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nieces idleness, 606. About the vanity of fome clergyman wearing fcarves, 609. From Tom Nimble, about antipathies, ibid. From Cleora against the Ladies work, ibid. From Lefbia a deluded Lady, 611. About genealogy, 612. From Will Hopeless about ambition, 613. From the Temple about beggars eloquence, ibid. From Monimia to recover a loft lover, ibid. From a country wit in the burlefque way, 616. From a pedant in his pedantic way on the fame fubject, 617. About the ftiles of letters, 618. Anfwers to feveral, 619. About flattery, 621. From the love-cafuift about the widows tenure and the black ram, 623. From the fame about love queries 625. From one who recommended himfelf for a news-monger, ibid. About the force of novelty, 626. About a croffed lover, 627. About eternity to come, 628. About church-mufic, 630. About the rattling club's getting into church, ibid.

Life, eternal, what we ought to be moft folicitous about, N. 575. Man's not worth his care ibid. Valuable only as it prepares for another, ibid.

Love-cafuift, fome inftructions of his, N. 591. 607.

Lover, an account of the life of one, N. 596. A croffed one retires, 627.

M

Mahometans, their cleanliness, N. 631.
Marcia's prayer in Cato, N. 593.

Memoirs of a private country-gentleman's life,
N. 622.

Man, the two views he is to be confidered in, N. 88. An active being 624. His ultimate

end, ibid.

Merry part of the world amiable, N. 598.

Meffiah, the Jews mistaken notion of his worldly

grandeur, N. 610.

Metaphors,

Metaphors, when vicious, N. 595. An inftance
of it, ibid.

Military education, a letter about it, N. 566

Mischief rather to be fuffered than an inconveni-
ence, N. 564.

Montagne, fond of fpeaking of himself, N. 562.
Scaliger's faying of him, ibid.

Mufick, church, recommended, N. 630.

Mufician, burlefque, an account of one, N. 570.

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Eedlework recommended to Ladies, N. 606. A
Letter from Cleora againft it, 609.

News, the pleasure of it, N. 625.

Newton (Sir Ifaac) his noble way of confidering

infinite fpace. N. 564.

Night, a clear one defcribed, N. 565.

ly defcribed by Willlam Ramfey, 582.

Whimsical-

No, a word of great ufe to women in love matters,

N. 625.

Novelty, the force of it, N. 626.

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Bfcurity, often more illustrious than grandeur,

N 622.

Orator, what requisite to form one, N. 633.
Ovid, his verfes on making love at the theatre,
tranflated by Mr. Dryden, N. 602. How to
fucceed in his manner, 618.

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Affions the work of a philofopher to fubdue
them, N. 564.

ibid.

Inftances of their power,

Patience, her power, N. 559.

Pedantick humour, N. 617.

Penelope's web, the story of it, N. 606.

Perfon, the word defined by Mr. Locke, N. 578.
Petition of John a Nokes and John a files, N. 577.
Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pre-
tences to it, N. 629.

Phebe and Colin, an original poem, N. 603.

Philofophers,

Philofophers (Pagan) their boast of exalting human nature, N. 634.

Pittacus, a wife faying of his about riches, N. 574. Pity, the reasonablenefs of it, N. 588.

Places, the unreafonablenefs of party-pretences to them, N. 629.

Planting recommended to country-gentleman, N. 583. Again, N. 589.

Plato's faying of labour, N. 624.

Play-houfe, how improved in ftorms, N. 592. Politicians, the mifchief they do, N. 556. Some at the Royal Exchange, N. 568.

Pufs, Speculations on an old and a young one, N. .626.

Pythagoras, his advice to his fcholars about examining at night what they had done in the day, N. 586.

Q

Ueries in love answered, N. 625.

Queftion, a curious one ftarted by a fchoolman about the choice of prefent and future happiness and mifery, N. 575.

Quid-nunc (Tho.) his letter to the Spectator about news, N. 625.

Quacks, an effay against them, N. 572.

R

RAke, a character of one, N. 576.

Rattling club got into the church, N. 630, Ramfey (William) the aftrologer, his whimfical de fcription of night, N. 582.

Revelation, what light it gives into the joys of heaven, N. 600.

Revenge of a Spanish Lady on a man who boafted of her favours, N. 611.

Rfcrufian, a pretended difcovery made by one,

N 574

Royal progrefs, a poem, N. 620.

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Paul's eloquence, N. 633.

Satire, Whole Duty of Man. turned into one, N. 568

Scarves, the vanity of fome clergymens wearing them, N. 609.

Scribblers, the moft offenfive, N. 582.

Self-love, the narrowness and dangers of it, N. 588.

Seneca, his faying.of drunkenness, N. 569.
Shakespear, his excellence, N. 592.

Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the Princess Hilpa» before the flood, N. 584.

Sight (fecond) in Scotland, N. 604.

Singularity, when a virtue, N. 576. An inftance of it, in a north-country gentleman, ibid.. Socrates, his faying of misfortunes, N. 558. Space (infinite) Sir Ifaac Newton's noble way of confidering it, N. 564.

Spartan juftice, an inftance of it, N. 564. Spectator breaks a fifty years filence, N. 556. How he recovered his fpeech, ibid. His politicks, ibid. Loquacity, ibid. Of no party, bid. A calamity of his, 558. Criticks upon him, 568. He fleeps as well as wakes for the publick, 599. His dream of Trophonius's cave, ibid. Why the eighth volume published, 632.

Spleen, its effects, N: 558.

Stars, a contemplation of them, N. 565.
Sublime in writing, what it is, N. 592.
Syncopifts, modern ones, N. 567.

Syracufan Prince, jealous of his wife, how he ferved her, N. 579.

T

Emper (ferious) the advantage of it, N. 598. Tender hearts, an entertainment for them, N. 627.

Tenure, the most flippery in England, N. 623.
Thales his faying of Truth and Falfehood, N. 594.
Theatre, of making love there, N. 602.
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VOL. VIII.

Torre

Torre in Devonshire, how unchafte widows are punifhed there, N. 614.

Townly, Frank, his letter to the Spectator, N. 560! Tully praifes himself, N. 562. What he faid of the immortality of the foul, 588. Of uttering a jeft, 616. Of the force of novelty, 626. What he required in his orator, 633.

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Biquity of the Godhead confidered, N. 571.
Farther confiderations about it, 580.

Verfes by a defpairing lover, N. 591. On Phebe and Colin, 603. Tranflation of verfes pedantick out of Italian, 617. The royal progrefs, 620. To Mrs.-on her grotto, 632.

Vice as laborious as virtue, N. 624.
Vifion of human mifery, N. 604.

Vulcan's dogs, the fable of them, N. 579.

W

WEft-Enborne in Berkshire, a cuftom there for

widows, N. 614. What Lord Coke faid af

the widows tenure there, 623.

Whichenovre bacon flitch, in Stafford/tire, who intitled to it, N. 607.

Whole Duty of Man, that excellent book turned into a fatire, N. 568.

Widows club, an account of it, N. 561. A letter from the prefident of it to the Spectator about her fuitors, 573. Duty of widows in old times, 606. A custom to punith unchafte ones in Berkshire and Devonshire, 614. Inftances of their riding the black ram there, 623.

Writing the difficulty of it to avoid cenfure, N. 568.

Work neceffary for Women, N. 606.

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Xenophon, his account of Cyrus's trying the vir tue of a young Lord, N. 564.

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7Emroude, Queen, her story out of the Perfian Tales, N. 578.

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