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 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- 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; Bantam, ambassador of, his letter to his master about the English, 557. 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. 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 Cases in love answered, 614. Cato, the grounds of his belief in the immortality of the soul, 537; an in- 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. Cowley, Mr., his description of heaven, 590; his story of Aglaüs, 610; his 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 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 Dreams: the multitude of dreams sent to the Spectator, 524; a discourse 599. Drunkard, a character of one, 569; is a monster, ibid. Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, 569; what Seneca and Publius Syrus Dryden, Mr., his translation of Iapis's cure of Æneas out of Virgil, 572; 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 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 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. Family madness in pedigrees, 612. Fancy, her character, 558; her calamities, ibid. 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, Genealogy, a letter about it, 612. Gladio's dream, 597. God, an instance of his exuberant goodness and mercy, 519; a contempla- 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 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 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- History, secret, an odd way of writing one, 622. Honeycomb, Will, marries a country-girl, 530. Hope, the folly of it, when misemployed on temporal objects, 585; in- Hunting reproved, 583. Husbands, rules for marrying them by the widow's club, 561; qualities 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, 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 Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and calamities, 558; his second, ibid.; his just distribution of them, 559. 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 Letter from the Bantam ambassador to his master about the English, 557; - girl, who has no portion, but a great deal of virtue, 530; from Mr. Pope, |