racterised by Johnson, ii. 13, 14, 14 n.; v. 268. 282. 289 n.; vi. 175. Cheyne, Dr., his English Malady,' i. 64.; iv. 165. His admirable rule of conduct, iv. 165. His Treatise on Health,' vi. 145.
Cheynel, Francis, Johnson's Life of, iv. 41.
Children, treatment and education of, i. 42. 68.; ii. 239.; iii. 105.; iv. 100. 226.; vi. 28. 147. 262, 262 n.; vii. 260. 368.; ix. 5. 118. 149. China, wall of, vii. 105. Chinese language, vii. 198.
Choice of difficulties,' iv. 157, 157 n. Choisi, Abbé de, vii. 192, 192 n. 'Choleric Man,' Cumberland's, iii. 246, 246 n.
Cholmondeley, George James, viii. 347, 347 n.; ix. 92, 92 n.
Churton, Rev. Ralph, iii. 302 n.; vii. 207.; x. 291.
Cibber, Colley, i. 166. 201.; ii. 3. 176.; iii. 94.; iv. 89. 260 n. 282.; vi. 156 193. 328, 329 n.; vii. 99.; viii. 238. Cibber, Theophilus, his Lives of the Poets,' i. 216.; vi. 149, 149 n. 331. Cibber, Mrs., iv. 132.
Cicero, his defence of the study of the law, iii, 37. His character of Ap-
pius, applied by Mr. Burke to John- son, viii. 380 n.
Clans, order of the Scottish, v. 174, 174 n.
Clare, Robert Nugent, Lord, iii. 153. ; vii. 160.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, ii. 49 n.; iii. 80.; vii. 92. 215. Clarendon, Henry, Earl of, v. 55. Clarendon Manuscripts, vi. 49, 49 n.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., iv. 272, 272 n.; Claret, characterised by Johnson, vii.
vii. 96. 334.; x. 269.
Christian, Rev. Mr., iii. 42.
'Christian Hero,' Steele's, vi. 79. Christian charity, viii. 280. Christian morality, ix. 129. 256. Christian religion, evidences of, ii.
171. 212. 230. 241.; ix. 129. 256. Christian, disturbed in his faith, viii. 219.
Christianity, the highest perfection of humanity, iii. 11. The Atonement the great article of, iv. 88, 89 n.; vii. 6.; viii. 103, 103 n.; ix. 317. Christians, differences among, unim- portant, vii. 5.
Christ's satisfaction, iv. 88, 89 n. ; viii. 103.; ix. 317.
'Clarissa Harlowe,' i. 273. ; vi. 163 n. ; vii. 376. Johnson recommends an 'Index Rerum' to, i. 273. 306. Preface to, written by Dr. Warbur- ton, i. 306 n.
Clark, Alderman Richard, vii. 193 n.; viii. 253. Johnson's letter to, viii. 253.
Clark, Mr., his pamphlet on Ossian, viii. 248.
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, ii. 171.; iii. 110.; v. 13. His 'Evidences' recom- mended by Johnson, ii. 171. His Sermons,' vii. 79. Johnson's death-bed recommendation of, viii. 417, 417 n.; ix. 317.
Church, the satisfaction of meeting at, Clenard, Nicholas, his Greek gram-
Church of England, ecclesiastical dis- cipline of, viii. 275, 275 n. Church patronage, v. 298, 298 n. Church property confiscated, viii. 146. Church architecture, vi. 68. Churchill, Charles, i. 138.; ii. 206 n. 298.; vii. 51.; ix. 65. 144. 170. His satire on Johnson, ii. 75. 181. John- son's opinion of his poetry, ii. 196.
mar, vii. 367, 367 n.
'Cleone,' Dodsley's tragedy of, li. 282.; vii. 367.
'Cleonice,' Hoole's play of, v. 221,
Clergy, iii. 205, 206. 210, 210 m.; iv. 123.; vi. 274.; vii. 152.; viii. 64. Their preaching not suffici. ently plain, ii. 246, 246 n.; iii. 138. Not sufficiently acquainted with
iv. 276. Scottish, iii. 175.; iv. 92. 278. Irish, iii. 148. Lax jollity of, offensive, viii. 50. Dress of, should be in character, viii. 50. Clergyman, Addison's portrait of, viii. 50. Johnson's model of, viii. 51. His excellent letter to a young, vii. 339.
Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, viii, 55. Clift, William, iii. 56. Climate, vii. 143.
Clive, Robert, first Lord, vii. 190. 212.
