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How applied

Scipio, his judgment of Marius when a boy

Scorutul Lady,' the Spectator's observations at that pay
Scol (Dr.), his Christian life, its merits......
Scotch, a saying of theirs....

Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by huma
The most offensive..

Seasons, a dream of them..........

Self-conceit, one of the inhabitants of the paradise of tore
Self-denial, the great foundation of civil virtue.......... 2
Self love transplanted, what.....

The narrowness and danger of self-love..........................
Semanthe, her character

Semiramis, her prodigious works and powers...
Sempronia, a professed admirer of the French natok ........
The match-maker.

Seneca, his saying of drunkenness

Sense

some men of sense more despicable than commer
beggars..........

The different degrees of sense in the several difer
species of animals...

Sentry (Captain), a member of the Spectator's club, is

character

His account of a soldiers lite...

His discourse with a young wrangler in the law
He receives a letter from Ipswich, giving an armo!

of an engagement between a Freuch privateer atik a
little vessel belonging to that place..

His reflections on that action.....

Takes possession of his uncle Sir Roger de Cove, ty x

estate.

September (month of, described.

Servants, the general corruption of their mÄDRETS................
Assumie their master's title....

Some good aniong the bad ones..

Jufluenced by the example of their superIDES.....
The great merit of some servants in all ages

The hard condition of many servants...

Sexes: amity between agreeable persons of differtat se

dangerous....

The advantages of it to each.......

Sextus Quintus (the Pope), an instance of his unforgiving

temper...

Shadows and realities not mixed in the same piece..
Shakspeare, wherein inimitable.....

Excels all writers in his ghosts

His excellence....

Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the Princess Hips be

fore the Flood...

Sherlock (Dr.), the reason his discourse of death hath been

so much perused..

Improved the notion of heaven and hell.
Shoeing-horns, wino, and by whom employed.
Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), the ill contrivance of bus
nient in Westminster Abbey.

Shows and diversions le properly within the province.
the Spectator..

Sickness, a thought on it.

Sidney (Sir Philip), his opinion of the song of Chery Co
Verses on his modesty..

Sighers, a club of them at Oxford.........

Their regulations.....

Sight, the most perfect sense.

The pleasures of the imagination arise ong
from it....

Furnishes it with ideas

Sight, second, in Scotland..

Sign-posts, the absurdity of many of them.

Silk-worm, a character of oue..

Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them..

The preservation of several poems..
An ill one in a puipit

Simonides, his satire où women ..

Sincerity, the great want of it in conversation.....
The advantages of it over dissimulatio3 and cert.
The most compendious wisdom.....

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Au instance of it in a north-country gentless..
Sippit (Jack), his character.......

Salutations in churches censured..

400

Sanctorius, his invention .....

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Slavery, what kind of government the most related
Sloven, a character affected by some,

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Santer (Mrs), a great suuff-taker ....

341

The folly and autiquity of it....

Sappho, an excellent poetess......

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Dies for love of Phaor..............................

Sly, the haberdasher, his advertisement to you

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Her hymn to Venus.

A fragment of Sappho's translated into three different
languages.

Satire, Whole Duty of Man' turned into oue...........
Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate
Panegyrical on ourselves.......

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men in the last year of their apprentieri și
Sly (John), the tobacconist, his representalas a

Spectator......

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His minute

Smithfield bargain, i marnage, the tumai 1y of ....
Shape (Dr.), a quotation from his charity str
Suailers

Singularity, when a virtue. ....

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To be lounded only on merit and virtue..

202

is aversion to pretty fellows, and the reson of it.. 261
is acknowledgments to the public.....
is advice to the British ladies..

262

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Superstition, the folly of it describel..

An error arising from a mistaken devotion..
Has something in it destructive of religion
Surprise, the life of stories

'Susanna, or Innocence Betrayed,' to be exhibited by
Mr. Powell, with a new pair of Elders......
Sweaters, a species of the Monock club...
Swingers, a set of familia: romps at Tunbridge..........
Symmetry of objects, how it strikes...
Syncopists, modern ones......
Syncopus, the passionate, his character
Syracusan prince jealous of his wile, how he served her.. 579

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Valetudinarians in society, not to be adulted into cons
pany but on conditions.....

Vanity, the paradise of fools......

A vision of her and her attendants.
Vapours in women, to what to be ascribed.....
Variety of men's actions proceeds from the pas TALE
Varilas, his cheerfulness and good humour nude tr
nerally acceptable

Ubiquity of the Godhead considered...

Further considerations about it....

Venice Preserved,' a tragedy, founded ou a wrongga.
Venus, the charming figure she makes in the first Eird.
An attendant on the spring...

Verses by a despairing lover .............

On Phebe and Colin.....

Translation of verses pedantic out of Italian,
The Royal Progress

To Mis.- , on her gitto..

Vertumnus, an attendant on the spring..

Ugliness, some speculations upon it....

Vice as laborious as virtue......

