I world can d pendance of the darts of each system, and (if our versing with heavenly beings. Are not spirits caminds are big enough to grasp the theory) of the pable of mutual pable several systems upon one another, from whence bodies, or by their intervention? Must superior intelligence, unless immersed in abtedne results the harmony of the universe. In eternity a natures depend on inferior for the main privilege in brutes, sothe great deal may be done of this kind. I find it of of sociable beings, that of conversing with, and use to cherish this generous ambition; for, besides knowing each other? What would they have done the ente the secret refreshment it diffuses through my soul, had matter never been created? I suppose, not git engages me in an endeavour to improve my fa- have lived in eternal solitude. As incorporeal -culties as well as to exercise them conformably to substances are of a nobler order, so be sure their et less the rank I now hold among reasonable beings, and manner of intercourse is answerably more expefrom the hope I have of being once advanced to a more dite and intimate. This method of communication Assured exalted station. we call intellectual vision, as somewhat analagous denvedoes. The other, and the ultimate end of man, is the to the sense of seeing, which is the medium of our enjoyment of God, beyond which he cannot form a acquaintance with this visible world. And in some wish. Dim at the best are the conceptions we have such way can God make himself the object of imof the Supreme Being, who, as it were, keeps his mediate intuition to the blessed; and as he can, it creatures in suspense, neither discovering nor hid- is not improbable that he will, always condescendrating himself; by which means, the libertine hath a ing, in the circumstances of doing it, to the weakIma handle to dispute his existence, while the most are ness and proportion of finite minds. His works able and content to speak him fair, but in their hearts prefer but faintly reflect the image of his perfections; it ecret every trifling satisfaction to the favour of their is a second-hand knowledge: to have a just idea reater Maker, and ridicule the good man for the sin of him it may be necessary to see him as he is. serd gularity of his choice. Will there not a time But what is that? It is something that never entered eere: pro come when the free-thinker shall see his impious into the heart of man to conceive; yet what we Esa schemes overturned, and be made a convert to the can easily conceive, will be a fountain of unspeakfitted truths he hates? When deluded mortals shall be able and everlasting rapture. All created glories convinced of the folly of their pursuits; and the will fade and die away in his presence. Perhaps thefew wise, who followed the guidance of Heaven, it will be my happiness to compare the world with anand, scorning the blandishments of sense, and the fair exemplar of it in the Divine Mind; perwere the sordid bribery of the world, aspired to a ce- haps, to view the original plan of those wise delestial abode, shall stand possessed of their ut. signs that have been executing in a long succesmost wish in the vision of the Creator? Here the sion of ages. Thus employed in finding out his mind heaves a thought now and then towards him, works, and contemplating their Author, how shall and hath some transient glances of his presence: I fall prostrate and adoring, my body swallowed when in the instant it thinks itself to have the up the immensity of matter, my mind in the infi 1531 fastest hold, the object eludes its expectations, and nitude of his perfections! it falls back tired and baffled to the ground. [GROVE.] Doubtless there is some more perfect way of con How applauded there, 443 203 4 person, 474 380 312 Instances of the homage heretofore paid to beards, tion, The ill consequence of introducing it amongst us at A description of Hudibras's beard, Bear garden, the Spectator's method for the improvement of it, A combat there, The cheats of it, 49 Camillus, his deportment to his son, 275 Campbell (Mr.), the dumb fortune-teller, an extraordinary 33 Candour, the consequence and benefit of it, 32 Camdia, an antiquated beauty described, Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician, Beau's head, the dissection of one, Beauties, when plagiaries, The true secret how to improve beauty, Then the most charming when heightened by virtue, Cant, from whence to be derived, Capacities of children, not duly regarded in their educa- 147 Club-law, a convincing argument, Clubs, nocturnal assemblies so called, tion, 307 Caprice often acts in the place of reason, 191 Carbuncle (Dr.), his dye, what, 52 Care: what ought to be a man's chief care, 122 Carneades, the philosopher, his definition of