reports them, i. 503;
descendants, collateral, i. 90, n. 4;
examined before House of Lords, i. 111, n. 3, 501;
(_Sylvanus Urban_), _Gentleman's Magazine_, projects the, i. 90, 111;
attends closely to its sale, iii. 322;
ghost, saw a, ii. 178, 182;
indecent books, sells, i. 112, n. 2;
Johnson 'Cave's Oracle,' i. 140, n. 5;
first employer, i. 103;
_Life of Savage_, buys the copyright of, i. 165, n. 1;
letters from: see JOHNSON, Letters;
money account with, i. 135;
_Ode_ to him, i. 113;
_Rambler_, proprietor of, i. 203, n. 6, 208, n. 3, 209, n. 1;
and the screen, i. 163, n. 1;
writes his _Life_, i. 256;
'penurious paymaster,' i. 121, n. 2; iv. 409;
prizes for verses, offers, i. 91, n. 2, 136;
treatment of his readers, i. 157, n. 4;
mentioned, i. 122, n. 4, 135, 176, n. 2, 242.
CAVE, Edward, Jun., i. 111, n. 3.
CAVE, Miss, i. 90, n. 4.
CAVERSHAM, ii. 258, n. 3.
CAWSTON, ----, iv. 418.
CAXTON, William, iii. 254.
CECIL, Colonel, ii. 183.
_Cecilia_. See Miss BURNEY.
CEDED ISLANDS, money arising from the, ii. 353, n. 4.
CELIBACY, cheerless, ii. 128.
CELSUS, iii. 152, n. 2.
CELTS, descended from the Scythians, v. 224.
CENSURE, ecclesiastical, iii. 59.
_Cento_, ii. 96, n. 1.
CERTAINTIES, small, the bane of men of talents, ii. 323.
CERVANTES, Don Quixote's death, ii. 370:
see DON QUIXOTE;
praised _Il Palmerino d' Inghilterra_, iii. 2
'CHAIR OF VERITY,' iii. 58, n. 3.
CHALMERS, Alexander, edits the _Spectator_, ii. 212, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 136, n. 3; iii. 230, n. 5.
CHALMERS, George, edits Johnson's _Debates_, i. 152, n. 2.
'CHAM OF LITERATURE,' i. 348.
CHAMBERLAIN, Lord, Johnson's application to the, iii. 34, n. 4.
CHAMBERLAYNE, Edward, iv. 98.
CHAMBERLAYNE, Rev. Mr., iv. 288.
CHAMBERS, Catherine, i. 513-6; death, ii. 43.
CHAMBERS, Ephraim,
_Dictionary of Arts and Sciences_, i. 138, 219;
new edition, ii. 203, n. 3;
epitaph, i. 219, n. 1, 498, n. 2;
Johnson takes his style as a model, i. 218.
CHAMBERS, Sir Robert, dissenters and snails, ii. 268, n. 2;
Johnson's companion to Newcastle, ii. 264; v. 16, 20;
learnt law from him, iii. 22;
letter to him, i. 274;
prescribes remedies to, ii. 260;
recommends him to Warren Hastings, iv. 68-9;
visits him, ii. 25, 46;
judge in India, appointed, ii. 264;
threatened with revocation, ib., n. i;
Langton's will, makes, ii. 261;
Lincoln College, Oxford, member of, i. 274;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 478, n. 2, 479;
married, ii. 274; Principal of New Inn Hall, ii. 46, 268, n. 2;
portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2;
at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
proud or negligent, ii. 272;
Warton, Dr., recommends him to W. G. Hamilton, i. 519;
mentioned, i. 274, 336, 357, 370; ii. 265; iv. 344; v. 66.
CHAMBERS, Dr. Robert,
_Traditions of Edinburgh_--Boyd's Inn, v. 21, n. 2;
Edinburgh, a new face in the streets, v. 39, n. 3;
noble families in the old town, v. 43, n. 4;
Hailes, Lord, i. 432, _n_. 3;
_Hardyknute_, ii. 91, n. 2;
James's Court, v. 22, n. 2;
Kames, Lord, ii. 200, n. 1;
Macdonald's, Flora, virulence, v. 185, n. 4;
Monboddo, Lord, ii. 74, n. 1.
