Innocents, the slaughter of, mentioned
by Macrobius, v. 108. Innuendo, its secret virtue known to party-writers, iv. 106.
Inscriptions, on ancient and modern coins considered, i. 345; over the monu- ment of the Dukes of Suffolk and Lor- rain at Pavia, 365; over that of Parker, an ecclesiastic, 366; over Roman Ca- tholic confessionals, 370; respecting a Milanese barber, who had conspired to poison his fellow-citizens, 372; of a poor peasant to St. Anthony at Padua, 384; on a picture of Thomas Gouldvell at Ravenna, 401; on a marble at Terni, commemorating the fall of Sejanus, 411; at Florence, illustrating the history of Appius, 500; near Berne, relating to one Cussinus, an Englishman, 519. Inspruck, a town of the Tyrol, described, i. 533.
Instability of temper in politics, of fatal consequence, iv. 489.
Instinct, a more unerring guide than reason, ii. 459; its mysterious nature, 460; instance of, in a hen followed by a brood of ducks, 461.
Instinct of the ant, iv. 292.
Instila, a part of the Roman dress, i. 261.
Instruction, derived from history, its na- ture, v. 86.
Integrity, a man of, his conversation the most agreeable, iv. 80.
Intellectual beings, the disconsolate con- dition of those who derive no benefit from a consciousness of God's omnipre- sence, iv. 113; misery of those who are conscious of his indignation, 114; hap- piness of those who feel the secret effects of his mercy, ib.
Intentions, their influence on actions, iii. 91.
Interest, often excites persecution under the colour of zeal, iii. 51. Intrigues, not to be published in the Spectator, ii. 267.
Invasion of England, by the Prince of Wales, threatened, v. 393.
Inventory of the rich moveables in Drury Lane, ii. 4.
Invisible doctor, the memory of, what may possibly outlive it, iv. 76, note. Invocation, in Paradise Lost, very proper, iii. 304.
Ionic pillar in the Santa Maria Transte- vere, its use to Palladio, i. 478. Iopas, the musician in Dido's banquet, supposed to be drawn from the life, v. 216.
Ireland, Lords Justices of, letter to, v. 441.
Irenæus, a disciple of Polycarp, the dis- ciple of St. John, v. 123; his remark on the agreement of the written with the traditional gospel, 128.
Irishman, his thought on the loquacity of a female orator, iii. 145. Ironside, Nestor, Esq., his exertions to serve Mr. D'Urfey, iv. 160; his exploits among the lions, 165; his remark on his kinsmen and predecessors, 172; his pleasant excuse for dull and heavy papers, 174; intends to erect a lion's head in imitation of those at Venice, 175; of a hardy and robust family, 186; his genius for projects, 198; censured and applauded for his paper on tuckers, 204, 205; determines to discountenance the projects of the Dædalists, 215; describes the newly-erected lion's head at But- ton's, 218; of service to the clergy, 224; censures the ladies for gaming, 232; how chided by his aunt Martha for his want of family pride, 262; his letter to Pope Clement VIII., 271; his self-ex- amination, 300; his benevolent maxim, 307; secret history of a remarkable part of his life, 322; his search of the philo- sopher's stone, and projects of charity, 322, 323; abused by Dennis, v. 724. Ironside, Mrs. Martha, a family chronicle, iv. 262.
Ironside, Sir Gilbert, how distinguished at Edgehill fight, iv. 262.
Irresolution, a great cause of unhappiness in life, iii. 1; our nature strongly in- clining us to it, 2; exposed by Ho- race, 3.
Ischia, isle, called by the ancients Inarime, described, i. 450.
Isis, a deity of the Egyptians, i. 323. Islands of the blessed described, ii. 503. Italian opera, a faithful account of it, ii. 269; actors introduced on the English stage, 270.
Italian operas, translations of them bur- lesqued, iv. 248.
Italian version of the letter to Lord Hali- fax, i. 28.
