Chapter C: =Cæsar=, Augustus, on losing his legions, 511, 35

=Cæsar=, Julius, imperious, dead, 183, 35;
mighty, so low in death, 321, 22;
on Cassius, 241, 30;
on crossing the Rubicon, 411, 9;
when he crossed the Rubicon, 210, 8;
word of, as living and as dead, 33, 40

=Cake=, earned by baking it, 141, 36

=Cakes= and ale, no more, 72, 8

=Calamity=, great source of, 431, 38;
man under, 510, 30

=Calling=, a, advantage of, 146, 43

=Calm=, no sailing in, 303, 34;
nourishment of strength, 279, 14

=Calmness=, sign of strength, 277, 1; 354, 45;
source of, 456, 6

=Calumniators=, their own avengers, 480, 1

=Calumny=, alarm at, 101, 3;
best answer to, 495, 1;
eagerness to spread, 3, 42;
how to escape, 565, 6;
how to extinguish or to justify, 36, 23;
how to overcome, 47, 10;
how to silence, 559, 9;
no escaping, 28, 46; 305, 15;
ready acceptance and spread of, 299, 9;
sure to stick, 22, 42

=Calvin=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
treatment of, 349, 20

=Camp=, English, on the eve of battle, 116, 1;
virtues rare in, 368, 4

=Canary= bird, in a darkened cage, 419, 23

=Candour=, not necessarily impartiality, 23, 17;
the effect of, 35, 11

=Canker=, loathsome, in sweetest bud, 252, 16

=Cant=, defined, and its progeny, 197, 17;
mind to be cleared of, 43, 58

=Canticle=, the sublimest, 456, 8

=Canvassing=, exhausting effect of, 223, 38

=Capabilities=, defined, 99, 26

=Capability=, no vague general, 90, 23;
unknown till tried, 306, 14

=Capacity=, limited, 220, 33

=Capitalist=, in a civilised nation, 420, 3

=Capricious= man, his faith, 3, 24

=Captivity=, type of, 109, 24;
as an evil, 245, 29

=Carcass=, attractive power of, 549, 33

=Cards=, a pack of, 217, 8

=Care=, a fig for, 243, 3;
effect of, 51, 37;
foe togladness,
79, 15;
man's first, 266, 31;
not all on one object, 295, 29;
profitlessness of, 306, 46;
soothed by song, 280, 1;
the danger of too much, 479, 11;
vanity of, 16, 57;
want of, 518, 30;
wise, 531, 16

=Careless=, past preaching to, 179, 16;
people, 405, 45

=Carelessness=, about others' opinion, a bad sign, 294, 32

=Cares=, effect of, 114, 46;
nursed, 275, 29;
others', the burden of, 162, 31

=Caricature=, effect of, on Hogarth, 34, 18

=Carlyle=, as a thinker, 453, 7;
at Linlathen, 461, 46;
inspiring idea of, 123, 14;
James, to his son, 264, 27;
of his father, 485, 38;
of his mother when dying, 438, 6;
on his life, and world's relation to it, 464, 14

=Carlyle's=, books, John Burroughs on, 307, 21;
one certainty, 316, 21;
reflection on his life at Craigenputtock, 160, 53;
teaching, John Burroughs on, 461, 28

=Carlyles=, the, John Burroughs on, 419, 28; 541, 22

=Carper=, a, 2, 36

=Carters=, employment for, 489, 12

=Cash= payment, impotence of, 256, 8

=Cassandra= and the Trojans, 57, 23

=Cassius=, Cæsar on, 145, 4

=Castles= in air, foundations to be put under, 176, 46

=Castor= and Pollux, 36, 42

=Cat=, a scalded, 19, 2; 40, 43

=Categories=, only words, 534, 9

=Cathedral=, not so majestic as a tree, 324, 25

=Cathedrals=, of Christendom, the glory of, 276, 24;
the old, and the great blue dome, 445, 28

=Catiline's= flight, 1, 30

=Cato=, a, in every man, 469, 25;
has to submit, 419, 32;
the elder, Livy on, 163, 13; 187, 33

=Cause=, a good, injury to, 171, 3;
a good, needs support, 31, 25;
a noble, desertion of, 200, 3;
that is strong, 413, 2;
the best, needs advocacy, 56, 18;
true, sure of victory, 106, 8

=Causes=, great, never tried on the merits, 133, 14;
weightiest, most silent, 277, 1

=Caution=, enforced at every step, 94, 8;
from experience, 37, 18;
mother of safety, 225, 8

=Censor=, the business of, 234, 2;
the trade of, 198, 11

=Censure=, and flattery, 347, 22;
and ridicule, cheap, 201, 22;
avoiding, and gaining applause, 202, 20;
effect of, in contrast with glory, 124, 33;
from knowledge, 84, 27;
how and when to administer, 106, 19;
how to treat, 409, 15;
linked to fame, 101, 10;
not to be too hasty, 528, 39;
of a friend, without thanks, 289, 1;
often wrong, 318, 38;
to be received with complacency, 545, 42;
to begin at home, 409, 32;
unqualified, evil of, 313, 49;
who should, 242, 40

=Censurers=, fear of, 527, 5

=Censures=, commendations, 181, 19

=Centuries=, conspirators against soul, 419, 34;
lineal children of one another, 419, 33

=Century=, present, Schiller on, 78, 45;
thy, as thy life element, 252, 2

=Ceremony=, absurd and tiresome, 376, 51

=Ceres= and peace, 343, 56

=Certain=, quitting, for uncertain, 143, 37;
sacrificed for uncertain, 38, 27;
the only thing, 478, 27

=Certainty=, beginning with, 185, 42;
by way of doubt, 474, 2;
the only, 377, 1

=Chaff-cutter=, as creator, 174, 13

=Chain=, dependent on link, 32, 39

=Chains=, and slavery, 180, 4;
golden, heavy, 128, 44;
rattling of, as show of freedom, 276, 22

