C.
CABBAGE. 'Such a woman might be cut out of a cabbage, if there was a skilful artificer,' v. 231.
CALCULATE. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.
CANDLES. 'A man who has candles may sit up too late,' ii. 188.
CANNISTER. 'An author hunted with a cannister at his tail,' iii. 320.
CANT. 'Clear your mind of cant,' iv. 221;
'Don't cant in defence of savages,' iv. 308;
'Vulgar cant against the manners of the great,' iii. 353.
CANTING. 'A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the last,' iii. 270.
CAPITULATE. 'I will be conquered, I will not capitulate,' iv. 374.
CARD-PLAYING. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing,'
iii. 23;
'It generates kindness and consolidates society,' v. 404.
CARROT. 'You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot,' ii. 439.
CAT. 'She was a speaking cat,' iii. 246.
CATCH. 'God will not take a catch of him,' iv. 225.
CATCHING. 'That man spent his life in catching at an object which he had not power to grasp,' ii. 129.
CATEGORICAL. 'I could never persuade her to be categorical,' iii. 461.
CAUTION. 'A strain of cowardly caution,' iii. 210.
CAWMELL. 'Ay, ay, he has learnt this of Cawmell,' i. 418.
CENSURE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323.
CHAIR. 'He fills a chair,' iv. 81.
CHARACTER. 'Ranger is just a rake, a mere rake, and a lively young fellow, but no character ii. 50; 'Derrick may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over,' i. 394; 'The greater part of mankind have no character at all,' iii. 280, n. 3.
CHARITY. 'There is as much charity in helping a man down-hill as in helping him up-hill,' v. 243.
CHEERFULNESS. 'Cheerfulness was always breaking in' (Edwards), iii. 305.
CHEQUERED. 'Thus life is chequered,' iv. 245, n. 2.
CHERRY-STONES. 'A genius that could not carve heads upon cherry-stones,' iv. 305.
CHIEF. 'He has no more the soul of a chief than an attorney who has twenty houses in a street, and considers how much he can make by them,' v. 378.
CHILDISH. 'One may write things to a child without being childish'
(Swift), ii. 408, n. 3.
CHIMNEY. 'To endeavour to make her ridiculous is like blacking the chimney,' ii. 336.
CHUCK-FARTHING. 'A judge is not to play at marbles or at chuck-farthing in the Piazza,' ii. 344.
CHURCH. 'He never passes a church without pulling off his hat,' i. 418;
'Let me see what was once a church,' v. 41.
CITIZEN. 'The citizen's enlarged dinner, two pieces of roast-beef and two puddings,' iii. 272.
CIVIL. 'He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it,' iii. 183
CIVILITY. 'We have done with civility,' iii. 273.
CLAIMS. 'He fills weak heads with imaginary claims,' ii. 244.
CLAPPED. 'He could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped on the back by Tom Davies' (Beauclerk), ii. 344.
CLARET. 'A man would be drowned by claret before it made him drunk,'
iii. 381; iv. 79;
'Claret is the liquor for boys,' iii. 381.
CLEAN. 'He did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it,' i. 397.
CLEANEST. 'He was the cleanest-headed man that he had met with,' v. 338.
CLERGYMAN. 'A clergyman's diligence always makes him venerable,' iii. 438.
CLIPPERS. 'There are clippers abroad,' iii. 49.
COAT. 'A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one,' iii. 188, n. 4.
COCK. 'A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution,' ii. 334.
COCK-FIGHTING. 'Cock-fighting will raise the spirits of a company,' iii. 42.
COMBINATION. 'There is a combination in it of which Macaulay is not capable,' v. 119.
COMEDY. 'I beg pardon, I thought it was a comedy' (Shelburne),
iv. 246, n. 5;
'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233.
COMMON—PLACES. 'Criticism disdains to chase a school-boy to his common-places,' iv. 16, n. 4.
COMPANY. 'A fellow comes into our company who is fit for no
company,' v. 312;
'The servants seem as unfit to attend a company as to steer a
man of war,' iv. 312.
COMPARATIVE. 'All barrenness is comparative,' iii. 76.
COMPLETES. 'He never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57.
CONCENTRATED. 'It is being concentrated which produces high convenience,' v. 27.
CONCENTRATES. 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.
CONCLUSIVE. 'There is nothing conclusive in his talk,' iii. 57.
CONE. 'A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone,' iii. 283.
CONGRESS. 'If I had bestowed such an education on a daughter, and had discovered that she thought of marrying such a fellow, I would have sent her to the Congress,' ii. 409.
CONSCIENCE. 'No man's conscience can tell him the right of another man,' ii. 243.
CONTEMPT. 'No man loves to be treated with contempt,' iii. 385.
CONTEMPTIBLE. 'There is no being so poor and so contemptible who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible,' ii. 13.
CONTRADICTED. 'What harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?' iv. 280.
CONVERSATION. 'In conversation you never get a system,' ii. 361;
'We had talk enough, but no conversation,' iv. 186.
COUNT. 'He had to count ten, and he has counted it right,' ii. 65; 'When the judgment is so disturbed that a man cannot count, that is pretty well,' iv. 176.
COUNTING. 'A man is often as narrow as he is prodigal for want of counting,' iv. 4, n. 4.
COUNTRY. 'They who are content to live in the country are fit for the country,' iv. 338.
Cow. 'A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of
a garden,' ii. 187;
'My dear Sir, I would confine myself to the cow' (Blair), v. 396, n. 4;
'Nay, Sir, if you cannot talk better as a man, I'd have you bellow
like a cow,' v. 396.
COWARDICE. 'Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace,' iii. 326;
'Such is the cowardice of a commercial place,' iii. 429.
COXCOMB. 'He is a coxcomb, but a satisfactory coxcomb'(Hamilton),
iii. 245, n. i;
'Once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb,' ii. 129.
CRAZY. 'Sir, there is no trusting to that crazy piety,' ii. 473.
Crédulité. 'La Crédulité des incrédules' (Lord Hailes), v. 332.
CRITICISM. 'Blown about by every wind of criticism,' iv. 319.
CROSS-LEGGED. 'A tailor sits crosslegged, but that is not luxury,' ii. 218
CRUET. 'A mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet,' v. 269.
Cui bono. 'I hate a cui bono man' (Dr. Shaw), iv. 112.
CURE. 'Stay till I am well, and then you shall tell me how to cure myself,' ii. 260.
CURIOSITY. 'There are two objects of curiosity-the Christian world and the Mahometan world,' iv. 199.