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Character of Sir Thomas Frankland, xviii. 231.
Character of Abbe de Polignac, iv. 235.
INDEX.
A.
ABBEY lands. In queen Mary's time, the grantees confirmed in possession of them by the pope, vol. iv. page 393.
Academy. Description of one to be erected for wits, ii. 58. Of projectors at Lagado, vi. 204. A political one established by the king of France, xi. 417.
Acheson (sir Arthur). Verses on occasion of Dr. Swift's visit to his seat, vii. 377-382. viii. 26-51. His Lady's Complaint against the Dean, vii. 382. Estimate of the value of a grant made to him of a barrack upon his estate, ix. 238. Lets a farm to the dean, called afterward Drapier's Hill, viii. 35, 36. Highly offended by the dean, xix. 48.
Action. Its use to a publick speaker, v. 157. More prevalent, even when improper, than all the reason and argument in the world without it, 161.
Addison (Mr.) His character, viii. 3. xi. 51. One of the few poets who made a proper use of the sacred writings, v. 244. Purchased the place of keeper of the records in Birmingham's tower, the salary of which he got raised from ten pounds to four hundred, ix. 85. Went to Ireland in 1708, as secretary to lord Wharton, xi. 51; where he soon distinguished Stella's merit, x. 224. Wrote the Whig Examiner in conjunction with Mr. Maynwaring, xviii. 32. Swift's friendship for him, iv. 18. xiv. 292. 344. xv. 352. His sister, xiv. 241. His popularity, 226. His pride hurt, at being under obligations to Swift for assisting Steele; yet solicits him for an office for Phillips, 293. Coldness between him and Swift, 327. 370.
Addresses, from all parts of the kingdom, the true sense of the nation, iii. 95. 196. The folly of the address against making any peace without the restitution of Spain, 205. The true meaning and design of it, ibid.
Æolists. Held wind to be the original cause of all things, ii. 152. Their doctrine consisted of two and thirty points, 153. The philosophers among them delivered to their pupils all their opinions by eructation, 155. Their gods, ibid. Their manner of performing their mysteries and rites, 156; which were frequently managed by female priests, 158. And this custom still kept up by some of the modern Æolists, ibid.
Agriculture. Greatly neglected and discouraged in Ireland, v. 272, ix. 1. 187. The improvement of it, a subject worthy the highest inquiry, 189. xiii. 374. Without the encouragement of it, any country, however blessed by nature, must continue poor, ix. 199.
Aid (for marrying the king's eldest daughter). How levied, xvi. 39.
Alberoni (Parson). Extract from a work of Mr. Gordon's under that title, viii. 419.
Alexander the Great. Honourably distinguished by Swift, v. 171. A reflection on the manner of his death, vi. 226. An instance of his magnanimity, xvi. 330.
Allegiance. Reciprocal with protection, though not with preferment, xviii. 166.
Allen (lord). His character, ix. 226. See Tranlus. The dean's advertisement in his defence against him, xiii. 471.
Alliance. The principal cause of the grand alliance between the emperor, England, and the States General, iii. 347. xvii. 135. The parties in it agree to furnish near two hundred thousand men, exclusive of garrisons, iii. 363. iv. 130. Afterward the number of forces increased, and the English bore an unequal proportion, iii. 363. iv. 133. The English to bear five eighths in the sea service, and the Dutch three, iii. 365. iv. 130. The English to pay two hundred thousand crowns a year to the Prussian troops, the States one hundred thousand, the emperor thirty thousand, which he never paid, iii. 367. Neither of the emperors had ever twenty thousand men on their own account in the common cause, though by agreement to furnish ninety thousand, 368. The confederate army to maintain forty thousand men against Spain on the Portugal side, 372. Fifty thousand on the side of Catalonia, which was chiefly at the English expense, 373. The eighth article of the grand alliance translated 384. The whole of it examined by the house of commons, iv. 127. Broken by every party in it, except the English, xvi. 307.
Allies. Their refusal to bear their just proportion of the charges of the war connived at for private ends, iii. 308, 309. Infamously deserted the British troops, 310. The emperor inclined to continue the war, because it affected not his own dominions, 311. See Alliance, and Conduct.
Almanack makers. Why alone excluded the privilege of other authors, to live after their deaths, v. 54.
Ambassador. Wherever he is, his house has all the privileges of his master's dominions, xi. 14.
Ambition. Not so strong a passion in young men as love, xi. 293.
America. The state of religion in the plantations there, iii. 234. In some of the poorest colonies on the continent there, the people allowed to cut their money into halves and quarters for the sake of small traffick, v. 222. Why the Irish migrate thither, ibid, ix. 363. xviii. 353. The reasons urged for removing thither from Ireland ill founded, ix. 366.
Amplification. What; and the use of it in poetry, xvii. 22.
Amsterdam Gazette. The confidence of its writer, xvi. 305.
Amusement. Whose happiness it is, xvii. 387.
Anatomical figures. A collection of them recommended to Swift's patronage, xviii. 387.
Anglo-Latin. Specimens of, xvi. 366-371.
Anjou (duke of). At the beginning of the war maintained six and thirty thousand men out of the Spanish provinces he then possessed, iii. 418. See Partition Treaty, Spain.
Anne (queen). History of her four last Years, iv. i. Considerations on the Consequences of her Death, iv. 372. Modest Inquiry into the Report of it, xviii. 149. Remarks on the Characters of her Court, 218. Her conduct in the change of the ministry, iii. 4-10. Her right hereditary and indefeasible, as much as an act of parliament could make it, 24. Behaviour of the whigs toward her, 53. Began her reign with a noble benefaction to the church, 69. Her character, 89. iv. 280. Showed great prudence, firmness, and courage, in the change of the ministry, iii. 381. Put under the unreasonable obligation of being guarantee of the whole barrier treaty, 424. Influenced in every action by negligence or procrastination, iv. 280. When she began the change of ministry in 1708, she did not intend to carry it so far as the high church party hoped and expected, 374. A great mistress of royal reserve and delay; her jealousy frequently destroying the good effects of her friendship, 280. 332. 368. 375. Induced to change her ministry, more to preserve her power and prerogative, than through apprehension of danger to the church, 282. She and her ministry had no design of bringing in the pretender, 319. 349. Had a great personal regard for the lords Somers and Cowper, 321. An instance of her piety, xvi. 307. Degraded her dignity, in sending an humiliating embassy to the Czar, 333. Her speech to both houses of parliament, containing the foundation of the peace, iv. 195. Her circumstances much resembled those of Elizabeth, xviii. 157. A noble maxim of hers, xviii. 158. Her remark on a conversation with the duke of Marlborough, xiv. 308. Much governed by the whig ministry, 359; which made her very jealous of their successors, ibid. 370. Recommends to the parliament to take a method to prevent libels, &c. xv. 271. Her birthday celebrated with great splendour and luxury, 378. Tells the lords her reasons for parting with the lord treasurer Oxford, xi. 380. Account of her last illness, 386. Her death, 392. Reasons of the joy of some people on the report of it, xviii. 151. 167. Stocks rose on this report, and also at her real decease, 169. An inscription proposed for her tomb, ibid. Some observations respecting her, by Dr. Arbuthnot, xi. 412.
Annus Mirabilis, xvii. 84.
Anselm (a foreigner of great piety and learning). Promoted to the see of Canterbury by William Rufus, xvi. 14. His dispute with that king, on having made too small a present to him, 15. Anselm, tired out with perpetual usurpations, retired to Rome, ibid. All his revenues seized by the king, and Anselm remained in exile, ibid. Restored to his see by Henry the First, 30. His dispute with that king, on the right of investiture, 33; which was compromised by the pope, ibid. His death and character, 39.
Answers, difficulty of writing, ii. 29. What some people call answering a book or discourse, iii. 19.
Anthony (St.) The story of his pig, viii. 310.
Apollo outwitted, vii. 38. Apollo to the Dean, 173. Verses occasioned by, xviii. 422. Apollo's Edict occasioned by the foregoing, 425. Apollo, or a Problem solved, viii. 111.
Apologies. Those of the fathers, the most useful parts of their writings, iii. 162.
Arbitrary power. A greater evil than anarchy, ii. 366. The natural object of temptation to a prince, v. 460. Whether the tories or the whigs and fanaticks are the greatest friends to it, iii. 212.
Arbuthnot (Dr.) The author of Political Lying, and John Bull, xv. 341. His acquaintance with Swift commenced probably in 1711, i. 45. |xiv. 382. Some extempore verses made by him, xi. 344. Gives Dr. Swift a short account of a treasonable piece, called "A History of the last Invasion of Scotland," 358. His humorous censure of Whiston's project of the longitude, 367. His observations respecting the death of queen Anne, 412. Encomium on Dr. Swift, 413. His humorous remark respecting, miss Nelly Bennet, introduced by him to the French court, xii. 7. Mentions a droll incident or two on the publication of Gulliver's Travels, 210. One motive of his particular care to save Mr. Gay's life, 310. His prescription to Dr. Swift, for the cure of his fits of giddiness, 367. Writes a very humorous treatise on the altercation of the ancients, 380. His remark upon Curll the bookseller, xiii. 23. His freedom with the greatest persons, in defence of liberty, virtue, and religion, 25. Affecting and friendly letter, written in his illness, and some few months before his death, to Dr. Swift, 146. Account of his death, by Mr. Pulteney, 171. His character, xiv. 39. xv. 151.
Argyll (earl of). Returns out of Holland to invade Scotland, in support of the duke of Monmouth's pretensions to the crown, x. 365. Is deserted by his Highlanders, and flies, 366. Being taken prisoner, is sent to Edinburgh, and beheaded, 367.
Argyll (John Campbell, duke of). Zealously promoted the union, but remonstrated against the malt tax, iii. 300. His extraordinary answer to a question from the queen, iv 287. His character, xiv. 39. xviii. 236. A distinguisher of merit, xiv. 352. Tells Swift, his recommendation will have more weight with him than that of all the ministry together, 364. Married a niece of Duncomb the rich alderman, xv. 17.
Aristotle. His character, v. 172. vi. 227. xviii. 257. His opinion that man is the most mimick of all animals, how confirmed, xvii. 303. The greatest master of arguing in the world, xvi. 224. His poetry, rhetorick, and politicks, admirable, ibid. His foundation of happiness absurd, x. 142.
Arlington (Henry Bennet, earl of). His character, xvi. 348.
Army. The mention of standing armies in the midst of peace, and among a free people, amazed the king of Brobdingnag, vi. 147. The general contempt of religion in that of the English, ii. 402. The vice of drinking restored by the army, after having been almost dropped in England, 410. What commerce a general has with the civil power in a well instituted state, iii. 28. The armies of Greece and Rome, in the early times, composed of their citizens, who took no pay, 58. Two originals of the custom in Europe of keeping them in pay, 59. Reflections upon the behaviour of some officers in it, and their execrations of the new ministry, 64. Not blamable for preferring the whig to the tory ministry, 88. A standing army in England, either in war or peace, a publick absurdity, x. 305. The superiour valour of the British troops beyond those of any of the allies, iv. 217. How raised and paid in the feudal ages, xvi. 19.
Arran (earl of). His reply to archbishop Burnet, x. 375. Solicited by Dr. Swift to resign the claim made by the Ormond family to the rectorial tithes of Clonmel, xii. 324.
