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THE SPEC T A T O R.

VOL. VIII,

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CTIONS, principles of, two in man, N. 588.
Adulterers, how punished by the primitive Chriftians,
N. 579.

Aglais, his ftory told by Cowley, No. 610.

Ambition, various kinds of it, N. 570. Laudable, 613.
Anacharfis, the Corinthian drunkard, a faying of his, N. 569.
Ancestry, how far honour is to be paid to it, N. 612.
Anfwers to feveral letters at once, N. 581, and 619.
Antipathies, a letter about them, N. 609.

Anxieties, unnecessary, the evil of them and the vanity of
them, N. 615.

Applaufe and cenfure should not mislead us, N. 610.
Arafpas and Panthea, their story out of Xenophon, N. 564.
Ariftippus, his faying of content, N. 574.

Auguftus, his faying of mourning for the dead, N. 575.

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ACON fitch, at Whichenovre in Staffordshire, who are
intitled to it, N. 607. Several demands for it, 608.
Bantam, ambaffador of, his letter to his mafter about the
English, N. 557.

Baxter, what a bleffing he had, N. 598,

Benevolence, treated of, N, 601,

Beneficence,

Beneficence, the pleasure of it, N. 588. A discourse on it,

601.

Bion, his faying of a greedy fearch after happiness, N. 574.
Blank, his letter to the Spectator about his family, N. 563.
Bonofus, the drunken Briton, a faying of him after he had
hanged himself, N. 569.

Burlesque authors the delight of ordinary readers, N. 616
and 625.

Burlefque humour, N. 616.
Bufy world, N. 624.

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NACOETHES, or itch of writing, an epidemical dif-
temper, N. 582.

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Calamities, whimfical ones, N. 558.

Calumny, the great offence of it, N. 594. Rules against it

by the fathers of la Trappe, ibid.

Cafes in love answered, N. 614.

Cato, an inftance of his probity, N. 557.

Cave of Trophonius, feveral people put into it to be mended,

N. 599.

Cenfure and applaufe fhould not miflead us, N. 610.

Chancery court, why erected, N. 564.

Chastity, how prized by the Heathens, N. 579.

Cherubims, what the Rabbins fay they are, N. 600.

Chit-chat club's letter to the Spectator, N. 560.

Christianity, the only fyftem that can produce content, N. 574,
How much above philofophy, 634.

Cleanliness, the praife of it, N. 631.

Clergymen, the vanity of fome in wearing scarves, N. 609.
Coach (Stage), its company, N. 631.

Content, how defcribed by a Roficrucian, N. 574. The
virtue of it, ibid.

Country-gentlemen, advice to them about fpending their
time, N. 583. Memoirs of the life of one, 622.

Cowley, (Mr.) his defcription of heaven, N. 590. His ftory
of Aglais, 610. His ambition, 613.

Crazy, a man thought fo by reading Milton aloud, N. 577.
Critics, modern ones, fome errors of theirs about plays,

N. 592.

Cyrus, how he tried a young lord's virtue, N. 564.

PISCRETION

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ISCRETION abfolutely neceffary in a good husband,

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N. 607.
Diftempers, difficult to change them for the better, N. 599:
Divine nature, our narrow conceptions of it, N. 565. Its
omniprefence and omnifcience, ibid.

Dreams, a difcourfe on them, N. 593, and 597. Several ex-
travagant ones, ibid. Of Trophonius's cave, 599.

Drunkard, a character of one, N. 569. Is a monster, ibid.
Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, N. 569. What Seneca and
Publius Syrus faid of it, ibid.

Dryden (Mr.), his tranflation of lapis's Cure of Eneas out of
Virgil, N. 572. Of Eneas's fhips being turned to god-
deffes, N. 583. His cock's fpeech to Dame Partlet,

N. 621.

Dumb conjurer's letter to the Spectator, N. 560,

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EDGAR (King), an amour of his, N. 605.

Egotifm, the vanity of it condemned, N. 562. A young
fellow very guilty of it, ibid.

Egyptians tormented with the plague of Darkness, N. 615.
Eloquence of beggars, N. 613.

English, a character of them by a great preacher, N. 557.
By the Bantam ambaffador, ibid. A diftemper they are
very much afflicted with, 582.

