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ATHEISTS, great zealots

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177

ATHEISM, zealots in, described.....

AVARICE, the offspring of the fear of want.... 39
its suggestions described by Persius...

ib.

often found in the same heart with luxury.. 40
allegory upon it....

AUTHOR, an essayist, labours under more dis-
advantages than the writer of a volume

is very useful....

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must not be mortified when thrown aside by
ignorance

prints his ideas in his book......

.......

wherein he has the advantage of an artist...
how careful he ought to be of what he writes
a story of an atheistical

ib.

17

ib.

4

ib.

5

of plays, what expedient he makes use of.... 65

BACON, (Sir Francis) his observation upon envy 162
a great genius, who has formed himself by
rules

BAGS of

money, their sudden transformation into
sticks and papers...

BAUDRY, the writing of it shows a dearth of
genius

BEAU, (a dirty) noticed for his slovenliness...
the head of one dissected

BELIEVERS, such have been the wisest men of
all ages

BITERS, their business..

BLANCHE of Castile, an anecdote exhibiting
her maternal feelings. Note....
BOUHOURS, (M.) a great critic

BRITISH ladies distinguished from the Picts..
BRUYERE (M. la) his character of an absent

man

BULLOCK and Norris, differently habited,
prove great helps to a silly play....
BURNET (Dr.) citation of a passage in his The-
ory of the Earth

CANT, from whence said to be derived
CALIGULA, made cruel by his nurse....

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CATO: elegant translation of the speech of Cato
on the immortality of the soul

47

CATILINE, Tully's character of him.

CAVE of Trophonius, described in a dream..... 196
CESAR, (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader.... 113

165

CHARACTERS of various painters

of great geniuses.

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..... 202

34

CHARITY, the great want of it amongst Chris-

tians .....

CHARMS, (true) of a woman described.
CHILDREN: it is unnatural in mothers to let
them suck a stranger's milk

CHRISTIAN religion, proof of its articles; and
excellency of its doctrines

HERO, title of a tract published in 1701.
passage of it cited

A

CHRISTIANITY, the parent of the most sublime
eloquence..

CHRONOGRAM, a piece of false wit....
CHURCH Music recommended. ............
it casts noble hints into the soul
its improvement to be wished for
CICERO, a punster

.......

200

147

202

81

03

263

66

CLARENDON, (Earl of) describing a great
man teasing himself with an idle curiosity.. 116

CLEANLINESS recommended

a mark of politeness

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CLEOMIRA, elegant but chaste in her dance... 161
CLERGYMEN, too numerous.......

220

COACH, (stage) description of its company..... 57
COMMERCE, its advantages...

COMMON PRAYER, some reflections on the

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CONSCIOUSNESS, when called affectation....
CONSTITUTION, British, eulogy on it
COURTIER's habit, when hieroglyphical.

COURTLY mournings....

COWLEY, abounds in mixed wit

COQUETTES, the present female education

multiplies their race.....

.... 16t
COXCOMBS, generally the women's favourites.. 25
CREDIT, a beautiful virgin, her abode, her

equipage

a great valetudinarian

(public) its supports..

CURIOSITY, (absurd) an instance of it

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DAPHNE, her history.

34

DEATH: the time and manner of our death un-

known to us.......

199

Page

DELIGHT and surprise, properties essential to

wit
DERVISE, misfortunes of a, which he attributes
to a want of cleanliness...

DES BARREAUX, celebrated as a libertine
and a penitent......

his fine sonnet....

45

59

243

244

.... 77

DIGNITARIES of the law, who they are...... 221
DIGNITY of man, a proof of his immortality..
DIONYSIUS's Ear, what it was..

115

269

DIVINE NATURE, our narrow conceptions of it 268
its omnipresence and omniscience."
DISSENTERS, their canting way of reading the

111

prayers.....
DISSOLUTION of nature, reflections upon it... 171
DONNE (Dr.) describes his mistress...
76
DREAMS, tokens of the grandeur of the soul.. 130
proofs of the activity of the human mind.... 131
of Trophonius's cave..

DRYDEN, his translation from Persius, of the
pleadings of luxury and avarice...

his definition of wit censured

his handsome observation on Ovid's letter
from Dido to Eneas....

