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to a female married relation, 527. From. who had made his mistress a prefent of a fan, with a copy of verfes on that occafion, ibid. From Rachel Welladay, a virgin of twentythree, with a heavy complaint against the men, 528. From Will Honeycomb lately married to a country girl, who has no portion, but a great deal of virtue, 530. From Mr. Pope, on the verfes fpoken by the Emperor Adrian upon his death-bed, 532. From Duftereraftus, whofe parents will not let him choose a wife for himself, 533. From Penance Cruel, complaining of the behaviour of perfons who travelled with her in a stagecoach out of Effex to London, ibid. From Sharlot Wealthy, fetting forth the hard cafe of fuch women as are beauties and fortunes, 534 From Abraham Dapperwit, with the Spectator's anfwer, ibid. From Jeremy Comfit, a grocer, who is in hopes of growing rich by lofing his cuftomers. ibid. From Lucinda Parley a coffee-houfe idol, From C. B. re'commending knotting as a proper amuse.nent to the beaus, 536. From Relicta Lovely, a widow, 539. From Euftace, in love with a lady of eighteen, whofe parents think her too young to marry by three years, ibid. Fromcomplaining of a young divine, who murdered archbishop Tillotson's fermon upon evilfpeaking, ibid. Formwith a fhort critique on Spenfer, 540. From PhiloSpec. who apprehends a diffolution of the Spectator's club, and the ill confequences of it, 542. From Captain Sentry, lately come to the poffeffion of Sir Roger de Goverley's eftate, 544. From the Emperor of China to the Pope, 545. From W. C. to the Spectator, in commendation of a generous benefactor, 546. From Charles Eafy, fetting forth the fovereign ufe of the Spectators in feveral remarkable inftances, 547. From — on poetical juftice, 548. From Sir Andrew Freeport, who is retiring from bufinefs, 549. From Philonicus, a litigious gentleman, complaining of fome unpolite law-terms, 551. From T. F. G. S. J. T. E. T. in commendation of the Spectator, 553.

London (Mr.) the gardner, an heroic poet, N. 477 Love, the capricioufnefs of it, N. 475. The romantic ftyle in which it is made, 479. A nice and fickle paffion, 506. A method propofed to preferve it alive after marriage, ibid.

the prevalency of it, ibid. Lyfander, his character, N. 522.

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AN, by what chiefly diftinguished from all other creatures, N. 494. Suffers more from imaginary than real evils, 505. His fubjection to the female fex, 510. Wonderful in his nature, 519

Married condition rarely unhappy, but from want of judgment or temper in the husband, N. 479. The advantages of it preferable to a fingle fate, ibid. & 500. Termed purgatory by Tom Dapperwit, 482. The excellence of its inftitution, 490, The pleafure and uneafinefs of married perfons, to what imputed, 506. The foundation of community, 522. For what reafon liable to fo much ridicule, ibid. Some further thoughts of the Spectator on that fubject, 525.

Matter the bafis of animals, N. 519. Men of the town rarely make good husbands, 522. Method, the want of it, in whom only fupportable, N. 476. The ufe and neceffity of it in writings, ibid. Seldom found in coffee-house debates, ibid.

Mind (human) the wonderful nature of it, 554. Misfortunes, our judgments upon them reproved, N. 483.

Modefty an unneceffary virtue in the profeffors of the law, 484. The fentiments entertained of it by the ancients, ibid. Rules recom.. mended to the modest man by the Spectator, ib. Moorfields, by whom reforted to, N. 505. Motteux (Peter) dedicates his poem on tea to the Spectator, N. 552.

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Parnaffus, the vifion of it, N. 514.

Patience, an allegorical difcourfe upon it, N. 501.
Philips, Mr. his paftorals recommended by the
Pififtratus, the Athenian tyrant, his generous be-
Spectator, N. 523
haviour on a particular occafion, N. 527.
Plato, his defcription of the Supreme Being, 507.
Players wherein to be condemned, N. 502. The
precedency fettled among them, 529.