Italians, the usual furniture of their li- braries, i. 370, 371; their manners con- trasted with those of the French, 373; aversion of the common people to the French, 374; their extravagant tomb- stones, 378; the difference between their poetical and their prose language, 393; a great help to their modern poetry, 394; a great custom among them of crowning the Virgin, 401; their writers florid and wordy, ii. 242; their genius for music superior to that of the Eng- glish, 271; their language correspond- ing with their genius, 499; their opi- nion of the French, iv. 508.
Italic characters, of great use in adver- tisements, ii. 167.
Italy, divided into many principalities, as
more natural to its situation, i. 373; its rivers described by Silius Italicus, 416; its present desolation, and comparison with its ancient inhabitants, 419; its
lakes highly improve the face of the country, 507; long torn by factions, ii. 477.
Jackall, his letter to Mr. Ironside, iv. 229. James I., encouraged punning, ii. 354; unfortunately not formed as well for the camp as the cabinet, v. 68; the Tory scheme originated in his reign, 96. James II., address of the Quakers to him, iv. 394; converts in his reign, mostly common women, 408; western assizes in his reign reprobated, v. 19; had many royal virtues which would have made a Roman Catholic country happy, 30, 31. James's (St.) Coffee-house, discussions there on the French king's death, iii. 380.
Januarius, St., liquefaction of his blood, a bungling trick, its origin, i. 424. January, Hesiod's description of that month, i. 159.
Janus, temple of, from Virgil, i. 311; Vir- gil's representation of Rage bound up and chained there, v. 218.
Jaspar, oriental, columns of, at St. Maria Maggiore, i. 477.
Jealousy, beautifully described by Horace,
i. 461; personified, ii. 79; defined, iii. 21; arises from extraordinary love, 22; a malignant disease, ib. ; its fatal effects, 23; three classes of men most subject to it, 24; rages most in warm climates, 25; hints for curing it, 26; rules to live well with a jealous husband, ib.; coun- terfeited jealousy, a sovereign antidote, 28; story of Herod and Mariamne, 28, 29; waters of, their qualities, iv. 464; political, requisite for the preservation of a government, v. 89.
Jean Pottages, drolls so called, in France, ii 326.
Jefferys, Mr., his verses to the author of Cato, i. 168.
Jenny, the Tatler's sister, disposal of her in marriage proposed, ii. 6; her con- duct and merit, 8, 9; her husband's character, ib.; the effects of such a match, ib.
Jensano described, i. 485.
Jerusalem, the pathetic lamentation of our Saviour over it, iv. 414; Christian church how withdrawn from that city during the siege, v. 125; our Saviour's pro- phecy of its destruction fulfilled, 135; attempts to rebuild the temple frus- trated by a terrible miracle, ib. Jervas's letter to Pope, and reply, v. 416; prepares the head of Homer for Pope's Iliad, ib.
Jests, practical, introduced in comedy, ii. 318.
Jesuit, the Spectator suspected of being one, ii. 494, 495.
Jesuits, their college at Fribourg, the finest in Switzerland, i. 517; their par-
ticular compliment to the queen of the Romans in a comedy designed for her entertainment, 534; their famous rab- binical secret, iii. 316; great corrupters of Christianity and of natural religion, iv. 418; their abominable principle of doing evil for the sake of good, iv. 423. Jew, at Jonathan's, his laughable question to the Spectator, iv. 84. Jewish tradition concerning Moses, iii. 136.
Jews, lamenting their captivity, how de- scribed by the Psalmist, i. 332; their offer to cleanse the Tiber, and be paid by what they found, 471; their great number at Leghorn, 490; cultivated music as a religious art, iii. 384; their excellence in poetry, 465; why the Spec- tator amuses himself with speculations on that race of people, iv. 13; consider- ed as numerons now as they were for- merly in the land of Canaan, 14; their dispersion and firm adherence to their religion, ib.; providential reasons for these particulars, 15; their veneration of the name of the Deity, 55; remark- able for an attachment to their country, 413; tried a suspected chastity by the waters of jealousy, 464; in the time of our Saviour, ridiculed as credulous by the heathen world, v. 104; their remark on our Saviour's miracles, 109; dis- persed, and never to be re-established as a nation, 136; their prophecies re- lating to our Saviour an argument for the heathens' belief, 138.