Arts. Professors in most of them deficient, in not explaining their meanings, v. 89. Whence derived to us, xvii. 72.
Ashburnham (lord). Married to lady Mary Butler, xiv. 237. Her death, with a short character of her, xv. 357.
Ashe (rev. Dillon). A hard drinker, xv. 17.
Ashe (St. George, bishop of Clogher). Specimen of his puns, xv. 402. His seat at the council-board preserved to him by Swift, xiv. 328.
Assemblies, publick. Their infirmities, follies, and vices, ii. 340.
Astrology. The abuse of it in this kingdom, v. 10. Partridge's apology for his own practice of it, 34.
Athanasian creed. On what occasion composed, x. 21.
Athenians. The rise and consequences of their dissensions, ii. 302. Not always too obstinate to correct an ill step, 306. Polybius's character of them, 311.
Atterbury (bishop). His character, v. 159. His conduct toward the earl of Oxford, xi. 408. Gives Dr. Swift his advice and opinion, for his conduct in the dispute between him and his chapter, 438. xix. 23. Rise and progress of his intimacy with Swift, xix. 14. Instance of his probity, and the occasion of his ruin, 19.
Attorney general. His opinion respecting writs of errour in a criminal case, xii. 470.
Attraction. The doctrine of, not founded on nature, vi. 239.
Augustus (king of Poland.) Dethroned by the king of Sweden, reassumes the crown, iii. 406. When he appeared mean, xvi. 333.
D'Aumont (duke). His house burned to the ground, with the various speculations thereupon, xv. 371. 373. Thought to have been done through malice, 373. 374.
Austria (house of). See Spain.
Authors. Should consult their genius rather than interest, if they cannot reconcile them, xii. 384. Composing godly books no recommendation to them in England, xiii. 3. The admired ones of the last age, viii. 266, 267.
Authors (modern). How far they have eclipsed the ancients, ii. 130. Illustrate the beauty of their own writings, when they would correct the ill nature of critical, or inform the ignorance of courteous readers, 134. They and their booksellers the two only satisfied parties in England, 179. To what the world is indebted for the number of them, 180. The different disposition of them in France and in England, xvii. 383. Curll's instructions to a porter, to find those employed by him, xvii. 332. Those employed by the whigs represent the sentiments of their party unfairly, iii. 199. An author should for a time suppress his works, according to the advice of Horace, viii. 243. A rule to discover the author of any book, v. 27.
Auxiliaries. England should have entered into the confederate war against France only as an auxiliary, iii. 340. 344.
Avarice. Description of it, vi. 309. Sir Richard Blackmore's definition of it, xvii. 339. The extremes of that passion more frequent and extravagant than of any other, iii. 117. The mischiefs of it multiply themselves in a publick station, 118. Distinguished into two kinds, one consistent with ambition, the other not, 119.
Avicen. His opinion of the effects of learning in those who are unfit to receive it, xvii. 316, 317.
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Bacon (lord). His observation on the use of royal prerogative, ix. 81. When convicted of bribery, made a despicable figure, xvi. 33.
Balance of power. To be carefully held by every state, ii. 293. How to preserve it in a mixed state, ibid. Methods taken to destroy it in most ages and countries, 300. What the consequences which ensue upon its being broken, 326. That state might be immortal, in which it could be always held exactly even, 336. How it has been affected in England at different times since the Norman conquest, 337. The absolute necessity of it in a limited state instanced in the conduct of Cromwell. 340. Verses on the balance of Europe, xvii. 431. Balance of Europe more endangered by the emperor's overrunning Italy, than by France overrunning the empire, iii. 314.
Balnibarbi. The country and its metropolis described, vi. 201.
Bank. Humorous proposal for establishing a Swearers Bank, ix. 383.
Bankers. Verses on the run upon them in the year 1720, vii. 177. A necessary evil in a trading country, ix. 206. To hang up half a dozen yearly in Ireland, would be an advantage to it, ibid.
Banter. Whence the word borrowed, ii. 38.
Barber (Mrs). A letter supposed to be written by Dr. Swift, to the queen on her behalf, xii. 401. The dean's invitation to a party of friends to meet to correct her poems, xviii. 450. Her history and character, xii. 410. xiii. 85. 301. xix. 130.
Barber (Mr. John, lord mayor of London). Acknowledges his great obligations to Dr. Swift, and at his request makes Mr. Pilkington his chaplain, xii. 494. Sends an original picture of the dean to the university of Oxford, xiii. 425. Some account of him, xviii. 348.
Barrier Treaty. The difficulties it occasioned retarded the demolition of Dunkirk, iii. 313. When concluded, 359. The Dutch appointed by it guarantees of the protestant succession, and rewarded for accepting that honour, ibid. Signed by only one of the plenipotentiaries, 362. The first project of it, 413. The article for the demolition of Dunkirk struck by the Dutch out of the counterproject of it made in London, 416. Only two of the twenty-one articles have any relation to England, 417. The meaning of the word barrier, as understood by the Dutch, ibid. The towns given them as a barrier imposed more on the English than when under the king of Spain, 421. The queen unreasonably made guarantee of the whole of it, 424. The treaty itself, 430. The two separate articles, 441. 443. Articles of the counterproject struck out or altered by the Dutch, 445. The sentiments of prince Eugene and count Zinzendorf relating to it, 420. 450-454. Representations of the English merchants at Bruges relating to it, 454. See Townshend.
Barebone (Dr). His scheme for building, ix. 393.
Bathurst (earl). His letter to Dr. Swift, alluding to a proposal for providing for the Irish poor, xii. 331. His speech about the pension bill greatly applauded, 340. Rallies Dr. Swift humorously upon his writings, as borrowed or stolen, 348; and satirically the writers of the last and present age, 349. More in the same strain, upon the doctor's way of living, recommending temperance and frugality to him, 393. His remark on corporations, physicians, and lawyers, xiii. 45. Rallies Dr. Swift upon the course of employment he was fallen into, 47. His opinion of the state of England, 371. xii. 333. Conduct toward his tenants, xiii. 372. Reflections on the death of queen Caroline, ibid. Comparison of Mr. Pope, 373. His fine wood at Oakley described, 92. His friendly indignation on seeing an article in the newspapers of a gun being fired at Dr. Swift, 222; whence he takes occasion to expatiate on the extensiveness of our author's fame, ibid.
Baucis and Philemon. A poem, vii. 47.
Beach (Thomas). Account of him, xiii. 180.
Beau. Character of one, xviii. 463.
Beaumont (Joseph). Some account of him, xiv. 193. xv. 65. Invented mathematical sleaing tables of great use in the linen manufactury, 198.
Beggars. Dublin more infested with them since the poor-house there than before, ix. 415. The only objection to the proposal of giving them badges answered, 416. Have generally a vagabond spirit, that ought to be punished, 425.
Beggar's Opera. Its merits and success, v. 209. xii. 262. 274. 276. Disapproved of by sir Charles Wogan, xii. 436. 440. Reasons why the second part should not be printed before it is acted, xviii. 263. A sermon preached against it by Dr. Herring, v. 214. xii. 283. Rehearsal of the second part of it stopped, by order from the lord chamberlain, xii. 294.
Belief. Not an object of compulsion, x. 166.
Bentley. According to Mr. Boyle, not famous for civility, ii. 217, note. A character of him, in the person of Scaliger, 240.
Berkeley (Charles, earl of). His epitaph, xviii. 421. Rough draught of it, xi. 131. His letter to Dr. Swift, xviii. 249. The dean (who had been formerly his chaplain) invited to attend him in his last illness, at Berkeley Castle; but could not go, xiv. 204. The earl died of a dropsy, 215. Character of his son, xiv. 356.
Berkeley (James, earl of). Married lady Louisa Lenox the duke of Richmond's daughter, xiv. 335, 336. 356.
Berkeley (Mr. Monck). Extracts from his Life of Swift, xix. 214.
Berkeley (Dr. George, bishop of Cloyne). An account of him, and his plan for erecting a university at Bermudas, xii. 103. 125. The dean the first cause of his promotion, i. 124. xv. 420.
Bettesworth (Mr). Verses on him, viii. 161. The steps he took to revenge himself on the dean, and the resolution of the inhabitants of St. Patrick's to protect him, i. 418. xiii. 109. 114. Origin of the verses, viii. 375. 378. His Exultation on hearing his name would be transmitted to Posterity in the Dean's Works, xviii. 451.
Bible. The excellence of the English translation of it, v. 76. The arguments of objectors against it summarily answered, x. 181.
Bickerstaff (Isaac, Esq). His Predictions for the Year 1708, v. 10. Answer to his Predictions, 24. Accomplishment of the first of his Predictions. 31. Mr. Partridge's Detection of them, 37. Vindication of him, 47. His predictions actually burnt in Portugal, by order of the Inquisition, 48. His origin, xviii. 209. Whence the dean first assumed the name, v. 10.
Bindon (Mr). A celebrated painter and architect, xviii. 392.
Birth. The advantages of it, iii. 118.
Bishops. Arguments against enlarging their Power in letting Leases, v. 267. How elected in the middle ages, xvi. 34. Those of Ossory and Killaloe empowered to solicit the affair of the first fruits, &c; in Ireland, xi. 82. Mr. Pulteney's remark on their political unity, xiii. 171. Wherein their office consists, ix. 244. Bill passed the Irish house of lords, empowering them to oblige the country clergy to build a house upon what part of the glebe they should command, 246. Another, relating to the division of parishes into as many parcels as the bishop should think fit, 247. Bishops sent from England, a great disadvantage and discouragement to the Irish, xii. 149. The worst solicitors in the world, except in their own concerns, and why, xi. 95. Two of them in Ireland received money for their labour in negotiating the remittal of the first fruits, who did nothing; while Swift, who effected it, could not receive thanks, 450.
Bishops (and other ecclesiastical corporations). Prohibited from setting their land for a term above twenty-one years, v. 270.
Bite. A new fashioned way of being witty, and the constant amusement at court, and among great people, xi. 12.
Blackmore (sir Richard). His definition of avarice, xvii. 339. A proficient in the low sublime, viii. 177. Verses to be placed under his picture, xvii. 465.
Blacksmiths. Their petition to the lord mayor and aldermen of London against certain virtuosi, xvii. 297.
Blount (Mrs. Martha). Verses on her birthday, xvii, 425. Her constancy in friendship mentioned with honour by Mr. Pope, xiii. 406.
Blunt (sir John). His account of the funds from 1707 to 1710, iv. 115.
Bolingbroke. See St. John.
Bolton (archbishop of Cashell). His character, xiv. 242. When chancellor of St. Patrick's took every opportunity of opposing Swift, xi. 477, xii. 82; and when made a bishop left Swift embroiled for want of him, ibid. A maxim he learned from politicians, xiii. 179.
Books. Like men, have only one way of coming into the world, but many of going out of it, ii. 54. The same book may as well be christened with different names as other infants of quality, 84. Mr. Dryden gave his a multiplicity of godfathers, 85. The most accomplished way of using them in this age, 148. The turn they give to our thoughts and way of reasoning, v. 103. A wrong method and ill choice of them makes women the worse for what they have read, 142. A book may be read with pleasure, though the author detested, x. 243. To know from what quarter some books come, a good way toward their confutation, xvi. 182. Little encouragement for publishing books in Ireland, xii. 439. Composing godly books no recommendation in England, xiii. 3.
