the Sothades, 204; from J. D. to his coquette miftrefs, ibid. from a lady to a gentleman, confeffing her love, N. 204. from angry Phillis to her lover, ibid. from a lady to her husband, an officer in Spain, ibid. To the Spectator from Belinda, complaining of a female feducer, 205; from a country clergyman against an affected finging of the Pfalms in church, ibid. from Robin Goodfellow, containing the correction of an errata in Sir William Temple's rule for drinking, ibid. from a fhopkeeper with thanks to the Spectator, ibid. from a lover with an hue and cry after his mistrefs's heart, ibid. from J. D. concerning the immortality of the foul, 210; from Meliffa, who has a drone to her husband, 211; from Barnaby Brittle, whofe wife is a filly, ibid. from Jofiah Henpeck, who is married to a grimalkin, ibid. from Martha Tempeft, complaining of her witty husband, ibid. from Anthony Freeman the henpecked, 212; from Tem Meggot, giving the Spectator an account of the fuccefs of Mr. Freeman's Lecture, 216; from Kitty Termagant, giving an account of the romps-club, 217; from -complaining of his indelicate mistress, ibid. from Sufanna Froft, an old maid, ibid. from A. B. a parfon's wife, ibid. from Henrietta to her ungracious lover, 220. To the Spectator from on falfe wit, ibid. from T. D. concerning falutation, ibid. from-inquiring the reafon why men of parts are not the best managers, 222; from Efculapius about the lover's leap, 227; from Athenias and Davyth ap Shenkyn on the fame fubject, ibid. from W. B. the projector of the pitch-pipe, 228; from on education, 230; from on the awe which attends fome speakers in publick affemblies, 231; from Philonous on free-thinkers, 234; from-on marriage, and the husband's conduct to his wife, 236; from Triftiffa, who is married to a fool; ibid. from T. S. complaining

complaining of fome people's behaviour in divine fervice, ibid. from-with a letter tranflated from Ariftanetus, 238; from a citizen in praise of his benefactor, 240; from Ruftick Sprightly, a country gentleman, complaining of a fashion introduced in the country by a courtier newly arrived, ibid. from Charles Eafy, reflecting on the behaviour of a fort of beau at Philafter, ibid. from Afteria on the absence of lovers, 241; from Rebecca Ridinghood, complaining of an ill-bred fellowtraveller, 242; from on a poor weaver in Spittlefields, ibid. from Abraham Thrifty, guardian to two learned nieces, ibid. from -on Raphael's cartons, 244; from Conftantia Field, on the ninth fpecies of women called apes, ibid. from Timothy Doodle a great lover of blind-man's buff, 245; from 7. B. on the feveral ways of · confolation made ufe of by abfent lovers, ibid. from Troilus, a declared enemy to the Greek, ibid. from on the nurfing of children, N. 246; from T. B. being a differtation on the eye, 250; from Abraham Spy on a new invention of perfpective glaffes for the ufe of ftarers, ibid. Lovers of great men, animadverted upon, N. 193. Levity of women, the effects of it, N. 212. Lie: Several forts of lies, N. 23.

Life to what compared in the Scriptures, and by the heathen philofophers, N. 219. The prefent life a ftate of probation, 237.

Logick of kings, what, N. 239.

Lottery fome discourse on it, N. 191.

Love the tranfport of a virtuous love, N. 199. Lover's leap, where fituated, N. 225. An effectual cure for love, 227. A fhort hiftory of it, 233. Luxury: The luxury of our modern meals, N. 195. M

MAlvolio, his character, N. 238.

Maple (Will) an impudent libertine, N. 203. Man, the merrieft fpecies of the creation, N. 249.

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The mercenary practice of men in the choice of wives, 196.

Merchants of great benefit to the public, N. 174. Mill, to make verfes, N. 220.

Mirth in a man ought to be accidental, N. 196. Modefty and felf-denial frequently attended with unexpected bleffings, N. 206. Modesty the contrary of ambition, ibid. A due proportion of modefty requifite to an orator, 231. The excellency of modefty, ibid. Vicious modesty what, ibid. The misfortunes to which the modeft and innocent are often expofed, 242.