198

39

49

51

DRAMA, its first original, a religious worship.. 265

DUELLING, a speech against it.....

155

DUELLIST, misfortune of one...

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DULNESS, the parent of indecency.

68

the Temple of.....

83

the God of..

ib.

attended with anagrams, acrostics, rebuses.. ib.
DUTCH, more polite than the English in their
monuments of the dead....

EARTH, its dissolution considered

the theory of it, a passage cited from Dr.
Burnet's book, thus entitled..

EDUCATION (female) errors of..

ENGLISH tongue, speculations upon it........

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delights in silence
ENVIOUS man, the painful state of his mind... 162

derives relief from the blemishes of others... 163
he is pleased at the sight of those he has slain 164
ENVY, observation of Sir Francis Bacon upon it 162
EPISTLES, recommendatory, the injustice and

absurdity of most of them................ 169.

Page

160

EPITAPH, a spirited one written by Ben Jonson 39
ERRORS of female education..
ETHERIDGE (Sir George) his comedy of She
would if She could, censured..

EVREMOND (Monsieur St.) describing the last
sigh of a woman.

EUCRATE, the favourite of Pharamond.
BULOGY of the British constitution

on modesty.........

EXERCISE, the great benefit of bodily........

FALSEHOOD, the goddess of

description of her empire................

her figure..

disappears before truth....

FAME, its palace described by Ovid..

courts compared to it.....

FASHION, its power evinced........

FEMALE virtues, their nature..

politicians censured......

education, errors of it.

FIDELIO, his adventures, and transformation

into a looking-glass.

FOX-HUNTER, character of a.......

69

36

152

298

246

12

82
ib.

85

ib.

113

ib.

157

53

ib.

160

216

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FREE-THINKERS put into Trophonius's Cave 195
FRUGALITY, the support of generosity..

208

GAIETY (female) reflections upon it............ 924
GENIUS, character of a great one.....

GHOST, the appearance of one of great efficacy

on an English theatre.......

the terror of them ridiculed

advice to arm ourselves against the fear of
them by reason and religion...

GOD, a being of infinite perfection.....

a contemplation of his omnipresence and om-

niscience.

reflections derived from his ubiquity
GOVERNMENT, what form of it is the most
rational...

HANDKERCHIEF, the great machine for mov-

ing pity in a tragedy

HARE, chase of a, described........
HEAD of a beau anatomised....

HEBRAISMS run into English.

HERACLITUS, a remarkable observation of that
philosopher

168

104

186

187

241

966

270

298

105

250

263

139

HISTORY of Laetitia and Daphne.............. 34

Page

HOBBES, (Mr.) his observation upon laughter.. 13

HUMOUR, true and false described...

Y

its genealogy.

its character.........

its relations..

HUNTING party, description of a.

the use of it..

HYMN, composed in sickness....

David's pastoral one, on Providence ....

IDLENESS, an universal distemper..
it is difficult to be cured..
JEWISH law commands cleanliness..
IGNOTUS, the true fine gentleman...
ILL-NATURE is an imitator of zeal..

IMMORTALITY of the soul, arguments in proof
of it......

of the soul, proved by the dignity of man....
INDECENCY the offspring of dulness...
INDIAN kings describing London during their
stay in it..

INFIDELE is not to be trusted.....
INFIDELITY, another term for ignorance....

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its foundation, folly, and inconsiderateness ib.
its supporter vanity...
INKLE and Yarico, their story

INSTINCT, the power of it in brutes..........
INTEREST, a great inflamer of zeal.

INVENTION, painful when we are awake, easy
in our sleep...

JONSON, (Ben) spirited epitaph by him on a
lady....

KINGS, (Indian) their visit to London....
their description of that city...

LÆTITIA, her history

LANGUAGES, (European) cold in comparison
to the Oriental

LETTER DROPPERS of antiquity, who they

were..

LIBERTY of the people, when best preserved.. 235
LONDON described by Indian kings...

an emporium for the whole earth

LINDAMIRA allowed to paint for her punish-
ment.

LONGINUS, his judgment on St. Paul of Tarsus 93
LOVE, natural, stronger in brutes than in rea-
sonable beings..

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