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finite minds. His works but faintly reflect the image of his per fections; it is a secondhand knowledge; to hare a.just idea of him, it may be necessary that we see him as he is. But what is that? It is something that never entered into the heart of man to conceive; yet, what we can easily conceive will be a fountain of unspeakable and everlasting rapture. All created glories will fade and die away in his presence. Perhaps it will be my happiness to compare the world with the fair exemplar of it in the Divine Mind; perhaps, to view the original plan of those wise designs that have been executing in a long succession of ages. Thus employed in finding out his works, and contemplating their Author, how shall I fall prostrate and adoring, my body swallowed up in the immensity of matter, my mind in the infinitude of his perfections!

GROVE.

INDEX.

THE FIGURES IN THE INDEX REFER TO THE NUMBERS
OF THE SPECTATOR.

No.
ABIGAILS (male) in fashion among

the ladies. . . .55

Absence in conversation, a remark-
able instance of it in Will Honey-
comb . . . .77
The occasion of his absence . 77
And means to conquer it . .77
The character of an absent man out

of Bruyere .77

The absence of lovers, death in

love . . . .241

How to be made easy . 241

Abstinence, the benefits of it . 196

Academy for politics . . . 305

The regulations of it . 305

Acasto, his agreeable character . 386
Accomiits, their great usefulness . 174
Acetus, his character . 422

Acosta, his answer to Limborch,
touching the multiplicity of cere-
monies in the Jewish religion . 213
Acrostic, piece of false wit, divided

into simple and compound 60

Act of deformity, for the use of the

Ugly club . .17

Action, the felicity of the soul . 116

A threefold division of our actions 213
No right judgment to be made of

them . . . .174

A necessary qualification in an

orator .... 541
Tn 1 [y a observations on action adapt-
ed to the British theatro . 641
Actions, principles of, two in man . 588
Actor, absent, who so called by Theo-

phrastus .... 641

Admiration, one of the most pleasing

passions .... 237

When turned into contempt . 340

Short-lived . . . .256

A pleasing motion of the mind . 413

Adversity, no evil in itself . . 237

Advertisements of an Italian chirur-

geon . . .22

No.

From St. James's coffee-house . 24

From a gentlewoman that teaches
birds to speak . .36

From another that is a fine flesh-
painter . . .41

From Mr. Sly, the haberdasher . 187

About the lottery ticket . 191

Advice : no order of persons too con-
siderable to be advised . . 34

In what manner to be given to a
faulty friend . , 385

Usually received with reluctance . 512
Adulterers, how punished by the pri-
mitive Christians . 579
Affectation, a greater enemy to a fine
face than the small-pox . . 33

It deforms beauty, and turns wit
into absurdity . , 38

The original of it . .88

Found in the wise man as well as
the coxcomb . . .38

The way to get clear of it . .38

The misfortune of it . , 404

Described . . . 400

Affliction and sorrow not always ex-
pressed by tears . . 95

True affliction labours to be invisi-
ble . . . .95
Afflictions, how to Ik? alleviated , 501
Age rendered ridiculous , 6

How contemned by the Athenians
and respected by the Spartans . 6

The unnatural misunderstanding
between age and youth . . 153

The authority of an aged virtuous
person preferable to the pleasures
of youth .... 153

A comfortable old age the reward
of a well-spent youth . . 260

The authority assumed by some
people on the account of it . 886

Aglaus, his story told by Cowley . 610
Agreeable man, who . . 280

The art of being agreeable in com-
pany . . . .386

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No.
Albacinda, her character . . 144

Alexander, the Great, wry-necked . 32
Hie artifice in his Indian expedi-
tion . . . .127
HiH answer to those who asked him
if he would not be a competitor
for the prixe in the Olympic
fames .... 167
"Wherein he imitated Achilles in a
piece of cruelty, and the occasion
ofit . . . -837
His complaint to Aristotle . 379
Allegories, like light to a discourse . 421
Eminent writers faulty in them . 421
The reception the Spectator's alle-
gorical writings meet with from
the public . . .601
Allusions, the great art of a writer . 421
Almighty, his power over the imagi-
nation .... 421
Amanda, her adventures . . 376
Amaryllis, her character . . 144
Amazons, their commonwealth . 433
How they educated their children 434
Their wars .... 434
They marry their male allies . 434
Ambition never satisfied . 27, 256
The occasion of factions . . 126
By what to be measured . . 188
Many times aB hurtful to the princes

who ore led by it, as the people 200
Most men subject to it . 219, 224
Of use when rightly directed . 219

The end of it . . . 265

The effects of it in the mind . 266

Subjects us to many troubles . 267

The true object of a laudable ambi-
tion . . - .267
Various kinds of it. . . 670
Laudable . . . 613
Americans, their opinions of souls . 66
Exemplified in a vision of one of

their countrymen . .56

Used painting instead of writing . 416
Amity between agreeable persons of

different sexes dangerous . 400

Amoret the jilt reclaimed by Philan-
der ... 401
Ample (Lady\ her uneasiness, and

the reason of it . . .32

Amusements of life, when innocent,

necessary and allowable . 03

Anacharsis, the Corinthian drunkard,

a saying of his . . . 669

Anagram, what, and when first pro-
duced • .60
Anatomy, the Spectator's speculations

on it . . . 643

Ancestry, how far honour is to be

paid to . . - .612

Ancients in the east, their way of

living .... 415
Andromache, a great fox-hunter . 57
Animals, the different make of every
species . . . .11

Ko.

