SPANISH PROVERBS, i. 73, n. 3; iii. 302. 
SPARTA, ii. 176; iii. 293. 
SPEAKING, of another, iv. 32;
  of oneself, iii. 323;
  public speaking, ii. 139, 339. 
SPEARING, Mr., an attorney, i. 132, n. 1.
Spectator,
  Addison, badness of the part not written by, iii. 33;
  Baretti, read by, iv. 32;
  Bonn’s edition, iv. 190, n. 1;
  Bouhours quoted, ii. 90, n. 3;
  bows of the Spectator’s banker, i. 440, n. 1;
  British Princes, ii. 108, n. 3;
  curious epitaph, iv. 358, n. 2;
  edition with notes, ii. 212;
  end of its publication, i. 201, n. 3;
  Epilogue to the Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4;
  ’find
  variety in one,’ iii. 424, n. 2;
  Freeport, Sir Andrew, ii. 212, n. 2;
  ‘Gentleman, The,’ ii. 182;
  Grove’s paper on Novelty, iii. 33;
  Hockley in the Hole, iii. 134, n. 1;
  Kurd’s notes, iv. 190, n. 1;
  Ince’s papers, iii. 33, n. 3;
  Indian King at St. Paul’s, i. 450, n. 3;
  Johnson praises it, ii. 370;
  milking a ram, i. 444, n. 1;
  motto to No. 379, v. 25, n. 2;
  Osborne’s Advice to a Son, ii. 193, n. 2;
  paper of notanda, i. 205;
  Philip Homebred, iii. 34;
  Pope’s letter to Steele, iii 420, n. 2;
  Psalmanazar ridiculed, iii. 449;
  reputation enjoyed by chance
  writers in it, iii. 33; singularity, ii. 75;
  Two-penny Club, iv. 254, n. 1;
  Whole Duty of Man, i. 216, n. 1: 
  See under ADDISON. 
SPEDDING, James, Bacon’s Works, i. 431, n. 2. 
SPEECH-MAKING, a knack, iv. 179. 
SPELLING, in the seventeenth century, v. 299, n. 1. 
  See JOHNSON, spelling. 
SPENCE, Rev. Joseph, account of him, v. 317;
  Anecdotes, iv. 63; v. 414;
  Blacklock’s poetry, i. 466;
  Pope visits him at Oxford, iv. 9;
  mentioned, ii. 84, n. 2. 
SPENCER, second Earl, member of the Literary Club, i. 479. 
SPENCER, Lady, iii. 425, n. 3. 
SPENSER, Edmund, Bunyan, read by, ii. 238;
  Dictionary, as an authority for a, iii. 194, n. 2;
  George III suggests that Johnson should write his Life,
ii. 42, n. 2; iv. 410;
  imitations of him, iii. 158, n. 4;
  Ruines of Rome, iii. 251, n. 1;
  ‘Spenser, Mr. Edmund,’ iv. 325, n. 3. 
SPHINX, the, iii. 337. 
SPINOSA, i. 268, n. 2; iii. 448. 
SPIRIT, evidence for.  See JOHNSON, spirit. 
SPIRITS.  See GHOSTS. 
SPIRITS, evil, iv. 290.
Spiritual Quixote,
  its author, a member of Pembroke College, i. 75, n. 3;
    and a friend of Shenstone, i. 94, n. 5; ii. 452, n. 4;
  on clean shirts, v. 60, n. 4. 
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS,
  felicity of drunkenness cheaply attained by them, iii. 381, n. 3;
  misery caused by them, ii. 435, n. 7; iii. 292, n. 1;
  pleasant poison, v. 346, n. 2.
Spleen, The, iii. 38, 405. 
SPLENDOUR, iv. 337. 
SPOONER, Rev. Mr., v. 73. 
SPOTTISWOODE, Dr., ii. 323, n. 2.