INDEX TO THE SIXTH VOLUME.

The Figures in this Index refer to the Numbers of the Spectator.

ACTION, a necessary qualification in an orator, 541; Tully's observations
on action adapted to the British theatre, ibid.

Actions, principles of, two in man, 588.

Actor, absent, who so called by Theophrastus, 541.

Adulterers, how punished by the primitive Christians, 579.

Aglaus, his story told by Cowley, 610.

Ambition, various kinds of it, 570; laudable, 613.

Anacharsis, the Corinthian drunkard, a saying of his, 569.

Anatomy, the Spectator's speculations on, 543.

Ancestry, how far honour is to be paid to it, 612.

Answers to several letters at once, 581, and 619.

Antipathies, a letter about them, 609.

Anxieties, unnecessary, the evil of them and the vanity of them, 615.

Applause and censure should not mislead us, 610.

Araspas and Panthea, their story out of Xenophon, 564.

Aristippus, his saying of content, 574.

Arm, the, called by Tully the orator's weapon, 541.

Art, the design of it, 541.

Augustus, his reproof to the Roman bachelors, 528; his saying of mourn-
ing for the dead, 575.

Authors, their precedency settled according to the bulk of their works,

529.

Bacon, sir Francis, his extraordinary learning and parts, 554.

Bacon flitch, at Witchenovre in Staffordshire, who are entitled to it, 607;
several demands for it, 608.

Bantam, ambassador of, his letter to his master about the English, 557.
Baxter, what a blessing he had, 598.

Beings, the scale of beings considered, by the Spectator, 519.

Benevolence, treated of, 601.

Beneficence, the pleasures of it, 588; a discourse on it, 601.

Bion, his saying of a greedy search after happiness, 574.

Blank, his letter to the Spectator about his family, 563.

Body, human, the work of a transcendently wise and powerful Being, 543.
Bonosus, the drunken Briton, a saying of him after he had hanged himself,

569.

Burlesque authors the delight of ordinary readers, 616, and 625.

Burlesque humour, 616.

Busy world, 624.

Cacoethes, or itch of writing, an epidemical distemper, 582.

Calamities, whimsical ones, 558.

Calumny, the great offence of it, 594; rules against it, by the fathers of
la Trappe, ibid.

Cases in love answered, 614.

Cato, the grounds of his belief in the immortality of the soul, 537; an in-
stance of his probity, 557.

Cave of Trophonious, several people put into it to be mended, 599.

Celibacy, the great evil of the nation, 528.

Censure and applause should not mislead us, 610.

Chancery court, why erected, 564.

Chastity, how prized by the heathens, 579.

Cherubims, what the rabbins say they are, 600.

Chit-chat club's letter to the Spectator, 560.

Christianity, the only system that can produce content, 574; how much

above philosophy, 634.

Cicero, his desire of glory, 554.

Cleanliness, the praise of it, 631.

Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarfs, 609.

Coach (stage), its company, 631.

Coffee-house liars, two sorts of them, 521.

Content, how described by a Rosicrucian, 574; the virtue of it, ibid.
Country-gentlemen, advice to them about spending their time, 583; me-
moirs of the life of one, 622.

Cowley, Mr., his description of heaven, 590; his story of Aglaüs, 610; his
ambition, 613.

Crazy, a man thought so by reading Milton aloud, 577.

Critics, modern ones, some errors of theirs about plays, 592.

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

Dapperwit, Tom, recommended by Will Honeycomb to succeed him in the
Spectator's club, 520.

Discretion absolutely necessary in a good husband, 607.

Distempers, difficult to change them for the better, 599.

Divine nature, our narrow conceptions of it, 565; its omnipresence and
omniscience, ibid.

Dreams: the multitude of dreams sent to the Spectator, 524; a discourse
on them, 593, 597; several extravagant ones, 597; of Trophonius's cave,

599.

Drunkard, a character of one, 569; is a monster, ibid.

Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, 569; what Seneca and Publius Syrus
said of it, ibid.

Dryden, Mr., his translation of Iapis's cure of Æneas out of Virgil, 572;
of Æneas's ships being turned to goddesses, 583; his cock's speech to
dame Partlet, 621.

