Selwyn, his reply on being charged with a want of feeling, 53; of vices becoming necessities, 65. Seneca, an usurer with seven millions, 245; a maxim of, 349. Shakespeare, Johnson's tribute to, 152. Sharp, on the difficulty of doing good, 22. Shelley, sighs to Leigh Hunt, 357. Shenstone, splendid misery of, 246. Sheridan, sarcasm upon Cumberland, 8; fastidiousness as a writer, 127; how he elaborated his wit, 129; a curious fact of, 267. Sherlock, consolation for the shortness of life, 332. Siddons, Mrs., confesses her ignorance, 30. Sidney, Algernon, remark of Evelyn relating to, 189. Silenus, of Jove and Mercury, 92. Simonides, replies to Hiero, 31, 348; fable of the crab and the snake, 364. Small-pox, goddess of, worshiped and burned in China, 36. Smith, Adam, a laborious writer, 129. Smith, Sydney, how he was cured of shyness, 15; his objection to Scotch philosophers, 93; advice to the Bishop of New Zealand, 99; the Suckling Act, 103; remark to his brother, 169; a phrenologist pronounces him a great naturalist, 188; authorship of the Plymley Letters, 201; resorted to Dante for solace, 267; on getting human beings together who ought to be together, 341. Smollett and his dependents, 199; private character of, 245. Socrates, reply to Menon, 6; the hardest of all trades, 25; called illiterate, 144; to his judges, 174; idolatry of, 243; timidity of, 262; a poor accountant, 263; learned music after he was seventy, 267; enlargement of a thought of, 374. Solomon, there is no new thing, 186; his wicked son, 247; what he said of laughter, 314. Somerset, duke of, 69. Sophocles, considered a lunatic, 144. Soul, purification of the, illustrated by the old coin, 388. Southey, story of Vergara and the seventh commandment, 17; to Cottle of the meanness of an Englishman at Lisbon, 88; not ashamed of his radicalism, 104; declines the editorship of the Times, 141; unknown to his neighbors, 145; on certain famous literary works, 199; attempt to hoax Hook, 200. Souvestre, virtue takes no pupils, 95; philosophizes on the carnival, 299; the small dwelling joy can live in, 348; awards the palm to moderation, 348; rest in an eternal childhood, 353. Spencer, the religion of amity and the religion of enmity, 365. Spenser, poverty of, 134; story told of, 166. Spinoza, declines a present, 142; persecuted by the Jews, 254. Spiritualism, very old, 182. Stanley, Dean, story of Rutherford and Usher, 357. Statue, doubtful sex of a, 187. St. Bartholomew, conduct of ladies at the massacre of, 35. Steele, one of his Tatlers referred to, 169; Miss Prue, 246; castle-builders, 330; on Christianity, 372; epitaph by, 382. Sterling, criticises Rochefoucauld's Maxims, 2; on seeking perfect virtue, 90; there will always be errors to mourn over, 91.