Jilt, a subtle one, exhibited as a sphynx, ii. 40.
Jingle of words in Milton's style, iii. 202. Job, the Book of, allusion to, i. 50, note; his reflections on the days of his pros- perity, iii. 37; his exclamation on the invisible omnipresence of the Deity, iv. 105; his pathetic expostulation, on his trials, 114.
Jockey, the Complete, a book for the pe- rusal of ladies, ii. 409.
John, King, a story relating to, iv. 190, 191.
John (St.), lived to the end of the first century, v. 122; the living oracle of the church during his long life, 125. Johnson, Mr., an English bookseller at the Hague, v. 350.
Joint of meat, whole, antipathy of certain persons to, iv. 64.
Jointed babies, sale of, in the Exchange, ii. 2.
Jonas, his relics in the great church of Milan, i. 369.
Jonson, Ben, his remark on Chevy Chase, ii. 374; his reputation at the Silent Club, iv. 235.
Joseph of Arimathea, an early convert to Christianity, v. 117; a martyr to it, ib. Josephus, a story from, ii. 442; his ac-
sunt of the destruction of Jerusalem to be compared with our Saviour's pro- phecy, v. 135.
Jotham, his fable of the trees, the oldest extant, iii, 45.
Journal, of the Court of Honour, extract from, ii. 191; of a periodical sleeper, iii. 49; of a sober citizen, 322; other journals enumerated, 325; Clarinda's, 326.
Journal, Indian, abstract from one, ii. 331.
Journey, Mr. Bickerstaffe's account of one
to the Land's End, ii. 152; his infer- ences from it, 153.
Journeyman tailor, the hero of a tragedy,
Juan, Don, king of Portugal, v. 356; crowned, 358.
Juba, prince of Numidia (in Cato), i. 179, 193, 195, 212, 217, 224; his famous speech on honour, in Cato, iv. 309; examina- tion of it, ib. note.
Judaism personified, ii. 208.
Judas Maccabeus, allusion to a dream of his, iii. 240.
Judea, represented in captivity on the coins of Vespasian, i. 331.
Judges, law for continuing them in their posts during their good behaviour, iv. 176.
Judgment, its difference from wit, accord- ing to Mr. Locke, ii. 357.
Judgment; one human being cannot judge of another, iii. 165.
Judgments, folly of ascribing them to par- ticular crimes, iii. 510.
Julia, wife of Septimius Severus, medal in compliment to, i. 304.
Julia Mæsa, her bust at Florence, i. 496.
Julian the Apostate, acknowledges the
'miracles of our Saviour, v. 109; and those of St. Peter, ib.; skilled in magic, 112; his attempts to falsify a prediction of our Saviour, frustrated by a miracle,
Julius Cæsar, colony planted by him in Switzerland, i. 515; his own historian, ii. 14; replies to Cicero's praise of Cato, 16; his magnanimity to Catullus, who lampooned him, 276.
Juno, jealous of Calisto, turns her into a bear, i. 102; transforms herself into an old nurse to insnare Semele, 122; her petition to Jupiter respecting Latium, 303; to charm Jupiter, borrows the cestus of Venus, ii. 104; her interview with Jupiter on Mount Ida, iii. 261. Juno Sispita or Sospita, an image of her at Florence, and Tully's description of her, i. 498.
