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Criticks, their true character, i. 14. The different dispositions and measures of the candid and the severe, 140, 141. The different classes of criticks assigned, and their arts and insults exposed, iv. 89. 91. The methods by which their malevolent designs may be defeated, 90. Remarks on their censures of other writers, ii. 229. They are often misled by interest, ibid.

Cupidus, his observations on the folly of visionary opulence, ii. 109.

Curiosity, a principle of powerful and extensive operation, ii. 281. iii. 79. The folly of being solely influenced by it in the pursuit of knowledge, ii. 289. To be indulged with caution and judgment, 158. The great folly of it when extravagant, 161. The first and last passion in great and generous minds, iii. 265.

Custom, to conquer it requires the utmost efforts of fortitude and virtue, iii. 297.

Death, the instructions arising from the near views of it, ii. 2. The dispositions of mind suitable to that instructive and awful season, 4. 6. The different sentiments we then form of men and things; and particularly as to friends, rivals, and enemies, 5, 6. The due contemplation of it a proper method of suppressing fear, i. 104. The immediate effects of death awful and important, ii. 138. The impressions made by it too generally transient, 140. The remembrance of it, when it predominates in our minds, a great and animating incentive to virtue, ibid.

Definition, in what respect not the province of man, iii. 117. The neglect of it prejudicial to the writers of plays, 118.

Dejection of spirit frequently increased by vain terrors, ii. 31.

Demochares, his character, ii. 277.