153. CHARLOTTE, Queen, account of Boswell, i. 5, n. 1; Garrick's compliment to her, ii. 233; 'a lady of experience,' ii. 142; Queen's House, ii. 33, n. 3; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, i. 383; ii. 290. Charmer, The, v. 313. CHARTER-HOUSE, iii. 124, 441. CHARTER-HOUSE SCHOOL, iii. 222. CHARTRES, Colonel, ii. 211, n. 4. CHASTITY, one deviation from it ruins a woman, ii. 56; property depends on it, ii. 457; v. 209. CHATHAM, William Pitt, Earl of, Boswell, correspondence with, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Capability Brown, account of, iii. 400, n. 2; Cardross, Lord, offers a post to, ii. 177; Cumming the Quaker's account of him, v. 98, n. 1; Dictator, iii. 356; excisemen, attacks, i. 294, n. 9; Garrick, notes to, ii. 227; Highland regiments, raises, iii. 198; v. 150; House of Commons, last speech in the, ii. 16, n. 2; Johnson attacks him, ii. 134, n. 4, 314; criticises his oratory, iv. 317; writes a speech in his name, i. 504; Loudoun, Lord, recalls, v. 372, n. 3; merchants and tradesmen, praises honest, v. 327, n. 4; 'meteor,' i. 131; v. 339; oratory, his, i. 152; Oxford in 1754, at, i. 171, n. 1; 'Ptit,' figures in the Debates as, i. 502; public and private schools, on, iii. 12, n. 1; Scotch Militia bill, acquiesces in the, ii. 431, n. 1; Shelburne joins his ministry, iii. 36, n. 1; son, his, superior to him, iv. 219, n. 3; Trecothick, praises, iii. 76, n. 2; Walpole, distinguished from, ii. 196; war, his glorious, ii. 126; Whigs and Tories, distinguishes, i. 431, n. 1; 'woollen, buried in,' ii. 453, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 201, n. 3. CHATSWORTH, Boswell visits it, iii. 208; Johnson visits it in 1774, v. 429; in 1784, iv. 357, 367; present at a 'public dinner,' ib., n. 3. CHATTERTON, Thomas, money gained by Beckford's death, iii. 201, n. 3; Rowley's Poetry, iii. 50; pretended discovery, ib., n. 1; Johnson's admiration, iii. 51; Goldsmith's belief, ib., n. 2; Walpole's disbelief, ib.; quarrel about it between Goldsmith and Percy, iii. 276, n. 2; 'wild adherence to him,' iv. 141. CHAUCER, took much from the Italians, iii. 254. Chaucer, Life of, i. 306. CHEAP, Captain, i. 117, n. 2. CHELSEA, ii. 169, n. 1. CHELSEA COLLEGE, ii. 64. CHEMISTRY, Johnson's love of it, i. 140, 436; ii. 155; 'the new kinds of air,' iv. 237; Priestley's discoveries, 238. CHENEY WALK, ii. 99, n. 5. CHEROKEES, v. 248. CHESELDEN, William, iii. 152, n. 3. CHESTER, Boswell visits it, iii. 411-15; Johnson and the Thrales, v. 435; Michael Johnson attends the fair, ib.; passage thence to Ireland, i. 105. CHESTERFIELD, fourth Earl of, active sports and idleness, i. 48, n. 1; Addison and Leandro Alberti, ii. 346, n. 7; appeal to people in high life, how to be made, i. 257, n. 1; Bolingbroke's ready knowledge, ii. 256, n. 3; 'But stoops to conquer,' quotes, ii. 205, n. 4; conversation and knowledge, iv. 332; dedications, the plastron of, i. 183, n. 3; dignified but insolent, iv. 174; dissembling anger, i. 265, n. 1; duplicity, his, i. 264-5; Eliot, Mr., praises, iv. 334, n. 5; epigram written with his diamond, iv. 102, n. 4; exquisitely elegant, iv. 332; Faulkner, George, account of, v. 44, n. 2; friend, had no, iii. 387; flogging, on, i. 46, n. 2; general reflections, on, iv. 313, n. 2; graces and wickedness, on uniting the, ii. 340; great, pronunciation of, ii. 161; Letters, 'Hottentot, a respectable,' i. 266; v. 103, n. 2; Ireland's sufferings from a drunken gentry, v. 250, n. 1: Johnson addresses to him the Plan, i. 183-5; ii. 1, n. 2; 35, n. 5; his MS. notes on it, i. 185, n. 2; Dictionary, writes in The World on, i. 257-60; flatters with a view to a Dedication, i. 257; letter to him, i. 260-5, 284, n. 3; iv. 192, n. 2; v. 130, n. 3; Boswell begs for a copy of it, iii. 418, 420; gets it, iv. 128; neglects, i. 256-265; presents ten pounds to, i. 261, n. 3; speeches ascribed to him, iii. 351; laughter low and unbecoming, declares, ii. 378, n. 2; letter to his son at Rome, iv. 78, n. 1; Letters, Johnson's description of them, i. 266; Boswell's, ib., n. 2; Lord Eliot's, iv. 333; literary property in them contested, i. 266; pretty book, might be made a, iii. 53; sale, ii. 329; mentioned, iii. 54; Miscellaneous Works, published in 1777, iii. 108, n. 2; old and ill, i. 262, n. 1; Parisians not learned, declares the, i. 454, n. 3; patron of bad authors, iv, 331, n. 1; position, great, ii. 329; pride, i. 265; respectable, use of the term, iii. 241, n. 2; Richardson's novels, ii. 174, n. 2; Robinson, Sir T., epigram on, i. 434, n. 3; Secretary of State, iv. 333, n. 2; speeches composed by Johnson, i. 505; study of eloquence, on the, iv. 184, n. 1; transpire, iii. 343, n. 2; Tyrawley, Lord, criticism on, ii. 211; 'wit among Lords,' i. 266; wit, his, ii. 211; world, on the judgment of the, i.

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