Battle-critics, what, 82.

Battle near Mons, account of it, 75-78.

Beauty, how long it ought to be the chief concern of the Fair-fex, 59.

Bennet, Madam, her maxim for the ladies, 189.

Betterton, Mr. applauded in the part of Hamlet, 122... Bickerstaff, Mr. account of his ancestors, 141. How his race was improved, 142. Not in partnership with Lillie, 250. Catched writing nonfenfe, 47. His amours, 302. A defign to marry him, 223. Contents of his fcrutoir, 155. Epitome of his life, 214. Account of his fifter Fenny's marriage, 162. His advice to her on her wedding-day, 160, 161. of the wedding, 161.

Blaregnies, the victory there defcribed, 82.

Account

Blindness cured by Dr. Grant, with an account of the patient when he recovered his fight, 26.

Blunder, Major, buys mufquets without touch-holes, 93.
Boatswain, Dampier's, his difinterested arguments to his
companions to prevent being eaten by them, 67.
Bombardiers, who to be accounted fuch, 208.
Books, how to be valued, 165.

Bradley, Sir Arthur de, candidate for Alderman of Queen bithe ward, his expedient to prevent bribery at the election, 133.

Brains, fpirit of, in orange flower-water, fold by Charles Lillie, 239

Bribery, reflections on bribery with coals, 133. A notable expedient to prevent it at elections, ibid.

Brifk, Sir Liberal, faved from fharpers, 132.

Bromeo, his character, 71.

Bruyere, Mr. his fatire on the French, 38.

C.

ADOGAN, Major-general, wounded before Mons,
150.

Cefar, Julius, an inftance of his modefty, 202.
Canes, worn out of affectation, 152. Part of the dress
of a prig, ibid. Petition to wear one, 168-281.
Trials concerning them, ibid.

Cato, a beauty in his character, 325.

Chapel

Chapel-clerk, the word explained, 129. Catched in
a garret with two of the Fair-fex, 111.
Chastity, its value inftanced in Scipio, 40.
Christmas Eve defcribed by Shakespear, 319.
Cicercius, an instance of his modefty, 201.
Cleomira cenfured for painting her face, 60.

Clergy, dumb, recommended to the speaking Doctor at
Kenfington, 116.

Clergyman, character of a good one defcribed, 127–
333. Deficient in oratory, 87-113. Wherein their
Difcourfes may receive addition, 87. Their laziness
the principal cause of diffentions, 105.

Clerk of a Chapel reproved, 111. The term explained,

129.

Commendation of one's felf, when neceffary, 224.
Common-prayer, advice to the readers thereof, 89.
Compaffion, how moved in men and women, 102. In-
stanced in a paffage in Macbeth, 103.
Conjugal affection defcribed, 332.

Converfation, what only gives true relish thereto, 245.
Coppersmith, that name explained, 58. Harry and
Will, their characters compared with the sharpers, 36.
Coquettes are chafte jilts, 301.

Coquettry, its effects on a young gentleman, 299. How
to overcome the power of it, 300.
Carnwall, a tragical accident there, 178.
Country-gentlemen, very ceremonious, 198.

Coxcombs, defcribed by Sir John Suckling, 39. The
greatest plague of them, 224. Required to fet marks
upon themfelves, 248.

Craffus, his character compared with Lorio, 221. Cynthio, his paffion for Clariffa, his death, monument, and epitaph, 196.

D.

DANCING-Mafter, account of one who danced

by book, 210.

Daniel, Mr. Bickerstaff's merry companion, his manner of preaching defcribed, 88.

Dapper, Parfon, his way of preaching, 89.

Tim, head of a species, 195.

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Dappers,

L

Dappers, their habit and manner described, 195. Ufe-
fulness of that family, ibid.

Dead men, who are to be fo accounted, 247. Heard
and adjudged, 314.

Delamira, account of her amours, and the virtues and
management of her fan, 7.
VDiffentions, owing to the laziness of the Clergy, 105.:
Diftaff, Jenny, Mr. Bickerstaff's half-fifter, her mar-
riage, and character of her and her husband, 141.
Her happiness with her husband Tranquillus, 286,
287. Quarrel between her and her husband, and
her brother's advice to her thereon, `193.

Diftrefs, contemplating thereon foftens the mind and
betters the heart, 175.

Divito (alias Mr. Chriftopher Rick) ejected from his pa-
lace, 261.

