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Paternal, described....

Affections, how governed...

Affliction, imaginary, often most insupportable.
Africanus, his magnanimity, and manner of purchas-

ing annuities...

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Esop, a fable of his applied on the receipt of a letter 115
Affectation of vice and imperfection censured
Affection distinguished from esteem...

Afterwit, (Solomon) his observations on the town....
Agamemnon's invectives against women.....
Age, what renders it most agreeable...........

Indecent when not spent in virtue..

The glory of the present, in regard to England...
Albemarle, (earl) appointed governor of Tournay
Album Græcum prescribed to a sick dog
Alchymist, remarks on that comedy..
Aldobrandini, picture in the palace of.....
Alexander the Great, his character, and irregularity
of temper..
Compared with Cæsar...
A memorable saying of his...
A remarkable incident between him and his physi.
cian...

Account of the tragedy of.
Alexander Truncheon, foreman of the male jury in
the court of honour.........
Alicant capitulated for...

Application of, in Homer.....

Allen, (Mr.) founder of Dulwich college...
Almanack, Oxford, considered...

Alost, attempt to surprise the garrison of...
Amanda, the happy wife of Florio
Ambition, the foundation and end of...

Taken...

Allegories, as profitable to the mind, as hunting to the
body..

No.

11

Anticyra compared to Montpelier....
240 Apollo, god of verse and physic.
168 Apology for great men in bestowing favours........

59 Apothecaries, great orators...

66
167

66 Appetites, how to be governed
Argyle, (duke of) his character....
Aristæus, the character of a man who has the mastery
of himself.........

233

censured

Anger, the ill consequences of...

A tragical instance of surprise in anger........
Animals, cruelty towards them condemned

25

Middle age of man most addicted to..
Becomes true honour in the good....
No true happiness in the success of.
Its refuge when disappointed...................
The true object of laudable.........
Aminadab, the quaker's admonition.
Angelo, (Michael) his picture of the Last Judgment

154
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191, 209

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146

Allegory of Virtue and Pleasure making court to
Hercules...

36

83

152

45

46

130

49

121

14

184

209

191

97

146

20

39

156

172

172

133

Anne, (queen) eulogiums on her government..... 90, 130
Annihilation described by Milton and Dryden..
Annuities, how purchased by Africanus

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Anticyra, an island assigned by the Romans to mad-

men..

Its product......

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Athenians, a remarkable instance of their public spirit
and virtue...

77

122

206

Atterbury, (dean) his eloquent manner of preaching. 66
95 Attorneys solve difficulties by increasing them.......
Avarice, what age of man most devoted to it....

99

54
146

120

Its region, temple, attendants, adherents, and of-
fices described..

Effect of a discourse on

Avaro, a mean-spirited rich man..

Audience at a play, their general behaviour...
Aurengezebe, an Indian stock-jobber, his history,
and indecent manner of spending old age

46

Author, his opinion of his own performance.......... 92
Autumn, (lady) her behaviour at church.......

140

267

108
133

17

77

1, 4
49

186

120

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47120
202

Bass viols applied to conversation..
Where most likely to be found...
With what instrument matched...
Exposed to sale by lottery
Batchelor's scheme to govern a wife...
202 Bath, commotions there...........
251
190

Battle of Badajoz...
Of Blaregnies.
Near Mons..

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Barrymore, (earl) made prisoner in Portugal..
Barry, (Mrs.) an excellent player..

Requested to act the widow at Mr. Bickerstaff's fu-
neral.....

No.

Beans, why to be abstained from

Bear, meaning of that word explained
Bear-gardens of antiquity

Bear-garden diversions condemned..
Beauty, the force and efficacy of..

125

240
168

240

205

46

Of critics....

Bawbles, by whom brought to perfection...
Bayes, (Mr.) his expedient in the theatre...
Beadlestaff, his testimony of a reformation at puppet-
show at Oxford

167

41

79

148

41

42

49

123

124
25

122, 201

241

33

A club of..

Balance, (merchant) the treatment of one who at-
tempted to debauch his wife......
Banbury, famous for cakes and zeal...

...................... 136
....... 220

Bankers, why they should take poems for bills....... 43
Barbarity, an attendant on tyranny.....

161

Barnes, (Mr. Joshua) his edition of Homer recom-
mended.

