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Character, places me above the want of an Excufe. Candor and Openness of Heart, which shine in all your Words and Actions, exact the highest Efteem from all who have the Honour to know you; and a winning Condefcenfion to all fubordinate to You, made Bufinefs a Pleafure to those who executed it under You, at the fame time that it heightened Her Majefty's Favour to all who had the Happiness of having it convey'd through Your Hands. A Secretary of State, in the Interests of Mankind, join'd with that of his Fellow - Subjects, accomplished

with a great Facility and Elegance in all the Modern as well as Ancient Languages, was a hap

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py and proper Member of a Miniftry, by whose Services Your Sovereign and Country are in fo high and flourishing a Condition, as makes all other P.inces and Potentates powerful or inconfiderable in Europe, as they are Friends or Enemies to Great-Britain. Importance of those great Events which happened during that Administration, in which Your Lordfhip bore fo important a Charge, will be acknowledg'd as long as Time fhall endure; I fhall not therefore attempt to rehearse those illuftrious Paffages, but give this Application a more private and particular Turn, in deliring your Lordship would continue your Fayour and Patronage to me, as You A 2

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are a Gentleman of the most polite Literature, and perfectly accomplished in the Knowledge of Books and Men, which makes it neceffary to befeech Your Indulgence to the following Leaves, and the Author of them: Who is, with the greateft Truth and Respect,

My LORD,

Your Lordship's

Obliged, Obedient, and

Humble Servant,

The SPECTATOR.

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HE Month of May dangerous to the Fair-Sex No. 395
Letter from Peter de Quir on the ufe of Punning 396

On Compaffion, with a Letter from Ann Boleyn to

Henry VIII.

Whimsical Amour of Cynthio and Flavia

On Hypocrify, and its various kinds

On the danger of trusting to Pretenfions of Platonic-love 400
Letters from a penitent Filt and her abused Lover

-from Sylvia, Dorinda, and Cornelius Nepos

Reflections of Coffee-bouse Politicians on the Rumour of } 4

XIVth's Death

On Affectation

On Church-Mufick

On Solitude; with a Tranflation of a Lapland Ode
On the Power of Action in Oratory

The Paffions, the Principles of buman Actions

On Tafte

Sir Roger de Coverley's Adventure with a Lady
On the Pleasures of the Imagination, with

a Comparison between them and those
of the Underftanding

The Story of Gloriana, fbewing the effectual way to} 423

make Love

Rules to make Society in the Country agreeable, with a
Scheme for a Country Infirmary

The Revolution of the Seafons, a Dream

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Character of Sempronia, a Matchmaker

On Paffion and Peevifonefs

On Inquifitiveness

Farther Account of the Country-Infirmary

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Reliance on the Divine Protection, the surest Ground of } 441

Comfort

Perfons of all Profeffions invited to fend Papers to the

Spectator

Camilla's Letter from Venice

On Quack-Bills

On the new Tax on Paper by ftamping it

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On the Power of Habit and Custom

On the Corruption of the English Comedy

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On Neglect of Promifes on frivolous Occafions

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Filial Piety exemplified in the Character of Fidelia

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On Party-Libels

On the good Effects of the Love of Money

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On the Fondness of the English for News

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On Gratitude to the Deity for his Favours

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A Tour of twenty-four hours through London

Allegorical Letter on the Improvements of the Mind

On the Mifery of Bankruptcy

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On the Love of Praife and its Ufes

Character of Eaftcourt the Comedian

The Qualifications requifite in those who are to be em

ploy'd in Places of Trust

Ridicule on the Collectors of various Readings in the} 470

different Editions of the Claffics

On the Paffion of Hope.

On the Sight

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The Ridiculoufnefs of Men glorying in their Faults

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