Pliny, the neceffary qualifications of a fine
fpeaker according to that author, N. 484.
His letter to his wife's aunt, Hifpulla, 525.
Plutarch, for what reproved by the Spectator,
N.483.

Pope, Mr. his mifcellany commended by the Spectator, N. 523.

Praife when changed into fame, N. 551. Prediction, the many arts of it in ufe among the vulgar, N. 595.

Prerogative, when and how to be afferted with honour, N. 480.

Pronunciation necessary to an orator, N. 541. Profpect of Peace, a poem on that fubject commended by the Spectator, N. 523. Punning, by whom affected, N. 504. Puzzle (Tom) a moft eminent immethodical Punfters, their talents, N. 504. difputant, N. 476.

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ALEIGH (Sir Walter) his opinion of wo510. Religion, a morofe melancholy behaviour, which is obferved in feveral precife profeffors of it, reproved by the Spectator, N. 494. The true fpirit of it not only compofes, but chears the foul, ibid.

Repofitory for fashions, a building propofed

and defcribed, N. 487. The ufefulness of it, ib. Rhyn fault, the unjust governor, in what manner punished by Charles Duke of Burgundy, his fovereign, N. 491.

Romans, an inftance of the general good understanding of the ancient Romans, N. 502. Rowley, Mr. his proposals for a new pair of globes, N. 552.

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OENSE, the different degrees of it in the feveral different fpecies of animals, N. 519. Sentry, Captain, takes poffeffion of his uncle Sir Roger de Coverley's eftate, N 517.

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Shoeing-horns, who, and by whom employed, N. 536.

Sickness, a thought on it, N. 513.

Sly, John, the tobacconist, his reprefentation to the Spectator, N. 532. His minute, 534. Socrates, head of the fect of the hen-peck'd, N. 479. His domeftics, what, 486. The effect of a difcourfe of his own marriage had with his audience, 500.

Soul, the excellency of it confidered in relation to dreams, N. 487.

Sparkish, Will, a modifh husband, N, 479. Spe tator, his account of a coffee-houfe debate, relating to the difference between Count Rechteren and Monfieur Mefnager, N. 481. The different fenfe of his readers upon the rife of his paper, and the Spe tator's proposals upon it, 488. His obfervations on our modern poems, 523. His edict, ibid. The effects of his difcourfes on marriage, ibid. His deputation to J. Sly, haberdather of hats, and tobacconift, 525. The different judgments of his readers concerning his fpeculations, 542. His reafons for often cafting his thoughts into a letter, ibid. His project for the forming a new club, 550. Vifits Mr Motteux's warehouíes, 552 The great concern the city is in upon his defign of laying down his paper, 553. He takes his leave of the town, 555. Squires, rural, their want of learning, N. 529. Stripes, the ufe of them on perverfe wives, 479. Surprife, the life of ftories, N. 538.

Swingers, a fet of familiar romps at Tunbridge, N. 492.

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ERENCE, the Spectator's obfervations on one of his plays, N. 502. Thrash, Will, and his wife, an infipid couple, N. 522. Tickell, Mr. his verses to the Spectator, N. 532.

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WEALTH, the father of love, N. 506.

Wedlock, the state of it ridiculed by the town-witlings, N. 525.

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Wife, the most delightful name in nature, N Winter-gardens recommended, and defcribed N. 477

William III. King of England, compared wit the French King, N. 516.

Wife, Mr. the gardener, an heroic poet, N. 477 Wit may purchase riches, but is not to be pur chafed by riches, N. 522.

Wits, minor, the several species of them, N. 504. Wits ought not to pretend to be rich, N. 509. Wives, perverfe, how to be managed, N. 479. Women greater tyrants to their lovers, than huf

bands, N. 486. Reproved for their neglect of drefs after they are married, 506. Their wonderful influence upon the other fex, N 510.

