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130

Acts, public at Oxford, two great reasons against them 96

ACTIVE men, compared with speculative.......

Adam, his vision of souls

Adamite, a sect so called...

Alcinous, his gardens described, from Homer..........

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134

173

111

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152

167

Alehouse-keeper, an elegant one on Hampstead road.. 144
Alexander, a letter from him to Aristotle...
Allegories, directions for using them.......
Alnaraschin, king of Persia, his story.
Alonzo, Don, a fatal-instance of the effects of jealousy. 123
Alphonso, his story from Strada's Lucan

............

119

Anacreon, his instructions to a painter for painting his
mistress.....

168

Anaximander, a saying of his, on being laughed at for

singing...

135

Ancestors, their examples should excite to great and
virtuous actions....

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renders the good only illustrious................ 123
ridiculous for a man to value himself upon it. 137

Ancients, distinguished by Strada

Androcles, story of him and the lion.................
Anger, defined

Annihilation, by whom desired....

119

139

129

89

Ants natural history of them........................ 128, 156, 157
Aristotle condemned censure.

135

Art, those most capable of it, always fond of nature... 173
Atalantis (the author of it) to whom akin.................. 107
Athalia (of Racine) part of it sublime......

Atheism more grievous than religion.

Athenais, a Grecian virgin, married to the emperor

Theodosius.........

Attraction of bodies applied to minds

Augustus Cæsar, Virgil's praises of him.......

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Aurenge-Zebe, tragedy of, wherein faulty..........

BARSISA, Santon, his story from the Turkish Tales....... 148
Bath, customs of that place.....

Beauty, inconveniencies attending it.........

at war with Fortitude....

imperfect, described by Prior................................................................

174

85

152

85

Benevolence, the seeds of it implanted in the human

soul.

Betty, Miss, her history..

Bias, his way of silencing Calumny

Binicorn, (Humphrey) his proposal for printing a disser-
tation on horns..

Birds, their examples proposed to imitation....
observations on their conjugal and parental affec-
tions........

Blood, by what tainted...

No.

126

159

135

124

125

125

137

Bodkin, Timothy, his letter concerning short swords.... 145
Boileau, a French critic, his account of the sublime... 117
Bosoms, naked, a great grievance

116

the Pope's order against them.............................................. ............... 116

Bribery, none in a present of liquor...
Bruce, Lord, his challenge to, and duel with Sir Edward
Sackville.

Bubnelia, angry about the tucker...

Button, Daniel, his letter in praise of his own coffee-
house.

twisting, not eloquent..........................

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160

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109

85

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135

CALUMNY, nothing so hard for a generous mind to get

over...

how silenced by philosophers.....

Care, Dorothy, complains of men's open bosoms........ 171
Chaplains to persons of quality ought to be respected.. 162
Charity, a virtue of the heart.

a signal proof of the divinity of the Christian
religion......

intended by Nestor Ironside, esq..
schools recommended......

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China, emperor of, honours none till after death....
Chryso-magnet, or the loadstone which attracts gold,
described by Strada.........

Clarina, a young lady unhappy by her beauty
Classics, absolutely necessary to study them.
Claudian (Strada's)....

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Pluto's speech to Proserpine, from him...
Cleomenes, a tragedy, by Dryden, wherein faulty...
Clergymen considered as philosophers..........
Climate (British) very inconstant

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Clown, character of an impudent one...................... 162

Club, of Little men .....

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Cold bath, recommended...

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108

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118

102

103

Comet, a remarkable one in 1680 described...
Complaisance, useful in conversation to make it agree-

able..

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162

Congreve, Mr. characters drawn by him ..........85, 115
Conscience, is to the soul what health is to the body... 135
the efficacy and force of it in the hour of

death

a good one, the only relief against the
pain of calumny

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135

135

140

126

Coquet, how she should paint herself..
Countrymen, meeting abroad, their familiarity.
Courtship, the extravagance of it described...... ........ 113
Coxcomb, at the head of a family, a melancholy thing 165
Crassus, an old lethargic valetudinarian.