CHAMBERS, Sir William,
_Dissertation on Oriental Gardening_, iv. 60, n. 7; v. 186;
ridiculed in _The Heroic Epistle, ib.;
Johnson writes an introduction to his _Chinese Architecture_, iv. 188;
Somerset House, architect of, iv. 187, n. 4;
_Treatise on Civil Architecture_, iv. 187, n. 4.
CHAMIER, Andrew, account of him, i. 478;
Goldsmith, his estimate of, iii. 252-3;
Johnson consults him in Dodd's case, iii. 121;
gets his interest for Mr. Welch, iii. 217;
visits him, iii. 398, n. 1;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 109;
signs the Round-Robin, iii. 83.
CHAMPION, Sir G., iii. 459.
_Champion, The_, i. 169.
CHANCELLORS, Lord High, how chosen, ii. 157.
CHANCES, iv. 330.
_Chances, The_, ii. 233, n. 4.
CHANDLER, Dr., ii. 445, n. 1.
CHANGE, silver, iv. 191.
CHANTILLY, ii. 400.
CHAPEL-HOUSE, ii. 451.
CHAPLAINS, ii. 96.
CHAPONE, Mrs., account of her, iv. 246, n. 6;
_Correspondence_, her, i. 203, n. 4;
Johnson, letter from, iv. 247;
his meeting with the Abbe Raynal, iv. 434;
his views on natural depravity, v. 211, n. 3;
_Rambler_, contributes to the, i. 203;
Williams, Mrs., account of, i. 232, n. 1.
CHARACTER, a most complete one, ii. 402;
argument, its weight in an, ii. 443; v. 29, n. 5;
delineation in the _Anabasis_, iv. 31;
expectation of uniformity, iii. 282, n. 2;
Johnson saw a great variety, iii. 20;
his sketches of them, ib.;
men not bound to reveal their children's character, iii. 18;
not to be tried by one particular, iii. 238;
must not be lessened, v. 247;
nature and manners, ii. 48;
as to this world not hurt by vice, iii. 342, 349.
CHARADE, a, iv. 195.
CHARITABLE ESTABLISHMENT IN WALES, a, iii. 255.
CHARITY. See ALMSGIVING.
CHARLEMONT, first Earl of,
Beauclerk's character, draws, i. 249, n. 1;
letters to him, ii. 192;
Hume's French, i. 439, n. 2;
Hume and Mrs. Mallet, ii. 8, n. 4;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
Johnson and Vestris, iv. 79;
professor in the imaginary college, v. 108;
story of the Pyramids, iii. 352, 449, 458;
mentioned, ii. 235, 274, n. 3; iv. 78.
CHARLES I,
anniversary of his death, ii. 152, n. 1;
kept by Boswell with old port and solemn talk, iii. 371;
birth-place, v. 399;
concessions to parliament, v. 340;
corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1;
Johnson and Lord Auchinleck dispute about him, v. 382, n. 2;
'murder,' his, unpopular, ii. 370;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
saying about lawyers, ii. 214;
mentioned, i. 194, n. 2, 466; ii. 170, n. 2; v. 204, 346, 406.
CHARLES II, atheist and bigot, iv. 194, n. 1;
betrayed and sold the nation, ii. 342, n. 2;
corn, price of, in his reign, iii. 232, n. 1;
descendants, his, Beauclerk, i. 248, n. 2;
Commissioner Cardonnel, iii. 390, n. 1;
Charles Fox, iv. 292, n. 2;
Duke of York and Catharine Sedley, v. 49;
France, took money from, ii. 342;
Heale, at, iv. 234, n. 1;
Hume's partiality for him, ii. 341, n. 2;
Johnson's partiality for him, i. 248; ii. 341; iv. 292, n. 2;
'lenity,' his, iv. 41;
Lewis XIV, might have been as absolute as, ii. 370;
manners, ii. 41;
political principles in his time, ii. 369;
social, i. 442;
story-telling, excelled in, iii. 390, n. 1;
mentioned, ii. 437, n 2; v. 357, n. 3.
