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Estcourt, the comedian, has extrordinary tabu.
Eternity, a prospect of it....................
An essay upon eternity.............................................
Part is to come....

Speech in Cato on eternity, trauslated ist kats
Ether (helds of), the pleasure of surveying link..
Etherege (Sir George), author of a comedy essay
would if she could,' reproved...........

Ever-greeus of the fair sex .....

Evremoud (St.), his endeavours to palliate the Roa
perstitions......

The singularity of his remarks...
Eubulus, his character...

Eucrate, the favourite of Pharamond.
His conference with Pharamond
Eucratia, her character..........
Eudosia, her behaviour.................................
Her character.........

Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship and educí all
their children......

Eugene (Prince), the Spectator's account of imm

In what manner to be compared with Alexa J
Cæsar...

Eugenius, appropriates a tenth part of his cat ta

ritable uses

Euphrates river contained in oue bastu....

Exchange (Royal) described.....

Exercise, the great benefit and necessity of body car

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Faith, the benefit of it....

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A character of the English by a great preacher
By the Bantam ambassador.

A distemper they are very much: afflicted with....... 582
Englishman, the peculiar blessing of being boin one..... 135
The Spectator's speculations upon the English tongue 135
Englishmen not naturally talkative..

135, 148

The English tongue much adulterated.

Lumity, the good fruits of it.......

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Enthusiasm, the misery of it..........

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Eavy, the ill state of an envious man...

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The ineans of confirming it

Falsehood, the goddess of....

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Falsehood in man a recommendation to the a
Falsehood and dissimulation, the inconventio $7

petual.....

False wit, the region of it .....

Falstaff (Sir Jolin), a famous butt.....

Fame generally coveted...

Divided into three different species

Difficulty of obtaining and preserving fame..

The inconveniences attending the desire of ......
A follower of merit..

The palace of Fame described...

Courts compared to it......

Familiarities indecent in society..

Families: the ill measures taken by great fanulies in 79
education of their younger sons...........

Family madness in pedigrees.......

Fan, the exercise of it.......

Pancy, all its images enter by the sight...
The daughter of Liberty...

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Fear, how necessary it is to subdue it.
Passion of fear treated...
Fear of death often mortal..
Feasts, the gluttony of modern ones.
Feeling not so perfect a sense as sigat...
Fellow of a college, a wise saying of one

rity.........

Female literature in want of regulation

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Flavia, her mother's rival

91

A contemplation of his omnipresence and his omni-
He cannot be absent from us........................ 565
Considerations on his ubiquity........

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571

Her character and amour with Cynthio.

Fl villa liberal of her snuff at church..

Spoiled by a marriage...

Flora, au attendant on the spring......

Flutter, Sir Fopling,' a comedy: some remarks upon it.. 65
Flutter of the fan, the variety of motions in it.....

Foible (Sir Jeoffry), a kind keeper..

Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourselves for worth 460
Fontenelle, his saying of the ambitious and covetous..... 576
Fools, great plenty of them the first day of April........

Naturally mischievous....

Fop, what sort of persons deserve that character........
Forehead esteemed an organ of speech......

Fortius, his character...

Fortunatus, the trader, his character

Fortune, often unjustly complained of

To be controlled by nothing but infinite wisdom..... 293
Fortune-stealers, who they are that set up for such...... 311

Distinguished from fortune-hunters...

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344

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

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Good-nature more agreeable in conversation than wit.... 169

The Lecessity of it..

169

102

Born with us......

190

A moral virtue......

An endless source of pleasure.

190

Good-nature and cheerfulness the two great ornaments of

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virtue.....

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Good sense and good-nature always go together.......... 437
Goosequill (William), clerk to the lawyer's club.......... 372
Gospel gossips described...

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Goths, in poetry, who.....

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Government, what form of it the most reasonable.
Grace at ineals practised by the pagans...
Gracefulness of action, the excellency of it......
Grammar-schools, a common fault observed in them..... 353
Grandeur and minuteness, the extremes pleasing to the

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fancy.....

420

Grandmother, Sir Roger de Coverley's great, great, great
grandmother's receipt for a hasty-pudding and a
white-pot...

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453

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Their levity.....

435

French poets, wherein to be imitated by the English..

45

Fribblers, who....

288

Greeks and Romans, the different methods observed by
them in the education of their children....
Greeks and Trojans, who so called...

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Green, why called in poetry the cheerful colour......

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Green-sickness, Sabina Rentfree's letter about it.....
Grinning: a grinning prize.........

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Grotto, verses on one

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Guardian of the fair sex, the Spectator $0.............
Gyges and Aglaus, their story....

449

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What sort of friend the most useful

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Gymnosophists (Indian), the method used by them in the

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education of their disciples..

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414

Why the English gardens are not so entertaining to the
fancy as those in France and Italy..

