Pin-money condemned, N. 255.
Poems. Epic poem, the chief things to be consid-
ered in it, N. 267.
Poets. Bad poets given to envy and detraction, N.
253; the chief qualification of a good poet, N. 314.
Polycarpus, a man beloved by every body, N. 230.
Power despotic, an unanswerable argument against
it, N. 287.
Prudence, the influence it has on our good or ill-for-
tune in the world, N. 293.
RABELAIS, his device, N. 283.
Recreation, the necessity of it, No. 258.
Rich. To be rich, the way to please, N. 280; the
advantages of being rich, N. 283; the art of grow-
ing rich, ibid. the proper use of riches, N. 294.
Richlieu, Cardinal, his politics made France the ter-
ror of Europe, N. 305.
SALUTATION, subject to great enormities, N.
Scaramouch, an expedient of his at Paris, N. 283.
School-masters, the ignorance and undiscerning of
the generality of them, N. 313.
Scornful Lady, the Spectator's observation at that
play, N. 270.
Sherlock (Dr.) the reason his discourse of death hath
been so much perused, N. 289.
Slavery, what kind of government the most removed
from it, No. 287.
Smithfield bargain, in marriage, the inhumanity of
it, N. 304.
Snape (Dr.) à quotation from his sermon, N. 294.
Solitude. Few persons capable of a religious, learned,
or philosophic solitude, N. 264.
Spartans, the methods used by them in the education
of their children, N. 307.
Spectator, (the) his aversion to pretty fellows, and
the reason of it, N. 261; his acknowledgments to
the public, N. 262; his advice to the British ladies,
N. 265; his adventure with a woman of the town,
N. 266; his description of a French puppet newly
arrived, N. 277; his opinion of our form of go-
vernment and religion, N. 287; sometimes taken
for a parish sexton, and why, N. 289.
Starch political, its use, N. 305.
Stroke, to strike a bold one, what meant by it, N. 319.
THEMISTOCLES, his answer to a question relat-
ing to the marrying his daughter, N. 311.
Time, how the time we live ought to be computed,
N. 316.
Title-Page (Anthony) his petition to the Spectator,
N. 304.
Trade, the most likely means to make a man's pri-
vate fortune, N. 283.
VIRGIL, wherein short of Homer, N. 273.
Virtue, when the sincerity of it may reasonably be
suspected, N. 266.
WASPS and doves in public, who, N. 300.
Widows, the great game of fortune hunters, N. 311.
Woman, a definition of woman by one of the fathers,
N. 265; the general depravity of the inferior part
of the sex, N. 274; they wholly govern domestic
life, N. 320..
END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
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