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BION, his saying about a greedy search after

203

happiness...
BUSINESS, men of learning the fittest for it.... 219

CATO, his ground for the immortality of the soul 142
the respect paid him at the Roman theatre.. 166
CHASTITY the great point of honour in women 205
it is so in the books of chivalry.
CIRCLE, (a detracting) described..
CICERO, the nature of his genius..

ib.

155

69

100

his precepts on pronunciation and action.... 133
CITIZEN, journal of a sober one....
CLEANTHES, he affects the fine gentleman..
CLUBS, proofs that man is a sociable animal....

67
86

87

88

several names of clubs and their originals....
modern, founded upon eating and drinking..
CONDE (Prince of) his face like that of an eagle 76
CONTEMPLATION, moonlight, delineated.... 39
CONVERSATION, usually too full of compli-

ments.....

what is to be understood by it.....
COMPLIMENTS,in ordinary discourse censured,
for want of sincerity.....

CONTENTMENT, how described by a Rosicru-
cian....

power of this virtue.

how to acquire it..

COQUETTE's heart dissected.

COUNTENANCE, has its peculiar cast in every

emotion of the soul....

82

136

79

200

201

ib.

111

..... 130

COUNTRY.GENTLEMEN, advice to them,
about spending their time..

122

COURAGE, the great point of honour in men.. 106
agreeable in the eyes of the fair sex........ 107
chief topic in the books of chivalry..

CRITICS, modern ones, some errors of theirs
about plays......

ib.

176

modern, compared with the ancients........ 179
they cannot judge of the beauties of works of
genius....

the inimitable Shakspeare a stumbling-block
to them...

180

179

CUCKOLDOM, abused on the stage....................... 166
CYRYS's last speech..

150

he believed in the immortality of the soul... ib.

DAUGHTER, dutiful, exemplified in the charac
ter of Fidelia.......

221

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..192
... 34

HOPE, that passion described and praised..
religious, superior to any other....
HORACE, his poetical epistles considered.....
qualities requisite to excel in his manner.... ib.
HONOUR, when commendable, and when a de.
privation of human nature....
HUNTERS, lying under a kind of curse........
HYMN, sacred to gratitude...

IAMBIC verse the most proper for Greek trage-
dies

ICHNEUMON, a great destroyer of crocodile's

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how to be allayed...

by openness....

JEALOUS man is always on the rack.....

is a great mourner....

is one conscious of an infirmity..

of a distrustful temper.

or of a dissolute life..

JEWS, the veneration paid by them to the name

of God......

207

121

163

46

93

94

178

1

7

8

4

5

ib.

ib..

... 118

their salutation to their king may be applied

to the meanest mortal..

... 149

INDEPENDENT minister, behaviour of one, on

his examination of a scholar.....

INQUISITIVE people described....

INDISPOSITION, a man under any, whether
real or imaginary, should not be admitted
into company

INSTINCT of immortality asserted.........
JOURNAL of a sober citizen...

JOURNEY of life, described in a vision....
IRAS, her character delineated......

IRONY, the snarler deals in it.............
JULY, month, described in a dream......
JUNE (month of) described in a dream....
JUPITER, his first proclamation about calamities
described in a vision.....
his just distribution of them...

IMMORTALITY of the soul, proved by its na
ture and instinct....

LEAR (King) a tragedy, has lost much of its
beauties by alteration......

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136

149

100

234

68

136

41

ib.

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20

149

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FANCY, her character exemplified in a vision.. 198
FASHION, a description of it in a dream....

the affectation of it censured..

FELLOW of a college, a humorous saying of one
about posterity...

FIDELIA, a dutiful daughter; picture of her
character....

FLATTERY described in a dream.............
FLORA, an attendant on the Spring.

GLADNESS, is moderated but not banished by
virtue..

71

121

118

220

71

40

25

GESTURES, to be studied by a public orator.... 189
those of English speakers ridiculous..

GOD, a being of infinite perfections....

Simonides' answer to the question of Diony.
sius upon that being.....

almighty and omniscient.......

