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Your petitioner therefore desires your worship! to cite the clergyman before you, and to settle and adjust the length of canonical periwigs, and thel quantity of powder to be made use of in them, and to give such other directions as you shall thinki fit, monas 701 And your petitioner, &c.

agar Flict oft ftiw bas liede Q. Whether this gentleman be not chaplaim to a regiment, and in such case allowed powdervaco cordingly?

Ted A vell et al eftot After all that can be thought on these subjects, I must confess, that the men who dress with a certain ambition to appear more than they are, are much more excusable than those who betray, in the adorning their persons, a secret vanity and ins clination to shine in things, wherein, if they did succeed, it would rather lessen than advance their character. For this reason I am more provoked at the allegations relating to the clergyman, than any other hinted at in these complaints. I have, indeed, a long time, with much concern, observed abundance of pretty fellows in sacred orders, and shall in due time let them know that I pretend to give ecclesiastical as well as civil censures. A man well bred, and well dressed in that habit, adds to the sacredness of his function, an agreeableness not to be met with among the laity. I own I have spent some evenings among the men of wit of that profession with an inexpressible delight. Their habitual care of their character gives such a chastisement to their fancy, that all which they utter in company is as much above what you meet with in other conversations, as the charms of a modest are superior to those of a light woman. I therefore earnestly desire our young missionaries from the universities to consider where they are, and not dress, and look, and move like young officers. It is no disadvantage to have a very handsome white

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To the Rev. Mr. RALPH INCENSE, Caplain to the Countess Dowager of BROMPTON. TAIA

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แ SIR,

"I heard and saw you preach last Sunday. I am an ignorant young woman, and understood not half you said: but ah! your manner, when you held up both your hands toward our pew! Did you design to win me to Heaven or yourself?

"Your humble servant,..

"PENITENCE GENTLE."

ADVERTISEMENTS.

Mr. Proctorstaff, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge, is received as a kinsman, according to his request bearing date the 20th instant.

The distressed son of Esculapius is desired to be more particular.

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ACILIANUS, recommended by Pliny for a husband, 152.
Adulterers, how punished by the primitive Christians, 106.
Advertisement of the play called Love for Love, for Dogget's
benefit, 241.

Advertisements, a dissertation upon them, 350, &c.

Æneas's descent into the empire of death, and adventures there,
231, &c.

Afflictions, imaginary, often prove the most insupportable, 267,&c.
Agamemnon's invective against the fair sex, 282, 283.
Album Græcum prescribed to a sick dog, 244.

Alexander Truncheon, foreman of the male jury in Bickerstaffe's
court of honour, 388.

Allegories profitable to the mind as hunting to the body, 279.
An allegorical fable applied out of Homer, 271.

Allegory of virtue and pleasure making court to Socrates, 177, &c.
Ambition, what age of man most addicted to it, 235, &c.
Amsterdam theatre, an account of it, 148.

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Anacharsis, the Corinthian drunkard, a saying of his, 87.
Anatomy, the Spectator's speculations on it, 39, &c.
Angels, fallen, their disputes described by Milton, 222.
Animals at the theatre, a sale, 147. Imperceptible in the cre-

ation, 358.

Antipathies treated of, 31, &c.

Apollo, the god of verse and physic, 367.

Apothecaries great orators, $70.

Aristippus, his saying of content, 96.

Arthur, King, the first that ever sat down to a whole roasted ox,

275.

'Atheist, his character, 515, 516.

Athenians, their public spirit and virtue, 249.

Authors, their precedency settled according to the bulk of their
works, 13. Interred, 211.

Avarice, what age of man most devoted to it, 235. Its region
described, 253. Its temple, adherents, attendants, and officers,
254, &c.

Audiences, what ought to be their behaviour at the representa-
tion of a play, 247, &c.
ning ydw crement.

B.

Bacon, Sir Francis, his sentiments of poetry, 207. His legacy,
265. His character, 456. His prayer or psalm, 457.
Bagpipes, who are such in conversation. A club of them, 288.
Banbury, famous for cakes and zeal, 348.

Bantam, Ambassador of, his letter to his master about the English,60.
Barbarity an attendant on tyranny, 318.

Bass-viol, the parts it bears in conversation, 287.

likely to be found, 289.

