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INDEX

TO VOL. I.

A.

ABIGAILS, male, in fashion among the ladies, page 113.
Abstinence, the benefit of it, 429, &c.

Acosta, his answer to Limborch touching the multiplicity of cere-
monies in the Jewish religion, 464.

Acrostic, a piece of false wit, divided into simple and compound,

154.

Actions, a threefold division of them, 463.

Advertisement of a lottery ticket, 425.

Advice, no order of persons too great to be advised, 85.
Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition, 318.

Ambition, the occasion of factions, 310. Most men subject to it,
472. Of use when rightly directed, ibid.

Americans, their opinion of souls, 134. Exemplified in a vision
of one of their countrymen, 135, &c.

Amusements of life, when innocent, necessary and allowable, 231.
Anagram, what, and when first produced, 152.
Andromecha, a great fox-hunter, 139.

Animals, the different make of every species, 285. The instinct
of brutes exemplified in several instances, 286, 287. God him-
self the soul of brutes, 290.

The variety of arms with which

they are provided by nature, 291.
Apothecary, his employment, 428.

Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, 263.

April, the first of, the merriest day in the year, 123.

Aretine made all the princes of Europe tributary to him, 61.
Aristotle, his observation upon the Jambic verse, 95. Upon tra-
gedy, 99, 104.

Aristus and Aspasia, a happy couple, 323.

Arsinoe, the first musical opera on the English stage, 51.

Artist, wherein he has the advantage of an author, 367.

Association of honest men proposed by the Spectator, 311.
Atheists, great zealots and bigots, 413. Their opinions down-
right nonsense, ibid.

Audiences are at present void of common sense, 43.

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Aurelia, her character, 45.

Author, the necessity of the reader's knowing his size, temper,
and complexion, 1. In what manner one author is a mole to
another, 307. Wherein an author has the advantage of an
artist, 367. The care an author ought to take of what he writes,
ibid. A story of an atheistical author, 368.

Avarice, its temples, adherents, attendants, and officers, &c. 131,
&c. Operates with luxury, 130, &c. Its war and accommo-
dation with luxury, 132, 133.

B.

Bacon, Sir Francis, his comparison of a book well written, 32.
Bags of money suddenly transformed into sticks and paper, 15.
Baptist Lilly, his prudent management, 77.

Bell, Mr. his ingenious device, 72.

Bell-savage, its etymology, 73.

Birds, a cage full for the opera, 16.

Biters, their business, 24.

Blank verse proper for tragedy, 96.

Blanks of society, 33.

Boileau censured, and for what, 458.

Books reduced to their quintessence, 305. The legacies of great
genuises, 367.

Bouhours, M. a great critic among the French, 165.

Boutz-Rimez, what, 154.

Bullock and Norris differently habited, prove great helps to a

silly play, 112.

Butts described, their qualification, 125.

C.

Cæsar, Julius, his behaviour to Catullus, who had put him into a
lampoon, 60.

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Caligula, his wish, 49.

Caprice often acts in the place of reason, 424.

Care; what ought to be a man's chief care, 295.

Castilian; the story of a Castilian husband and wife, 433, &c.

Censor of small wares, an office to be erected, 48.

Censure, a tax, by whom paid to the public, and for what, 245.
Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's, 257.

Charles I. a famous picture of him, 146.

Charles the Great, his behaviour to the secretary who had de-
bauched his daughter, 401, 402.

Chastity, the great point of honour in women, 241, &c.

Chevy-Chase ballad, the Spectator's examen of it, 183, 195.
Chinese, the punishment they inflict for parricide, 422.

Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and excellency of
its doctrines, 415, &c. 464.

Chronogram, a piece of false wit, 154.

Church-yard, the country change on sunday, 271.

Cicero, a punster, 157.

Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, 194.

Cleanthe, her story, 43.

Clergy, a threefold division of them, 55.

Clubs, nocturnal assemblies, their several kinds, originals, and
rules, 27, &c. Everlasting club, 188.

Commerce, its extent and advantage, 178.

Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the calamities
of life, 371, &c.

Connecte Thomas, a monk in the fourteenth century, a zealous
preacher against women's commodes, 239.

Contentment the utmost good we can hope for in this life, 351.
Conversation most straitened in numerous assemblies, 173.

Cornaro, Lewis, a remarkable instance of the benefit of tempe-
rance, 431.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, a member of the Spectator's club, his
character, 5. He is something of a humorist, 257. His choice
of a chaplain, 258. Is forced to have every room in his house
exorcised by his chaplain, 265. A great benefactor to his
church in Worcestershire, 271. In which he suffers no one to
sleep but himself, 272. The trophies of his several exploits in
the country, 276. The manner of his reception at the assizes, 297.
Where he whispers the judge in the ear, ibid. His adventure
when a school-boy, 308. A man for the landed interest, 314,
His adventure with some gypsies, 327. Rarely sports near his
own seat, 331.

