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.