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mies, exposes the person who has obliged him, and, in short, sticks at nothing that may establish his character of a wit. It is no wonder therefore he fucceeds in it better than the man of humanity, as a perfon who makes use of indirect me thods, is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader.

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ACTION the felicity

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of the foul, Number 116.

Affliction and forrow, not always expressed
by tears, N. 95. True affliction labours to be
invisible, ibid.

Age, the unnatural misunderstanding between age
and youth, N. 153. The authority of an
aged. virtuous person preferable to the pleasures
of youth, ibid.
Albacinda, her character, N. 144.

Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition,
N. 127. His answer to those who asked him if
he would not be a competitor for the prize in the
Olympic-games, 157.
Amaryllis, her character, N. 144.
Ambition, the occafion of factions, N. 125.
Animals, the different make of every species, N. 120.
The inftinct of brutes, ibid. exemplified in seve-
ral instances, ibid. God himself the foul of brutes,
121. The variety of arms with which they are
provided by nature, ibid.

Amusements of life, when innocent, neceffary and
allowable, N. 93.

Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, N. 110.
Arable, (Mrs.) the great heiress, the Spectator's fel-

low-traveller, Ν. 132.

Aristotle, his account of the world, N. 166.
Aristus and Afpafia, an happy couple, N. 128.
Artist, wherein he has the advantage of an author,

Ν. 166.

Affociation of honeft men proposed by the Specта-
tor, N. 126.

Author,

Author, In what manner one author is a mole to
another, N. 124. Wherein an author has the
advantage of an artist, 166. The care an author
ought to take of what he writes, ibid. A story
of an atheistical author, ibid.

B

BAREFACE, his fuccess with the ladies, and the
reason for it, N. 156.

Bear-Garden, the Spectator's method for the im-
provement of it, N. 141.

Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable,
N. 87. and fantastical, 144. impertinent and dif-
agreeable, ibid. The efficacy of beauty, ibid.

Board-wages, the ill effects of it, N. 88.
Bodily exercises, of ancient encouragement, N. 161.
Books reduced to their quinteffence, N. 124. The
legacies of great geniuses, 166.

Burnet, (Dr.) fome passages in his theory of the
earth confidered, N. 143, and 146.

C

CÆSAR (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader,

Ν. 147.

Cambray (the Bishop of) his education of a daugh-
ter recommended, N. 95.

Cant, from whence faid to be derived, N. 147.
Care, what ought to be a man's chief care, N. 122.
Carneades, the philofopher, his definition of beau-
ty, N. 144.

Caffius, the proof he gave of his temper in his child-
hood, N. 157.

Castle-builders, who, and their follies exposed,
Ν. 167.

Cenfure, a tax, by whom paid to the publick, and
for what, N. 101.

Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's,

Ν. 1ο6.

Chastity, the great point of honour in women, N. 99.
Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and
preferved, N. 143.

Children,


Children, wrong measures taken in the education
of the British children, N. 157.

Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be

commended, Ν. 85.

Churchyard, the country Change on Sunday, N. 112.
Common-prayer, fome confiderations on the read.
ing of it, N. 147. The excellency of it, ibid.
Compaffion, the exercise of it would tend to leffen
the calamities of life, N. 169.
Compliments in ordinary difcourse cenfured, N. 103.
Exchange of compliments, 155.

Conde (Prince of) his face like that of an eagle,
Ν. 86.

Gennecte (Thomas) a monk in the 14th century, a
zealous preacher against the womens commodes
in those days, N. 98.

Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in
this life, N. 163.

Conversation, usually stuffed with too many com-
pliments, N. 103. What properly to be under-
stood by the word Converfation, 143.
Gottilus, his great equanimity, N. 143.
Coverley (Sir Roger de) he is something of an hu-
mourist, N. 106. His choice of a chaplain, ibid.
His management of his family, 107. His account
of his ancestors, 109. Is forced to have every
room in his house exorcifed by his chaplain, 110.
A great benefactor to his church in Worcestershire,
112. in which he fuffers no one to fleep but him-
felf, ibid. He gives the Spectator an account of
his amours, and character of his widow, 113,
118. The trophies of his several exploits in the
country, 115. A great fox-hunter, 116. An
instance of his good-nature, ibid. His averfion
to confidents, 118. The manner of his recep-
tion at the affizes, 122. where he whispers the
judge in the ear, ibid. His adventure when a
schoolboy, 125. A man for the landed inte-
reft,

rest, 126. His adventure with some gipfies, 130.
Rarely sports near his own feat, 131.

Country, the charms of it, N. 118. Country gen-
tleman and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger,
their different tempers described, 128. Country
Sunday, the use of it, 112. Country wake de-
scribed, 161.

Courage recommends a man to the female fex more
than any other quality, N. 99. One of the chief
topics in books of chivalry, ibid. False courage,
ibid. Mechanic courage, what, 152.

Cowley, his magnanimity, N. 114.
Coxcombs, generally the womens favourites, N. 128.

D

DEATH, the contemplation of it affords a de-
light mixed with terror and forrow, N. 133.
Intended for our relief, ibid. Deaths of emi-
nent persons the most improving passages in hif-
tory, ibid.

Debt, the ill state of such as run in debt, N. 82.
Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 104.
Demurrers, what fort of women so to be called,
Ν. 89.

Devotion, the great advantage of it, N. 93. The
most natural relief in our afflictions, 163.
Dick Craftin challengeth Tom Tulip, N. 91.
Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be
conquered of any other, N. 163.
Diffsenters, their canting way of reading, N. 147.
Diffimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it,
Ν. 103.

Duelling, a difcourse against it, N. 84. Pharamond's
edict against it. 97.

Duration, the idea of it how obtained according to
Mr. Locke, N. 94. Different beings may enter-
tain different notions of the fame parts of dura-
tion, ibid.

Education,

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