impossible to please, iv. 311;
  his thoughts, iv. 362. 
SICK WOMAN, church service for a, v. 444. 
SICKNESS, at a friend’s house, iv. 181. 
SIDDONS, Mrs.,
  described by Mrs. Piozzi, v. 103, n. 1;
  Johnson, visits, iv. 242;
  Reynolds compliments her, ib., n. 2;
  in The Stranger, iv. 244, n. 1.
Side, ii. 155. 
SIDNEY, Algernon, ii. 210. 
SIDNEY, Sir Philip,
  as an authority for a Dictionary, iii. 194, n. 2;
  misprint in a quotation from him, iii. 131, n. 2.
Sidney Biddulph, i. 358, n. 4, 389.
Siege, a popular title for a play, iii. 259, n. 1; v. 349, n. 1.
Siege of Aleppo, iii. 259, n. 1.
Siege of Marseilles, v. 349, n. 1. 
SIENNA, iv. 373, n. 1. 
SIGHT of great buildings, ii. 385, 393. 
SIGNS, conversation by, ii. 247. 
SILENCE of Carthusians, absurd, ii. 435. 
SILK, v. 216. 
SILK-MILL, iii. 164. 
SILVER BUCKLES, iii. 325. 
SIMCO, John, iv. 421, n. 2. 
SIMILE, when made by the ancients, iii. 73. 
SIMPSON, Joseph,
  account of him, iii. 28;
  Johnson’s letter to him, i. 346;
  mentioned, i. 488; ii. 476. 
SIMPSON, Thomas, the mathematician, i. 351, n. 1. 
SIMPSON, Rev. Mr., iii. 359. 
SIMPSON, Mr., of Lichfield (father of Joseph Simpson), i. 81, 346. 
SIMPSON, Mr., Town-clerk of Lichfield, iv. 372, n. 2. 
SIMPSON, Mr., of Lincoln, ii. 16. 
SIMPSON, Mr., owner of a vessel, v. 279-284, 286. 
SIN,
  balancing sins against virtues, iv. 398;
  heinous, ii. 172;
  original, iv. 123. 
SINCLAIR, Sir John, iv. 136. 
SINCLAIR, Robert, iii. 335, n. 1. 
SINCLAIR, Mr., stabbed by Savage, i. 125, n. 4. 
SINGULARITY,
  Johnson’s dislike of it, ii. 74, n. 3;
  making people stare, ii. 74;
  the gentleman in The Spectator, ii. 75. 
  See under AFFECTATION. 
SINNERS, chief of, iv. 294. 
SION HOUSE, iii. 400, n. 2.
Sister, The, iv. 10, n. 1. 
SIXTEEN-STRING JACK, iii. 38. 
SIXTUS QUINTUS, V. 239. 
SKENE, General, v. 142, n. 2. 
SKENE, Sir John, iii. 414, n. 3. 
SKINNER, Stephen, i. 186. 
SLANDER, action for, iii. 64. 
SLATER, Mr., the druggist, iii. 68. 
SLAUGHTER’S COFFEE-HOUSE, i. 115, n. 1; iv. 15. 
SLAVES and SLAVERY,
  Bathurst, Dr., on it, iv. 28;
  Boswell’s justification of it, iii. 200, 203-5, 212;
  drivers of negroes, iii. 201;
  England’s guilt, ii. 479;
  Georgia, i. 127, n. 4;
  Grainger’s Sugar Cane, i. 481, n. 4;
  Johnson’s hatred of it, ii. 478-480; iii. 200-4;
    toast to an insurrection, ii. 478; iii. 200;
  religious education, ii. 27, n. 1;
  Slavetrade, abolition of it attempted, iii. 203-4;
    England’s hypocrisy in upholding it, ii. 480;
    London Alderman’s defence of it, iii. 203, n. 1;
  Walpole’s, Horace, hatred of slavery, iii. 200, n. 4. 
  See KNIGHT, Joseph, SOMERSET, James, and