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be brought into, iii. 33, 145; Gay's CHRYSOSTOM, v. 508.

writings for them, ii. 468, n. 3; John- | CHURCH, The, possesses the right of

son on books for them, iv. 9, n. 5, 19; library, to be turned loose in a, iv. 24; management of them, i. 54, n. 2; method of rearing them, ii. 116; natural aptitudes, v. 240, 244; prematurely wise, ii. 468.

CHINA, dog-butchers, ii. 266; mortality on the voyage thither, i. 403, n. 1; wall of, iii. 306, 519; people 'perfectly polite,' i. 103; barbarians, iii. 386; plantations, iv. 70.

China, Du Halde's Description of. See
DU HALDE.

CHINA-FANCY, iii. 185, 22. I.
CHINA-MANUFACTORY, iii. 185.
Chinese Architecture. See CHAMBERS,
Sir W.

Chinese Stories, i. 158.
CHISWICK, iv. 193, 22. 4.

CHOICE OF DIFFICULTIES,' v. 167. CHOISI, Abbé, iii. 383. CHOLMONDELEY, G. J., iv. 398. CHOLMONDELEY, Mrs., account of her, iii. 362, n. 1; a very airy lady, v. 282; an affected gentleman, iii. 296; Johnson takes her hand, iii. 362, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 144; iii. 290. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, ii. 328. CHRIST'S satisfaction, iv. 143-4; v. 99. CHRISTIAN, Rev. Mr., ii. 59. Christian Hero, ii. 513. Christian Philosopher and Politician, i. 234, 12. I.

CHRISTIANITY, differences political rather than religious, i. 469; chiefly in forms, ii. 173; iii. 214; evidences for it, i. 460, 468, 495, 514, 526; ii. 9, 16; iii. 214, 360; v. 52, 387; revelation of immortality its great article, iii. 214; its 'wilds,' iii. 356. CHRISTIE, James, the auctioneer, iv. 463, n. 3.

censure, iii. 68–72, 104, n. 3. 'CHURCH AND KING,' iv. 34, 342. CHURCH OF ENGLAND, in Charles II's reign, ii. 390-1; 'Churchmen will not be Catholics,' iv. 34, n. 2; Convocation denied it, i. 537; discipline and Convocation, iv. 320; example of attendance at the services, ii. 198; House of Hanover, all against the, v. 309; manner of reading the service, iii. 496; neglected state of the buildings, v. 46, n. 1; of the cathedrals, v. 129, n. 1; observance of days, ii. 525; parishes neglected, iii. 496; patronage, ii. 278-82; revenues, iii. 157; theory and practice, iii. 157. CHURCH OF ROME. See ROMAN CATHOLICS.

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. See under SCOTLAND.

CHURCHILL, Charles, account of the publication of his poems, i. 485, 12. 3; profits, i. 486, n. 2; 'blotting,' hatred of, i. 486, n. 2; Boswell criticises his poetry, i. 486; 'brains not excised,' v. 57; Cowper's high estimate of his poetry, i. 485, 2. I; Davies and his wife, i. 452, n. 4, 560; iii. 253, 282; death, his, i. 457, n. 2, 485, n. 3; Dodsley's Cleone, i. 378, n. 2; Flexney, his publisher, ii. 130, n. 2; Francklin, Dr., iv. 39, n. 4; ''gainst fools be guarded,' v. 247, n. 1; Gotham, i. 486, n. 3; Guthrie, William, i. 136, n. 1; Hill, Sir John, ii. 43, n. 2; Holland the actor, iv. 8, n. 5; Johnson, attacks, about Shakespeare, i. 370, 485; about the Cock - Lane Ghost, i. 470; about his strong terms, iii. 1, n. 2; despises his poetry, i. 485; Lloyd in the Fleet - prison, i. 457, 12. 2; Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii.

Churchill.

540, n. 2; Ogilvie's poetry, i. 490, n. 1; Prophecy of Famine, i. 431, n. I, 486; iii. 88, n. 1; Gotham, Europe's treatment of savages, iii. 232, n. I; straw in Bedlam, ii. 429, n. 2; 'strolling tribe,' i. 193, n. 3; Warburton, Bishop, iv. 57, n. 3; v. 91, n. 3; Whitehead, Paul, i. 144; 'With wits a fool, with fools a wit,' i. 308,

12. 2.

