Horte (Dr. Josiah, bishop of Kilmore), xix. 280. XX. 9. 27. 119. Author of a pamphlet, which he wished to be printed, and for which Mr. Faulk- ner suffered, xiii. 252. XX. 9.
Hostreham. The place where Henry II first landed, when he came to possess the crown, vii. 303. Hospital for lunaticks suggested by sir Wm. Fownes, xviii. 258. One endowed by Swift, xx. 181. 146. Hough (Dr. John). Bishop of Worcester, xix. 118. xxi. 2.
Houghton (Mrs). Verses on her praising her Husband,
House of Commons. Its great importance in this country, vi. 345. A prince who has the hearts of his people, and leaves them to their free choice, cannot miss a good one, vi. 68. The pulse of the nation better felt by, than by the house of peers, 69. Houyhnhnms. Have no word in their language to express lying, ix. 261. Their notions of truth and falsehood, 267. Their language abounds not in variety of words, their wants and passions being few, 268. Their virtues, 299. Their manner of educating their youth, 302. Their learning, build- ings; manner of burial, and defect in language, 306-309. Their edifying manner of conversing with each other, 311.
Howard, Mrs. (afterward countess of Suffolk), xvii. 82. 226. Her character, xiv. 240. Her facetious letter to Dr. Swift, alluding to passages in Gulli- ver, xvii. 98. Thought by Swift to be a true cour- tier, xviii. 277. Lady Betty Germain's vindica- tion of her, 286. Her marriage with Mr, Berkeley, the brother of lady Betty Germain, xix. 195. Howard (Edward). A proficient in the low sub- lime, xi. 296.
Howard (Dr. Robert, bishop of Elphin), xi. 235. Howth (lady). Her present to the Dean, xxi. 155-
Howth William, St. Lawrence, baron of), xix. 206. Hughes. His character as a poet, xix. 211. Human nature. The common infirmity of it, to be most curious in matters where we have least con- cern, ix. 183.
Humour. In its perfection, preferable to wit, viii. 231. The word peculiar to the English nation, as sir William Temple imagined, but not the thing itself, ibid. The taste for it natural, 232. The best ingredient toward the most useful kind of satire, ibid.
Humphreys (Dr. Humphrey, bishop of Hereford), xxii.
Hungerford (John). Moved the house of commons against bishop Fleetwood's preface, in which he was seconded by Mr. Manley, vi. 93. Hunsdon (Carew, lord), vi. 343.
Hunter (colonel). The Discourse on the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, &c. addressed to him, iij. 239. Letters to and from Dr. Swift, xv. 65. 74. 245. 247. Misrepresented by his adversaries, as inclined to weaken the interest of the church in his government of New York, xv. 266.
Huntington (Henry, earl of, son to David, king of Scots). That earldom, of which Bedford was then a part, bestowed on him, by Stephen, vii. 277. A prince of great personal valour, 280. Brought to England by Stephen, as hostage for his father's, fidelity, 281. In the siege of Ludlow castle, gal- lantly exposing his person on all occasions, was lifted from his horse by an iron grapple let down from the wall, and would have been hoisted into the castle if the king had not with his own hands brought him off, ibid.
Husband. What the term denotes in different coun- tries, xxiii. 178.
Hutchinson (Hartley). Verses relating to him, xi. 316.
Hyde (lady Catherine, afterward duchess of Queens berry), xxii. 194.
(John). A Dublin bookseller), xviii. 11.
Laurence, earl of Rochester), v. 109. 204. Hypocrisy. More eligible than open infidelity and vice, iv, 166. Worse than atheism, xxiii. 351.
Jack. His adventures, on being turned out of doors, together with Martin, by their brother Peter, iii. 127. 169. The various uses he makes of a copy of his father's will, 170. Adheres to the phrase of the will, in his common talk and conversation, 171. Breaks his nose, and then harangues the populace upon the subject of predestination, 173- The great resemblance between Jack and his bro- ther Peter, both as to person and disposition, not- withstanding their antipathy, 177. Gains the love of Peg, John Bull's sister, xxiii. 207. Is ap- prehended and imprisoned, 237. Hangs himself, by the persuasion and treachery of his friends, 242.247.
