I.

I am that I am,' the first revelation God made of his own being, 172.
Ideas, multitude and variety of, during sleep, 5.

Idle men, apt to detract from others, 175. Monsters in the creation,
344.

Ignorant men, why great cavillers, 175.

Imagery, in the introduction of a paper, fine, and well expressed, 120,

note.

Immensity of creation contemplated, 121.

Improvement of the mind, strongly recommended to females, 375.
In lieu, why used for instead, 110, note.

Inaccuracies, in Mr. Addison's style. See notes in pp. 38, 39, 40, 48,
50, 51, 67, 84, 95, 119, 138, 139, 161, 206, 229, 283, 304, 321, 415.
420, 425.

Incongruities of speech, not only real, but seeming, to be avoided,
169, note.

Inconsistency, an apparent one, 106, note.

Incomprehensibility of the Divine existence, 172.

Independent minister, story of one, at the university, 14.

Infinite space, an expansion without a circumference, 168. Infinite
duration, a line without beginning or end, ib.

Infinite goodness, delights in conferring existence on every degree of
perceptive being, 50.

Infinite instant, a definition of eternity by the schoolmen, 171.

Infinity of the Supreme Being, 64, 121.

Ingratitude, a weed of every clime, 447.

Innocents, the worst of the popes, 259.

Innuendo, its secret virtue known to party-writers, 125.

Instinct of the ant, 344.

Integrity, a man of, his conversation the most agreeable, 101.

Intellectual beings, the disconsolate condition of those who derive no
benefit from a consciousness of God's omnipresence, 134. Misery
of those who are conscious of his indignation, 134, 135. Happi-
ness of those who feel the secret effects of his mercy, 135.
Invisible doctor, the memory of, what may possibly outlive it, 90, note.
Ironside (Nestor, Esq.), his exertions to serve Mr. D'Urfey, 190. His
exploits among the lions, 196. His remark on his kinsmen and
predecessors, 204. His pleasant excuse for dull and heavy papers,
207. Intends to erect a lion's head in imitation of those at Venice,
ib. Of a hardy and robust family, 220. His genius for projects,
234, 235. Censured and applauded for his paper on tuckers, 242.
Determines to discountenance the projects of the Dædalists, 254.
Describes the newly-erected lion's head at Button's, 258. Of service
to the clergy, 265. Censures the ladies for gaming, 274. How
chided by his aunt Martha for his want of family pride, 310. His
letter to Pope Clement VIII. 320. His self-examination, 353. His
benevolent maxim, 361. Secret history of a remarkable part of
his life, 379. His search of the philosopher's stone, and projects of
charity, 380.

Ironside, Mrs. Martha, a family chronicle, 309.

Ironside, Sir Gilbert, how distinguished at Edgehill fight, 310.
Italian operas, translations of them burlesqued, 294.

J.

Jackall, his letter to Mr. Ironside, 272.

James II. address of the Quakers to him, 469.

Jew, at Jonathan's, his laughable question to the Spectator, 99.
Jews, why the Spectator amuses himself with speculations on that
race of people, 27. Considered as numerous now as they were for-
merly in the land of Canaan, 18. Their dispersion and firm adher-
ence to their religion, ib. Providential reasons for these particulars,
19. Their veneration of the name of the Deity, 66.

Job, his exclamation on the invisible omnipresence of the Deity, 124.
His pathetic expostulation, on his trials, 135.

John, king, a story relating to, 225.

Joint of meat, whole, antipathy of certain persons to, 76.

Jonson, Ben, his reputation at the Silent Club, 278.

Juba, his famous speech on honours, in Cato, 363, 364. Examination
of it, ib. note.

Judges, law for continuing them in their posts during their good be-
haviour, 209.

Jupiter, his proclamation for every mortal to lay down his griefs and
calamities, 106. And to exchange them, 109. In compassion,
orders each to take his own again, 111.

Justice, the greatest and most godlike of virtues, 208. A Persian
story on, 210.

K.

Khacan, mountain in Persia, its healthful air, 387. Site of the fa-
vourite palace of the empire, 388.

King, absolute and limited, considered, 465.

King of clubs, a pun on the Spectator, 96.

Kirke's lambs, 468.

Kit Cat, the representative of the Whigs, the Examiner's remark on,
442.

Knights-errant, enemies of lions, 316. Some in the world, who bring
virgins into distress and ruin innocence, 288.

Knotting, an employment proposed for beaux, 72.