CHARLES III (the Young Pretender), ii. 253.
CHARLES EDWARD, Prince. See PRETENDER.
CHARLES V, Emperor, plays at his own funeral, iii. 247.
CHARLES X, of France, ii. 401, n. 4.
CHARLES XII, of Sweden, compared with Socrates, iii. 265;
dressed plainly, ii. 475;
Johnson's _Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 195.
_Charles of Sweden_, i. 153.
CHARLOTTE, Queen, account of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1;
Garrick's compliment to her, ii. 233;
'a lady of experience,' ii. 142;
Queen's House, ii. 33, n. 3;
Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
mentioned, i. 383; ii. 290.
_Charmer, The_, v. 313.
CHARTER-HOUSE, iii. 124, 441.
CHARTER-HOUSE SCHOOL, iii. 222.
CHARTRES, Colonel, ii. 211, n. 4.
CHASTITY, one deviation from it ruins a woman, ii. 56;
property depends on it, ii. 457; v. 209.
CHATHAM, William Pitt, Earl of,
Boswell, correspondence with, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1;
_Capability_ Brown, account of, iii. 400, n. 2;
Cardross, Lord, offers a post to, ii. 177;
Cumming the Quaker's account of him, v. 98, n. 1;
Dictator, iii. 356;
excisemen, attacks, i. 294, n. 9;
Garrick, notes to, ii. 227;
Highland regiments, raises, iii. 198; v. 150;
House of Commons, last speech in the, ii. 16, n. 2;
Johnson attacks him, ii. 134, n. 4, 314;
criticises his oratory, iv. 317;
writes a speech in his name, i. 504;
Loudoun, Lord, recalls, v. 372, n. 3;
merchants and tradesmen, praises honest, v. 327, n. 4;
'meteor,' i. 131; v. 339;
oratory, his, i. 152;
Oxford in 1754, at, i. 171, n. 1;
'Ptit,' figures in the _Debates_ as, i. 502;
public and private schools, on, iii. 12, n. 1;
Scotch Militia bill, acquiesces in the, ii. 431, n. 1;
Shelburne joins his ministry, iii. 36, n. 1;
son, his, superior to him, iv. 219,_ n._ 3;
Trecothick, praises, iii. 76,_ n._ 2;
Walpole, distinguished from, ii. 196;
war, his glorious, ii. 126;
Whigs and Tories, distinguishes, i. 431, n. 1;
'woollen, buried in,' ii. 453, n. 2;
mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3.
CHATSWORTH, Boswell visits it, iii. 208;
Johnson visits it in 1774, v. 429;
in 1784, iv. 357, 367;
present at a 'public dinner,' ib., n. 3.
CHATTERTON, Thomas,
money gained by Beckford's death, iii. 201, n. 3;
_Rowley's Poetry,_ iii. 50;
pretended discovery, ib., n. 1;
Johnson's admiration, iii. 51;
Goldsmith's belief, ib., n. 2;
Walpole's disbelief, ib.;
quarrel about it between Goldsmith and Percy, iii. 276, n. 2;
'wild adherence to him,' iv. 141.
CHAUCER, took much from the Italians, iii. 254.
_Chaucer, Life of,_ i. 306.
CHEAP, Captain, i. 117, n. 2.
CHELSEA, ii. 169, n. 1.
CHELSEA COLLEGE, ii. 64.
CHEMISTRY,
Johnson's love of it, i. 140, 436; ii. 155;
'the new kinds of air,' iv. 237;
Priestley's discoveries, 238.
CHENEY WALK, ii. 99, n. 5.
CHEROKEES, v. 248.
CHESELDEN, William, iii. 152,_ n._ 3.
CHESTER, Boswell visits it, iii. 411-15;
Johnson and the Thrales, v. 435;
Michael Johnson attends the fair, ib.;
passage thence to Ireland, i. 105.
