eftablishment of the Royal Society, 183. Character of his Hudi
bras, 184. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 175.

C.

CADENCY, in poetick numbers confidered, vi. 143.
Cairne, in Sky, a burying-place defcribed, x. 378.
Calamities, the duty of not finking under, xi. 98.
Calder Cafle, account of, x. 342.

Calumnies, the difficulty in fuppreffing, iv. 339.

Camilla, her affected cifrelish of the difpofitions and conduct of her
own fex exposed, vi. 279. 281.

Canaries, Ilands of, account of the first difcovery and settlement of,
ix. 380. John de Cerda crowned King of the Canaries, 381.
Candidus, his hiftory, ix. 41.

Cannon, two obfervations on the danger of, iii. 120.

Cantilinus, his low tale cenfured, vii. 218.

Capel Edward, obfervations on his edition of Shakespear, ix. 283.
Captator, a legacy-hunter, his history, vii. 327. 332.

Caftles in the Hebrides, account of, x. 508. Evidences of the fiЯions
of chivalry having had the manners of feudal times for their basis,
511.

Catacombs, vifited by Raffelas, xi. 138.

Catalogue of the Harleian Library, plan of the catalogue, ix. 337. Ge-
neral ufe of catalogues, 339.

Extracts from

Progress of the
Account of thofe

Caro, rather a poem in dialogue than a play, iii. 90.
M. Dennis's Obfervations, 91.
Cattle, the importance of the breeding of, x. 302.
breeding of, from the time of Abraham, 302.
bred in the islands of Sky, 414.
Cave, Edward, his life, iv. 521. Born in Warwickshire, 1691, 521.
Educated at Rugby School, 522. A: first encouraged by his matter,
but afterwards, being charged with flealing a cock, lofes all his
matter's favour, 522. Lives with a Collector of Excife, 523.
Comes to London, and lives fome time with a Timber-merchant,
523. Apprenticed to Collins, a printer, 523. After two years,
fent to conduct a printing-house, and manage a weekly paper, at
Norwich, 54. Writes in Mift's Journal, 524. Geis a small place
in the Poft-office, 524. Engaged in feveral small publications, 524.
Lofes his place in the Poft office, 525. Purchases a small printing-
office, and begins the Gentleman's Magazine, 525. Spent much
money in projects, 526. Died 1754, 527. Infcription at Rugby,
written by Dr. Hawkefworth, to the memory of Cave's father,
himself, and brother, 527. His character, 528.

Caves, fome remarkable ones in the ifles of Sky, described, x. 402.
Account of a remarkable one in the island of Inch Kenneth, 498.
Caution, the connection of it with hope, vi. 306.

Cecilia, St. Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, iv. 114.
Celibacy, no pleafures in a state of, xi. 73.

Cellini,

Cellini, Benvenuto, account of a book called his Life, ix. 360. After lying a century and an half in MS. published at Naples, in 1730, 360. His extraordinary character, 361.

Cenfure, our fondness for it derived from an imagined fuperiority, v. 8. On what occasions it becomes equitable and laudable, 319. Chairman, his complaint on charging the fat people no more than thin ones, viii. 112.

Character, not to be drawn from a perfon's own letters, iv. 96.

Characters, the general inclination to copy thofe of other perfons con

fidered, vii. 145. The variety of, in England, exemplified by the company in a stage-coach, ix. 55. The folly of affuming, 57. Charia, her reflections upon the fashionable follies of modifh life, vi. 183, 188. Charity, the ditcharge of its duties fhould be regulated and adjusted by the rules of juftice, vi. 62. Introduced by Revelation, viii. 13. No account of it in antient times tranfmitted to us, 13. Roman donatives rather popular than virtuous, 13. Of Mahometans tranfplanted from Chriftianity, 14. Of the prefent age commended, 14. Danger of its abating, 15. Danger from the competitions between different hofpitals, 16. If no want, no charity, 359.

Charity Schools, the falfe notion of the mifchief of them, viii. Co. Charles I. tries the Sortes Virgiliana, ii. 11. Charged with inferting

a prayer in the Icon Bafilike, taken from Sidney's Arcadia, which is, however, fuppofed to have been interpolated by Milton, 105. Charles II. employs Salmafius to write in defence of Charles I. and Monarchy, ii. 105. Paffes an Act of Oblivion to all except the Regicides, 119.

Charles XII. of Squeden, the vanity of a warrior exemplified in him,

xi. 337.

Charters, their extent and authority, x. 107.

Chartophylax, his character, vii. 218.

Charybdis, her difpofition to profufe expences, vi. 282.

Chatterton Controversy, Dr. Johnson's opinion of it, xi. 208.

Chaucer, Geoffry, January and May; and the Prologue to the Wife of Bath, put into modern English, by Pope, iv. 5. Defcribed in the afiembly of bards, xi. 166. His fpeech as Prefident of the assembly of bards for the admiflion of Milton, 186.

Cheerful man characterized, ii. 150.

