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INDEX

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FOURTH VOLUM E.

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A.

BSTINENCE the beft phyfic, p. 196.
Adverfity, an ease for it, 167.

Advertisements of great ufe to the vulgar, 135. A col-
lection of them, a kind of mifcellany, 137. Speci-
mens of them, 151-212,

Affection diftinguished from efteem, 65.

to esteem in the fair-fex, 68.

Nearly related

Alexander the Great, his character and irregularity of
temper, 9. A remarkable incident between him and
his phyfician, 77.

Alexander the Great, account of that play, 8.

Alexander Truncheon, foreman of the jury in the court of
honour, 243.

Ambition, the true object of laudable ambition, 235,
No true happiness in the fuccefs of that infatuating
and infatiable paflion, 50. Its refuge when difap-
pointed, ibid. In grotefque, what, 51.
Aminidab the Quaker, his admonition, 2.
Apollo, the god of verfe and phyfic, 193.
Apothecaries great orators, 195.
Appetites, how to be governed, 61.
Aftræa, an unfortunate wife, 199.

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ACON, Lord, a nobleman of extraordinary learn-
ing and qualifications, 302. A prayer composed
by him, 303.

Banburys

Banbury, famous for cakes and zeal, 121.
Beans, why to be abftained from, 196.
Beauty, the town overstock'd with it, 25.

Bickerstaff, Mr. a benefactor to Grub-freet, 152. Entertains his three nephews and a young lady, 70. Writes to the French king, 5. His adventures in a journey to the land's-end, 10.

Billing/gate-fcold, her behaviour and defence before a magiftrate, 58.

Billet, Brigadier, his good offices to Mr. Steele acknowledged, 319.

Bookfellers, their complaint against Parfon Plagius, 313. Breeding, fine, often mistaken, 99.

good, the highest point thereof, 95.

Bridget Howdy, her lady's advertisement concerning her, 212.

Britain particularly fruitful in religions, 259.
Buy, Lady, defcribed, 226.

C,

ELICOLA, wherein of the fame ufe to his friends as an angel, 85.

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Callicoat, Edward, tried and acquitted in the court of honour, 271.

Cambrick, Charles, the linen-draper, indicted in the court of honour by Lady Touchwood, 270, His defence and fentence, 271.

Cafe, Doctor, got more by a fhort diftich than Dryden gained by all his writings, 195.

Cato jun. his advice to Mr. Bickerstaff, 23.
Celamico, his will, 281.

Celibacy, a great evil to a nation, 276.
Chances, character of that comedy, 9.

Chaplains, a difcourfe concerning them, 252.
Chearfulness, neceffary in a married ftate, 12.
Children, a scheme to provide for them, 279.
Chloe, the fortunate, difappointed in the lottery, 72.
Church-mutes cenfured, 200.

Church thermometers, when invented, 118. Defcrip-
tion and use of a church weather-glafs, 119.
City fhower poetically defcribed by Dr. Swift, 187.

Clarinda

Clarinda makes an ill choice of a lover, 223.

Clement Thomas, his propofal to provide for poor chil-

dren, 279.

Clergymen, the vanity of fome of them in wearing
fcarves and powdered wigs, 316.

Common-prayer, advice to the readers thereof, 159.
Companions, what fort most defirable, 74. Their ef
fential qualities, 210.

Company, its greatest perfection, 114.

Conftancy very neceffary in the married ftate, 12.
Converfation, a general rule to be obferved therein, 292.
Rules for it, 309, 310. The use and abuse of it, 138.
Humdrums in conversation, who, 291.

Coupler the conveyancer, his account of jointures and
marriage-fettlements, 38.

Court of honour erected, 232, Account of its members
and proceedings, ibid.

Cowley, Mr. his judgment of a poem, 173.

Craft, when it becomes wisdom, 7.

Critics, a people between the learned and the ignorant,

217.

Cunning, the greatest cunning of some people is to ap-
pear fo, 60. A contemptible quality," 7.