5

153
153

143
17

7
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157

166

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63, 64
63, 64
65
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No.

Beauty, how long it ought to be the care of the fair sex 61
The town overstocked with it......

Bedlam, project for erecting a new one,
For whom designed.......

195
125, 174
127, 174

Distribution of the apartments there........ 175
Beef, the food of our robust ancestors...

148

The breakfast of queen Elizabeth's maids of honour 148
Beef-eaters, the order of,

148

Bellfry, (Mr.) an ignorant clown, his behaviour at lady
Dainty's...

37

Belvidere, a woman of good sense without affectation 126
Bennet, (madam) her maxim for the ladies....
Bernard, (mons.) a French banker, consequences of

84

..... 3, 5, 29

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A design to marry him......
Contents of his scrutoire.....
His will

Extraordinary cures performed by him at his lodg-

ings...

Disposes of his three nephews
Entertains his nephews and a lady

34
39
207

Vindicated from injuring a person by satire...... 71, 74
Received at the theatre with extraordinary civility. 122
Entertained at the house of a friend who eats well.. 148
Purchases a ticket in the lottery..
Writes to the French king..

124
190
192

his failure....

9

Offers to his creditors...
Betterton, the celebrated player, his character. 471, 167 Cane, worn out of affectation
Invitation to his benefit
Petition to wear one..
Account of his funeral...
Bickerstaff, (Isaac) his genealogy

157

How his race was improved
Epitome of his life...

167
11, 75
75
89
2, 124

An adept in astronomy....

Of the society for the reformation of manners......

A benefactor to Grub-street

Gives advice for his own sake.

3
229
1, 4
26

Expects hush-money

96

Not in partnership with Lillie
Did not compound with the milliners and toymen.. 90
Catched writing nonsense.........
His amours..

59

...... 91, 107, 117 948

His adventures in a journey to the land's end....
Bickerstaff, (Margery) methods used to divorce her
from marriage

Bickerstaff, (Samuel) his advice to his son and daugh-

eaten...

Bodily wits...

ter

Bicknell, or Bignell, (Mrs.) a comedian, commended
Acts the Country Wife....

Billingsgate scold, behaviour of........................ 204
Birth, pride of..

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Bisset, (brigadier) his good office to Mr. Steele ac-
knowledged...

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Black-horse ordinary in Holborn, an adventure there 135
Bladder and string, modern music applied.
Blaregnies, victory of.....

153
65

Blindness cured by Mr. Grant, story of.
Blockheads apt to admire one another..
Blunder, (major) buys muskets without touch-holes.
Boatswain, (Dampier's) contrivance to prevent being

55
196
61

91
78

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Bourignon, (madam de) foundress of the pietists, her
extraordinary gifts and talents.
Bracegirdle, (Mrs.) an excellent player..
Brains, spirit of, in orange-flower water..
Breeding, (fine) often mistaken...
Bribery, reflections on, with coals...

151

A notable expedient to prevent it at elections..
An essay and poem on it.....

A solicitor in the temple of avarice..
Bridget Howd'ye, her lady's advertisement concern-
ing her...

Brisk, (sir Liberal) saved from sharpers........
Britain, particularly fruitful in religions.......
Brunette, (colonel) a very pretty fellow ...
Brussels Postcript, remarks on that poem...
Brutes, cruelty towards them condemned..
Bruyere, (mons.) his satire on the French.
Bublenia, angry about the tucker.....
Buckley, (Mr.) a drawcansir....

Bullock and Penkethman, parallel between them..

To attend Mr. Bickerstaff's funeral...

Busy Body, character of that comedy.
Busy, (lady) described....
But, the particle, used too frequently.
CADAROQUE, meaning of that word

Bo whom applied by the Indian kings

189

Bombardiers, who to be accounted such

Books, how to be valued...

80

Booksellers, their complaint against parson Plagius.. 269
Boufflers, (marshal) a letter from him to the French
king after a battle.....

77

62

45

88

126
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193

245
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259
24

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134
57
109
18

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Cadogan, (major-general) at Brussels...
Wounded before Mons....

Cælia, her unhappy marriage with Palamede........
Why so long a maid....

Cælicola, wherein of the same use to his friends as an
angel

171
171

honour.....

Camilla, exit of the person who performed that cha-
racter in the opera...

