G

GERMANICUS, his taste of true glory
Giving and forgiving, two different things

Glory, how to be preserved

Good-nature, a moral virtue

An endless source of pleasure

Good-nature and cheerfulness, the two great or-

naments of virtue

196

243

189

239

173

Grinning. A grinning prize

H

HABITS, different, arising from different professions 197
Hardness of heart in parents towards their children

most inexcusable

Henpeck'd. The henpeck'd husband described
Herod and Mariamne, their story from Josephus
Heteroptic, who so to be called

Honours in this world under no regulation

Hopes and fears necessary passions

Husbands, an ill custom among them

Hypocrisy, the honour and justice done by it to religion 243

Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story 181
Immortality of the soul, the benefits arising from a

Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athe-

nians

KITTY, a famous town girl

K

L

LACEDÆMONIANS, their delicacies in their sense of glory 188

A form of prayer used by them

Lapirius, his great generosity

207

248

Latin of great use in a country auditory
Laughter a counterpoise to the spleen

-

What sort of persons the most accomplished to

raise it

-

-

No.

221

249

249

A poetical figure of laughter out of Milton 249
Letters to the Spectator. From

plaint against a Jezebel

From

with a coin-

175

175

175

who had been nonplussed by a

From Nathaniel Henroost, a henpeck'd husband 176

Butt

-

From Jack Modish of Exeter about fashions

From a gentleman to a lady, to whom he had
formerly been a lover, and by whom he had
been highly commended

To the Spectator, from Rebecca Nettletop, a
town lady.

190

190

From Eve Afterday, who desires to be kept by
the Spectator

From a bawdy-house inhabitant, complaining of
some of their visitors

-

190

From George Gosling about a ticket in the lottery 191
A letter of consolation to a young gentleman who
has lately lost his father
To the Spectator, from a husband complaining
of an heedless wife

191

= 194

From
complaining of a fantastical friend 194
From J. B. with advice to the Spectator
From Biddy Loveless, who is enamoured with

two young gentlemen at once
From Statira to the Spectator, with one to Oroon-

dates

Letters from Susan Civil, a servant to another lady, de-
siring the Spectator's remarks upon voluntary
counsellors

-

From Thomas Smoky, servant to a passionate

master.

From a bastard, complaining of his condition as
such

From Belinda to the Sothades

From J. D. to his coquette mistress

No,

202

203

204

204

From a lady to a gentleman, confessing her love 204
From angry Phillis to her lover

204

From a lady to her husband, an officer in Spain 204
To the Spectator from Belinda, complaining of a
female seducer

From a country clergyman, against an affected
singing of the Psalms in Church

205

205

From Robin Goodfellow, containing the correc-
tion of an errata in Sir William Temple's rule
for drinking

205

208

208

From Mary Meanwell about visiting
From a shop-keeper, with thanks to the Specta-

tor

From a lover with an hue-and-cry after his mis-
tress's heart

-

208

From J. D. concerning the immortality of the soul 210
From Melissa, who has a drone to her husband 211
From Barnaby Brittle, whose wife is a filly 211
From Josiah Henpeck, who is married to a Gri-

malkin

-

From Martha Tempest, complaining of her witty
husband

211

211

212

From Anthony Freeman the henpecked
From Tom Meggot, giving the Spectator an ac-
count of the success of Mr. Freeman's lecture 216
From Kitty Termagant, giving an account of the
Romps Club

From Henrietta to her ungracious lover
To the Spectator from -
From T. D. concerning salutation
From

enquiring the reason why men
of parts are not the best managers

Letters from Esculapius about the lover's leap
From Athenais and Davyth ap Shenkyn on the
same subject

ΝΟ
227

227

From W. B. the projector of the pitch-pipe 228

From

on education

230

From

speakers in public assemblies
From Philonous on free-thinkers

231

---

234

From

From T. S. complaining of some people's beha-
viour in divine service

From a citizen in praise of his benefactor
From Rustic Sprightly, a country gentleman,
complaining of a fashion introduced in the coun-
try by a courtier newly arrived

240

240

From Charles Easy, reflecting on the behaviour
of a sort of beau at Philaster

240

241

242

From Asteria on the absence of lovers
From Rebecca Ridinghood, complaining of an
ill-bred fellow-traveller

From

on a poor weaver in Spitalfields 242
From Abraham Thrifty, guardian to two learned

From Constantia Field, on the ninth species of
women, called Apes

From Timothy Doodle, a great lover of blind-
man's buff

--

From J. B. on the several ways of consolation

made use of by absent lovers

-

From Troilus, a declared enemy to the Greeks
From
on the nursing of children
From T. B. being a dissertation on the eye
From Abraham Spy, on a new invention of per-
spective glasses for the use of starers

Levees of great men, animadverted upon

Life, to what compared in the Scriptures, and by the

heathen philosophers

The present life a state of probation

196

Merchants of great benefit to the public

Mirth in a man ought always to be accidental
Modesty and self-denial frequently attended with
unexpected blessings

Modesty the contrary of ambition

A due proportion of modesty requisite to an

orator

The excellency of modesty

The misfortunes to which the modest and inno-

Vicious modesty, what

cent are often exposed .

206

-

206

-

231

242

246

221

251

184

Mothers justly reproved for not nursing their own

Motto, the effects of an handsome one

Much cry but little wool, to whom applied

N

NICHOLAS HART, the annual sleeper

Nurses. The frequent inconveniencies of hired nurses 246 ·

OBEDIENCE of children to their parents, the basis of

all government
Opportunities to be carefully avoided by the fair sex 198-
Order necessary to be kept up in the world

P

PARENTS naturally fond of their own children
Passions. The various operations of the passions

The strange disorders bred by our passions, when
not regulated by virtue

It is not so much the business of religion to ex-
tinguish, as to regulate our passions

Patrons and clients, a discourse on them