CHURTON, Rev. Ralph, ii. 296, n. 3; iv.

245, n. 3, 346, n. 2.

CIBBER, Colley, Apology, ii. 106; iii.
82; Goldsmith praises it, ib., n. 3;
Birth-day Odes, i. 172, n. 2, 464; ii.
106; iii. 83, 209; Careless Husband,
revised by Mrs. Brett, i. 201, n. 1;
origin of the story, ib.; no doubt
written by Cibber, ii. 389; praised by
Pope and H. Walpole, iii. 83, n. 2;
Comedies, merit in his, ii. 389; iii.
83; Chesterfield, and Johnson, anec-
dote about, i. 297; conversation, his,
ii. 106, 389; iii. 83; Dryden, recol-
lections of, iii. 82; Fenton, insulted,
i. 118, n. 4; genteel ladies, his, ii.
390; Hob or The Country Wake, ii. |
532, n. 1; ignorance, iii. 82, n. 2; iv.
280; impudence, i. 178, n. 2; ii. 389,
n. 4; Johnson's epigram on him, i.
172-3; v. 397, 399, 461; —, shows
one of his Odes to, ii. 106; - mode
of arguing: see JOHNSON, arguing;
manager of Drury Lane, v. 277, n.
6; Musa Cibberi, iv. 3, n. 2; Non-
juror, The, ii. 367; poet-laureate, i.
464, n. 1; Provoked Husband, ii. 55;
iv. 328, n. 1; Richard III, version of,
iii. 84, n. 1; Richardson's respect for
him, ii. 106; iii. 209; vanity, iii. 299;
Walpole praises his character, i. 464,
n. 1; his Apology, iii. 83, n. 2; and
his acting, iv. 281, n. 1; Whig, vio-
lent, iii. 35, ".

Claret.

CIBBER, Theophilus, edits the Lives of the Poets, i. 216; iii. 34-6, 132; death, iii. 35, n.

CIBBER, Mrs. (wife of Theophilus),
account of her, v. 144, n. 3; acted in
Irene, i. 229; mentioned, ii. 106.
CICERO, Burke not like him, v. 243;
Chesterfield likened to him, iii. 399;
image of Virtue, ii. 17, n. 2, 507;
quotations from Cato Major, iii. 497,
n. 3; iv. 431, n. 3; Ep. ad Att., iv.
437, n. 2; Ep. ad Fam., iv. 489, n. 1;
Tuscul. Quæst., ii. 123, n. 1.
CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, i. 118, 12. 4;
ii. 41, n. 2.

CITY, a, its solitude, iii. 431, n. 2.
CITY OF LICHFIELD, a county, i. 42, n. 3.
CITY OF LONDON. See LONDON.
CITY-POET, iii. 86.
CIVIL Law, i. 155.
CIVILISED Life.

See SAVAGES, and

SOCIETY.
Civility, ii. 178; iii. 89.
Civilization, ii. 178.
CLANRANALD, ii. 353; Allan of Clan-
ranald, v. 330.

CLAPP, Mrs., ii. 71, 132–3.
CLARE, Lord, friendship with Gold-
smith, ii. 157; iii. 353.
CLARENDON, first Earl of, History of
the Rebellion, its authenticity, i. 341,
n. 4; characters trustworthy, ii. 91;
character of Falkland, iv. 494, n. 2;
compared with Hume and Robert-
son, v. 64, 1. 3; recommended by
Johnson, iv. 359; style and matter,
iii. 292; Villiers's ghost, iii. 400;
University of Oxford and his heirs,
ii. 485.

CLARENDON PRESS, Johnson's letter on
its management, ii. 486, 504.
CLARET, for boys, iii. 433; iv. 91; gives
the dropsy before drunkenness, v.
283.

Clarissa.

Clarissa. See RICHARDSON, S.
CLARK, Alderman Richard, member of
the Essex Head Club, iv. 298, 505;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 288.
CLARKE, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Christian
evidences, i. 460; free-will, ii. 120;
Homer, edition of, ii. 149; Johnson's
Dictionary, not quoted in, i. 218, .