Cheynel, Francis, his life, iv. 501. Born at Oxford, 1608, 501. Entered at that Univerfity, 1623, 501. Fellow of Merton College, 502. Takes orders in the church of England, 502. Refufed his degree of B. D. for difputing concerning Predeftination, 502. Account of the difpates at Merton College, 504. Prefented to a valuable living near Banbury, 504. Has a difpute with Archbishop Laud, 504. Declares himself a Prefbyterian, and a friend of the Parliament, 505. His houfe plundered, and living forfeited, 505. Retires into Suflex, 506. His behaviour to Chillingworth, when a prifoner to the Parliament's troops, 507. In the army of Effex, thews himself equally brave as learned, 508. Is presented by Par liament to the living of Petworth, 509. Sent by the Parliament, with fix others, to reform the University, 5cg. Fixes a Scruple-fhop

at

at Oxford, 510. His difputes with Earbury and the Independents,
516. His controverly with Mr. Hammond, on his Practical Cate-
chifm, 513.
His further proceedings at Oxford, 514. Prefident
of St. John's College and Lady Margaret Profeflor, 516. Writes
in defence of the Trinity against the Socinians, 518. Retires from
Oxford to his living at Petworth, 5.8. Lofes Petworth at the Re-
floration, 510. Suppofed to have died distracted, 1665, 520.
Chillingworth, Dr. for a fhort time embraced Popery, ii. 349.

Ac

count of his fickness and death, in the hands of the Parliament's
troops, iv. 507.

Chineft, account of a man of that country at the island of Ternate, iv.
433.

Choice of life, aftronomers opinion of, xi. 131.

Chriftianus perfeaus. xi. 386.

Chrysalus, the tatal effects of his peevishnefs, vi. 261.

Cibber, Mr. the lives of the poets not written by him, but by one
Robert Shiels, iii. 237. Appointed Poet Laureat, 303. Takes
umbrage at the Volunteer Laureat, 307. Celebrated by Pope in his
lait book of the Dunciad, iv. 81. He refents the affront in a
pamphlet, 81.

Cicero, his reflections upon the vanity of tranfitory applaufe, vi. 300.
His remarks upon the importance of being acquainted with paft
tranfactions, vii. 85.

252.

Clarendon, Lord, the story of Smith being employed to alter his hiftory,
falie, i. 470.
His character of Waller, with obfervations on it,
His character of Admiral Blake, iv. 376. The peculiar ex-
cellency of his Hiftory of the Rebellior, vi. 330. Thoughts on the
publication of the fequel to his hiftory, viii. 259. Doubts of the
unfaithral publication of his hiftory, 261.
Cleobulus, his maxim on the excellence of mediocrity, v.
Cleora, her Letter on Gaming, v. 96. 100.

245.

Clergy, Milton's objections to entering into the ministry, ii. 88.
Clifford, Martin, attacks Dryden's Conquest of Grenada, with a spe-
cimen, ii. 325. Affifted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, 342.
Climate, has no influence on freedom and flavery, or virtue and vice,

viii. 41.

Coach, provided by marriage-articles without horfes, viii. 218.
Coal pit compared to the fun, ii. 34.

Coins, obfervations on the collectors of, viii. 226.

Col, ifland of, account of, x. 465. Account of Griffipol in Col, 46;.
Account of the cattle of Col, 469. Turnips introduced there, 470.
Account of the violent tempetts there, 471. The inhabitants at
Malt-tax of the island
tempt to fupply their own wants, 478.

only 20s. a year, 479. No emigrations from, 480. Their fu-
nerals, 481. Amusements on New Year's Eve, 482. Account of
the cultom of protecting murderers there, 482. Account of the
custom of fotterage there, 484.

Collier, Jeremy, account of his difpute on the entertainments of the
ftage, i. 100.

Collins William, his life, iv. 204. Born at Chichester, 1720, 204.
Adm tied at Winchefter College, 1733, 204. Came to London,
about 1744, a literary adventurer, 205. His uncle leaves him

about

about 2,cool. 205.

Troubled with difeafe and infanity, 206. His character, 206. Died 1756, 207. His works characterized, 209. Colonies, obfervations on the fettlement of, iii. 320. More politick to remove grievances than to drive men to feek shelter in foreign countries, 320. Crimes committed by the discoverers of new regions, 321. Confiderations how they are conftituted, x. 102. Conftitution of English colonies, 106. Their power from their charters, 107. Compared to a member of the body, 108. Ought to be bound by ftatutes of the Mother-country, reg. The plea of want of reprefentation examined, 110. Advantages of, to the Mother-country, 172.

Columbus, little advantage to Europe from his difcoveries, x. 104. Comedy, critical remarks upon the manner of compofing it, vi. 345. Commendation, falle claims to it cenfured, vii. 282.

Commentators, the difficulties they meet with, ix. 289.

Commerce, Preface to Rolt's Dictionary of, ix. 422. The prefent predilection of mankind to, 422. Difficulties in acquiring the knowledge cf, 424. One of the daughters of fortune, x. 306. Mult owe its fuccefs to Agriculture, 308.

