hair,' iv. 81.

CHARACTER. 'Ranger is just a rake, a mere rake, and a lively young
fellow, but no _character_ ii. 50;
'Derrick may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but
the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over,' i. 394;
'The greater part of mankind have no character at all,' iii. 280, n. 3.

CHARITY. 'There is as much charity in helping a man down-hill as in
helping him up-hill,' v. 243.

CHEERFULNESS. 'Cheerfulness was always breaking in' (Edwards), iii. 305.

CHEQUERED. 'Thus life is chequered,' iv. 245, n. 2.

CHERRY-STONES. 'A genius that could not carve heads upon cherry-stones,'
iv. 305.

CHIEF. 'He has no more the soul of a chief than an attorney who has
twenty houses in a street, and considers how much he can make by
them,' v. 378.

CHILDISH. 'One may write things to a child without being childish'
(Swift), ii. 408, n. 3.

CHIMNEY. 'To endeavour to make her ridiculous is like blacking the
chimney,' ii. 336.

CHUCK-FARTHING. 'A judge is not to play at marbles or at chuck-farthing
in the Piazza,' ii. 344.

CHURCH. 'He never passes a church without pulling off his hat,' i. 418;
'Let me see what was once a church,' v. 41.

CITIZEN. 'The citizen's enlarged dinner, two pieces of roast-beef
and two puddings,' iii. 272.

CIVIL. 'He was so generally civil that nobody thanked him for it,'
iii. 183

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