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Harlot, a description of one out of the Proverbs
Harris (Mr.), the organ builder, his proposal;..........
Harry Tersett, and his lady; their way of living.........
Hate: why a man ought not to hate even his enemies.... 125
Head-dress, the most variable thing in nature......
Extravagantly high in the fourteenth century.

410

552

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Genealogy, a letter about

Applied to education ...............

455

612

With what success attacked by a monk of that age.. 98
Heads never the wiser for being bald..

497

Generosity not always to be commended.

346

Genius, what properly a great one..

160

Health, the pleasures of the fancy more conducive to it
than those of the understanding..

411

Gentry of Englaud, generally speaking, in debt.

82

Hearts, a vision of them................ ...................

587

Geography of a jest settled..

138

Heathen philosopher...

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Georgics (Virgil's), the beauty of their subjects..

417

Heaven, its glory...

580

Germanicus, his taste of true glory.

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Described by Mr. Cowley..

590

Gesture, good in oratory..

407

The notions several nations have of it

600

Ghosts, warned out of the playhouse....

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What Dr. Tillotson says of it..

600

The appearance of a ghost of great efficacy in an Eng-
fish theatre

Heaven aur hell, the notion of, conformable to the light

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of nature.....

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Heavens, verses on the glory of them.............................................
Hebrew idioms run into English.

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Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their edu

Not a village in England formerly without one...... 419
Shakspeare's the best....

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Gifts of fortune more valued than they ought to be...... 294
Gigglers in church reproved......

Heraclitus, a remarkable saying of his

158

Gipsies: an adventure between Sir Roger, the Spectator,

and some gipsies......

Giving and forgiving, two different things

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Gladiators of Rome, what Cicero says of them........... 436

Hermit, his saying to a lewd young fellow
Herod and Mariamue, their story from Josephus.
Herodotus, wherein condemned by the Spectator
Heroes in an English tragedy generally lovers...........
Heroism, an essay upon it...

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Wherein commendable...

And when to be exploded...

Honours in this world under no regulation.......

Hoods, coloured, a new invention.

Ilope, passion of, treated.

The folly of it when misemployed on temporal objects 535
Instanced in the fable of Aluaschar, the Persian
glass-man......

Hopes and fears necessary passions..

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224

Horace, takes fire at every hint of the Iliad and Odyssey 417
His recommendatory letter to Claudius Nero in be-
half of his friend Septimus....
Hotspur (Jeffrey, Esq.), his petition from the country in-
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Hudibras, a description of his beard..................... 334
Human nature, the same in all reasonable creatures.....
The best study......

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Humanity not regarded by the fiue gentlemen of the age 520
Humour (good) the best companion in the country...... 424
The two extremes of humour..
Burlesque.

Pedantic...........

Huuting, the use of it.....................................
Reproved......

Husbands, an ill custom among them

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Rules for marrying them by the Widows' club...... 561
Qualities necessary to make good ones.......................... 607

Hush (Peter), his character.....

Hymen, a revengeful deity..

On gratitude..

Hymn, David's pastoral one on Providence.......

On the glories of the heaven and earth

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Hypocrisy, the honour aud justice done by it to religion. 243
The various kinds of hypocrisy.

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The definition of English, Scotch, and Irish impodca" ♬
Recommended by some as good breeding.....
Distinguished from assurance....

The most proper means to avoid the imputados VETE
Mistaken for wit.....

Independent minister, the behaviour of one at las exami
nation of a scholar, who was in election to be ad
mitted into a college of which he was consula
Indian kings, sonie of their observations during Uwat akry
here...

Indifference in marriage, not to be tasted by serbic
rits.......

Indigo, the merchant, a man of prodigious inteligence, in
Indiscretion, more hurtful than ill-nature.............
Indisposition; a mau under any, whether any foluramə

ginary, ought not to be admitted into company.... 10
Indolence, what.

An enemy to virtue..
Iufidelity, another term for ignorauce.
Lufirmary, one for good humour

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399

Iapis's cure of Eneas, a translation of Virgil by Mr.
Dryden....

To be preferred to open impiety .................... 458
IAMBIC verse, the most proper for Greek tragedies..... 39
James, how polished by love...
Jane (Mrs.), a great pickthank..

272

572

Ichneumon, a great destroyer of crocodiles' eggs.........
Ideas, how a whole set of them hang together ........... 416
Idiot, the story of one by Dr. Plot....

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447

Idiots, in great request in most of the German courts....
Idle and innocent, few know how to be so.........
Idle world

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The ready way to promote our interest in the wor
Intrepidity of a just good man taken from Horace......
Invention, the most painful action of the misd................
Invitation, the Spectator's, to all artificers as weli a par
losophers, to assist fum.......

A general one....

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Idleness, a great distemper........................................................ 316
Idol: coffee-house idols .........

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Idolatry, the offspring of mistaken devotion.............. 211
Idols, who of the fair sex so called........................................... 73
Jealousy described..............
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Jonson (Ben), an epitaph written by hum on a lady.
Journal: a week of a deceased citizen's journal pesertank
by Sir Andrew Freeport to the Spectators out
The use of such a journal .........