=Chamfort's= last words, 166, 13

=Chamois=, caught, though high-climbing, 119, 37

=Champion=, the, and his love of victory, 419, 37

=Champions=, great, special gifts of God, 134, 42

=Chance=, a nickname for providence, 233, 36;
a second, advantage of, 48, 38; 86, 18;
as a god, 103, 22;
as arbiter, 172, 24;
games of, traps, 118, 31;
gatherings of, 385, 22;
no such thing as, 474, 29;
scope for, everywhere, 36, 48;
unseen providence, 10, 7

=Chances=, common, bearable, 45, 11

=Change=, a call everywhere for, 457, 29;
a necessity, 527, 13;
cause of uneasiness, 79, 19;
everything subject to, 327, 45;
fear of, 186, 8;
in every, dissatisfaction, 186, 26;
life of world, 464, 9;
love of, 377, 55;
man hates, 34, 6;
necessity for, 479, 18;
not therefore change for better, 5, 10;
seldom for the better, 266, 16;
universal, 328, 17-18; 329, 9

=Chaos=, is come again, 96, 16;
doomed that harbours a soul, 301, 19

=Character=, a high, essential of, 48, 61;
a man's, how to raise, 567, 17;
a man's history, 435, 16;
alone, stable, 76, 44;
and talent, how formed respectively, 85, 20;
arbiter of fortune, 157, 9;
contrasted with reputation, 374, 9;
defined, 2, 61; 497, 15;
due to many influences, 307, 9;
due to way of thinking, 226, 10;
formation of, 409, 43; 429, 15;
good, value of, 78, 9;
his, not wholly known to a man, 92, 6;
how formed, 539, 28, 32;
how it reveals itself, 538, 19;
how to understand, 301, 20;
importance of, 161, 5;
individual, power of, 431, 21;
its victories, 460, 36;
mark of a simple, manly, 19, 32;
merit of having a, 490, 1;
national, tempered by environment, 289, 45;
no changing one's, 171, 51;
nobility of, the condition of, 477, 18;
penetrated by soul, 161, 21;
power of, 200, 51; 367, 41;
seizing a, and delineating, 495, 36;
strong, basis of, 385, 40;
strong, tendency of, to eccentricity, 76, 32;
the art of moulding, 301, 1;
the noble and the well-bred, contrasted, 445, 3;
the only, worth describing, 335, 4;
true test of, 537, 18;
unaffected by change of place, 44, 17;
varieties in, accounted for, 529, 11;
weakness of, 530, 16;
what is implied in, 64, 24

=Characters=, people's, how to learn, 527, 21;
strong, formation of, 404, 2, 3;
the most passionate, and their feelings of duty, 157, 23;
truthful, credulous, 49, 53

=Charitable=, the, and their charity, 419, 46

=Charities=, posthumous, characterised, 353, 24

=Charity=, a dearth of, 472, 22;
after death, Bacon on, 145, 47;
and friendship, 337, 22;
Christian, rare, 368, 10;
concern of all, 186, 49;
contrasted with intellect, 195, 18;
definition of, 481, 37;
effect of, on the press, 63, 40;
essential, 305, 34;
its destination not to be inquired into, 555, 6;
large, and white hands, 230, 14;
misplaced, repining at, 388, 23;
Moltke on, 560, 26;
no excess in, 423, 10;
of God, the restoring, 506, 22;
of great souls, 334, 50;
the first order of, 20, 46;
the power of, 196, 17;
to unrelated people, 166, 17;
towards half-believer, 524, 30;
that thinketh no evil, 420, 1;
virtue of the woman, 121, 50

=Charlatan=, a poor creature, 407, 36

=Charles II.= in his chamber, Rochester on, 155, 14

=Charm=, a native, compared with art, 494, 25

=Charmer=, were t'other, away, 161, 23

=Charms=, personal, effect of, 224, 19;
God-given, 126, 2

=Charter=, of Louis Philippe, 224, 27

=Chase=, joy of the, 552, 23

=Chaste= mind, the, mark of, 420, 2

=Chastisement=, contrary effects of, 40, 38;
God's not feared, 552, 42;
want of, defect in education, 321, 21

=Chastity=, female, two safeguards to, annulled, 226, 26;
in the tropics, 435, 11;
the nurse of, 412, 2

=Chatterers=, to be guarded against, 551, 5

=Chaucer=, characteristic of, 419, 44;
reading, 369, 5;
Spenser on, 52, 51

=Cheapest=, the, dearest, 535, 50

=Cheapness=, of its wares, as a basis for a nation, 414, 27;
of man, tragedy of, 420, 4

=Cheated=, how to be, 419, 35

=Cheating=, all wakeful against, 92, 28;
and being cheated, pleasure of, 72, 25

=Cheek=, eloquent, 123, 18

=Cheerful=, the, the privilege of, 319, 8

=Cheerfulness=, a duty to promote, 502, 48;
advantage of, 566, 6;
and health, 153, 31, 34;
badge of gentleman, 373, 46;
benefit of, 173, 38;
compared with mirth, 280, 16, 17;
concomitant of, 185, 27;
effect of, 231, 12; 426, 10;
from activity, 415, 6;
in want, 304, 18;
inward, thanksgiving, 196, 29;
no, by painful effort, 301, 21;
peculiar to man, 15, 25;
pleasing to the Muses, 2, 63;
root of, 314, 9;
sign of wisdom, 443, 36;
strength of, 562, 2;
to be promoted, 495, 27;
to be welcomed, 172, 5;
value of, contrasted with sadness, 15, 64

=Cherub=, sweet little, 470, 32

=Chickens=, for lion, not chickenweed, 174, 22;
not to be counted before hatching, 4, 20

=Child=, a cupid visible, 3, 3;
and its mother's blessing, 3, 4;
a, our model, 186, 31;
a spoiled, 82, 34;
a wise, 143, 13;
birth of, an imprisonment, 418, 29;
death of, to father, 489, 22;
destiny of, how determined, 429, 38;
distinctive character of, 424, 2;
education of, 420, 10, 11;
first lesson for, 400, 19; 492, 11;
how to feed, 565, 39;
how to train, 498, 54;
little, man to become, 428, 40;
our best service to a, 492, 29;
play of a, 518, 15;
pleasures of a, 27, 15;
simplicity of, superior to intelligence of intelligent, 506, 11;
stammering of, 420, 12;
thankless, a, 162, 28;
the, and the man, 223, 23;
the first and second lesson of, 243, 15;
the fresh gaze of, significance of, 429, 27;
the, in the cradle, and when grown into a man, 140, 8;
training of, 417, 5;
who needs not chastisement, 541, 36

