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Custom, cannot make every thing pleasing,

Country life, a scheme of it,

Country-Wake, a farce, commended by the Spectator,

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The advantages of it,

Dapperwit, (Tom) his opinion of matrimony,

No.

474

502

455

462

466

ib

ib

482

Day, the several times of it in several parts of the town, 454
Denying sometimes a virtue,

458

Diagoras, the atheist, his behavior to the Athenians in a

storm,

483

Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet,

453

Dionysius, a club tyrant,

508

Dogget the comedian, for what commended by the Spec-

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Dreams, in what manner considered by the Spectator,

487

The folly of laying any stress upon, or drawing con-

sequences from them,

505

Drink, the effects it has on modesty,

458

Dry, (Will) a man of a clear head, but few words,

476

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FABLES, the great usefulness and antiquity of them,

512.

Fairs for buying and selling of women, customary among

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Fashion, a description of it,

The evil influence of it on the married state,

Fashions, the vanity of them wherein beneficial,
A repository proposed to be built for them,
The balance of them leans on the side of France,
Fashionable Society (a board of directors of the) pro-
posed, with the requisite qualifications of the
members,

460

490

478

ib

ib

478

Fear, (passion of) treated,

Flattery described,

Fools naturally mischievous,

No.

471

460

Follies and defects mistaken by us in ourselves for worth, 460

Frankair, (Charles) a powerful and successful speaker,
French much addicted to grimace,

Friendship, a necessary ingredient in the married state,
Preferred by Spencer to love and natural affection,

GARDENING, applied to education,

485

484

481

490

ib

455

In what manner it may be compared to poetry, 477
Garden, the innocent delights of one,

What part of the one at Kensington to be most
admired,

ib

ib

Gladness of heart to be moderated and restrained, but

not banished, by virtue,

494

Gratitude, the most pleasing exercise of the mind,

A divine poem upon it,

God, an instance of his exuberant goodness and mercy,
A Being of infinite perfections,

519

513

453

ib

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Hobson, (Tobias) the Cambridge carrier, the first man in
England who let out Hackney-horses,

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His justice in his employment, and the success of it, ib
Honeycomb, (Will) resolved not to marry without the ad-
vice of his friends,

His translation from the French of an epigram writ-
ten by Martial, in honor of the beauty of his wife
Cleopatra,

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On the glories of the heaven and earth

Hypocrisy, to be preferred to open impiety,

JEWS, considered by the Spectator in relation to their
number, dispersion, and adherence to their re-
ligion.

The reasons assigned for it,

Independent Minister, behavior of one at his examination

of a scholar who was in election to be admitted
into a college of which he was governor,

Ingratitude, a vice inseparable from a lustful mind,

495

ib

494

491

animals,

Instinct, the several degrees of it in several different

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Invention, the most painful action of the mind,

No

519

487

Justice to be esteemed as the first quality in one who is
in a post of power and direction,

479-

LATIMER, the martyr, his behavior at a conference with

the Papists,

465

Laughter, the distinguishing faculty in man,

494

Law-suits, the misery of them,

456

Highly necessary to a man of fortune

Leo X. a great lover of buffoons and coxcombs,

In what manner reproved for it by a priest,

Letters, from a bankrupt to his friend,

The answer,

Learning, (men of) who take to business, best fitted
for it,

469

506

497

ib

456

ib

From Lazarus Hopeful to Bazil Plenty,
From a projector for news,

472

457

About education,

455

From one who had married a scold,

ib

From Pill Garlick,

ib

About the use and abuse of similes,

ib

Salutations at churches,

460

With a translation of Psalm cxiv.

About the advance on the paper for the stamps,

461

ib

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To the Spectator from J., R. complaining of his
neighbors, and the turn of their conversation in

the country,

474

From B.D desiring the Spectator's advice in a weigh-
ty affair,

From Dulcibella Thankley, who wants a direction to
Mr. Campbell, the dumb fortune-teller,

ib..

476

From-containing a description of his garden,

477

From A. B. with a dissertation on fashions, and a pro-
posal for a building for the use of them,

478

From Monsieur Chezluy to Pharamond,

480

To the Spectator from a clerk to a lawyer,
From-being a lady married to a cotquean,

ib

482

From-with a dissertation on modesty,

From-containing reflections on the powerful effects
of trifles and trifling persons,

From a handsome black man, two pair of stairs in the

484

485

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Paper buildings in the Temple, who rivals a hand-
some fair man up one pair of stairs in the same
building,
From Robin Shorter, with a postscript,
From-with an account of the unmarried hen-
pecked, and a vindication of the married,
From-with an epigram on the Spectator by Mr.
Tate,
From-with some reflections on the ocean, consider-
ed both in a calm and a storm, and a divine ode on
that occasion,
From Matilda Mohair, at Tunbridge, complaining of
the disregard she meets with on account of her strict
virtue from the men, who take more notice of the
romps and coquettes than the rigids,
From T B. complaining of the behavior of some fa-
thers towards their eldest sons,

From Rachel Shoestring, Sarah Trice, an humble ser-
vant unknown, and Alice Bluegarter, in answer to
that from Matilda Mohair, who is with child, and
has crooked legs,

From Moses Greenbag, the lawyer, giving an account
of some new brothers of the whip, who have cham-
beis in the Temple,

435

ib

486

488

489

492

496

ib

From Philogamus in commendation of the married
state,

From Will Honeycomb, with his dream, intended
for a Spectator,

498

499

500

From Ralph Wonder, complaining of the behavior of
an unknown lady at a parish-church near the
bridge,

From Titus Trophonius, an interpreter of dreams
From-complaining of the oppression and injustice
observed in the rules of all clubs and meetings,
From Hezekiah Thrift, containing a discourse on
trade,

From Will Honeycomb, occasioned by two stories
he had met with relating to a sale of women in
Persia and China,

503

505

508

509.

511

From the Spectator's Clergyman, being a thought in
sickness,

513

From-with a vision of Parnassus,

514

From-with two enclosed, one from a celebrated

town coquette, to her friend newly married in the
country, and her friend's answer,

515

From Edward Biscuit, Sir Roger de Coverley's but-
ler, with an account of his master's death,
From-condoling with him on Sir Roger's death,
with some remarkable epitaphs,

517

518

Libels, a severe law against them,

451

Those that write or read them excommunicated,

ib

London, (Mr.) the gardener, an heroic poet,

477

Love, the capriciousness of it,

475

The romantic style in which it is made,

479*

A nice and fickle passion,

506

marriage,

Lying, the malignity of it,

A method proposed to preserve it alive after

Party lying, the prevalency of it,

MAN, by what chiefly distinguished from all other crea-
tures,

Suffers more from imaginary than real evils,

His subjection to the female sex,

ib

507

ib

Wonderful in his nature,

Manilius, his character,

Mariamne the fine dancer,

Married condition rarely unhappy, but from want of
judgment or temper in the husband,

The advantages of it preferable to a single

state,

Termed purgatory by Tom Dapperwit,

The excellence of its institution,

The pleasure and uneasiness of married persons to

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Mercy, whoever wants it has a taste of no enjoyment,

Method, the want of it in whom only supportable,
The use and necessity of it in writings,
Seldom found in coffee-house debates,

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Milton, his description of the archangel and the evil spi-
rits addressing themselves for the combat,

Misfortunes, our judgments upon them reproved,
Modesty, an unnecessary virtue in the professors of the
law,

The sentiments entertained of it by the ancients,
Rules recommended to the modest man by the
Spectator,

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NEMESIS, an old maid, a great discoverer of judgments, 483

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Ostentation, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of fools, 469

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