D.

ATHAN, a Jew, tried in the court of honour,
257.

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Davenport, Major-general, his good offices to Mr. Steele,
319.

Defiance natural to the English, 91.

Defire, two most prevalent ones implanted in man by
nature, 61.

Devotion, the pleasure and dignity thereof represented
by Dr. South, 86.

Diana Forecast, her letter, defiring to be provided for,
43.

Dinner-time poftponed, 288.

Difcourfe, the generl fubject of it, 216..

Diffimulation diftinguished from fimulation, 91.

Difaff, Jenny, Mr. Bickerstaff's half-fifter, her apology
for the fair-fex, 221, &c.

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Dogget

Dogget, Mr. his conversation with Mr. Bickerstaff at the playhouse, 15.

Donne, Dr. his faying of Guicciardini, 290.

Downes, the prompter, his letter to Mr. Bickerftaff, defcribing the state of the ftage, 16.

Dozers, who, 63.

Dramatifts, unfkilful, remarks on them, 8.

Drefs, plainnefs therein recommended, 87. Impro prieties therein cenfured, 88.

Drinking, a differtation thereon, 197.

Drunkards die by their own hands, 198. A provifo

against them in infuring lives, ibid.

Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, 62. What efteemed a fort of inceft therein, 241.

D'Urfey, Mr. mistaken in a dedication, 95.

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ARTHQUAKE, pills against them, 196. Eaters, great, facrifice their sense and understanding to their appetite, 62.

Education, propofals for reforming the education of fe males, 225.

Elbow-chair, where and for what purpofe to be provided, 307.

Elliot, Mr. master of St. James's coffee-house, a project of his relating to the lottery, 47. His requeft granted on certain conditions, 48.

Englife, when they begin to fing, 129.

English tongue much adulterated, 156.

Envy deforms every thing, 147. Occafioned often by avarice, 146. How foftened into emulation, 147.

Efteem diftinguished from affection, 65.

Evil, the greateft under the fun, 5.

Examiner animadverted on, 189.

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F.

AIRLOVE, Joshua, his request to be an Esquire, granted, 117.

Familiarity, how diftinguished, 140.

Fan, verfes on a fan, 191

Fardingale,

Fardingale, Lady, her advertisement concerning Bridge

Howdye, 212.

Fashion, abfurd when too ftrictly followed, 88.
Feafts confidered, 61.

Female library propofed, 227.

Flatterers, true meaning of that word, 75. Few good
ones, 74. The qualities of a good flatterer, ibid.
Diftinguished from coxcombs, 76.

Flavia, a truly fine woman, 88.

a widow, her jars with her daughter, 68.

Fools, the way to make them madmen, 76.
Forbes, Lord, his good offices to Mr. Steele, 319.
Forecast, Diana, defires to be quickly provided for, 43.
Fortitude defcribed by Mr. Collier, 236.

Fortune, good, the ready path to it, 52.
Fox, policy of that animal, 152.

Fox-hunter, motives for his hofpitality, 51.
Freemen have no fuperiors-but benefactors, 71.
Frogs, methods used to import them and propagate them
in Ireland, 179.

G.

ATTY, Jack, Gainly's fifter, her character, 67..

Widow, defires Mr. Bickerftaff's affiftance in
the difpofal of her late husband's curiofities, 123.
Glafs, ftate-weather, 96.

Gluttony, modern, 62, 63.

Good-fortune, the ready path to it, 53.

Goodly, Lady, her partial fondness for her children,
176.

Good-nature, an effential quality in a fatirist, 202.
Good-will, mutual, the bafis of fociety, 115.

Grammar not rightly taught, 172.

Great-Britain particularly fruitful in religions, 259.
Great men, behaviour of fome of them to their depen
dents, 28.

Greenhouse, a defence of one, 56.

Guicciardini, the hiftorian, a prolix writer, 290.
Gyges's ring, the ufe Mr. Bickerstaff made of it, 206.

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