Dogs, a kennel of them to be difpofed of, 65.
Drefs of rural 'Squires defcribed, 249.

Dromio, the character of a fharper, 30.

Dryden, Mr. miftaken in a remark on Milton, 335.
Duumvir, his way of life, and behaviour to his wife and
mistress, 30, 31.

E.

BORACENSIS, the character of a good gover-

E nor of a plantation, 107.

Elmira, her character and manner of living with her
husband, 12. Vindicated for not grieving at the
death of her husband, 16.

Eloquence defcribed, 86—113.

Elyfum, wherein its happiness may be fuppofed to con-
fit, 238.

Emilia, an excellent and uncommon character, 36. Her
complaint of the country, 35. Advice to her thereon,
ibid.

Engagements between the English and French, 75-77.
Equipage, proper to be fet off with a rent-roll, 91.
Euphufius, a man whofe good-nature is hurtful to him,
146.

FAME,

F.

AME, the love of it dwells in heroic fpirits, zzg.
Fame, the bank of, 206. Plan of the chamber of
Fame, 94
Table of Fame, 204. Mountain and

temple of Fame, 171.

Family, a family fcene, 95-332.

Fan, its motions difcovers ladies thoughts, 7, 8.
Favonius, the character of a good clergyman, 333-
Fellow, various fignifications of that term, 11.
Fellows of fire described, 56.

Fencing, how learned by Mr. Bickerstaff, 235.
Fire, men of, defcribed, 56.

Flattery, force of it inftanced in Don Quixote, 110.
Flavia, an imaginary mistress, 295.

Florinda, her pretenfions to life, 298.

Fondnefs of wife and children, inftanced, 241-33z.
Fop, inventory of his effects feized for the charge of his
interment, 328.

For, and for as much, difcuffed, 43.

Free-thinkers confidered in diftrefs, 331. Cenfured and
cudgelled, 306.

French, characterized by Bruyere, 38. Defeated by the
allies, 75, 76. Their fhifts and fubterfuges, ibid.
French writers of memoirs exploded, 191.

Friendship founded on reafon and choice, 178.

Futurity, wherein the happiness thereof may be supposed
to confist, 239.

GALLANTRY,

G.

ALLANTRY, true, wherein it ought to confift,
42. The heroic virtue of private life, 236.
What effects it has on men, instanced in a theatre on
fire, 237.
Gamefters, a fpeech concerning them, 31. Defended,
55, 56. Represented under the characters of a pack
of hounds, 45-63-81-83-92-101-117.
Gentleman, a character the most difficult to fupport with
propriety, 91.

Goldfmiths diftinguished from coppersmiths, 59.
Q.3

Greenbat,

Greenbat, Obadiah, his criticifm upon Mr. Bickerflaf's
writings, and Bickerstaff's remarks thereon, 47, 48.
Greenbats, their character and relation to the Staffs, 48,

49.

Grogram, Jeffery, his acknowledgment that he is dead,
and petition for interment, 298.

Gunner and Gunfter diftinguifhed, 207.

Ganfter in converfation, who to be fo accounted, ibid.

H.

ALL, Serjeant, his letter to his comrade, and
criticisms thereon, 203, 204.

Hamlet, his exclamation on his mother's hafty marriage,
297. Effect of that tragedy when well performed,

122.

Hard words exploded, 42.

Hawkfly, his raffling-fhop at Hampstead, 45.

Hercules, Predicus's allegory concerning him, 252.
Hero, how diftinguished from a plain honeft man, 258.
Heyday, Jack, whom he reduced by gaming, 31.
Hippocrates, the character of a generous phyfician, 157.
Horror, defcribed by Shakespear, 219.

Humanity infpired by the Mufes, 258. No true great-
nefs without it, ibid.

Human nature, confidered in its true dignity, 202.
Humphry, 'Squire, bubbled at Bath, 83.

Hufband, qualities neceffary to make a good one, 287.
Huffars, civil and wild, who, 29.

I.

ACKS, Harry, why he deferved a ftatue, 65.

Idleness, more deftructive than the plague, 251.

Imagination the most active principle of the mind, 257.

Immortality, two kinds of it, 170.

Inconftancy defcribed by Hamlet, 297.

Indibilis's wife restored by Scipio, 41.

Industry, Knights of, an account of them, 131,

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