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Bickerstaff, Mr. his amours.......

how his race was improved........
not in partnership with Lillie

Blaregnies, the victory there described.....

Blindness cured by Dr. Grant, with an account of the
patient when he recovered his sight.......

No.

107

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Blunder, major, buys musquets without touch-holes.... 61
Boatswain, Dampier's, his disinterested arguments to
his companions to prevent being eaten by them 62
Bombardiers, who to be accounted such.........
Books, how to be valued.
Boufflers, marshal, his Letter to Lewis XIV. after the
battle of the Woods....

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Bradley, Sir Arthur de, candidate for alderman of
Queen-hithe ward, his expedient to prevent bri-
bery at the election

.....

Brains, spirit of, in orange-flower water, sold by Charles

Lillie

94

Bribery, a notable expedient to prevent it at elections 73

- with coals, reflections on ...

Brisk, Sir Liberal, saved from sharpers...............................................................
Bromeo, his character.........

Bruyere, Mr. his satire on the French.......

CESAR, Julius, an instance of his modesty......
Canes, part of the dress of a prig

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petitions to wear them

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.80, 105

112

worn out of affectation.....................................................................................

Cato, a beauty in his character.........

Chapel clerk caught in a garret with two of the fair sex 69

the word explained.

Chastity, its value instanced in Scipio...

Christmas eve described by Shakspeare.

Cicercius, an instance of his modesty
Cleomira censured for painting her face

Clergy, dumb, recommended to the speaking doctor at

Kensington...........

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111

70

Clergyman, character of a good one described .72, 114

deficient in oratory

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.66, 70

their laziness the principal cause of dis-

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the term explained............

Commendation of one's self, when necessary..

Common-prayer, advice to the readers thereof....
Compassion, how moved in men and women..........................
- instanced in a passage in Macbeth.....

Conjugal affection described.....

Conversation, what only gives true relish thereto
Coppersmith, Harry and Will, their characters com-

pared with the sharpers

that name explained......

Coquetry, how to overcome the power of it...

Coquettes are chaste jilts........

its effects on a young gentleman...

Cornwall, a tragical accident there.....

Country gentlemen very ceremonious.....

Coxcombs described by Sir John Suckling.

No.

66

68

68

114

95

57

61

107

107

82

86

57

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required to set marks upon themselves....
the greatest plague of them....

Crassus, his character compared with Lorio's

Cynthio, his passion for Clarissa, his death, monument
and epitaph........

DANCING master, account of one who danced by book.. 88
Daniel, Mr. Bickerstaff's merry companion, his man-

ner of preaching described....

Dapper, parson, his way of preaching.

Tim, head of a species...

Dappers, their habit and manner described...

usefulness of that family.

...........

Dead men, heard and adjudged.....

who are to be so accounted..

Delamira, account of her amours, and the virtues and

management of her fan....

Dissensions owing to the laziness of the clergy...
Distaff, Jenny, Mr. Bickerstaff's half sister, account
of her marriage, with her character, and that of
her husband Tranquillus.

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56

her happiness with her husband.
quarrel between her and her husband,
and her brother's advice to her thereon......
Distress, contemplating thereon softens the mind and

betters the heart........

Divito (alias Mr. Christopher Rich) ejected from his

palace......

Dogs, a kennel of them to be disposed of....

Dress of rural squires described

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Dromio, the character of a sharper...

Dryden, Mr. mistaken in a remark on Milton............ 114

Duumvir, his way of life, and behaviour to his wife and
mistress........

EBORACENSIS, the character of a good governor of a plan-
tation......

Elmira, her character and manner of living with her
husband..

- vindicated for not grieving at the death of her
husband

Eloquence described...

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......66, 70

94

Elysium, wherein its happiness may be supposed to

consist

Emilia, an excellent and uncommon character
her complaint of the country...

some advice to her thereon...

Engagements between the English and French.....
Equipage proper to be set off with a rent-roll

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57

64

66

Euphusius, a man whose good-nature is hurtful to him... 76

FAME, mountain and temple of.....