CHESTERFIELD, fourth Earl of,
active sports and idleness, i. 48, n. 1;
Addison and Leandro Alberti, ii. 346, n. 7;
appeal to people in high life, how to be made, i. 257, n. 1;
Bolingbroke's ready knowledge, ii. 256, n. 3;
'But stoops to conquer,' quotes, ii. 205, n. 4;
conversation and knowledge, iv. 332;
dedications, the _plastron_ of, i. 183, n. 3;
dignified but insolent, iv. 174;
dissembling anger, i. 265, n. 1;
duplicity, his, i. 264-5;
Eliot, Mr., praises, iv. 334, n. 5;
epigram written with his diamond, iv. 102, n. 4;
exquisitely elegant, iv. 332;
Faulkner, George, account of, v. 44, n. 2;
friend, had no, iii. 387;
flogging, on, i. 46, n. 2;
general reflections, on, iv. 313, n. 2;
graces and wickedness, on uniting the, ii. 340;
_great_, pronunciation of, ii. 161;
_Letters_, 'Hottentot, a respectable,' i. 266; v. 103, n. 2;
Ireland's sufferings from a drunken gentry, v. 250, n. 1:
Johnson addresses to him the Plan, i. 183-5; ii. 1, n. 2; 35, n. 5;
his MS. notes on it, i. 185, n. 2;
_Dictionary_, writes in _The World_ on, i. 257-60;
flatters with a view to a _Dedication, i. 257;
letter to him, i. 260-5, 284, n. 3; iv. 192, n. 2; v. 130, n. 3;
Boswell begs for a copy of it, iii. 418, 420;
gets it, iv. 128;
neglects, i. 256-265;
presents ten pounds to, i. 261, n. 3;
speeches ascribed to him, iii. 351;
laughter low and unbecoming, declares, ii. 378, n. 2;
letter to his son at Rome, iv. 78, n. 1;
_Letters_, Johnson's description of them, i. 266;
Boswell's, ib., n. 2;
Lord Eliot's, iv. 333;
literary property in them contested, i. 266;
pretty book, might be made a, iii. 53;
sale, ii. 329;
mentioned, iii. 54;
_Miscellaneous Works_, published in 1777, iii. 108, n. 2;
old and ill, i. 262, n. 1;
Parisians not learned, declares the, i. 454, n. 3;
patron of bad authors, iv, 331, n. 1;
position, great, ii. 329; pride, i. 265;
_respectable_, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2;
Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2;
Robinson, Sir T., epigram on, i. 434, n. 3;
Secretary of State, iv. 333, n. 2;
speeches composed by Johnson, i. 505;
study of eloquence, on the, iv. 184, n. 1;
_transpire_, iii. 343, n. 2;
Tyrawley, Lord, criticism on, ii. 211;
'wit among Lords,' i. 266;
wit, his, ii. 211;
world, on the judgment of the, i. 200, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 151; iv. 78.
CHESTERFIELD, fifth Earl of, Dodd, Dr., forges his name, iii. 140.
CHEVALIER, the, v. 140, n. 3.
_Chevalier's Muster Roll_, v. 142, n. 2.
CHEYNE, Dr. George,
account of his diet, iii. 27, n. 1;
on bleeding, iii. 152, n. 3;
_English Malady_, i. 65; iii. 27, 87; v. 210;
rule of conduct, v. 154.
_Cheynel, Life of_, i. 228; ii. 187, n. 2. v. 48.
CHICHESTER, iv. 160.
CHIEFS. See HIGHLANDS.
CHIESLEY OF DALRY, v. 227, n. 4.
CHILDHOOD, companions of one's, iii. 131.
CHILD, ----, of Southwark, i. 491, n. 1.
CHILDREN, business men care little for them, iii. 29;
company, should not be brought into, iii. 28, 128;
Gay's writings for them, ii. 408, n. 3;
Johnson on books for them, iv. 8, n. 3, 16;
library, to be turned loose in a, iv. 21;
management of them, i. 46, n. 3;
method of rearing them, ii. 101;
natural aptitudes, v. 211, 214;
prematurely wise, ii. 408.
