Christian Religion, the clear proof its articles and excellency of
its doctrines, No. 186.
Coffee-house disputes, No. 197.
Comfort, what, and where found, No. 196.
Common Prayer, some considerations on the reading of it,
No. 147. The excellency of it, ib.
Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the calamities
of life, No. 169.
Compliments, exchange of compliments, No. 155.
Conquests, the vanity of them, No. 180.
Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this life,
No. 163.
Conversation, what properly to be understood by the word con-
versation, No. 143.
Cornaro, (Lewis) a remarkable instance of the benefit of tempe-
rance, No. 195.
Cotillus, his great equanimity, No. 143.
Coverly, (Sir Roger de) the manner of his reception at the assizes,
No. 122; where he whispers the judge in the ear, ib. His
adventure when a school-boy, 125. A man of the landed in-
terest, 126. His adventure with some gipsies, 130. Rarely
sports near his own seat, 131. A dispute between him and
Sir Andrew Freeport, 174:
Country, country gentleman and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger,
their different tempers described, No. 128. Country wake
described, 161.
Courage, mechanic courage, what, No. 152.
Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites, No. 128.
Credulity in women famous, No. 190.
Cynæas, Pyrrhus's chief minister, his handsome reproof to that
prince, No. 180.
Death, the contemplation of it affords a delight mixed with terror
and sorrow, No. 133. Intended for our relief, ib. Deaths
of eminent persons the improving passages in history, ib.
Debauchee, his pleasure is that of a destroyer, No. 199.
Dedications, the absurdity of them in general, No. 188.
Devotion, the most natural relief in our afflictions, No. 163. A
man is distinguished from brutes by devotion more than by
reason, 201. The errors into which it often leads us, ib.
The notions the most refined among the Heathens had of it,
207. Socrates's model of devotion, ib.
Disappointments in Love, the most difficult to be conquered of
any other, No. 163.
Dissenters, their canting way of reading, No. 147.
Doctor in Moorfields, his contrivance, No. 193.
Drinking, a rule prescribed for it, No. 195.
Duration, the idea of it how obtained, according to Mr. Locke,
No. 194. Different beings may entertain different motions
of the same parts of duration, ib.
Dutch, their saying of a man that happens to break, No. 174.
Education, an ill method observed in the educating our youth,
Eginhart, Secretary to Charles the Great, his adventure and mar-
riage with that Emperor's daughter, No. 181.
Englishman, the peculiar blessing of being born one, No. 135.
The Spectator's speculations upon the English tongue, ib.
English not naturally talkative, ib. and 148. The English
tongue adulterated, 165.
Enthusiasm, the misery of it, No. 201.
Epamenondas, his honourable death, Na. 133.
Ephraim, the quaker, the Spectator's fellow-traveller in a stage
coach, No. 132. His reproof to a recruiting-officer in the
same coach, ib. and advice to him at their parting, ib.
Epitaph of a charitable man, No. 177.
Equanimity, without it we can have no true taste of life, No. 143-
Eternity, a prospect of it, No. 159.
Eucratia, her character, No. 144.
Eudosia, her character, ib.
Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship and education of their
children, No. 123.
Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to charitable uses,
Exercise, the most effectual physic, No, 195.
Expences, oftener proportioned to our expectations than pos-
sessions, No. 191.
Fable, of the antiquity of fables, No. 183. Fable of Pleasure and
Pain, ib.
Falsehood in man, a recommendation to the fair sex, No. 156.
Fashion, men of fashion, who, No. 151. A society proposed to
be erected for the inspection of fashions, 175.
Faustina, the Empress, her notions of a pretty gentleman, 128.
Feasts, the gluttony of our modern feasts, No. 195.
Foible, (Sir Jeoffery) a kind keeper, No. 190.
Freeport, (Sir Andrew) his moderation in point of politics,
No. 126. His defence of merchants, 174,
Giving and forgiving two different things, No. 189.
Glory, the love of it, No. 139. In what the perfection of it
consists, ib. How to be preserved, 172.
Genius, what properly a great one, No. 160.
Geography of a jest settled, No. 138.
Gigglers in church reproved, No. 158.
Gipsies, an adventure between Sir Roger, the Spectator, and some
gipsies, No. 130.
Good-nature, a moral virtue, No. 177. An endless source of
pleasure, 196. Good-nature, more agreeable in conversation
than wit, No. 169. The necessity of it, ib. Good-nature
born with us, ib.
Greeks, a custom practised by them, No. 189.
Grinning, a grinning prize, No. 137.
