to Shalum, 585. From John Shadow at Oxford, about
reflecting at night on the paft day's actions, 586. About
a vifion of hearts, 587. About planting, 589. From
John Shadow about dreams, 593. Of inconfiftent meta-
phors, 595. From Jeremy Lovemore, 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 fome clergymen wearing
fcarves, 609. From Tom Nimble, about antipathies, ibid.
From Cleora against the ladies work, ibid. From Lefbia,
a deluded lady, 611. About genealogy, 612. From
Will Hopeless, about ambition, 613. From the Temple
about beggar's eloquence, ibid. From Monimia to recover
a loft lover, ibid. From a country wit in the burlesque
way, 616.
From a pedant in his pedantic way on the
fame fubject, 617. About the ftyles of letters, 618.
Anfwers to feveral, 619. About flattery, 621. From
the love-cafuift about the widow's tenure, and the black
ram, 623. From the fame about love-queries, 625.
From one who recommended himself for a newfmonger,
ibid. About the force of novelty, 626. About a crofled
lover, 627. About eternity to come, 628. About church
mufic, 630. About the rattling club's getting into church,
ibid.

Life, eternal, what we ought to be moft folicitous about,
N. 575. Man's not worth his care, ibid. Valuable only
as it prepares for another, ibid.

Love-cafuift, fome inftructions of his, N. 591, and 607.
Lover, an account of the life of one, N. 596. A croffed
one retires, 627.

M

MAHOMET ANS, their cleanlinefs, 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 confidered in, N. 588. An
active being, 624. His ultimate end, ibid.

Merry part of the world amiable, N. 598.

Meffiah, the Jew's mistaken notion of his worldly grandeur,

N. 610.

Metaphors, when vicious, N. 595. An inftance of it, ibid.
Military education, a letter about it, N. 566.

Mischief

Mischief rather to be fuffered than an inconvenience, N. 564.
Montague, fond of speaking of himself, N. 562. Scaliger's
faying of him, ibid.

Mufic (church), recommended, N. 630.
Mufician (burlesque), an account of one, N. 570.

N

EEDLEWORK recommended to ladies, N. 606.
A letter from Cleora against it, 609.

News, the pleasure of it, N. 625.

Newton (Sir Ifaac), his noble way of confidering infinite
fpace, N. 564.

Night, a clear one defcribed, N. 565. Whimfically described
by William Ramsey, 582.

No, a word of great ufe in love matters, N. 625.

Novelty, the force of it, N. 626.

BSCURITY, often more illuftrious than grandeur,
N. 622.

OB

Orator, what requifite to form one, N. 633.

Ovid, his verfes on making love at the theatre, tranflated by
Mr. Dryden, N. 602. How to fucceed in his manner,

618.

Р

ASSIONS, the work of a philofopher to fubdue them,
N. 564. Inftances of their power, ibid.

PASS

Patience, her power, N. 559.

Pedantic humour, N. 617.

Penelope's web, the hiftory of it, N. 606.

Perfon, 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, by Dr. Byrom, N. 603.
Philofophers (Pagan), their boast of exalting human nature,

N. 634.

Pittacus, a wife faying of his about riches, N. 574.

Pity, the reafonablenefs of it, N. 588.

Places,

Places, the unreasonableness of party-pretences to them,
N. 629.

Planting recommended to country gentlemen, N. 583.
Again, 589.

Plato's faying of labour, N. 624.

Play-house, how improved in storms, N. 592.

Politicians, the mifchief they do, N. 556. Some at the
Royal Exchange, N. 568.

Pufs, fpeculations on an old and a young one, N. 626.
Pythagoras, his advice to his fcholars about examining at
night what they had done in the day, N. 580.

UERIES in love answered, N. 625.

Queftion, a curious one ftarted by a fchoolman about
the choice of prefent and future happiness and mifery,
N. 475.

Quidnunc (Thomas), his letters to the Spectator about news,
N. 625.