The instinct of brute* . . 130

Exemplified in several instances . 15*
God himself the soul of brutes . IS
The variety of arms with which,
they are provided by nature . 121
Anne Boleyn's last letter to King

Henry VTH. . . . 397

Annihilation, by whom desired . 219

The most abject of wishes . . 219

Answers to several letters at once 531,619

Anthony (Mark), his witty mirth

commended by Tally . . 181

Antipathies, a letter about them . 690
Anxieties, unnecessary, the evil of

them and the vanity of them . 05
Apes, what women so called, and

described .... 244
Apollo's temple on the top of Locate,
by whom frequented, and for
what purpose . . . 283

Apothecary, his employment . 196

Apparitions, the creation of weak

minds . . . - 110

Appearances, the veneration of re-
spect paid to them in all ages . 361
Things not to be trusted for them. 464
Appetites, sooner moved than the

passions .... 20$
The incumbrances of old age . 269

Applause (public , its pleasure . 442

Censure and applause should not
mislead us 6W

April (the first of;, the merriest day
in the year . . .47

Month of described. . .415

Arable (Mrs.;, the great heiress, th*
Spectator's fellow traveller . 132

Verses on Arabella's singing . 443

Araspas and Panthea, their story out

of Xenophon . . 584

Architecture, the ancients* perfec-
tion in it . 415
The greatness of the manner how-
it strikes the fancy . . 4Ii
Of the manner of both ancients and

moderns .... 415
The concave and convex figures

have the greatest air . . 415

Every thing that pleases the ima-
gination in it, is either great,
beautiful, or new . . 435

Aretine made all the princes of

Europe his tributaries . . 21

Argument, rides for the manage-
ment of oue . . . BC
Argumentum Basilinum, what . 239
Socrates' way of arguing . Stf
In what manner managed by states
and communities . . 231
Argus, his qualifications and employ-
ments under Juno . . SSI
Arietta, her character . . 11
Her fable of the lion and the man.
in answer to the story of the
Ephesian matron . .11
Her story of Inkle and Varieo . H

No.

Ariatintetus, bis letters, some account

of them . . . .238

Aristippus, his saying of content . 674
Aristotle, his observation upon the

Iambic verse . . .81

Upon tragediett . . 40, 42

Hit account of the world . . 166

The inventor of syllogism . * 289

His definition of an entire act of

epic poetry . . . 267

Hia sense of the greatness of the
action in a poem ; his method of
examining an epic poem . . 273

An observation of that critic's . 278
One of the best logicians in the

world . . .201

HU division of a poem . . 297

Another of his observations . 297

His observation on the fable of an

epic poem . . . 316

His saying of his being . . 425

Ariatus and Aspasia, a happy couple 128
Arm (the) called by Tully the orator's

weapon .... 541
Arsinoe, the first musical opera on

the English stage . . .18

Art of criticism, the Spectator's ac-
count of that poem . . 263
Works of art defective to entertain

the imagination . . . 414

Receive great advantage from their

likeness to those of nature . 414

The design of it . .641

Artillery, the invention and first use

of it, to whom ascribed by Milton 383
Artist, wherein he has the advantage

of an author . . . 166

Asaph, St. (the Bishop of] his preface

to his Sermons . . ■ 384

Association of honest men proposed

by the Spectator . . « 126

Assurance, what . . . 373

Atheism, an enemy to cheerfulness of
mind .881

Two unanswerable arguments

against it. . . .389

In what manner atheists ought to

be treated . . .389

Atheists, great zealots . . 185

And bigots . . . .185

Their opinions downright nonsense 185

Atticus, disinterested and prudent

conduct in his friendships . 385

Avarice, the original of it .56

Operates with luxury . . 66

At war with luxury . . 65

Its officers ond-adherenti . . 55

Comes to an agreement with luxury 65
Audience, the gross of an audience of
whom composed . . . 602

The vicious taste of our English
audiences .... 602
Audiences, at present void of common

sense . . 13, 290

August and July (months of) de-
scribed .... 425

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Augustus, his request to his friends
at his death . . . 317

His reproof to the Roman bache-
lors . . . .528

His saying of mourning fur the
dead . . . .676

Aurelia, her character . . 16

Author, the necessity of his readers
being acquainted with his size,
complexion, and temper, in order
to read his works with pleasure 1

His opinion of his own performances 4

The expedient made use of by those
who write for the stage . . 61

In what manner one author is a
mole to another . . . 124

Wherein on author has the advan-
tage of an artist . . . 1G6

The care an author ought to take
of what he writes . . 166

A story of an atheistical author . I(i6
Authors, for what most to be admired 356

Their precedency settled according
to the bulk of their works . 529

BABEL (tower of) . . .415

Bacon (Sir Francis^ his comparison

of a book well written . . 10

His observation upon envy. . 19

Prescribes his reader a poem or

prospect, as conducive to health 411
What he says of the pleasure of
taste . . .447

His extraordinary learning and parts 654

Bacon flitch at Whichenovre, in Staf-
fordshire, who ore entitled to it 607
Several demands for it . . 603

Bags of money, a sudden transforma-
tion of them into sticks sad
paper . . .8

Bamboo (Benjamin), the philosophi-
cal use he resolves to make of a
shrew of a wife . 482

Bankruptcy, the misery of it 428, 456

Bantuin (ambassador of), his letter to
his master about the English . 567

Baptist Lully, his prudent manage-
ment . . .29

Bareface, his success with the ladies,
and the reason for it . . 166

Bar-oratory in England, reflections on
it 407

Basil ins Valeutinus, and his son, their
Btory . .426

Bawdry, never writ but where there
is dearth of invention . . 54

Bawdy-houses frequented by wise
men, not out of wantonness but
stratagem . . . 190

Baxter (Mr.;, his last words . . 445

More last words . . 446

What a blessing he had . 590

Bayle [Mr.), what he says of libels . 451

Beards in former ages a type of wis-
dom . . .831

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