Boots (torturing). When and how used, x. 384.
Bothmar (M. envoy from the elector of Hanover). His memorial, published by the connivance of his master, iv. 50. A stratagem used by M. Bothmar to make it appear authentick, 51. Deceived his master by false representations, 213.
Bothwell bridge. The action there between the king's forces under the duke of Monmouth, and the rebels, ii. 340-44.
Boucher (a famous gamester). When worth 50000l., dunned the duke of Buckingham (to whom he had been footman) for wages, xvi. 145.
Boufflers (Mons). A fanfaronnade of his, iv. 381.
Bourignon (madam). Her opinion respecting man at his first creation, xvii. 86.
Bouts Rimés. On Signora Domitilla, xviii. 445. Origin of their invention, ibid. Finely ridiculed by Sarasin, ibid.
Boyer (Abel). Remarks on his Political State of Great Britain, iii. 228. Taken up for his abuse, xv. 156. xviii. 21.
Brain. Of what composed, ii. 263. If of a contexture not fit to receive learning, how affected upon being mixed with it, according to Avicen, xvii. 316, 317.
Brasiers. Their petition against certain virtuosi, xvii. 297.
Brief. The representation of the clergy of Dublin, against the archbishop's command concerning one, xvi. 267. Clergy and churchwardens cannot be legally commanded to go from house to house to collect for it, 269.
Bristol. Some few vessels fitted out there by private adventurers took one of the Aquapulco ships, iii. 354.
Britain. The purchase of the whole island, if it were to be sold, iii. 394. The Britons embraced Christianity very early, xvi. 6. Their original language, ibid.
British Apollo. Some account of that paper, xviii. 43.
Brobdingnag. Voyage to, vi. 83. Described, 119. The king of it discourses with Gulliver upon the political state of England, 142. The learning of its inhabitants, 153. Their style and manner of writing, 155.
Brotherly love. No duty more incumbent upon those who profess the Gospel than it, x. 56. The several causes of the want of it, and the consequences of such want, 56-63. Motives and exhortations to embrace and continue in it, 63-66.
Brutes. Why incapable of carrying on war against their own species, ii. 283.
La Bruyere. Introduces new terms not to be found before his time, v. 68.
Brydges (James, duke of Chandos). Verses on him, viii. 205. Pope's character of Timon drawn for him, xii. 455. Swift applied to him for some ancient Irish records in his possession, xiii. 139. 150. His marriage, 256. Coolness between him and Swift from the time of his being made a duke, 207. viii. 205.
Bubble. Origin of the term, xvii, 341. Essay on English Bubbles, viii. 433.
Building. Dr. Barebone's scheme for, ix. 393.
Bull. An Irish one, xiii. 40.
Bunyan (John). His dream improved on, ii. 287.
Burgundy (the great duke of). In his youth hated the thoughts of war, but after gaining one battle loved nothing else, xviii. 98.
Burlington (Richard Boyle, earl of). Sold, in one article, 9000l. a year in Ireland, for 200000l., xiii. 387.
Burnet (bishop). Copied by Steele, iii. 284. iv. 380. Said to have been author of the project for the government's borrowing money upon funds bearing interest, iii. 337. iv. 111. Used little arts, to get off his third volume of the History of the Reformation, iv. 382. Denied access to the Cotton library, 384. Published a book, which carries the prerogative higher than any writer of the age, 385. What were his inducements to undertake it, 386. Frightens the nation with the old topick of fire and faggot, 388; the clergy with the apprehension of losing their wives or their livings, ibid; and the laity with the resumption of abbey lands, 390. Appealed to whether sacrilege or fornication be the greater sin, 392. Changes his mind with respect to the expediency of bishops letting leases for lives, 395. 396. His character of the clergy, 396. His contemptuous opinion of convocations, 398. Rails at the clergy; himself, being a bishop, not in the number of them, 399. Smells popery better at a great distance, than fanaticism under his nose, 404. Unjustly accuses Mr. Lesley of impudence, for proposing a union between the English and Gallican churches, 411. Hated by all the clergy, 413. The world has contracted a habit of believing him backward, 414. Advice to him upon certain points, 415-418. The obscure meaning of the words beggarly elements, as applied by him, v. 339. In the Preface to his History of his own Times, promises to polish that work every day of his life, viii. 251. His speech against a tacking bill, a proof that he was for it, xvi. 223. In the History of his own Times, misrepresents the action at Bothwell bridge, and the behaviour of the episcopal clergy in Scotland, x. 349. A short character of that history, 308. And of its author, iv. 19. x. 308. xviii. 232. His style rough, full of improprieties and mean expressions, x. 308. His own opinion of it, from a castrated passage in his original MS. ibid. His idle story of the pretender's birth fit only for an old woman, 309. His characters miserably wrought, frequently mistaken, and all of them detracting, except of those who were friends to the Presbyterians, ibid. Many of them however were stricken out with his own hand; but left legible in the MS. which the editor promised to deposit in the Cotton library, but did not perform, ibid. His account of the murder of the bishop of St. Andrews, 334. His character of general Dalziel, 361. His narrative of king James's abdication, 374. Of the prince of Orange's arrival, ibid. 375. Earl of Arran's sarcastick reply to him, 375. Some private conversation of his with Swift, iv. 394.
Business. Minding that of other people the greatest mark of idleness, xiii. 47.
Bussy Rabutin (count). When he appeared contemptible, xvi. 334.
Buys (the Dutch envoy). His politicks and manners were much of a size, x. 217. His character, iv. 49. An artful negotiator, 95. Present at all the consultations of the whig party, 166. Appointed plenipotentiary by the States, 175. Remarks on his conduct while in England, 176.
C.
Cæsar (Charles, esq). Some account of his family, xiii. 77. Swift's Letters to Mrs. Cæsar, ibid. 79.
Cæsar (Julius). The cause of the civil war between him and Pompey, ii. 323. Invaded England, rather to increase his glory than his conquests, xvi. 4. When he appeared contemptible, xvi. 334. His degree of fame, v. 172. Why opposed by Cato and Brutus, xviii. 132. Wrote his commentaries amid hurry and fatigue, xi. 192.
Cameron (sir Owen). Knighted by king James II, in a manner which did him particular honour, x. 365.
Candles. The various ways of extinguishing them used by servants, xvi. 111. And of snuffing them, 138.
Canting. The art of it in greatest perfection when managed by ignorance, ii. 265. Its first ingredient a competent share of inward light, ibid. The art of it, as performed by snuffling, first appeared upon the decay and discouragement of bagpipes, 267. The occasion or accident which produced it, ibid.
Cardonell (Mr). Expelled the house of commons, for receiving bribes from the contractors for bread, iv. 110.
Cards. Why contribute little to the refinement of conversation, viii. 263.
Caroline (queen). A princess of great virtue, xii. 223. Swift keeps up his privilege of not going to her, when queen, till sent for, 249. 363. His speech to her after she had sent for him, xiii. 17. Promised a medal to the dean, which he never got, viii. 128. xii. 363. Yet she received from Swift a present, of silk, worth thirty-five pounds, xii. 343. A counterfeit letter to her majesty, in favour of Mrs. Barber, 401. To what her death was owing, xiii. 369. In her last illness, forgave her son, but refused to see him, 370.
Carte (Mr. Thomas). His historical pursuits, xiii. 293.
Carteret (lord). A character of him, ix. 87. 220. Epistle to him in verse, by Dr. Delany, vii. 428. Epistle on the foregoing, 432. His lady's goodness and beauty, xii. 341. Forced to consent to the proclamation against his old friend the Drapier, the first or second night after his arrival in Ireland, xiii. 122. viii. 133. His repartee on the occasion, i. 238. A remark on him by Dr. Swift, xiii. 323. His answer to those who asked him how he governed Ireland, 331. In what respect he acted a more popular part in the government of that kingdom than the duke of Dorset, 194.
Carthaginians. The cause of their decline, ii. 319.
Carthy (a scribbling schoolmaster). Verses on his threatening to translate Pindar, xviii. 440. Epigram on him and Delacourt, 441.
Case (John). The astrologer, v. 32, note.
Castledurrow (lord). Some verses addressed by him to an old woman, xiii. 309.
Casuists. Several of their explanations may be called amendments to the ten commandments, xvii. 386.
Catalonians. The case of that people discussed, iii. 316.
Catholicks. True whigs, in the best and most proper sense of the word, v. 334. Have as fair a title to the name of protestants as any of the dissenters, 335. In the great rebellion, more of them in the parliament army than the king's; and many jesuits and friars, disguised like presbyterian ministers, preached up rebellion; yet the bulk of them loyal, ibid. Their insurrections in Ireland were only to preserve the old religion, not to introduce a new one, 337. Were employed in offices civil and military till the test act under Charles II, 339. Have a better plea for not changing their religion than the dissenters, 340; and may as justly complain of persecution, 341. The heads of them invited over the duke of Lorrain during the usurpation, 345. Commended for it by the dissenters, 346. Advantages of their system, xix. 116.
Cato the prætor (called Uticensis). One of the six greatest men in the world, vi. 227. Though he was called a stoick, it was more from a resemblance of his manners with their worst qualities, than that he avowed himself one of their disciples, x. 146. Some particulars of his character, v. 173. xvi. 332. His conduct commended, xviii. 132.
Causes. The most different produce the same effect; exemplified in the formation of clouds, ii. 162. Small ones suffice to make us uneasy, when great ones are not in the way, v. 463. Great events from little ones, iv. 359.
Censors. Of what use it might be to religion, to introduce a like office here, ii. 407.
Censure. How a man may revenge himself of it, v. 457. Is a tax paid to the publick, for being eminent, 459. Verses on it, vii. 370.
Chamberlaine (Dr). His "Present State," recommended as a proper book to be translated into Dutch, xvi. 304.
Chancery-suit. Has ruined a man, though decided for him with costs, vi. 145. A suit for life, xvi. 155.
Chandos duke of). See Brydges.
Character of The Earl of Abingdon, xviii. 227.
Mr. Addison, viii. 3.
Dr. Aglionby, xviii. 234.
Queen Anne, iii. 89. iv. 280.
Dr. Arbuthnot, xiv. 39.
Duke of Argyll, xiv. 39. xviii. 236.
Aristides, ii. 306.
Aristotle, v. 172. vi. 227. xviii. 236.
Earl of Arlington, xvi. 348.
Mr. Ashe, xvi. 245.
Bishop Atterbury, v. 159.
Lord Aylmer, xviii. 236.
Mrs. Barber, xiii. 301.
Dr. Bentley, ii. 240.
Earl of Berkeley, xviii. 228.
Sir Lambert Blackwell, xviii. 234.
Lord Bolingbroke, iii. 116. iv. 310. 334. xv. 176.
Duke of Bolton, xviii. 221.
Mr. Boyle, xviii. 230.
Duke of Buckingham, iii. 115. xviii. 220.
Bishop Burnet, iv. 19. x. 308. xviii. 232.
Lord Butler of Weston, xviii. 230.
Mons. Buys, iv. 49.
Admiral Byng, xviii. 236.
Mr. Carstairs, xviii. 238.
Lord Carteret, ix. 87. 220.
Lady Carteret, xii. 341.
Cato of Utica, v. 173. xvi. 332.
Lord Chandos, xviii. 229.
Earl of Chesterfield, xviii. 227.
