Kames in his Sketches of the
History of Man, iii. 339.
Chappell, Dr., by some supposed
author of the Whole Duty of
Man, ii. 224.

Character, national, varies accord-

ing to circumstances, ii. 185;
the influence of, on success in
life, iii. 349; a character de-
scribed, "he has a great deal of
learning, but it never lies straight,
there is never one idea by the
side of another, 'tis all en-
tangled," iv. 157.

Characters in the Rambler said to

be taken from real life, i. 163.
Charade, Johnson's, on Dr. Bar-
nard, Bishop of Killaloe, iv.

138.

Charge, Johnson's, on Boswell
entering the Literary Club, ii.

225.

Charing Cross, "the full tide of

human existence is at," ii. 310.
Charity, Johnson's, instances of,
iii. 241, iv. 207.
Charlemont, Lord, his story of a
serpent, iii. 350; questions John.
son about dancing, iv. 39.
Charles II., Johnson's extraordi-
nary partiality for, ii. 312.
Charles V., his celebrating his
funeral obsequies in his lifetime,
261.
Chatham, Lord, a dictator, iii. 353;
the story of his saying "he
would take up his bed and walk,"
iv. 233.
Chatlois, Hotel de, Paris, ii. 352.
Chatsworth, Johnson visits and is
very kindly received, 266.
Chatterton, his poems, iii. 95;
Johnson complains of a "wide
adherence to," iv. 89.
Chemical experiments, Johnson's,
ii. 152, iii. 388; apparatus for,
in Johnson's library, i. 346.
Chemistry, Johnson's experiments
in, ii. 152, iii. 387, 388.
Chesterfield, Earl of, Johnson in-
scribes the plan of his dictionary

to, i. 135, 136; his neglect of
Johnson, 190; his attempts to
conciliate him, 200, 201; John-
son's famous letter to, 202, 204;
his witty sayings mostly puns,
ii. 201; his letters, 207, 302;
memoir and works of, by Dr.
Maty, iii. 142; Dilly's splendid
edition of his works, 349; two
of his speeches written by John-
son, 349; Johnson describes
him as dignified but insolent, iv.
118.

Cheyne, his book on Health and
English Malady commended, iii.

77.

Cheynel, Johnson writes the Life
of, i. 173.

Child, Boswell inquires what John-
son would do if left with a
new-born, to take care of, ii.
102.
Childhood, Johnson's reminiscences
of, i. 384.

Children, education of, i. 358;
Johnson's love of, iv. 134.
China, Du Halde's, extracts from,
for the Gentleman's Magazine,
i. 97.

China, the manufactory of, at
Derby, iii. 191.
Choisi visited, ii. 354.
Cholmondeley, Mr.,

Johnson's
rudeness to, iv. 254; his regret
and apology, 255.

Mrs., her compliments to
Johnson, iii. 321.
Chops, Johnson's dog when a boy,
i. 385.

Christ Church meadows, Johnson
slides in, i. 211.

Christian Morals, by Sir Thomas
Browne, edited by Johnson, i.
240,

Christian, Mr., of Dorking, ac-
counts for the story about St.
Kilda, ii. 65.

Christian religion, the, evidences
of, i. 316.

Christianity, strength of the evi-
dences of, i. 341.

Chronicle, The London, Johnson
writes Introduction to, i. 249.

the Universal, a weekly news-
paper in which the Idler essays
were published, i. 258.
Churchill, his poetry depreciated

by Johnson, i. 332, 333; his
prophecy of famine, 333; at-
tacks Johnson in a scurrilous
manner, ii. 18.
Churton, Rev. Ralph, on the burial
service, iv. 148; his remarks on
Boswell's work, 371.
Cibber, Colley, account of, i. 319
n. 199; his Apology praised by
Johnson as "very entertaining,"
ii. 95, iii. 113; Cibber himself" a
poor creature," 95; Johnson's
contempt for, 311; his Lives of
the Poets compiled by Shiels,
iii. 80, 470; his acts criticized
by Johnson, 208.

Theophilus, his share in the
compilation of the Lives of the
Poets, iii. 472.

Cicero, quoted by Burke, and
applied to Johnson, iv. 285.
Civilization, this word introduced
into the Dictionary by Todd, ii.

152.

Claims, those of justice and those

of affection, iii. 21.
Clans, Johnson desires to know the
order of, ii. 250.
Clarendon, his style discussed, iii.
270; his description of Lord
Falkland quoted and applied to
Johnson, iv. 332.

Clarendon Press, the, origin of,
and complaint of mismanage-
ment, iii. 14 n.; Johnson dis-
cusses the management of, with
Dr. Wetherell, iii. 28.
Claret, a hog-head of, presented
to the Club by Dr. Barnard, iii.
254; Johnson chosen to write
the request for another, 254.
Clark, Mr. Alderman, Johnson
proposes as a member of the
Essex Head Club, iv. 185.
Clarke, Dr., unorthodox, iii. 262 ;

Johnson's sentiments with re-
gard to, iv. 319.
Clarissa, Johnson begs Richardson
to give an Index Rerum to, i. 392.
Classics, Addison's quotations from
the, ii. 316.