Jupiter, strikes Phaëton from the chariot
of Phoebus with his thunder, i. 96; vio- lates Calisto, 100; transformed into a bull, carries away Europa, 113; enjoys VOL. V. 3 ନ
Semele in a storm, 124; his reply to Juno's petition respecting Latium, 304; his distribution of blessings and calami- ties, ii. 101; address of one of the Des- tinies to him, 102; grants to a country- man the management of the weather, 281; his proclamation for every mortal to lay down his griefs and calamities, iv. 89; and to exchange them, 92; in compassion, orders each to take his own again, 94; as described in the Iliad, a model to Phidias, v. 218.
Jupiter Ammon, answer of his oracle to the Athenians on the war with the Lace- dæmonians, iii. 83.
Jupiter Imberbis, his statue, i. 460. Jupiter Pluvius, how represented on An- tonine's pillar, i. 478; medal relating to the same story, 479. Jura, Mount, i. 509. Jury of wine-tasters, ii. 105.
Jus trium liberorum, a privilege granted by the Romans, iii. 74.
Justice, allegorically described in a vision, ii. 32; most agreeable to the nature of God, iii. 20; the greatest and most god- like of virtues, iv. 175; a Persian story on, 177; to be exercised with more of clemency than of rigour, v. 16.
Justin Martyr, what cause led to his con- version, v. 132; quotes Pontius Pilate's record of our Saviour's death, 106. Justina, St., her church at Padua one of the finest in Italy, i 384; her martyr- dom, painted by Paul Veronese, ib. Juvenal, his humorous definition of me- dals, i. 258; his allusion to parsley as an emblem of victory, 329; his descrip- tion of the port of Ostia, 457; a passage in his sixth satire interpreted from a basso relievo, 463; his remarks on head-dresses, ii. 420; his account of a drowsy husband who raised an estate by snoring, iii. 50; his tenth satire, oc- casioned by Plato's Dialogue on Prayer, 81; his supposed allusion to a statue of Hercules lifting up Antæus from the earth, v. 218.
Keally, Thomas, or Joseph, v. 373, 374; letter from Steele, 373; letters to, 382, 392, 397, 398. Kensington gravel-pit, a work of genius in gardening, iii. 501.
Khacan, mountain in Persia, its healthful air, iv. 329; site of the favourite palace of the empire, 331. King, absolute and limited, considered, iv. 391; fondness of the English for one who is valiant, 401; powers vested in him by the legislature, 459; bound to execute justice in mercy, v. 5; none can govern a nation whose religion is oppo- site to his own, 57, 58.
King, a club of men bearing that sur- name, ii. 250.
King of clubs, a pun on the Spectator, iv.
King, Dr. William, his answer of Lord Molesworth, v. 245.
Kings, wicked, how punished after death, ii. 130; their persons formerly held sacred in wars and party-contests, iv. 482; Sallust's remark on their change- able dispositions, 490; English, most famed for valour and wisdom, v. 68. › Kirke's lambs, iv. 393.
Kit, its sound how affected by the frost in Nova Zembla, ii. 198.
Kit-cat club, its origin, ii. 251; the repre- sentative of the Whigs, the Examiner's remark on, iv. 371; probably founded by Tonson, v. 343; notices of, 676-678. Kitchen-garden described, iii. 500. Kitching, William, his trial for sedition postponed, v. 455.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, verses to, on his picture of the king, i. 229.
Knife and fork, not to be laid across, ii. 244.
Knight, in Rabelais, who breakfasted on chimeras, compared to a Tory, iv. 451.
Knights-errant, enemies of lions, iv. 207; some in the world, who bring virgins into distress and ruin innocence, 244. Knotting, an employment proposed for beaux, iv. 61.
Knowledge, the main sources of it, iii.
298; of one's self, rules for it, 378; next to virtue, truly raises one man above another, iv. 211; necessary in a family, 284; unhappy for a family when the wife has more than the husband, 319; of the world necessary to learned men,
Knowledge and Action, emblems of, in the lion at Button's, iv. 218. Kuffstain, a strong frontier place in the duchy of Bavaria, i. 537.