Cæsar, (Julius) compared with Alexander
Callicoat acquitted in the court of honour...

259

Cambray, (archbishop of) account of his Telemachus 156
Cambrick, the linen-draper indicted in the court of

159

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Chair, (elbow) for what purpose.....
Challenge, the style of it...

Chances, a comedy, character of.............
Chanticleer, (Job) his petition.....

Chaplains, a discourse concerning them
Chapel-clerk, explained...

Caught in a garret...

Charles, the toyman, his great genius in canes and

snuff-boxes...

142

58

Chastity, its value instanced in Scipio...
Cheerfulness, necessary in a married state............ 192
a modern diet....

Children, manner of nursing them.................

A scheme to provide for them........
Chloe, love of her makes coxcombs .........
The fortune disappointed..

148
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Christmas Eve....

Church, indecent and irregular behaviour at, reproved 140
Church mutes censured...

241

Thermometer, when invented

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Companions, what sort most desirable
Essential qualities of......

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Comma, (Mrs.) a subtle casuist

Commendation of one's self, when necessary.
Commerce, a goddess in the region of liberty.
Common prayer, advice to the readers of,
Commonwealth, the ruins of a...

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247

Clarissa, love of her makes madmen..........

4

61

Clement's (Thomas) proposal to provide for children. 261
Cleomira, confined for painting her face...
Clergyman, character for a good one........ 72, 114
Respect due to them....

62

Deficient....

66, 69, 70, 71 71
Wherem their discourses may receive addition..... 66
Their laziness the principal cause of dissensions. 66, 68
The vanity of some of them wearing scarfs and
powdered wigs.

Clerk of a church reproved..

The term explained....
Clidemira, a woman of distinction

Coaches, vanity of riding in them exposed..

Why they should be taxed, and ought to be called
in....

Coach-painting, a method to make it useful....................
Cobbler, on Ludgate-hill, his contrivance to gratify
his pride...
Colchester, corporation of, their offer to Mr. Bicker-
staff...

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Company, its greatest perfection....
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Repartees......
Copenhagen described...
Coppersmith, that name explained...
Harry and Will, their character compared with

the sharpers.
Coquetry, what

Its effects on a young gentleman
How to overcome the power of it...
Coquettes, a mischievous sect......
Labyrinth of.....

Compared to prudes........
Chaste jilts.....
Compared to kits...

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Required to hang out their signs............
Craft, when it becomes wisdom...
Crassus, his character compared with Lorio.
Credit described.

How obtained in the city

Critics described

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A people between the learned and the ignorant.
Opposed to wits....

How punished after death..

Story of a coquet widow.

Corinna, her manner of life with Limberham
Corruption, an officer in the temple of Avarice......
Cornwall, a tragical accident there.....
Country, the charms and pleasures of it......

89

160

Modern entertainments and diversions in it..
Ignorant of Mr. Bickerstaff's character
Country gentleman, character of a true one.

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Very ceremonious......

Country life, the true pleasures of it
.89, 169
Coupler, the conveyancer, his account of jointures

and marriage-settlements......
Courant, a newspaper.....
Court of honour erected...

Account of its members, and their proceedings,
.250, 253, 256, 259, 265
Cowley, (Mr.) his judgment of a poem....
Coxcombs, described by Suckling...

234
57

The greatest plague of them

91

96
191
91

48

176
29,165

246
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134

A great critic in fits at the opera

Cruelty to animals

Cunning, the greatest cunning of some people to

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157
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A contemptible quality....

Cupid, a lap-dog, dangerously ill...
Custom, the cause of duels....
Cynthio, falls in love....

The effect of a bow from his mistress
Dictating on the passion of love.....
His resolution, and letter to his mistress.
His death, monument and epitaph....
Czar of Muscovy, account of his victory.
His generosity and hospitality to the Swedish offi-

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DAMIA, a woman of distinction, a very pretty lady.
Dancing displays beauty.....
Dancing-master, account of one who danced by book 88
Dancing-shoes, to be carried in a stage-coach gratis, 180
Daniel the historian, extract from, on taxes...
Daniel, Mr. Bickerstaff's merry companion, his man-

148

ner of preaching...
Dapper, (parson) his way of preaching
Tim, head of a species

Dassapa, (Tom) his potions,.
Dathan, a Jew, tried in the court of honour.
Davenport, (major-general) his good offices to Mr.