Clenard, Nicholas, his Greek
Grammar and other works,
account of, iii. 440 n.
Clergymen, Johnson's ideas of the
fitting dress and demeanour of,
iv. 36, 37.

Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, his
"ancient ruffles and modern
principles," iv. 40.

Clifton's eating-house in Butcher
Row, i. 318.

Clive, Lord, a strong-minded man,
iii. 334.

Club, the Ivy Lane, formed by
Johnson, i. 41; iv. 181.

the Literary, founded by Rey-
nolds and Johnson, ii. 2, 32, 388;
"holds well together," 35, 221;
Boswell elected a member of, 224;
when Johnson begs Goldsmith's
pardon, 239, 294, 315; its num-
bers augmented, iii. 140 n. ; ac-
count of a conversation at, 247-
54; the members present, 247
n.; a noted meeting of, when
there was an altercation between
Johnson and Beauclerk, 376;
rules of election in, 150, iv. 43;
Johnson present at for the last
time, 240.

Queen's Arms, St. Paul's
Churchyard, iv, 44.

Old Street, iv. 128.

Essex Head, iv. 182; mem-
bers of, 182 n.; Johnson at,
200; his anxiety about when
absent, 263, 264.

Blue Stocking, the origin of,

iv. 61.

Eumelian, founded by Dr.
Ash, iv. 302.

Johnson's definition of a, iv.
184 n.

Clubable man, Johnson called
Boswell a very, iv. 183.

Coat, Goldsmith's bloom-coloured,

ii. 89, 90.
Cobb, Mrs., one of the Lichfield
ladies, iii. 49, 399 n.
Cock-lane ghost, this imposture
detected by Johnson, i. 323;
account of, iii. 277.

Cohausen, John Henry, author of
Hermippus Redivivus, i. 331.
Coke, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 155.
Colchester, Johnson and Boswell
at, i. 371.

Collectanea, by Dr. Maxwell, ii.

116-31.

Collections of editions of books,

Johnson advises, iv. 203.
Collins, the poet, his dreadful de-
pression, i. 214 n., 304.
Collier, Jeremy, Johnson alludes
to, iv. 210.

Colman's Random Records quoted,
giving a description of Johnson
and Gibbon, iii. 97 n.
Colman, Mr., his letter from Lexi-
phanes, iv. 295.

Colonsay, Little and Old, Boswell
proposes to Johnson to buy it,
and found a college there, iii.
167.

Colson, Rev. John, Johnson recom-

mended to, i. 67.
Columbiade, The, an epic poem by
Madame du Boccage, iv. 243.
Comedy, the great end of, making
the audience merry, ii. 220.
Commentaries, Johnson recom-
mended Lowth and Patrick on
the Old, and Hammond on the
New Testament, iii. 101.
Commerce, Dictionary of, by Rolt,
Johnson's Preface to, ii. 315.
Commons, House of, Johnson's

friends endeavour to get him a
seat in, ii. 134, 135 n.; he would
gladly have entered, 136; Bo-
lingbroke's description of, iii.

251.

Comparison. Certain men are no
more to be compared than a
stately horse with the fly that
stings it, i. 204.

Compiègne, visited, ii. 363.
Composition, Johnson's, iv. 1;
amendments in, 4 n.; Johnson
says a man should begin to
write soon, iii. 435.

Compton, Rev. J., Johnson's kind-
ness to, iv. 366, 367.
Concoction, the, of a play, an ex-
pression used by Dryden, in his
preface to Edipus, iii. 272; and
by Garrick, 272 n.

Condolence, Johnson's letter of, to
Mrs. Thrale, iii. 468.

Conduct, rules and resolutions for,
i. 280.

Confession, Johnson on, ii. 106.
Congé d'élire, the force of a, iv.
237 n.

Congratulations and good wishes
for the new year, iii. 233, 234.
Congreve, Charles, Johnson's
schoolfellow, i. 19; "always
muddy," iii. 43.

W., the poet, fine passages
in his Mourning Bride, i. 309,
ii. 90, 91, 98; quoted, 214;
various readings in Johnson's
Life of, iv. 19.

Connoisseur, The, an amusing pe-
riodical paper, i. 334.

Connor, Charles O', letters from
Johnson to, i. 251, iii. 146.
Conscience, Johnson's tenderness
of, ii. 5, iv. 303-5.

Contentment, Johnson on, iv. 289.
Contractions, Johnson's, of his
friends' names, ii. 240.

Convents, Johnson on the propriety
of allowing, ii. 27.
Conversation, Johnson's, i. 5-8;
Archdeacon Secker on, quoted,
8; the vigour of Johnson's,
313; likened to a bowl of punch,
260; specimens of Johnson's, ii,
29-31; Johnson's, with George
III., 51-55; an account of this,
published separately by Bos
well, 52 n.; Johnson's own ac-
count of, 56; Goldsmith's, on a
certain occasion, "overflowed
and drowned" one of the party,

ii. 123; Goldsmith's constant
attempts to shine in, 217, 218,
239; Johnson's great success
in, 218; Johnson thinks, to
be good, implies contest, iii. 30;
Johnson's, deseribed by Dr.
Percy, 320, iv. 13; Pope's, not
renowned, 13; Johnson's defini-
tion of the happiest, 14; story
of the man who had none, 42; a
trial of skill, 64; requires know-
ledge, a command of words,
imagination, presence of mind,
a resolution not overcome by
failures, 112; and talk, distin-
guished, 127; Burke, on Lang-
ton's accusing Johnson of rough-
ness in, 205.

