Master of a house, ought to be wise and virtuous, 376.
Material world, compared with the world of life, 48.
Mathematical demonstrations, the cathartics of the soul, 31.
Maxim, in criticism, ridiculous use made of one, 176, note.
Medals, cheap and estimable honorary rewards, 197. The modern
manner of bestowing them, less effectual than that of the Romans,
198. A project by a friend of the Guardian, ib. Copy of a paper
presented to the late lord treasurer, 199, 200.

Medlar, Mrs. a wife, why a member of the Widow Club, 113.
Melancholy thoughts arising from the contemplation of the universe,
121. Extinguished by reflecting on the divine nature, 122.
Mercator, a witness called by Count Tariff, 435.

Mercury, a poison for ants, 349.

Merit, how augmented by ancestry, 307.

Merry persons, when a charm and when a grievance in society,
177.

Milton, a scene from, affording a plan for a fire-work, 222. His de-
scription of Eve's hospitality to the angel, 311.

Mimicry, a means of correcting absurd story-tellers, 78.
Mind, how injured by drunkenness, 131, 132.

Miseries of human life, heightened by reflection on the past and fear
of the future, 27. Vision of, 106, 108.

Mishpach, his courtship of Hilpa, 166, 167.

Mnesarchus, an eminent philosopher, son of Pythagoras, 377.
Mock-heroic poems, heathen mythological allusions excusable and
even graceful in, 54.

Moderate man, D'Urfey's last song, praised, 190.

89.

Modesty, essay on, in the Spectator, called the Britannic beautifier,
An ornament to the maid, the wife, and the widow, 214.
Described as a young officer in the war of the sexes, 324.
Modesty-piece, an article of female dress, 271.

Moisture, decay of, on the globe, how accounted for, 131.

Molehill, a comparison of, to the earth, equally a favourite with the
religionist and the free-thinker, 327, note.

Molly and Betty, their history, proving the value of knowledge to
women, 354.

Momus, why the son of darkness and sleep, 175. Many critics of
the same family, 176.

Monarchy, absolute and limited, considered, 465:

Montagne, his egotism ridiculed by the younger Scaliger, 117.
Moorfields, for what famous, 29.

Moral papers, two, why as pleasing as any in the Spectator, though
on the commonest of all subjects, 145.

More, Sir Thomas, his Latin verses on the choice of a wife, 371.

Moses, in whose name sent to Pharaoh, 172.

Mother, letter from one, to a lord who had abused her daughter,
290.

Motives to good actions ought to be encouraged, 362.

Mountain of Miseries, a vision, &c. 106, 108. Moral, 111.

Mum, Ned, his letter on the Silent Club, 277.

Musæum, a street so called in honour of the daughter of Pythagoras,

377.

Musæus, makes a noble figure in the sixth Æneid, 241.

Mutes, of the Turks, a wise institution, 278.

Myia, a daughter of Pythagoras, her works and history famous in
Lucian's time, 377. The street in which she lived, called the Mu-
sæum, ib.

Mythology, heathen, not admissible in modern poetry except in
mock-heroics, 54. By what substituted in Mr. Philips's Pastorals,

55.

N.

Naked bosoms of ladies, a Quaker's letter on, 265.

Naples, Milan, and Flanders, were rather ornaments than strength to
Spain, 407, 408.

Nastiness or slovenliness, exposed by La Bruyere, 396.

Nation, which disregards justice hastens to ruin, 209.

Natural history, recommended as a subject for the Guardian, 360.
Nature, animated, its gradations, 51.

Necks, untuckered, roaring of the lion against, 297. How displayed
by the prevailing fashion, 312. Their various lengths, 320.
Needles, sympathetic, a means of correspondence, 282.
Neither, a disjunctive, improperly used, 33, note.

Neutral states, foreign troops in British pay to be raised from, 418.
News-mongers, haunted by lions, 195,

Newspaper-advertisements, humorously imitated in praise of the Spec]
tator, 88.

Newton, Sir Isaac, an eulogium on, 84. Calls infinite space the sen-
sorium of the God-head, 123,

Nightingale and the lutanist, the famous contest between, furnished a
hint to Mr. Philips in his pastorals, 283.

