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Ancients compared with the mo-
derns, 490

Apprentice Boy, 498.

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Apostacy, good excuse for it, 157. Coxcombs seldom alone, 77.

Arbitration, 418.

Atheism, its absurdities, 59.
Augustus, his craft, 452.
Authority of great names, 2.

Avarice, why it increases with age,
24.

Battles, not decisive of what, 244.
Beauty perfect, when, 230.
Benefits sometimes refined revenge,

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Courtiers abused but courted, 234
Cromwell, his narrow escape, 412.
Cunning differs from skill, 74.
Curse, a blessing in disguise, 67.
Dairo of Japan, 443.
Death terrible in what, 419.
Debts give consequence, 166
Defeat politic, when, 129.
Defendit numerus an unsafe rule, 34.
Demagogues despotic, 392.
Destruction proceeds geometrically
preservation arithmetically, 352.
Devil laughs, at whom, 484.

Bodies more difficult to make up Different reports of travellers, why,

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Dogmatism not confined to scho- Gamester doubly ruined, how, 200.

lars, 169.

Doubt, a vestibule, 251.
Doubt, a serious one, 324.
Drafts drawn by genius on posteri-
ty always paid, 36.

Dreams prove nothing but the cre-
dulity of mankind, 446.
Duels the fault of seconds as often
as of principals, 58.
Ease in style not easy, 584.
Eccentricity, 16.

Efforts profusely rewarded, when,

416.

Egotism awkward, 104.
Eloquence true, hits hearts as well
as heads, 268.
Elizabeth, Queen, her life preserv-
ed, how, 503.

Emulation, a spur not of gold, 212
Ennui, its empire, 259.
Enthusiasm, 17.
Envy, 310.

Envious, their censure does us cre-
dit, 573.

Error differs from ignorance, 1.
Error, one that all commit and all
abuse, 502.

Errors, little ones to be pardoned,
when, 560.

Estate, a very large one, and pays
no tax, what, 85.

Events, how construed by enthusi-
asts, 167.

Evils remediless, two, 55.
Evidence seldom, if ever, appears
in a court of justice, 578.
Experience, when cheapest, 33.
Falsehood, like a perspective, 241.
Falstaff, his soldiers feared but one
thing, 299.

Fame, an undertaker, 527.
Fanatics always inexorable, 222.
Fashion, 547.

Female improvement, 137.
Fear debilitates, 286.

Fine houses, finest when, 30.
Flattery adroit, when, 83.
Fools formidable, why, 266.
Fortune not blind, why, 79.
Forbidden things, 14.
Franklin, Doctor, 404.
Friends more difficult to forgive
than enemies, 576.
Friendship's politic, when, 390.

Glory, road to it, arduous, 68.
Glory of the christian, 149.
God on the side of virtue, 154.
God will excuse our prayers, when,

149.

Good unalloyed, a rare thing, 7.
Governments give national charac-
ter, not climates, 335.
Great men like comets, 252,
Great men, where deceived, 132.
Greatness best appreciated by the
greatest, 583.
Habit, 558.

Half measures, 174.
Happiness, 447.

Hatred differs from pity, in what,
478.

Head, the seat of contentment, 163.
Head of a party, 22.

Heaven, the road to it too narrow
for wheels, 178.

Hesitation, a weakness, 401.
Honour differs from virtue, 26.
Hope, 108.

Horace, a sycophantic satyrist, 413.
Human expletives, 89
Humility, 556.
Hunter, John, 473.
Hurry differs from dispatch, 74.
Hypocrites, 11-29.
Hypocrisy, 143.

of vice, 271.
Hypochondriacs die daily, 238.
Idiosyncrasy exists in mind as well
as in body, 586.
Idleness expensive, why, 70.
Ignorance, 1.

Imitators of princes numerous,199.
Infidels believe more than believers,
567

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with impunity, 51.
Inventors or perfectors, which most
meritorious, 142.

Ism, words ending in it, 451.
Jealousy, why so insupportable,

163.

a hard task-master, 47.
Jesuits mix in their generation, 492,
Khan of Tartary, 443.

Kings, their highest wisdom, what,

57.

