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CTION the felicity of the foul, Numb. 116. Affliction and forrow, not always exprest by tears, N. 95. True affliction labours to be invisible, ib. Age: the unnatural misunderstanding between age and youth, N. 153. The authority of an aged virtuous perfon preferable to the pleafures of youth, ib. Albacinda, her character, N. 144.

Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition, N. 127. His answer to those who asked him if he would not be a competitor for the prize in the Olympic games, ib. Amaryllis, her character, N. 144.

Ambition, the occafion of factions, N. 125.

Animals, the different make of every fpecies, N. 120. The instinct of brutes, ib. exemplified in feveral inftances, ib. God himself the foul of brutes, 121. The variety of arms with which they are provided by nature, ib. Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary and allowable, N. 93.

Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, N. 110.

Arable, (Mrs.) the great heiress, the SPECTATOR's fellow-traveller, N. 132.

Ariftotle, his account of the world, N. 166.

Ariftus and Afpafia, an happy couple, N. 128.

Artift, wherein he has the advantage of an author, N. 166. Affociation of honeft men propofed by the SPECTATOR, N. 126.

Author in what manner one author is a mole to another, N. 124. Wherein an author has the advantage of an artist, 166. The care an author ought to take of what he writes, ib. A story of an atheistical author, ib.

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AREFACE, his fuccefs with the ladies, and the reafon for it, N. 156.

Bear

Bear-Garden, the SPECTATOR'S method for the improve-
ment of it, N. 141.

Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable, N. 87.
and fantastical, 144. impertinent and disagreeable, ib.
The efficacy of beauty, ib.

Board-wages, the ill effects of it, N. 88.

Bodily exercises, 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, N. 143. and 146.

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CESAR, (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader, N. 147.
Cambray (the bishop of) his Education of a daughter
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 public, 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.
Chearfulness of temper, how to be obtained and preserved,

N. 143.

Children, wrong measures taken in the education of the
British children, N. 157.

Children in the wood, a ballad, wherein to be commend-
ed, N. 85.

Church-yard, the country change on Sunday, N. 112.
Common-prayer, fome confiderations on the reading of it,
N. 147. The excellency of it, ib.

Compaffion, the exercise of it would tend to leffen the ca-
lamities of life, N. 169.

Compliments in ordinary difcourfe cenfured, N. 103. Ex-
change of compliments, 155.

Conde, (prince of) his face like that of an eagle, N. 86.
Connecte, (Thomas) a monk in the 14th century, a zealous
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preacher against the womens commodes in thofe days,
N. 98.

Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this
life, N. 163.

Converfation, ufually stuffed with too many compliments,
N. 103. What properly to be understood by the word
converfation, 143.

Cottilus, his great equanimity, N. 143.
Coverley, (Sir Roger de) he is fomething of an humourist,
N. 106. his choice of a chaplain, ib. His management of
his family, 107. His account of his ancestors, 109. Is
forced to have every room in his house exorcised by his
chaplain, 110. A great benefactor to his church in
Worcestershire, 112. in which he fuffers no one to fleep
but himself, ib. He gives the SPECTATOR an account
of his amours, and character of his widow, 113, 118.
The trophies of his feveral exploits in the country, 115.
A great fox-hunter, 116. An inftance of his good-
nature, ib. His averfion to confidents, 118.
manner of his reception at the affizes, 122. Where he
whispers the judge in the ear, ib. His adventure when
a fchool-boy, 125. A man for the landed intereft, 126.
His adventure with fome gipfies, 130. Rarely fports
near his own feat, 131.

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Country, the charms of it, N. 118. Country gentleman
and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger, their different
tempers defcribed, N. 128. Country Sunday, the ufe of
it, 112. Country wake defcribed, 161.

Courage recommends a man to the female fex more than
any other quality, N. 99. One of the chief topics in
books of chivalry, ib. False courage, ib. Mechanic
courage, what, N. 152.

Cowley, his magnanimity, N. 114.

Coxcombs, generally the womens favourites, N. 128.

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EATH, the contemplation of it affords a delight
mixt with terror and forrow, N. 133. Intended
for our relief, ib. Deaths of eminent perfons the
most improving paffages in history, ib.
Debt: the ill ftate of fuch as run in debt, N. 82.
Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 104.

Demurrers,

Demurrers, what fort of women fo "to be called, N. 89.
Devotion, the great advantage of it, N. 93. The most
natural relief in our afflictions, 163.

Dick Craftin challengeth Tom Tulip, N. 91.

Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be conquered
of any other, N. 163.

Diffenters, their canting way of reading, N. 147.
Diffimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it, N, 103.
Duelling, a difcourse against it, N. 48. Pharamond's e-
dict against it, 97.

Duration, the idea of it how obtained according to Mr.
Locke, N. 94. Different beings may entertain different
notions of the fame parts of duration, ib.

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Eminent men, the tax paid by them to the public, N. 10г.
Englishmen, the peculiar bleffing of being born one, N.
135. The SPECTATOR's fpeculations upon the English
tongue, ib. English not naturally talkative, ib. and 148.
The English tongue much adulterated, 165.
Epaminondas, his honourable death, N. 133.
Ephraim, the Quaker, the SPECTATOR's fellow-traveller
in a ftage-coach, N. 132. His reproof to a recruiting
officer in the fame coach, ib. and advice to him at their
parting, ib.

Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life,
N. 143.

Equestrian order of ladies, N. 104. Its origin, ib.

Errors and prepoffeffions difficult to be avoided, N. 117.
Eternity, a profpect of it, No. 159.

Eucrate, his conference with Pharamond, N. 84.
Fucratia, her character, N. 144.

Eudofia, her character, N. 144.

Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship, and education of
their children, N. 123.

Exercife, the great benefit and neceffity of bodily exercise,.

N. 155.

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ALSEHOOD in man, a recommendation to the fair

Ffex, N. 156.

Families the ill measures taken by great families in the
education of their younger fons, No. 108.

Fan, the exercise of it, N. 102.

Fashion men of fashion, who, N. 151.

Fauftina the emprefs, her notions of a pretty gentleman,

N. 128.

Female virtues, which the moft fhining, N. 81.

Flavia, her mother's rival, N. 91.

Flutter of the fan, the variety of motions in it, N. 102.
Freeport, (Sir Andrew) his moderation in point of politics,
N. 126.

Frugality, the fupport of generofity, N. 107.

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AMING, the folly of it, N. 93.

G Genius, what properly a great one, N. 160.

Gentry of England, generally fpeaking, in debt, N. 82.
Geography of a jeft fettled, N. 138.

Gigglers in church, reproved, N. 158.

Gipfies: an adventure between Sir Roger, the SPECTA
TOR, and fome gipfies, N. 130.

Glaphyra, her ftory out of Jofephus, N. 110.

Glory, the love of it, N. 139. In what the perfection of
it confifts, ib.

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Good-breeding, the great revolution that has happened in
that article, No. 119.

Good-humour, the neceffity of it,. N. 100.

Good nature more agreeable in conversation than wit, N.
169. The neceflity of it, ib. Good-nature born with
us, ib.

Grandmother: Sir Roger de Coverley's great, great, great
grandmother's receipt for an hafty-pudding and a white-.
pot, N. 109.

Great men, the tax paid by them to the public, N. 1OI..
Not truly known till fome years after their deaths, ib.

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