CANTING.  ’A man who has been canting all his life may cant to the last,’ iii. 270.

CAPITULATE.  ‘I will be conquered, I will not capitulate,’ iv. 374.

CARD-PLAYING.  ‘Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing,’ iii. 23;
  ‘It generates kindness and consolidates society,’ v. 404.

CARROT.  ‘You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot,’ ii. 439.

CAT.  ‘She was a speaking cat,’ iii. 246.

CATCH.  ‘God will not take a catch of him,’ iv. 225.

CATCHING.  ’That man spent his life in catching at an object which he had not power to grasp,’ ii. 129.

CATEGORICAL.  ‘I could never persuade her to be categorical,’ iii. 461.

CAUTION.  ‘A strain of cowardly caution,’ iii. 210.

CAWMELL.  ‘Ay, ay, he has learnt this of Cawmell,’ i. 418.

CENSURE.  ‘All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise,’ iii. 323.

CHAIR.  ‘He fills a chair,’ 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.