Lord Cholmondeley, xviii. 229.
Jaques Clement, iii. 156.
Congreve, xiv. 87.
Lord chancellor Cowper, iv. 33.
Crassus, iii. 121.
Captain Creichton, x. 315.
Oliver Cromwell, ii. 284.
Lord Cutts, xviii. 235.
General Dalziel, x. 361.
Earl of Dartmouth, iii 116. xviii. 226.
Dr. Davenant, xviii. 231.
Dr. Delany, ix. 235. xiv. 118.
Earl of Derby, xviii. 224.
Duke of Devonshire, xviii. 220.
Earl of Dorset, xviii. 223.
Queen Elizabeth, ii. 280.
Earl of Feversham, xviii. 228.
Andrew Fletcher, xviii. 239.
Humphry French, lord mayor of Dublin, ix. 406.
Lord Gallway, xviii. 235.
Earl of Godolphin, iv. 30. 122. xvi. 345.
Duke of Grafton, xviii. 221.
Earl of Grantham, xviii. 228.
Gregg, iii. 157.
Lord Grey of Werk, xviii. 229.
Lord Griffin, xviii. 229.
Abbe Gualtier, iv. 65.
Lord Guilford, xviii. 229.
Guiscard, iii. 157. 161. xviii. 6.
Earl of Halifax, iv. 307 [Pericles], vii. 2. xviii. 222.
Duke Hamilton, xviii. 236.
Lord keeper Harcourt, iii. 114.
Mr. Harley (afterward Rob. earl of Oxford), i. 166, iii. 115. 159. iv. 118. 311. 334. xiii. 131. xviii. 230.
General sir Charles Haro, xviii. 236.
Marquis of Hartington, xviii. 222.
King Henry VIII, ii. 279. iv. 401. xvi. 239.
Mr. Hill, envoy to the duke Savoy, xviii. 234.
Mrs. Howard, x. 235.
King James I, ii. 281.
King James II, ii. 284.
Secretary Johnstoun, xviii. 238.
Earl of Kent, xviii. 227.
Archbishop King, iv. 422.
Robert and Henry Lesley, viii. 60.
Lord Lexington, xviii. 228.
Earl of Lindsay, xviii. 227.
Dr. Lloyd, v. 355.
Lord Lucas, xviii. 225.
General McCoy, x. 386.
Lord Mahon, xviii. 227.
Mr. Mansel, xviii. 230.
Duke of Marlborough, iv. 29. xvii. 143. xviii. 218.
His duchess, iv. 30. xviii. 288.
Earl of Marr, xviii. 239.
Primate Marsh, x. 239.
Mrs. Masham, iii. 54. iv. 336.
Mr. Methuen, xviii, 233.
Earl of Middleton, xviii. 239.
Duke of Montagu, xviii. 222.
Marquis of Montrose, xviii. 237.
Duke of Newcastle, xviii. 221.
Duke of Northumberland, xviii. 221.
Earl of Nottingham, iv. 34. 40. xi. 255. xviii. 220.
Edward earl of Orford, ii. 306 [Themistocles].
Duke of Ormond, iv. 201. 308. xviii. 219.
Earl of Orkney, xviii. 235.
Earl of Peterborow, vii. 35. xiv. 26. xviii. 224.
Mr. Pope, vii. 3.
Earl of Portland, ii. 309 [Phocion], xviii. 223.
Lord Poulet of Hinton, xviii. 226.
Mr. Prior, xviii. 232.
Lord Raby, xviii. 233.
Earl of Ranelagh, xi. 210. xviii. 225.
Duke of Richmond, xviii. 221.
Earl Rivers, xviii. 223.
Earl of Rochester, iii. 114. 221.
Earl of Romney, xviii. 220.
Mr. Rooke, x. 213.
Earl of Sandwich, xviii. 225.
Lord chief justice Scroggs, viii. 137.
Dr. Sheridan, i. 367. ix. 232. xix. 238.
Duke of Shrewsbury, iii. 115. xi. 217. xviii. 219.
His duchess, xi. 210.
Mr. Shute, xi. 46.
Mr. Smith, xviii. 231.
Lord Somers, ii. 306 [Aristides]. iv. 26. xiv. 236. xviii. 222.
Duke of Somerset, iv. 37. xviii. 219.
His duchess, iv. 353. xi. 173.
Earl of Stamford, xviii. 224.
Stella (Mrs. Johnson), x. 222.
Mr. George Stepney, xviii. 233.
Mr. Stopford, ix. 235.
Earl of Sunderland, iv. 31. xviii. 224.
Earl of Sutherland, xviii. 238.
Archbishop Tenison, xviii. 232.
Earl of Thanet, xviii. 225.
Marquis de Torcy, iv. 236.
Lord Townshend, xviii. 226.
Lord chief justice Tresilian, viii. 137.
Vanessa, i. 296. 320. See Vanhomrigh.
Sir Robert Walpole, iv. 107. x. 270.
Lord de la Warr, xviii. 228.
Earl of Weems, xviii. 240.
Earl of Wharton, iii. 14. iv. 32, v. 348. xviii. 226.
Earl of Winchelsea, xviii. 225.
Sir Charles Wogan, xii. 436.
Sir Nathan Wrighte, xviii. 222.
Charity. Why publick charities are preferable to private, xiii. 5.
Charles the First (king of England). A great patron of learning, v. 69. In the former part of his reign, many of the bishops and clergy were puritans, 293. Origin of his misfortunes, xix. 105. Began to be ruined in a legal way, and why, xvi. 231. Conversation at the highest period of politeness in the peaceable part of his reign, v. 237. His attempting religious innovations in Scotland, a material cause of his subsequent troubles, ii. 281. 282. Sermon on his martyrdom, x. 67. The foundation of the troubles in his reign, 68. By his own concessions, brings on his destruction, 71. The English parliament held his hands, while the Irish papists were cutting his friends throats, 73. The ill consequences of that rebellion in Ireland, ibid. The uses which the memory of January 30 suggests to us, 75; and the reasons why it should not be dropped, 78. When he appeared great, xvi. 331. When the contrary, 334.
Charles the Second (king of England). His severity to the dissenting clergy, ii. 199. The Socinians began to spread in England toward the end of his reign, very absurdly reckoned our Augustan age, x. 243. When he made a contemptible figure, xvi. 333. A plot against him defeated, xviii. 96. His life saved at the battle of Worcester by colonel Wogan, xix. 99. Difficulties of his situation, 107.
Charles V, (emperor) said, if he were to speak to his horse, it should be in High Dutch, vi. 273. When he appeared contemptible, xvi. 333. His present to Aretine, v. 192.
Charles (the archduke, titular king of Spain, by the style of Charles III, and afterward emperor). Visited the queen at Windsor, xi. 17.
Chartres (colonel). His character drawn in a play, xiii. 375.
Chedder. A chedder letter, what, xiii. 202.
Chesterfield (Philip Dormer, earl of). The dean applies to him in behalf of a friend, xii. 357. Swift's reply to his lordship's answer, 377. Points out an original poem of Dr. Swift's, viii. 201. Witticism of his respecting George II, xiii. 313. Supposed to have assisted in a Letter to the People of Ireland, in the name of the Drapier, xix. 196.
Chester (Ralph de Gernoniis, earl of). Struck to the ground by king Stephen, with a battle axe, xvi. 72. Injuriously imprisoned by that king, 81.
Chetwood (Knightly). Presented several memorials for a peerage, to which he had good pretensions, without success, xix. 34.
Chinese. Books in their language above two thousand years old, v. 69. Their singular method of rewarding national services, 467.
Cholmondeley (earl of). At the general change in 1710, continued lord treasurer of the household, iv. 23. Which gave much displeasure to Mr. Harley's friends, 300. Removed from his employment for speaking against the peace at a council, xv. 417.
Choqued. Remarks on the word, v. 450.
Christianity. Why the offering to restore it as used in primitive times would be a wild project, ii. 383. Objections made against the system of it stated and answered, 384. The errour of attempting to explain the mysteries of it, v. 104. Will decline in proportion as brotherly love doth, x. 59. Christ's divinity not at first proposed as an article of faith, x. 167.
Christians. Whence the first dissensions between them, x. 55.
Chronology. Precarious, xii. 419.
Church. Funerals the only method of carrying some people to it, xvii. 296. The meaning of the vote in parliament against those who should affirm that the church was in danger, iii. 22. The whigs, to show their zeal for it, made it a creature of the state, 78. Providence can make even a bad man instrumental to the service of it, 134. Remarks on the pious design of building fifty new churches in London and Westminster, 229. Which owed its origin to a hint of Dr. Swift, ii. 425. They should be repaired or rebuilt at the publick expense, not by charitable collections, iii. 235. Church of England the only body of Christians that disqualifies its teachers from sharing in the civil power farther than as senators, v. 321. Churches dormitories, as well as church yards, x. 242. Church of England no creature of the civil power, either as to its policy or doctrine, and why, xvi. 196. The church interests in the Irish house of lords materially hurt, by Mr. Harley's keeping four bishopricks a long time vacant, iv. 318. 343.
Church lands. Alienated by many popish bishops at the time of the reformation, and by protestant bishops since, v. 270. A law to prohibit letting them for a longer term than twenty-one years, ibid. Supposed in England a third of the whole kingdom, xvi. 241.
Church of England. Characterised, xvii. 186.
Cibber (Mr. Colley). His success in birthday odes, viii. 175. In the low sublime, inferiour to Welsted, 178. His testimony of loyalty founded on politeness, 270.
Cicero. On what he laid the stress of his oratory, v. 93. Greatly excelled by Demosthenes as an orator, 94. His letters to Atticus give a better account of those times than is to be found in any other writer, xvi. 353. When he appeared great, xvi. 330. Abstract of his speech against Verres, iii. 38. Excellent maxim of his, xiii. 312.
Cincinnatus. When he appeared great, xvi. 331.
Civet, western, ii. 165, note.
Civility. The inconveincncies it lays us under, when not accompanied with common discretion, v. 185. Forms of it, intended to regulate the conduct of those who have weak understandings, x. 215.
Clancy (Dr. Michael). Some account of him, xiii. 375-377. Studied physick; but, losing his sight, kept a Latin school for his support, xiii. 376. Wrote a comedy, called The Sharper; the principal character of which was designed to represent colonel Chartres, 375. Swift's friendly present to Dr. Clancy, ibid. Acknowledged, 377.
Clarendon (Edward Hyde, the first earl of). His character, though once much misrepresented, a pattern for all ministers, iv. 19. Strictures on him, xix. 91.
Clement, Jaques. His character, iii. 156.
Clement VII, (pope). When he made a mean figure, xvi. 334.
Clergy. Considerations upon two Bills relating to them, ix. 243. Concerning the universal hatred which prevails against them, xvi. 239. On the Bill for their Residing, xix. 172.