102

Creation, works of, the divine consideration of them.... 175
Critics, wherein they differ from cavillers.....

110

the severity of one on the fire-works on the
Thames

103

the character and marks of an ill one, by Mr.
Congreve...

115

Criticism on several plays of Dryden's and Lee's....... 110
Cromwell, Oliver, what monsieur Paschal says of his

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DEDALUS, his letter about flying.....

Damo, a daughter of Pythagoras, to whom he left
writings....

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David (king), a rabbinical story concerning him....
Davis, Sir George, his adventure with a lion....
Dead men, only have honours in China......

Death, the hope of good men in it...............................

what only can speak life in the midst of it.
compared to Proteus

Whence the abhorrence of it proceeds.

Defamation, the art of it discovered...

Denham, Sir John, his directions for translating......... 164

Derham, Mr. his book of Physico-Theology com-

mended....

175

Detraction, too easily given into by the ladies.........
Diaper, James, his letter recommending Tom's coffee-
house for politeness of conversation......
Diogenes, a severe saying of his to one that slandered
him ..........

No.

85

92

135

94

his opinion concerning the poor and rich...
Distress, imaginary, the greatest part of man's affliction 162
Ditton and Whiston, their letter concerning the longi-

tude.......

Don Sebastian, by Dryden, wherein that tragedy is

faulty

Dream of a window in Aurelia's breast...

concerning death

of the future punishment of the idle.

Dress, genius discovered therein

Compared to poetry.

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Dryden, John, faulty in his sentiments..

Duels, proceed from a false honour.

ought to be abolished

Dump, Goody, her letter complaining of a sullen hus-

band...

107

110

106

136

158

149

149

110

133

129

132

Dunkirk, animadversions concerning demolishing it 128,131
Dutch, not subject to the spleen

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EARRING, Nicholas, esq. his letter concerning a scold-

ing wife

132

Earth, its inhabitants ranged under two general heads. 130
Education, various errors therein

94

Eliza, the character of a good mother......

150

Epictetus, his saying concerning censure........

135

Eve, her treating of an angel, described by Milton...... 138
her innocence to be imitated, not her nakedness. 100

Evites, women so called, and why.

140

Evergreen, Anthony, his collection of fig-leaves for the

ladies......

140

dian.......

Eusden, Reverend Mr. translations of his from Clau-

Examination, self, advantages attending it.
Examiner, his insolence to a bishop of the church of
England.......

writes in defence of popery....................

his knack at finding out treason in words......
has no talent for panegyric..

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FAMILY, head of, dangerous when bad..

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Family, mistress of, a good one described, from the book

of Proverbs

No.

168

117

103

Fear of God, all true fortitude founded on it............
Feet, pretty ones, a letter concerning them............... 132
Figleaf (Leonilla) her letter concerning modesty-pieces 118
Fire-works on the Thames, description of them....... 103
--- a fine one described by Strada...
Flattery, grateful to human nature
Florella, angry about the tucker..
Flying, a humour in the reign of Charles the Second.....112
Foresight, Frank, his good conduct on his marriage 147
Fortitude founded on the fear of God.......

at war with Beauty.....

Foundling hospitals, wherein useful

Fontainbleau (palace of) described..............................................

France, the fountain of dress.......

Temperance of the climate...

court of......

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135

109

117

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105

101

149

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Condemned for affecting singularity

89

Accuse the Christian religion as defective in friend-
ship..

126

Like the Jewish Sadducees, considered as auto-

mata....
.................................................. 130
French, very courteous and talkative....................... 101
The happiest people in the world ...................... 104
Their kindness and affability to strangers........... 101
trade prejudicial to England.....

nobleman, memoirs of one.......................... .................... 150
Friendship promoted by the Christian religion........... 126

123

low, between a footman and a maid-servant 87

GALLANTRY, precautions against it............

Gamesters, a panegyric on them..................

174

Gaming, ill consequences of that vice among the la-

dies....

120-

Gardens, the best not so fine as nature..

173-

Genius, necessary to dress well.......

Gentleman, wherein really superior to a mechanic..... 130

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