Ridinghood, complaining of an ill-bred fellow travel-
ler, 242; from- on a poor weaver in Spital-fields,
ibid. from Abraham Thrifty, guardian to two learned
nieces, ibid. from on Raphael's cartons, 244 3
from Conftantia Field, on the ninth fpecies of wo-
men called apes, ibid. from Timothy Doodle, a great
lover of blind-man's buff, 245; from J. B on the fe-
veral ways of confolation made ufe of by abfent lovers,
ibid. from Troilus, a declared enemy to Greek, ibid.
from
on the nurfing of children, 246; from
T. B. being a differtation on the eye, 250; from
Abraham Spy, on a new invention of perspective-
glaffes for the use of starers, ibid.
Lovers of great men, animadverted upon, N. 193.
Levity of women, the effects of it, N. 212.
Lie: feveral forts of lies, N. 234.
Life, to what compared in the fcriptures, and by the
heathen philofophers, N. 219. The prefent life a
ftate of probation, 237.
Logic of kings, what, N. 239.
Lottery, fome difcourfe on it, N. 191.
Love: the tranfports of a virtuous love, N. 199.
Lover's-leap, where fituated, N. 223. An effectual cure
for love, 227. A fhort hiftory of it, 233.
Luxury: the luxury of our modern meals, N. 195.
ALVOLIO, his character, N. 238.
MAPLE (WILL) an impudent libertine, N. 203.
Man, the merrieft fpecies of the creation, N. 249. The
mercenary practice of men in the choice of wives,
196.
Merchants, of great benefit to the public, N. 174.
Mill to make verses, N. 220.
Mirth in a man ought always to be accidental, N. 196.
Modesty and self-denial frequently attended with unex-
pected bleffings, N. 206. Modefty the contrary of
ambition, ibid. A due proportion of modesty requi-
fite to an orator, 231. The excellency of modefty,
ibid. Vicious modefty, what, ibid. The misfortunes
to which the modeft and innocent are often expofed,
242.
Mothers justly reproved for not nurfing their own chil-
dren, N. 246.
Motto, the effects of an handsome one, N. 221.
Much cry, but little wool, to whom applied, N. 251.
NICHOLAS HART, the annual fleeper, N. 184.
Nurfes the frequent inconveniencies of hired nurses,
N. 246.
Bedience of children to their parents the basis of all
government, N. 189.
Opportunities to be carefully avoided by the fair fex,
*N. 198.
Order neceffary to be kept up in the world, N. 219.
Parents naturally fond of their own children, N. 192.
Paffions: the various operations of the paffions, N. 215.
The strange diforders bred by our paffions, when not
regulated by virtue, ibid. It is not so much the bufi-
nefs of religion to extinguish, as to regulate our paf-
fions, 224.
Patrons and clients, a difcourfe on them, N. 214. Wor-
thy patrons compared to guardian angels, ibid.
People, the only riches of a country, N. 200.
PERSIANS, their notion of parricide, N. 189.
Philofophers, why longer lived than other men, N. 195.
PHOCION, his notion of popular applaufe, N. 188.
Phyfic, the fubftitute of exercise or temperance, N. 195.
Pictures, witty, what pieces fo called, N. 244.
Piety, an ornament to human nature, N. 201.
Pitch-pipe, the invention and use of it, N. 228.
PLATO, his account of Socrates's behaviour the morning
he was to die, N. 183.
Pleaders, few of them tolerable company, N. 197.
Pleasure and Pain, a marriage propofed between them
and concluded, N. 183..
Poll, a way of arguing, N. 239.
Popular applause, the vanity of it, N. 188.
Praife, a generous mind the most fenfible of it, N. 238.
Pride: a man crazed with pride a mortifying fight, N.
Procurefs, her trade, N. 205.
PRODICUS, the first inventor of fables, N. 183.
Profperity, to what compared by Seneca, N. 237.
Providence, not to be fathomed by reafon, N. 237.
Quality, is either of fortune, body, or mind, N. 219.
RACK, a knotty fyllogifm, N. 239.
RAPHAEL'S cartons, their effect upon the SPECTATOR,
N. 226, 244:
Readers divided by the SPECTATOR into the Mercurial
and Saturnine, N. 179.
Reputation, a fpecies of fame, N. 218. The stability
of it, if well founded, ibid.
Ridicule the talent of ungenerous tempers, N. 249.
The two great branches of ridicule in writing, ibid.
Alamanders, an order of ladies defcribed, N. 198.
SAPPHO, an excellent poetefs, N. 223. Dies for love of
Phaon, ibid. Her hymn to Venus, ibid. A fragment
of her's tranflated into three different languages, 229.
Satirifts, beft inftruct us in the manners of their refpective
times, N. 209.
Schoolmen, their afs-cafe, N. 191. How applied, ibid.
Self-denial, the great foundation of civil virtue, N. 248.
Self-love tranfplanted, what, N. 192.
SENTRY, his difcourfe with a young wrangler in the
law, N. 197.
Shows and diverfions le properly within the province of
the SPECTATOR, N. 235.
SIMONIDES, his fatire on women, N. 209.
SLY, the haberdasher, his advertisement to young tradef-
men in the last year of apprenticeship, N. 187.
SOCRATES, his notion of pleasure and pain, N. 183.
The effect of his temperance, 195. His inftructions to
his pupil Alcibiades in relation to a prayer, 207. A
catechetical method of arguing introduced first by
him, 239. Inftructed in eloquence by a woman, 247.
Sorites, what fort of figure, N. 239.
SPECTATOR, his artifice to engage his different readers,
N. 179. The character given of him in his own pre-
fence at a coffee-houfe near Aldgate, 218.
Speech, the feveral organs of it, N.
Spy, the mischief of one in a family, Ñ. 202.
State (future) the refreshments a virtuous perfon enjoys
in profpect and contemplation of it, N. 186.
Stores of Providence, what, N. 248.
Strife, the fpirit of it, N. 197.
Sun, the firft eye of confequence, N. 250.
Superiority reduced to the notion of quality, N.
To be founded only on merit and virtue, 202.
Superftition, an error arifing from a mistaken devotion,
N. 201. Superftition hath fomething in it deftructive
to religion, 213.
Talents ought to be valued according as they are
applied, N. 172.
Tafte (corrupt) of the age, to what attributed, N. 208.
Temperance the beft prefervative of health, N. 195.
what kind of temperance the beft, ibid.
TEMPLE (fir WILLIAM) his rule for drinking, N. 195.
Ten, called by the Platonic writers the complete num-
ber, N. 221.
Thinking aloud, what, N. 225.
Trade, trading and landed intereft ever jarring, N. 174.
Tradition of the Jews concerning Mofes, N. 237-
Tranfmigration, what, N. 211,
Trunk-maker, a great man in the upper-gallery in the
play-houfe, N. 235.
Virtue, the most reafonable and genuine fource of
honour, N. 219. Of a beautiful nature, 243. The
great ornaments of it, ibid. To be efteemed in a foe,
ibid.
W Hiftling-match defcribed, N. 179.
Wife, how much preferable to a miftrefs, N. 199.
Wife men and fools, the difference between them, N. 225.
Wit: the many artifices and modes of falfe wit, N. 220.
Women: deluding women, their practices expofed, N.
182. Women great orators, 247.
YAwning, a Chriftanas gambol, N. 179.
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