Clergy. How they first grew into power, xvi. 42. The opposition made to the usurpation of king James II, proceeded chiefly from those of the church of England, ii. 358; and see iv. 389. By a mistaken conduct, they do less service to religon and virtue than they otherwise might, ii. 412. The general disposition of the people toward them in Ireland, iv. 432. Too liberal of hard words in their sermons, and modern terms of art, v. 88. Blamable for perpetually reading their sermons, 96. Should not attempt explaining the mysteries of the Christian religion, 104. Ireland would be a paradise of them, if they were in most credit where ignorance prevails, 109. Discretion the most serviceable talent to them, 113. Levity the last crime the world will pardon in them, ibid. Characters of two, 116. 119. Their deficiency of action, 158. Those of the church of England made the principal stand against the invasion of our rights before the revolution, iii. 67. The base treatment they have received, 68. Maintaining them by subscriptions an indignity to their character, 70. The queen's favour alleged by the author of The Crisis to be only a colour of zeal toward them, 285. Exhorted by Mr. Steele to inflame the people with apprehensions of a popish successor, yet blamed by the whigs for concerning themselves with politicks of any sort, 285, 286. Bishop Burnet's character of the English clergy, iv. 397, particularly of the tory clergy, 407. Of their livings several hundred under twenty pounds a year, and many under ten, 392. Three parts in four of the church revenues taken from the clergy, v. 269. Are not only taxed in common with their fellow subjects, but have peculiar impositions, x. 255. 258. 259. The greatest part of them throughout Ireland stripped of their glebes, 255. In general, receive little more than half of their legal dues there, 257. How injured by the practice of claiming a modus in many parishes in both kingdoms, ibid. By the original constitution of these kingdoms, had the sole right of taxing themselves, 264. Their maintenance in Ireland precarious, though their office laborious, ix. 244. Acted with little concert in a point wherein their opinions appeared to be unanimous, ix. 246. The hardships they are subjected to by their bishops, ibid. The clergy in Ireland about six hundred, 248. Think themselves well treated if they lose only one third of their legal demands, 249. Their condition of life much more comfortable in England than in Ireland, 251. Less culpable on account of non residence in Ireland than in England, 255. Several young clergymen have the vanity to correct the style of their prayer books in reading the shurch service, v. 198. Hardly a gentleman in Ireland who has not a near alliance with some of them, xii. 149. The union of divinity and humanity being the great article of religion, their writings should not be devoid of the latter, x. 243. Should, in their sermons, not so much endeavour to move the passions, as to work upon faith and reason, 129. What power they have, independant of the state, xvi. 194. The great council of the nation anciently was often entirely of them, and ever a considerable part, 204. Their right to tithes an older title than any man's estate has, 212. The more justice and piety the people have, the better it is for them, 221. Those of the church of England have carried practical preaching and writing to the greatest perfection it ever arrived at, 223. Clergy no where beloved where Christianity was the religion of the country, x. 168. The French clergy offered their consecrated plate, toward carrying on the war against the allies, iv. 63. When fairly dealt with, the increase of their income a publick benefit, xiii. 375. A deer stealer by turning informer and hanging his companions gets a good living, xix. 37.
Clergy of England. The whole body of them violent for the bill against occasional conformity, xi. 11.
Clergy of Ireland. Their livings very small, and of uncertain value, through the number of their impropriations, xi. 92. Twentieth parts payable by them, wherein they consist, 93. Several pay yearly to the crown a third part, sometimes half, of the real value of their living, ibid. Archbishop Tillotson's observation respecting them, 306.
Clonmel. Tithes of that parish, one of the largest and poorest in Ireland, claimed by the Ormond family, though granted, by king Charles II, to the church, with the consent of the first duke of Ormond, xii. 324.
Closetting. When the projecting of it began, v. 299.
Coghil (Dr. Marmaduke). Anecdote of him, xv. 81.
Coin. Should record great events, v. 468. The scheme approved by lord Oxford, xv. 369. Most histories abound in relating the tragical effects of the abuses of it, ix. 171. See Halfpence, Ireland, Money, Wood.
Cokaine (sir Thomas, in the reign of Philip and Mary, the best housekeeper of his quality, in the county of Derby). His yearly expense of housekeeping and servants wages, v. 275.
Coke (Mr. Thomas, vice chamberlain to queen Anne). His lenity to a person who pretended to sell that office, xviii. 112.
College (Mrs). Daughter of a fanatick joiner, who was hanged for treason in Shaftesbury's plot, xv. 49.
Collins (Anthony). His curious library, vii. 388.
Colonies. The usual manner of planting them in countries newly discovered, vi. 353. The wisdom, care, and justice, of the British nation herein, 354. One hundred thousand pounds granted to those of Nevis and St. Christophers, as a recompense for their sufferings, iii. 245.
Comet. Mr. Whiston's prediction of the approaching dissolution of the world by means of one, xvii. 359.
Comines (Philip de). A curious anecdote cited from him, xviii. 98.
Common law. By whom first introduced, xvi. 8.
Commonplace books. The proper use of them, v. 102.
Commonwealth. When the two parties that divide it come to a rupture without hopes of forming a third to balance them, it seems every man's duty to adhere to one of them, though he cannot entirely approve of either, ii. 348. Why, in all those which are well instituted, men's possessions are limited, v. 456. Nothing more dangerous to it than a numerous nobility without merit or fortune, v. 132.
Company. The importance of a proper choice of it to women, v. 136. The difference between what is called ordinary and good, xvii. 380.
Compton (Mr. Spencer). Instructed king George II, in the language, customs, &c. of this country, x. 272.
Conduct of the Allies, iii. 327. Three discourses written against it, 426. Second, third, and fourth editions of it stopped by the author some time, that he might be informed of any mistakes in it, 428. It's great sale, xv. 249. Appendix to it, xvi. 304.
Confidence. There is a degree of it due to all stations, iv. 261.
Conformity, occasional. Bill against it rejected by a great majority of the lords, among whom were all the bishops, x. 11. Whole body of the clergy, with a great majority of the commons, violent for it, ibid. The court and rabble trimmers in the case, ibid. Sentiments of the lords Peterborow, Somers, and bishop of Salisbury, respecting it, 12. The bill written against by Dr. Swift, 16. How carried at last, xvii. 225.
Congreve. His character, vii. 2. xiv. 87. 241. A Tatler written by him, 355. Preserved in his employment by Swift, though of a contrary party, iv. 18. xv. 71. 82. Ode to him, xviii. 407.
Conscience. Why compared to a pair of breeches, ii. 90. What the word properly signifies, x. 43. Great evils occasioned by the wrong use of it as our director and guide, 44. What is, properly speaking, liberty of conscience, 45. When guided by religion, it is the only solid, firm foundation, for virtue, 46. Dr. Swift's sentiments on liberty of conscience, 168. Oliver Cromwell's, 169.
Constitution. The subversion of it in the Roman state, to what measures owing, ii. 326. Living upon expedients will in time destroy any, iii. 399. The knowledge of our constitution can only be attained by consulting the earliest English histories, xvi. 203. Our present constitution not fairly to be traced beyond Henry I, 204.
Controversy. A body of it with the papists, published by the London divines, not to be matched in the world, iv. 408. Pastors have more occasion for the study of it against freethinkers and dissenters than against papists, ibid.
Convents. The great wisdom of instituting them, ii. 393.
Conversation. Hints toward an Essay on, v. 227. Complete Collection of genteel and ingenious, viii. 239.
Conversation. An artificial method of it, vi. 213. Whence in general so low, v. 461. Wherein that called the agreeable consists, xvii. 384. Whence it languishes in the politest companies, viii. 241. An invention which has contributed to politeness in it of late years, 250. Few obvious subjects have been so slightly handled, v. 227. What the truest way to understand it, 228. The folly of talking too much generally exploded, ibid. To affect to talk of one's self a fault, 229. By what easy and obvious reflexion it may be curbed, ibid. Some faults in conversation none so subject to as men of wit, nor ever so much as when with each other, 230. The nature of it among the wits at Will's coffeehouse, 231. Raillery the finest part of it, but wholly corrupted, 232. Two faults in conversation, which appear different, yet arise from the same root, and are equally blamable, 233. The talent of telling stories agreeably not altogether contemptible, but subject to two unavoidable defects 234. Great speakers in publick seldom agreeable in private conversation, 235. Nothing spoils men more for it than the character of being wits, ibid. To what the degeneracy of it has, among other causes, been owing, 236. When at the highest period of politeness in England, and in France, 237. Good manners in, xvi. 324.
Convocation. Strangely adjourned, and why, iii. 72. The inconvenience of such an adjourning power in the archbishops, ibid. The excellent character of their prolocutor, 74. Bishop Burnet's sentiments of convocations, iv. 398. Sir Thomas More's, 399. Power of the two houses, ix. 255.
Cope (Robert). Anecdote of him, i. 208.
Copper. The subject cannot be compelled by the king to take it, ix. 24. 122. 147. The Romans had the greatest part of their nummulary devices on that metal, v. 469. See Halfpence.
Coriolanus. A particular, in which he made a mean figure, xvi. 334.
Cormack (king and archbishop). His chapel and bed chamber, xiii. 180.
Coronations. Performing that ceremony to an heir apparent in the life time of a father, a custom adopted by Henry II from France, where the practice was derived from the Cæsars, xvi. 84.
Corporations. Are perpetually doing injustice to individuals, xiii. 45.
Councils. Nothing so rash as predicting upon the events of publick councils, xi. 256.
Court. What a constant amusement there, xi. 12. One advantage of going thither, xv. 264. A fault of it in queen Anne's time, 269. Of what use to Dr. Swift, 292. The practice of one belonging to it, in selling employments, 293. xviii. 103. Not in the power of those who live in a court to do all they desire for their friends, xiii. 31.
Courts. Before the time of Charles II, were the prime standard of propriety and correctness of speech; but have ever since continued the worst, v. 70. The secrets of courts much fewer than generally supposed, iv. 251. Five things in which they are extremely constant, xii. 261. What the two maxims of any great man there, x. 246. 247. When a favour is done there, no want of persons to challenge obligations, xi. 50. Nothing of so little consequence as the secrets of them, when once the scene is changed, 289. The nearer knowledge a man has of the affairs at court, the less he thinks them worth regarding, iv. 276, 277. The worst of all schools to teach good manners, xvi. 324. The art of them to be new learnt, after a small absence, xii. 377.
Covetousness. The character of it, whence generally acquired, xvii. 386.
Cowards. To be punished with death rather than ignominy, v. 455.
Cowper (lord chancellor). Obstructs the duke of Marlborough's being made general for life, iv. 286. His character, iv. 33.
Craggs (father to the secretary). Affirmed, in the house of commons, that the queen pressed the duke of Marlborough to accept his commission for life, iv. 48.
Credit (national). Who are the truest promoters of it; whigs or tories, iii. 93. 98. 100. 184. Not in the state the whigs represent it, 196. Their notion of it erroneous, 396.
