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Marinus, a good sea officer, opposed to a fellow of fire 61
Marlborough, John, duke of, his merit

Marriage, how men's minds and humours may be
changed by it....

two ladies desirous of marrying the same

man to prevent parting......

---verses on marriage out of Milton.....

-unhappy, from what proceeding.....

Married persons often overlook their enjoyments
Martius, the character of an unlearned wit...
Mathematical sieve to sift impertinences....

Matrimony, no medium therein.......

Melancholy, the delight of men of knowledge and vir-
tue..

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79

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95

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Men, wherein they may distinguish themselves
Mercer, account of one who could not enjoy a thousand
pounds a year........

Merit, obscure, should be produced to public view.......
Milton, his description of Eve's pleasure in the society

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of Adam.

Miner, who so in conversation.......

Mirrour, Tom, the pantomime, an account of him...... 51
Modest men distinguished from modest fellows
Modesty described.

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different in men and women ...............

- its advantages in men..

the chief ornament of the fair sex...........

Monoculus a grave sharper.....

Morphew, John, appointed Mr. Bickerstaff's chamber

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keeper

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made general of the dead men......... 103

NASSAU, prince of, his gallantry......

Nestor, a great, but too modest an architect..

No, when to be used by young people.......

Nonsense a prevailing part of eloquence among ladies. 60
Nunnery erected by a Platonne....

manner of receiving young ladies into some
nunneries in popish countries....

ORLANDO the Fair, his history

his way of contemning the world...

Organ-loft, a treat given to ladies there censured ..............

Orson Thicket, his character aud passion for Cleora... 98
Osmyn, the inconstant husband, his character and be-

haviour to his wife.......

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53

PETUS, manner of his death, and the magnanimity of

his wife.........

Painting the face censured.....

Panegyric, a theme for Mr. Bickerstaff...

70

on Mr. Bickerstaff for confessing his faults.
Partridge, Mr. John, account of his intended funeral.. 99
-advertisement in his almanackthat

he is alive, and calling Mr. Bickerstaff a knave. 96
his manner of surprising sharpers 56

- walks and denies his death.......

Pendergrass, Sir Thomas, killed in a battle..

Penny-post letters sent as private reprimands.........................
Perhaps, when that word betrays a certain decay of
affection.........

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Physicians, character of a generous one.......

good ones of great use in a common-wealth 78
ordered from Bath....

Pirates in printing and bookselling, complained of and
censured..

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Pistols, a fatal accident occasioned by loaded pistols...
Plato, his history of love....

Platonic nunnery established.........

Players blamed for inserting words of their own in their

parts......

Playhouse on fire in Denmark..............

Poetasters, catalogue of the labours of one...

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ridiculed....

Poetry, efficacy of it on the mind

Sir Francis Bacon's account of it

Posture-master, his beholders censured...

Powell, junior, an excuse for writing against him.......
Praise, generous and heroic spirits most sensible of it.. 92
how coveted by great men....

to be regarded only as relating to things strictly
true...

Præ-adamites, no wit or humour in their practices..... 69
-threatened....

Priesthood, when the highest honour................................................
Prodicus, a noble allegory of his.....

Prudes, a name for courtly hypocrites

Punctuality, a suspicious circumstance in visiting................. 109
Pythagoras, one of his golden sayings..........

QUARREL, matrimonial, prevented, and advice thereon.. 85
RAFFLING-SHOP, kept by a lawyer at Hampstead......... 59

Rape-trials, most attended by women... ........
Richard the Third, effect of reading that tragedy
Riches, the use and abuse of them............
Ridicule, how to be used......

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when the effect of reason.....

Risibility the effect of reason......

Rochefoucault, his writings censured......

No.

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90

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Rosin, Will, the Wapping fiddler, history of his life..... 105
stratagem of his wife to prevent the mar-

riage of her gallant......

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Round stool, a gentleman affronted by being placed on

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Scorn the cause of laughter......................

Satirists censured when they depreciate human nature. 108

Serpents, who to be accounted such in conversation
Shakspeare, his excellence.

his mind thoroughly seasoned with reli-

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represented by a pack of hounds.........
their character and reception...................
their practices at Bath..

Sieve, mathematical, to sift impertinences.........

Smith, Dr. Mr. Bickerstaff's corn-cutter.

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Smyrna coffee-house recommended for music, poetry,

and politics......

Snap-dragon illustrated and described..

Society, the pleasures thereof described by Milton...... 114
Soul, human, considered..............

Spa-water, design of the coquettes to buy it all up.....
Speaking doctor at Kensington, account of him
Speaking, what manner of it most offensive....

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Squibs, a branch of gunners, who to be so accounted..
Squires, country, described.....

Stentor, a singer at St. Paul's, admonished by one at
St. Peter's........

injuries done by his bawling

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Strephon, his manner of winning a lady.
Switzerland, a prospect in it described...

TABEO, his character..........

Tenderness and humanity inspired by the Muses
no true greatness of mind without it......
Theatres recommended as useful.....

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Tillotson, archbishop, what the copy of his sermons
sold for...........

Travelling useless to many

will not make a fool a wise man ..................
Trials for rapes mostly attended by women.....................................
Tristram, Sir, the banker, his character..

Triumphs abused by the Romans with regard to cap-
tives

Trubies, character of that family..

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Trump, Tom, his defence of gamesters and sharpers... 57

VAFER, Will, his speech concerning sharpers......
Valetudinarians, pretended ones....

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Varillas, truly happy in the possession of modesty..
Verses from Dryden.....

Garth's Dispensary

Milton......

Shakspeare...

Sir John Suckling.

on marriage.....

on the death of Pætus and Arria

Virtue, its recommendation and great ornaments

Vision of justice.

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..79, 98, 102, 114

.....53, 106, 111

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-of the Mountain and Temple of Fame............

Visits, a day-book kept of them

Upholders company permitted to bury the dead......

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- ridiculed and censured

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- when unseasonable

neral of Dr. Partridge......

Vulgar, who to be accounted so

their advertisement for the fu-

their petitions and proposals....... 99

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WALTER Wisdom, his character and manner of courting

Cleora..

Wealthy persons fix characters and wit to circum-

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Whittington, alderman, account of him and his cat.... 78

Wildair, Tom, his character, and how reformed by
the generosity of his father......

William the Third, king of England, an eulogium on

him.........

Window-breakers with half-pence censured..........
Wit defined by Dryden

-judged by men's

purses..

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Wives, an infallible sign of their loving their husbands 104
Women never taken by their reason, but always by
their passions.....

Women, those of the present age compared with those
of the last.....

- want regular education........

Wren, see Nestor.

XERXES, why he burst into tears............................

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END OF VOL. II.

C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer,
Dean Street.

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