Saxon lords, their authority and jurisdiction as great before the conquest as those of the Normans were afterward, ii. 110.
Schools, parochial, observations on, iii. 166–167.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition, iii. 183.
Scipio, his Spanish militia, rendered superior to the Carthaginian militia by discipline and service, iii. 60.
Scotland, compared with England, as to the prices of labor and provisions, i. 134–136; remarks on the population of the Highlands, 139–140; the market rate of interest higher than the legal rate, 154; the situation of cottagers there, described, 189–190; apprenticeships and corporations, 196–197; the common people of, why neither so strong nor so handsome as the same class in England, 249; cause of the frequent emigrations from, 288; progress of agriculture there before the union with England, 330; present obstructions to better husbandry, 331; the price of wool reduced by the union, 349; operation of the several banking companies established there, 410; amount of the circulating money there before the union, 411; amount of the present circulating cash, 412; course of dealings in the Scots bank, ibid.; difficulties occasioned by these banks issuing too much paper, 419; necessary caution for some time observed by the banks in giving credit to their customers, with the good effects of it, 423; the scheme of drawing and redrawing adopted by traders, 428; its pernicious tendency explained, 429; history of the Ayr bank, 430; Mr. Law's scheme to improve the country, 440–441; the prices of goods in, not altered by paper currency, 451; effect of the optional clauses in their notes, 451–452.—Cause of the speedy establishment of the reformation there, iii. 199; the disorders attending popular elections of the clergy there, occasion the right of patronage to be established, 202; amount of the whole revenue of the clergy, 208.
Sea service and military service by land compared, i. 179.
Sects in religion, the more numerous, the better for society, iii. 178; why they generally profess the austere system of morality, 182.
Self-love the governing principle in the intercourse of human society, i. 56.
Servants, menial, distinguished from hired workmen, ii. 7; the various orders of men, who rank in the former class, in reference to their labors, 8–9; their labor unproductive, iii. 25.
Settlements of the poor, brief review of the English laws relating to, i. 217; the removals of the poor, a violation of natural liberty, 223.—The law of, ought to be repealed, ii. 181.
Sheep, frequently killed in Spain, for the sake of the fleece and the tallow, i. 342.—Severe laws against the exportation of them and their wool, ii. 425.
Shepherds, war how supported by a nation of, iii. 44; inequality of fortune among, the source of great authority, 72; birth and family highly honored in nations of shepherds,
