SCOTCHMEN. ’Droves of Scotchmen would come up and attest anything
for the honour of Scotland,’ ii. 311;
  ’I shall suppose Scotchmen made necessarily, and Englishmen by
choice,’ v. 48;
  ’It was remarked of Mallet that he was the only Scot whom Scotchmen
did not commend,’ ii. 159, n. 3;
  ‘We have an inundation of Scotchmen’ (Wilkes), iv. 101.

SCOTLAND.  ’A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not
love Scotland better than truth,’ ii. 311, n. 4; v. 389, n. 1;
  ’Describe the inn, Sir?  Why, it was so bad that Boswell wished to
be in Scotland,’ iii. 51;
  ’If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds,
what remains for all the rest of the nation?’ iv. 101;
  ’Oats.  A grain which in England is generally given to horses,
but in Scotland supports the people,’ i. 294, n. 8;
  ‘Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England,’ iii. 248;
  ‘Sir, you have desert enough in Scotland,’ ii. 75;
  ’Things which grow wild here must be cultivated with great care in
Scotland.  Pray, now, are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfection?’
ii. 77;
  ‘Why so is Scotland your native place,’ ii. 52.

SCOUNDREL.  ‘Fludyer turned out a scoundrel, a Whig,’ ii. 444;
  ‘I told her she was a scoundrel’ (a carpenter), ii. 456, n. 3;
  ‘Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam,’ iii. 1;
  ‘Sir, he was a scoundrel and coward,’ i. 268.

SCREEN.  ‘He stood as a screen between me and death’ (Swift), iii. 441, n. 3.

SCRIBBLING.  ‘The worst way of being intimate is by scribbling,’ v. 93.

SCRUPLES.  ‘Whoever loads life with unnecessary scruples,’ &c., ii. 72, n. 1.

SEE.  ‘Let us endeavour to see things as they are,’ i. 339.

Semel Baro semper Baro (Boswell), i. 492, n. 1.

SEND.  ‘Nay, Sir; we’ll send you to him,’ iii. 315.

SENSATION.  ‘Sensation is sensation,’ v. 95.

SENSE.  ‘He grasps more sense than he can hold,’ iv. 98:  ’Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the sense that I put into it,’ iii. 381.

SERENITY.  ’The serenity that is not felt it can be no virtue to feign,’ iv. 395.

SEVERITY.  ‘Severity is not the way to govern either boys or men’ (Lord Mansfield), ii. 186.

SHADOWY.  ‘Why, Sir, something of a shadowy being,’ ii. 178.

SHALLOWS.  ‘All shallows are clear,’ v. 44, n. 3.

SHERRY.  ’Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.  Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature,’ i. 453.

SHIFT.  ’As long as you have the use of your tongue and your pen, never, Sir, be reduced to that shift,’ iv. 190, n. 2.

SHINE.  ‘You shine, indeed, but it is by being ground,’ iii. 386.

SHIP.  Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned,’ i. 348; v. 137;
  ‘It is getting on horseback in a ship’ (Hierocles), v. 308.