his intention to resign the presidency, iv. 366, n. 2;
  travelling students, iv. 202, n. 1. 
ROYAL FAMILY, Johnson’s dedications, ii. 2, 225;
  unpopular, ii. 234. 
ROYAL MARRIAGE BILL, ii. 152.
Royal Recollections, i. 116, n. 1. 
ROYAL SOCIETY, Dryden’s lines, ii. 241;
  Johnson improves the method of the Philosophical Transactions,
ii. 40, n. 2;
  Presidents—­Earl of Macclesfield, i. 267, n. 1;
    Sir John Pringle, iii. 65, n. 1;
  mentioned, iv. 92, n. 5. 
RUDD, Mrs., account of her, ii. 450, n. 1;
  Boswell’s acquaintance with her, iii. 79;
  approved by Johnson, iii. 79, 80, 330. 
RUDDIMAN, Thomas, Boswell projects his Life, ii. 216;
  Johnson’s regard for him, i. 211;
  Laurence Kirk, projected monument at, v. 75;
  Librarian of Advocates’ Library, ii. 216;
  ‘Ruddiman is dead,’ ii. 21;
  mentioned, iii. 372. 
RUFFHEAD, Owen, Life of Pope, ii. 166; iv. 50, n. 1. 
RUFFLES, laced, iv. 80. 
RUINS, artificial, v. 456. 
RUNDEL, Bishop, ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1.
Runick Inscription, i. 156, n. 3.
Runts, iii. 337. 
RUSKIN, Mr. John, anecdote of Northcote, i. 377, n. 1;
  Bibliotheca Pastorum, iii. 94, n. 2;
  New Town of Edinburgh, v. 68, n. 1. 
RUSSELL, Alexander, Natural History of Aleppo, i. 309; iv. 171. 
RUSSELL, Lady, ii. 210, n. 3. 
RUSSELL, Lord William, ii. 210. 
RUSSIA, alchymist, a Russian, ii. 377;
  Beauclerk’s library offered to the ambassador, iii. 420;
  Bell’s Travels, ii. 55;
  Lapouchin’s, Mme., punishment, iii. 340;
  population increasing, ii. 101;
  rising in power, ii. 127, n. 4;
  mentioned, ii. 131, n. 2: 
  See CATHERINE II. 
RUSTIC HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE, iv. 175; v. 293. 
RUTLAND, Duchess of, iv. 224, n. 1. 
RUTLAND, Roger, Earl of, i. 431. 
RUTTY, Dr., account of him, iii. 170, n. 4;
  extracts from his Diary, iii. 170-2. 
RYLAND, Mr.,
  Johnson’s friend in 1752, i. 242;
    letters to him:  See under JOHNSON, letters;
  member of the Essex Head Club, iv. 360;
    and Ivy Lane Club, iv. 435. 
RYMER, Thomas, i. 498, n. 4; ii. 444, n. 2. 
RYSWICK, peace of, iii. 446.

S.

SABBATH.  See SUNDAY. 
SACHEVERELL, Rev. Dr. Henry,
  Johnson heard him preach at Lichfield, i. 39;
  sale of his Trial, i. 34, n 5. 
SACHEVERELL, W.,
  Account of the Isle of Man, v. 309, n. 1, 336. 
SACRAMENT,
  preparation for it, iv. 122;
  in one kind, ii. 105. 
  See under JOHNSON. 
SADNESS.  ‘Sadness only multiplies self,’ iii. 136, n. 2. 
SAGACITY, iv. 335. 
SAILORS,
  estimation in which they are held, iii. 265-6;
  generosity, v. 400;
  Johnson’s description of their life, i. 348; ii. 438; iii. 266;
iv. 250; v. 137;