Creichton (captain John). Memoirs of him, x. 311. Account of his ancestors, 321. A cousin of his, a physician, sent to Lisbon by queen Anne, to cure the king of Portugal of a secret disorder, ibid. The Portugueze council and physicians dissuaded that king from trusting his person to a foreigner, 322. Though he staid but six weeks in that kingdom, he got considerable practice; and afterward settling in London died rich, ibid. Where and when the captain was born, 326. Recommended to the earl of Athol, ibid. Received into his troop quartered at Sterling, 327. Makes one among the parties drawn out to suppress the conventicles, ibid. His first action was, with a dozen more, to go in quest of mass David Williamson, a noted covenanter, whom they missed, and how, ibid. Sent by general Dalziel in pursuit of Adam Stowbow, a notorious rebel, whom he takes, 328. Is sent with a party against mass John King, who was beginning to hold his conventicles near Sterling, 336. Whom he takes, and delivers to the council, who dismiss him upon bail, ibid. Goes in search of some rebels who had escaped from the battle at Bothwell bridge, 344. Takes John King again, 345. Takes one Wilson, a captain among the rebels at Bothwell bridge, 346. For which he is rewarded by the king with Wilson's estate, but never receives any benefit by the grant, 347. Secures many more of the rebels, 350. Encounters a large party of them at Airs-Moss, ibid. Whom he routs, but is brought into great danger of his life, 351-358. Ranges again in quest of the covenanting rebels, 358. Joins the Scotch army on the borders, then marching toward England against the prince of Orange, x. 369. Upon king James's retirement, advises lord Dundee to march with the forces back into Scotland, 372. Goes with lord Dundee and other lords to king James at Whitehall, 374. Returns to Stirling, 379. Adheres to king James, ibid. Is sent to Edinburgh, and there imprisoned, 383. Refuses to betray lord Kilsyth, with great firmness, 384. By what means escapes being hanged, 385, 386. Continues a prisoner in the Tolbooth, in great penury, 388. Makes his escape into Ireland, 391, and settles in the county of Tyrone, 396. Lives the remainder of his life there, loved and esteemed by all honest and good men, 397.
Crisis. Mr. Steele expelled the house of commons for this pamphlet, at the same time the dean was censured for his reply to it, iii. 274. By whom the plan was laid, ibid. A shilling pamphlet, yet proposed to be printed by subscription, 275. The industry of the whigs in dispersing it, 276. The great gain it produced to the author and bookseller, ibid. The contents and merits of it examined, 277-325. Written by the same author that published the Englishman, a letter in defence of lord Molesworth, and many of the Tatlers and Spectators, 281. His scheme of education at the university, 282. The author may be fairly proved, from his own citations, guilty of high treason, 302.
Criticism (goddess of). Her habitation on the snowy mountains of Nova Zembla; her attendants, Ignorance, Pride, Opinion, Noise and Impudence, Dullness and Vanity, Positiveness, Pedantry, and Illmanners, ii. 229.
Criticks. Three different species of them, ii. 102. Of ancient times, so powerful a party, that the writers of those ages mentioned them only by types and figures, 107. Have one quality in common with a whore and alderman, 110. Institutions of them absolutely necessary to the commonwealth of learning, ibid. To commence a true critick, will cost a man all the good qualities of his mind, 111. Three maxims characteristical of a critick, 112. Many commence criticks and wits by reading prefaces and dedications only, 135. Why false criticks rail at false wits, xvii. 381. The eye of a critick whence compared to a microscope, 388. Sleeping, talking, and laughing, qualities which furnish out a critick on preaching, x. 130.
Croisades. Their origin, xvi. 20. Their progress, 21. Gave rise to the spirit of chivalry, 22. The temper which occasioned them in some measure still existing, 23.
Cromwell. To keep up the appearance of a parliament, created an entire new house of lords (such as it was) to counterpoise the commons, ii. 340. Pleased with a flatterer, who undertook to prove him of royal blood, iii. 221. Was a preacher, and has left a sermon in print, in the style of the modern presbyterian teachers, v. 321. His character, ii. 284. His notion of liberty of conscience, x. 169. An instance in which he made a great figure, xvi. 331. Another, in which he appeared contemptible, 332.
Crown. The laws have not given it a power of forcing upon the subject what money the king pleases, ix. 24. 122. 147. Its wanton and pretended debts made a pretence for demanding money, xix. 36.
Cucumbers. A project for extracting sunbeams out of them, vi. 206.
Cumberland (bishop of Peterborow). Some account of, xviii. 186.
Cunning. An argument of knavery, not of wit, iii. 200.
Curll (Edmund.) Account of his being poisoned, with his last Will, xvii. 322. Farther Account of his deplorable Condition, 329. Relation of his being circumcised, 339.
Curll (Edmund). His instructions to a porter, to find his authors, xvii. 332. Obtains indulgence from the house of lords, after he had surreptitiously printed Mr. Pope's and other letters, xiii. 205. The dean had a design on his ears, ii. 6. Incensed the dean by publishing some miscellanies under his name, xv. 47. Dr. Arbuthnot's remark on him, xiii. 23. Lord Orrery's 326. Mr. Pope's, 329.
Cuts (lord). Typified by a salamander, vii. 33.
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Dalziel (Thomas). Preferred by the king to be general of the forces in Scotland, x. 328. Refused to serve under the duke of Monmouth, 340. Reproached the duke of Monmouth, with betraying the king in the action at Bothwell bridge, 343. An account and character of him, 361-363.
Daniel (the historian). His style too courtly and unintelligible, v. 199.
Darteneuf (Mr). His character, xiv. 384.
Dartmouth (lord). A patent granted to him by king Charles II, to coin halfpence for Ireland, ix. 53. 65. 82.
Dartmouth (William Legge, created earl of, and viscount Lewisham, Sept. 5, 1711). Succeeded the earl of Sunderland as secretary of state, iii. 116. His character, ibid.
Dauphins (of France). Three of them died in one year, iv. 182.
D'Avenant (Dr. Charles). Requests Dr. Swift's intercession with the lord treasurer, for his son, xi. 292. His character as a writer, xiv. 252.
David (king of Scotland). Having taken the oath of fealty to Maude, took up arms in her cause, xvi. 59. On making peace with Stephen, would by no means renounce his fidelity to the empress; but an expedient found, by his eldest son's performing homage to the king of England, ibid. Continued his depredations, 62. In return, Stephen seized on Bedford, part of the earldom of Huntington; which David revenged, by the most sanguinary barbarities, 63. On the revolt of the English barons, redoubled his efforts, and determined to besiege York, 65. By the zeal of archbishop Thurstan, a numerous army assembled, under the command of Geoffry Rufus bishop of Durham, to oppose him, ibid. David and his son gave many signal proofs of valour, but their army totally defeated, ibid. Reduced to comply with the terms of peace, dictated by Stephen, and to deliver up his son as a hostage, 67.
Dead. Have a title to just character, whether good or bad, ix. 218.
Deaneries. Some in Ireland without cathedrals, ix. 256. Dean and chapter lands unknown in Ireland, ibid. What the state in general of those of the old foundation, xi. 438. The general condition of them in Ireland, xviii. 245.
Dearness. Of necessaries, not always a sign of wealth, ix. 391.
Death. Nothing but extreme pain, shame, or despair, able to reconcile us to it, x. 244. So natural, so necessary, and so universal, that it is impossible it could ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind, x. 169.
Debt (national). Unknown in England before the revolution, iv. 110. The expedient of introducing it found out by bishop Burnet, 111. Such a debt, which is of real use in a republick, detrimental to a monarchy, 112.
Decemviri. Their usurpation of arbitrary power, though chosen to digest a code of laws for the government of a free state, ii. 294.
Dedications. Instructions for making them, xvii. 52.
Delany (Dr. Patrick). His Epistle to Lord Carteret, vii. 428. Verses occasioned by it, 432. Libel on him and lord Carteret, viii. 1. On the Libels against him, 7. Verses addressed to him, vii. 151. His fable of the Pheasant and Lark, viii. 69. Answer to it, 74. His verses written in the name of Dr. Sheridan, vii. 211. Verses on his villa, 245. His verses to Dr. Swift when deaf, 273. Answered, 274. To Dr. Swift, on his birthday with, a silver standish, viii. 146. To Dr. Sheridan on the Art of Punning, 429. His News from Parnassus, xviii. 422. Verses occasioned by the foregoing, 425. His answer to the Prologue and Epilogue for the distressed Weavers, 430. His verses on Gallstown House, 432. On the great buried Bottle, 433. The epitaph, 434. An Invitation by him in the name of Dr. Swift, 450. A short account and character of him and his works, ix. 235. xiv. 118. 121. Gave occasion to the verses on Paddy's Character of the Intelligencer, vii. 417.
Delusion. The advantage of objects being conveyed to us by it, ii. 171.
Demosthenes. Upon what he laid the greatest strength of his oratory, v. 93. Greatly excelled Tully as an orator, 94.
Dennis (Mr. John). A Narrative of his deplorable Frenzy, xvii. 308. His Invitation to Steele, vii. 133. His apprehension of being seized by the French, and the occasion of it, x. 243.
Desire and Possession. A poem, vii. 368.
Devotion. What the sincerest part of it, v. 460.
Dialogue. The best method of inculcating any part of knowledge, viii. 259.
Diaper (Mr.) Writes some sea eclogues, or poems of mermen, xv. 283. Presented by Dr. Swift to lord Bolingbroke, with a new poem, 349. Receives twenty guineas from that lord, by Dr. Swift, when lying sick in a nasty garret, 382.
Dignity. Why necessary to old Men, x. 245.
Digressions. One concerning criticks, ii. 101. One in the modern kind, 128. Some authors enclose them in one another like a nest of boxes, 129. One in praise of digressions, 146. The commonwealth of learning chiefly obliged to the great modern improvement of them, ibid. A digression concerning the original use and improvement of madness in a commonwealth, 161. One on war, 282.
Diligence. To be doubly diligent to those who neglect us, why the cruellest revenge, xiii. 93.
Dingley (Mrs. Rebecca). New Year's Gift for her, vii. 267. Dingley and Brent, a song, 268. Her Birthday, 357. On her Lapdog's Collar, 359. The dean's mode of visiting her, xix. 131. Annuity he allowed her, 133. Her character, by Dr. Swift, xiii. 319.
Discretion. The great use of this talent, v. 111. Most serviceable to the clergy 113. The end of good breeding wholly perverted by the want of it, v. 185.
Diseases. The causes of them, vi. 299. The general method used by the physicians in the cure of them, ibid. A specifick for the cure of those caused by repletion, 311.
Dispensation. Reasons against granting one to Dr. Whetcombe, to hold his fellowship and a distant rich living, xiii. 155.
Dissensions. Those of the Athenian state described, with their rise and consequences, ii. 304. Those between the Patricians and Plebeians at Rome, 312. Civil dissensions never fail of stirring up the ambition of private men to enslave their country, 326. Reflections on the consequences of them to a state, 332.
Dissenters. Their ready compliance with the measures of king James, to subvert the reformed religion, ii. 358. iii. 67. 186. 192. Ought not to be trusted with the least degree of civil or military power, iv. 263. Politicks their sole religion, iii. 56. The most spreading branch of the whig party professing Christianity, 185. Were greatly benefited by the revolution, 187. Can no where find better quarter than from the church of England, 189. Resemble the Jews in some general principles, 190. Some wholesome advice to them, ibid. They and the whigs have the same political faith, 212. Acknowledged king James the Second's dispensing power, 213. More dangerous to the constitution both in church and state than papists, iv. 408. Arose out of the Puritans, v. 294. x. 69. Ought publickly to disavow the principles in politicks on which their ancestors acted, 76. 79. Should be thankful for a toleration, without disturbing the publick with their own opinions, 78. Ought not to have a vote for members of parliament, x. 304. Mr. Shower's letter to lord Oxford in their behalf, xi. 201; and his lordship's answer, 202.
Dissenters (in Ireland). Apply to the parliament of England, for the repeal of the test, xi. 43. Address against dissenting ministers agreed to by the house of lords in Ireland, 194. Dissenting ministers join with the whigs, in agreeing to a bill against occasional conformity, 205. Are suffered to have their conventicles by connivance only, 427. Are too assuming upon state events that give them any encouragement, 428. Their attempts for a repeal of the test, xix. 180.
