Calumny, the great offence of it, N. 594; rules against it by
the Fathers of La Trappe, ibid.
Cases in love answered, N. 614.
Cato, an instance of his probity, N. 557.
Cave of Trophonius, several people put into it to be mended,
Censure and applause should not mislead us, N. 610.
Chancery-court, why erected, N. 564.
Chastity, how prized by the heathens, N. 579.
Cherubims, what the Rabbins say they are, N. 600.
Chit Chat Club's letter to the Spectator, N. 560.
Christianity, the only system that can produce content, N. 574;
how much above philosophy, 634.
Cleanliness, the praise of it, N. 631.
Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarfs, N. 609.
Coach, stage, its company, N. 631.
Content, how described by a Rosicrusian, N. 574; the virtue of
it, ibid.
Country gentlemen, advice to them about spending their time,
N. 583; memoirs of the life of one, 622.
Cowley, Mr. his description of heaven, N. 590; his story of
Aglaus, 610; his ambition, 613.
Crazy, a man thought so by reading Milton aloud, N. 577.
Critics, modern ones, some errors of theirs about plays, N. 592.
Cyrus, how he try'd a young lord's virtue, N. 564
DISCRETION absolutely necessary in a good husband, N. 607.
Distempers, difficult to change them for the better, N 599.
Divine nature, our narrow conceptions of it, N. 565; its omni-
presence and omniscience, ibid.
Dreams, a discourse of them, N. 593 and 597; several extrava-
gant ones, ibid. of Trophonius's Cave, 599.
Drunkard, a character of one, N. 569; is a monster, ibid.
Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, N. 569; what Seneca and
Publius Syrius said of it, ibid.
Dryden, Mr. his translation of lapis's cure of Æneas, out of
Virgil, N. 572; of Æneas's ships being turned to goddesses,
589; his cock's speech to dame Partlet, 621.
Dumb conjurer's letter to the Spectator, N. 560.
EDGAR, king, an amour of his, N. 605.
Egotism, the vanity of it condemned, N. 562; a young fellow
very guilty of it, ibid.
Egyptians tormented with the plague of darkness, N. 615.
Eloquence of, beggars, N. 613.
English, a character of them by a great preacher, N. 557; by
the Bantam ambassador, ibid. a distemper they are very much
afflicted with, 582.
Epistolary poetry, the two kinds of styles, N. 618.
Erratum, a sad one committed in printing the Bible, N. 579.
Eternity, an essay upon it, 590; part is to come, 628; speech
in Cato on it, translated into Latin, ibid.
FACES, every man should be pleased with his own, N. 559.
Fadlallah, his story out of the Persian tales, N. 578.
Family madness in pedigrees, N. 612.
Fancy, her character, N. 558; her calamities, ibid.
Favours, ladies, not to be boasted of, N. 611.
Fear, how necessary it is to subdue it, N. 615.
Fellow of a college, a wise saying of one about posterity, N. 583.
Flattery, how grateful, N. 621.
Fontenelle, his saying of the ambitious and covetous, N. 576.
Free-thinkers put into Trophonius's Cave, N. 599.
Fritilla's Dream, N. 597.
Funnel, (Will) the toper, his character, N. 569.
Futurity, the strong inclination man has to know it, N. 604 a
weakness, ibid. the misery of knowing it, ibid.
GENEALOGY, a letter about it, N. 612.
Gladio's dream, N. 597.
God, a contemplation of his omnipresence and omniscience, N.
565; he cannot be absent from us, ibid. considerations on his
ubiquity, 571.
Grotto, verses on one, N. 632.
Gyges and Aglaus, their story, N. 610.
HAMADRYADS, the fable of them to the honour of trees,
N. 589.
Happiness of souls in heaven treated of, N. 600; an argument
that God has assigned us for it, ibid.
Hearts, a vision of them, N. 587.
Heaven, its glory, N. 580; described by Mr. Cowley, 590; the
notions several nations have of it, 600; what Dr. Tillotson
says of it, ibid.
Hermit, his saying to a lewd young fellow, N. 575.
Heroism, an essay upon it, N. 601.
Hilpa, the Chinese antediluvean princess, her story, N. 584; her
letter to Shalum, 585.
History, secret, an odd way of writing one, N. 619.
Hobbes's notions debase human nature, N. 588.
Humour, the two extremes, N. 617; burlesque, 616; pedantic,
617.
Hunting reproved, N. 583.
Husbands: rules for marrying them by the Widow Club, N. 561;
qualities necessary to make good ones, 607.
IAPIS's cure of Aneas, a translation of Virgil, by Mr. Dry-
den, N. 572.
Initial letters, the use party-writers make of them, N. 507; an
instance of it, tbid. criticisms upon it, 568.
Integrity, great care to be taken of it, N. 557.
Intrepidity of a just good man taken from Horace, N. 615.
Irish gentlemen, widow-hunters, N. 561.
Isadas, the Spartan, his valour, N. 564.
Jest, how it should be uttered, N. 616.
John a Nokes and John a Stiles, their petition, N. 577.
Julian, the emperor, an excellent passage out of his Cæsars, re-
lating to the imitation of the gods, N. 654.