World of matter, and fe, confidered by the Spectator, N. 519.

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CTIONS, principles of, two in man, N. 588. Adulterers, how punished by the primitive Chriftians, N. 579.

Aglaüs, his story told by Cowley, N. 610. Ambition, various kinds of it, N. 570. Laudable, 613.

Anacharfis, the Corinthian drunkard, a saying of his, N. 569.

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Anxieties, unneceffary, the evil of them and the vanity of them, N. 615.

Applaufe and cenfure fhould not mislead us N. 610.

Arafpas and Panthea, their ftory out of Xenophon, N. 564.

Ariftippus, his faying of content, N. 574. Auguftus, his faying of mourning for the dead, N. 575

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Ancetry, how far honour is to be paid to it, Bire, who are intitled to it, N. 607. Se

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Bantam, ambaffador of, his letter to his mafter about the English, N. 557.

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Chit-chat club's letter to the Spectator, N, 560. Christianity, the only fyftem that can produce content, N. 574. How much above philofophy, 634.

Cleanlinefs, the praise of it, N. 631.

Clergymen, the vanity of fome in wearing fcarves, N. 609.

Coach, ftage, its company, N. 631. Content, how defcribed by a Roficrucian, N. 574. The virtue of it, ibid. Country-gentlemen, advice to them about fpending their time, N. 583. Memoirs of the life of one, 622.

Cowley, (Mr.) his defcription of heaven, N. 598. His story of Aglaüs, 610. His ambition, 13. Crazy, a man thought fo by reading Milton aloud, N. 577.

Criticks, modern ones, fome errors of theirs about plays, N. 592.

Cyrus, how he tried a young lord's virtue, N. 564.

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Fritilla's dream, N. 597.

Funnel, Will, the toper, his chara&er, N. 569. Futurity, the strong inclination man has to know it, N. 604. A weakness, ibid. The mifery of knowing it, ibid.

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Happiness of fouls in heaven treated of, N. 600. An argument that 'God has affigned us for it. ibid.

Hearts, a vifion of them, N. 587. Heaven, its glory, N. 580. Defcribed by Mr. Cowley, 590. The notions several nations have of it, 600. What Dr. Tillotson fays of it, ibid.

Hermit, his faying to a lewd young fellow, N. 575. Heroifm, an effay upon it, N, 601. Hilpa, the Chinese antediluvian princess, her ftory, N. 584. Her letter to Shalum, 585. Hiftory, fecret, an odd way of writing one, N. 6:9.

Hobbes's notions debafe human nature, N. 588. Humour, the two extremes, N. 617. Burlesque, 616. Pedantick, 617.

Hunting reproved, N. 583 Hufbands, rules for marrying them by the widows club, N. 561, Qualities neceffary to make good ones, 607.

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"APIS's cure of Æneas, a translation of Vir-,

Igil, by Mr. Dryden, N. 3723
Idle world, N. 1.

Jeft, how it should be uttered, N. 616.

Initial,

Initial letters, the ufe party-writers make of
them, N. 567. An inftance of it, ibid. Cri-
ticifms upon it, 568.

Integrity, great care to be taken of it, N. 557-
Intrepidity of a just good man taken from Horace,
N. 615.

John a Nokes and John a Stiles, their petition,
N. 577

Irish gentlemen, widow hunters, N. 561.
Ijadas the Spartan, his valour, N. 564.
Julian the emperor, an excellent paffage out of
his Cefars, relating to the imitation of the
gods, N. 634-

Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and
calamities, N. 588. His fecond, ibid. His
just distribution of them, 559.

Justice, the Spartan famous for it, N. 564.

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Man, the two views he is to be confidered in, N. 588. An Active being, 624. His ultimate end, ibid.

Merry part of the world amiable, N. 598. Meffiah, the Jews mistaken notion of his worldly grandeur, N. 610.