Quacks, an effay against them, by Dr. Z. Pearce, N. 572.

R

AKE, character of one, N. 576.

Rattling club got into the church, N. 630.

Ramfey (William), the aftrologer, his whimfical defcription
of night, N. 582.

Revelation, what light it gives into the joys of heaven,

N. 600.

Revenge of a Spanish lady on a man who boasted of her fa
vours, N. 611.

Rosicrucian, a pretended difcovery made by one, N. 574.
Royal Progrefs, a poem, N. 620.

S.

T. PAUL's eloquence, N. 633.

Satire, Whole Duty of Man turned into one, N. 568.
Scarves, the vanity of fome clergymens wearing them,
N. 609.

Scribblers, the most offenfive, N. 582.

Self-love, the narrowness and danger of it, N. 588.

Seneca,

Seneca, his faying of drunkenness, N. 569.

Shakspeare, his excellence, N. 562.

Shalum the Chinese, his letter to the Princefs Hilpa before the

flood, N. 584.

Sight, fecond, in Scotland, N. 604.

Singularity, when a virtue, N. 576.
north-country gentleman, ibid."

An inftance of it in a

Socrates, his faying of misfortunes, N. 558.

Space, infinite, Sir Ifaac Newton's noble way of confidering
it, N. 564.

Spartan juftice, an inftance of it, N. 564.

SPECTATOR breaks a fifty years filence, N. 756. How he
recovered his fpeech, ibid. His politics, ibid. Loquacity,
ibid. Of no party, ibid. A calamity of his, 558. Cri-
tics upon him, 568. He fleeps as well as wakes for the
public, 599. His dream of Trophonius's cave, ibid.
Why the eighth volume published, 632.

Spleen, its effects, N. 558.

Stars, a contemplation of them, N. 565.
Sublime in writing, what it is, N. 592.

Syncopifts, modern ones, N. 567.

Syracufan, Prince, jealous of his wife, how he ferved her,
N. 579.

T

T

EMPER, ferious, the advantage of it, N. 598.

Tender hearts, an entertainment for them, N. 627.

Tenure, the most flippery in England, N. 623.

Thales, his faying of truth and falfhood, N. 594.
Theatre, of making love there, N. 602.

Torre in Devonshire, how unchafte widows are punished there,
N. 614.

Townly, Frank, his letters to the SPECTATOR, N. 560.
Tully praises himself, N. 562. What he said of the immor-
tality of the foul, 588. Of uttering a jeft, 616. Of the
force of novelty, 626. What he required in his orator,
633.

V

BIQUITY of the God-head confidered, N. 571.
Farther confiderations about it, 583.

UB

Verfes by a defpairing lover, N. 591. On Phebe and Colin
VOL. VIII.

Ee

603.

603. Tranflation of verfes pedantic out of Italian, 617.
The royal progrefs, 620. To Mrs. —

633.

Vice as laborious as virtue, N 604.

Vifion of human mifery, N. 604.

Vulcan's dogs, the fable of theni, N. 579.

WEST

W

on her grotto,

EST Enbarne in Berkshire, a cuffom there for widows,
N. 614. What Lord Coke faid of the widows tenure
there, 623.

Whichenore, Bacon Flitch, in Staffordshire, who intitled to
it, N. 607.

Whole Duty of Man, that excellent book turned into a
fatire, N. 568.

Widows club, an account of it, N. 561. A letter from the
prefident of it to the SPECTATOR, about her fuitors,
573. Duty of widows in old times, 606. A cuftom to
punih unchafte ones in Berkshire and Devonshire, 614.
Inftances of their riding the black ram there, 623.
Writing, the difficulty of it to avoid cenfure, N. 568.
Work neceffary for women, N. 606.

X

ENOPHON, his account of Cyrus's trying the virtue of
a young lord, N. 564.

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ZEMROUDE, Queen, her flory out of the Perfian Tales,
N. 578.

FINI S.