=Childhood=, a forecast, 420, 13;
and age, 569, 3;
conversion into, a necessity, 96, 25;
depths in, 186, 27;
fancies of, 415, 48;
heart of, 434, 3;
impressions of our, 436, 26;
light of, 267, 13;
man's second, 267, 6;
the promise of, 172, 6

=Childishness=, second, 230, 36

=Children=, and parents, in great states and vile, 187, 19;
as we make them, 238, 12;
education of, compared with begetting of, 483, 8;
duty of man of high birth to his, 182, 1;
false training of, 341, 35;
formation of the character of, 77, 8;
glory of, 430, 12;
healthy, and nature, 291, 3;
how to keep, cheerful, 349, 24;
Jesus on, 466, 4;
late, 230, 37;
less cared for than animals, 273, 42;
little, Christ's love for, 406, 6;
love of, for marvellous, 315, 44;
men thrice, 521, 19;
no, now, 7, 21;
of God and of man, always, 469, 18;
sciences not to be taught to, 527, 34;
sorrow in parting with, 475, 6;
the sports of, 34, 16;
weak-minded, propagating, 416, 6;
when to be praised, 231, 25;
whom they are sure to love, 441, 24;
why lost, 222, 24;
writing down to, 497, 6

=Child's= church, building sites for, 456, 5

=Child's= ignorance of death, 19, 30

=Chimney=, a little, soon heated, 143, 5

=Chivalry=, age of, gone, 415, 38;
in what contained, 462, 12;
motto of, 444, 15;
of work, need of, 308, 5;
the essence of virtue, 44, 28

=Choice=, offered to man, 127, 32;
offered us, 465, 12;
the last, 65, 21

=Choler=, one's, consuming, a virtue, 491, 24

=Christ=, a foe to, 147, 14;
a miracle, 371, 24;
and Christendom, religions of, 451, 8;
and religion, 372, 33;
appearances of, 493, 22;
body of, 418, 47;
claim of, 147, 51;
condition of following, 386, 21;
condition of presence of, 548, 52;
confessing, what it is, 491, 21;
following, 171, 50;
greater than Zeno, 394, 27;
greatness of, as a conception, 334, 41;
His rule of judgment, 189, 36;
in bread, a harmless doctrine, 473, 7;
in gunpowder, 473, 7;
indispensable to His disciples, 559, 38;
life of, private, 439, 6;
life of, who thinks he can write, 365, 20;
relatives of, 554, 38;
on His Father's house, 188, 20;
on His mission among men, 481, 8;
on His work and working day, 167, 56;
promises of, greatness of, 476, 2;
teaching of, 432, 46;
the finite in, 185, 30;
the infinite in, 185, 30;
the principle unfolded by, 454, 45;
the reproach of, 482, 5;
the story of, Leo X. on, 362, 28;
true cross of, 458, 37

=Christ's=, disciples, 564, 7, 9, 17;
friends, 564, 6;
yoke, 409, 23

=Christendom= minus Christianity, 94, 10

=Christian=, a, here or nowhere, 171, 10;
a test of a, 440, 40; 443, 24;
faith, the fall from, summed up, 427, 10;
fortitude, 429, 16;
God's gentleman, 3, 7;
religion, the, 420, 16-21

=Christianity=, a, that will have to go, 420, 22;
character of belief in, 468, 27;
characteristic of, 534, 40;
here, 197, 24;
innate, 564, 2;
love of, irrespective of truth, 147, 47;
more commended than practised, 133, 13;
muscular, 156, 50;
on its negative side, 191, 15;
parent of liberty, 245, 19;
precepts of, 241, 7;
secret of, 122, 4;
the discovery in, 461, 34;
_versus_ idolatry, 548, 2;
_versus_ stoicism, 394, 27;
virtue of, 403, 34;
whatever its genesis, here, 496, 18;
witness of, within, 152, 37

=Christians=, the blood of, 386, 24;
young, growing, and full-grown, 568, 9

=Christopher, St.=, call to, 377, 29

=Chronicle=, humblest, a reflex of the age, 89, 33

=Church=, a, test of, 242, 35;
and its enemies, 239, 26;
controversy in, 69, 34;
her function, 65, 10;
in, all equal, 219, 48;
in danger, Carlyle on, 455, 8;
nearer the, 444, 35;
no, better than bigotry, 208, 51;
ark of safety, 97, 60;
spirit of, Boileau on, 354, 4;
the, 420, 23-25;
the, history of, 435, 21;
the office of, 206, 33;
the only true, 470, 41;
the stomach of, 65, 9;
visible, without invisible, 435, 21;
who builds, to God, 550, 40

=Churches=, name from building, 108, 23

=Churchmen= and their church, 420, 26

=Circuitous= often better than direct, 379, 30

=Circumstance=, believers in, 388, 25

=Circumstances=, and men, 274, 25;
and the man, 440, 21;
creatures of men, 263, 37;
depressing, that elevate, 466, 33;
effect on us of, 339, 8;
how to treat, 88, 27;
importance of change of, 276, 41;
indifference of, 431, 22;
our duty in reference to, 339, 8;
the influence of, 205, 31,
to be ruled, 266, 36

=Cities=, and their best citizens, 176, 4;
origin of, 70, 5

=Citizen=, a good, 19, 20;
an unworthy, 182, 7;
first duty of, 378, 24;
state in relation to, 455, 9;
the, and the man, 233, 2

=Citizens=, man-made, 26, 60;
of world, how we become, 200, 48

=City=, a great, 259, 7;
a, of what composed, 31, 51;
and country, 420, 28, 29;
advantage of living in, 177, 37;
building and destroying, 509, 26;
estimates, in presence of nature, 21, 30;
great, to a stranger, 474, 21;
no continuing, here, 155, 7;
our abiding, still ahead, 415, 27;
saved by a poor man who was forgotten, 477, 31;
the first, 127, 50