Mothers justly reproved for not nurfing their own children, N. 246.

Motto, the effects of an handsome one, N. 221. Much cry, but little wool, to whom applied, N. 251.

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Icholas Hart the annual fleeper, N. 184. Nurses. The frequent inconveniences of hired nurses, N. 246.

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Bedience of children to their parents the basis of all government, N. 189.

Opportunities to be carefully avoided by the Fair Sex, N. 198.

Order neceffary to be kept up in the world, N. 219.

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Arents naturally fond of their own children,

N. 192. Paffions: the various operations of the paffions, N. 215. The ftrange diforders bred by our paffions when not regulated by virtue, ib. It is not fo much the bufinefs of religion to extinguish, as to regulate our paffions, 224. Patrons and clients, a di courie of them, N. 214. Worthy patrons compared to guardian angels, ib. People the only riches of a country, N. 200. Perfans, their notion of parricide, N. 189. Philofophers, why longer lived than other men,

N. 195

Phocion,

Phocion, his notion of popular applaufe, N. 188. Phyfick, the fubftitute of exercise or temperance,

Ń. 195.

Pictures, witty, what pieces fo called, N. 244.

Piety an ornament to human nature, N. 201.
Pitch-pipe, the invention and use of it, N. 228.
Plato, his account of Socrates his behaviour the
morning he was to die, N. 183.

Pleaders, few of them tolerable company, N. 197. Pleasure, pleafure and pain, a marriage proposed, between them and concluded, N. 189.

Poll, a way of arguing, N. 239.

Popular applaufe, the vanity of it, N. 183.
Praife, a generous mind the moft fenfible of it,
N. 238.

Pride: A man crazed with pride a mortifying fight, N. 201.

Procurefs, her trade, N. 205.

Prodicus, the firft inventor of fables, N. 183. Profperity, to what compared by Seneca, N. 237. Providence, not to be fathomed by reafon, N. 237.. Q

Uality, is either of fortune, body, or mind, N..

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RAck, a knotty fyllogifm, N. 239.

Raphael's Cartons, their effect upon the Spec-tator, N. 226, 244.

Readers divided by the Spectator into the Mercuriał i and Saturnine, N. 179.

Reputation, a fpecies of fame, N. 218. The fta- bility of it, if well founded, ibid.

Ridicule the talent of ungenerous tempers, N. 249. The two great branches of ridicule in writing, ibid.

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Alamanders, an order of ladies defcribed, N.. 198.

Sappho, an excellent poetefs, N. 223. Dies for.

love of Phaon, ibid. Her hymn to Venus, ibid.
A fragment of hers tranflated into three differ
ent languages, 229.

Satirists, best to instruct us in the manners of their
refpective times, N. 209.

Schoolmen, their afs-cafe, N. 191. How applied,
ibid.

Self-denial the great foundation of civil virtue, N.
248.

Self-love transplanted, what, N. 192.

Sentry, his difcourfe with a young wrangler in the
law, N. 197.

Shows and diverfions lie properly within the pro-
vince of the Spectator, N. 235.

Simonides, his fatire on women, N. 209.

Sly, the haberdasher, his advertisement to young
tradefmen in their last year of apprenticeship,
N. 187.

Socrates, his notion of pleasure and pain, N. 183.
The effect of his temperance, 195. His inftruc-
tions to his pupil Alcibiades in relation to a
prayer, 207. a catechetical method of arguing
introduced firft by him, 239. Instructed in elo-
quence by a woman, 247.

Sorites, what fort of figure, N. 239,

Spectator, his artifice to engage his different read-
ers, N. 179. The character given of him in
> his own prefence at a coffee-house near Aldgate,
218.

Speech, the feveral organs of it, N. 231.
Spy, the mischief of one in a family, N. 202.
State (future) the refreshments a virtuous perfon
enjoys in profpect and contemplation of it, N.
186.

Stores of Providence, what, N. 248.

Strife, the fpirit of it, N. 197.

Sun, the firft eye of confequence, N. 250.

Superiority reduced to the notion of quality, N.
219. To be founded only on merit and virtue,

202.

Superftition,