Locke's observation on our idea of the Su-
preme. Being......

the revelation represents him as just, good,
merciful.....

190

114

ib.

115

ib.

116

an habitual homage to him recommended... 117
GRATITUDE, the most pleasing exercise of the
mind.......

161
religious, exalts the soul into rapture... .... 162
GIPSIES, account of various mischiefs they oc
casion in the country...

.... 108

pathetic anecdote of a father bereft by them
of a child...

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

HANDSOME women, some of them charac-
terized.....

people, generally fantastical..

HATE: a man, according to Plutarch, should not
hate even his enemies..

HEROD and Mariamne, their history from Jose-
phus......

109

128

145

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HEROES of English tragedy generally lovers.... 53
HEROIC woman, account of the death of one.. 27
HOMER describing Penelope's web..........

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HOPE, that passion described and praised...... 190
religious, superior to any other.....
HORACE, his poetical epistles considered....

192

34

qualities requisite to excel in his manner.... ib.
HONOUR, when commendable, and when a de-
privation of human nature.....

207

HUNTERS, lying under a kind of curse........ 121
HYMN, sacred to gratitude......

IAMBIC verse the most proper for Greek trage-
dies.

ICHNEUMON, a great destroyer of crocodile's

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how to be allayed......

by openness....

JEALOUS man is always on the rack..

is a great mourner....

is one conscious of an infirmity..

of a distrustful temper..

or of a dissolute life.....

JEWS, the veneration paid by them to the name

of God.....

163

46

93

94

178

1

7

8
3

4

5
ib.

ib..

... 118

their salutation to their king may be applied.
to the meanest mortal..

.. 149

INDEPENDENT minister, behaviour of one, on
his examination of a scholar...

INQUISITIVE people described....

INDISPOSITION, a man under any, whether
real or imaginary, should not be admitted
into company...

2

20

136

INSTINCT of immortality asserted........... 149
JOURNAL of a sober citizen...

100

68

JOURNEY of life, described in a vision....... 234
IRAS, her character delineated....
IRONY, the snarler deals in it....

JULY, month, described in a dream............
JUNE (month of) described in a dream....................
JUPITER, his first proclamation about calamities
described in a vision...

his just distribution of them...
IMMORTALITY of the soul, proved by its na
ture and instinct......

LEAR (King) a tragedy, has lost much of its
beauties by alteration.....

136

41

ib.

49

20

149

51

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PRAYERS, allegorical description of them by
Phoenix to Achilles....

set form of prayers necessary on account of
the folly of our prayers....

PROMISERS (heedless) condemned...
PROMISES, the neglect of them, though frivo-
lous, censured.....

173

172

152

ib.

PRIDE, in what we ought to be proud.......... 143
in which its folly lies...

133

55

a man crazed with it, a mortifying sight..
PRONUNCIATION necessary to an orator.... 133
PROPOSALS to all mothers in Great Britain,

84

relative to needle-work....
PRAISE, why not freely given to men till dead.. 209
PULPIT eloquence, very cold in England....... 188

QUAKER Ephraim, in a stage-coach with the

Spectator...

his reproof to a recruiting officer in the same
coach..

his advice to him at their parting....

213

214

215

120

RAKE, character of a fashionable one...........
RANTS, blemishes in our English tragedies.... 51
REASON, too often subservient to passion, which
it should govern...

RELIGION (true) is not of a morose temper....
it not only composes but cheers the soul....
RETIREMENT, a dream of it................
RHÆCUS, a story of him....

63

24

25

39

128

ROMAN (Catholic church) lost in superstition.. 56
ROSICRUCIAN, a pretended discovery made
by one......

SEA, its view majestic...

SEASONS, a dream of them..

SELF CONCEIT, an inhabitant of the paradise
of fools....

SENSE, some men of sense more despicable than
common beggars.....

SENSUAL, his pains.......

SENECA, his saying of drunkenness....
SEPTEMBER, the month of, described in a

dream...

SEXES, amity between them advantageous....
SIMONIDES, his answer to Dionysius the tyrant
relating the nature of God...

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