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Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician,

Beau's head, the dissection of one,

Beauties, when plagiaries,

The true secret how to improve beauty,

Then the most charming when heightened by virtue,

49 Camillus, his deportment to his son,

263

275 Campbell (Mr.), the dumb fortune-teller, an extraordinary

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person,

474

33 Candour, the consequence and benefit of it,

380

32 Camdia, an antiquated beauty described,

312

Cant, from whence to be derived,

INDEX.

Capacities of children, not duly regarded in their educa-

tion,

Caprice often acts in the place of reason,

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Carbuncle (Dr.), his dye, what,

52

Care: what ought to be a man's chief care,

122

Carneades, the philosopher, his definition of beauty,

144

Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas formed

by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the me-
mory,

417

Cases in love answered,

614

Casimir Liszynski, an atheist in Poland, the manner of his
punishment,

310

Cassius, the proof he gave of his temper in his childhood,
Castilian, the story of a Castilian husband and his wife,
Castle builders, who, and their follies exposed,

157

198

167

Cat call, a dissertation upon that instrument,

Catiline, Tully's character of him,

Cat, a great contributor to harmony,

Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre,

The grounds for his belief of the immortality of the
soul,

An instance of his probity,

Cave of Trophonius, several people put into it to be
mended,

Celibacy, the great evil of the nation,

Censor, of small wares, an officer to be appointed,

Of marriages,

Censure, a tax, by whom paid to the public, and for what,
Censure and applause should not mislead us,
Chamont's saying of Monimia's misfortunes,
Chancery court, why erected,

Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's,

Charity, the great want of it among Christians,
Charity-schools, great instances of a public spirit,

Should be encouraged,

Charles 1. a famous picture of that prince,
Charles II. his gaieties,

Charles the Great, his behaviour to his secretary, who had
debauched his daughter,

Charins, none can supply the place of virtue,
Chastity, the great point of honour in women,
How chastity was prized by the heathens,

Chastity of renown, what,

Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and pre-
served,

Wherein preferable to mirth,

When worse than folly or madness,

The many advantages of a cheerful temper,
Cherubins, what the rabbins say they are,
Chevy Chase, the Spectator's examen of it,

Several names of clubs, and their originals,

Rules prescribed to be observed in the Two-penny
club,

An account of the Ugly club,

The Sighing club,

The Fringeglove club,

The amorous club,

The Hebdomadal club: some account of the members of
that club,

Some account of the Everlasting club,

The club of Ugly faces,

The difficulties met with in erecting that club,
The institution and use of clubs,

Coach (stage), its company,

361 Coffee-house disputes,

361

386

446

537

557

Coffee-house debates seldom regular or methodical,
Coffee-house liars, two sorts of them,
Colours, the eye takes most delight in them,
Why the poets borrow most epithets from them,
Only ideas in the mind,

Speak all languages,
Comedies, English, vicious,

599 Comfort, what, and where found,
528 An attendant on patience,

16 Commendation generally followed by detraction
308 Commerce, the extent and advantage of it,
101 Commercial friendship preferable to generosity,
610 Common-prayer, some considerations on the reading of it,
395 The excellency of it,

564 Commonwealth of Amazons,

106 Company, temper chictly to be considered in the chose
of it,

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480 Concave and convex figures in architecture have the great
est air, and why,

143 Condé (Prince of), his face like that of an eagle,
381 Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies,
381 Conquests, the vanity of them,

381 Connecte (Thomas), a monk in the 14th century, a za
600 preacher against the women's commodes in the
days,

70, 74

Children, wrong measures taken in the education of the
British children,

The unnaturalness of mothers in making them suck a
stranger's milk,

The duty of children to their parents,

Ill education of children fatal,

A multitude of them one of the blessings of the married

state.

Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be commended
Chinese, the punishment among them for parricide,

Why the Chinese laugh at our gardens,

Chit-char club's letter to the Spectator,

Chloe, the idiot,

Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes,

Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and

lency of its doctrines,

Christianity, the only system that can produce content

How much above philosophy,

Chocolate, a great heater of the blood in women,

Chronogram, a piece of false wit,

Consciousness, when called affectation,
157 Constancy in sufferings, the excellency of it,
Contemplation, the way to the mountain of the muses,
246 Content, how described by a Rosicrucian,

436

The virtue of it,

431 Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this life,
Conversation most straightened in numerous assemblies,
Usually stuffed with too many compliments,
What properly to be understood by the word covers

500

85

189

414

⚫tion,

An improvement of taste in letters,

560 Coquette's heart dissected,

466 Coquettes, the present numerous race to what owing,
464 Great coveys of them about this town,
Cordeliers, their story of St. Francis, their founder,
186, 213 Cornaro (Lewis), a remarkable instance of the benefit of te

excel-

Church musicians reproved for not keeping to the text as well

574

perance,

634 Cot-queans described by a lady who has one for her bus

365

band,

60 Cotillus, his great equanimity,

Coverley (Sir Roger de), a member of the Spectator's club.

