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Cotillus, his great equanimity, N. 143.

Coverley (fir Roger de), he is fomething of an humourist,
N. 106. His choice of a chaplain, ibid. His manage-
ment of his family, 107. His account of his ancestors,
109. Is forced to have every room in his house exorcised
by his chaplain, 110. A great benefactor to his church in
Worcestershire, 112. in which he suffers no one to fleep
but himself, ibid. He gives the Spectator an account of
his amours, and the character of his widow, 113, 118.
The trophies of his feveral exploits in the country, 115.
A great fox-hunter, 116. An inftance of his good-nature,
ibid. His averfion to confidents, 118. The manner of
his reception at the affizes, 122. where he whispers the
judge in the ear, ibid. His adventure when a school-boy,
125. A man for the landed intereft, 126. His adven-
ture with some gipfies, 130. Rarely sports near his own
feat, 131.

Country, the charms of it, N. 118. Country gentleman and
his wife, neighbours to fir Roger, their different tempers
defcribed, 128. Country Sunday, the use of it, 112.
Country wake defcribed, 161.

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

Cowley, his magnanimity, N. 114.

Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites, N. 128.

DEATH, the contemplation of it affords a delight mixed with
terror and forrow, N. 133. Intended for our relief, ibid.
Deaths of eminent perfons the most improving paffages in
history, ibid.

Debt, the ill ftate of fuch as run in debt, N. 82.
Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 104.

Demurrers, what fort of women fo to be called, N 89.
Devotion, the great advantage of it, N. 93. The moft natu-
ral relief in our afflictions, 163.

Dick Craftin challenges Tom Tulip, N. 91.

Difappointments in love, the moft difficult to be conquered of
any other, N. 163.

Diffenters, their canting way of reading, N. 147.
Diffimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it, N. 103.
Duelling, a difcourfe against it, N. 84. Pharamond's edict
against it, N. 97.

Duration, the idea of it how obtained, according to Mr.
Locke, N. 194. Different beings may entertain different
notions of the fame parts of duration, ibid.

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EDUCATION: an ill method obferved in the educating our
youth, N. 157-

Eminent men, the tax paid by them to the public, N. 101.
Englishmen, the peculiar bleffing of being born one, N. 135.
The Spectator's fpeculations upon the English tongue, ibid.
English not naturally talkative, ibid. and 148. The English
tongue adulterated, 165.

Epaminondas, his honourable death, N. 133.

Ephraim, the quaker, the Spectator's fellow-traveller in a
ftage-coach, N. 132. His reproof to a recruiting-officer in
the fame coach, ibid. and advice to him at their parting,
ibid.

Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life,
N. 143.

Equestrian order of ladies, N. 104. Its origin, ibid.

Errors and prepoffeffions difficult to be avoided, N. 117,
Eternity, a profpect of it, N. 159.

Eucrate, his conference with Pharamond, N, 84.

Eucratia, her character, N. 144.

Eudofia, her character, N. 144.

Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship, and education of their
children, N. 123.

Exercise, the great benefit and neceffity of bodily exercise,
N. 116.

FALSEHOOD in man, a recommendation to the fair fex,
N. 156.

Families: the ill measures taken by great families in the edu-
cation of their younger fons, N. 108.

Fan, the exercife of it, N. 102.

Fashion men of fafhion, who, N. 151.

Fauftina, the empress, her notions of a pretty gentleman,

N. 128.

Female virtues, which the most shining, N. 81.

Flavia, her mother's rival, N. 91.

Flutter of the fan, the variety of motions in it, N. 102.
Freeport (fir Andrew) his moderation in point of politics,
N. 126.

Frugality, the fupport of generofity, N. 107.

GAMING, the folly of it, N. 93.

Glory, the love of it, N. 139. In what the perfection of it
confifts, ibid.

Genius, what properly a great one, N. 160.

Gentry of England, generally speaking, in debt, N. 82.
Geography of a jest fettled, N. 138.

Gigglers in church reproved, N. 158.

Gipfies: an adventure between fir Roger, the Spectator, and
fome gipfies, N. 130.

Glaphyra, her story out of Jofephus, N. 110.

Good-breeding, the great revolution that has happened in
that article, N. 119.

Good-humour, the neceffity of it, N. 100.

Good-nature more agreeable in converfation than wit,
N. 169. The neceffity of it, ibid. Good-nature born

with us, ibid.

Grandmother, fir Roger de Coverley's great, great, great
grandmother's receipt for an hafty-pudding and a white pot,
N. 109.

Great men, the tax paid by them to the public, N. 101.
Not truly known till fome years after their deaths,
ibid.

HANDSOME people generally fantastical, N. 144. The
Spectator's lift of some handsome ladies, ibid,

Harry Terfett, and his lady, their way of living, N. 100.
Hate why a man ought not to hate even his enemies,
N. 125.

Head-dress, the moft variable thing in nature, N. 98. Extra-.
vagantly high in the 14th century, ibid. With what fuc-
cefs attacked by a monk of that age, ibid.

Heathen philofopher, N. 159.

Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their education,

N. 123.

Hiftorian in converfation, who, N. 136.

Honeycomb (Will), his knowledge of mankind, N. 105. His
letter to the Spectator, 131. His notion of a man of wit,
151. His boafts, ibid. His artifice, 156.

Honour, wherein commendable, N. 99. And when to be
exploded, ibid.

Hunting, the ufe of it, N. 116.

ICHNEUMON, a great deftroyer of the crocodile's eggs,
N. 126.

Idol: coffee-house idols, N. 87.

Immortality of the foul, arguments in proof of it, N. III.
Impertinents, several sorts of them defcribed, N. 148, and
168.

Indigo, the merchant, a man of prodigious intelligence,
N. 136.

Indifpofition; a man under any, whether real or imaginary,
ought not to be admitted into company, N. 143.
Indolence, what, N. 100.

Inftinct, the power of it in brutes, N. 120.
Irrefolution, from whence arifing, N. 151.
Irus's fear of poverty, and effects of it, N. 114.

KENNET (Dr.) his account of the country wakes, N. 161.
Knowledge, the purfuits of it long, but not tedious, N. 94.
The only means to extend life beyond its natural dimen-
fions, ibid.

LABOUR; bodily labour of two kinds, N. 115.

Laertes, his character in distinction from that of Irus,
N. 114.

Lancashire Witches, a comedy, cenfured, N. 141.

Language, the English, much adulterated during the war,
N. 165.

Leontine and Eudoxus, their great friendship and advantages,
N. 123.

Letters to the Spectator; from Rofalinda, with a defire to be
admitted into the ugly club, N. 87; from T. T. com-
plaining of the idols in coffee-houses, ibid. from Philo-
Britannicus, on the corruption of fervants, N. 88; from
Sam Hopewell, N. 89; from Leonora, reminding the
Spectator of the catalogue, N. 92; from B. D. concern-
ing real forrow, N. 95; from Annabella, recommending
the bishop of Cambray's education of a daughter, ibid.
from Tom Trufty, a fervant, containing an account of his
life and fervices, N. 96; from the master of the fan exer-
cife, N. 102; from - against the equestrian order of
ladies, N. 104; from Will Wimble to fir Roger de Coverley,
with a jack, N. 108; to the Spectator from

complaining of the new petticoat, N. 127; from a lawyer
on the circuit, with an account of the progrefs of the
fashions in the country, N. 129; from Will Honeycomb,
N. 131; from George Trufty, thanking the Spectator for
the great benefit he has received from his works, N. 134;
from William Wifeacre, who defires his daughter may
learn the exercife of the fan, ibid. from a profeffed liar,

N. 136; from Ralph Valet, the faithful fervant of a per-
verse master, N. 137; from Patience Giddy, the next thing
to a lady's woman, ibid, from Lydia Novell, complaining
of her lover's conduct, N. 140; from R. D. concerning
the corrupt taste of the age, and the reafons of it, ibid.
from Betty Santer, about a wager, ibid. from Parthenope,
who is angry with the Spectator for meddling with the
ladies petticoats, ibid. from
upon drinking,
ibid. from Rachael Bafto, concerning female gamefters,
ibid. from Parthenia, ibid. from
containing a
reflection on a comedy called The Lancashire Witches,
N. 141; from Andromache, complaining of the falfe
notion of gallantry in love, with fome letters from her
husband to her, N. 142; from
wagerers, N. 145; from
tinents in coffee-houses, ibid, from
of an old bachelor, ibid. from
fkirts in men's coats, ibid, from
the common-prayer, N. 147; from the Spectator to a
dancing outlaw, Ń. 148; from the fame to a dumb visitant,
ibid. to the Spectator from Silvia a widow, defiring his
advice in the choice of a husband, N. 149; the Spectator's
anfwer, ibid. to the Spectator from Simon Honeycomb,
giving an account of his modefty, impudence, and marriage,
N. 154; from an idol that keeps a coffee-house, N. 155;
from a beautiful milliner complaining of her customers,
ibid. from

concerning

complaining of imper-
complaining

concerning the
on the reading

with a reproof to the Spectator, N.
concerning the ladies vifitants, ibid.
complaining of the behaviour of perfons in
church, ibid. from a woman's man, ibid. from

158; from

from

with a description of a country wake, N. 161; from
Leonora, who had just lost her lover, N. 163; from a young
officer to his father, N. 165; to the Spectator from a castle-
builder, N. 167; from - concerning the tyranny of
school-afters, N. 168; from T. S. a school-boy at Rich-
mond, ibid. from
concerning impertinents, ibid.
from Ifaac Hedgeditch, a poacher, ibid.
Lewis of France, compared with the czar of Muscovy,

N. 139.

Lie given, a great violation of the point of honour, N. 99.
Life; in what manner our lives are fpent, according to
Seneca, N. 93. Life is not real but when cheerful,
N. 143. in what manner to be regulated, ibid. How to
have a right enjoyment of it, ibid. A furvey of it in a
vifion, N. 159.

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