Character, places me above the want of an Excuse. Candor and Openness of Heart, which shine in all your Words and Actions, exact the highest Esteem froin all who have the Honour to know you ; and a winning Condescension to all subordinate to You, made Business a Pleasure to those who executed it under You, at the same time that it heightened Her Majefty's Favour to all who had the Happiness of having it convey'd through Your Hands. A Secretary of State, in the Interests of Mankind, join'd with that of his Fellow - Subjects, accomplished with a great Facility and Eleĝance in all the Modern as well as Ancient Languages, was a hap py and proper Member of a Ministry, by whose Services Your Sovereign and Country are in so high and flourishing a Condition, as makes all other Princes and Potentates powerful or inconsiderable in Europe, as they are Friends or Enemies to Great-Britain. The Importance of those great Events which happened during that Administration, in which Your Lordship bore so important a Charge, will be acknowledg'd as long as Time shall endure; I shall not therefore attempt to rehearse those illustrious Passages, but give this Application a more private and particular Turn, in deliring your Lordship would continue your Fayour and Patronage to me, as You A 2 are are a Gentleman of the most polite Literature, and perfectly accomplished in the Knowledge of Books and Men, which makes it neceffary to beseech Your Indulgence to the following Leaves, and the Author of them: Who is, with the greateft Truth and Respect, My LORD, Your Lordship's Obliged, Obedient, and Humble Servant, : The SPECTATOR 398 406 408 410 THE Month of May dangerous to the Fair-Sex No. 395 1 Letter from Peter de Quir on the use of Punning 396 On Compasion, with a Letter from Ann Boleyn to 10 Whimsical Amour of Cynthio and Flavia On Hypocrisy, and its various kinds On the danger of trusting to Pretensions of Platonic-love 400 Louis the XIVth's Death On Solitude ; with a Translation of a Lapland Odé On the Power of Action in Oratory The Paffrons, the Principles of human Actions Sir Roger de Coverley's Adventure with a Lady On the Pleasures of the Imagination, with ). a Comparison between them and those į 411 to 421 On Raillery. make Love Scheme for a Country Infirmary The Revolution of the Seasons, a Dream Story of Bafilius Valentinus, an Hermetick Philosopher 426 The Spectator's Project for enlarging his Design 428 Memorials from Patients in the Country-Infirmary On Beggars, Charity, and Indecency Misconduct of Parents in the Education of their Children 431 The Advantages of the mutual Regard of both Sexes, with the Plan of a Republick of Males, and another of 433 On the riding-dresses of the Ladies 3 Farther Account of the Country-Infirmary No. 440 - Reliance on the Divine Protection, the surest Ground of 2 Persons of all Profesions invited to send Papers to the On the new Tax on Paper by stamping it On the Corruption of the English Comedy On the Power of Habit and Custom On Neglect of Promises on frivolous Occasions Filial Piety exemplified in the Character of Fidelia On the good Effects of the Love of Money On Party-Libels Project of a News-letter of Whispers Vision of Vanity and her Attendants 463 466 467 · 468 ployd in Places of Trust different Editions of the Classics 461 464 465 $ 470 |