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sentiments of convocations, iv. 398. Sir Thomas More's, 399. Power of the two houses, ix. 255.

Convocation (in Ireland). Press a representation of the state of religion, xi. 195.

Cope (Robert). Anecdote of him, i. 208.

Copper. The subject cannot be compelled by the king to take it, ix. 24. 122. 147. The Romans had the greatest part of their nummulary devices on that metal, v. 469. See Halfpence.

Corelli. Excelled in forming an orchestre, xiii. 315.

Corinna. A poem on her birth, vii. 76.

Coriolanus. A particular, in which he made a mean figure, xvi. 334.

Corke. A fine monument of one of its earls, in the cathedral of Dublin, xii. 280. See Freedom.

Corke (city). Lord Orrery's observations on it, xiii. 324.

Cormack (king and archbishop). His chapel and bed chamber, xiii. 180.

Coronations. Performing that ceremony to an heir apparent in the life time of a father, a custom adopted by Henry II from France, where the practice was derived from the Cæsars, xvi. 84.

Corporations. Are perpetually doing injustice to individuals, xiii. 45.

Councils. Nothing so rash as predicting upon the events of publick councils, xi. 256.

Country life. Poetical description of the pleasures of a, vii, 201.

Country post (The). xvii. 353.

Court. New Way of selling Places at, xviii. 103.

Court. What a constant amusement there, xi. 12. One advantage of going thither, xv. 264. A fault of it in queen Anne's time, 269. Of what use to Dr. Swift, 292. The practice of one belonging to it, in selling employments, 293. xviii. 103. Not in the power of those who live in a court to do all they desire for their friends, xiii. 31.

Courts. Before the time of Charles II, were the prime standard of propriety and correctness of speech; but have ever since continued the worst, v. 70. The secrets of courts much fewer than generally supposed, iv. 251. Five things in which they are extremely constant, xii. 261. What the two maxims of any great man there, x. 246. 247. When a favour is done there, no want of persons to challenge obligations, xi. 50. Nothing of so little consequence as the secrets of them, when once the scene is changed, 289. The nearer knowledge a man has of the affairs at court, the less he thinks them worth regarding, iv. 276, 277. The worst of all schools to teach good manners, xvi. 324. The art of them to be new learnt, after a small absence, xii. 377.

Courts of justice in England. The king of Brobdingnag's queries concerning them, vi. 145.

Courtiers. In what respect they resemble gamesters, xiii. 244.

Covetousness. The character of it, whence generally acquired, xvii. 386.

Cowards. To be punished with death rather than ignominy, v. 455.

Cowper (lord chancellor). Obstructs the duke of Marlborough's being made general for life, iv. 286. His character, iv. 33.

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