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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

"Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc."

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.


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