L., speculations so signed, ascribed to the lawyer, iii. 103.
Labarum, a Roman military ensign, de- scribed, i. 309.
Labour, beneficial to health, ii. 449; why placed by the gods before virtue, iii. 455; a duty incumbent on all the sons of Adam, iv. 134; a wise ordinance of Providence, 291.
Labyrinth of coquettes, in the vision of human life, ii. 77.
Lacedæmonians, their petition to the gods preferred to that of the Athenians, iii. 83; a form of prayer used by them, 84; conquests of Alcibiades over them, iv.
Lacqueys of the learned, critics, comment- ators, &c., so called, ii. 34. Lactantius, what led to his conversion,
v. 13. Lacus Gabinus described, i. 484.
Lady of quality, judged by Rhadaman- thus, iv. 298.
Lady, a, letter to, from Addison, v. 387. Ladies, fashion for them to receive visits in bed, ii. 319; how distinguished as Whigs and Tories, 389; of the British fishery, their talents for debate, iii. 143; a unicorn's head to be erected to re- ceive their correspondence, iv. 220; re- quested to cover their bosoms, 224; likely to refuse, for the sake of opposi- tion to Popery, 225; censured for gaming, 231; always of great use to the political party they espouse, 407; why they should be on the side of the Freeholder, 408; their happiness and liberty envied by those of foreign nations, 410; several of distinction, their public spirit roused by the Freeholder, 427; those of each party have commenced hostilities, 440; advice to them, 441; their zeal visible on their fans, 455; grown violent in party-disputes, 483; a cartel settled be- tween them, 483, 484; advice to, on po- litical subjects, 493; the most amiable and most important part of the com- munity, v. 17; ridicule the best cor- rective of their errors and prejudices,
Lady's library described, ii. 301.
Lady's head-dress, the most variable thing in nature, ii. 419.
Lago di Como, called by Virgil the Lake Larius, i. 376; described by Claudian, 377.
Lago di Guarda, or Benacus, described by Virgil, i. 376.
Lago Maggiore, empties itself by the Tesin, i. 367.
Lain and laid, distinction of those parti- ciples, i. 141, note.
Lain, instead of laid, iii. 405, note. Lake, artificial one, at Babylon, iii. 407. Lamb, a modern diet, ii. 107.
Lamb and Dolphin, a sign, ii. 285. Lamentation in poetry, remark of a great critic respecting, i. 152.
Lampetia, sister of Phaeton, transformed into a tree, i. 97.
Lampoons, written by people who can't spell, ii. 266; witty ones, compared to poisoned darts, 275; the inhuman bar- barity of the ordinary scribblers of them, 277.
Land-tax, increase of, during the rebel- lion, represented by the Tories as a grievance on the subject, iv. 471; justi- fied, 472; no other tax so proper for that critical juncture, ib.; none so likely to cease when no longer necessary, 473: enabled the king to quell rebellion and overcome foreign enemies, 474. Landau surrenders to the allies, i. 53. Landlady, the Spectator's, her officious- ness, ii. 256.
Landlord, a jolly one, described, iv. 480.
Landscape, a beautiful one, in a camera obscura, described, iii. 404. Language, the English, much adulterated during the war, iii. 12; of an heroic poem, its requisites, 190, 191. Languedoc wine made from water, ii. 94. Lansdown, Lord, epilogue to his dramatic poem of the British Enchanters, i. 82. Laocoon and his two sons, an antique model at Florence of that famous statue, i. 499; the statue of, a copy from or a model to Virgil, v. 218.
Laomedon, a reflection on his falsehood and tyranny, i. 84.
Lap-dog, called Cupid, dangerously ill, ii. 81.
Lapis Vituperii in the town hall of Padua, its use, i. 384.
Laplanders, twenty thousand, said to have come over with King William, iv. 421. Lapsus Linguæ, a cause of expulsion from the Silent Club, iv. 236.