=Civil=, power, superior to the military, 37, 29;
quarrels, despatch in, 104, 49;
turmoil, evil of, 185, 31

=Civilisation=, dependence of, on freedom, 48, 45;
first step to, 495, 10;
near to barbarism, 443, 37;
our, Emerson on, 529, 24;
the founders of, 102, 25;
the problem of, 143, 53;
test of, 457, 12;
ultimate tendency of, 459, 31

=Civilised= man, the, described, 420, 31

=Civilisers=, two, 193, 4

=Civility=, cheap, 314, 10;
the best, 413, 4;
the part of, 557, 20

=Claim=, who makes, has no, 151, 42

=Clamour=, loud, insane, 253, 33

=Clan=, a sacrifice for its chief, 118, 5

=Class=, to be trembled at, 471, 15

=Classes=, the dangerous, 436, 14;
the higher, kicked off as burdens, 167, 9;
the upper, 460, 7

=Classical=, and romantic, 420, 34

=Clay=, damp, easily wrought, 17, 55

=Clean=, keep, better than make, 332, 44

=Cleanliness= next godliness, 161, 3

=Cleopatra=, nose of, 174, 26

=Clergy=, and their wranglings, 163, 3;
three sections of, 420, 35;
where Christianity is the established religion, 168, 11

=Clergymen= and their use of words, 561, 12

=Clerks=, the greatest, 432, 7

=Clever=, people, Goethe on, 121, 53;
people, never from stupid, 168, 7

=Cleverness=, a commendable, 179, 9;
little gain by, 329, 39

=Cliff=, tall, type of a great man, 20, 34

=Climbing=, possible, though soaring not, 524, 40

=Cloak=, take thine old, 209, 22

=Cloth=, bad, 37, 4;
the foundation of society, 396, 25

=Clothes=, and the man, 61, 23; 513, 37;
Carlyle's doctrine of, 541, 30;
do not always make the man, 298, 7;
early pride of, 251, 29;
respect paid merely to, 306, 23;
revealing and concealing effect of, 485, 37;
rule of fashion in, 185, 32;
soul in, 469, 11;
superfine, 447, 32;
under, a man, 186, 25;
with or without the man, Carlyle on, 123, 40

=Clothing=, gay, whom it attracts, 304, 2

=Cloud=, every, not storm-pregnant, 90, 25;
one, darkening power of, 331, 52;
that veileth love, 90, 26;
the, brightness behind, 2, 3

=Cloud-capt= towers, 420, 36

=Clouds=, and the sea, 421, 5;
round the setting sun, 421, 3, 4;
the, regarding, 148, 5;
a set-off to the sun, 174, 45

=Clown=, sphere of, 81, 3

=Coat=, a smart, 19, 59

=Cobbler=, to his last, 242, 44, 58; 293, 17; 386, 36

=Cobblers=, all, 279, 46

=Cock=, on its own dunghill, 118, 26;
on its own midden, 3, 15;
trumpet of the morn, 421, 6;
when he crows, 60, 10

=Coin=, intellectual, in exchange of thought, 190, 46

=Colander=, fermentation in, 314, 3

=College=, education at, 71, 24; 74, 2;
learning, Burns on, 74, 2

=Cologne=, Cathedral, Carlyle on, 513, 26;
three kings of, virtue in names of, 210, 27

=Colour=, all good, pensive, 9, 32;
as a gift of God, 324, 23;
impression of, 91, 34;
men's joy in, 275, 17

=Colt=, test of its worth, 377, 10

=Colts=, young hot, how to treat, 55, 32

=Columbus= a world-child, 465, 16

=Combat=, not victory, the joy, 204, 34;
the greatest, 551, 31

=Combatant=, a brave, 551, 7

=Combinations=, unequal, 507, 8

=Comeliness=, true, in the mind, 499, 42

=Comet=, a sign of disaster, 185, 34

=Comfort=, those who enjoy, 480, 10

=Comforts=, many, harmful, 284, 29;
our, anxieties, 337, 23

=Comic= and tragic side by side, 421, 9

=Command=, sweet, force in, 471, 30;
the right to, 323, 8;
to, a fine thing, 198, 25;
with conviction, power of, 207, 20

=Commander-in-chief=, risk in his absence, 504, 36

=Commanding=, from obeying, 308, 56;
one good at, 363, 20

=Commandment=, the eighth, comprehensiveness of, 190, 24; 331, 27

=Commandments=, the ten, in Rome, 189, 38; 569, 30

=Commands=, imperative upon all, 467, 9;
not to be debated, 84, 22

=Commendation=, how to administer, 374, 3

=Commendations=, censures, 181, 19;
to be weighed, 419, 40

=Commentators=, weakness of, 162, 24

=Commerce=, an evil effect of, 184, 9;
effect of, 548, 56;
effect of, on nations, 81, 39;
practices in, 188, 11

=Common=, good, merit of serving, 142, 25;
good, neglect of, a crime, 59, 50;
men, endurance of, 567, 34;
men, lightness of, 252, 45;
men, the dread of, 367, 41;
opinion, as a standard, 197, 6;
seeing miraculous in the, 437, 9;
the, enslaving power of, 520, 18;
the, rarely mistaken, 319, 5;
things, our power in, 189, 23

=Commonplace=, success of, 26, 52

=Commons=, House of, Coke on, 389, 47

=Common-sense=, exceptional, 315, 37;
as judge in high matters, 232, 41;
genius of humanity, 235, 9;
in high rank, rare, 368, 13;
how maintained, 314, 20;
the advantage of, 440, 25

=Commonwealth=, strongest, based on passion, 180, 32;
the condition of its welfare, 172, 9;
under so many heads, 310, 24

=Communications= with God and man, 528, 32

=Communicative= man, to be dreaded, 467, 3

=Communism=, injustice in, 185, 39

=Communities= like Arctic explorers, 273, 28

=Community=, constituents of, 361, 27

=Companion=, a faithful, 396, 39;
pleasant, value of, 44, 49

=Companions=, to chose, 217, 37

=Companionship=, loving, value of, 340, 45;
on a journey, 119, 25;
test of a man, 411, 41;
wise, value of, 148, 44

