widow's tenure and the black ram, 623; from the same about love-que-
ries, 625; from one who recommended himself for a newsmonger, ibid;
about the force of novelty, 626; about a crossed lover, 627; about eter-
nity to come, 628; about church music, 630; about the rattling club's
getting into church, ibid.

Life, eternal, what we ought to be most solicitous about, 575; man's not
worth his care, ibid.; valuable only as it prepares for another, ibid.
Love-casuist, some instructions of his, 591, 607.

Lover, an account of the life of one, 596; a crossed one retires, 627.
Lysander, his character, 522.

Mahometans, their cleanliness, 631.

Man, wonderful in his nature, 519; men of the town rarely make good
husbands, 522; the two views he is to be considered in, 588; an active
being, 624; his ultimate end, ibid.

Marcia's prayer in Cato, 593.

Married condition, the foundation of community, 522; for what reason
liable to so much ridicule, ibid.; some farther thoughts of the Spectator
upon the subject, 525.

Matter, the basis of animals, 519.

Memoirs of a private country gentleman's life, 622.

Merry part of the world amiable, 598.

Messiah, the Jews' mistaken notion of his worldly grandeur, 610.

Metaphors, when vicious, 595; an instance of it, ibid.

Military education, a letter about it, 566.

Mind, human, the wonderful nature of it, 554.

Mischief rather to be suffered than an inconvenience, 564.

Montague, fond of speaking of himself, 562; Scalliger's saying of him,
ibid.

Motteux, Peter, dedicates his poem on tea to the Spectator, 552.

Music, church, recommended, 630.

Musician (burlesque), an account of one, 570.

Needlework recommended to ladies, 606; a letter from Cleora against it,

609.

News, the pleasure of it, 625.

Newton, sir Isaac, his noble way of considering infinite space 564.

Night, a clear one described, 565; whimsically described by William Ram-
sey, 582.

No, a word of great use in love matters, 625.

Novelty, the force of it, 626.

Obscurity, often more illustrious than grandeur, 622.

Orator, what requisite to form one, 633.

Ovid, his verses on making love at the theatre, translated by Mr. Dryden,
602; how to succeed in his manner, 618.

Passion, relieved by itself, 520.

Passions, the work of a philosopher to subdue them, 564; instances of
their power, ibid.

Patience, her power, 559.

Pedantic humour, 617.

Penelope's web, the history of it, 606.

Person, the word defined by Mr. Locke, 578.

Petition of John a Nokes and John a Stiles, 577.

Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pretences to it, 629.
Phoebe and Colin, an original poem, by Dr. Byrom, 603.

Phillips, Mr., his pastorals recommended by the Spectator, 523.

Philosophers, Pagan, their boast of exalting human nature, 634.

Pisistratus, the Athenian tyrant, his generous behaviour on a particular
occasion, 527.

Pittacus, a wise saying of his about riches, 574.

Pity, the reasonableness of it, 588.

Places, the unreasonableness of party-pretences to them, 629.

Planting recommended to country gentlemen, 583, 589.

Plato's saying of labour, 624.

Players, the precedency settled among them, 529.

Playhouse, how improved in storms, 592.

Pliny, his letter to his wife's aunt Hispulla, 525.

Politicians, the mischief they do, 556; some at the Royal Exchange, 568.
Pope, Mr., his miscellany commended by the Spectator, 523.

Praise, when changed into fame, 541.

Pronunciation, necessary to an orator, 542.

Prospect of Peace, a poem on that subject, commended by the Spectator,

523.

Puss, speculations on an old and a young one, 626.

Pythagoras, his advice to his scholars about examining at night what they
had done in the day, 580.

Queries in love answered, 625.

Question, a curious one started by a schoolman about the choice of present
and future happiness and misery, 475.

Quidnunc, Thomas, his letters to the Spectator about news, 625.

Quacks, an essay against them, by Dr. Z. Pearce, 572.

Rake, a character of one, 576.

Rattling club got into the church, 630.

Ramsey, William, the astrologer, his whimsical description of night, 582.

Revelation, what light it gives into the joys of heaven, 600.

Revenge of a Spanish lady on a man who boasted of her favours, 611.

Rosicrucian, a pretended discovery made by one, 574.

