that of converfing with and knowing each other? What would they have done had matter never been created? I fuppofe, not have lived in eternal folitude. As incorporeal substances are of a nobler order, fo be fure, their manner of intercourfe is anfwerably more expedite and intimate. This method of com munication we call intellectual vifion, as fomething analagous to the fenfe of feeing, which is the medium of our acquaintance with this vifible world. And in fome fuch way can God make himself the object of immediate intuition to the bleffed; and as he can, it is not improbable that he will, always condefcending, in the circumftances of doing it, to the weaknefs and proportion of finite minds. His works but faintly reflect the image of his perfections; it
is a fecond-hand knowledge to have a juft idea of him, it may be neceffary that we see him as he is. But what is that? It is fomething that never entered into the heart of man to conceive; yet, what we can easily conceive, will be a fountain of unspeakable, and everlaft- ing rapture. All created glories will fade and die away in his pretence. Per- haps 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 wife designs that have been executing in a long fuc- ceffion of ages. Thus employed in find- ing out his works, and contemplating their Author, how fhall I fall proftrate and adoring, my body fwallowed up in the immenfity of matter, my mind in the infinitude of his perfections!
Mr Grove of Jaunt Bring it.
FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH YOLUMES OF THE SPECTATOR.
ACASTO, his agreeable character, Number 386.
Admiration, when turned into contempt, N. 340.
Advice to a faulty friend, in what manner to be given, N. 385.
Age, the authority affumed by fome people on the account of it, N. 336. Agreeable in company, the art of being fo, N. 386.
Alexander the Great, wherein he imitated Achilles in a piece of cruelty, and the occafion of it, N. 337. His complaint to Aristotle, 379.
Amanda, her adventures, N. 375.
Anthony, Mark, his witty mirth commended by Tully, N. 386.
Appearances, the veneration of refpect paid to them in all ages, N. 360. Artillery, the invention and firft ufe of it, to whom afcribed by Milton, N. 333. St. Afaph, the bishop of, his preface to his fermons, N. 384.
Atheism, an enemy to chearfulness of mind, N. 381. Two unanswerable arguments against it, 389. In what manner Atheists ought to be treated, ibid, Atticus, difinterefted and prudent conduct in his friendships, N. 385. Authors, for what to be admired, N. 335.
BEARDS in former ages a type of wisdom, N. 331. Inftances of the homage
heretofore paid to beards, ibid. At what time the beard flourished most in this nation, ibid. The ill confequence of introducing the use of it amongst us at prefent, ibid. A defcription of Hudibras's beard, ibid.
Bicknell, Mrs. for what commended by the Spectator, N. 370.
Bill propofed by a country gentleman to be brought into the houfe for the better preferving of the female game, N. 326.
Boccalini's fable of a grafhopper applied by the Spectator, N. 355.
Bribery the most prevailing way of making one's court, N. 394.
CESAR's Commentaries, the new edition of it, an honour to the English prefs, N. 367. Cæfar's activity and perseverance, 374.
Candour, the confequence and benefit of it, N. 382.
Cafimir Liszinski, an atheist in Poland, the manner of his punishment, N. 389. Cat, a great contributor to harmony, N. 361.
Catiline, Tully's character of him, N. 386.
Cat-call, a differtation upon that inftrument, N. 361.
Chearfulness, wherein preferable to mirth, N. 381. When worfe than folly or madness, ibid. The many advantages of a chearful temper, 387.
Chocolate, a great heater of the blood in women, Ñ. 365.
Church-musicians reproved for not keeping to the text as well as the preachers N. 338. Church work flow work according to Sir Roger, 383.
Club. The Mohoc club, N. 324. The defign of their institution, ibid. Commendation generally followed by detraction, N. 348.
Commercial friendship preferable to generofity, Number 346. Conplaifance, what kind of it peculiar to courts, N. 390.
Coverley, Sir Roger de, his reflections upon vifiting the tombs in Weftminster Abbey, N. 329. A great friend to beards, 331. Goes with the Spectator and Captain Sentry to a play called the Diftrefs'd Mother, 335. His behaviour and remarks at it, ibid. His uneafinefs on the widow's account, 359. His ob- fervations in his paffage with the Spectator to Spring Gardens, 383. In what manner affronted on that occafion, ibid.
Courage and Magnanimity infeparable, N.
Court intereft, the feveral ways of making it, N. 394.
Cowley, his opinion of Perfius the Latin fatirift, N. 339.
Creation, a poem commended by the Spectator, N. 339. The contemplations on creation a perpetual feast of delight to the mind of a good man, 393.
DANCING a neceffary accomplishment, N. 334. The difadvantages it lieth under to what owing, ibid. Ufeful on the ftage, 370.
Death, the benefit of it, N. 349.
Definitions, the use of them recommended by Mr. Locke, N. 373,
Detraction, the generality of it in converfation, N. 348,
Devotée, the defcription of one, N. 354.
Drefs, the advantage of being well dreit, N. 360.
Drums, customary but very improper inftruments in a marriage confort, N. 364. Dryden, his happy turn of prologue or epilogue, N, 341,
EARTH, why covered with green rather than any other colour, N. 387. Education, a regulation of it propofed, N. 337-
Emperor of the Mohoes' arms, and how borne, N. 324.
