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MACHINES, modern freethinkers are such.
Mankind, ranged under the active and speculative.....
Mantua-makers, should be expert anatomists....... 149
Marriage, what often occasions unhappiness therein.... 113
- extravagant expences after entering into it,
censured
Martial, his verses on a country seat.................
Masquerades, account of them........
.142, 154
Master, how he should behave towards his servants......
the efficacy of his example..... .....
Mechanics in what really inferior to gentlemen
Medals (modern) an error in distributing them......
Medals, proposal for making them more general and
useful, by Dr. Swift.

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struck in France on abolishing duels...................... 129
Melissa and Polydore, their story..
85
Memoirs of the discovery of a French nobleman's chil-
dren
Memorial from Dunkirk answered........
Milton's description of Eve's treating an Angel.......... 138
Milliners, general remarks on them......
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Mind (human) restless after happiness......
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principle of attraction therein.................................................................... 126
Misers not happy in their riches.......
Misochirosophus, Jobannes, his humorous letter, com-
plaining of Button orators
Mistress of a family, a good one described from the
book of Proverbs.
Modesty bestows greater beauties than the bloom of
youth.....

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opposed to lust..............

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Lost among the ordinary part of the world...
-pieces laid aside...

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A modesty-piece lost at the masquerade............
Molehill, a lively image of the earth....
Molly, the barber's daughter, her history.
Moralists, quaint, a saying of their's........

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More, Sir Thomas, his poem on the choice of a wife... 163
Mortality, bill of, out of the country.
Mother, character of a good one....

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VOL. II.

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Motteux, Peter, an unicorn's head to be erected there 114
Mum, Ned, his letter concerning the silent club......... 121
Myla, daughter of Pythagoras, account of her and her
works....

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NATURAL History, a diverting and improving study..... 160
Nature, the contemplation of it exalts the spirits... 169
imitated by Art
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Necks of women immodestly exposed......100, 109, 118, 121
Nomenclators, who...

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ODDITIES, the English famous for them....
Oedipus, faults in that tragedy...
Oppian, his description of a war-horse...
Oratory, an odd kind of it condemned..
Ovid, Strada's......

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PAINTING in Poetry, what it is.....
Palaces of the French king, described.
Pandemonium of Milton proposed to be represented in

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fireworks.....

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Paschal, Mr. his observations on Cromwell's death...... 156
Patch, parson, why so called
Patience opposed to scorn....
Pedants,their veneration for Greek and Latin condemned 90
Pedigrees, the vanity of them ridiculed..
Persian sultan, an instance of the justice of one.........
Peruke, a kind of index of the mind...
Petticoat, great, the grievance thereof..,
Phænomena of Nature imitated by Art...
Pharisees, for what blamed by Christ...
Philautus and his cockle-shells affronted.....
Philogram, his letter on speech and letters....
Philosopher's stone, Mr. Ironside's search after it....... 166
Physicians never take physic.........
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Physico-theology, by Dr. Derham, recommended.... 175
Picts, women untuckered, advised to imitate them...... 140
Pismires, nations of them described......

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Plain, Tom, his letter complaining of great hoop petti-

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Plato, his answer to a scandalous report of him........
what he said of censure.....
Players, robbed in their journey to Oxford................
Pleasure, not to be exclaimed against in the reclaim-
ing of youth.....

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Poetry, compared with dress.............

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different styles required for the different kinds
of it..........
Poet, history of an ancient Greek poet
- tragic, errors committed by them..
Polydore and Melissa, their story......
Pope, Mr. his description of a war-horse......
Popes, the Leos the best, and Innocents the worst...... 141
Posterity, the regard we should have thereto
Posture-master, his frolics about clothes.........

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Praise, grateful to human nature
Pride, that vice exposed.......
opposed to honour..

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Priest, the respect due to that title
Prim, Ruth, her advice to Nestor Ironside......
Prior, Matthew, his character of perfect beauty..
Prolusions of Strada on the style of poets.......112, 115, 122
Property-man at the play, robbed...
Proteus compared to death...
Proverbs concerning a good mistress of a family...
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Providence, a remarkable instance of its interposi-
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Prudes, how they should paint themselves......
Purville, Mr. the property-man, account of his being
robbed.

