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.