CHINA, dog-butchers, ii. 232;
mortality on the voyage thither, i. 348, n. 3;
wall of, iii. 269, 457;
people 'perfectly polite,' i. 89;
barbarians, iii. 339;
plantations, iv. 60.
_China_, Du Halde's _Description of_. See Du HALDE.
CHINA-FANCY, iii. 163, n. 1.
CHINA-MANUFACTORY, iii. 163.
_Chinese Architecture_. See CHAMBERS, Sir W.
_Chinese Stories_, i. 136.
CHISWICK, iv. 168, n. 1.
'CHOICE OF DIFFICULTIES,' v. 146.
CHOISI, Abbe, iii. 336.
CHOLMONDELEY, G. J., iv. 345.
CHOLMONDELEY, Mrs., account of her, iii. 318, n. 3;
a very airy lady, v. 248;
an affected gentleman, iii. 261;
Johnson takes her hand, iii. 318, n. 3;
mentioned, ii. 125; iii. 256.
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, ii. 286.
CHRIST'S satisfaction, iv. 124; v. 88.
CHRISTIAN, Rev. Mr., ii. 52.
_Christian Hero_, ii. 448.
_Christian Philosopher and Politician_, i. 202, n. 1.
CHRISTIANITY,
differences political rather than religious, i. 405;
chiefly in forms, ii. 150; iii. 188;
evidences for it, i. 398, 405, 428, 444,454; ii. 8, 14;
iii. 188, 316; v. 47, 340;
revelation of immortality its great article, iii. 188;
its 'wilds,' iii. 313.
CHRISTIE, James, the auctioneer, iv. 402, n. 2.
CHRYSOSTOM, v. 446.
CHURCH, The, possesses the right of censure, iii. 59-62, 91, n. 3.
'CHURCH AND KING,' iv. 29, 296.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, in Charles II's reign, ii. 341;
'Churchmen will not be Catholics,' iv. 29, n. 1;
Convocation denied it, i. 464;
discipline and Convocation, iv. 177;
example of attendance at the services, ii. 173;
House of Hanover, all against the, v. 271;
manner of reading the service, iii. 436;
neglected state of the buildings, v. 41, n. 3;
of the cathedrals, 114, n. 1;
observance of days, ii. 458;
parishes neglected, iii. 437;
patronage, ii. 242-6;
revenues, iii. 138;
theory and practice, iii. 138.
CHURCH OF ROME. See ROMAN CATHOLICS.
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. See under SCOTLAND.
CHURCHILL, Charles,
account of the publication of his poems, i. 419, n. 3;
profits, ib. n. 5;
'blotting,' hatred of, i. 419, n. 5;
Boswell criticises his poetry, i. 419;
'brains not excised,' v. 51;
Cowper's high estimate of his poetry, i. 419, n. 4;
Davies and his wife, i. 391, n. 2, 484; iii. 223, 249;
death, his, i. 395, n. 2, 419, n. 3;
Dodsley's _Cleane_, i. 326, n. 3;
Flexney, his publisher, ii. 113, n. 2;
Francklin, Dr., iv. 34, n. 1;
'gainst fools be guarded,' v. 217, n. 1;
_Gotham_, i. 420, n. 1;
Guthrie, William, i. 118, n. 1;
Hill, Sir John, ii. 38, n. 2;
Holland the actor, iv. 7, n. 5;
Johnson, attacks, about _Shakespeare_, i. 319-20, 419;
about the Cock-Lane Ghost, i. 406;
about his strong terms, iii. 1, n. 2;
despises his poetry, i. 418;
Lloyd in the Fleet-prison, i. 395, n. 2;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, ii. 472, n. 2;
Ogilvie's poetry, i. 423, n. 1;
_Prophecy of Famine_, i. 373, n. 1, 420; iii. 77, n. 1;
_Gotham_, Europe's treatment of savages, iii. 204, n. 1;
