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Letters, from the Spectator to a dancing outlaw 148
From the same to a dumb visitant

148
To the Spectator from Silvia, a widow, desiring
his advice in the choice of a husband

149
The Spectator's answer

149
To the Spectator from Simon Honeycomb, giv-

ing an account of his modesty, impudence, and
marriage

154
From an Idol that keeps a coffee-house

155
From a beautiful milliner, complaining of her
customers

155
From

with a reproof to the Spectator 158
From

concerning the ladies visitants 158
From

complaining of the behaviour of
persons in church

158
From a woman's man

158
From with a description of a country wake 161
From Leonora, who had just lost her lover 163
From a young officer to his father

165
To the Spectator from a castle-builder

167
From

concerning the tyranny of school-
masters

168
From T. S. a school-boy at Richmond

168
From

concerning impertinents 168
From Isaac Hedgeditch, a poacher

168
Louis of France, compared with the Czar of Muscovy 139
Lie given, a great violation of the point of honour... 99
Life ; in what manner our lives are spent, according
to Seneca

93
Life is not real but when cheerful

143
In what manner to be regulated

143
How to have a right enjoyment of it

143
A survey of it in a vision

159
Love, a passion never well cured

118
Natural love in brutes more intense than in rea-
sonable creatures

120
The gallantry of it on a very ill foot

142
Love has nothing to do with taste

149
M
MACBETH, the incantations in that play vindicated

141
Mahometans, a custom among them

85
Males only among the birds have voices

128
Man, variable in his temper

: 162
Marlborough (John duke of) took the French lines,
without bloodshed

139

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Marriage-life, always a vexatious or happy condition 149
Master, a good one, a prince in his family

107
A complaint against some ill masters

137
Merab, her character

144
Mirza, the visions of

159
Mode: a standing mode of dress recommended 129
Modesty in men no ways acceptable to ladies 154
Mourning: the signs of true mourning generally mis-
understood

95
N
NIGRANILLA, a party lady, forced to patch on the

81
Nutmeg of delight, one of the Persian emperor's titles 160

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OBSCURITY, the only defence against reproach 101
Economy, wherein compared to good-breeding 114
Omniamante, her character

144

Р
PAMPHILIO, a good master

137
Parties : an instance of the malice of parties 125

The dismal effects of a furious party-spirit 125
It corrupts both our morals and judgment 125
And reigns more in the country than town 126
Party patches

81
Party scribblers reproved

125
Passions of the fan, a treatise for the use of the au-
thor's scholars

102
Pedants, who so to be reputed

The Book Pedant the most supportable 105
Pericles, his advice
the women

81
Persians, their instruction of their youth

99
Petticoat, a complaint against the hoop-petticoat 127
Several conjectures upon it

127
Compared to an Egyptian temple

127
Pharamond, some account of him and his favourite 84
His edict against duels

97
Phocion, his behaviour at his death

133
Physiognomy, every man, in some degree, master of
that art

86
Place and precedency more contested among women

of an inferior rank than ladies of quality 119
Plato his notion of the soul

90
Wherein, according to him and his followers,

the punishment of a voluptuous man consists 90

105

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Pleasure, when our chief pursuit, disappoints itself

151
The deceitfulness of pleasure

151
Pontignan, (Monsieur) his adventure with two women 90
Posterity, its privilege

101
Poverty, the inconveniencies and mortifications usual-
ly attending it

150
Prejudice, the prevalency of it

101
Procrastination, from whence proceeding

151
Providence, demonstrative arguments for it

120
Punishments in schools disapproved

157
R
REASON, not to be found in brutes

120
Riding, a healthy exercise

115
Rival mother, the first part of her history

91
Roman and Sabine ladies, their example recommend-
ed to the British

81
Rosalinda, a famous Whig partizan, her misfortune 81

S
SCHOOLMASTER, the ignorance and want of discern-
ment in the generality of them

157, 168
Scipio, his judgment of Marius when a boy

157
Sentry, his account of a soldier's life

152
Servants, the general corruption of their manners 88
Assume their master's title

88
Some good among the many bad ones
Influenced by the example of their superiors 96 & 107
The great merit of some servants in all ages 107
The hard condition of many servants

137
Shakspeare, wherein inimitable

141
Sincerity the great want of it in conversation

103
Sloven, a character affected by some, and for what

150
The folly and antiquity of it

150
Snuff box, the exercise of it, where taught

138
Socrates, his behaviour at his execution

133
His speech to his judges

146
Soldiers, when men of sense, of an agreeable conver-
sation

152
Sorrow, the outward signs of it very

fallacious

95
Soul, thé immortality of it evidenced from several
proofs

111
Spectator, his inquisitive temper

85
His account of himself and his works to be writ-
ten 300 years
hence

101
His great modesty

101

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Spectator accompanies Sir Roger de Coverley into
the country

106
His exercise when young

115
He goes with Sir Roger a hunting

116
And to the assizes

122
His adventure with a crew of gipsies

130
The several opinions of him in the country 131
His return to London, and fellow-travellers in the
stage coach

132
His soliloquy upon the sudden and unexpected
death of a friend

133
Spirits, the appearance of them not fabulous

110
Squeezing the hand, by whom first used in making love 109
Story-tellers, their ridiculous punctuality

138
Taste (corrupt) of the age, to what attributed 140
Tears, not always the sign of true sorrow

95
Theodosius and Constantia, their adventures

164
Time, our ill use of it

93
The Spectator's directions how to spend it 93
Tom Touchy, a quarrelsome fellow

· 122
Tom Tulip, challenged by Dick Crastin

91
Flies into the country,

91
Truepenny (Jack) strangely good-natured

82
V
VALETUDINARIANS in society, who

100
Not to be admitted into company, but on condi-
tions

143
Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed

115
Varilas, his cheerfulness and good humour make him
generally acceptable

100
Virgil, his beautiful allegories founded on the Platonic
philosophy

90
Virtue, the exercise of it recommended

93
Its influence

93
Its near relation to decency

104
Volumes; the advantage an author receives of pub-

lishing his works in volumes, rather than in
single pieces

124
U
Uranius, his great composure of soul

143
W
Wagering disputants exposed

145
White (Moll) a notorious witch

117

N®.

113

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Widow (the) her manner of captivating Sir Roger de
Coverley

113
Her behaviour at the trial of her cause

113
Her artifices and beauty

113
Too desperate a scholar for a country gentleman 113
Her reception of Sir Roger
Whom she helped to some tansy in the eye of all
the country

113
She has been the death of several foxes

115
Sir Roger's opinion of her, that she either designs
to marry or she does not

118
William and Betty, a short account of their amours 118
Wimble (Will) his letter to Sir Roger de Coverley 108
His character

108
His conversation with the Spectator

108
A man of ceremony

119
Thinks the Spectator a fanatic

126
And fears he has killed a man

- 131
Wine, not proper to be drank by every one that can
swallow

140
Women (the English) excel all other nations in
beauty

81
Signs of their improvement under the Spectator's
hand

92
The real commendation of a woman, what, 95 & 104
Their pains in all ages to adorn the outside of
their heads

98
More gay in their nature than men

128
Not pleased with modesty in men

154
Their ambition

156
Woman's mian described

156
His necessary qualifications

156
World, the present, a nursery for the next

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END OF VOL. II.

JAMES MUIRHEAD, Printer,

Edinburgh.

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