Converts, from Protestantism to
Popery and from Popery to Pro-
testantism compared, ii. 107.
Convocation, Johnson advocates its
restoration, i. 369.
Convulsive motions of Johnson, i.
103, 104.

Cookery, Johnson thinks himself a
judge of, i. 373; discussion on,
iii. 293; the best book on,

293.

Cook, Captain, his great accuracy,
iii. 62; his voyage round the
world, iii. 205.

Cooper, John Gilbert, called by
Johnson Punchinello, ii. 127;
the affected gentleman, iii. 180.
Copy-money, in Italy first received
by Baretti, iii. 190.

Corbett, Mr. Andrew, and his son,
in connection with Johnson's re-
sidence at Oxford, i. 30.
Corelli, said to have come to Eng-
land to see Purcell, ii. 313 n.
Coriat, Tom, his travels, under the

title of" Crudities," ii. 170.
Cork, Earl of, Johnson describes,
iii. 208.

Corn laws, "What, Sir, would you
prevent any people from feeding
themselves, if by any honest
means they can do it ?" ii. 128.
Cornwallis, Archbishop, assists De

Groot, the nephew of Grotius,
iii. 158.

Corps, "Il y a tant d'esprit, que je
n'ai pas vu de corps," said of a
preacher, ii. 226 n.
Correspondence, Boswell's, with
Johnson, ii. 21.

Corsica, Johnson encourages Bos-
well to publish his Tour in, ii.
27; its publication, 60; Boswell's
account of, and Tour in, Gray's
letter to Walpole on, quoted,
60; Mr. Trevelyan on, 60;
Boswell wears this name on his
hat at the Shakespeare Jubilee,
78; Johnson advises Boswell
"to clear his head of," 78 n.;
account of, Preface to, quoted
by Boswell himself, 79; John-
son's praise of, 80.
Corsicans, their bravery extolled
by Boswell and denied by John-
son, ii. 87.

Corycius Senex, Virgil's saying of,
applied to Burke, iv. 117.
Cotterell, Captain Charles, i. 187.

the Misses, visited by John-
son, Reynolds meets Johnson
at their house, 187 n.
Country; they who are content to
live in the country are fit for the
country, iv. 249; Johnson on
life in the, ii. 185, iii. 203; no
wise man will live in the, 266;
iv. 155; life, Johnson cannot
like, iv. 285.

Courage, instances of Johnson's,
ii. 277, 278; mechanical and
acquired, iii. 276.

Courayer, Dr. Le, his History of
the Council of Trent, i. 71.
Court, Johnson's, Fleet Street,
Boswell and Beauclerk have a
veneration for, ii. 216.
Courtenay, Mr., his verses on
Johnson, i. 33, 34; his moral
and literary character of Dr.
Johnson, 168; his poetical cha-
racter of Dr. Johnson, 247.
Coverley, Sir Roger det, his cha-
racter delights Johnson, ii. 336.

Cross readings, Caleb Whitefoord's
amusing, iv. 237.

Crown and Anchor, dinner at, with
Johnson, Reynolds, &c., iii. 87.
Crouch, Mrs., "the celebrated,"
iv. 159.

Crousaz and Warburton, their
dispute on Pope's Essay on Man,
Considerations on, by Johnson,

i. 114.

Crudities, by Tom Coriat, ii. 170.
Cruikshank, Mr., Johnson writes
to, from Ashbourne, iv. 275;
attends Johnson in his last ill-
ness, iv. 169; Johnson leaves
him a book as a remembrance,
309.

Cui bono, a, man, Dr. Shaw's dis-
like to, iv. 64.

Cullen, Dr., consulted by Boswell
for Johnson, iv. 191.

Mr., afterwards Lord, a great
mimic, ii. 151.

Culloden, no quarter given at, ii.
340; the Macdonalds attribute
the loss of the day to their clan
not being given its place on
the right of the others, 250 n.
Cumberland, Richard, his Me-
moirs quoted on Johnson's early
difficulties, i. 68; his odes pub-
lished, iii. 90; "a million,"
says Johnson, when speaking of
the want of company, iv. 292.

the Duchess of, account of,
ii. 211 n.; Goldsmith's compli-
ment to, in his play, ii. 211;
Paoli's neat saying on the oc-
casion, ibid.

Currat Lex, the motto chosen by
Johnson for Dr. Dodd's picture,
iv. 144.

Curates, their small stipends, iii.
170.

Curiosities picked up by Johnson
in Scotland, ii. 250 n.
Curiosity, the distinguishing mark
of a generous mind, "the thirst
of the soul," i. 53.
"Curll, must have a special care
to leave the margin wide," i. 103.