Lares, compared by a German to a jug- bottle, i. 466.
Larissa, a virgin of Thessaly, takes the Lover's Leap, iii. 122.
Larva, a head-covering worn by the Ro- man actors, described, i. 466. Last words of authors, iii. 447; of Mr. Baxter, ib.
Latimer, his behaviour in the conference of Papists and Protestants, iii. 483. Latin, English words derived from, ii. 497.
Latin critics, their manner of writing, where to be found beautifully described, iii. 154.
Latin lines, very beautiful, certainly Mr. Addison's, and why, iii. 399, note. Latin poems of Mr. Addison, i. 232, v. 546 Latin prose composition, Addison's, v. 587 -612.
Latin sentences, of use in sermons for a country auditory, iii. 103.
Latinisms frequent in Milton's style, iii. 192.
Latter spring, in old women, ii. 403. Laud (Archbishop) fined the Company of Stationers for an erratum in their edi- tion of the Bible, iv. 126. Lauderdale, Lord, a passage from his translation of Virgil's 4th Eclogue, i. 288.
Laugh, only one in the whole Æneid, iii. 188.
Laughing, a metaphor applied to trees and fields, common to all languages, iii.
Laughter, defined by Mr. Hobbs, ii. 325; the provocations to it, 326; its effects on the mind and body, iii. 146; an attri- bute of Venus, 148; personified by Mil- ton, ib.; the property of reason, its ex- cess that of folly, iv. 151.
Laurel, an ornament of victory, i. 289. Laurence, St., the chapel of, at Florence,
not completed, i. 500; library of manu- scripts belonging to it, 501. Lausanne, on the lake of Geneva, de- scribed, i 514; a peculiar privilege be- longing to one street in this town, ib. Lavinia, a complainer, ii. 99.
Law, the body of, divided into two classes of men, ii. 272.
Law of nature, how recovered from errors and corruptions by Christianity, v. 88. Laws, good, how they become a dead let- ter, iv. 400.
Lawsuit, in Morocco, terminated by the ruin of plaintiff and defendant, iv. 438. Lawyers, their great numbers and con- stant employment among the Neapoli- tans, i. 428; the peaceable and litigious described, ii. 272, 273.
Lay Monastery, The, established by Hughes and Sir Richard Blackmore, v. 411, 414.
Laymen, a general caution to them, ii. 60. Lazar-house, described by Milton, iii. 274. Le Brun, studied the figures on old coins, i. 259; paintings of, at Versailles de- scribed, iv. 183.
Le Clerc, Jean, v. 374; letter to Addison, ib.
Le Conte, Mons., his account of the con- ferring of titles in China, iv. 166.
Leaf, a single one, inhabited like the woods and forests, ii. 73.
League, divided France into factions, ii. 477.
Lean men, a club of, ii. 250.
Lear, tragedy of, half its beauty lost by reforming it, ii. 309.
Learned bodies ought to cultivate the
favour of the great and powerful, v. 23. Learned men, multitudes of them who
came over to Christianity, v. 117; what the first motive to their conversion, 118; names of several, ib.
Learned world, points of precedence in, iv. 47.
Learning, well husbanded, ii. 36; with- out common sense, is pedantry, 134; its effects on sensible men and fools, 433; without discretion, is pedantry, iii. 109; universal, necessary to a critic, 196; men of, would transact public business with greater honesty than other men, 488; in some respects more adapted to the female world than to the male, iv. 283; often pernicious without knowledge of the world, v. 22; mytho- logical story relating to that point, ib.; Ancient and Modern, a Discourse on, 214.
Lecture, a word used in ridicule of the pedantic style, ii. 214, note.
Leda and her swan, statue of, i. 472. Lee, the tragic poet, his merits and de- fects, ii. 306, 307; specimen of rant in his tragedy of Edipus, 310; his Al- cander, in Edipus, a Cartesian, iv. 207.
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