Nobility consists in virtue, not in birth, 307. A regard to ancestry
and posterity ought to excite us to virtue, 312.

Nomenclators, their office, in old Rome, 235.

Nonsense, a panegyric on, 458. Two kinds of it, high and low,

459.

Novel, an antediluvian one, 162.

Now, eternal, in Cowley's description of heaven, 171.

N. R. a suitor for the post of outriding lion, 272.

Nun, her assignation with a heathen god, at a masquerade, 331.

0.

Oath, a hard thing that it should be a man's master, 468.

Obedience, impossible to state its measure, without settling the extent

of power, 465.

Ocean, how a contemplation of it affects the imagination, 10.

Ode, a divine one, on Providence, 12, 13.

Odium, laid at a man's door,' 453.

Edipus, lines from, on meteors of the night, 222. His riddle to the
Sphynx, 442. Explained, 444.

Of's, three coming together, spoil a fine sentence, 426, note.
Olivia, her letter of thanks for the discourse on tuckers, 244. Her
modesty the result of her complexion, ib.

Old jokes, in conversation, how detected, 119.
Old women, judged by Rhadamanthus, 352.

Omnipresence and omniscience of the Deity considered, 122, 123.
A consciousness of them how affecting the condition of intellectual
beings, 133. A subject which should always engage our meditations,
155.

Oneirocritic, or an interpreter of dreams in Moorfields, 29.
Openings of the heart, in what persons laudable, 117, note.

Or, a disjunctive, requires a verb in the singular number, 288, note.
Ordinary, why used for ordinarily, 196, note.

Orpheus, his wife an exemplary woman, 374,
Ostentation in wealth, its tendency, 390.
Outriding lion, proposed, 272.

Overwise, a gross tribe of fools so termed, 129.

Ovid, recommends modesty in his Art of Love, 214. His praise to
Corinna, 244. His station on the floating Parnassus, 263. His
poetry characterized by Strada, 285, 286. His daughter rivalled
him in poetry, 374.

Owls, two, their conversation reported to the Sultan Mahmoud by his
vizier, 40.

Oxford and Cambridge jests, recommended to the perusal of a plagia-
rist of wit, 119.

P.

Pagan writer, an eminent one, his remark on atheism, 16.

Pagan theology, its fables, how to be used by modern poets, 53, 54.
Allusions to them fashionable at the revival of letters, 54, note.
Page, Mrs. Anne, her fondness for china-ware, 389.

Painters, great ones, often employ their pencils on sea-pieces, 12.
Pam, a greater favourite with a gaming lady than her husband, 275.
Pamphleteer, takes precedence of single-sheet writers, 57.

Pamphlets, political, Mr. Addison's State of the War,' a model for,

427.

Pancras church-yard, epitaph in, 79.

Pandæmonium, proposed to be represented in fireworks, 222.

Parentheses, what writers famous for, 454.

Paris, curiosities there, described, 215.

Parliamentary repartee, 308.

Parnassus, an artificial floating mountain so called, 262. Stations of

the poets on it, 263.

Parson Patch, 265.

Partialities in the national judicature, glanced at, 208.

Participle, misused as a substantive, 366. Two near together, have

an ill effect, 241, note.

Party-lying, exposed, 31.

Party-writers, how they recommend their productions, 125,

Paschal, his observation on Cromwell's death, 304,

Passions, affect us more when asleep than when awake, 5.
Passive obedience and non-resistance, state of the controversy respect,
ing, 464. The doctrine of Turks and Indians, 465. Its assertors
have always been the favourites of weak kings, 467. Tends to make
a good king a very bad one, 468. Ruined James II. 469.

Patience, her office in the Vision of the Miseries, 111. A comman-
der in the war of the sexes, 324.

Patriots of a certain kind, more numerous in England than in any
other country, 34.

Paul (St.), describes our absence from, and presence with the Lord,
42. His account of being caught up into the third heaven, 154.
Pausanias, his account of Trophonius's cave, 179.

Peace, general, a caution to poets on its celebration, 55. A couple

of letters, the fruits of it, 215, 217. None can be made without an
entire disunion of the French and Spanish monarchies, 401, 407,
409.

Pegasus, how represented on the floating Parnassus, 263.

Penitents, female, forbidden to appear at confession without tuckers,
266.