beauty, 144 Cartesian, how he would account for the ideas formed by the fancy, from a single circumstance of the me- mory, 417 Cases in love answered, 614 Casimir Liszynski, an atheist in Poland, the manner of his punishment, 310 Cassius, the proof he gave of his temper in his childhood, 157 Castilian, the story of a Castilian husband and his wife, 198 Castle-builders, who, and their follies exposed, Cat, a great contributor to harmony, Cat call, a dissertation upon that instrument, Catiline, Tully's character of him, 361 386 Cato, the respect paid him at the Roman theatre, The grounds for his belief of the immortality of the soul, 537 557 An instance of his probity, Cave of Trophonius, several people put into it to be Celibacy, the great evil of the nation, Censor, of small wares, an officer to be appointed, Of marriages, Censure, a tax, by whom paid to the public, and for what, *Censure and applause should not mislead us, Chamont's saying of Monimia's misfortunes, Chancery court, why erected, Some account of the Everlasting club, The club of Ugly faces, The difficulties met with in erecting that club, The institution and use of clubs, 167 Coach (stage), its company, 361 Coffee-house disputes, Coffee-house debates seldom regular or methodical, Coffee-house liars, two sorts of them, 446 Colours, the eye takes most delight in them, Why the poets borrow most epithets from them, Speak all languages, Comedies, English, vicious, 599 Comfort, what, and where found, 528 An attendant on patience, 16 Commendation generally followed by detraction 308 Commerce, the extent and advantage of it, 610 Common-prayer, some considerations on the reading of it, 395 The excellency of it, Chaplain, the character of Sir Roger de Coverley's, 564 Commonwealth of Amazons, 106 Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the chose 516 of it, 294 Comparisons in Homer and Milton defended by Monsieur 430 Charles 1. a famous picture of that prince, Boileau against Monsieur Perrault, 58 Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the car 462 debauched his daughter, Charles the Great, his behaviour to his secretary, who had mities of life, Civilizes human nature, 181 Charins, none can supply the place of virtue, How to touch it, 395 Complaisance, what kind of it peculiar to courts, 99 Compliments in ordinary discourse censured, 19 579 Chastity of renown, what, Exchange of compliments, Cheerfulness of temper, how to be obtained and pre- 480 Concave and convex figures in architecture have the great served, est air, and why, Wherein preferable to mirth, When worse than folly or madness, 10 The many advantages of a cheerful temper, ४ Cherubims, what the rabbins say they are, British children, 143 Condé (Prince of), his face like that of an eagle, 381 Conquests, the vanity of them, 381 Connecte (Thomas), a monk in the 14th century, a zealous 70,74 days, The unnaturalness of mothers in making them suck a The duty of children to their parents, Ifl education of children fatal, A multitude of them one of the blessings of the married Children in the Wood, a ballad, wherein to be commended Chit-char club's letter to the Spectator, Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes, Consciousness, when called affectation, Contemplation, the way to the mountain of the muses, 246 Content, how described by a Rosicrucian, 436 The virtue of it, 431 Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this life, 500 85 189 414 An improvement of taste in letters, 560 Coquette's heart dissected, 466 Coquettes, the present numerous race to what owing, Cordeliers, their story of St. Francis, their founder, 574 perance, 634 Cot-queans described by a lady who has one for her hor Coverley (Sir Roger de), a member of the Spectator's club. 1 C C C How much above philosophy, C 365 band, as the preachers, Church musicians reproved for not keeping to the text as well 60 Cotillus, his great equanimity, C verley, Church work, slow work, according to Sir Roger de Co- 338 his character, His opinion of men of fine parts, Cicero, a punster, Church-yard, the country 'Change on Sunday, 383 Is something of a humorist, 112 His choice of a chaplain, Cr His genius, The entertainment found in his philosophical writings, 61 61 His management of his family, His account of his ancestors, What he says of scandal, The oracle's advice to him, 404 404 Of the Roman gladiators, 427 And desire of glory, His extraordinary superstition, 436 505 some curiosity, Clarendon (Earl of) his character of a person of a trouble- his chaplain, A great benefactor to his church in Worcestershire, Is forced to have every room in his house exorcised by DA Da D Da 113,1 The trophies of his several exploits in the country, A reflection of that historian, 439 A great