Clive, Mrs., iv. 132.; vii. 355.; viii. 238. Clothes, fine, vi. 114.
Club, Ivy-lane, formed by Johnson, i. 218.; viii. 249.; x. 273. Club, Literary, founded by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ii. 272. 320, 321. 323. 325. ; iii. 279. 299.; iv. 111.; v. 255. 288, 288 n.; vi. 235. 248. 263.; vii. 59, 59 n. 122. 375.; ix. 47. See Lite- rary Club.
Club, Boar's Head, iv. 271.
Club, Queen's Arms, viii. 63.
Club, in Old Street, ix. 63. ; x. 272. Club, Essex Head, viii. 249, 250 n. Club, Eumelian, viii. 393.
Club, Johnson's definition of a, viii. 251 n.
'Clubable' man, viii. 250.
Collins, William, the poet, 1. 155 n.
303 n.; ii. 24, 24 n. 26. 60. 153. Colman, George, i. 243, 243 n.; iv. 111.; vii. 358. 365. His 'Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion,' v. 275 His imitation of Johnson's style, x. 286.
Colman, George, jun., his 'Random Records' quoted, vi. 176 n. Colquhoun, Sir James, v. 107. Colquhoun, Lady Helen, v. 109, 109 n. Colson, Rev. John, i. 111, 111 n 253 n.; v. 215, 215 n. 329, 329 n. Colville, Lady Dowager, v. 137, 137 n. Colville, Alexander, fourth Lord, v 137 n.
Combermere, v. 197, 197 n.
Commandment, the seventh, ix. 133. Commandment, the ninth, modes of placing the emphasis on, i. 195. Commentary, the Bible to be read with a, vi. 181. Commerce, v. 232.
Common Prayer, Book of, viii. 296. Communion of Saints, viii. 292, 292 n. Community of souls, doctrine of, iii. 294.
Company, viii. 316. Cause of John
son's fondness for, i. 161.
Compassion, ix. 119.
Competency, small, the bane of men of talents, v. 260.
Coarse raillery, Johnson's powers of,| Compliments, v. 330.; vi. 302.; ix.
Cobb, Mrs., v. 331.; vi. 101.; 298, Complaints and complainers, vii. 378. ;
298 n.; x. 13.
Cock-lane ghost, vii. 103.
Cocker's Arithmetic, iv. 146, 146 n. Coke, Lord, iii. 187.; ix. 136, 136 n. Col, island of, v. 11. 30 n.
Col, the Laird of, v. 62. 68, 68 n. 219. Colborne, the calculating boy, vi. 65 n. Colchester, ii. 256.
Cold Baths, ix. 245.
Coliseum, Johnson's mind compared to the, iii. 114.
Collier, Jeremy, viii. 287 n.
Composition, vii. 340. 359, 360.; ix.
150. 173. 195. Happy moments for, iv. 32. Johnson's advice respect- ing, iv. 32. His extraordinary powers of, iv. 63, 64.; v. 287.; vi. 182 n.
'Compositor,' the, viii. 323 n. Compton, Rev. James, a Benedictine monk, viii, 201, 201 n.; ix. 36 n. Condamine's account of the savage girl, iv. 113.
Collier, Dr., of the Commons, vii. 229, Condescension, vii. 352.
Conferring favours, ix. 98.
Confession, iii. 112.; iv. 124. 'Confessions,' Rousseau's, ii. 315, 315 n.
Confidence with respect to futurity, ix. 123.
Confinement, vii. 104. 'Congé d'élire,' viii. 325.
Congreve, William, iii. 86, 87 n. ; vii. 41.; ix. 19.
Congreve, Rev. Charles, Johnson's school-fellow, i. 19.; vi. 92, 93.
Conjugal infidelity, vii. 288, 288 m. 'Connoisseur,' the, ii, 198,
Conscience, scruples of, ix. 44. 82. 219.
Const, Francis, vi. 131 n.
Constitution, British, vi. 71.
Constructive treason, viii. 63.
Contradiction, ix. 49. 81.
Cookery, Mrs. Glasse's, written by Dr. Hill, vii. 127.
Cooper, John Gilbert, author of the 'Life of Socrates,' ii. 143, 143 n.; vi. 289.; vii. 352.
Coote, Sir Eyre, iv. 131.
Copy-money, in Italy, vi. 303. Copy-right, ii. 222.; iv. 70. See Li- terary Property.
Corbett, Andrew, i. 57 n.
Corelli, the singer, v. 285, 285. Coriat, Tom, iii. 209, 209 n. 'Coriat, Junior,' Paterson's, iii. 209, 209 n.
