*in the army of Essex, shows himself equally brave as learned, 419.
is presented by parliament to the living of Petworth, ibid.
sent by the parliament, with six others, to reform the university, ibid.
fixes a scruple-shop at Oxford, 420.
his disputes with Earbury and the independents, ibid.
his controversy with Mr. Hammond, on his Practical Catechism, 423.
his further proceedings at Oxford, ibid.
president of St. John's college, and lady Margaret professor, 425.
writes in defence of the trinity against the socinians, 426.
retires from Oxford to his living at Petworth, 427.
loses Petworth at the restoration, ibid.
supposed to have died distracted, 1665, 428.
Chillingworth, Dr. for a short time embraced popery, vii. 278.
account of his sickness and death, in the hands of the parliament's troops, vi. 417.
Chinese, account of a man of that country at the island of Ternate, vi. 370.
Christianus perfectus, i 161.
Chrysalus, the fatal effects of his peevishness, iii. 32.
Cibber, Mr. the lives of the poets not written by him but by one Robert Shiels, viii. 90.
appointed poet laureate, 145.
takes umbrage at the volunteer laureate, 147.
celebrated by Pope in his last book of the Dunciad, viii. 300.
he resents the affront in a pamphlet, ibid.
Cicero, his reflections upon the vanity of transitory applause, iii. 60.
his remarks upon the importance of being acquainted with past transactions, 231.
Clarendon, lord, the story of Smith being employed to alter his history, false, vii. 379.
his character of Waller, with observations on it, 201.
his character of admiral Blake, vi. 308.
the peculiar excellency of his History of the Rebellion, iii. 8.
thoughts on the publication of the sequel to his history, iv. 341.
doubts of the unfaithful publication of his history, 342.
Cleobulus, his maxim on the excellency of mediocrity, ii. 185.
Cleora, her letter on gaming, ii. 73.
Clergy, Milton's objections to entering into the ministry, vii. 69, 70.
Clifford, Martin, attacks Dryden's Conquest of Grenada, with a specimen, vii. 260.
assisted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, 272.
Climate, has no influence on freedom and slavery, or virtue and vice, iv. 182.
Coach, provided by marriage articles without horses, iv. 310.
Coalpit, compared to the sun, vii. 25.
Coins, observations on the collectors of, iv. 316.
Col, island of, account of, ix. 117.
Collier, Jeremy, account of his dispute on the entertainments of the stage, viii. 27.
Collins, William, his life, viii. 400.
born at Chichester, 1720, ibid.
admitted at Winchester college, 1733, ibid.
came to London, about 1744, a literary adventurer, ibid.
his uncle leaves him about two thousand pounds, 401.
troubled with disease and insanity, 402.
his character, ibid. died 1756, 403.
his works characterized, 404.
Colonies, observations on the settlement of, viii. 155.
considerations how they are constituted, vi. 231.
constitution of English colonies, 234.
ought to be bound by statutes of the mother-country, 236.
the plea of want of representation examined, 237.
Colson, Mr. the mathematician, his supposed character, ii. 122.
Columbus, little advantage to Europe from his discoveries, vi. 233.
Comedy, history of, v. 370.
tragedy more uniform than, 398.
critical remarks upon the manner of composing it, iii. 93.
Commendation, false claims to it censured, iii. 379.
Commentators, the difficulties they meet with, v. 95.
Commerce, preface to Rolt's dictionary of, v. 247.
the present predilection of mankind to, ibid.
difficulties in acquiring the knowledge of, 248.
one of the daughters of fortune, 316.
must owe its success to agriculture, 317.
Companions, different classes of them described, iii. 377.
Compassion, supposed by some to be a selfish passion, iv., 160.
Competitions, often supported by interest and envy, iii. 354.
their different influence on this occasion stated, 355, 356.
Complainers, incessant, represented as the screechowls of mankind, ii. 282.
Complaint, little got by it, iv. 427.
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