Jack of Leyden, iii. 131.
Jacobites. A private prayer superstitiously used by them in making punch, xiii. 180. See Tories, Whigs.
Jackson (John). Verses on his picture, x. 234-259. A letter from Swift in his behalf, to procure him the deanery of Cloyne, xx. 29.
James I. His overtures toward an union of the two kingdoms, rejected with contempt by the English, vi. 204. In the latter part of his reign, many of the bishops and clergy were puritans, xiii. 110. Consequences of his squandering his demesnes, xviii. 205. His character, iii. 191.
James II. Had no cause to apprehend the same treatment with his father, as suggested by some,
iii. 319. Discharged one, who had been fined and imprisoned when he was duke of York, for saying he was a papist, v. 161. His character, iii. 195. Instance of his unjust conduct, xiv. 322. Very few royal grants bestowed in his reign, vii. 139. Gave commissions to several presbyterians to assist him against the prince of Orange, xiii. 116. When he made a contemptible figure, xiv. 225. Con- spiracy to seize him, iv. 296.
Fames (sir) of the Peak, xvi. 252.
Fanus. Verses to, on New Year's-day, xi. 51. Japan. Court and empire of it, representing the ad- ministration of George I, vii. 311.
Jarvis, a celebrated painter, xix. 118. His picture of the Dean, 285.
Idleness. What the greatest mark of it, xviii. 301. Idler's Corner, xix, 103.
Jealousy. Verses on, by Stella, ii, 27.
Febb (Rev. Mr.), xix. 92.
Jesuits. Their constant practice toward us, iv. 16. Several of them came over to England in the cha- racter of prophets, iv. 108.
Jews. A story of one condemned to be burnt at Madrid, xii. 196.
Ignorance. The greatest inventions produced in times when it prevailed, xiv. 165. Not mother of de- votion, though perhaps of superstition, viii. 25. Imagination. Whether the creatures of it may not be as properly said to exist as those seated in the memory, iii. 154. The strong effects of it, iv.
Imitation. The use of it in poetry, xxiii. 50. Immortality. Two kinds of it, viii. 174. Impeachments. Instances of several in Greece at dif- ferent times, ii. 290. Are perhaps the inherent right of a free people; but to what states were anciently peculiar, 311. When they commenced in the Roman, 312. In what cases only recourse
to be had to them, ibid. Wherein the popular impeachments in Greece and Rome agreed, 314. Not allowed in Ireland, 'xv. 168.
Impromptu. Verses addressed to lady Winchelsea, xxiv. 34.
Indefeasible. Hard to conceive how any right can
be so, though queen Anne's was so far as the law * could make it, v. 31.
Indemnity. The use and seasonableness of an act of indemnity, v. 130. 188.
Independents. The rise and growth of them, xiii. 110. Mingled with the mass of presbyterians after the restoration, and sunk undistinguished into the herd of dissenters, 113.
Indians. Their religion and ours, iii. 250. Arts and sciences derived to us from them and the Egyp tians, xxiii. 102. Whence they acquired their knowledge, 104. An Indian king's description of London, viii. 217.
Infidelity. An expedient to keep in countenance corruption of morals, viii. 24.
Informers. State, law respecting them in Lilliput, ix. 59. Reckoned infamous, though an honest man may be called by that name, xiv. 82. Letter from one to the lord treasurer, xvi. 21. Ingoldsby (lord chief justice), xxi. 204. Ingratitude. A capital crime in Lilliput, ix. 62. The general complaint against it misplaced, xxiii. 357. None but direct villains capable of it, ibid.. Is two-fold, active and passive, v. 35. A vice most men are ashamed to be thought guilty of, xv. 286.
Injured Lady. Story of the, xii. 297. The Answer,
Injuries. A part of wisdom, to dissemble those we cannot revenge, xv. 168.
Innocence. The best protection in the world, yet not sufficient without prudence, xiv. 87.
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