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Patrons. Worthy patrons compared to guardian angels 214
People the only riches of a country

200
Persians, their notions of parricide

189
Philosophers, why longer lived than other men 195
Phociön, his notion of popular applause

188
Physic, the substitute of exercise or temperance

195
Pictures, witty, what pieces so called

244
Piety an ornament to human nature :

201
Pitch-pipe, the invention and use of it

228
Plato, his account of Socrates's behaviour the morning
he was to die

183
Pleaders, few of them tolerable company

197
P.easure and Pain, a marriage proposed between them,
and concluded

183
Poll, a way of arguing

239
Popular applause, the vanity of it

188
Praise, a generous mind the most sensible of it 238
Pride. A man crazed with pride a mortifying sight 201
Procuress, her trade

205
Prodičus, the first inventor of fables

183
Prosperity, to what compared by Seneca

237
Providence, not to be fathomed by reason

237

Q
Quality is either of fortune, body or mind

219

R
Rack, a knotty syllogism

239
Raphael's cartoons, their effect upon the Spectator

226 and 244
Readers, divided by the Spectator into the mercurial
and saturnine

179
Reputation, a species of fame

218
The stability of it, if well founded

218
Ridicule the talent of ungenerous tempers

249
The two great branches of ridicule in writing 249

S
SALAMANDERS, an order of ladies described

198
Sappho, an excellent poetess

223
Dies for love of Phaon

.: 223
Her hymn to Venus

223
A fragment of her's translated into tbree dif.
ferent languages

229
Satirists best instruct us in the manners of their re-
spective times

209
Schoolmen, their ass-case

191
How applied

191

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Self-denial, the great foundation of civil virtue 248
Self-love transplanted, what

192
Sentry, his discourse with a young wrangler in the law 197
Shows and diversions lie properly within the province
of the Spectator

235
Simonides, his satire on women

209
Sly, the haberdasher, his advertisement to young

tradesmen in their last year of apprenticeship 187
Socrates, his notion of pleasure and pain

183
The effect of his temperance

195
His instructions to his pupil Alcibiades in rela-
tion to prayer

207
A catechetical method of arguing introduced first
by him

239
Instructed in eloquence by a woman

247
Sorites, what sort of figure

239
Spectator, his artifice to engage his different readers 179

The character given of him, in his own presence,
at a coffee-house near Aldgate

218
Speech, tiie several organs of it

231
Spy, the mischiet of one in a family,

202
State (future), the refreshments a virtuous person en-

joys in prospect and contemplation of it 186
Stores of providence, what

248
Strife, the spirit of it

197
Sun, the first

eye
of
consequence

250
Superiority reduced to the notion of quality

219
To be founded only on merit and virtue 202
Superstition, an error arising from a mistaken devotion 201

Superstition has something in it destructive to
religion

T
Talents ought to be valued according as they are
applied

172
Taste (corrupt) of the age, to what attributed 208
Temperance the best preservative of health
What kind of temperance the best

195
Temple (Sir William), his rule for drinking

195
Ten, called by the Platonic writers the complete num-
ber

221
Thinking aloud, what
Trade, trading and landed interest ever jarring

174
Tradition of the Jews concerning Moses

237
Transmigration, what

211

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213

195

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211

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Trunk-maker, a great man in the upper gallery in
the play-house

235

V
VIRTUE, the most reasonable and genuine source of
honour

219
Of a beautiful nature

243
The great ornaments of it

243
To be esteemed in a foe

243
W
WHISTLING match described

179
Wife, how much preferable to a mistress

199
Wise men and fools, the difference between them 225
Wit. The many artifices and modes of false wit 220
Women. Deluding women, their practices exposed 182
Women great orators

247

Y
YAWNING, a Christmas gambol

179

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Edinburgh.

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