Steele

...

22

35

85

49

58

66
66
85
48

256

271

No.

David, (saint) his day, why observed by Mr.Bickerstaff 140
Dawks, (honest Icabod) the news-writer.
18 178
Dead, who to be so accounted..
.96, 111, 118, 174
Heard and adjudged....

110

118

Dressed in lace, &c. contrary to the act..........
A dead man resuscitated..

118

118

43, 177

Difference between ancient and modern dedications 177
A play dedicated to a city knight.
Defiance, natural to the English..
Degeneracy of the age...

43
213

183

Delamira, account of her amours, and the virtues and
management of her fan....

Delicates, false, pernicious

52
148
183
33

Demosthenes, his speech to the Athenians.....................
Denmark, king of, runs for a prize at Dresden .......
Account of his tour.......2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 21, 24, 25, 28, 33
Desire, two most prevalent desires implanted in men
by nature

205
146

Destinies, their speech and present to Jupiter...
Devotion, the pleasure and dignity of it, by Dr. South 211
Diana Forecast, letter from....

200

148

Diet, difference between ancient and modern,..
Dimple, (lady.) her good breeding...
Dinner, postponed...

Discourse, different talents in it

Decius, the character of a lewd person..........
Dedications, the abuse of them...

Reflections on her brother's writings

Apology for the fair sex...

Conduct in an amour

The general subject of it.........

Discretion, a guard to one of Hymen's gates ............
Dissensions owing to the laziness of the clergy.
Dissimulation distinguished from simulation.....
Distaff, Jenny, Mr. Bickerstaff's half sister, her visits,
......74, 143, 184

behaviour, and character.....

Her discourse in love......

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33
247

33

Her marriage, and character of her husband....74, 79
Sets up an equipage...

143

Her happiness with Tranquilius

104

Distress, contemplation of, softens the mind, and
fetters the heart.....

Diversions, for the king of Denmark, at Dresden....
Divito, sale of his goods, celestial and terrestrial
Ejected from his palace.

Doctor, dumb, at Kensington..

Dodwell, some account of his opinions

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How used by different nations............
Dialogue and remarks on..
Dulcimer, who to be so accounted

Dulwich College, founded by a player
Dumb doctor at Kensington.

Dumb conjurer....

D'Urfy the lyric poet, account of his abilities.

A panegyric of his...

120

62

His civilities to Mr. Bickerstaff at the theatre, 122, 1937
Dogs, a kennel of them to be disposed of.
Account of the loss of a lady's lap-dog....
Recipe for a sick dog.....

47

121

264

Donne, Dr. his saying of Guicciardini......
Dorchester stage-coach advertised........................
Dover Cliff described by Shakspeare..

143

117

Downes the prompter describes the state of the stage 193
Dozers, who....

205

His Plotting Sisters commended...

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Writes state plays, and political dances...........
Mistaken in a dedication................

82

33

42

Dramatists, unskilful, remarks on them...

Dream of the band of lovers..

Of Jupiter and the destinies
Of the region of liberty
Of the temple of Virtue...
Dress, plainness recommended
Improprieties therein censured
Of rural squires

96

435

Head-dresses of the ladies....
Drinking, essay on,..

241

169

56

The vice of the country...
Dromio, the character of a sharper
Drum, who may be called so in conversation..... 153, 157
Drunkards die by their own hands..

241
158

A warning to them

Drysikenness, the ill effects of it...

205

What may be esteemed a sort of incest therein.... 252
Dryden, a saying of his on chastity.......

His verses on empire applied

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Duel, inquiry into the genealogy of that monster..
Duellers, how treated after death...

26

Duelling and its terms explained.............................................25, 29
Custom the source of it.......

29

Stripped of its pretensions to credit and reputa-
tion...

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D'Urfy's dedication to his Modern Prophets
Dutch, their wit.....
Duumvir, his way of life, and behaviour to his wife
and mistress....

EARL of Essex, character of that play.........
Earthquake pills...
Ease, in writing

Eastcourt, (Dick) Mr. Bickerstaff's apothecary..
Eaters, great, sacrifice sense to appetite..
Eboracensis, a good governor so called..
Ecstasy, described by Dryden.....
Education, various errors of....