Knowledge, next to virtue, truly raises one man above another, 250.
Necessary in a family, 334. Unhappy for a family when the wife
has more than the husband, 375.

Knowledge and Action, emblems of, in the lion at Button's, 259.

L.

Labour, a duty incumbent on all the sons of Adam, 158. A wise
ordinance of Providence, 343.

Lacedæmonians, conquests of Alcibiades over them, 455.

Ladies, a unicorn's head to be erected to receive their correspondence,
260. Requested to cover their bosoms, 265. Likely to refuse, for
the sake of opposition to popery, 267. Censured for gaming, 273.
Lady of quality, judged by Rhadamanthus, 352.

Lapsus lingua, a cause of expulsion from the Silent Club, 279.

Laud (Archbishop), fined the Company of Stationers for an erratum in
their edition of the Bible, 148.

Laughter, the property of reason, its excess that of folly, 178.

Learned world, points of precedence in, 57.

Learning, in some respects more adapted to the female world than to
the male, 333.

Le Brun's paintings at Versailles described, 216.

Le Conte, Mons. his account of the conferring of Titles in China,
197.

Lee's Alcander, in Edipus, a Cartesian, 246.

Leo, the sign, why it precedes Virgo, 318. Affects the legs and
neck, 319.

Leo the second, of Cambridge, proposes himself as under-roarer for
that university, 292.

Leo X. a great patron of learning; poetical entertainment performed
at his villa, 262.

Leonora, personates an Indian king, at a masquerade, 332. Marries
Lucifer, ib.

Leos, the best of the popes, 259.

Lesbian, fable of Lucian, finely varied and improved, 205.
Letters, to the Spectator, from Will Honeycomb, on conjugal affec-
tion, with a vision of a female procession from a besieged town, 20,
24. From Philogamus in praise of marriage, 24. From Titus Tro-
phonius, the Moorfields oneirocritic, 29. From Will Honeycomb,
on fairs for the sale of unmarried women, &c. 34. Containing a
thought in sickness, 41. From Edward Biscuit, giving an account
of Sir Roger de Coverley's illness and death, 46. From Will Ho-
neycomb, on his marriage to a farmer's daughter, 61. From a
young lady, proposing a new employment for beaux, 72. Describ-
ing a set of insignificant fellows called shoeing-horns, 74. From
Philo-Spec, proposing an election of new members to the Specta-
tor's club, 83. Praising the Spectator in a concealed but diverting
way, 87. From Sir Andrew Freeport, on his retirement from the
world, and his future scheme of life, 92. From the ambassador of
Bantam to his master on English compliments, 103. To the Spec-
tator from a widow-hunter, with an account of the Widow Club, 112.
On the condition of intellectual beings under a sense of God's omni-
presence, 133. On the Deity's presence in heaven, 151. From
Shalum to Hilpa, 164. From Hilpa to Shalum, 165.
Letters to the Guardian, from Simon Softly on his courtship of a rich
widow, 200. From Paris, describing the king's palaces, 215. From
Blois, describing the French nation, 217. Another from Blois, in-
teresting to those who are versed in British antiquities, 225. On
the manners and language of the French, 227. From Peter Puzzle,
with the vision of a window in a lady's bosom, 231.
From a pro-
jector, on nomenclators, 235. From Messrs. Whiston and Ditton,
on the means of determining the longitude, 237. Of remonstrance
from the secretary of the Tall Club, 239. From half a dozen super-
annuated beauties, approving the paper on tuckers, 242. From
Olivia, on the same subject, 244. Of criticism on Dryden's plays,

245. From Alexander to Aristotle, 250. To Mr. Ironside from
Dædalus, on the art of flying, 253. From an honest citizen in his
honeymoon, 256. From Tom Plain, on petticoats, 260. From
Tom Tremble, a Quaker, on naked bosoms, 266. From Leonilla
Figleaf, proposing herself as a lioness, 270. From Jackall, 272.
From N. R. offering himself as an outriding lion, ib. A bit for the
lion, on female gamesters, 273. From Ned Mum, of the Silent
Club, 277. From an obedient ward of Mr. Ironside's, 279. In-
closing one from a mother to a person who had abused her daughter,
289. From Leo the second, of Cambridge, 292. From Humphrey
Binicorn, 293. A song for the lion's mouth, 294. From P. N.
praising the lion, 295. On fashionable nakedness, 297. Contain-
ing the story of Androcles and the lion, 315. From Mr. Ironside
to pope Clement VIII. on tuckers and petticoats, 321. To Mr.
Ironside from Lucifer, describing a masquerade, 329. Relating an
instance of the value of knowledge to females, 354. From two
daily readers and Will Wasp, on the ants, 359. One relating the
comments of an angry gentleman on the same subject, ib. Recom-
mending French wines, 361. From a chaplain in a noble family,
371. With an extract of a Latin poem by Sir Thomas More, 373.
From an alchymist, who had deluded Mr. Ironside, 381.
Letters sent to the Spectator commended by the public, 80.
Levant trade of England, its prosperity on what depending, 406.
Levee-hunting, cured by a pennyworth of the Spectator, 89.
Libel, specimen of a curious one, 126.

