Chapter 36

CIVILITY. 'We have done with civility,' iii. 273.

CLAIMS. 'He fills weak heads with imaginary claims,' ii. 244.

CLAPPED. 'He could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped on the back by Tom Davies' (Beauclerk), ii. 344.

CLARET. 'A man would be drowned by claret before it made him drunk,' iii. 381; iv. 79; 'Claret is the liquor for boys,' iii. 381.

CLEAN. 'He did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it,' i. 397.

CLEANEST. 'He was the cleanest-headed man that he had met with,' v. 338.

CLERGYMAN. 'A clergyman's diligence always makes him venerable,' iii. 438.

CLIPPERS. 'There are clippers abroad,' iii. 49.

COAT. 'A man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one,' iii. 188, n. 4.

COCK. 'A fighting cock has a nobleness of resolution,' ii. 334.

COCK-FIGHTING. 'Cock-fighting will raise the spirits of a company,' iii. 42.

COMBINATION. 'There is a combination in it of which Macaulay is not capable,' v. 119.

COMEDY. 'I beg pardon, I thought it was a comedy' (Shelburne), iv. 246, n. 5; 'The great end of comedy is to make an audience merry,' ii. 233.

COMMON--PLACES. 'Criticism disdains to chase a school-boy to his common-places,' iv. 16, n. 4.

COMPANY. 'A fellow comes into _our_ company who is fit for _no_ company,' v. 312; 'The servants seem as unfit to attend a company as to steer a man of war,' iv. 312.

COMPARATIVE. 'All barrenness is comparative,' iii. 76.

COMPLETES. 'He never completes what he has to say,' iii. 57.

CONCENTRATED. 'It is being concentrated which produces high convenience,' v. 27.

CONCENTRATES. 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.

CONCLUSIVE. 'There is nothing conclusive in his talk,' iii. 57.

CONE. 'A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone,' iii. 283.

CONGRESS. 'If I had bestowed such an education on a daughter, and had discovered that she thought of marrying such a fellow, I would have sent her to the Congress,' ii. 409.

CONSCIENCE. 'No man's conscience can tell him the right of another man,' ii. 243.

CONTEMPT. 'No man loves to be treated with contempt,' iii. 385.

CONTEMPTIBLE. 'There is no being so poor and so contemptible who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible,' ii. 13.

CONTRADICTED. 'What harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?' iv. 280.

CONVERSATION. 'In conversation you never get a system,' ii. 361; 'We had talk enough, but no conversation,' iv. 186.

COUNT. 'He had to count ten, and he has counted it right,' ii. 65; 'When the judgment is so disturbed that a man cannot count, that is pretty well,' iv. 176.

COUNTING. 'A man is often as narrow as he is prodigal for want of counting,' iv. 4, n. 4.

COUNTRY. 'They who are content to live in the country are fit for the country,' iv. 338.

Cow. 'A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden,' ii. 187; 'My dear Sir, I would confine myself to the cow' (Blair), v. 396, n. 4; 'Nay, Sir, if you cannot talk better as a man, I'd have you bellow like a cow,' v. 396.

COWARDICE. 'Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace,' iii. 326; 'Such is the cowardice of a commercial place,' iii. 429.

COXCOMB. 'He is a coxcomb, but a satisfactory coxcomb'(Hamilton), iii. 245, n. i; 'Once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb,' ii. 129.

CRAZY. 'Sir, there is no trusting to that crazy piety,' ii. 473.

_Crédulité_. 'La Crédulité des incrédules' (Lord Hailes), v. 332.

CRITICISM. 'Blown about by every wind of criticism,' iv. 319.

CROSS-LEGGED. 'A tailor sits crosslegged, but that is not luxury,' ii. 218

CRUET. 'A mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar cruet,' v. 269.

_Cui bono_. 'I hate a _cui bono_ man' (Dr. Shaw), iv. 112.

CURE. 'Stay till I am well, and then you shall tell me how to cure myself,' ii. 260.

CURIOSITY. 'There are two objects of curiosity-the Christian world and the Mahometan world,' iv. 199.

D.

DANCING-MASTER. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master,' i. 266.

DARING. 'These fellows want to say a daring thing, and don't know how to go about it,' iii. 347.

DARKNESS. 'I was unwilling that he should leave the world in total darkness, and sent him a set' [of the _Ramblers_], iv. 90.

DASH. 'Why don't you dash away like Burney?' ii. 409.

DEATH. 'If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still,' v. 316; 'The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death,' ii. 93; 'We are getting out of a state of death,' ii. 461; 'Who can run the race with death?' iv. 360.

DEBATE. 'When I was a boy I used always to choose the wrong side of a debate,' i. 441.

DEBAUCH. 'I would not debauch her mind,' iv. 398, n. 2.

DEBAUCHED. 'Every human being whose mind is not debauched will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge,' i. 458.

DECLAIM. 'Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate,' iii. 49.

DECLAMATION. 'Declamation roars and passion sleeps' (Garrick), i. 199, n. 2.

DEFENSIVE. 'Mine was defensive pride,' i. 265.

DESCRIPTION. 'Description only excites curiosity; seeing satisfies it,' iv. 199.

_Desidiae_. '_Desidiae valedixi_,' i. 74.

DESPERATE. 'The desperate remedy of desperate distress,' i. 308, n. 1.

DEVIL. 'Let him go to some place where he is not known; don't let him go to the devil where he is known,' v. 54.

DIE. 'I am not to lie down and die between them,' v. 47; 'It is a sad thing for a man to lie down and die,' iii. 317; 'To die with lingering anguish is generally man's folly,' iv. 150, n. 2.

DIES. 'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives,' ii. 106.

_Dieu_. '_Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer_' (Voltaire), v. 47, n. 4.

DIFFERING. 'Differing from a man in doctrine was no reason why you should pull his house about his ears,' v. 62.

DIGNITY. 'He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his power,' iv. 62; 'The dignity of danger,' iii. 266.

DINNER. 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' i. 467, n. 2; 'Amidst all these sorrowful scenes I have no objection to dinner,'