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ill-natured man, though but of equal parts, gives himfelf a larger field to expatiate in; he expofes thofe failings in human nature which the other would caft a veil over, laughs at vices which the other either excuses or conceals, gives utterance to reflections which the other ftifles, falls indifferently upon friends or enemies, expofes the perfon who has obliged him, and, in fhort, sticks at nothing that may establish his character of a wit. It is no wonder therefore he fucceeds in it better than the man of humanity, as a person who makes use of indirect methods is more likely to grow rich than the fair trader.

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A.

ACTION the felicity of the foul, Number 116.

Affliction and forrow, not always expreft by tears, N. 95. True affliction labours to be invisible, ibid.

Age: the unnatural misunderstanding between age and youth, N. 153. The authority of an aged virtuous perfon preferable to the pleafures of youth, ibid.

Albacinda, her character, N. 144.

Alexander, his artifice in his Indian expedition, N. 127. His anfwer to thofe who asked him if he would not be a competitor for the prize in the Olympick games, 157.

Amaryllis, her character, N. 144.

Ambition, the occafion of factions, N. 125.

Animals, the different make of every fpecies, N. 120. The inftin&t of brutes, ibid. exemplified in feveral inftances, ibid. God himself the foul of brutes, 121. The variety of arms with which they are provided by nature. ibid.

A mufe

Amufements of Life, when innocent, neceffary and allowable,

N. 93.

Apparitions, the creation of weak minds, N, 110.

Arable, (Mrs.) the great heiress, the Spectator's fellow-travel-
ler, N. 132.

Ariftotle, his account of the world, N. 166.

Ariftus and Afpafia, an unhappy couple, N. 128.

Artift, wherein he has the advantage of an author, N. 166.
Affociation of honest men proposed by the Spectator, N. 126.
Author: in what manner one author is a mole to another, N.
124. Wherein an author has the advantage of an artist,
166. The care an' author ought to take of what he writes,
ibid. A ftory of an atheistical author, ibid.

B.

BAREFACE, his fuccefs with the ladies, and the reafon for
it, N. 156.

Bear-Garden, the Spectator's method for the improvement of
it, N. 141.

Beauties, whether male or female, very untractable, N. 87. and
fantastical, 144. impertinent and difagreeable, ibid. The effi
[ cacy of beauty, ibid.

Board-wages, the ill-effects of it, N. 88.

Bodily exercifes, of ancient encouragement, N. 161.

Books reduced to their quinteffence, N. 144. The legacies of
great genius's, 166.

Burnet, (Dr.) fome paffages in his theory of the earth consider,
ed, N. 143. and 146,

C.

CESAR (Julius) his reproof to an ill reader, N. 147.
Cambray (the Bishop of) his education of a daughter re
commended, N. 95.

Cant, from whence faid to be derived, N. 147.

Cars:

Care: what ought to be a man's chief care, N. 122.
Carneades, the philofopher, his definition of beauty, N. 144.
Caffius, the proof he gave of his temper in his childhood, N.
157.

Caftle-builders, who, and their follies expofed, N. 167.

Cenfure, a tax, by whom paid to the publick, and for what, N.

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Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's, N. 106.
Chastity, the great point of honour in women, N. 99.
Chearfulness of temper, how to be obtained and preserved, N.
143.

Children, wrong measures taken in the education of the British
children, N. 157.

Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be commended, N.
85.

Church-yard, the country Change on Sunday, N. 112.

Common-prayer, fome confiderations on the reading of it, N.
147. The excellency of it, ibid.

Compaffion, the exercife of it would tend to leffen the calamities
of life, N. 169.

Compliments in ordinary difcourfe cenfured, N. 103. Ex
change of Compliments, 155.

Condé (Prince of) his face like that of an eagle, N. 86.

Connecte (Thomas) a monk in the 14th century, a zealous
preacher against the women's conmodes in thofe days, N.
98.

Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this life, N.
163.

Conversation, usually stuffed with too many compliments, N.
103. What properly to be understood by the word conver-
fation, N. 143.

Cottilus, his great equanimity, N. 143.
Coverley (Sir Roger de) he is fomething of an humourist, N.
106. His choice of a chaplain, ibid. His management of
his family, 107. His account of his ancestors, 109. Is
forced to have every room in his house exorcifed by his chap-
lain, 110. A great benefactor to his church in Worcester-
fhire, 112. in which he fuffers no one to fleep but himself,
ibid. He gives the Spectator an acccount of his amours, and
character of his widow, 113, 118. The trophies of his fe-
veral exploits in the country, 115. A great fox-hunter, 116.
An inftance of his good-nature, ibid. His averfion to confi-
dents, 118. The manner of his reception at the affizes, 122.

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where he whispers the judge in the ear, ibid. His adventure
when a fchool-boy, 125. A man for the landed interest,
126: His adventure with fome gypfies, 130. Rarely sports
near his own feat, 131.

Country, the charms of it, N. 118. Country gentleman and
his wife, neighbours to Sir Roger, their different tempers de-
fcribed, 128. Country Sunday, the use of it, 112. Coun-
try wake defcribed, 161.

Courage recommends a man to the female fex more than any
other quality, N. 99. One of the chief topicks in books of
chivalry, ibid. Falfe courage, ibid. Mechanick courage,

what, 152.

Cowley, his magnanimity, N. 144.

Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites, N. 128.

D.

DEATH, the contemplation of it affords a delight mixed
with terror and forrow, N. 133. Intended for our relief,
ibid. Deaths of eminent perfons the most improving paffages
in history, ibid.

Debt, the ill ftate of fuch as run in debt, N. 82.

Decency, nearly related to virtue, N. 104.

Demurrers, what fort of women fo to be called, N. 89.
Devotion, the great advantage of it, N. 93. The most natural
relief in our afflictions, 163.

Dick Craftin challengeth Tom Tulip, N. 91.

Difappointments in love, the most difficult to be conquered of
any other, N. 163.

Diffenters, their canting way of reading, N. 147.

Diffimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it, N. 103.
Duelling, a difcourfe against it, N. 84. Pharamond's edic
against it, 97.

Duration, the idea of it how obtained according to Mr. Locke,
N. 94. Different beings may entertain. different notions of
the fame parts of duration, ibid.

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