RASCALS.  ‘Sir, there are rascals in all countries,’ iii. 326.

RATIONALITY.  ‘An obstinate rationality prevents me,’ iv. 289.

RATTLE.  ‘The lad does not care for the child’s rattle,’ ii. 14.

READ.  ‘We must read what the world reads at the moment,’ iii. 332.

REAR.  ‘Sir, I can make him rear,’ iv. 28.

REASON.  ’You may have a reason why two and two should make five, but they will still make but four,’ iii. 375.

REBELLION.  ‘All rebellion is natural to man,’ v. 394.

RECIPROCATE.  ‘Madam, let us reciprocate,’ iii. 408.

RECONCILED.  ‘Beware of a reconciled enemy’ (Italian proverb), iii. 108.

REDDENING.  ’It is better she should be reddening her own cheeks than blackening other people’s characters,’ iii. 46.

REFORM.  ‘It is difficult to reform a household gradually,’ iii. 362.

RELIGION.  ‘I am no friend to making religion appear too hard,’ v. 316;
  ‘Religion scorns a foe like thee’ (Epigram), iv. 288.

RENT.  ‘Amendments are seldom made without some token of a rent,’ iv. 38.

REPAID.  ‘Boswell, lend me sixpence—­not to be repaid,’ iv. 191.

REPAIRS.  ’There is a time of life, Sir, when a man requires the repairs of a table,’ i. 470, n. 2.

REPEATING.  ’I know nothing more offensive than repeating what one knows to be foolish things, by way of continuing a dispute, to see what a man will answer,’ iii. 350.

REPUTATION.  ’Jonas acquired some reputation by travelling abroad, but lost it all by travelling at home,’ ii. 122.

RESENTMENT.  ‘Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury,’ iv. 367.

RESPECTED.  ’Sir, I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen; they told me none of these things,’ iii. 8.

REVIEWERS.  ‘Set Reviewers at defiance,’ v. 274;
  ‘The Reviewers will make him hang himself,’ iii. 313.

RICH.  ‘It is better to live rich than to die rich,’ iii. 304.

RIDICULE.  ‘Ridicule has gone down before him,’ i. 394;
  ‘Ridicule is not your talent,’ iv. 335.

RIDICULOUS.  See CHIMNEY.

RIGHT.  ’Because a man cannot be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?’ iii. 410;
  ’It seems strange that a man should see so far to the right who
sees so short a way to the left,’ iv. 19.

RISING.  ‘I am glad to find that the man is rising in the world,’ ii. 155, n. 2.

ROCK.  ‘It is like throwing peas against a rock,’ v. 30;
  ‘Madam, were they in Asia I would not leave the rock,’ v. 223.

ROCKS.  ‘If anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle,’ iii. 136.

ROPE-DANCING.  ’Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dancing,’ ii. 440.

ROTTEN.  ’Depend upon it, Sir, he who does what he is afraid should be known has something rotten about him,’ ii. 210;
  ‘Then your rotten sheep are mine,’ v. 50.