Metaphors, when vicious, N. 595. An inftance of it, ibid.

Laughter indecent in any religious affem- Military education, a letter about it, N. 566.

bly, N. 630.

Lefbia's letter to the Spectator, giving an account how the was deluded by her lover, N. 611. Letter from the Bantam ambaffador to his mafter about the English, N. 557. From the dumb conjurer to the Spectator, 560. From the chit-chat club, ibid. From Oxford about his recovering his fpeech, ibid. From Frank

Mischief rather to be fuffered than an inconve-
nience, N. 564.

Montague, fond of speaking of himself, N. 562.
Scaliger's faying of him, ibid.

Mufic, church, recommended, N. 630.
Mufician, burlesque, an account of one, N. 570.

Turonly, ibid. About the widows club, 561. N

From Blank about his family, 563. About an angry husband, ibid. From Will Warly, about military education, 566. From an halfpay officer about a widow, ibid. From Peter Pup on the fame fubject, ibid. Against quacks, 572. From the prefident of the widows club, 573. From a man taken to be mad for reading of poetry aloud, 577. A fecond letter about the ubiquity of the Godhead, 530. Several anfwered at once, 581. From Conftantio Spec. ibid. From Amanda Lovelength, ibid. From Shalum the Chinese to the princefs Hilpa, before the flood, 584. From Hilpa to Shalum, 585. From John Shadow, at Oxford, about reflecting at night on the paft day's actions, 586. About a vifion of hearts, 587. About planting, 589. From John Shadow about dreams, 593. Of inconfiftent metaphors, 595. From Jeremy Lovemore, with an account of his life, 596. About making love, 602. From Fanny Fickle, 605. From an aunt about her niece's idleness, 606. About the vanity of fome clergymen wearing fcarves, 609. From Tom Nimble, about antipathies, ibid. From Cleora against the ladies work, ibid. From Lefbia a deluded lady, 611. About genealo gy, 612, From Will Hopeless, about ambition, 613. From the Temple about beggars eloquence, ibid. From Monimia to recover a loft lover, ibid. From a country wit in the burlesque way, 616. From a pedant in his pedantic way on the fame fubject, 617. About the ftiles of letters, 618. Answers to feveral, 619. About flattery, 621 From the lovecafuift about the widows tenure, and the black ram, 622. From the fame about love queries, 625. From one who recommended himself for a news-monger, ibid. About the force of novelty, 626. About a croffed lover, 627. About eternity to come, 628. About church mufic, 635. About the rattling club's getting into church, ibid.

Life, eternal, what we ought to be moft folici-. tous about, N. 575. Man's not worth his 6

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EEDLEWORK recommended to ladies,
N. 606. A letter from Cleora against it,
609.
News, the pleafure of it, N. 625.
Newton, Sir Ifaac, his noble way of confidering
infinite space, N. 564.

Night, a clear one defcribed, N. 565. Whimfi-
cally defcribed by William Rarifey, 582.
No, a word of great ufe to women in love-mat
ters, N. 625.

Novelty, the force of it, N. 626.
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BSCURITY, often more illuftrious than
grandeur, N. 622.

Orator, what requifite to form cne, N. 633.
Ovid, his verfes on making love at the theatre,
tranflated by Mr. Dryden, N. 602. How to.
fucced in his manner, 618.

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ASSIONS, the work of a philofopher to fubdue them, N. 564. Inítances of their power, ibid.

Patience, her power, N. 559.
Pedantic humour, N. 617.
Penelope's web, the hiftory of it, N. 606.
Perfon, the word defined by Mr. Locke, N. 578,
Petition of John a Nokes, and John a Stiles, N.

577.

Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pretences to it, N. 629.

Phebe and Colin, an original poem, N. 603.
Philofophers, Pagan, their boast of exalting hu-
man nature, N. 634.

