finite minds. His works but faintly reflect the image of his per fections; it is a secondhand knowledge; to hare a.just idea of him, it may be necessary that we see him as he is. But what is that? It is something that never entered into the heart of man to conceive; yet, what we can easily conceive will be a fountain of unspeakable and everlasting rapture. All created glories will fade and die away in his presence. Perhaps it will be my happiness to compare the world with the fair exemplar of it in the Divine Mind; perhaps, to view the original plan of those wise designs that have been executing in a long succession of ages. Thus employed in finding out his works, and contemplating their Author, how shall I fall prostrate and adoring, my body swallowed up in the immensity of matter, my mind in the infinitude of his perfections! GROVE. INDEX. THE FIGURES IN THE INDEX REFER TO THE NUMBERS No. the ladies. . . .55 Absence in conversation, a remark- of Bruyere .77 The absence of lovers, death in love . . . .241 How to be made easy . 241 Abstinence, the benefits of it . 196 Academy for politics . . . 305 The regulations of it . 305 Acasto, his agreeable character . 386 Acosta, his answer to Limborch, into simple and compound 60 Act of deformity, for the use of the Ugly club . .17 Action, the felicity of the soul . 116 A threefold division of our actions 213 them . . . .174 A necessary qualification in an orator .... 541 phrastus .... 641 Admiration, one of the most pleasing passions .... 237 When turned into contempt . 340 Short-lived . . . .256 A pleasing motion of the mind . 413 Adversity, no evil in itself . . 237 Advertisements of an Italian chirur- geon . . .22 No. From St. James's coffee-house . 24 From a gentlewoman that teaches From another that is a fine flesh- From Mr. Sly, the haberdasher . 187 About the lottery ticket . 191 Advice : no order of persons too con- In what manner to be given to a Usually received with reluctance . 512 It deforms beauty, and turns wit The original of it . .88 Found in the wise man as well as The way to get clear of it . .38 The misfortune of it . , 404 Described . . . 400 Affliction and sorrow not always ex- True affliction labours to be invisi- How contemned by the Athenians The unnatural misunderstanding The authority of an aged virtuous A comfortable old age the reward The authority assumed by some Aglaus, his story told by Cowley . 610 The art of being agreeable in com- No. Alexander, the Great, wry-necked . 32 who ore led by it, as the people 200 The end of it . . . 265 The effects of it in the mind . 266 Subjects us to many troubles . 267 The true object of a laudable ambi- their countrymen . .56 Used painting instead of writing . 416 different sexes dangerous . 400 Amoret the jilt reclaimed by Philan- the reason of it . . .32 Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary and allowable . 03 Anacharsis, the Corinthian drunkard, a saying of his . . . 669 Anagram, what, and when first pro- on it . . . 643 Ancestry, how far honour is to be paid to . . - .612 Ancients in the east, their way of living .... 415 Ko. The instinct of brute* . . 130 Exemplified in several instances . 15* Henry VTH. . . . 397 Annihilation, by whom desired . 219 The most abject of wishes . . 219 Answers to several letters at once 531,619 Anthony (Mark), his witty mirth commended by Tally . . 181 Antipathies, a letter about them . 690 them and the vanity of them . 05 described .... 244 Apothecary, his employment . 196 Apparitions, the creation of weak minds . . . - 110 Appearances, the veneration of re- passions .... 20$ Applause (public , its pleasure . 442 Censure and applause should not April (the first of;, the merriest day Month of described. . .415 Arable (Mrs.;, the great heiress, th* Verses on Arabella's singing . 443 Araspas and Panthea, their story out of Xenophon . . 584 Architecture, the ancients* perfec- moderns .... 415 have the greatest air . . 415 Every thing that pleases the ima- Aretine made all the princes of Europe his tributaries . . 21 Argument, rides for the manage- No. Ariatintetus, bis letters, some account of them . . . .238 Aristippus, his saying of content . 674 Iambic verse . . .81 Upon tragediett . . 40, 42 Hit account of the world . . 166 The inventor of syllogism . * 289 His definition of an entire act of epic poetry . . . 267 Hia sense of the greatness of the An observation of that critic's . 278 world . . .201 HU division of a poem . . 297 Another of his observations . 297 His observation on the fable of an epic poem . . . 316 His saying of his being . . 425 Ariatus and Aspasia, a happy couple 128 weapon .... 541 the English stage . . .18 Art of criticism, the Spectator's ac- the imagination . . . 414 Receive great advantage from their likeness to those of nature . 414 The design of it . .641 Artillery, the invention and first use of it, to whom ascribed by Milton 383 of an author . . . 166 Asaph, St. (the Bishop of] his preface to his Sermons . . ■ 384 Association of honest men proposed by the Spectator . . « 126 Assurance, what . . . 373 Atheism, an enemy to cheerfulness of Two unanswerable arguments against it. . . .389 In what manner atheists ought to be treated . . .389 Atheists, great zealots . . 185 And bigots . . . .185 Their opinions downright nonsense 185 Atticus, disinterested and prudent conduct in his friendships . 385 Avarice, the original of it .56 Operates with luxury . . 66 At war with luxury . . 65 Its officers ond-adherenti . . 55 Comes to an agreement with luxury 65 The vicious taste of our English sense . . 13, 290 August and July (months of) de- Augustus, his request to his friends His reproof to the Roman bache- His saying of mourning fur the Aurelia, her character . . 16 Author, the necessity of his readers His opinion of his own performances 4 The expedient made use of by those In what manner one author is a Wherein on author has the advan- The care an author ought to take A story of an atheistical author . I(i6 Their precedency settled according BABEL (tower of) . . .415 Bacon (Sir Francis^ his comparison of a book well written . . 10 His observation upon envy. . 19 Prescribes his reader a poem or prospect, as conducive to health 411 His extraordinary learning and parts 654 Bacon flitch at Whichenovre, in Staf- Bags of money, a sudden transforma- Bamboo (Benjamin), the philosophi- Bankruptcy, the misery of it 428, 456 Bantuin (ambassador of), his letter to Baptist Lully, his prudent manage- Bareface, his success with the ladies, Bar-oratory in England, reflections on Basil ins Valeutinus, and his son, their Bawdry, never writ but where there Bawdy-houses frequented by wise Baxter (Mr.;, his last words . . 445 More last words . . 446 What a blessing he had . 590 Bayle [Mr.), what he says of libels . 451 Beards in former ages a type of wis- |