),
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.

_Credulite_. 'La Cr