Chapter 56

'You have _set_ him that I might shoot him, but I have not shot him,' iv. 83.

SHOOTERS. 'Where there are many shooters, some will hit,' iii. 254.

SHORT-HAND. 'A long head is as good as short-hand' (Mrs. Thrale), iv. 166.

SHOT. 'He is afraid of being shot getting _into_ a house, or hanged when he has got _out_ of it,' iv. 127.

SICK. 'Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me, I am sick of both,' iii. 57; 'To a sick man what is the public?' iv. 260, n. 2.

SIEVE. 'Sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding. It is stopping one hole in a sieve,' iii. 300.

SINNING. 'The gust of eating pork with the pleasure of sinning' (Dr. Barrowby), iv. 292.

SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. 'Let's go into the slaughter-house again, Lanky. But I am afraid there is more blood than brains,' iv. 20.

SLIGHT. 'If it is a slight man and a slight thing you may [laugh at a man to his face], for you take nothing valuable from him,' iii. 338.

SLUT. 'She was generally slut and drunkard, occasionally whore and thief,' iv. 103.

SMALL. 'Small certainties are the bane of men of talents' (Strahan), ii. 323.

SMILE. 'Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich,' ii. 79.

SOBER. 'I would not keep company with a fellow who lies as long as he is sober, and whom you must make drunk before you can get a word of truth out of him,' ii. 188.

SOCIETY. 'He puts something into our society and takes nothing out of it,' v. 178.

SOCKET. 'The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket,' iii. 423.

SOFT. 'Sir, it is such a recommendation as if I should throw you out of a two pair of stairs window, and recommend to you to fall soft,' iv. 323.

SOLDIERS. 'Soldiers die scattering bullets,' v. 240.

SOLEMNITY. 'There must be a kind of solemnity in the manner of a professional man,' iv. 310.

SOLITARY. 'Be not solitary, be not idle' (Burton), iii. 415.

SOLITUDE. 'This full-peopled world is a dismal solitude,' iv. 147, n. 2.

SORROW. 'There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow,' iii. 137, n. 1.

SORRY. 'Sir, he said all that a man should say; he said he was sorry for it,' ii. 436.

SPARROWS. 'You may take a field piece to shoot sparrows, but all the sparrows you can bring home will not be worth the charge,' v. 261.

_Spartam. 'Spartam quam nactus es orna_,' iv. 379.

SPEAK. 'A man cannot with propriety speak of himself, except he relates simple facts,' iii. 323.

SPEND. 'He has neither spirit to spend nor resolution to spare,' iii. 317.

SPENDS. 'A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man,' iii. 322.

SPIRITUAL COURT. 'Sir, I can put her into the Spiritual Court,' i. 101.

SPLENDOUR. 'Let us breakfast in splendour,' iii. 400.

SPOILED. 'Like sour small beer, she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled,' v. 449, n. 1.

SPOONS. 'If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons,' i. 432.

STAMP. 'I was resolved not to give you the advantage even of a stamp in the argument' (Parr), iv. 15, n. 5.

STAND. 'They resolved they would _stand by their country,'_ i. 164.

STATELY. 'That will not be the case [i.e. you will not be imposed on] if you go to a stately shop, as I always do,' iv. 319.

STOCKS. 'A man who preaches in the stocks will always have hearers enough,' ii. 251; 'Stocks for the men, a ducking-stool for women, and a pound for beasts,' iii. 287.

STONE. 'Chinese is only more difficult from its rudeness; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe,' iii. 339.

STONES. 'I don't care how often or how high he tosses me when only friends are present, for then I fall upon soft ground; but I do not like falling on stones, which is the case when enemies are present' (Boswell), iii. 338; 'The boys would throw stones at him,' ii. 193.

STORY. 'If you were to read Richardson for the story your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself,' ii. 175.

STORY-TELLER. 'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as story-teller to a company,' iv. 192, n. 2.