Library, for the lion proposed, 297.

Life, its great ends and purposes, 142. Every station of it, has its
proper duties, 158.

Lightning, sold by the pound, 221.

Lion at Button's described, 258. His roarings to be published once a
week, 259. Morsels from his maw, 270. A lioness, 271. An out-
riding lion, 272. A bit for the lion, 273. His roarings, 277.
More roarings, 292. A song for him, 294. His temporary silence
accounted for, 296. A library for him proposed, 297. Roars
against untuckered necks, ib. Honoured by a history of the spe-
cies, 315. Story of Androcles, 316. Astrologer's remarks on his
nativity, 318.

Lioness, proposed, 271.

Lions, spies of great men so called, 193.

Etymology, ib. Account
of those kept by Walsingham, 194. The present race described,

195.

Liquors, no bribery in, 362.

Livy, has not the convulsions of Tacitus, nor Addison the nerves of
Montesquieu, 173, note.

Lizard, Lady, prevailed on to take a box at Tom D'Urfey's benefit, 191.
Her learning and industry, 334. Her daughters rudely rallied by
their cousin Tom, 367.

Loaden, why used for loaded, 107, note.

Locke (Mr.), his remark on the scale of being, superior and inferior
to man, 51, 52. His examination of the idea of an incomprehensi-

ble Supreme Being, 63. His rule for explaining elliptical forms of
speech, 169.

Longinus, praises the description of a storm by Homer, 11. Men-
tions Ajax's silence as a noble instance of the sublime, 278. His
admirable rule for attaining the sublime, 322.

Longitude, letter from Messrs. Whiston and Ditton, on a discovery
for ascertaining it, 237.

Loo, social affections vilely prostituted to it, 275.

Loubere (M. de la), his account of ants' nests in Siam, 346.

Loungers, a flourishing society of people, 292.

Love of God, how emphatically recommended in scripture, 137.
Love, a neutral leader in the war of the sexes, 323.

Lover, why teazed with the thought of Mrs. Anne Page, 389. Visited
by his unfortunate fellow-sufferers, 392.

Lovers, unwilling to part with their burthens at the Mountain of Mise-
ries, 107.

Lucan, his eminent station on the floating Parnassus, 264. His poetry
characterized by Strada, 281. His verse on Cato, 450.

Lucian's manner well copied by Mr. Addison, 350.

Lucifer, his letter to Mr. Ironside, describing a masquerade, 329.
Lucretius, his station on the floating Parnassus, 263. His poetry cha-
racterized by Strada, 281.

Lust, a leader in the war of the sexes, 324.

Luxury, is artificial poverty, 139.

Lycurgus, his expedient to encourage marriage among the Spartans,
214.

Lying, political, why so common, 32. The guilt not palliated by the
numbers who share in it, 33.

Lying by, a fatal consequence of neglect in laying in provisions for
manhood and old age, 249.

M.

Madmen, the ambitious and covetous so called, 148.

Magic, natural, a ridiculous piece of, taught by Democritus, 40.
Magician at a masquerade, 332.

Mahmoud, (Sultan) a story of advice told him by his visier, 39.
Mahomet's she-disciples, how obliged to dress, 299.
Maid, simile on one, in Valentinian, 234.

Maintenon, Madam, a most virtuous and accomplished woman, 336.
Man, distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter,
16. Considered as the middle link in the chain of being, 68. A
creature designed for two states of being, 141. Three reasons why
he should not be proud, 326.

Management of a husband, doctrines of the Widow Club on, 113.
Mankind, divided into the merry and the serious, 177. The two
classes have an aversion to each other, 178.

Mantua-maker, proposes herself as a lioness, 271.

Marriage, its pleasures and advantages, 24. How rendered unhappy
by flattery in courtship, 257.

Masquerade, poetical, 263. Late one at the ambassador's, 329.