Cork and Orrery, Hamilton, sixth Earl of, iii, 144.; vi. 328. Cork, Edmund, seventh Earl of, vii. 320 n.
Corke, Countess of, vii. 320 n.; viii. 861. Corneille, Pierre, v. 42.; vii. 363.; ix. 19.
Convents, ii. 132. 312.; iv. 59.; vi. Corpulency, viii. 207. 64.
Conversation, v. 304. 306.; vi. 74. 110.
179.; vii. 77. 181. 375. 381.; viii. 18, 19.; ix. 34. 66. 75. 100. 128. 175. 259. Conversation, the happiest kind of, v. 304.
Conversation, Lord Bacon's precept for, viii. 23.
Conversation, questioning not the proper mode of, vi. 110.
Conversions, iii. 112.; vii. 55. 142, 142 n.
Convicts, viii. 316.
Convocation of the clergy, ii. 253. Conway, iii. 192.
Conway Castle, v. 207. 211.
Cook, Captain James, the circumna- vigator, vi. 132. His 'Voyages to the South Seas,' viii. 311. Cooke, Thomas, the translator of Hesiod, iv. 26, 26 n. His extraor- dinary speech on presenting Foote to a club, iv. 27. Cookery, iv. 28 n.; vii. 127. Cookery,Johnson's opinion of French, ii. 259.
Cookery, books of, should be written
on philosophical principles, vii. 127.
Corsica, ii. 313. ; iii. 4. 35. 49, 50. 68 n.,
69. 71. 80.; iv. 24 n.
Corteggiano' of Castiglione, the best book on good-breeding, iv. 308. Cotterel, Admiral, i. 291 n.
Cotterel, Miss, i. 291 m.; ii. 138, 138. 152.
Cotton, Sir Lynch Salusbury, v. 198, 198 2.
Cotton, Sir Robert Salusbury, v. 198, 198 n.
'Council of Trent,' History of, i. 117. 147, 147 n.
Counting, the good of, viii. 93. Country amusements, ix. 95. Country gentlemen, iv. 111. 116.170 m.; vii. 353.; viii. 151.
Country life, v. 94. ; vi. 321.; vii. 80. 86, 86 n. 150. 216.; viii. 342.; ix. 95. Courage, v. 281.; vii. 102. 191. 288 n. Court, attendants on a, ii. 90, 90 n. Court of Session in Scotland, v. 153. 224, 224 n.
Courting the acquaintance of the great, i. 144, 144 n.; ii. 312. Courtenay, John, his Poetical Re-
view' quoted, i. 61. 262.; ii. 70. 108.; v. 173. His description of the
style and economy of Sir Joshua | Crouch, Mrs., viii. 220.
Reynolds's table, vi. 203 n.
Courts of Germany, manners best
learnt at, iv. 308.
Courts martial, vii. 360.
Coverley, Sir Roger De, v. 318. Cowardice, vii. 180.; ix. 137. Cowdray, the seat of the Lords Mon- tague, popular superstition respect- ing, viii. 145, 145 n.
Cowley, Abraham, i. 301 n.; v. 72 n. 86.; vi. 149.; vii. 55. ; ix. 144. John- son's Life of, viii. 7.
Cowper, William, vii. 89 n.; x. 145. 160. 162.
Coxeter, Thos. Esq., ii. 299 n.; vi. 298. Crabbe, Rev. George, his Village,'
Cradock, Joseph, vi. 61 n. 157, 157 n. ; ix. 236.
Crashaw, Richard, his Epigrammata Sacra,' vii. 152.
Craven, Lady, vi. 139, 139 n.; vii. 320. 324.
'Creation,' Blackmore's, iii. 116, 116 n. Credulity, v. 66.; vii. 187. 210. Creeds, iv. 124.
Crousaz's Examen' of Pope's Essay
on Man, i. 152. 180.
Crown, power of the, iii. 203. In- fluence of, in parliament, iii. 131. 'Crudities,' Coriat's, iii. 209, 209 n. Cruikshanks, Mr., the surgeon, viii. 214. 234. 370.
Cuchillen's well, iv. 280. Cucumbers, v. 14.; vii. 361. Cuillen, the, iv. 257, 257 n. Cullen, Dr. William, vi. 311. Culloden, battle of, v. 323 n. Cumberland, William, Duke of, v. 323, 323 n.
Cumberland, Richard, viii. 390. His 'Fashionable Lover,' iv. 193. His 'Choleric Man,' iii. 246, 246 n. Character of Sir Fretful Plagiary intended for him, iii. 246 n. His 'Odes,' vi. 164. His Walloons,' x. 260, 260 n. Anecdotes of John- son by, ix. 228. His lines descrip. tive of Johnson's character, ix. 235.
