See SCOTLAND, serfs.
_Serious Call_. See LAW, William.
SERJEANTSON, Rev. James, iv. 393, n. 3.
SERMONS,
attended to better than prayers, ii. 173;
considerable branch of literature, iv. 105;
Johnson's advice about their composition, iii. 437; v. 68;
his opinion of the best, iii. 247
(See under JOHNSON, sermons);
passions, addressed to the, iii. 248;
style, improvement in, iii. 248.
SERVANTS, male and female, ii. 217.
SERVITORS. See OXFORD.
SESSIONAL REPORTS. See OLD BAILEY.
SETTLE, Elkanah,
City-Poet, iii. 76;
Dryden's rival, ib.;
mentioned, i. 55.
SETTLEMENT OF ESTATES, ii. 432.
_Seven Champions of Christendom_, iv. 8, n. 3.
SEVEN PROVINCES, i. 475.
SEVERITY, government by, ii. 186.
SEVIGNE, Mme. de,
existence, the task of, iii. 53;
misprints of her name, iii. 53, n. 2;
Pelisson, her friend, i. 90, n. 1;
style copied by Gray and Walpole, iii. 31, n. 1;
truthfulness on a death-bed, v. 397, n. 1.
SEWARD, Miss Anna,
_Acis and Galatea_, quotation from, iii. 242, n. 2;
Boswell introduced to her, ii. 467;
calls on her, iii. 412;
controversy with her, i. 92, n. 2; ii. 467, n. 4; iv. 331, n. 2;
dines at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 284-300;
fanciful reflection, i. 40, n. 3;
ghosts, iii. 297;
Hayley, correspondence with, iv. 331, n. 2;
Johnson and the learned pig, iv. 373;
praises her poetry, iv. 331;
_Ode on the death of Captain Cook_, iv.
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