Fox-hunter, Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, 485 An instance of his good-nature, 15 lebrated mathematician, Clavius, proving incapable of any other studies, became a ce- 73 His aversion to confidants, Cleanliness, the praise of it, 307 Cleanthe, her story, whispers the judges in the ear, The manner of his reception at the assizes, where t D Da Cleanthes, his character, 15 A man for the landed interest. Da Clergy, a three-fold division of them, Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos, 404 His adventure with some gipsies, 400 Rarely sports near his own seat, Clergymen, one of the Spectator's club, 21 Club: the She Roop club, Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarves, 2 His return to town, and conversation with A dispute between him and Sir Andrew Freeport, the Specta 609 Methods observed by that club, 217 His intended generosity to his widow, The Mohock club, 217 The design of their institution, tor in Gray's Inn Walks, His reflections upon visiting the tombs in Westminster, 324 A great friend to beards, 755 No. 349 199 82 104,292 292 188 427 451 451 373 17 286 286 62 396 89 414 Denying, sometimes a virtue, 458 414 Dependants, objects of compassion. 282 474 Country gentlemen, advice to them about spending their England, 424 Deportment (religious) why so little appearances of it in 448 Descriptions come short of statuary and painting, 416 time, 583 Memoirs of the life of one, 622 Country Wake,' a farce commended by the Spectator, Please sometimes more than the sight of things, 416 416- 502 What pleases in them, 418 other quality, 99 extent and simu One of the chief topics in books of chivalry, What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more accept- 99 deformed, False courage, 418 29 Desire, when corrected, Mechanic courage, what, 400 Other good qualities wanted to set off courage, 152 Detraction, the generality of it in conversation, 348 Amazons Courage and magnanimity inseparable, 422 Devotee, the description of one, 354 court interest, the several ways of making it, 350 Devotion, the great advantage of it, 93 394 Homer and Mis tion, The most natural relief in our afflictions, 163 403 than reason. Courtier's habit, on what occasions hieroglyphical, 201 64 ertise of it was courtship, the pleasantest part of a man's life, Cowards naturally impudent, Cowley (Mr.), abounds in mixed wit, His magnanimity, His opinion of Perseus the Latin satirist, His description of heaven, His story of Aglais, Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites, Crazy, a man thought so by reading Milton aloud, The contemplations on creation a perpetual feast of de- Credit, a beautiful virgin, her situation and equipage, A great valetudinarian, Credit undone with a whisper, (Credulity in wonen infamous, Cries of London require some regulation, one, Critics (French), friends to one another, Modern ones, some errors of thears about plays, Cuckoldom abused on the stage, of whom, Cunning, the accomplishment petites, An instance of absurd curiosity, wiss Custom, a second nature, The effect of it, How to make a good use of it, Cannot make every Cynczas, Pyrrhus's chief hing pleasing handsome reproof to 592 Distracted persons, the sight of them the most mortifying 446 Divine nature, our narrow conceptions of it, 237 Doctor in Moorfields, his contrivance. 439 Dogget, the comedian, how cuckolded on the stage, The errors into which it often leads us, 201 261 The notions the most refined among the heathens had 231 of it, Socrates's model of devotions, 207 114 The noblest buildings owing to devotion, 415 339 Diagoras, the atheist, his behaviour to the Athenians in a 590 storm, 483 613 Dick Crastin challenges Tom Tulip, 610 Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet, 453 91 128 Dignitaries of the law, who, 21 Dionysius's ear, what it was, 439 78 Dionysius, a club tyrant, 508 577 Disappointments in love, the most difficult to be conquered 163 Discontent, to what often owing, 214 393 Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one man, 428 3 Discretion, an under agent of Providence, 225 3 Distinguished front canning, 225 320 Absolutely necessary in a good husband, 607 190 Dissenters, their canting way of reading, 147 251 Dissimulation, the perpetual inconvenience of it, 103 274 Distempers, difficult to change them for the better, 599 291 Distinction, the desire of it implanted in our natures, and 409 why, 224 Day, the several times of it in several parts of the town, us, The contemplation of it affords a deliglit mixed with Deaths of eminent persons the most improving passages What Seneca and Publius Synes said of it. 454 Drunkard, a character of one, 7 Drunkenness, the ill effects of it, 133,289 His translation of Iapis's cure of Encas out of Virgil, 572 |