at 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.

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
othe