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Crisis. Mr. Steele expelled the house of commons for this pamphlet, at the same time the dean was censured for his reply to it, iii. 274. By whom the plan was laid, ibid. A shilling pamphlet, yet proposed to be printed by subscription, 275. The industry of the whigs in dispersing it, 276. The great gain it produced to the author and bookseller, ibid. The contents and merits of it examined, 277-325. Written by the same author that published the Englishman, a letter in defence of lord Molesworth, and many of the Tatlers and Spectators, 281. His scheme of education at the university, 282. The author may be fairly proved, from his own citations, guilty of high treason, 302.
Criticism (goddess of). Her habitation on the snowy mountains of Nova Zembla; her attendants, Ignorance, Pride, Opinion, Noise and Impudence, Dullness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Illmanners, ii. 229.
Criticks. Three different species of them, ii. 102. Of ancient times, so powerful a party, that the writers of those ages mentioned them only by types and figures, 107. Have one quality in common with a whore and alderman, 110. Institutions of them absolutely necessary to the commonwealth of learning, ibid. To commence a true critick, will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind, 111. Three maxims characteristical of a critick, 112. Many commence criticks and wits by reading prefaces and dedications only, 135. Why false criticks rail at false wits, xvii. 381. The eye of a critick whence compared to a microscope, 388. Sleeping, talking, and laughing, qualities which furnish out a critick on preaching, x. 130.
Croisades. Their origin, xvi. 20. Their progress, 21. Gave rise to the spirit of chivalry, 22. The temper which occasioned them in some measure still existing, 23.
Cromwell. To keep up the appearance of a parliament, created an entire new house of lords (such as it was) to counterpoise the commons, ii. 340. Pleased with a flatterer, who undertook to prove him of royal blood, iii. 221. Was a preacher, and has left a sermon in print, in the style of the modern presbyterian teachers, v. 321. His character, ii. 284. His notion of liberty of conscience, x. 169. An instance in which he made a great figure, xvi. 331. Another, in which he appeared contemptible, 332.
Crown. The laws have not given it a power of forcing upon the subject what money the king pleases, ix. 24. 122. 147. Its wanton and pretended debts made a pretence for demanding money, xix. 36.
Cucumbers. A project for extracting sunbeams out of them, vi. 206.
Cumberland (bishop of Peterborow). Some account of, xviii. 186.
Cunning. An argument of knavery, not of wit, iii. 200.
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