=Company=, as marking a man, 7, 46;
decent, condition of introduction into, 490, 26;
descent from high, to low, 266, 4;
effect of too much, 397, 20;
for entertainment, 544, 6;
good, effect of, on virtue, 129, 15;
good, on the road, 129, 16;
good, restlessness for, 551, 4;
the, to keep, 217, 19, 21;
_versus_ solitude, 464, 38;
we should seek, 524, 8

=Comparison= no proof, 45, 34

=Compass=, susceptibility of, to error, 18, 53

=Compassion=, and courage joined, 505, 47;
and ingratitude incompatible, 194, 17

=Compelled=, he who can be, 44, 20

=Compensation=, in nature, 90, 46;
law of, 109, 35;
universal, 94, 14

=Competency=, meaning of, 535, 2

=Competition=, death, 131, 13;
the only worthy, 445, 42

=Complaining=, Burns' contempt for, 106, 46;
how to avoid, 215, 27;
misery of always, 490, 4;
our, a reflection on heaven, 345, 5
our, Swift on, 337, 28;
uselessness of, 316, 47

=Complains=, who, gets little compassion, 151, 43

=Complaint=, matter of just, 237, 33;
whining, despicable, 166, 36

=Complaints=, cure, for many, 237, 25;
not, only events, a fit subject, 483, 44;
our, aimlessness of, 339, 7;
to hear, 493, 17

=Completeness=, attainable by all, 60, 3

=Complexion=, a sour, how to get rid of, 197, 33

=Complies= against his will, 145, 44

=Compliment=, the most elegant, 57, 3

=Compliments=, mere, no tempting bait, 277, 6

=Composition=, a great, how produced, 302, 14;
literary, Horace on, 50, 44

=Comprehensibility=, standard of belief, 398, 25

=Comprehensible=, common and insipid, 284, 20

=Compromise=, the supreme rule now, 317, 42

=Compulsion=, a, that is good for a man, 202, 4;
no reason upon, 173, 41

=Computation=, a touchstone, 313, 37

=Concealment=, contrasted with saying nothing, 8, 51;
how to frustrate, 385, 36;
Johnson on, 304, 46;
like a worm in the bud, 389, 10

=Conceit=, minds with and without, 558, 35;
not to be pitied, 168, 47;
of one's own creation, effect of, 325, 30;
strong, the power of, 404, 4;
wise in his own, 385, 18

=Conceited= people as judges, 311, 10

=Concentration=, commended, 71, 41;
the one prudence, 445, 39

=Conceptions=, our, anthropomorphic, 60, 32

=Concern=, our sole proper, 535, 33

=Conciseness=, desirableness of, 87, 1;
in speech commended, 92, 26

=Concord=, among men, a contrast, 387, 23;
and discord contrasted, 507, 32;
and discord, relative effects of, 46, 7;
effects of, contrasted with discord, 64, 10

=Condemnation= less curative than compassion, 45, 39

=Condescension=, insolence, 436, 42

=Condition=, determined by conduct, 306, 7;
external, sign of internal, 452, 19

=Conditions= already laid, 63, 36

=Condolement=, to persevere in, 494, 46

=Conduct=, a rule for, 404, 24;
as showing the man, 222, 7;
developed in society, 104, 42;
effect of, 473, 2;
in our own power, 43, 27;
Kant's rule of, 3, 45;
not communicable, 97, 34;
personal, power of, 200, 45;
proper rule of, 385, 4;
prudent, its two pivots, 227, 31;
rules for, 394, 50; 395, 6; 323, 14;
rule of, 70, 19-21;
significance of, 354, 1;
sovereign guides in, 241, 44;
steadfastness in, 147, 29;
to be according to circumstances, 549, 28

=Conference=, the advantage of, 369, 9

=Confession=, a new, wanted, 426, 22;
an open, 15, 60;
healing power of, 107, 5

=Confidant= of a man's vices, his master, 421, 23

=Confidence=, broken, lost, 149, 34;
effect of, 105, 52;
how won, 105, 15;
in all or in none, 510, 39;
lost, all lost, 150, 34;
power of, 281, 9

=Confinement=, effect of, on fierceness, 88, 13

=Conflict=, known only to strength, 403, 29

=Conforming= easier than making conform, 179, 14

=Conformity=, easier than persuasion, 205, 3;
what we lose by, 524, 6

=Confusion=, the, to be shunned, 103, 46

=Confutation= often mere heedless re-assertion, 119, 28

=Congregation=, a happy, 140, 14

=Conquer=, those who can, 111, 26; 478, 54

=Conquered=, man rarely, 365, 1;
race, how to treat, 200, 39;
the, their only safety, 505, 43

=Conquering=, the art of, 222, 30

=Conqueror=, every, has his Muse, 182, 18;
how regarded, 233, 7;
the greatest, 143, 50; 304, 19;
the true 514, 25

=Conquest=, of self, in the moment of victory, 30, 34;
the condition of permanency of, 301, 25;
without danger, 491, 23

=Conquests= by violence and by moderation, 269, 50

=Conscience=, a clear, 3, 14; 495, 25;
a clear, happiness of, 140, 11;
a coward, 446, 30;
a good, virtue of, 171, 38;
a guilty, 7, 16;
a sacrifice of, 64, 30;
a sound, invincible, 286, 41;
a Sunday, 470, 31;
a weak, 482, 30;
a, without darkness, 472, 21;
acting contrary to, 432, 29;
and history, 204, 5;
contrasted with passions, 224, 32;
friendship of, advantage of, 550, 12;
good, result of, 137, 33;
guilty, effect of, 137, 29;
in matters of, the rule, 187, 58;
in man as acting or reflecting, 60, 11;
large, none, 109, 5;
limit of its authority, 305, 9;
loss of, 147, 46;
not our law, 373, 6;
of many, 539, 21;
pain of, 446, 39;
peaceful, joy of, 437, 19;
sayings about the, 421, 25-27;
still and quiet, value of, 166, 8;
terror of, _versus_ diseases of the liver, 558, 46;
the basis of society, 396, 36;
the judge, 378, 31;
the lash of, 307, 42;
to be always consulted, 509, 18;
voice of, 461, 6;
without God, 3, 23;
wound of, an open one, 322, 16

