mies, expofes the perfon who has obliged him, and, in fhort, fticks at nothing that may establish his character of a wit. It is no wonder therefore he fucceeds in it better than the man of humanity, as a perfon who makes use of indirect me thods, is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader. od gem on or vanom polfim do ene L Τ Η Ε Τ N D E X. A ACTION the felicity of the foul, Number 116. Affliction and forrow, not always expreffed by tears, N. 95. True affliction labours to be invifible, ibid. Age, the unnatural mifunderstanding between age and youth, N. 153. The authority of an aged. virtuous perfon preferable to the pleafures of youth, ibid. Albacinda, her character, N. 144. Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition, N. 127. His answer to thofe who asked him if he would not be a competitor for the prize in the Olympic-games, 157. Amaryllis, her character, N. 144. Ambition, the occafion of factions, N. 125. Animals, the different make of every fpecies, N. 120. The inftinct of brutes, ibid. exemplified in feveral inftances, ibid. God himself the foul of brutes, 121. The variety of arms with which they are provided by nature, ibid. Amusements of life, when innocent, neceffary and allowable, N. 93. Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, N. 110. Arable, (Mrs.) the great heirefs, the Spectator's fellow-traveller, N. 132. Ariftotle, his account of the world, N. 166. Affociation of honeft men propofed by the Spectator, N. 126. De Author, Author, In what at manner one author is a mole to another, N. 124. Wherein an author has the advantage of an artift, 166. The care an author ought to take of what he writes, ibid. A ftory of an atheistical author, ibid. B BAREFACE, his fuccefs with the ladies, and the reafon for it, N. 156. Bear-Garden, the Spectator's method for the im⚫provement of it, N. 141. Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable, N. 87. and fantastical, 144. impertinent and difagreeable, ibid. The efficacy of beauty, ibid. Board-wages, the ill effects of it, N. 88. Bodily exercifes, of ancient encouragement, N. 161. Books reduced to their quinteffence, N. 124. The legacies of great geniuses, 166. Burnet, (Dr.) fome paffages in his theory of the earth confidered, Ñ. 143, and 146. N. C ESAR (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader, Cambray (the Bishop of) his education of a daughfer recommended, N. 95. Cant, from whence faid to be derived, N. 147. Care, what ought to be a man's chief care, N. 122. Carneades, the philofopher, his definition of beauty, N. 144. Caffius, the proof he gave of his temper in his childhood, N. 157. Caftle-builders, who, and their follies expofed, N. 167. Cenfure, a tax, by whom paid to the publick, and for what, N. 101. Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's, N. 106. Chastity, the great point of honour in women, N. 99. Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and preferved, N. 143. Children, Children, wrong measures taken in the education Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be Churchyard, the country Change on Sunday, N.112. Compliments in ordinary difcourfe cenfured, N. 103. Conde (Prince of) his face like that of an eagle, Gennecte (Thomas) a monk in the 14th century, a Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in Converfation, ufually ftuffed with too many com- Coverley (Sir Roger de) he is fomething of an hu- reft, reft, 126. His adventure with fome gipfies, 130. Country, the charms of it, N. 118. Country gen- Courage recommends a man to the female fex more Coxcombs, generally the womens favourites, N. 128. D EATH, the contemplation of it affords a de- Debt, the ill ftate of fuch as run in debt, N. 82. Demurrers, what fort of women fo to be called, Devotion, the great advantage of it, N. 93. The Diffenters, their canting way of reading, N. 147. Duelling, a difcourfe against it, N. 84. Pharamond's Duration, the idea of it how obtained according to Education, |