his character,

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Church work, slow work, according to Sir Roger de Co-

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Cicero, a punster,

His choice of a chaplain,

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His genius,

The entertainment found in his philosophical writings,

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His management of his family,


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His account of his ancestors,

404

The oracle's advice to him,

What he says of scandal,

404

Is forced to have every room in his house exorcised by
his chaplain,

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427

Of the Roman gladiators,

And desire of glory,

His extraordinary superstition,

436

505

some curiosity,

Clarendon (Earl of his character of a person of a trouble-

554

A reflection of that historian,

439

Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped,

485

lebrated mathematician,

Clavius, proving incapable of any other studies, became a ce-

73

307

Cleanliness, the praise of it,

631

Cleanthe, her story,

15

Cleanthes, his character,

404

Clergy, a three-fold division of them,

Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos,

400

21

Clergymen one of the Spectator's club,

2

Club: the She Ro p club,

Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarves,

609

217

Methods observed by that club,

217

The Mohoek club,

324

The design of their institution,

324

A great benefactor to his church in Worcestershire,
In which he suffers no one to sleep but himself,

He gives the Spectator an account of his amours, and the

character of his widow,

The trophies of his several exploits in the country,
A great Fox-hunter,

An instance of his good-nature,

His aversion to confidants,

The manner of his reception at the assizes, where he
whispers the judges in the ear,

His adventure when a schoolboy,
A man for the landed interest.
His adventure with some gipsies,

Rarely sports near his own seat,

A dispute between him and Sir Andrew Freeport,

His return to town, and conversation with the Specta

tor in Gray's Inn Walks,

His intended generosity to his widow,

His reflections upon visiting the tombs in Westminster

Abbey,
A great friend to beards,

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No.

349

199

82

104, 292

292

188

427

451

451

373

17

286

286

62

396

161 Demurrers, what sort of women so to be called.

89

414 Denying, sometimes a virtue,

458

414 Dependants, objects of compassion.

474

424 Deportment (religious) why so little appearances of it in
England,

282

448

583

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Please sometimes more than the sight of things,
The same not alike relished by all,

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Courage recommends a man to the female sex more than any
other quality,

502

What pleases in them,

418

99

99

What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more accept-
able to the imagination than what is little, common, or
deformed,

418

29 Desire, when corrected,

152 Detraction, the generality of it in conversation,

400

348

422 Devotee, the description of one,

354

350 Devotion, the great advantage of it,

93

394

The most natural relief in our afflictions,

163

Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conversa.

Homer and Min

tion,

403

A man is distinguished from brutes more by devotion
than reason.

201

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Courtier's habit, on what occasions hieroglyphical,

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The errors into which it often leads us,

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Courtship, the pleasantest part of a man's life,

261

Cowards naturally impudent,

231

Cowley (Mr.), abounds in mixed wit,

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His magnanimity,

His opinion of Perseus the Latin satirist,

His description of heaven,

His story of Aglaüs,

His ambition,

Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites,

Crab, of King's college, Cambridge, chaplain to the club of

Ugly Faces,

Crazy, a man thought so by reading Milton aloud,
Creation,' a poein, commended by the Spectator,

The contemplations on creation a perpetual feast of de-
light to the mind of a good man,

Credit, a beautiful virgin, her situation and equipage,

A great valetudinarian,

Credit undone with a whisper,
Credulity in women infamous,

Cries of London require some regulation,
Criminal love, some account of the state of it,
Critic, the qualities requisite to a good one,
Critics (French), friends to one another,

Modern ones, some errors of theirs about plays,
Cross (Miss), wanted near half a ton of being as handsome
as Madam Van Brisket, a great beauty in the Low
Countries,

Cuckoldom abused on the stage,

Cunning, the accomplishment of whom,

Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting of our ap
petites,

An instance of absurd curiosity,

Custom, a second nature,

The effect of it,

How to make a good use of it,

Cannot make every thing pleasing,

Cyncas, Pyrrhus's chief minister, his handsome reproof to
that prince,

Cynthio and Flavia break off their amour very whimsi-
sically,

610 Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet,

128 Dignitaries of the law, who,

Dionysius's ear, what it was,

For what commended: by the Spectator,

437 Domestic life, reflections concerning it,
437 Donne (Dr.) his description of his mistress.

453 Dorigny (Monsieur), his piece of the Transfiguration excel-
cellent in its kind,

The notions the most refined among the heathens had
of it,

207

62

Socrates's model of devotions,

207

114

The noblest buildings owing to devotion,

415

339 Diagoras, the atheist, his behaviour to the Athenians in a

590

storm,

483

453

613 Dick Crastin challenges Tom Tulip,

91

21

439

78 Dionysius, a club tyrant,

508

577

339

Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be conquered
of any other,
Discontent, to what often owing,

163

214

393

Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one man,
3 Discretion, an under agent of Providence,