Perfection, spiritual, many kinds of it besides those of the human soul,
63, 64.

Periodical writers, a most offensive species of scribblers, 157,
Periwig, turned grey by the fear of the wearer, 78.

Persia, account of a fair there, for the sale of young unmarried wo-
men, 35.

Persians, their custom of royal sepulture, 385.

Perspicuity of a sentence, how hurt by elliptical forms, 69 note, 158
note, 312 note.

Petticoats, growing shorter every day, 243.

Tom Plain's letter on,

260. Notice to the pope respecting them, 321.

Phænomena of nature, imitated by the art of man, 221.

Philips's Pastorals, to what class of writers recommended, 55.

Philogamus, his letter to the Spectator in praise of marriage, 24.
Philomedes, advises the Spectator to raise the price of his paper to
sixpence, 8.

Philosopher, an old one, his remark on his passionate wife, 140. Re-
partee of one, to a cynic, 206.

Philosopher's stone, Mr. Ironside once in search of it, 379.
Philosophy, oddly recommended to the fair sex, 335.

Philo-Spec, his letter, suggesting an election of new members to the
Spectator's club, 83.

Picts, their painted bodies proposed for the imitation of the ladies,
319.

Pills to purge melancholy, D'Urfey's miscellanies so called, 191.
Pindar and Mr. D'Urfey, two lyric poets who lived to a great age,

190.

Pismires, endowed with human passions, an imaginary scene, 327.
Pittacus, his moderation, 139.

Plagiarism, charged on the Spectator, and confuted by him, 81. Of
wit, how corrected, 119.

Plain, Tom, his letter on petticoats, 260.

Plantations, give a pleasure of a more lasting date than other works,
159.

Planting, a delightful and beneficial amusement, 159. Considered as
a virtuous employment, 160. And a duty, ib. Recommended by
philosophers and poets of antiquity, 161.

Plato, his sublime description of the Supreme Being, 31. Says that
nothing is so delightful as hearing or speaking the truth, 101. His
sensible sayings on calumny, 301. His advice to an unpolished
writer, 368.

Platonic notion of the Deity agrees with revelation, 172.

Play debts, must be paid in specie or by an equivalent, 276. Falsely
called debts of honour, 366.

Players, degrees of dignity among them, 59.

Play-house, a world within itself, 174.

Plotting Sisters, D'Urfey's comedy, acted for the author's benefit, 190.
Plurality of worlds, arguments of the author, for the peopling of every
planet, 49.

Records an instance
Relates the contest of

Plutarch, a saying on sleep ascribed by him to Heraclitus, 6. Re-
cords a letter of Alexander to Aristotle, 250.
of Providence in the life of Timoleon, 269.
Alcibiades with Taureas the brewer, 455.
P. N. his letter in praise of the lion, 295.
Poetical masquerade, 263.

Poets, observed to be generally long-lived, 189.

Politics, a maxim in, on rewards for national services, 197.
Pompey, a noble saying of his, on hazarding his life in performance
of his duty, 34.

Pope, Mr. his poem on the prospect of peace, praised, 53. His ironi-
cal compliment to Dennis, from what hint taken, 191, note.
Pope, The, seems to act in concert with Mr. Ironside in enjoining la-
dies to cover their bosoms, 266. Mr. Ironside's letter to him, 320.
Popes, the Leos the best, the Innocents the worst, 259.

Population; twenty boys yearly produced for nineteen girls, 305.
Portia, a stoic in petticoats, 335.

Port-royal, the gentlemen of, eminent for their learning and humility,
vented the term egotism, 117.

Portugal, exhausted by the war, 425.

Posted, 209, note.

Posterity, a humorous saying of an old fellow of a college, on, 160.
That of great men to be honoured, 307. How a regard to it should
influence a generous mind, 312.

Posture-master, one in Charles II.'s reign, the plague of all the tailors,
219.

Præfectus provincia, for the lion proposed, 292.

Praise; it is difficult to praise a man without putting him out of coun-
tenance, 87. Grateful to human nature, 300.

Precedency, in the learned world, how regulated, 57. Six octavos
equivalent to a folio, 58. Precedency in the three professions, ib.
In theatricals, 59. Among tragic and heroic poets, ib.