Jupiter, his first proclamation about griefs and calamities, N. 558;
his second, ibid. his just distribution of them, 559.
Justice, the Spartans famous for it, N. 564.
LADIES, not to mind party, N. 607.
Laughter, indecent in any religious assembly, N. 630.
Lesbia's letter to the Spectator, giving an account how she was
deluded by her lover, N. 611.
Letter from the Bantam ambassador to his master about the
English, N. 557; from the dumb conjurer to the Spectator,
560; from the Chit-chat Club, ibid. from Oxford about his
recovering his speech, ibid. frorn Frank Townly, ibid. about
the Widow's Club, 561; from Blank about his family, 563;
about an angry husband, ibid. from Will Warley about mili-
tary education, 566; from an half-pay officer about a widow,
ibid. from Peter Push on the same subject, ibid. against
quacks, 572; from the president of the Widow's Club, 573;
from a man taken to be mad for reading poetry aloud, 577.
a second letter about the ubiquity of the Godhead, 580; seve-
ral answered at once, 581; from Constantio Spec, ibid. from
Amanda Lovelength, ibid. from Shalum the Chinese to the
princess Hilpa, before the Flood, 584; from Hilpa to Sha-
lum, 585; from John Shadow, at Oxford, about reflecting at
night on the past day's actions, 586; about a vision of hearts,
587; about planting, 589; from John Shadow about dreams,
593; of inconsistent metaphors, 595; from Jeremy Love-
more, with an account of his life, 596; about making love
602; from Fanny Fickle, 605: from an aunt about her
niece's idleness, 606; about the vanity of some clergymen
wearing scarfs, 609; from Tom Nimble about antipathies,
ibid. from Cleora against the ladies' work, ibid. from Lesbia,
a deluded lady, 611; about genealogy, 612; from Will Hope-
less about ambition, 613; from the Temple about beggars'
eloquence, ibid. from Monimia to recover a lost lover, ibid.
from a country wit in the burlesque way, 616; from a pedant,
in his pedantic way, on the same subject, 617; about the
styles of letters, 618; answers to several, 619; about flatte-
ry, 621; from the love-casuist about the widows' tenure, and
the black-ram, 623; from the same about love-queries, 625;
from one who recommended himself for a newsmonger, ibid.
about the force of novelty, 626; about a crossed lover, 627;
about eternity to come, 628; about church music, 630; about
the Rattling Club's getting into church, ibid.
Life, eternal, what we ought to be most solicitious about, N.
575; man's not worth his care, ibid. valuable only as it pre-
pares for another, ibid.
Love-casuist, some instruction of his, N. 591 and 607.
Lover, an account of the life of one, 596; a crossed one re-
tires, 627.
MAHOMETANS, their cleanliness, N. 631.
Marcia's prayer in Cato, N. 593.
Memoirs of a private country gentleman's life, N. 622.
Man, the two views he is to be considered in, N. 588; an ac
tive being, 624; his ultimate end, ibid.
Merry part of the world amiable, N. 598.
Messiah, the Jews mistaken notion of his worldly grandeur,
Metaphors, when vicious, N. 595; an instance of it, ibid.
Military education, a letter about it, N. 566.
Mischief rather to be suffered than an inconvenience, N. 564.
Montaigne, fond of speaking of himself, N. 562; Scaliger's
saying of him, ibid.
Music, church, recommended, N. 630.
Musician, burlesque, an account of one, N. 570.
NEEDLE-WORK recommended to ladies, N. 606; a letter
from Cleora against it, 609.
News, the pleasure of it, N. 625.
Newton (Sir Isaac) his noble way of considering infinite space,
N. 564.
Night, a clear one described, N. 565; whimsically described by
William Ramsey, 582.
No, a world of use to women in love matters, N. 625.
Novelty, the force of it, N. 626.
OBSCURITY, more illustrious than grandeur, N. 622.
Orator, what requisite to form one, N. 633.
Ovid, his verses on making love at the theatre, translated by
Mr. Dryden, N. 602; how to succeed in his manner, 618.
PASSIONS, the work of a philosopher to subdue them, N.
564; instances of their power, ibid.
Patience, her power, N. 559.
Pedantic humour, N. 617.
Penelope's web, the story of it, 606.
Person, the word defined by Mr. Locke, N. 578.
Petition of John a Nokes and John a Stiles, N. 577.
Petition from a cavalier for a place, with his pretences to it, N.
629.
Phebe and Colin, an original poem, N. 603.
Philosophers (Pagan) their boast of exalting human nature, N.
634.
Pittacus, a wise saying of his about riches, N. 574.
Pity, the reasonableness of it. N. 588.
Places, unreasonableness of party pretences to them, N. 629.
Planting recommended to country gentlemen, N. 583; again, 589.
Plato's saying of labour, N. 624.
Play-house, how improved in storms, N. 592.
Politicians, the mischief they do, N. 556; some at the Royal
Exchange, 568.
Puss, speculations on an old and a young one, N. 626.
Pythagoras, his advice to his scholars about examining at night
what they had done in the day, N. 586.
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