Cumming, Thomas, the quaker, iv, 99. 103. 250, 250 n.; viii. 206. Cuninghame, Sir John, v. 119. Cunning, iv. 231.; ix. 98.
Crichton, Robert, Lord Sanquhar, iv. Cuper's Gardens, v. 23, 23 n.
Critical Review, ii. 188. 275.; iii. 25.;
Curates, salaries of, vi. 274.
'Curiosities of Literature,' D'Israeli's, viii. 14 n.
Criticism, iii. 91.; iv. 306.; vii. 246. Curiosity, i. 93 n. 318.; ix. 118.
Criticism, examples of true, iii. 91. Croft, Rev. Herbert, vii. 334. His 'Life of Young,' viii. 29, 29 n. His style described by Burke, viii. 29. His Love and Madness,' viii. 177. His singular advice to a pupil, viii.
Croker, Rev. Temple Henry, trans- iator of Ariosto, ii. 152 n. Croker, Alley, vii. 84, 84 n.
Croker, Colonel, of Ballinagard, vii.84 n. Cromwell, Oliver, Johnson's design of writing the Life of, viii. 230, 230 n.
Curran, John Philpot, v. 263 n. Currants, viii. 196.
Cust, Francis Cockayne, i. 196 n. Cutts, Lady, Atterbury's funeral ser- mon on, vii. 56. Cyder,' Philips's, iv. 77. 'Cypress Grove,' Drummond of Haw- thornden's, iv. 198.
Cyrus, the resignation of, ix. 7
'Cross readings,' Caleb Whitefoord's Dacier, Madame, her Homer vi
Daline, his History of Sweden' re-
commended, iii. 183. Dalrymple, Sir David, afterwards Lord Hailes, ii. 14. 217. 237. ; iv. 41, 42.; v. 159. 191. See Lord Hailes. Dalrymple, Sir John, iii. 247. 280.; v. 153, 154, 155. 157. Johnson's imi- tation of his style, iii. 156. Dalrymple, Lady Margaret, v. 118. Dalzel, Andrew, Greek Professor at Edinburgh, viii. 390.
Dance, Mr., architect, iii. 189 n. Dancing, advocated by Johnson, viii. 54. ; ix. 43.
Dancing-master, Johnson's convers- ation with one, ix. 37. 'Dandy,' iv. 204.
Danes, Stonehenge supposed to be erected by them, x. 269.
Danish colony at Leuchars, iv. 69. Fort, iv. 182.
D'Arblay, Madame. See Burney. Darius, shade of, vii. 363. Darteneuf, Charles, vi. 77 n. Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, mutual dislike between Johnson and, v. 194. ; x. 21.
Dashwood, Lady, vii. 291.
Dating letters, a laudable habit, vii. 317 n.
Daughters, benefit of taking them early into company, ix. 42. Davies, Thomas, the actor and book- seller, character and anecdotes of, ii. 162, 163. 168. 205. 277 n., 278. 287.; iii. 55, 56. 58. 96 n. 241. 301.; v. 176. 233. 282, 283. 285 n. 287. 327.; vii. 47. 51. 80. 356. 361. His Life of Garrick,' vii. 337. Johnson's let- ters to, viii. 224. 370. Churchill's sarcasm on his acting, i. 163 n. His pretty wife,' i. 163 n.; viii. 224.
'Decline and Fall,' Gibbon's, vi. 78. Dedications and Prefaces, by John-
son, and remarks on, i. 180. 183. 202. 211. 307.; ii. 71. 118. 124. 133, 134. 154. 254.; iii. 8. 31. 238. 265.; v. 10.; vi. 244.
Definitions, ii. 48 n.; iv. 28. 40 n. ;
v. 136 n.; vii. 75, 180 m.; 203. 207. De Foe, Daniel, invents the story of Mrs. Veal's ghost, iii. 194. His Ro- binson Crusoe, vii. 103. Degeneracy of the human race dis- puted, iii. 256.
De Groot, Isaac, a relative of Grotius, Johnson's interference in behalf of, vi. 258,259. Deist, ii. 310.
Delany, Dr., his Observations on Swift,' iv. 259. ; vii. 81.; viii. 8. Delay, danger of, ii. 80. Delicacy, ix. 44. 98.
Democritus, viii. -83.
'Demonax' of Lucian, curiously ap plicable to Johnson, vii. 380.
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