Dumb conjurer's letter to the Spectator, 560.

Edgar, king, an amour of his, 605.

Egotism, the vanity of it oondemned, 562; a young fellow very guilty of
it, ibid.

Egyptians tormented with the plague of darkness, 615.

Eloquence of beggars, 613.

Embellishers, what persons so called, 521.

English, a character of them by a great preacher, 557; by the Bantam
ambassador, ibid.; a distemper they are very much afflicted with, 582.
Epictetus the philosopher, his advice to dreamers, 524.

Epistolary poetry, the two kinds of styles, 618.

Erratum, a sad one committed in printing the Bible, 579.

Eternity, an essay upon it, 590; part is to come, 628; speech in Cato on

it, translated into Latin, ibid

Faces, every man should be pleased with his own, 559.
Fadlallah, his story out of the Persian tales, 578.

Family madness in pedigrees, 612.

Fancy, her character, 558; her calamities, ibid.
Favours, of ladies, not to be boasted of, 611.

Fear, how nécessary it is to subdue it, 615.

Fellow of a college, a wise saying of one about posterity, 583.

Flattery, how grateful, 621.

Fontenelle, his saying of the ambitious and covetous, 576.

Freeport, sir Andrew, his resolution to retire from business, 549.

Freethinkers put into Trophonius's cave, 599.

Fritilla's dream, 597.

Funnel, Will, the toper, his character, 569.

Futurity, the strong inclination man has to know it, 604; a weakness,
ibid.; the misery of knowing it, ibid.

Genealogy, a letter about it, 612.

Gladio's dream, 597.

God, an instance of his exuberant goodness and mercy, 519; a contempla-
tion of his omnipresence and omniscience, 565; he cannot be absent from

us, ibid.; considerations on his ubiquity, 571.

Grotto, verses on one, 632.

Gyges and Aglaüs, their story, 610.

Hamadryads, the fable of them to the honour of trees, 589.

Happiness of souls in heaven treated of, 600; an argument that God has
assigned us for it, ibid.

Harris, Mr., the organ-builder, his proposal, 552.

Hearts, a vision of them, 587.

Heaven, its glory, 580; described by Mr. Cowley, 590; the notions several
nations have of it, 600; what Dr. Tillotson says of it, ibid.

Hermit, his saying to a lewd young fellow, 575.

Heroism, an essay upon it, 601.

Hilpa, the Chinese antediluvian princess, her story, 584; her letter to Sha-
lum, 585.

History, secret, an odd way of writing one, 622.
Hobbes's notions debase human nature, 588.

Honeycomb, Will, marries a country-girl, 530.

Hope, the folly of it, when misemployed on temporal objects, 585; in-
stanced in the fable of Alnaschar the Persian glass-man, ibid.
Humanity, not regarded by the fine gentlemen of the age, 520.
Humour, the two extremes, 617; burlesque, 616; pedantic, 617.

Hunting reproved, 583.

Husbands, rules for marrying them by the widow's club, 561; qualities
necessary to make good ones, 607.

Hymen, a revengeful deity, 530.

Iapis's cure of Æneas, a translation of Virgil, by Mr. Dryden, 572.

Idle world, 624.

Jest, how it should be uttered, 616.

Jews, the veneration paid by them to the name of God, 531.

Initial letters, the use party-writers make of them, 567; an instance of it,
ibid.; criticisms upon it, 508.

Instinct, the several degrees of it in several different animals, 519.

Integrity, great care to be taken of it, 557.

Intrepidity of a just good man, taken from Horace, 615.

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

Irish gentlemen, widow-hunters, 561.

Isadas the Spartan, his valour, 564.

Julian, the emperor, an excellent passage out of his Caesars, relating to the
imitation of the gods, 634.

Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and calamities, 558; his second,

ibid.; his just distribution of them, 559.
Justice, the Spartans famous for it, 564.

Ladies, not to mind party, 607.

Laughter indecent in any religious assembly, 630.

Lesbia's letter to the Spectator, giving an account how she was deluded by
her lover, 611.