Elliott's project of a lottery...............

Elmira, character and manner of her life

Regulations proposed....

Letter on the subject...

Proposals for reforming the education of the female

Often occasioned by avarice.. Epicene, an author, censured..

Epigram on marriage..

Epithets of Homer and Virgil compared..
Epsom, diversions there...

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.63, 248 Elbow-chair, where, and for what purpose to be provided.. Elizabeth, (queen) the breakfast of her maids of ho

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nour...

148 201 53 .66, 70

Eloquence described......

Elpenor, a warning to drunkards..
Elysium, joys of, by the author of Telemachus...

152
156

Wherein its happiness may be supposed to consist 94
England, the figure it made in 1709........................................ 130
English, when they begin to sing...

222

230

Engagements between them and the French. 15, 63, 64
English tongue much adulterated ....
Enjoyment, only to be accounted true possession... 63
Envy deforms every thing....

Effects of it....

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Equipage, proper to be set off with a rent-roll....
Esquires, the order of....

Why enemies to Mr. Bickerstaff.

Adventures of a fortune-hunter there.

Epsom-Wells, character of that comedy..

Equanimity of temper, the greatest of human per

fections...

Extortion, office of, in the temple of Avarice....
Eye, language of the......

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69

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189 248

234

him.......

Eustace, (Mr.) melancholy instance of passion......
Eutrapelus, mischievous in his presents..
Examiner, animadversions on.....

Exercise of arms in London..

FAME, a universal passion.....

The love of it dwells in heroic spirits...
Inconveniencies attending the desire of it....
False fame can only please the vicious.......
Difficult to obtain or preserve .........................
Bank of.....

Plan of the chamber of..

Mountain and Temple of..............

Table of......

Familiarities, how distinguished..

19

115

Esteem, distinguished from affection......

206

How distinguished from credit....

176

Eucrates, effects of the natural softness of his temper 176
Evil, the greatest under the sun...

191

Euphusius a man whose good nature is hurtful to

.......

Ill consequence of flattering women..
Force of it in Don Quixote
Flavia, a truly fine woman......

Fencing, how learned by Mr. Bickerstaff

Fidget, a general visitant, the occasion of her mad

ness........

54

A coquette, her interview with Myrtillo
A young lady rival to her mother

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Fire-men described

Fits, cured by a whisper....

Flagelet, an instrument in the female concert, how

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Flatterers, true meaning of the word, few good ones. 208
Flattery grateful to human nature

157

Flavia, an imaginary mistress...
Flea, skeleton of one....

23

92 255 92

Galway, (Galloway) earl of, his bravery and conduct
in Portugal.
255 Gamesters, their motive covetousness...........
Their misery

87
67
81

What men of honour and wealth play against them,
A speech concerning them...
Defended

Family scene...

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74, 81 225 .95, 114 Fan, its motion discovers ladies' thoughts.. 52 Verses on a fan... ... 239 Fardingal, (lady) her advertisement .................. 245 The fardingal allowed for a time... Fashion, absurd when too strictly followed Favonius, the character of a good clergyman......72, 114 Feasts, considered

121
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Felicia (England), happy in good ministers of state..
Fellows, various significations of that term.....
Female Consort of music

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Represented under the character of a pack of
hounds....
....... 59, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68,
Gaming, its original...
The folly of it.....
Gascon, adventure of one with a widow....
Gatty, (Mrs.) foremost in the rank of toasts
Jack Gainly's sister, her character.......
Genealogy of the Bickerstaff's.
Genii, their good offices to men
Gentleman, what meant by the term

A character difficult to support with propriety..
Ghost of Anticlea, Ulysses' mother.
Ghosts of beauties....

Of the damned.

Of heroes
Of lovers

Of good princes

Of tyrants

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154

Described by Homer, Virgil, and Fenelon, 150, 194, 156 Futurity, benefits arising from the prospects of it..... 156 Wherein its happiness may be supposed to consist.

...... 94, 154

Gimcrack, (sir Nicholas) a virtuoso, his will
His widow desires Mr. Bickerstaff's friendship..
Glass, state-weather-

Glory, true, inseparable from merit.......
Gluttony, modern............

Goatham petition......
Goldsmiths distinguished from coppersmiths
Good breeding........

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