INDEX. ABSENCE of lovers, death in love. Abstinence, the benefits of it.............. Accompts, their great usefulness Acosta, his answer to Limborch, touching the multi- Action, a threefold division of our actions... 213 No right judgment to be made of them ......... 174. ......... 237 Advertisement from Mr. Sly the haberdasher........... 187 About the lottery ticket Ambition, by what to be measured.. Many times as hurtful to the princes who are led 191. 188 by it, as the people................. Most men subject to it.. Of use when rightly directed.. Annihilation, by whom desired.. The most abject of wishes.. 200 219, 224 219 210 210 Apes, what women so called, and described... Apollo's temple on the top of Leucate, by whom fre- quented, and for what purpose 244 223 Argus, his qualifications and employments under Juno 250 Atheists great zealots.. And bigots........ Beggars, Sir Andrew Freeport's opinion of them Their opinions downright nonsense.... BAWDY-HOUSES frequented by wise men, not out of wantonness but stratagem. Boileau censured, and for what.... No. 185 185 185 190 232 209 Butt: the adventure of a Butt on the water. 175 CAPRICE often acts in the place of reason. 191 Castilian. The story of a Castilian husband and his wife... 198 Charles the Great, his behaviour to his secretary, who 181 Children, the unnaturalness in mothers of making 246 Chinese, the punishment among them for parricide.... 189 excellency of its doctrines....... Club. The She Romp Club........... Methods observed by that club Club-law, a convincing argument Comfort, what, and where found ............... Constancy in sufferings, the excellency of it........ of temperance Coverley, Sir Roger de, a dispute between him and Cries of London require some regulation......... Cunning, the accomplishment of whom Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting of our Cynæas, Pyrrhus's chief minister, his handsome re- appetites...... proof to that prince DEBAUCHEE, his pleasure is that of a destroyer. Devotion. A man is distinguished from brutes by de- No. Devotion. The errors into which it often leads us...... 201 had of it. Socrates's model of devotions Discontent, to what often owing.. 207 207 214 Discretion, an under agent of Providence................. 225 Distinction, the desire of it implanted in our natures, and why. Doctor in Moorfields, his contrivance excellent in its kind... ........ Dorigny, Monsieur, his piece of the transfiguration, Drinking, a rule prescribed for it 225 224 193 226 195 Dutch, their saying of a man that happens to break... 174 EDUCATION, the benefits of a good one, and necessity of it.. 215 ture and marriage with that emperor's daughter 181 Enthusiasm, the misery of it Epictetus, his allusion on human life. Estates generally purchased by the slower part of 222 Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to cha- Face, a good one a letter of recommendation.......... Fame divided into three different species... Fashion. A society proposed to be erected for the in- Feasts. The gluttony of our modern feasts... 221 218 175 Forehead, esteemed an organ of speech.. No. 231 Freeport, Sir Andrew, his defence of merchants....... 174 An endless source of pleasure.... 196 Good-nature and cheerfulness, the two great or- HABITS, different, arising from different professions.... 197 most inexcusable.. Henpeck'd. The henpeck'd husband described........ 179 181 250 Honours in this world under no regulation.. ........ 219 Hopes and fears necessary passions..... 224 Husbands, an ill custom among them.. 178 Hypocrisy, the honour and justice done by it to reli- gion.... 243 Imma, the daughter of Charles the Great, her story... 181 Jupiter Ammon, an answer of his oracle to the Athe- nians.... 207' Krrry, a famous town girl No. 187 LACEDEMONIANS, their delicacies in their sense of glory 188 A form of prayer used by them........... Lapirius, his great generosity..... 207 248 Latin of great use in a country auditory. 221 Laughter a counterpoise to the spleen...... 249 What sort of persons the most accomplished to 249 A poetical figure of laughter out of Milton ......... 249 with a com- plaint against a Jezebel.... 175 From who had been nonplussed by a Butt.. 175 175 From Jack Modish of Exeter about fashions...... From Charles Yellow against jilts... From a gentleman to a lady, to whom he had for- 188 From a father to his son ........ 189 To the Spectator, from Rebecca Nettletop, a town lady... 190 From Eve Afterday, who desires to be kept by the 190 From a bawdy-house inhabitant, complaining of 190 From George Gosling about a ticket in the lottery 191 From 191 194 complaining of a fantastical friend 194 |