410, n. 1; Scots as officers
in English militia, iii. 453, n. 2; Mir-
ror, The, iv. 450; mix with the Eng-
lish worse than the Irish, ii. 278;
Monboddo (Lord Monboddo's resi-
dence), v. 86; Monimusk, iii. 118;
Montrose, v. 81-3; muir - fowl, or
grouse, v. 50; Muses' Welcome to

as,