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Carter, Mrs. a writer in the Rambler. ii. 218. 472.

Castles in the Hebrides, account of, ix. 151.
  evidences of the fictions of chivalry having had the manners of feudal times for their basis, 153.

Catalogue of the Harleian library, plan of the catalogue, v. 180.
  general use of catalogues 181.

Cato, rather a poem in dialogue than a play, vii. 456.
  extracts from Mr. Dennis's observations, 457.

Cattle, importance of breeding, v. 313.
  account of those bred in the islands of Sky, ix. 78.

Cave, Edward, his life, vi. 428.
  born in Warwickshire, 1691, ibid.
  educated at Rugby school ibid.
  at first encouraged by his master, but afterwards, being charged with stealing a cock, loses all his master's favour, 429.
  lives with a collector of excise, 430.
  comes to London, and lives some time with a timber-merchant, ibid.
  apprenticed to Collins, a printer, ibid.
  after two years sent to conduct a printing-house, and manage a weekly paper, at Norwich, ibid.
  writes in Mist's journal, ibid.
  gets a small place in the post-office, ibid.
  engaged in several small publications, ibid.
  loses his place in the post-office, ibid.
  purchases a small printing-office, and begins the Gentleman's Magazine, ibid.
  spent much money in projects, 432.
  died 1754, 433.
  inscription at Rugby, written by Dr. Hawkesworth, to the memory of Cave's father, himself, and brother, ibid.
  his character, 434.

Caves, some remarkable ones in the isles of Sky, described, ix. 68.

Caution, the connexion of it with hope, iii. 64.

Celibacy, no pleasures in a state of, i. 255.

Censure, our fondness for it derived from an imagined superiority, 6.
  on what occasions it becomes equitable and laudable, 240.

Chairman, his complaint on charging the fat people no more than thin ones, iv. 232.

Character, not to be drawn from a person's own letters, viii. 315.

Characters, the general inclination to copy those of other persons considered, iii. 277.
  the variety of, in England, exemplified by the company in a stage-*coach, iv. 63.
  the folly of assuming, 65.

Chariessa, her reflections upon the fashionable follies of modish life, ii. 472.

Charity, the discharge of its duties should be regulated and adjusted by the rules of justice, ii. 381.
  introduced by revelation, iv. 160.
  no account of it in ancient times transmitted to us, ibid.
  Roman donatives rather popular than virtuous, ibid.
  of mahometans transplanted from christianity, 161.
  of the present age, commended, ibid.
  danger of its abating, 162.
  danger from the competitions between different hospitals, ibid.
  if no want, no charity, 413.

Charity schools, the false notion of the mischief of them, iv. 234.

Charles the first, tries the Sortes Virgiliana, vii. 6.
  charged with inserting a prayer in the Icon Basilike, taken from Sidney's Arcadia, which is, however,
 supposed to have been interpolated by Milton, vii. 84.

Charles the second employs Salmasius to write in defence of
Charles the first and monarchy, vii. 84.
  passes an act of oblivion to all except the regicides, 95.

Charles the twelfth of Sweden, the vanity of a warrior exemplified in him, i. 17.

Charters, their extent and authority, vi. 235.

Chartophylax, his character, iii. 332.

Charybdis, her disposition to profuse expenses, iii. 47.

Chaucer, Geoffry, January and May, and the prologue to the Wife of Bath, put into modern English, by Pope. See Pope.

Cheerful Man characterized, vii. 121.

Chesterfield, earl of, Dr. Johnson's contemptuous letter to, i. xxxv.

Cheynel, Francis, his life, vi. 413.
  born at Oxford, 1608, ibid.
  entered at that university, 1623, ibid.
  fellow of Merton college, ibid.
  takes orders in the church of England, ibid.
  refused his degree of B. D. for disputing concerning predestination, 414.
  account of the disputes at Merton college, 415.
  presented to a valuable living near Banbury, ibid.
  has a dispute with archbishop Laud, ibid.
  declares himself a presbyterian, and a friend of the parliament, 416.
  his house plundered, and living forfeited, ibid.
  retires into Sussex, 417.
  his behaviour to Chillingworth when a prisoner to the parliament's troops, ibid.