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Clubs.

election, ii. 171; preaching: see PREACHING; sinners in general, ii. 197-8.

CLERK, Sir Philip Jennings, account of him, iv. 93; argument with Johnson, iv. 94.

CLERMONT, Lady, iii. 483.
CLIENTS. See LAW.

CLINABS, i. 582, 593.

4; iv. 480, n. 2; Leibnitz, controversy CLIMATE, happiness not affected by it, with, v. 327; learning, iv. 24; ii. 224. studied hard, i. 82; literary character, i. 3, 12. 2; orthodox, not, iii. 281; v. 327; Queen Caroline wished to make him a bishop, iii. 281, n. 2; Sermons, ii. 302, 547; iii. 281; recommended by Johnson on his death-bed, iv. 480; unbending himself, fond of, i. 3.

CLARKE, Sir T., i. 53, n. I. CLAUDIAN, ii. 360.

CLAVIUS, ii. 508.

CLAXTON, Mr., ii. 284.

CLEMENT, William, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, i. 566. CLENARDUS, iv. 23. Cleone. See DODSLEY. Cleonice, ii. 330, 22. 4. CLERGYMAN, a, at Bath, iv. 172; Johnson's letter to him, iv. 173; extraordinary character, an, iv. 342, 1. 2; hopeless ignorance of one, iv. 39, n. 3; one rebuked by Johnson, iv. 22; a young clergyman, Johnson's letter to, iii. 495.

CLERGYMEN, can be but half a beau, iv. 88; Court-party, of the, v. 291, n. 2; decorum required in them, iv. 88; duties, i. 371; elocution, taught, iv. 238; English compared with Scotch, v. 286-8, 435; Harrogate, at, v. 287, 12. 3; holy artifices, iii. 497; learning, iv. 16; library fit for one, v. 137; life, their, i. 371, 551; iii. 345; men of the world, aping, iv. 88; popular

CLINTON, Sir Henry, iv. 162, n. 1. CLITHEROE, iv. 187. CLIVE, Lord, astonished at his own moderation, iii. 455, n. 3; character by Dr. Robertson, iii. 380, 398; his chest full of gold, iii. 455; destroyed himself, iii. 380, 398.

CLIVE, Mrs., Johnson describes her acting, iv. 280; v. 144; and Walpole, H., iv. 281, 1. I; robbed by highwaymen, iii. 271, n. 1; 'understands what you say,' iv. 8. CLOTHES. See DRESS.

CLOUGH, Arthur, v. 170, n. I. CLOUGH, Sir Richard, v. 497. CLOW, Professor, v. 420, 1. 2. Clubable, iv. 293, n. 2. CLUBS: Almack's, iii. 27, n. 1; Arthur's, v. 95, n. I; Boar's Head, v. 281; British Coffee-house, ii. 225; iv. 206, 12. 2; Brookes's, ii. 334, n. 3; iv. 322, 12. 2, 413, 12. I; City Club at the Queen's Arms, iv. 101; Cocoa - tree Club, v. 440, n. 1; Essex Head, account of its foundation and members, iv. 292-5, 503-5; Boswell and Johnson at a meeting, iv. 317;

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276; iv. 15; he wishes for more members, iv. 211; his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 93; - hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 319; - hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 269-70; - imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 122-3; - increase of members proposed, iii. 121; Johnson's attendance in his latter years, iii. 121, n. 2; attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 269; his last dinner, iv. 376, (for attendances with Boswell, see just above, under Bos-WELL); dislikes several members, iii. 121; his friends of the Club, iv. 99; his funeral, iv. 484; subscriptions for his monument, iv. 488, ns. I and 3; incompliance with a Call, iv. 97, 98; mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 157; reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 12; talks of Mrs. Lennox's play,

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Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, elected, iv. 87, n. 2; - Smith, Adam, elected, ii. 492, n. I; Steevens elected, ii. 313-14; - Vesey elected, iv. 33; Vesey's (Mrs.) evening parties on Club nights, iii. 482, n. 1; iv. 126, n. 1; Nonsense Club, i. 457, n. 2; Old Street Club, iii. 503-4; iv. 216; Poker Club, ií. 431, n. 1, 493, 12. 2; Tall Club, i. 357, n. 4; White's, ii. 377, n. 2; World, The, iv. 119, n. I. COACH, post-coach, iii. 147; iv. 327; heavy coach, iv. 328.

