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him, and, in short, sticks at nothing that may establish his character of a wit.' It is no wonder therefore he succeeds in it better than the man of humanity, as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader.

ADDISON.

L.

INDEX.

ACTION, the felicity of the soul....

Affliction and sorrow, not always expressed by tears..
True affliction labours to be invisible....
Age, the unnatural misunderstanding between age and
youth.......

The authority of an aged virtuous person prefera-
ble to the pleasures of youth..

Albacinda, her character..

Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition......

His answer to those who asked him if he would
not be a competitor for the prize in the Olym-
pic games.

Amaryllis, her character.....

Ambition, the occasion of factions....

Animals, the different make of every species..........................

No.

116

95

95

153

153

144

127

157

144

125

120

The instinct of brutes...

120

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by nature..

121

lowable

traveller...

Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary and al-

Apparitions, the creation of weak minds.

Arable (Mrs.) the great heiress, the Spectator's fellow-

Aristotle, his account of the world...

Aristus and Aspasia, a happy couple.........

128

Artist, wherein he has the advantage of an author....... 166
Association of honest men proposed by the Spectator.. 126
Author: in what manner one author is a mole to an-

other.......

124

Wherein an author has the advantage of an artist 166

93

110

132

166

Author: the care an author ought to take of what he
writes...

No.

166

A story of an atheistical author......

166

BAREFACE, his success with the ladies, and the reason

for it.....

156

Bear-Garden, the Spectator's method for the improve-

ment of it....

141

Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable.... 87

And fantastical....

144

Impertinent and disagreeable

144

The efficacy of beauty.

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

Bodily exercises, of ancient encouragement......

Books reduced to their quintessence

The legacies of great geniuses..

Burnet (Dr.) some passages in his Theory of the Earth

considered.........

CESAR (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader........
Cambray (the bishop of) his Education of a Daughter

recommended....

Cant, from whence said to be derived..

122

Care: what ought to be a man's chief care....
Carneades, the philosopher, his definition of beauty.... 144
Cassius, the proof he gave of his temper in his child-

144

88

16t

124

166

....143, and 146

147

95

147

hood...

157

Castle-builders, who, and their follies exposed...
Censure, a tax, by whom paid to the public, and for

167

what....

101

Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's..... 106
Chastity, the great point of honour in women.
Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and pre-

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Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be com-
mended......

85

Church-yard, the country change on Sunday
Common-prayer, some considerations on the reading

112

of it....

147

The excellency of it

147

Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the

calamities of life....

169

Compliments in ordinary discourse censured...
Exchange of compliments......

No.

103

155

Conde (prince of) his face like that of an eagle......... 86
Connecte (Thomas) a monk in the 14th century, a
zealous preacher against the women's commodes
in those days..

Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this

life..

98

163

Conversation, usually stuffed with too many compli-
ments

103

Cotillus, his great equanimity..

What properly to be understood by the word con-
versation

Coverley (Sir Roger de) he is something of an hu-

mourist....

His choice of a chaplain......

143

143

106

106

His management of his family.

.......

107

His account of his ancestors.

109

A great benefactor to his church in Worcester-
shire.....

Is forced to have every room in his house exor-
cised by his chaplain

110

112

In which he suffers no one to sleep but himself... 112
He gives the Spectator an account of his amours,
and the character of his widow.....

The trophies of his several exploits in the coun-
try..

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Country, the charms of it

Country gentleman and his wife, neighbours to Sir

Roger, their different tempers described..

Country Sunday, the use of it.......

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One of the chief topics in books of chivalry......... 99

Courage: false courage..

Mechanic courage, what

Cowley, his magnanimity.

Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites..

DEATH, the contemplation of it affords a delight mixed

with terror and sorrow.

133

Intended for our relief....

133

Deaths of eminent persons the most improving

passages in history.

133

Debt, the ill state of such as run in debt

Decency, nearly related to virtue..

104

Demurrers, what sort of women so to be called.

Devotion, the great advantage of it...

The most natural relief in our afflictions.

163

Dick Crastin challenges Tom Tulip..

Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be con-

quered of any other...

Dissenters, their canting way of reading.

Dissimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it......... 103
Duelling, a discourse against it.....

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99

152

114

97

Pharamond's edict against it.

Duration, the idea of it how obtained, according to
Mr. Locke..

Different beings may entertain different notions
of the same parts of duration........

EDUCATION: an ill method observed in the educating
our youth......

157

Eminent men, the tax paid by them to the public..... 101
Englishman, the peculiar blessing of being born one... 135
The Spectator's speculations upon the English
tongue

English not naturally talkative.....

The English tongue much adulterated

135

135 and 148

165

Epaminondas, his honourable death....

133

Ephraim, the quaker, the Spectator's fellow-traveller

in a stage-coach....

132

His reproof to a recruiting officer in the same
coach...

132

And advice to him at their parting...

132

Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life 143
Equestrian order of ladies........

Its origin.....

104

104

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