Habits, different, arising from different professions, No. 197.
Handsome people generally fantastical, No. 144. The Spec-
tator's list of some handsome ladies, ib.
Hardness of heart in parents towards their children most inex-
cusable, No. 181.
Hate, why a man ought not to hate even his enemies, No. 125.
Heathen Philosopher, No. 159.
Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their education,
Hen-pecked, the hen-pecked husband described, No. 179.
Herod and Mariamne, their story from Josephus, No. 171.
Historian in conversation, who, No. 136.
Honey comb, (Will) his letter to the Spectator, No. 131. His
notion of a man of wit, No. 151. His boasts, ib. His ar-
tifice, 156.
Husbands, an ill custom among them, No. 178.
Ichneumon, a great destroyer of the crocodile's eggs, No. 126.
Jealousy described, No. 170. How to be allayed, 171. An ex-
quisite torment, 178.
Jezebels, who so called, No. 175.
Ill-nature, an imitator of zeal, No. 185.
Jilts described, No. 187.
Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story, No. 181.
Impertinents, several sorts of them described, No. 148 and 168.
Indigo, the merchant, a man of prodigious intelligence, No. 136.
Indisposition, a man under any, whether real or imaginary, ought
not to be admitted into company, No. 143.
Infidelity, another term for ignorance, No. 186.
Interest, often a promoter of persecution, No. 185.
Irresolution, from whence arising, No. 151.
Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athenians, No. 207.
Kennet, (Dr.) his account of the country wakes, No. 161.
Kitty, a famous town-girl, No. 187.
Lacedemonians, their delicacies in their sense of glory, No. 188.
A form of prayer used by them, 207.
Lancashire Witches, a comedy censured, No. 141.
Language, the English, much adulterated during the war, No. 165.
Leontine and Eudoxus, their great friendship and advantages,
Letters to the Spectator; from
complaining of the new
petticoat, No. 127; from a lawyer on the circuit, with an
account of the progress of the fashions in the country, 129;
from Will Honeycomb, 131; from George Trusty, thanking
the Spectator for the great benefit he has received from his
works, 134; from William Wiseacre, who desires his
daughter may learn the exercise of the fan, ib. from a pro-
fessed liar, 136; from Ralph Valet, the faithful servant of
a perverse master, 137; from Patience Giddy, the next
thing to a lady's woman, ib. from Lydia Novell, complain-
ing of her lover's conduct, 140; from R. D. concerning the
corrupt taste of the age, and the reasons of it, ib. from
Betty Saunter, about a wager, ib. from Parthenope, who is
angry with the Spectator for meddling with the ladies' pet-
ticoats, ib. from
upon drinking, ib. from Rachael
Basto, concerning female gamesters, ib. from Parthenia, ib.
from
containing a reflection on a comedy called The
Lancashire Witches, 141; from Andromache, complaining
of the false notion of gallantry in love, with some letters
from her husband to her, 142; from concerning wa-
gerers, 145; from
coffee-houses, ib. from
chelor, ib. from
complaining of impertinents in
complaining of an old ba-
concerning the skirts in men's
coats, ib. from
—— on the reading the Common Prayer,
147; from the Spectator to a dancing out-law, 148; from
the same to a dumb visitant, ib. to the Spectator, from Sil-
via, a widow, desiring his advice in the choice of a husband,
149; the Spectator's answer, ib. to the Spectator, from Si-
mon Honeycomb, giving an account of his modesty, impu-
dence, and marriage, 154; from an Idol that keeps a coffee-
house, 155; from a beautiful milliner, complaining of her
customers, ib. from
with a reproof to the Spectator,
158; from
concerning the ladies visitants, ib. from
complaining of the behaviour of persons in church,
with a description
of a country wake, 161; from Leonora, who had just lost
her lover, 163; from a young officer to his father, 165; to
the Spectator, from a castle-builder, 167; from
concerning the tyranny of school-masters, 168; from T. S.
a school-boy at Richmond, ib, from
concerning im-
pertinence, ib. from Isaac Hedgeditch, a poacher, ib. from
with a complaint against a Jezebel, 175; from
who had been nonplussed by a Butt, ib. from Jack Modish,
of Exeter, about fashions, ib. from Nathaniel Henroost, a
hen-peck'd husband, 176; from Celinda, about jealousy,
178; from Martha Housewife, to her husband, ib. to the
Spectator, from with an account of a whistling
match at the Bath, 179; from Philarithmus, displaying the
vanity of Lewis the XIVth's conquests, 180; from -who
ib. from a woman's man, ib. from
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