Divines. Their preaching helps to preserve the well inclined, but seldom or never reclaims the vicious, v. 462. Fear of being thought pedants has been of bad consequence to young ones. v. 91. Carry their disputes for precedence as high as any sort of men, xviii. 178.
Dodwell (Robert). Humorous story of him, xix. 82.
Dominion. Reflections on the manner of acquiring it in countries newly discovered, vi. 353.
Donegal (Catharine Forbes, countess of), Verses on her, xviii. 427.
Dorset (Lionel Cranfield, duke of). The patron of Prior, xi. 55; and of Philips, 64. A character of him and his duchess, by lady Betty Germain, xii. 429. Gave great satisfaction to the people of Ireland, when lord lieutenant, xiii. 312. Lord Castledurrow's commendation of the duke, for his magnificence and other virtues, 316; with a remark on his few and slight defects, ibid. A remark of Dr. Swift, respecting him in his publick capacity, 317. By what means he was influenced to act the usual part in the government of Ireland, 194.
Douglass (a naval officer). His heroism, xvi. 332.
Drapier. His account of himself, ix. 117; and of the success of his letters, xi. 441. A quaker's application of a text of scripture when a reward was offered for apprehending him, xviii. 253. Verses on him, 462. Letter to the People of Ireland in his name, xix. 196.
Drue (Mr). In a very odd manner, occasions a bill, which was brought into the Irish parliament, for enlarging the power of the peerage, to be thrown out, ix. 121.
Drunkenness. The vice of it restored by the gentlemen of the army, when almost dropped in England, ii. 410.
Dryden (John). His Hind and Panther, ii. 82. Dedicates different parts of his books to different patrons, 84. His prefaces, &c. 135. Unequal to Virgil, 236. Dryden's prefaces, so useful to modern criticks, originally written to swell the bulk and price of his books, viii. 173. A near relation of Swift, xiii. 182. Introduced Alexandrines, ibid. Why so incorrect, ibid.
Dublin. Examination of certain Abuses, &c., in, ix. 267. Letter to the Archbishop concerning the Weavers, 351. The Dean's Speech to the Lord Mayor, &c., on being presented with his Freedom, 378. Advice to the Freemen on the Choice of a Member, 399. Considerations on the Choice of a Recorder of, 408. Humble Petition of the Footmen of, 411. Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in, 414. Upon giving Badges to the Poor, xvi. 260. Considerations about maintaining the Poor, 262. Humble Representation of the Clergy on a Brief, 266. Observations on a Paper entitled the Case of the Woollen Manufacturers of, xix. 167.
Dublin. The method used by Dr. King, archbishop of it, to encourage the clergy of his diocese to residence, ix. 256. The see of it has many fee-farms, which pay no fines, 264. The many street robberies committed there owing to the want of courage in gentlemen, 303. Wants not its due proportion of folly and vice, both native and foreign, v. 206. Methods used by the Intelligencers to be informed of all occurrences in it, ibid. More infested with beggars after the establishment of the poorhouse than before, ix. 415. Shares more deeply in the increasing miseries of Ireland than the meanest village in it, 418. Infested with colonies of beggars sent thither from England, 421. The number of houses in that city, ix. 395. Number of families, x. 287. In money matters, that city may be reckoned about a fourth part of the whole kingdom, as London is judged to be a third of England, ibid. Contest about the choice of a mayor, xi. 153. University of Dublin wants to have professorships confined to the fellows, not left at large, xii. 272. Fellowships there obtained by great merit, xiii. 157. Dean and chapter of that cathedral possessed of 4000l. a year, xii. 280. Monuments there preserved or promoted by Dr. Swift, ibid. Law and rules observed there, in the election of their mayors and aldermen, xi. 153. Remark on the vanity and luxury of feasting there, xiii. 315. Statue of king William there how treated, xiv. 294. The players there, refusing to give the secretary three hundred a year, obliged to act as strollers, xviii. 428. See Hoadley, King.
Dudley (sir Matthew). His laconick letter, xiv. 229.
Duke (Dr. Richard). His character, xiv. 356.
Duke upon Duke. A new ballad, xvii. 412.
Dunkin (Dr. William). Some account of him, xiii. 281-284. xviii. 361. 363. 381. 384. His translation of Carberiæ Rupes, vii. 248. His epigram on the Drapier, xviii. 462.
Dunkirk. Memorial concerning delivered by the sieur Tugghe, v. 428. Secured to England by the peace, would have been thought a glorious acquisition under the duke of Marlborough, though at the cost of many thousand lives, iii. 310. The demolition of it deferred, to remove the difficulties which the barrier-treaty occasioned, 313. Yielded by the French king in his preliminaries, but clogged with the demand of an equivalent, 416. Stipulated in the counter-project to be demolished, but that article struck out in the barrier-treaty, ibid. 449. Some observations respecting it, xi. 227. The duke of Ormond not able to send troops to take possession of it, when yielded to Britain, ibid. iv. 205. Six regiments sent from England, under Mr. Hill, for that purpose, 208. On its delivery, a cessation of arms proclaimed, 210. The universal joy occasioned in England, by the news of its being surrendered, 212.
Dunstable. Project for transporting wheaten straw from Ireland thither, to be manufactured into hats for the Irish women, ix. 8.
Dunton (Mr). His tract, entitled Neck or Nothing, the shrewdest piece written in defence of the whigs, iii. 274.
D'urfy (Mr). Verses occasioned by an &c. at the end of his name in the title to one of his plays, xvii. 402. Prologue designed for his last play, 405.
Dutch. Some remarks on their practice of trampling on the crucifix, vi. 253. Why they are no precedent for us, either in religion or government, ii. 357. To what the preservation of their commonwealth is to be ascribed, 366. Delivered up Traerbach to the Imperialists without consulting the queen, iii. 313. In what manner England bound by an old treaty to assist them whenever attacked by the French, 346. Joined with the English in signing two treaties with Portugal; but wise enough never to observe them, 358. The advantages granted to them as guarantees of the protestant succession, 359-362. 374. 387. What the proportion of men they were to contribute toward the war, 363. Gradually lessened their proportion in all new supplies, 364. Never furnished their quota of maritime supplies, 366. Are ever threatening England with entering into separate measures of a peace, 398. Dutch partnership, wherein it consists, 422. Why against a peace, 418. Though they allow the fullest liberty of conscience of any Christian state, yet admit none into civil offices, who do not conform to the legal worship, v. 313. The English highly blamable, in permitting them to engross the herring-fishery, xiii. 121. Their behaviour, on finding the queen in earnest inclined to a peace, iv. 72. Greatly deficient every year in furnishing their quota, 132. Entirely abandoned the war in Portugal, 134. In low politicks, excel every country in Christendom, 167. Discontented at seeing the queen at the head of the negotiation, 178. Their intrigues for entering into separate measures of peace with France, 187. 233. The inducements which led them to sign the treaty of barrrier and succession, 235. Convinced of their errour in trusting to a discontented party, 237. In what light they seem to have considered England, xvi. 305. Character of them, xiii. 121. xvii. 142. Brief remarks on them, xv. 261. 269. 312. A learned Dutchman writes a book, to prove that England wronged them by the peace, 333. Yield to the barrier-treaty, which chiefly retarded the peace, 374.
Dyer's Letter. A paper of lying fame, xviii. 87.
Dyet, Justice (a commissioner of the stamp office). In danger of the gallows, for defrauding the revenue, xiv. 216. A remarkable anecdote of the person (a clerk in Doctors Commons) who detected the fraud, 226.
Dying-speeches. Of what kind they usually are, ix. 301.
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Edgworth (col. Ambrose, and his son Talbot), xiv. 234.
Education. The manner of educating children in Lilliput, vi. 56. The necessity of it, ii. 412. The consequences of its defects to many noble families, v. 123. Is usually less in proportion as the estate the children are born to is greater, x. 50. Not above a thousand male human creatures in England and Wales of good sense and education, xvi. 278. Of females, not half that number, ibid. What too frequently the consequence of a liberal one, xii. 239.
Edward (the Black Prince). When he appeared great, xvi. 331.
Edward (the Confessor);. First introduced a mixture of the French tongue with the Saxon, v. 66. In his time the English gentry began to affect the French language and manners, in compliance with their king, who had been bred in Normandy, xvi. 8. He was the first of our princes who attempted to cure the king's evil by touching; and was the first who introduced what we now call the common law, ibid.
Edwyn sir (Humphry, lord mayor in 1698). Went in his formalities to a conventicle, with the insignia of his office, ii. 201.
Elections. Dexterity of the whig ministry in deciding them, iii. 54. Absurdities attending them; 1st. that any who dissent from the national church should have the privilege of voting; 2d. that an election should be any charge either to the candidate or to the ministry; 3d. that the qualification which entitles a freeholder to vote still remains forty shillings only, though that sum was fixed when it was equal to twenty pounds at present: 4th, that representatives are not elected ex vicinio, but a member perhaps chosen for Berwick, whose estate is at the Land's End; and many persons returned for boroughs who do not possess a foot of land in the kingdom; and, 5th, that decayed boroughs should retain their privilege of sending members, who in reality represent nobody, x. 304-306.
Elegy. On Mr. Demar, a rich usurer, vii. 170. A quibbling one on judge Boat, 260. A tragical one, called Cassinus and Peter, viii. 95. A satirical one on the duke of Marlborough, vii. 238.
Elizabeth (queen). Relation of the Riot intended on her Birthday, xviii. 85. Mixed money coined by her, for the payment of the army in Ireland, in the time of Tyrone's rebellion, ix. 25. Her character, ii. 280. Her birthday usually a day of dissipation, xviii. 92. Particularly so in 1679, which was intended to be imitated in 1711, 95. Her circumstances much resembled those of queen Anne, 157. Some account of her conduct, ibid. Could not resist the artifices of the earl of Leicester; yet would never suffer his openest enemies to be sacrificed to his vengeance, xvi. 300.
Eloquence. Action necessary to it, v. 157.
Emperor (of Germany). Why inclined to continue the war, iii. 311. Prospect of more danger to the balance of Europe from his overrunning Italy, than from France overrunning the empire, 314. Never paid his contribution toward the Prussian troops, 367. Nor furnished the quota of men stipulated, 368. But chose to sacrifice the whole alliance to his passion of enslaving his subjects of Hungary, ibid. Hindered the taking of Toulon, 369. Empire refuses to grant eight thousand men, for which the English would have paid forty thousand pounds, toward carrying on the war on the side of Italy, 371. The emperor's conduct when Portugal came into the grand alliance, 372. His return made for the places conquered for him by the English, 374. His objections to the peace, iv. 242. The reasons why he did not agree to it at last, 245.
Emperor (of Lilliput). A great patron of learning, vi. 11. Lives chiefly upon his own demesnes, 20. His style in publick instruments, 34. His palace described, 38.
Employments. Good morals more to be regarded than great abilities, in choosing persons for them, vi. 54. None more eager for them than such as are least fit for them, xi. 179. In general, very hard to get, xv. 393. By the act of succession, no foreigner can enjoy any, civil or military, xi. 416.
Enclosures. Reflections on their consequences, xiii. 287.