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Puzzle, Peter, his dream......
Pythagoras, his learning and that of his family......
his invention of the foundation of British
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RAKES, characterised.....
Recluse, idleness exposed.......
Reformation of manners, a project for that purpose...... 107
Repartee, a quick one in parliament.........
Rich men, what Diogenes said of them.....................
Riding-dress, why called pindaric..........
Ringwood, Jack, his Temple education described...
his milliners and shoe-makers bills.......
Roarings of Button's lion.....
Rochester, bishop of, his definition of wit..
Roscommon, earl of, his rule for translating.
Rustysides, his letter on masquerades..

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SACKVILLE, Sir Edward, his answer to Lord Bruce's
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account of his combat with Lord Bruce....... 133

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Sadducees may be called freethinkers among the Jews 93
Santon Barsisa, his history, from the Turkish Tales.... 148
Scandal, a vice the fair sex too easily given into..................
a tax paid by the meritorious......

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Schacabac the Persian, an instance of his complai-

sance......

Scorn opposed to patience

Segonia, John De, account of his combat with his bro-
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Servants, the duty of masters towards them..............
Sexes, the comparative perfections of them........
-at war, reconciled by Virtue and Love......
Shame, fear of it overcomes tenderness...
public, the use of it......
Short club, account of it.......
Sickness, the effects it has on the mind...
Silvio, his bill of costs in courting Zelinda......................................
Sleep, shews the divinity of the human soul............
Sloth more invincible than vice......
Small-coalman, his musical talent.....
Snow, artificial, before the French king..
Socrates contemned censure
Softly, Simon, ill used by a widow.....
Solomon, his choice of wisdom..
Sophia refuses a present of jewels on her marriage....... 147
Soul, sympathy of...
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South, Dr. extract from his discourse on a good con-

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called the youth and health of the year..
Squires, country, ignorant of Nature...........
Statius, Strada's......

Steele, Mr. his letters about Dunkirk
Stomachers for beaux.....
Strada, his excellent Prolusions....
Sublime, Longinus his best rule for it...
Boileau's notes on it........
Sullen husbands complained of..
Swagger, Tom, his letter to Old Testy
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Speculative part of mankind compared with the active 130
Speech, a discourse thereon.......
Spleen, the Dutch not subject to it...
Spring, the beauties of that season described.
verses thereon

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Swords, the immoderate length of them condemned143,145
Sympathy of souls

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TALL club, an account of it.............
Temple education, account of it..
Temple, Sir William, his account of English humour... 87
his remarks on the gardens of Alcinous......... 173
his character of the Dutch..........
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Teraminta angry about the tucker
like a wag-tail
Terrible club, account of it....
Theano, the wife of Pythagoras, taught philosophy..... 165
Theodosius, the emperor, married to Athenais, a Gre-

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Thrift, Generosity, his letter about French trade....... 170
Time, not to be squandered....
Timogenes, a man of false honour..

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Timoleon the Corinthian, his piety and remarkable

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preservation....................

Tiptoe, Tom, a gallant member of the short club.........
account of his assignation.....
Topknot, Dr. why so called.......
Tory, English, his letters about demolishing Dun-
kirk.
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170
Trade with France prejudicial to England.
Tragedy-writers, wherein notoriously defective......... 110.
164
Translation, Lord Roscommon's rules for it.....
the best means of refining and polishing a
language

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Tremble, Tom, the quaker, his letter on naked breasts 116
Truelove, Tom, the character of a good husband........ 113
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Tuck, Tim, the hero of the short club......
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Tugghe, Sieur, of Dunkirk, his impudence
Tutors, ill used and ill paid.....

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VARIETY, the nature and sweets of it...............
Versailles, described....
Verses describing the gardens of Alcinous...............

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from Congreve

- from Eusden's translation of the Rape of Proser-
pine

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Eve treating an angel, described from Milton 138
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-on gardening........
by Prior, Congreve, and Addison............... 85, 115
-description of a horse
from a manuscript on hunting .................................................... 125
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