- plan of the chamber of....

table of...

the bank of...

the love of it dwells in heroic spirits..

67

87

92

Family scenes.

...67, 114

Fan, its motions discovers ladies thoughts

52

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Flattery, force of it, instanced in Don Quixote......

69

Flavia, an imaginary mistress....

106

Florinda, her pretensions to life.....

106

Fondness of wife and children instanced...............95, 114

Fop, inventory of his effects seized for the charge of

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Friendship founded on reason and choice...... ..

Futurity, wherein the happiness thereof may be sup-
posed to consist.......

113

58

108

111

57

64

84

82

94

GALLANTRY the heroic virtue of private life.

- true, wherein it ought to consist....
what effects it has on men, instanced in a

theatre on fire......

Gamesters, a speech concerning them...................

defended......

No.

56

57

- represented under the characters of a pack
of hounds......
........59, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 70
Gentleman, a character the most difficult to support
with propriety.

Goldsmiths distinguished from coppersmiths

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66

Greenhat, Obadiah, his criticism upon Mr. Bickerstaff's
writings, and Bickerstaff's remarks thereon...... 59
Greenhats, their character and relation to the Staffs.... 59
Grogram, Jeffery, his acknowledgment that he is dead,
and petition for interment

Gunner and gunster distinguished.

106

Gunster in conversation, who to be so accounted........ 88

HALL, serjeant, his letter to his comrade, and criticisms

thereon....

87

Hamlet, effect of that tragedy when well performed... 71
his exclamation on his mother's hasty mar-
riage.........

Hard words exploded.

Hawksly, his raffling shop at Hampstead..

Hercules, Prodicus's allegory concerning him...
Hero, how distinguished from a plain honest man..
Heyday, Jack, whom he reduced by gaming.
Hippocrates, the character of a generous physician...
Horror described by Shakspeare.....

Humanity inspired by the Muses...

no true greatness without it

Human nature, considered in its true dignity.

Humphry, squire, bubbled at Bath

Hussars, civil and wild, who.........

106

58

59

97

98

56

78

90

98

98

87

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65

Husband, qualities necessary to make a good one................. 104

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JACKS, Harry, why he deserved a statue.........
Idleness more destructive than the plague

.......

56

62

97

Imagination the most active principle of the mind...... 98

Immortality, two kinds of it....

Inconstancy described by Hamlet

Indibilis's wife restored by Scipio.....

Industry, knights of, an account of them.....

81

106

58

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KNIGHTS of the industry, their designs on a young heir 75

Knockers, exercise of them taught...

LABOUR for the public, unsuccessful

Ladies, treating them in organ lofts censured

Lalo, colonel, killed in a battle with the French.........
Landlord, Alexander, his laconic love letter......

Laura, account of her perfections and excellent cha-
racter

despised by her husband...
Learning only improves nature ..

what it is, and what it is not...

Letter from marshal Boufflers to the French king..
-penny-post letters sent as reprimands...

should be the produce of the place, instanced in
one from Switzerland......

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Libellers censured.....................................................................................................
distinguished from satyrists.......

105

Lights well disposed in assemblies enlarge the thoughts 108
Lillie, Charles, catalogue of his wares

his letter....

..94, 101

ordered to prepare blank licences for

wearing canes....

recommended...

Lisander and Corinna, a married couple, among Mr.
Bickerstaff's dead

Living men, who....

Lizard, that friendly animal compared to a satirist........
Lorio, Maria's lover, his character

Love, a mixture of pleasure and pain......
Love, complained of by Diana Doubtful..

founded on reason and choice.........................................

its effects and cure...................................................................................................
-life insipid without it

sentiment of it the same in all nations...................
the history of it in an allegory by Plato.................
Love-letters between Mr. Bickerstaff and Maria.....
-found in a grave....

Lucretia, her story, merit, and character..........................................

MACBETH, a scene of distress in that play
Madonella, the Platonic, her scheme....

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

Mævius writes verses in commendation of his own
works.........

Maria, perplexed in her choice between a man of
merit and a man of fortune.......

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