STRAIGHT. 'He has a great deal of learning; but it never lies straight,' iv. 225.

STRANGE. 'I'm never strange in a strange place' (Journey to London), iv. 284.

STRATAGEM. 'This comes of stratagem,' iii. 275.

STRAW. 'The first man who balanced a straw upon his nose... deserved the applause of mankind,' iii. 231.

STRETCH. 'Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 8, n. 3.

STRIKE. 'A man cannot strike till he has his weapons,' iii. 316.

STUFF. 'It is sad stuff; it is brutish,' ii. 228; 'This now is such stuff as I used to talk to my mother, when I first began to think myself a clever fellow, and she ought to have whipped me for it,' ii. 14.

STUNNED. 'We are not to be stunned and astonished by him,' iv. 83.

STYE. 'Sir, he brings himself to the state of a hog in a stye,' iii. 152.

STYLE. 'Nothing is more easy than to write enough in that style if once you begin,' v. 388.

SUCCEED. 'He is only fit to succeed himself,' ii. 132.

SUCCESSFUL. 'Man commonly cannot be successful in different ways,' iv. 83.

SUICIDE. 'Sir, It would be a civil suicide,' iv. 223.

SULLEN. 'Harris is a sound sullen scholar,' iii. 245.

SUNSHINE. 'Dr. Mead lived more in the broad sunshine of life than almost any man,' iii. 355.

SUPERIORITY. 'You shall retain your superiority by my not knowing it,' ii. 220.

SURLY. 'Surly virtue,' i. 130.

SUSPICION. 'Suspicion is very often an useless pain,' iii. 135.

SWEET. 'It has not wit enough to keep it sweet,' iv. 320.

SWORD. 'It is like a man who has a sword that will not draw,' ii. 161.

SYBIL. 'It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration,' iv. 59.

SYSTEM. 'No, Sir, let fanciful men do as they will, depend upon it, it is difficult to disturb the system of life,' ii. 102.

SYSTEMATICALLY. 'Kurd, Sir, is one of a set of men who account for everything systematically,' iv. 189.

T.

TABLE. 'Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he'd wish to creep under the table,' iii. 265; 'As to the style, it is fit for the second table,' iii. 31.

TAIL. 'If any man has a tail, it is Col,' v. 330; 'I will not be baited with what and why; what is this? what is that? why is a cow's tail long? why is a fox's tail bushy?' iii. 268.

TAILS. 'If they have tails they hide them,' v. 111.

TALK. 'Solid talk,' v. 365:' There is neither meat, drink, nor talk,' iii. 186, n. 3; 'Well, we had good talk,' ii. 66; 'You may talk as other people do,' iv. 221.

TALKED. 'While they talked, you said nothing,' v. 39.

TALKING. 'People may come to do anything almost, by talking of it,' v. 286.

TALKS. 'A man who talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you,' iii. 247.

TASKS. 'Never impose tasks upon mortals,' iii. 420.

TAVERN. 'A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity,' ii. 452, n. 1.

TEACH. 'It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452.

TEA-KETTLE. 'We must not compare the noise made by your tea-kettle here with the roaring of the ocean,' ii. 86, n. i.

TELL. 'It is not so; do not tell this again,' iii. 229; 'Why, Sir, so am I. But I do not tell it,' iv. 191.

TENDERNESS. 'Want of tenderness is want of parts,' ii. 122.

TERROR. 'Looking back with sorrow and forward with terror,' iv. 253, n. 4.

TESTIMONY. 'Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow' (Boyle), iv. 281.

_Tête-à-tête._ 'You must not indulge your delicacy too much; or you will be a _tête-à-tête_ man all your life,' iii. 376.

THE. 'The tender infant, meek and mild,' ii. 212, n. 4.

THEOLOGIAN. 'I say, Lloyd, I'm the best theologian, but you are the best Christian,' vi. liv.

THIEF. See SLUT.

THINK. You may talk in this manner,....but don't _think_ foolishly,'