r 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.

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;
'