=Conscientiousness=, the ground of, 392, 31

=Conscious= and unconscious, 460, 19

=Consciousness=, always of the wrong, 325, 17;
and unconsciousness contrasted, 506, 3

=Conservatism=, contrasted with reform, 371, 5;
what it has to defend, 419, 30

=Conservative=, the, consideration for, 313, 48;
the, defined, 423, 2;
the true, duty of, 419, 3

=Consider=, before acting, 32, 16;
before venturing, 85, 15

=Consideration=, always room for, 22, 35;
before action, 16, 7;
benefit of, 504, 20;
contrasted with thought, 6, 31;
first, and then despatch, 357, 6;
when necessary, 560, 15

=Consistency=, no concern of great soul, 558, 20;
not imperative, 71, 38

=Consistent= man, his faith, 3, 24

=Consolation=, rule in administering, 238, 10;
the surest, 234, 17

=Constancy=, man's one want, 533, 8;
not a virtue of the world, 139, 28;
not to be expected, 173, 37;
virtue of, 25, 63;
only in honesty, 472, 18

=Constant= as the northern star, 33, 13

=Constitution=, the, how to preserve, 419, 3;
the, not supreme, 469, 42;
less than man, 263, 29

=Contemplation=, advantage of, 344, 17;
for, formed, 109, 25

=Contemporaries=, to be borne with, 527, 8

=Contempt=, evil of, 141, 12; 149, 50;
hard to bear, 268, 47;
harder to bear than wrong, 432, 3;
never forgiven, 564, 4;
rather than castigation, 47, 6;
unwise, contrasted with unwise admiration, 325, 21

=Content=, a ground of, 27, 4;
bliss of, 539, 17;
dependent upon God, 374, 57;
in whatsoever state, 166, 46

=Contented=, man, free from anxiety, 62, 7;
man, weak, 202, 50

=Contention=, from pride, 34, 12;
how engendered, 334, 48;
with certainty of defeat, 201, 14;
religious, effect of, 183, 20;
to be avoided, 240, 52;
with words, 47, 35

=Contentment=, 20, 27;
a cause of, 521, 22;
better than riches, 82, 63;
commended, 236, 1; 367, 21;
defined, 338, 37;
in retirement, 360, 40;
maxim on, for home use, 372, 41;
not portion of world, 203, 49;
of mind, 442, 15;
our, 337, 29;
power of, 182, 9;
profit of, 69, 2;
source of, 116, 12;
St. Paul on, 141, 45;
state of, 505, 12;
_versus_ ambition, 141, 4;
with little, gain in, 175, 22;
with the present, 229, 14;
with what we can, 243, 24;
wisdom of, 229, 15

=Contingency=, no, 472, 17

=Contradicting=, to be avoided, 195, 52

=Contradiction=, a downright, 4, 45;
a flat, 80, 1;
a teacher, 150, 44;
being able to stand, 140, 28;
good and to be borne, 202, 5;
how to treat, 526, 42;
the meaning of, 47, 36

=Contradictions=, aggregate of all, 2, 21

=Contraries= everywhere in nature, 95, 15

=Controversy=, anger in, 185, 4;
the dust of, 424, 27

=Contumaciousness=, root of, 380, 49

=Convenience=, every, has its inconvenience, 329, 1

=Conversation=, a rule in, 333, 24;
alleviating effect of, 421, 33;
and discourse, effects of, on one's thoughts, 554, 35;
among gentlemen, 363, 10;
boldness in, 185, 43;
brilliancy in, effect on people of, 475, 17;
contrasted with reading, 455, 41;
discretion in, 285, 19;
due more to confidence than wit, 224, 31;
effect of, on mind, 404, 17;
Emerson on, 557, 31;
essentials of, 185, 44;
first requisite in, 428, 34;
our pleasure in, 285, 20;
perfection of, 447, 26;
rare, 268, 46;
relish for, increased with age, 138, 1;
rule in, 11, 55; 511, 46;
the charm of, 443, 39;
the ingredients of, 428, 23;
the worst form of, 17, 56;
_versus_ debate, 56, 17

=Conversation's= Lexicon, the best, 370, 7

=Converse=, ability to, condition of, 306, 11

=Conversing= with what is above us, benefit of, 550, 29

=Conversion=, known only to God, 20, 58;
that is imperative, 96, 25

=Converting= greater than conquering, 203, 30

=Conviction=, one's, from another's lips, 326, 1;
one's, infinitely strengthened by another's, 288, 15;
openness to, rare, 104, 57;
personal, sacredness of, 240, 37;
power of, 312, 32;
rare, 336, 5;
should be strong, 266, 29

=Convictions=, Goethe's respect for, 169, 14;
kicking against, 289, 29;
one's, from a stranger, 162, 37

=Cooking= confined to man, 262, 49

=Cooks=, the father of, 127, 43

=Coolness=, the value of, 217, 20

=Co-operation= a law of life, 131, 13

=Copy= to be followed, 108, 11

=Core= not finally hidden, 421, 34

=Corn=, good, in small fields, 83, 17;
who can make two ears of, grow instead of one, 553, 9

=Cornelia= of her sons, 478, 37

=Corpse=, fate of, indifferent, 408, 45;
not the whole animal, 421, 36

=Correction=, failure in, from want of courage, 227, 14

=Corregio= before a Raphael, 14, 35

=Correspondence=, the first requisite in, 428, 34

=Costume=, cut and colour in, 172, 7

=Cottage=, every equipment for, 90, 29;
smallest, large enough for love, 368, 39

=Cotter=, humble, Burns on, 161, 1

=Council=, a, sages indispensable to, 413, 25

=Counsel=, given rather than taken, 274, 35;
good, how regarded, 93, 25;
good, if not taken, 129, 17;
good, over-night, 137, 36;
good, rejected, 129, 18;
good, to fools, 129, 20;
good, value of, 542, 42;
good, without good fortune, 129, 21;
hasty, 325, 3;
no counsel, 150, 7;
no, no help, 148, 59;
no, till asked, 123, 20;
not at needful moment, 551, 11;
of a friend, 471, 11;
slow-footed, advantage, 394, 13;
the value of, 548, 13;
thrown away, 549, 30;
unselfish, rare, 199, 12