Pittacus, a wife faying of his about riches, N. 574.
Pity, the reasonablenefs of it, N. 538.
Places, the unreafonablenefs of party pretences
to them, N. 629.
Planting recommended to country gentlemen,
N. 583. Again, 589.
Plato's faying of labour, N. 624.
Play-houfe, how improved in ftorms, N. 592.
Politicians, the mifchief they do, N. 556. Soine
at the Royal Exchange, N. 68.
Pufs, fpeculations, on an old and a young cac,
N. 626.
Pythagoras, his advice to his fcholars about ex-

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amining at night what they had done in the Sublime in writing, what it is, N. 592. day, N. 586. Syncopifts, modern ones, N. 567. Syracufan Prince, jealous of his wife, how he ferved her, N. 579.

UFRIES in love anfwered,

QQueftion, a curious une farted by a school

man about the choice of present and future happiness and mifery, N. 575. Quid-nunc, Tho', his letters to the Spectator, about news, N. 625.

Quacks, an effay against them, N.

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Rattling club got into the church, N. 630. Ramfey, William, the aftrologer, his whimfical defcription of night, N. 582.

Revelation, what light it gives into the joys of Heaven, N. 600.

Revenge of a Spanish lady on a man who boasted of her favours, N. 611.

Roficrucian, a pretended discovery made by one,
N. 574.

Royal progrefs, a poem, N. 620..
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Tender hearts, an entertainment for them, N. 627.

Tenure, the most slippery in England, N. 623.
Thales, his faying of truth and falfhood, N. 594.
Theatre, of making love there, N. 602.
Torre in Devonshire, how unchafte widows are
punished there, N. 614.

Townly, Frank, his letter to the Spectator, N. 560. Tully praifes himself, N. 562. What he faid of the immortality of the ful, 588. Of uttering a jeft, 616. Of the force of novelty, 626. What he required in his orator, 633.

V.

BIQUITY of the God-head confidered, N. 591. Farther confiderations about it, 583. Verfes by a defpairing lover, N. 591. On Phebe and Colin, 603. Tranflation of verses pedantic out of Italian, 617. The royal progress, 620. To Mrs. on her grotto, 633.

Scarves, the vanity of fome clergymen wearing Vice as laborious as virtue, N. 604.

them, N. 609.

Scribblers, the most offenfive, N. 582
Self-love, the narrowness and danger of it, N.
588.

Seneca, his faying of drunkennefs, N. 569.
Shakespeare, his excellence, N. 562.
Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the Princefs
Hilpa before the flood, N. 584.
Sight, fecond, in Scotland, N. 604.
Singularity, when a virtue, N. 576. An instance
of it in a north-conntry gentleman, ibid.
Socrates, his faying of misfortunes, N. 558.
Space, infinite, Sir Ifaac Newton's noble way of
confidering it, N. 564.

Spartan juftice, an inftance of it, N. 564. Spectator breaks a fifty years filence, N. 756. How he recovered his fpeech, ibid. His politics, ibid. Loquacity, ibid. Of no party, Ibid. A calamity of his, 558. Critics upon him, 568. He fleeps as well as wakes for the public, 599. His dream of Trophonius's

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Vulcan's dogs, the fable of them, N. 579.

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EST Enborne in Berkshire, a custom there for widows, N. 614. What Lord Coke faid of the widows tenure there, 623. Whichenovre Bacon Flitch, in Staffordshire, who intitled to it, N. 607.

Whole Duty of Man, that excellent book turned into a fatire, N. 568.

Widows club, an account of it, N. 561. A letter from the prefident of it to the Spectator about her fuitors, 573. Duty of widows in. old times, 606. A custom to punish unchafte ones in Berkshire and Devonshire, 614. Inftances of their riding the black ram there, 623. Writing, the difficulty of it to avoid cenfure, N. 568.

Work neceffary for women, N. 606.

cave, ibid. Why the eighth volume publish- X

ed, 632.

Spleen, its effects, N. 558.

Stars, a contemplation of them, N. 565.

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