Rowley, Mr., his proposals for a new pair of globes, 552.

Royal Progress, a poem, 620.

St. Paul's eloquence, 633.

Satire, Whole Duty of Man turned into one, 568.

Scarfs, the vanity of some clergymen's wearing them, 609.

Scribblers, the most offensive, 582.

Self-love, the narrowness and danger of it, 588.

Seneca, his saying of drunkenness, 569.

Sense, the different degrees of it in the several different species of animals,

519.

Shakspeare, his excellence, 52.

Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the princess Hilpa before the flood, 584.
Shoeing-horns, who, and by whom employed, 536.

Sight, second, in Scotland, 604.

Singularity, when a virtue, 576; an instance of it in a north-country gen-
tleman, ibid.

Sly, John, the tobacconist, his representation to the Spectator, 532; his
minute, 534.

Socrates, his saying of misfortunes, 558.

Space, infinite, sir Isaac Newton's noble way of considering it, 564.
Spartan justice, an instance of it, 564.

Spectator, his observations on our modern poems, 523; his edict, ibid;
the effect of his discourses on marriage, ibid.; his deputation to J. Sly,
haberdasher of hats and tobacconist, 526; the different judgments of his
readers concerning his speculations, 542; his reasons for often casting
his thoughts into a letter, ibid.; his project for the forming a new club,
550; visits Mr. Motteux's warehouses, 552; the great concern the city
is in upon his design of laying down his paper, 553; he takes leave of
the town, 555; breaks a fifty years silence, 556; how he recovered his
speech, ibid; his politics, ibid.; loquacity, ibid; of no party, ibid.; a
calamity of his, 558; critics upon him, 568; he sleeps as well as wakes
for the public, 599; his dream of Trophonius's cave, ibid.; why the num-
bers subsequent to 555, the intended conclusion of the work, were pub
lished, 632.

Spleen, its effects, 558.

Squires, rural, their want of learning, 529.

Stars, a contemplation of them, 565.

Sublime in writing, what it is, 592.

Surprise, the life of stories, 538.

Syncopists, modern ones, 567.

Syracusan prince jealous of his wife, how he served her, 579.

Temper, serious, the advantage of it, 598.

Tender hearts, an entertainment for them, 627.

Tenure, the most slippery in England, 623.

Thales, his saying of truth and falsehood, 594.

Theatre, of making love there, 602.

Thrash, Will, and his wife, an insipid couple, 522.

Tickell, Mr., his verses to the Spectator, 532.

Torre in Devonshire, how unchaste widows are punished there, 614.
Townly, Frank, his letters to the Spectator, 560.

Tully praises himself, 562; what he said of the immortality of the soul,
588; of uttering a jest, 616; of the force of novelty, 626; what he re-
quired in his orator, 633.

Ubiquity of the Godhead considered, 571; farther considerations about it,

Verses by a despairing lover, 591; on Phebe and Colin, 603; translation
of verses pedantic out of Italian, 617; the royal progress, 620; to Mrs.
on her grotto, 633.

Vice as laborious as virtue, 604.

Vinci, Leonardo, his many accomplishments, and remarkable circumstance
at his death, 554.

Virtue, the use of it in our afflictions, 520.

Vision of human misery, 604.

Vulcan's dogs, the fable of them, 579.

Wedlock, the state of it ridiculed by the town-witlings, 525.

West Enborne in Berkshire, a custom there for widows, 614; what lord

Coke said of the widows' tenure there, 623.

Whichenovre, bacon flitch, in Staffordshire, who entitled to it, 607.
Whole Duty of Man, that excellent book turned into a satire, 568.
Widows' club, an account of it, 561; a letter from the president of it to
the Spectator, about her suitors, 573; duty of widows in old times,
606; a custom to punish unchaste ones in Berkshire and Devonshire,
instances of their riding the black ram there, 623.

614;
Wit may purchase riches, but is not to be purchased by riches, 522.
Writing, the difficulty of it to avoid censure, 568.

World of nature, and life, considered by the Spectator, 519.

Work necessary for women, 606.

Xenophon, his account of Cyrus's trying the virtue of a young lord, 564.

Zemroude, queen, her story out of the Persian Tales, 578.