Companions, different claffes of them defcribed, vii, 280.
Compaffion, fuppofed by fome to be a felfish pafiion, vii. 14.
Competitions, often fupported by interest and envy, vii. 249. Their
different influence on this occafion ftated, 250, 251.

Complainers, inceffant, reprefented as the fcreech-owls of mankind, v. 376.

Complaint, little got by it, viii. 378.

Complaints of the conduct of others, what principles will fupport our claim to it, v. 319, 320.

Compofition, different methods of, iv. 105.

Compton, Sir Spencer, prefents Thomson with twenty guineas, having dedicated Winter to him, iv. 166.

Comus, the Mafque of, firft acted in 1634, ii. 89. Derived from Homer's Circe, 89. The fact on which it was founded, 89. Suppofed by the editor to be derived from the Comus of Erycius Puteanus, 90. Acted April 5, 1750, for the benefit of a grand-daughter of Milton, 146. Characterized, 151. Prologue to, when acted for. the benefit of a grand-daughter of Milton, xi. 346. Conduct, the abfurdity of it, whence it arifeth, vi. 4c7. Congo, ifland of, firft difcovered by the Portuguese, ix. 398. Congreve, William, his life, iii. 155. Defcended from a family in Staffordshire, 155. Born about 1672, the place uncertain, 155. First educated at Kilkenny, afterwards at Dublin, 156. Entered at the Middle-Tempie, but paid little attention to Statutes or Reports, 156. The Old Batchelor, his first dramatick labour, 1693, 157. This play procured him the patronage of Halifax, who made him a Commiflioner for licensing Coaches, and places in the tipe-office and Customs, 58. Account of this comedy, 158. The Double Dealer, 194, 159. Love for Love, 1695. 159. Mourning Bride, 1697. 1) Defends the stage againft Collier, 161. Writes The Way of the World, 163. Retires from the world as a writer, 163. Made

Secretary

Secretary for the Island of Jamaica, 164. Wifhed to be confidered
rather as a Gentleman than an Author, 164. His converfation with
Voltaire, 164. Lofes his fight, 164. Died Jan. 29, 1728-9, bu-
ried in Westminster-Abbey, and a monument erected by the Dutchess
of Marlborough, to whom he left 10,000/. 165. His character as
an author, 165. Defcribed in the aflembly of bards, xi. 181.
Confolation under afflictions, by what methods it may be obtained, v.
332. On what occafion it may be drawn from a view of the affictions
of others, 333. Its ufeful influence against the depreflions of me-
lancholy, 334. The tendency of it to ftrengthen patience and for-
titude. 336.

Conftantia and Philetus, written by Cowley, at twelve years of age,

Conftantius, his hiftory and character, vii. 299 304.

Contentment, with the fituation in life affigned us, recommended, v. 400.
Controverfies of the learned, a moderator recommended in them, ix. 364.
Controversy, the writers of it, their fhort-lived fame foon fucceeded by
difrelifh and neglect, vi. 225.

Convenience, progrefs from rudeness to, viii. 252.

Conversation, the pleafures and diftaftes of it, v. 274. 297. The im-
portance of acquiring it, vii. 217. The art of it difficult to be at-
taired, 277.
What methods are moft proper for this end, 278.
The errors in fentiment and practice relating to this, into which
many are led, 279. Requires the fame ingredients as punch, viii.
135. The ingredients of both compared, 136.

Conway, Lord, taken up for being concerned in Waller's Plot, ii. 210.
After being examined feveral times by the Lords is admitted to bail,

242.

Cest, account of a bird in Scotland fo called, x. 334-

Corbet, Ars. Pope's Epitaph on her, with the Vifitor's remarks, iv.

149.

Coriatachan, in Sky, account of, x. 377.

Coriolanus, obtervations on Shakespeare's tragedy of, ix. 324.
Cornelia, her account of lady Buttle's employment, v. 325 331.
Cornice. Bob, his hiftory, ix, 29.

Cornish-men, a fuppofed Addrefs from them, in order to fhew the falfe
Arguments in the American Refolutions and Address, x. 132.

Country Life, the pleafore expected to be met with in it, feldom prove
fo, exemplified in the Hiftory of Frank Shifter, viii. 284.

Court, the danger of dangling after places there, exemplified in the
character of 1 entulus, ix. 44.

Courtier, his manner defcribed, vii. 39. 44.

Courtly, Mrs. her character, v. 78.

Cowley, Abraham, his life, ii. 5. Dr. Sprat's Life of Cowley rather
a Funeral Oration than an Hiftory, 5. The fon of a Grocer, and
born in 1618, 5. Became a poet from reading Spenser's Fairy
Queen, 6. Educated at Weftminster School, 6. Could not retain
the rules of grammar, 6. A volume of Poems printed in his thirteenth
year, 7. Wrote Pyramus and Thibe at ten years of age, and Con-
ftantia and Philetus at twelve, 7. Removed to Cambridge in 1636,
7. Ejected from Cambridge, and takes fhelter at St. John's Col-

lege,