Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
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;
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