Villacerfe (Madame de), an account of her deat, and
the manner of it...

Vinci (Leonardo), his many accomplishments, and .emes
able circumstance at his death..

Viner (Sir Robert), his familiarity with King Cars ...
Virgil, his beautiful allegories founded on the Plac

philosophy

Wherein short of Homer.

His fable examined in relation to Halicarnassus's

tory of Eneas.........

His genius...

Compared with Homer.

When he is best pleased

Virtue, the exercise of it recommended.

Its influence...

Its near relation to decency....

The most reasonable and genuine source of honour,

Of a beautiful nature.....

The great ornaments of it...............................

To be esteemed in a toe...

When the sincerity of it may reasonably be suspectul
The way to preserve it in its integrity

The use of it in our afflictions...

Virtues, supposed ones not to be relied on
Vision of human misery......

Visit: a visit to a travelled lady, which she received in
her bed, described...

Vocifer, the qualifications that make him pass for a far
gentleman.

Volumes: the advantage an author receives of p

his works in volumes, rather than in single pirien L
Understanding, the abuse of it is a great evi!.

Wherein more perfect than the imagination..
Reasons for it.....

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Should master the passions...

Universe, how pleasing the contemplation of it..

39

Uranius, his great composure of his soul.....
Vulcan's dogs, the fable of them.....

39

Blank verse the most proper for English tragedy..... 39
The English tragedy considered....
Tragi-comedy, the product of the English theatre, a mon-
strous invention.....

WAGERING disputants exposed

39

Wall, the prodigious one of China...

40

Wars, the late, made us so greedy of news
Wasps and doves in public, who....

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Wealth, the father of love...

The transmigration of souls asserted by Will Honey-
comb

343

Wealthy men fix the character of persons to ir or

cumstances.....

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Wedlock, the state of it ridiculed by the town w
Weed (Ephraim), his letter to the Spectator abou?

Travel, highly necessary to a coquette.

45

The behaviour of a travelled lady in the playhouse..
At what time travelling is to be undertaken, and the
true ends of it.........

45

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marriage and estates...

West Euborne, in Berkshire, a custom there for w
What Lord Coke said of the widows' te pure
Whichenorre, bacon flitch, in Staffordshire, who r

to it....

Whisperers, political...

Whispering-place, Dionysius the tyrant's.....
White (Mol), a notorious witch.

Who and Which, their petition to the Spectador..

Whole Duty of Man,' that excellent book turond aa
satire...

Widow (the), her manner of captivating Sur Roger & ca

235

verley.....

Truth, an enemy to false wit..

63

Her behaviour at the trial of her cause.

The everlasting good effect truth has even upon a

Her artifices and beauty

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Her reception of Sir Roger.

The excellence of it

507

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Tully praises himself..

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Has been at the death of several foxes.

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What he said of the immortality of the soul..

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Sir Roger's opinion of her, that she either crsigts
marry or she does not..

Of the force of novelty.

626

What he required in his orator..

633

Widows, the great game of fortune-hunters...
Widows' club, an account of it....

Turner (Sir William) his excellent maxim..

509

Tyrants, why so called.

508

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A letter from the president of it to the Specials
about her suitors...

Duty of widows in old times...........

A custom to punish unchaste ones in Berature
Devonshire...

Instances of their riding the black ram there..
Wig, long one, the eloquence of the bar...

William and Betty, a short account of the DUN .--

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t, the mischief of it when accompanied with vice

Very pernicious when not tempered with virtue and
humanity.....

Turned into deformity by affectation..............
Only to be valued as it is applied.

The history of false wit...

Nothing so much admired and so little understood..
Every man would be a wit if he could...

The way to try a piece of wit....

Mr. Locke's reflection on the difference between
wit and judgment ....

The god of wit described

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Their ambition...

Deluding women, their practices exposed.........
Women great orators...

Have always designs upon men .......

Greater tyrants to their lovers than husbands
Reproved for their neglect of dress after they are
married

Their wonderful influence upon the other sex ....... 510
Words, the abuse of them demonstrated in several in-
stances

62 Work necessary for women.....

111

63 World (the), considered both as useful and entertaining.. 387
The present world a nursery for the next.....
World of matter, and life, considered by the Specta-

220

522

416

419

it (false) why it sometimes pleases.
Nothing without judgment..........................
its, minor, the several species of them................. 504
Wits ought not to pretend to be rich. . . .
509
oman, the utmost of her character wherein contained.. 342
The notion some women have of virtue and vice..... 390
A definition of woman by one of the fathers.... 265
The general depravity of the inferior part of the sex. 274
They wholly govery domestic life .....

oman of quality, her dress the product of a hundred
climates ....

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Youth, instructions to them to avoid harlots............ 410

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Smitten with superficials. . .......

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Zemroude (Queen), her story out of the Persian Tales'.. 578
Zoilus, the pretended critic, had a very long beard....... 331

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