sits to it upon very different considerations: nor can any thing I shall say, of the tendency above mentioned, be pleaded in excuse for coming up to town merely to play at cards.

P. S. It would be dealing ungratefully by my correspondents, if at the close of this second year I forgot to acknowledge the many obligations I owe them. It may also be necessary to add, that several letters are come to hand, which are not rejected, but postponed.

INDEX.

A.

ABUSE, the most successful method of puffing, page 126.
Instances of it, 127.

Advertisements for wives, the greatest modesty of them, 154,
155.

Age, the present one, better than any other, 123. Why railed
at, ibid.

Alexandrian library, its inscription, 97.

Allegory of Prosperity and Adversity, 173 to 178.
Alteration, the first principle of an improver, 128.

Amanda, consequences of the publication of her history in THE
WORLD, 7, 8.

Amusement, the principal design of a public paper, 281.

Ancients, their ignorance in the art of making thunder and
lightning, 167.

Annihilation, the thought of it how terrible, 113.

Anti-Gallicans, their premiums for encouraging the manufac-
ture of thunder and lightning, 171.

Antoine, his amour with Clarinda, 147, 148.

Apelles, an extinguisher, 21, 22.

Architecture, how improved by the mixture of the Gothic and
Chinese, 41, 42.

Arts, their affinity to manners, 140 to 145.
Auricular orthography, its uncertainty, 268.
sioned by it, 268, 269.

Mistakes occa-

Author, not absolutely and at all times an object of contempt,

32.

B.

Bath, miraculous cures performed there by THE WORLD, 101.
Bawd, the address and behaviour of one, 133, 134.

Belphegor, or the married devil, transcript from it, 239 to 242.
Blameless, Rebecca, her letter to Mr. Fitz-Adam, 8.
Bobbin, Winnefred, her letter to Mr. Fitz-Adam, 9.
Boileau, his remark upon French operas, 251.

Books, the food of the mind, 64, 65. Physic of the mind, not
food, 97. Their different effects on different constitutions,
98.

Bromwich, Mr. advice to him, 68.

Canons for the toilet, 145.

C.

Cantabrigius, his character, 221.

Carbuncle, Dr. his character, 208.

Cards, the grand inducement for people's coming to town, 285.
Cecil, sir William, his letter to sir Henry Norris, 126.

Chastity, in a wife, an over-value for it apt to make her forget-
ful of the other virtues, 34.

Christmas, how observed by our ancestors, 283, 284. Why
neglected at present, ibid.

Christmas holidays, the revolutions occasioned by them, 257.
Cicero, his declarations concerning Plato, 204.
Clarinda, her amour with Antoine, 147, 148.

Club, description of one, 205. Characters of its members, 206
to 210.

Concealment, its great help to fancy, 144.
Conversation, the abuses of it, 227 to 233.

Country family, melancholy turn of it, 258, 259.

Country church, the sleepers at it, who, 63.

Coxcomb, the symptoms of one,

195.

Crowding, the love of it the ruling passion of a woman, 76.
Cuckold, his character vindicated from contempt, 33. To be
held in esteem from the respect we owe to great men, 34.
Culverin, Colonel, his character, 207.

D.

Davis, Major, his duel with Ralph Pumpkin, 88.
Deafness, the principal qualification of a hearer, 28.

Death, the contempt of it to what owing, 113. Those people
the most averse to it who have the least enjoyment of life,
and why, 114, 115.

Dialogue, ancient and modern compared, 232, 233.

Dictionary, English, Mr. Johnson's, considered, 260 to 264.

Dictionaries of the Florentine and French academies, their rise
and perfection, 261. Those of the English only word-books,
262.

Doll Common, her advice to Falstaff, 257.

Drinking, an acquired, not a natural vice, 217.

Duties of society; our refinements upon them, 228.

E.

Effeminacy in men, the affectation of it, how ridiculous, 37.
Electrical engine, cures performed by it, 168.

Electrical experiments, how beneficial to the manufacture of
thunder and lightning, 167.

England, its superiority in politeness to other nations, 277.
English Dictionary, by Mr. Johnson, its utility, 264.

English language, its progress over Europe, 263. Various and
unsettled orthography of it, 267.

Epaminondas, a saying of his, 112.

Epitaph of a moral atheist, on himself, 114.
Extinguisher, the use of it how to be extended, 21.
Extinguishing office, a proposal to erect one in this metropolis,
and what, 19 to 21.

F.

Fair youths, their pain to appear manly, 37.
Falstaff, his reply to Doll Common, 257.

Family interest, frequently the destruction of family estates, 111.
Fashion, its effects on the understandings of great people, 234,
235.

Feeble, lord, his character, 206.

Finical, lord, a description of his library, 64 to 68.

Fitz-Adam, Mr. how imposed upon by a correspondent, 7.
His great lenity, 102. Misrepresented by his enemies, 105.
His treatment of splenetic correspondents, ibid. His thoughts
of annihilation, 113. His surprize at receiving a letter insinu-
ating that he grows dull, 200. His willingness to continue
his labours, while there is the least folly remaining, ibid. His
great satisfaction at the reformations he has occasioned, 202.
His belief that the Millennium is near at hand, 203. Resolves
to lay down his paper the Thursday after its commencement,
ibid. His acknowledgments to his correspondents, ibid. His
petition in verse to the * of ***, ibid. His character of a fel-
low-collegiate of his, 209. His account of a modern Sympo-
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sion, 210 to 216. His instruction to the society of Siphons,
220. His vindication of Italian operas, 250 to 255. His pro-
posal to Mr. Johnson for a neological dictionary, 269. Advan-
tages of it, ibid. His great pleasure in vindicating the honour
of his native country, 275. "His reasons for declining serious
essays, 281.

Fitz-Adam, Mrs. her aptness to interpret judgments.

Fleming, Charles, the visiting highwayman, his conformity to
the manners of the great world, 280, 281.

Flirtation, birth and meaning of that word, 266.

Folly, the chace after it like hunting a witch, 104.
Frankly, Mr. his courtship to the widow G. 134, 135.

French, their unpoliteness, 278. Vulgar behaviour of their
highwaymen, ibid.

French academies, the danger of sending our youth to them, 52.
French fashions introduced into this kingdom by Queen Eliza-
beth, 126.

French historian, his observation on the English who were in
possession of Aquitain, 219.

French operas, condemned by Boileau, 250.

Frettabit, Susannah, her letter to Mr. Fitz-Adam, 57.

Frettabit, Toby, his method of shortening a visitation, 58.

Future, mistaken anxieties about it, 257.

Future state, the apprehensions of it, not apt to make any im-
pression on the imagination, 258.

Fuzz, explanation of that useful word, 266.

G.

Gaming act, a proposal for one, in imitation of the game act, 92.
Good, nothing to be accounted so, that does not contribute to
happiness.

Good-breeding, those people deficient in it who talk of what
they understand, 222.

Good man, what, 271.

Greeks, an unpolite people, 276.

Guardian, the authors of that work how imposed upon.

Guzzle, sir Tunbelly, his character, 207.

H.

Handsome men, their disadvantages, 34, 35.

Handsome women, their inviolable friendships for each other,

10.