Baxter, what a blessing he had, 137.

Beef-eaters, order of them, 275.

Where most

Beings; the scale of beings considered by the Spectator, 5.
Bellman, his midnight homily, 213.

Bickerstaffes, the history and genealogy of the family, 153, &c.
His court-day for hearing petitions, 197. His reception at the
playhouse, 247. Advice to an audience, 248. Speech to po-
verty, 256. His entertainment at a friend's house who eats
well, 277. His maxim, 278. Censor of Great Britain, 319.
His adventures in a journey to the Land's-end, 332. His re-
ceipt, 370. His charge to the court of honour, 388.
Bion, his saying of a greedy search after happiness, 97.
Bluff, Oliver, indicted in the court of honour, 449.

Body, human, the work of a transcendantly wise and powerful
being, 39.

Bonosus, the drunken Briton, a saying of him after he had hanged
himself, 88.

Bribery a solicitor in the temple of Avarice, 255.

Browbeat, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour, 449.

Busy, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour by Jasper Tat-
tle, 448.

Buzzard, Benjamin, indicted in the court of honour, 422.

C.

Cacœthes scribendi, or itch of writing, an epidemic distemper,

114.

Calamités, whimsical ones, 62, &c.

Callicoat, indicted in the court of honour, 421.

Cambray, (A. B.) author of Telemachus, 301.

Cambric, a linen-draper, indicted by the Lady Touchwood, 420.

Camilla's exit from the theatre, 148.

Canes, how they ought to be worn, 197, &c!

Case, Dr. grown rich by means of a distich, 369.

Cato, an instance of his probity, 58.

Cebes, his table, 314.

Censors, a comparison betwixt the Roman and British, 320.
Censurers, why punished more severely after death, 303.

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Cestus
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Venus described, 278 od tziwtod sorsftib ed♪ jsiɑ
Chaplains, a discourse upon them, 397, &c.
Chastity, how prized by the heathens, 107et tib 92705Ɑ
Cheerfulness and constancy, qualifications absolutely necessary in
a married state, 334.
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Cherubims, what the rabbins say they are, 148b9qmtai
Chicken, a modern diet, 275, Jogos WOTISH 100 stuteй suiviⱭ
Child, his discretion and great tenderness for his parents, 218.98
Choleric men cautioned, 217.
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Christianity, the only system that can produce content, 985 llog
Christmas-eve, Shakespear's description of it, 214 al 2992
Church weather-glass, when invented, and the use of it, 345, &c.
City-politicians reproved by Mr. Bickerstaffe, 301.odo de
Cock's crowing in Hamlet, reflections on it, 214oob ft:10 1976€
Commerce, a goddess in the region of liberty, 317. at 70 208970
Commonwealth, Genius of, seated on the left hand of the goddess
of Liberty, 316.

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Competency, a guide in the temple of Avarice, 254, atqul 19
Complacency, described in an allegory, as a guard to one of the
gates of Hymen's temple, 239..

Complainers, their importunacy, 266.

Content, how described by a Rosicrusian, 95. The virtue of it,

ibid.

Contention, allegorically described, 239.

Coquettes labyrinth described in a vision, 238.

Corruption, an office in the temple of Avarice, 254.

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Country gentlemen, advice to them about spending their time,
116, &c. No ceremony, 168.

Courts of justice and honour, erected by Mr. Bickerstaffe, 380,
387, 419.

Coverley, Sir Roger de, an account of his death brought to the
Spectator's club, 1. His legacies, 2.

Cowley's description of heaven, 130.
Critic described, 328.

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Critics, modern ones, some errors of theirs about plays, 133.yrd
Cupid, a lap-dog, dangerously ill, 242.

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Dancing-master, account of his studies and dancing by book, 170.
Daniel, the historian, provisions taxed in his time, 275.
Dapperwit, Tom, recommended by Will Honeycomb, to succeed

him in the Spectator's club, 18. suk vd hovorca .19m.mez3
Dathan, a Jew, indicted in the court of honour for breaking the
peace, 404.

Dead persons heard, judged, and censured, 208, &c.

Delicates, false, their contradictory rules, 276.

Destinies, their present to Jupiter, 268, Speech of one of them

to that God, 270,

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