Letter from the Bantam ambassador to his master about the English, 557;
letters to the Spectator, from -, condoling with him on sir Roger's
death, with some remarkable epitaphs, 518; from Tom Tweer, on Physi-
ognomy, &c. ibid.; from F. J. a widower, with some thoughts on a man's
behaviour in that condition, 520; from, a great enemy to public
report, 521; from T. W. a man of prudence, to his mistress, 552; to the
Spectator, from B. T. a sincere lover, to the same, ibid; from
dated from Glasgow in Scotland, with a vision, 524; from Pliny to his
wife's aunt Hispulla, 525; from Moses Greenbag to the Spectator, with
a further account of some gentlemen-brothers of the whip, 520; from
Philagnotes, giving an account of the ill effects of a visit he paid to a
female married relation, 527; from
who had made his mistress
a present of a fan, with a copy of verses on that occasion, ibid.; from
Rachael Welladay, a virgin of twenty-three, with a heavy complaint
against the men, 528; from Will Honeycomb, lately married to a country

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girl, who has no portion, but a great deal of virtue, 530; from Mr. Pope,
on the verses spoken by the emperor Adrian upon his death-bed, 532;
from Dustererastus, whose parents will not let him choose a wife for
himself, 533; from Penance Cruel, complaining of the behaviour of per-
sons who travelled with her in a stage-coach out of Essex to London,
ibid.; from Sharlot Wealthy, setting forth the hard case of such women
as are beauties and fortunes, 534; from Abraham Dapperwit, with the
Spectator's answer, ibid.; from Jeremy Comfit, a grocer, who is in hopes
of growing rich by losing his customers, ibid.; from Lucinda Parley, a
coffee-house idol, ibid.; from C. B. recommending knotting as a proper
amusement to the beaux, 536; from -, a shoeing-horn, ibid.; from
Relicta Lovely, a widow, 539; from Eustace, in love with a lady of
eighteen, whose parents think her too young to marry by three years,
ibid.; from———————, complaining of a young divine, who murdered arch-
bishop Tillotson's sermon upon evil speaking, ibid.; from- —, with a
short critique on Spenser, 540; from Philo-Spec, who apprehends a dis-
solution of the Spectator's club, and the ill consequences of it, 542; from
captain Sentry, lately come to the possession of sir Roger de Coverley's
estate, 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 Easy, setting forth the sovereign use of the Spectators in several
remarkable instances, 547; from
on poetical justice, 548; from
sir Andrew Freeport, who is retiring from business, 549; from Philoni-
cus, a litigious gentleman, complaining of some unpolite law terms, 551;
from T. F. G. S. J. T. E. T. in commendation of the Spectator, 553;
from the dumb conjuror, 560; from the chit-chat club, ibid.; from Ox-
ford about his recovering his speech, ibid.; from Frank Townly, ibid.;
about the widows' club, 561; from Blank about his family, 563;
about an angry husband, ibid.; from Will Warley, about military
education, 566; from an half-pay officer about a widow, ibid.; from
Peter Push on the same subject, ibid.; against quacks, 572; from
the president of the widows' club, 573; from a man taken to be mad
for reading of poetry aloud, 577; a second letter about the ubiquity of
the Godhead, 580; several answered at once, 581; from Constantio
Spec, ibid.; from Amanda Lovelength, ibid.; from Shalum the Chinese
to the princess Hilpa, before the flood, 584; from Hilpa to Shalum, 585;
from John Shadow at Oxford, about reflecting at night on the past day's
actions, 586; about a vision of hearts, 587; about planting, 589; from
John Shadow about dreams, 593; of inconsistent 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 some clergymen wearing scarfs, 609; from
Tom Nimble, about antipathies, ibid.; from Cleora against the ladies'
work, ibid.; from Lesbia, a deluded lady, 611; about genealogy, 612:
from Will Hopeless about ambition, 613; from the Temple about beg-
gar's eloquence, ibid.; from Monimia to recover a lost lover, ibid.; from
a country wit in a burlesque way, 616; from a pedant in his pedantic
way on the same subject, 617; about the styles of letters, 618; answers
to several, 619; about flattery, 621; from the love-casuist about the