Epiftolary poetry, the two kinds of ftyles, N. 618.

Erratum, a fad one committed in printing the Bible, N. 579.
Eternity, an effay upon it, N. 590. Part is to come, 628,
Speech in Cato on it, tranflated into Latin, ibid.

F

ACES, every man fhould be pleafed with his own,

FAN. 559.

Fadlallah, his ftory out of the Perfian tales, N. 578.
Family madness in Pedigrees, N. 612.

Fancy, her character, N. 558. Her calamities, ibid.
Favours, of ladies, not to be boasted of, N. 611,

Fear,

Fear, how neceffary it is to fubdue it, N. 615.

Fellow of a college, a wife faying of one about pofterity,
N. 583.

Flattery, how grateful, N. 621.

Fontenelle, his faying of the ambitious and covetous, N. 576,
Free-thinkers, put into Trophonius's cave, N. 599.

Fritilla's dream, N. 597.

Funnel (Will), the toper, his character, N. 569.

Futurity, the ftrong inclination man has to know it, N. 604.
A weakness, ibid. The mifery of knowing it, ibid.

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ENEALOGY, a letter about it, N. 612.

G Gladio's dream, N. 597-

God, a contemplation of his omnipresence and omniscience,
N. 565. He cannot be absent from us, ibid. Confidera-
tions on his ubiquity, N. 571.

Grotto, verfes on one, N. 632.
Gyges and Aglais, their ftory, 610.

H

HAMADRYADS, the fable of them to the honour of
trees, N. 589.

Happiness of fouls in heaven treated of, N. 600. An argu-
ment that God has affigned us for it, ibid.

Hearts, a vifion of them, 587..

Heaven, its glory, N. 580. Defcribed by Mr. Cowley, 590.
The notions feveral nations have of it, 600. What Dr.
Tillotson fays of it, ibid.

Hermit, his faying to a lewd young fellow, N. 575.
Heroilm, an effay upon it, N. 601.

Hilpa, the Chinefe antediluvian princefs, her ftory, N. 584.
Her letter to Shalum, 585.

Hiftory, fecret, an odd way of writing one,

Hobbes's notions debase human nature, N. 588.

Humour, the two extremes, N. 617. Burlesque, 616. Pe-
dantic, 617.

Hunting reproved, N. 583.

Hufbands, rules for marrying them by the widows club,
N. 561. Qualities neceflary to make good ones, 607.

1APIS'S

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APIS's Cure of Eneas, a translation of Virgil, by Mr.
Dryden, N. 572.

Idle world, N. 624.

Jeft, how it should be uttered, N. 616.

Initial letters, the ufe party-writers make of them, N. 567.
An inftance of it, ibid. Criticifms upon it, 568.
Integrity, great care to be taken of it, N. 557.
Intrepidity of a juft good man taken from Horace, N. 615.
John a Nokes and John a Stiles, their petition, N. 577.
Irish gentlemen, widow-hunters, N. 561.

Ifadas the Spartan, his valour, N. 564.

Julian the emperor, an excellent paffage out of his "Cafars,"
relating to the imitation of the gods, N. 634.

Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and calamities,
N. 588. His fecond, ibid. His just distribution of them,

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Juftice, the Spartan famous for it, N. 564.

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ADIES, not to mind party,

N. 607.

Laughter indecent in any religious affembly, N. 630.
Lefbia's letter to the Spectator, giving an account how the
was deluded by her lover, N. 611.

Letter from the Bantam ambaffador to his mafter about the
English, N. 557. From the dumb conjuror to the Spec-
tator, 560. From the Chit-chat club, ibid. From Ox-
ford about his recovering his fpeech, ibid. From Frank
Townly, ibid. About the widow's club, 561. From
Blank about his family, 563. About an angry husband,
ibid. From Will Warley, about military education, 566.
From an half-pay officer about a widow, ibid. From
Peter Push on the fame fubject, ibid. Against quacks, 572.
From the prefident of the widows club, 573. From a
man taken to be mad for reading of poetry aloud, 577.
A fecond letter about the ubiquity of the Godhead, 580.
Several answered at once, 581. From Conftantio SPEC, ib.
From Amanda Lovelength, ibid. From Shalum the Chinese
to the princess Hilpa, before the flood, 584. From Hilpa

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