King of England interested in pre-
serving the freedom of the press,

100.

Kings, their noblest ambition, what,

209.

living ones, more flattered,
but less praised than they de
serve, 545.

Knowledge, 50.

How attained,

Nations always as free as they de-
serve, 109,
Nature works with few tools, 223.
no chasm in her operations,

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Neutrality no favourite with Pro-
vidence, 366.

Nothing should excite murmurs,

155.

Opinions, when they may be chang-
ed without suspicion, 102.

213. The clearest the most Opponents best answered, how,

simple, 187.

Labour, a good, 67.

Law and equity, 381.

Laws and arms, 162.

Learned blunders, 403.

Letters, laboured ones, 125.

Life a theatre, 18.

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Patriots, modern, 176.

its ills how to bear them, 95. Pedantry wrong by rules, 48.

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Pitt, William, a neat manœuvre of
his, 414-

Plans best executed, when, 61.
Plagiarism, 546.
Politic knave, 10.
Poets, seldom original, 198.
Poor laws, 529.

Posthumous charity, 341.
Politics and personalities, 566.
Powerful friends may be too pow-
erful to serve us, 535.
Prayer, a good one, 194.
Profession abused with safety,
when, 53

Property, the only real, 52.
Pride paradoxical, 207. Miscalcu-
lates, 150.

Private vices public benefits, false,
350:

Prating coxcombs, 373.
Prodigality, the rarest, 445.
Pulpit cloquence, 64.

Public events, their moral, 31.
Pursuit, there is but one that all
can follow, 49.
Quacks, literary ones, 552.

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Quack, when preferable to a physi-[Talent not always successful, 93

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Revenge has no sex, 197

Talent, histrionic, overpaid, 309.
Talent compared to treason, 295.
Telescopes may be more dangerous
than cannon, 247.
Testimony differs most materially
from evidence, 578.
Theory fine but not firm, 116,
Things, three that never stand still,

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Riches more easily concealed than Travelling, 41.
poverty, 233.

Rome pontifical, 175.
Safety, if built on revenge,
safe, 45.
Sceptics, 177.

Scotchmen good gardeners, 67.
Secrecy of design, 32.

Trifles no trifles, 455.

Truth powerful, even if defeated, 450
not Turnspits, London ones, on two
legs, 526.

Secrets, who fondest of them, 40.
Self-love ashamed of her own name,
134.

Self-importance, a cure for it, 506.
Sensibility, 106.

Sight, an uncommon one, 506.
Singular, how to be so, 460.
Skull, the advantages of a thick
one, 549.

Slight condescensions, 11.
Society semicivilized most hospita-
ble, 543.

Softness of demeanour suspicious,

124.

Sorrow for sin, effectual, when, 317.
Statesmen not to be envied, 73.

Two kinds of men succeed as pub

lic characters, 42.
University, London, the largest, 579.
Value, its criterion, 353.
Vice suicidal, 199. Has more mar-
tyrs than virtue, 391.
Villains, bad calculators, 131.
Virtue without talent, 21.
War, its evils, 15. A political
dram, 235. A loosing game, 534.
What and who, their difference, 9.
Wit captivates, why, 71. Not diffi

cult in comedy, 72.
Wits, their jealousy, 81.
Women, whose approbation they
prefer, 62. To be flattered, how,
220. Have no medium, 178. In-
exorable, when, 557.

Youth, its excesses, what, 76.

INDEX TO VOL. II.

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Books, 248.

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Extemporaneous harangues, 225.

Coxcombs, grateful when, Preface, Excellence, 258.

Cuckoldom, 41.

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Enemies, how to get them, 275.
Flattery, 72.

Flattery, cunning, 75.
Fame posthumous, 105.
Fortune a goddess, 106.
Fame a small fountain, 124.
Fools and Rogues, 156.
Free press, 179.

Fashion its miseries, 187.
Flattery, 198.

French Revolution, 211.
Flat catchers, 245.

Forms of Liberty, 268.
Foreknowledge, 280.
Free agency, 280.

Great men seldom pitied-why, il
Gossipers, 78.

Great minds, 112.

Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123
Genius, 133.

Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144.
Ghosts, 202.

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