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From the Spectator to T. D. containing an intended
regulation of the playhouse..

From the playhouse thunderer

From the Spectator to an affected very witty man....
From a married man, with a complaint that his wife
painted...

From Abraham Froth, a member of the Hebdomadal
meeting in Oxford...

From a husband plagued with a gospel-gossip...
From an ogling-master....

From the Spectator to the president and fellows of
the Ugly club...

From lecatissa to the Spectator.............................................
From an old beau...

From Epping, with some account of a coinpany of

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Ladies, not to mind party.

Lady's library described.......

37

Ladylove Bartholomew), his petition to the Spectator... 334
Laertes, his character in distinction to that of Irus....... 11
Letitia and Daphne, their story...

33

From a father, complaining of the liberties taken in
country-dances
From James to Betty..

Lampoons written by people that cannot spell.

16

Witty lampoons inflict wounds that are incurable...
The inhuman barbarity of the ordinary scribblers of
lampoons

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'Lancashire Witches,' a comedy, censured.............
Landscape, a pretty one

From B. D. desiring a catalogue of books for the fe-
male library.....

To the Spectator, from the Ugly club at Cambridge.. 78
From a whimsical young lady

141

From Rosalinda, with a desire to be admitted into

414

the Ugly club

Language, the English, much adulterated during the war 165

Language (licentious) the brutality of it........

400

From T. T. complaining of the Idols in coffee-
houses...

Languages (European), cold to the Oriental...

405

Lapirius, hi great generosity...........

248

Lapland ode translated..

406

Larvati, who so called among the ancients...

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Lath (Squire), has a good estate, which he would part
withal for a pair of legs to his mind..

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A counterpoise to the spleen.

249

What sort of persons the most accomplished to raise it 249
A poetical figure of laughter out of Milton
The distinguishing faculty in man....

Indecent in any religious assembly.........

Law-suits, the misery of them...

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Lawyers divided into the peaceable and the litigious..... 21
Both sorts described.....

From Will Wimble to Sir Roger de Coverley, with a
jack....
To the Spectator from, complaining of the
new petticoat...

From Tom Trusty, a servant, containing an account
of his life and services
From the master of the fan exercise..
From

-, against the equestrian order of ladies 104

Leaf (green) swarms with millions of animals

420

From a lawyer on the circuit, with an account of the
progress of the fashions in the country....... 199
From Wil Honeycomb.....

Learning ought not to claim any merit to itself, but upon

the application of it.....

The design of learning.

To be made advantageous even to the meanest capa.
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From George Trusty, thanking the Spectator for the
great benefit he has received from his works......
From William Wiseacre, who desires his daughter
may learn the exercise of the fan.........
From professed liar...

From Ralph Valet, the faithful servant of a perverse

master...

man...

From Patience Giddy, the next thing to a lady's wo-

From Lydia Novell, complaining of her lover's con-
duct.....

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From R. D. concerning the corrupt taste of the age,
and the reasons of it...

140

From Betty Sauter, about a wager.....

140

From

From Partheuope, who is angry with the Spectator
for meddling with the ladies' petticoa's...
upon drinking..

140

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From Rachel Basto, concerning female gamesters.... 140
From Parthenia..

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From Cleanthes, complaining of Mrs. Juor, aki Go
maid, and a pick thank.

-, with an inclose i letter truste

From Frank Courtly, reproving the Spoctator E
freedoms he had taken...

204

From a lady to her husband, an officer in Spain...... 204
To the Spectator from Belinda, complaining of a fe

male seducer......

205

From a country clergyman, against an affected singing
of the Psalms in Church..

205

From C. D. on Sir Roger's return to tow.+ -
From S. T. who has a show in a box, of a 1 4 xỡ
man, and a horse.

From Robin Goodfellow, containing the correction of
an errata in Sir William Temple's rule for drinking 205
From Mary Meanwell about visiting...
From a shopkeeper, with thanks to the Spectator...
From a lover, with an hue-and-cry after liis mistress's
heart......

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From

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a noble lord

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From Celia, incensed at a gentleman wholes
the words lusty fellow' in her prestace.....
From Pucella, kept by an old bachelor.....
From Hezekiali Broadbrim, accusing the Sorctur
not keeping his word.......

From Teranainta, on the arrival of a Malenama *
completely dressed from Paris ....
From Betty Cross-stitch the owner of Matemá
From a shop-keeper, whose wife is too inward
him..

From Florinda, who writes for the Spectre's a v
in the choice of a husband, after she is at.
From Clayton, &c. on the same subject as the
mer letter..

From Jenny Simper, complaining of the cler 20
parish, who has overdecked the church is grensa
From the c'erk in its own justification..............................
From
-, concerning false delicacy.....
From Philobrune, of Cambridge, inquinas when a
most beautiful, a fair or a brown complene....

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