ROUND.  ‘Round numbers are always false,’ iii. 226, n. 4.

RUFFIAN.  ’I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian,’ ii. 298.

RUFFLE.  ’If a mere wish could attain it, a man would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle,’ ii. 357.

RUFFLES.  ‘Ancient ruffles and modern principles do not agree,’ iv. 81.

RUINING.  ‘He is ruining himself without pleasure,’ iii. 348.

RUNTS.  ‘Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts’ (Mrs. Salusbury), iii. 337.

S.

SAILOR.  ’No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a gaol,’ v. 137.

SAT.  ‘Yes, Sir, if he sat next you,’ ii. 193.

SAVAGE.  ‘You talk the language of a savage,’ ii. 130.

SAVAGES.  ‘One set of savages is like another,’ iv. 308.

SAY.  ‘The man is always willing to say what he has to say,’ iii. 307.

SCARLET BREECHES.  ’It has been a fashion to wear scarlet breeches; these men would tell you that, according to causes and effects, no other wear could at that time have been chosen,’ iv. 189.

SCHEME.  ‘Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment,’ i. 331, n. 5.

SCHEMES.  ’It sometimes happens that men entangle themselves in their own schemes,’ iii. 386;
  ‘Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things,’
ii. 102.

SCHOOLBOY.  ’A schoolboy’s exercise may be a pretty thing for a schoolboy, but it is no treat for a man,’ ii. 127.

SCHOOLMASTER.  ’You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill,’ ii. 88.

SCOTCH.  ‘I’d rather have you whistle a Scotch tune,’ iv. 111;
  ‘Scotch conspiracy in national falsehood,’ ii. 297;
  ’Sir, it is not so much to be lamented that Old England is lost
as that the Scotch have found it,’ iii. 78;
  ’Why, Sir, all barrenness is comparative.  The Scotch would not
know it to be barren,’ iii. 76.

SCOTCHMAN.  ’Come, gentlemen, let us candidly admit that there is
one Scotchman who is cheerful,’ iii. 387;
  ‘Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy,’
v. 346;
  ’He left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger
after his death,’ i. 268;
  ‘Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young,’ ii. 194;
  ‘One Scotchman is as good as another,’ iv. 101;
  ’The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high
road that leads him to England,’ i. 425; v. 387;
  ’Though the dog is a Scotchman and a Presbyterian, and everything
he should not be,’ &c., iv. 98;
  ’Why, Sir, I should not have said of Buchanan, had he been an
Englishman, what I will now say of him as a Scotchman,
—­that he was the only man of genius his country ever produced,’ iv. 185;
  ’You would not have been so valuable as you are had you not been
a Scotchman,’ iii. 347.