428

225

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Distinguished from conning,

320

Absolutely necessary in a good husband,

190 Dissenters, their canting way of reading,

225

607

147

409

592

251 Dissimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it,
274 Distempers, difficult to change them for the better,
291 Distinction, the desire of it implanted in our natures, and
why,

103

599

224

Distracted persons, the sight of them the most mortifying
thing in nature,

421

Distrest Mother,' a new tragedy, recommended by the Spec-

32

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290

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225

Its omnipresence and omniscience,

565

Divorce, what esteemed to be a just pretension to one,
237 Doctor in Moorfields, his contrivance,

41

193

439 Dogget, the comedian, how cuckolded on the stage,

446

437

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Part is to come,

Speech in Cato on eternity, translated into Latin,
Ether (fields of), the pleasure of surveying them,
Etherege (Sir George), author of a comedy called 'Se
wonld if she could,' reproved,

Ever-greens of the fair sex,

Evremond (St.), his endeavours to palliate the Roman super
stitions,

The singularity of his remarks,
Eabulus, 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 education of thev
children,

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

In what manner to be compared with Alexander and

Cæsar,

Eugenius, appropriates a tenth part of his income to chari

ble uses,

157 Euphrates river contained in one basin,
Exchange (Royal) described,

224

313

Exercise, the great benefit and necessity of bodily exercis
The most effectual physic,

313 Expenses, oftener proportioned to our expectations than po

337

sessions,

431 Eyes, a dissertation on them,

The prevailing influence of the eye instanced in seven
particulars,

FABLE of the lion and the man,

455

455

181

562

Of the children and frogs,

562

615

The antiquity of fables,

293

613

Of Jupiter and the countryman,

Fable of Pleasure and Pain,

Of a drop of water,

The great usefulness and antiquity of fables,

521 Face, a good one a letter of recommendation,
419 Faces, every man should be pleased with his own,
302 Fadlallah, his story out of the Persian tales,

101 Fairs for buying and selling women customary among
Persians,

324

432 Fairy writing,

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The pleasures of imagination that arise from it,
More difficult than any other, and why,

The English are the best poets of this sort,

Faith, the benefit of it,

The means of confirming it,

557 Falsehood, the goddess of,

557

Falsehood in man a recommendation to the fair sex

582 Falsehood and dissimulation, the inconvenience of it per

135

petual,

135 False wit, the region of it,

135, 148

Falstaff (Sir John), a famous butt,

165 Fam. generally coveted,

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The abhorrence of envy a certain note of a great mind, 253
Epaminondas, his honourable death,

Ephesian matron, the story of her,

Ephraim, the Quaker, the Spectator's fellow-traveller in

stage-coaci,

His reproof to a recruiting officer in the same coach,
And advice to him at their parting,

Epictetus, his observation upon the female sex,

His allusion on human life,

His rule for a person's behaviour under detraction,

His saying of sorrow,

His advice to dreamers,

Epigram on Hevatissa,

Epistles recommendatory, the injustice and absurdity of most

Epistolatory poetry, the two kinds of styles,

of them.

Epitaph of a charitable man,

On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke,

Epitaphs, the extravagance of some, and modesty of others,
An epitaph written by Ben Jonson,

Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life,
Equestrian order of ladies,

Its origin,

Equestrian ladies, who,

Equipages, the splendour of them in France,

A great temptation to the female sex,

Erasmus insulted by a parcel of Trojans,

Erratum, a sad one committed in printing the Bible,
Error, his habitation described,

How like to truth,

Divided into three different species,

Difficulty of obtaining and preserving fame,
The inconveniences attending the desire of it,
A follower of merit,

The palace of Fame described,

Counts compared to it,

Familiarities indecent in society,

11 Families: the ill measures taken by great families in the c

133

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cation of their younger sons,

132 Family madness in pedigrees,

132 Fan, the exercise of it,

132 Fancy, all its images enter by the sight,
The daughter of Liberty,

53

219

355

The character of Fancy,

Her calamities,

397 Fashion, the force of it,

524

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493

Men of fashion, who,

A society proposed to be erected for the inspection d

fashions,

A description of fashion,

618 Fashions, the vanity of them wherein beneficial,
A repository proposed to be built for them.

177

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The evil influence of fashion on the marries state
Fashionable society, (a board of directors of the

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bers,
104 Father, the affection of one for a daughter,
435 Favours, of ladies, not to be boasted of,
15 Faults (secret), how to find them out,

15 Faustina, the Empress, her notions of a pretty gent

239

man,

579 Fear. how necessary it is to subdue it,
460 Passion of tear treated,

450 Fear of death often mortal,

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Essay on the pleasures of the imagination, from
Essays, wherein differing from methodical discourses,
Estates generally purchased by the slower parts of man-

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Feasts, the gluttony of modern ones,
Feeling not so perfect a sense as sight,

476 Fellow of a college, a wise saying of one about pas

rity,

222 Female literature in want of regulation,

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