=Counsellor=, to be without, 493, 11

=Counsellors=, good, lack not clients, 120, 22;
good, value of, to prince, 161, 26;
the best, 335, 59

=Counsels=, hasty, effect of, 512, 4;
scattered, not to rest on, 375, 1

=Countenance=, an index, 518, 12;
more in sorrow, 3, 29

=Counting=, by nose, 334, 29;
correct, effect of, on friendships, 48, 19

=Countries=, the richest, now and formerly, 112, 33

=Country=, a great, mark of a, 133, 15;
a, strength and power of, 445, 26;
duty to our, 227, 1;
effect of, on men, 274, 6;
largest soul of a, 438, 1;
lifelong affection for, importance of, 505, 21;
longing for the, 322, 1;
love of, 56, 33; 559, 24;
love of, and good manners, 439, 48;
love of, comprehensiveness of, 328, 1;
love of, sweet, 73, 55;
merit of serving one's, 364, 44;
one's, defined, 337, 31; 343, 35; 504, 26;
sacrifice for, sweet, 73, 50;
served in various ways, 523, 3;
test of a, condition, 421, 20;
the, privilege of, 449, 28;
the undiscovered, 424, 19; 459, 34;
to be abandoned, 333, 47;
want of interest in one's, 502, 20;
wealth of a, 461, 39, 43;
who enjoy, 405, 52

=Courage=, a, from fear, 477, 44;
and compassion joined, 505, 47;
and fear, with reference to danger, 103, 32, 41;
compared with justice, 216, 17;
connected with heart, 287, 48;
enough, 169, 46;
from duty, 166, 14;
in a bad affair, 31, 58;
in confronting evil, 86, 4;
mental, rarer than valour, 278, 2;
more than rage, 367, 35;
necessity for, 521, 28;
often from fear, 233, 13;
only in innocence, 472, 18;
physical and moral, 348, 18;
pitch it should rise to, 63, 17;
sacred, what it evidences, 379, 7;
shown in death, 178, 22;
that braves heaven, 167, 3;
that we admire, 421, 40;
to endure, 3, 30;
want of, 518, 31;
with success or defeat, 493, 25

=Courages=, the best, 417, 34

=Course=, our, forward, 524, 27

=Courses=, bad, issue of, 33, 3

=Court=, does not make happy, 225, 1;
like a marble edifice, 224, 35;
sayings about, 422, 2-5;
selfishness at, 82, 60;
the, La Bruyère on, 363, 15

=Courteous= man, a, 147, 2

=Courtesies=, small and great, effect of, 453, 50

=Courtesy=, dependent on morality, 473, 41;
excess of, suspicious, 548, 50;
import of, 462, 12;
of the heart, 85, 29;
room for, 247, 48;
rule in, 185, 45;
rule of, 432, 2; 526, 28;
want of, 163, 33

=Courtier=, an assiduous, a slave, 363, 30;
father of the tyrant, 446, 43;
the requisites of, 420, 7

=Courtship=, a dream, 275, 4

=Covet= all, lose all, 42, 34

=Covetous=, man, and his wealth, 173, 21;
riches of, 422, 6

=Covetousness=, and modesty, as regards wealth, 86, 44;
cause of, 96, 32;
contrasted with charity, 40, 27;
folly of, 131, 30;
inconsistent with godliness, 171, 15;
its object, 300, 35;
penalty of, 13, 48;
slavery, 244, 16

=Cow=, the, and the piper, 122, 25

=Cowardice=, pain of, in fear, 103, 41

=Coward=, brave, under bad fortune, 542, 44;
the rights of, 538, 27

=Cowards=, boastful, 177, 49;
not visited by God, 127, 54;
sayings about, 487, 30, 31;
should be allowed to desert, 109, 26;
with hearts false as stairs of sand, 161, 41

=Cowl= makes not monk, 50, 39

=Cowper=, inspiring idea of, 123, 14

=Coxcomb=, a, man's own making, 291, 16;
and the flatterer, 422, 8;
once, one always, 109, 1

=Cradle=, what is learned in, 536, 25

=Crack=, a, in everything, 469, 30

=Craft=, a, advantage of having, 366, 20;
a, to be learned when young, 235, 39;
power of, 331, 20

=Crafty=, man, always in danger, 422, 10;
man and his time, 431, 24

=Creating= something, the condition of, 177, 32

=Creation=, a thought of God, 127, 34;
and destruction simultaneous, 190, 11;
not to be understood, 268, 8;
beginning of, 417, 21;
better than learning, 200, 22;
end of, 264, 8;
God's manner of, 128, 16;
harmony of, 332, 22;
motive of, 434, 26;
not easy, 301, 27;
visible and invisible, 461, 4

=Creation's= blot, creation's blank, 413, 46

=Creator=, an inference from nature, 291, 2

=Creature=, how to understand any, 190, 21;
of God, one, 128, 4;
the true, of God, 128, 4

=Creatures=, all provided for, 142, 11

=Credit=, easily lost, 283, 24;
given only to belief, 319, 31;
private, worth of, 357, 8

=Credulity=, its nature, and subjects of it, 225, 3

=Creed=, a, always sensitive, 383, 1;
a steadfast, foundation of, 34, 50;
not so significant as the man, 529, 37;
of the true saint, 422, 13;
outworn, a pagan suckled in a, 133, 31;
two elements in every, 186, 29

=Creeds=, effect of science on, 382, 24

=Creeping= in the way and running out of it, 142, 35

=Cricket= on the hearth, 102, 8

=Crime=, an equaliser, 50, 9;
eschewed from disgrace it brings, 8, 20;
every, avenged at the moment, 90, 33;
evil of overlooking a, 196, 26;
fatal prevailing source of, 333, 26;
indulgence to, 332, 1;
its natural punishment, 225, 2;
meditated, committed, 289, 31;
no consecrating, 312, 18;
no hiding of, 45, 8; 472, 24;
sharer in, 50, 52;
that most impute a, 479, 29;
the contagion of, 421, 31;
the disgrace, 39, 3; 69, 17; 233, 16;
when successful, 358, 28;
who hinders not, 146, 56