Coal-heavers.

COAL-HEAVERS, riots of, iii. 54, n. 2. COALITION MINISTRY (Duke of Portland's) formed, iv. 200, n. 5; dismissed, i. 360, n. 1; iv. 190, 12. 3, 287, n. 2; mentioned, iv. 195, n. 3, 257, n. 4, 298, n. I.

COBB, Mrs., ii. 445, 534; iii. 468; iv. 164-5.

COBHAM, Lord, i. 567, n. 4; iii. 395;

iv. 59, n. 3, 119, N. I. COBLENTZ, ii. 489, n. 4.

COCHRAN, General, i. 499, n. I. COCKBURN, Baron, iii. 381, n. I. COCKBURN, Dr., iii. 172, n. 4. COCKBURN, Lord, civil juries in Scotland, ii. 230, n. 2; Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville, ii. 184, n. 1; Edinburgh High School, ii. 166, n. 1; Edinburgh in the 18th century, v. 22, n. I; Jeffrey's English accent, ii. 183, n. 3; Scotch county electors, iv. 286, n. 2; Scotch entails, ii. 474, n. 1; St. Giles, Edinburgh, v. 45, n. 3; titles of Scotch judges, v. 87, n. 3. COCKENZIE, ii. 345, 2. 3. Cocker's Arithmetic, v. 157, n. 3. COCK-LANE GHOSTS. See GHOSTS.

CODRINGTON, Colonel, iii. 232, n. I.

COFFEE-HOUSE CRITICS, i. 334.

COFFEY, v. 291, 12. 3.

,

COFFLECT, iv. 90, n. I.
COHAUSEN, Dr., ii. 489, n. 4.
COIN, exportation of, iv. 121.
COKE, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 181; his
definition of law, iii. 18, n. 2; his
painful course of study, iv. 358.
COKE, Lady Mary, i. 470, n. 4.
COL, the old Laird of, iii. 151; v. 329,

22. 2.

COL, Alexander Maclean, of, the second son, ii. 352, 465, 472. COL, Donald Maclean, the young Laird of, account of him, v. 285; the first road-maker, v. 268, n. 1; plans an

Colman.

excursion for Johnson, v. 290; accompanies him, v. 292–377; his bowl of punch, v. 294; manages the ship in the storm, v. 319-20; puts a rope in Boswell's hands, v. 321; juvenis qui gaudet canibus, v. 323; introduces turnips, v. 334; his family papers, v. 339-40; takes Johnson to his aunt's house, v. 356; anecdotes of Sir A. Macdonald, v. 358; his house in Mull, v. 360; deserves a statue, v. 372; his father's deputy, v. 375; 'a noble animal,' v. 376; death, ii. 328–9, 466; v. 377; mentioned, v. IOS, 304, 388.

COLCHESTER, i. 540; iv. 18, n. 2.
COLDS, catching, ii. 58, 172; v. 317.
COLE, Henry, iv. 463, n. 3.
COLEBROKE, Sir G., ii. 255, n. 3.
COLISÆUM, ii. 122.

COLLECTIONS, the desire of augmenting, iv. 123.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, ii. 339.
COLLEGE TUTOR, an old, advice to his
pupils, ii. 272.
COLLEGES.

See OXFORD.

COLLIER, Jeremy, censures actors, i. 193, . 2; fought without a rival,' iv. 331, 12. I.

COLLINS, Anthony, iii. 413, n. 2. COLLINS, William, affected the obsolete, iii. 180, n. 3; Johnson's affection for him, i. 320, 443, n. 2; Life by Johnson, i. 443; madness, his, i. 75, n. 3, 320-1, 443; Poems, Glasgow edition, ii. 435. COLLOQUIAL Barbarisms, iii. 223. 'COLLYER, Joel,' i. 365. COLMAN, George, the elder, Boswell's belief in second sight, mocks, ii. 364; Connoisseur, starts the, i. 487, n. 2; ii. 383, n. 1; Foote's patent, buys, iii. 110; Good Natured Man, brings out the, iii. 364-5: Jealous Wife, The,

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