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Goldfinch, a beau, his behaviour to his offspring pro-

posed for imitation......

Good-breeding, the necessity of it

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Grave-digger in Hamlet, humour of that character...... 144
Greens, a curious collection to be sold.......

173

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Honours, the duty and interest of all nations to bestow
them on merit...

93

Horse, described by Homer, Virgil, Oppian, Lucan,

and Pope........

86

Job's description of one better than Homer's or
Virgil's

86

Hospitals, for foundlings recommended.

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Humour, the English distinguished by it

144

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a means to conquer it.

131

Idolatry, a sottish sort of worship............

Ignorance and vice taint the blood..

Immortality of the soul, arguments for it..................
Intrigue between a footman and a maid servant...

in low life

Job, Book of, fine poetical paintings therein, particu-
larly of a horse
Ironside, Nestor, esq. how related to the Bickerstaffs.. 94
A piece of true tempered steel.......

102

Engaged in search of the philosopher's stone....... 166
His intended charities when he discovered it...... 166
Ironside, Mrs. Martha, her character and love of an-

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86

cestry.

137

Judges, the advantage of continuing them during good
behaviour

Justice, the greatest of all virtues....................................................................... ..

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KNOWLEDGE, pursuit thereof recommended to youth... 111
Advantages attending it ..........

LADIES, conveniencies of their gaming.........................

111

....

174

149

85

174

Lady's woman, must have the qualifications of a critic

in poetry.

Lais, history abuses her.

Laudanum, why out of doors at Bath.

Law-suits, methods of deciding them in India............ 133
Learning, the natural source of wealth and honour...

Proper for women

Leo II. his letter to the Guardian

Leo X. Pope, his entertainment of the poets....
Letter from Alexander to Aristotle

111

...

155

124

115

111

from Nestor Ironside to Pope Clement VIII.... 149
Tom Swagger to Old Testy..

..........

Lewis XIV. renowned for inviolably keeping trea-

ties.....

Liberty, freethinkers enemies thereto

Lingerers, account of them.......

145

Letters, difficulties which attended the first invention

of them...

172

Their great use

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Lion to be set up at Button's coffee-house.
Scandalous reports of him..

History of his species......
Calculation of his nativity.

Lion, Sir George Davis's lion......
Liquors, no bribery in them......
Little Men, a club of them......

Loan-bank, a project....

Longinus his best rule for the sublime

..........

Longitude, proposals concerning the discovery of it...... 108
Love, personated by Ambition and Avarice......... 152
Love, in low life..

Lowngers, a sect of philosophers at Cambridge

Lucan's Strada, commended

87

124

115

154

...115, 119

152

Lucifer, his description of a masquerade at the French

ambassador's.

Lucretius, Strada's....

Lust, opposed to Modesty,

Lycurgus, the character of a good master...
the Spartan, his good laws concerning matri-

mony

Lyrics, the English very fine.

..............................

No.

87

100

124

130

MACHINES, modern freethinkers are such. ......................... 130
Mankind, ranged under the active and speculative......
Mantua-makers, should be expert anatomists....... 149
Marriage, what often occasions unhappiness therein. 113
extravagant expences after entering into it,

censured

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Martial, his verses on a country seat..........

Masquerades, account of them...

...

...

147

173

.142, 154

Master, how he should behave towards his servants...... 87

the efficacy of his example.....

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Mechanics in what really inferior to gentlemen
Medals (modern) an error in distributing them................
Medals, proposal for making them more general and
useful, by Dr. Swift..

struck in France on abolishing duels...

Melissa and Polydore, their story.

165

130

93

93

129

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Milton's description of Eve's treating an Angel.......... 138
Milliners, general remarks on them......
Mind (human) restless after happiness.....................
principle of attraction therein......................... 126

Misers not happy in their riches.....
Misochirosophus, Johannes, his humorous letter, com-
plaining of Button orators

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Mistress of a family, a good one described from the
book of Proverbs.

168

Modesty bestows greater beauties than the bloom of
youth.......

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A modesty-piece lost at the masquerade............. 145

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More, Sir Thomas, his poem on the choice of a wife... 163
Mortality, bill of, out of the country.

Mother, character of a good one......
VOL. II.

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Motteux, Peter, an unicorn's head to be erected there 114
Mum, Ned, his letter concerning the silent club......... 121
Myla, daughter of Pythagoras, account of her and her

works.....

165

NATURAL History, a diverting and improving study..... 160
Nature, the contemplation of it exalts the spirits.. 169
imitated by Art

103

Necks of women immodestly exposed......100, 109, 118, 121
Nomenclators, who...

ODDITIES, the English famous for them.......

Oppian, his description of a war-horse..

...

107

Oedipus, faults in that tragedy....

144
110

86

Oratory, an odd kind of it condemned..

84

Ovid, Strada's......

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Paschal, Mr. his observations on Cromwell's death...... 156
Patch, parson, why so called

116

Patience opposed to scorn.......

152

Pedants,their veneration for Greek and Latin condemned 90
Pedigrees, the vanity of them ridiculed......

137

Persian sultan, an instance of the justice of one......... 95

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Phænomena of Nature imitated by Art...
Pharisees, for what blamed by Christ...
Philautus and his cockle-shells affronted......
Philogram, his letter on speech and letters............... 172
Philosopher's stone, Mr. Ironside's search after it....... 166
Physicians never take physic........
Physico-theology, by Dr. Derham, recommended.... 175
Picts, women untuckered, advised to imitate them...... 140
Pismires, nations of them described.........

Plain, Tom, his letter complaining of great hoop petti-
coats..

Plato, his answer to a scandalous report of him..... ...
what he said of censure......

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Players, robbed in their journey to Oxford.......
Pleasure, not to be exclaimed against in the reclaim-

ing of youth.

tragic, errors committed by them...

Pope, Mr. his description of a war-horse......

No.

Poetry, compared with dress..........

of it............

Poet, history of an ancient Greek poet

Polydore and Melissa, their story......

149

different styles required for the different kinds

149

141

110

85

86

141

138

102

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Popes, the Leos the best, and Innocents the worst....
Posterity, the regard we should have thereto
Posture-master, his frolics about clothes...............................................
Praise, grateful to human nature
Pride, that vice exposed.......

- opposed to honour..........

Priest, the respect due to that title

Prim, Ruth, her advice to Nestor Ironside......

Prior, Matthew, his character of perfect beauty.

Prolusions of Strada on the style of poets.......112, 115, 122

Property-man at the play, robbed...

Proteus compared to death..

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Proverbs concerning a good mistress of a family.
Providence, a remarkable instance of its interposi-

tion

Prudes, how they should paint themselves.....
Purville, Mr. the property-man, account of his being
robbed

Puzzle, Peter, his dream....

Pythagoras, his learning and that of his family.
his invention of the foundation of British

95

136

168

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117

140

95

106

165

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Reformation of manners, a project for that purpose....... 107

Rich men, what Diogenes said of them..................... 91
Riding-dress, why called pindaric.........

149

Ringwood, Jack, his Temple education described....... 151
his milliners and shoe-makers bills.......

Roarings of Button's lion....

151

121

Rochester, bishop of, his definition of wit.............................. 141

137

Roscommon, earl of, his rule for translating..

164

Rustysides, his letter on masquerades.............

142

SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, his answer to Lord Bruce's

challenge

129

account of his combat with Lord Bruce....... 133

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