=Crimes=, causes of, 173, 39;
consecrated, 405, 28;
great, the foreshadows of, 363, 2;
not cured by cruelty, 50, 34;
others', our estimate of, 161, 13;
when a crown is at stake, 239, 19

=Criminal= laws to be gentle, 260, 44

=Criminality=, condition of, 277, 50

=Criminals=, and the light, 311, 37;
different fates of, of same type, 45, 9

=Cringe=, effect of ceasing to, 514, 13;
people who, 480, 4

=Crisis=, a, for both men and nations, 331, 29;
significance of, 94, 58;
the, to be prayed for, 243, 34

=Critic=, attribute of a good, 25, 2;
but a, 382, 7;
eye of, 426, 33;
true and false, function of, 3, 37;
temper required in, 30, 38;
the, on style, 563, 39;
what makes a, 206, 19

=Critical=, easier than correct, 203, 11;
nothing if not, 110, 5; 165, 2;
powers, the test of, 456, 28;
study, distracting, 280, 7

=Criticising=, contrasted with making better, 326, 3;
disadvantage of, 448, 6

=Criticism=, and appreciation, 201, 27;
brightest gem of, 35, 12;
contrasted with art, 225, 5;
destructive, in matters of faith, 172, 8;
enemy's, value of, 122, 11;
first condition of, 408, 38;
how to dodge, 381, 23;
just, rule for, 109, 9;
of self, 497, 11;
of what is above us, abstaining from, rare, 391, 14;
the cant of, Sterne on, 324, 32;
true, the object of, 294, 45

=Critics=, how created, 533, 19;
professional, incapacity of, 357, 50;
ready made, 265, 19;
Young on, 158, 23

=Cromwell=, Boswell's father on, 127, 46

=Cromwell's= judges, the Scotch on, 16, 20

=Crooked= cannot be straightened, 414, 38

=Cross=, a, and bitterness in life, 490, 29;
attractive power of, 420, 20;
bearing, cheerfully, 175, 8;
bearing, longest, 149, 11;
behind the devil, 61, 19;
essential to Christianity, 43, 7;
every, has its crown, 90, 22;
false doctrine of, 281, 30;
fitting close of the life, 422, 17;
of Christ, the power of, 422, 16;
one's own, hardest, 4, 38;
one's, to repel, 495, 19;
risk of rejecting one's, 175, 10;
sanctuary of the humble, 422, 15;
the, irreverence towards, 158, 21;
to every one, 39, 33;
the, religion of, 371, 41;
the, sustaining, 480, 18;
touchstone of faith, 105, 44;
the true of Christ, 458, 37;
the, way of, 513, 41

=Crosses=, overrated, 488, 43

=Crowd=, according to Coke, 286, 16;
bustling, passing through, 494, 45;
not company, 3, 38

=Crowded= hour of glorious life, 332, 6

=Crowds= without great men, 559, 35

=Crown=, a noble, one of thorns, 93, 2;
golden, 3, 39;
and headache, 3, 40;
noble, crown of thorns, 111, 23;
not always his who has earned it, 152, 7

=Crucified=, the, irreverence towards, 198, 21

=Cruel= only to be kind, 167, 54

=Cruelty=, of the affectionate, 422, 20;
under garb of mercy, 324, 33;
weakness, 9, 18

=Crumbs=, bread, 394, 43

=Crusaders=, war-cry of, 63, 9

=Cucumbers=, sunbeams out of, 142, 37

=Cultivated= men, importance of, 396, 6

=Cultivation=, generally essential to usefulness, 94, 52;
without ability, 290, 13

=Culture=, a false, defined and denounced, 560, 18;
affair of inner man, 333, 38;
effects of, 98, 11;
for a noble soul, 15, 53;
Goethe on, 207, 40;
high, a proof of, 205, 37;
human, our indifference to, 525, 38;
moral, the root of, 283, 11;
partial and extreme, 342, 3;
rule in regard to, 434, 33;
spontaneous, value of, 471, 27;
universality of, 22, 29;
the business of, 391, 11;
without intelligence, 292, 44

=Cunning=, art of, 416, 30;
dismasked, 20, 8;
men, Burton of, 518, 21;
on whom it imposes, 227, 30;
outwitted, 89, 24;
self-defeated, 82, 40;
stronger than strength, 250, 26

=Cup=, inordinate, unblessed, 91, 36

=Cupid=, a rogue, 13, 58;
methods of killing, 398, 3;
though small, great, 251, 39

=Cupidity= antagonistic to the Gospel, 549, 22

=Cupid's= bow, how rendered useless, 336, 45;
weapons, 257, 26

=Curiosity=, a low vice, 413, 39;
a scourge, 422, 28;
age of, gone, 415, 39;
evil of, 218, 29;
too much, 569, 35

=Curse=, a, 27, 21;
dinna, 68, 32;
to be shared by all, 477, 9

=Cured=, willingness to be, 341, 51

=Curses=, like processions, 232, 39;
small, on great great occasions, 394, 21

=Cursing= contrasted with swearing, 408, 18

=Custom=, a breach of, 419, 12;
a, falsely so called, 236, 8;
an evil, 261, 40;
ancient, 513, 39;
changing a, 285, 29;
force of, 46, 60; 47, 1, 2;
honoured in the breach, 3, 61;
man's lord, 266, 25;
more potent than reason, 350, 7;
needs no excuse, 43, 21;
often the only sanction, 162, 2;
power of, 48, 37; 510, 10;
power of, on belief, 523, 26;
the empire of, 132, 51;
the law of society, 396, 14;
the power of, 299, 29

=Customs=, local, 82, 14;
long, hard to shake off, 252, 32;
meaning in old, 4, 7;
observed more than laws, 461, 23;
of country to be followed, 108, 12;
old, 239, 34

=Cyclops=, the, at work, 182, 13

=Cynic=, a, described, 422, 33;
and his body, 315, 23

=Cynicism= deprecated, 71, 37