English, generally inclined to melancholy, N. 387,
Epictetus, his rule for a perfon's behaviour under detraction, N. 355.
Epitaph on the Counters Dowager of Pembroke, N. 323-.
Etcourt the comedian, his extraordinary talents, N. 358.
Eugene, Prince, the Spectator's account of him, N. 340. In what manner to be compared with Alexander and Cæfar, ibid.
Evremond, St. the fingularity of his remarks, N. 349.
F ALSHOOD and diffimulation, the inconvenience of it perpetual, N. 352.
Female rakes defcribed, N. 336.
Flavilla, liberal of her fouff at church, N. 344.
Fidelio, his adventures and transformation into a looking-glafs, N. 392. Friendship, an effay upon it, N. 385. Defined, ibid, What fort of friendhip the moft ufeful, ibid.,
Frolic, what ought truly to be termed fo, N. 358. Frugality, the true bafis of liberality, N. 346.
GENEROSITY not always to be commended, N. 346. God, the being of one, the greatest of certainties, N. 381. Goofequill, William, clerk to the Lawyers' club, N. 372- Grammar-fchools, a common fault obferved in them, N. 353. Green, why called in poetry the chearful colour, N. 387.
Gymnofophifts, Indian, the method ufed by them in the education of their difci- 15 plus N. 337.
HONEYCOMB, Will, his differtation on the usefulness of looking-glasses, N. 325. His obfervations upon the corruption of the age, 352. He give the club a brief account of his amours and difappointments, 359. Hudibras, a defcription of his beard, N. 335.
MPUDENCE diftinguished from affurance, Number 373. The most pro- per means to avoid the imputation of it, 390.
Indifference in marriage not to be tafted by fenfible spirits, N. 322.
Intereft; the ready way to promote our interest in the world, N. 394.
L Leopold, the last emperor of that name an expert jomer, N. 353-
EARNING, the defign of it, N. 350. To be made advantageous even to the meaneft capacities, N. 353.
Letters to the Spectator. From Octavia married to an ungrateful husband, N. 322. From Clarinda, with her journal, 323. From Philanthropos, with an account of the Mohoc club, 324. From a countryman to her he very much refpects, Mrs. Margaret Clark, ibid. From R. T. to the Spectator, upon a paffage in Milton, 325. From a country gentleman lying under the misfortune of having a very fine park, and an only daughter, 326. From Mrs. Mary Comfit a Mile End Green, ibid. From T. B. complaining of his wife's expenfive longings during her pregnancy, ibid. From a married gentleman who is in fair way of being undone by his virtuous lovely wife, 328. From S. P. re- commending the patronage of young modeft men to fuch as are able to coun- tenance and introduce them into the world, 330. From James Difcipulus, complaining of the nearness of his father as a great difcouragement to him in the courfe of his ftudies, ibid. From Jack Lightfoot, containing an account of his fweaters, 332. From three country virtuous virgins, who are ambitious of the characters of very good wives, ibid. From the author of the history of dancing, 334. From a young man complaining of an ill cuftom he has obferved among old men, 336. From Rebecca the diftreffed, complaining of a club of female rakes, ibid. From with fome further
thoughts on education, 337 and 353. From Physibulus, occafioned by the epilogue to the Diftreffed Mother, 338. From Philomeides, in answer to the foregoing letter, 341. From an officer, concerning Sylvana's conduct in the abience of her husband, 342. From Jack Freelove to his miftrefs, written in the perfon of a monkey, 343. To the Spectator from Epicure Mammon, a great trencherman, 344. From complaining of an extravagant custom among fome women of taking fnuff, ibid. From Taw Waw Eben Zan Ka Jadar, emperor of the Mohocs, with a manifetto, 347. From Mary, against detraction, 348. From Hotfpur, with the defcription of a devotée, 354. From Sophrofunius, complaining of the impudent behaviour of people in the ftreets, ibid. From in behalf of a genteel drefs, 360. From John Shallow, who had lately been at a concert of cat-calls, 361. From Tom Pottle, in commendation of Brooke and Hellier, 362. From Will Cymon, with an ac count of the improvements wrought in him by love, and the character of his miftrefs, ibid. From Philip Homebred, upon travel, 364. From Robin Bridegroom in Birchin Lane, complaining of a fet of drums that awakened him with their thunder the morning after he was married, ibid. From Altamira, a prude, ibid. From with the translation of a Lapland fong, 366. From Conftantia Comb-Brufh, complaining that her mistress gives her caft-off cloaths to others, ibid. From Paul Regnaud to his friend, on the death of Madam de Villacerfe, 368. To the Spectator, from on whims and humourists, 371. From Ralph Belfry, in commendation of Mr. Powell, mäster of the motion, 372. From Humphry Transfer, on a moving club of parish clerks, ibid. From H. R. complaining of the lawyers club, ibid. From Michael Gander, on the day-watchman and his goose, 376. From Rachael Watchful, on dancing, ibid. From Myrtilla, defiring the Spectator's advice in relation to her lover, 380. From J. S. animadverting on perfons beha- ⚫viour at church, ibid. From T. B. on vanity, and the abundance of it in the
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