Country gentleman and his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger, their
different tempers described, 322.

Country Sunday, the use of it, 271, &c.

Courage recommends a man to the female sex more than any
other quality, 241. One of the chief topics in books of chi-
valry, 242.
False courage, 244.

Cowley abounds in mixt wit, 163.

Coxcombs generally the womens' favourites, 321.

Credit, a beautiful virgin, her situation and equipage, 12.

D.

Death, the time and manner of it unknown, 23.

Delight and surprize, properties essential to wit, 161, &c.
Demurrers, what women so called, 217.

Devotion, the great advantage of it, 230. The most natural re-
lief in our afflictions, 355. It distinguishes men from brutes
more than reason does, 436. The errors into which it often
leads us, 437. The notions which the most refined among the
heathens had of it, 449. Socrates's model of devotions, 450,
&c.

Dignitaries of the law, who, 56.

Disappointments in love the most difficult to be conquered of any
other, 353.

Drinking, a rule prescribed for it, 430.

Dryden's definition of wit censured, 165.

Duration, the idea of it how entertained according to Mr. Locke,
234. Different beings may obtain different notions of the
same parts of duration, ibid.

Dutch more polite than the English in their funeral monuments, 69,

E.

Education, the benefits of a good one, and necessity of it, 168, &c.
Eginhart, Secretary to Charles the Great, his adventure and mar-
riage with that Emperor's daughter, 401, &c.

Eminent men, the tax paid by them to the public, 245.
Englishman, the peculiar blessing of being born one, 334, &c.,
The Spectator's speculations upon the English tongue, 335.
English are not naturally talkative, 334. English tongue much

adulterated, 363.

Enthusiasm, the misery of it, 437, &c.
Epictetus, his allusion on human life, 474.

Epitaph of a charitable man, 392.

Epitaphs, the extravagancy of some, and the modesty of others, 68.
Equipages, the splendor of them in France, 43. A great temp-
tation to the female sex, ibid.

Errors and prepossessions difficult to be avoided, 278.

Eternity, a prospect of it, 340.

Eudoxus and Leontine, their friendship, and education of their
children, 300, &c.

Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to caritable uses,

391.

Evremont, St. his endeavours to palliate the Roman superstition,

465.

Exercise the most effectual physic, 427.

Expences oftener proportioned to our expectations than pos-
sessions, 426.

F.

Fables, their antiquity, 403. Fable of the children and frogs, 62.
Of Jupiter and the countryman, 66. Of pleasure and pain, 406.
Face, a good one a letter of recommendation, 476.

Falsehood, the goddess of it, 168.

Falstaff, Sir John, a famous butt, 125.

Fame generally coveted, 191, &c.

Families, the ill measures taken by great ones in the education of

their younger sons, 262.

Fan, the exercise of it, 249, &c.

2

Faustina the Empress, her notions of a pretty gentleman, 322.
Fear of death often mortal, 65.

Feasts, the gluttony of our modern ones, 429.

Flutter of the fan, the variety of motions in it, 250.

Fools in plenty the first day of April, 123.

Freeport, Sir Andrew, a member of the Spectator's club, 8. His
moderation in point of politics, 314.

Friendship, the great benefit of it, 174. Life's medicine, 175.
The qualifications of a good friend, 176.

Gaming, the folly of it, 231.

G.

Gaper, a common sigu in Amsterdam, 122.
Genius, what properly a great one, 344.

Ghost, its appearance of great efficacy upon the English theatre,

107.

Giving and forgiving two different things, 421.

Glaphyra, her story out of Josephus, 266.

Good-breeding, the great revolution that has happened in that
article, 283.

Good-nature, more agreeable in conversation than wit, 370. The
necessity of it, 371. It is born with us, ibid. It is a moral
virtue, 389.

Gospel gossips described, 120.

Goths in poetry, who, 166.

Great men, the tax they pay to the public, 245. Not truly known
till after their death, 246.

Greeks, a custom practised by them to create in their children an
aversion to drunkenness, 420.

Grinning; a grinning prize, 386.

Gypsies; an adventure between Sir Roger, the Spectator, and
some gypsies, 327.

H.

Handkerchiefs, the great machine for moving pity in tragedy, 108.
Happiness, true, an enemy to pomp and noise, 45.

Hard words ought not to be pronounced right by well-bred ladies,

116.

Hardness of heart in parents towards their children most inex-
cusable, 400.

Hate: why a man ought not to hate even his enemies, 309.

Head-dress the most variable thing in nature, 237. Extravagantly
high in the fourteenth century, 239. With what success at-
tacked by a monk of that age, ibid.

Heirs and elder brothers frequently spoiled in their education, 299,
Herod and Mariamne's story from Josephus, 382.

Heroes in English tragedy generally lovers, 102.

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