England. Excellence of its government, ii. 370. General satire received in it with thanks instead of offence, whereas in Athens it might only be personal, ii. 66. The political state of it described, vi. 142. What the bulk of the people in, 220. Degeneracy of the people of, 234. State of in queen Anne's time, 296. What the only means the people of it have to pull down a ministry and government they are weary of, xvii. 282. What necessary to frighten the people of it once a year, 286. Prosecuted the war with greater disadvantages than either its enemies or allies, and less able to recover itself at the conclusion of it, iii. 9. 396. Ought not to have been a principal in the confederate war with France, iii. 340. 344. Had no reason to boast of its success in that under king William, 343. No nation ever so long and scandalously abused by its domestick enemies and foreign friends, 344. Its strength shamefully misapplied to ends very different from those for which the war was undertaken, 349. Carried on the war at a great expense in Spain, on a vain belief that the Spaniards, on the first appearance of a few troops, would revolt to the house of Austria, 351. Neglected to use her maritime power in the West Indies, 353. The reason alleged for this conduct, 354. Must mortgage the malt tax, to carry on the war another campaign, 394. The landed popish interest in it much greater than in Ireland, iv. 329. Received the reformation in the most regular way, 339. What it gets yearly by Ireland, ix. 22. 213. The taste of it infamously corrupted by shoals of those who write for their bread, xii. 440. Swift apprehensive that liberty could not long survive in, xiii. 167. 195. An enumeration of its publick absurdities, x. 303. An abstract of its history before the conquest, xvi. 4. Above nineteen millions expended by England in the war more than its proper proportion, iv. 138. The true way of increasing its inhabitatits to the publick advantage, 147. Character of the people, xvii. 142. xviii. 23. 163. Progress of its government, xix. 104. Its constitution admirably fitted for the purposes of a king, 112. General discontent, that it should be engaged in a very expensive war, while all the other powers of Europe were in peace, xii. 197. What the too frequent practice there with respect to madhouses, xiii. 6. So connected with Ireland, that the natives of both islands should study and advance each other's interest, 118.
English language. Letter to the Earl of Oxford on its Improvement, v. 63. Tongue. Discourse to prove its Antiquity, xvi. 280. The expediency of an effectual method of correcting, enlarging, and ascertaining it, v. 63. Its improvements are not in proportion to its corruptions, 65. Had two or three hundred years ago a greater mixture with the French than at present, 66. Not arrived to such perfection as to occasion any apprehension of its decay, 68. The period wherein it received most improvement, 69. The state of it in king Charles the Second's time, 70. Has been much injured by the poets since the restoration, 71. Reasons why words in it ought not to be spelt as pronounced, 72. The pronunciation of it much more difficult to the Spaniards, French, and Italians, than to the Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Dutch, 73. Means to be used for reforming it, 74. A society of judicious men should be selected for that purpose, 75. To whom the French academy, as far as it is right, might be a model, ibid. Many words ought to be thrown out of the English language; many more corrected; some, long since antiquated, restored on account of their energy and sound, ibid. When the language is fully corrected, it might occasionally be enlarged by the adoption of a new word, which, having once received a sanction, should never be suffered to become obsolete[1], 77. Corruptions of it, 193. The progress of the Dean's plan, xi. 162. 216. 229. 234. The language advanced by sir W. Temple to great perfection, xvi. 352. In Swift's younger days, had produced no letters of any value, 353.
Englishman. A paper so called, iii. 275.
Enthusiasm. The spring-head of it as troubled and muddy as the current, ii. 168. Has produced revolutions of the greatest figure in history, 253. Definition of the word in its universal acceptation, 254. The various operations of religious enthusiasm, ibid.
Enthusiasm, Letter on. By whom written, ii. 11.
Epaminondas. One of the six greatest men in the world, vi. 227. An instance in which he appeared great, xvi. 331.
Epick poem. A receipt to make one, xvii. 54.
Epicurus. Opinions ascribed to him not his own, v. 4. Had no notion of justice, but as it was profitable, x. 143. Misled his followers into the greatest vices, ibid. His sect began to spread at Rome in the empire of Augustus, and in England in Charles II's reign, x. 243. The greatest of all freethinkers, 193.
Epigrams. Tom cudgelled, vii. 76. Catullus on Lesbia, 97. From the French, 98. On Scolding, 197. Joan cudgels Ned, 260. On Wood's brass Money, 313. On Windows, 359-362. On a very old Glass, 378. Paulus, 420. On Stephen Duck, viii. 87. The Power of Time, 92. On the Busts in Richmond Hermitage, 144, 145. The Dean and Duke, 205. On Bishop Rundle's Fall, 208. On the Magazine at Dublin, 228. On two great Men, 234. Occasioned by an Inscription on the Dean's Monument, 238. The inconstant Lover, xiii. 330. Umbra, xvii. 411. On Bishop Hough, 424. On Handel and Bononcini, 430. On Mrs. Tofts, ib. Two or Three, ib. In a Maid of Honour's Prayer Book, 43l. The Balance of Europe, ibid. On col. Chartres, 462. On the Death of a Child, ib. On a Man's beating his Head, ib. From the French, 463. On the Toasts of the Kit-cat Club, 464. To a Lady with the Temple of Fame, ib. On Carthy's threatening to translate Pindar, xviii. 440. On Delacourt's complimenting Carthy, 441. By Dr. Swift on his Deafness, ibid. Answered, 442. On Vertiginosus, 443. On Gulliver, ib. On Dr. Swift's intended Hospital for Idiots and Lunaticks, 458. On the Drapier, 462.
Epitaph. The Dean's written by himself, i. 271. On the Dean's servant, 437. On Partridge, vii. 56. On a miser, 171. On judge Boat, 260. On duke Schomberg, viii. 94. On P. P. a parish clerk, xvii. 131. On col. Chartres, 461. Of by-words, 463. On G. ib. On lord Berkeley, xviii. 421. On a great buried bottle, 434. On the earl of Suffolk's Fool, 438. On General Gorges and Lady Meath, 439.
Erasmus. His life almost a continual journey, xi. 193. A maxim of his cited, xii. 345. His Moriæ Encomium, xviii. 145.
Errour (writ of). Not grantable in a criminal case without direction from the king, xii. 47.
Essex (Robert Devreux, earl of). His remarkable speech to Blunt and Cuffe on the scaffold, xviii. 158.
Evans (bishop). Refuses a proxy for Swift at a visitation, xii. 53. See also letter to Mr. Wallis, ibid. His sage remark on bishop Atterbury, 103.
Eugene (prince). His sentiments with respect to the barrier treaty, iii. 420. 450. Visits the queen on his landing, without staying for the formality of dress, iv. 52. x. 218. The design of his journey to England, iv. 52. His character, 53. Several nightly riots supposed to have been committed, through a scheme of his to take off Mr. Harley, 54. His opinion of the negotiations for a peace in 1711, iv. 96. The queen discouraged him from coming hither, as far as possibly she could without in plain terms forbidding it, 169. A humorous description of him by Swift, xv. 259. The queen gave him a sword, worth four thousand pounds, 253. 255.
Eumenes. Introduced the custom of borrowing money by vast premiums, and at exorbitant interest, iii. 7.
European princes. The usual causes of war among them, vi. 288. Some of the northern ones hire out their troops to richer nations, 290.
Eustace, prince (son to king Stephen). During his father's imprisonment, the empress Maude refused a very reasonable request made in his behalf by the legate, xvi. 75. His father wished to have him crowned, which the bishops refused to perform, 84. Violently opposed a truce, which must be founded on the ruin of his interests, 85. His death, ibid.
Examiner iii. 1. xviii. 211. Takes the subject of government out of the dirty hands of two fanaticks, and the rough one of a nonjuror, 18. 19. The general design of it, 35. 58. 222. Conjectures about the author, 42. 112. The difficulty of his task, 43. 52. 110. 170. A pleasant instance of the profound learning of one of his answerers, 51. The Examiner crossexamined, 75. An answer to the Letter to the Examiner, 125. Two letters, of the two contrary parties, written to him, 129. 130. Has no other intention of writing but that of doing good, 133. Is entitled to the favour of the whigs, 171. A judgment of him not to be formed by any mangled quotations, 177. No hireling writer, 212. 222. The papers under that title began about the time of lord Godolphin's removal, and by whom, iv. 298. A contest between Swift and Steele, on the former's being supposed the author, when he had ceased having any connexion with them, xi. 260-263. 268. 269. Some account of that paper, xviii. 76. 211. The real author of it remained long unknown, xviii. 75. Character of it, xviii. 31. 33.
Example. The great advantage of it, in acquiring moral virtues, vi. 305.
Excellences. More or less valuable, as there is occasion to use them, iii. 139.
Exchange women. The proper appellation of a set of traders which now scarcely exists, ii. 144. note.
Exiles. Their view in exciting quarrels, xvi. 35.
Expedients. Living upon them will in time destroy any constitution, iii. 399.
Extempore love and extempore prayer closely connected, xviii. 147.
F.
Faction. Who so called by the whigs, iii. 37. 151. The nature of a faction, as distinct from those who are friends to the constitution, ibid. Its metaphorical genealogy, 149. What the true characteristicks of it, 151. xvii. 174. What its effects on the genius of a nation while it prevails, iii. 231. One felicity of being among willows is, not to be troubled with it, xi. 276.
Fairfax (a rigid presbyterian). His proceedings with respect to the parliament, the king's trial, and execution, v. 294. When he appeared contemptible, xvi. 334.
Faith. The great stress laid upon it both in the Old and New Testament, x. 25. Why we cannot lead so good lives without faith as with it, ibid.
Falkland (lord). A custom used by him respecting some of his writings, v. 88.
Falconbridge (lady). A daughter of Oliver Cromwell, in her person extremely like her father, xiv. 261.
Fame. Why purchased at a cheaper rate by satire than by any other productions of the brain, ii. 65. Why it accompanies the dead only, 183. As difficult to conceive rightly what it is, as to paint Echo to the sight, vii. 15. The poetical genealogy of Fame, iii. 11. By some supposed to be different goddesses, by others only one with two trumpets, ix. 217. Chamber of Fame, v. 162. 164. 166.
Fan. Why an emblem of woman, xvii. 105.
Fanaticism. Its history deduced from the most early ages, ii. 270.
Fanaticks. Ægyptians were the first, ii. 270. A short story of one, by occupation a farmer, iii. 20. First brought in blasphemy or freethinking, viii. 254. What the liberty of conscience they labour after, x. 45. Their insolence increased by our want of brotherly love, 60. One refractory fanatick has been able to disturb a whole parish for many years together, 61. Those of the first centuries and of later times agree in one principle, ii. 274.
Farmers. In Ireland, wear out their ground by ploughing, ix. 209. The advantage that would have accrued to the nation by restraining them in it, 210. The generality of them in Ireland are to all intents and purposes as real beggars as any in the streets, x. 112.
Fashion (Ned). Notwithstanding his politeness, is, in many respects, not a well-bred person, v. 188.
Fathers in the church. Their apologies, iii. 162. A general character of them and their writings, v. 100.
Faulkner (Mr. George). His intimacy with dean Swift, xii. 462. xiii. 63. 112. 247. 268. 378. 434. xviii. 291. 292. Which could not secure him from a chancery suit, for sending some of his edition of the dean's works into England, xiii. 268. Voted to Newgate, on a complaint of sergeant Bettesworth, viii. 200. Verses thereon, ib. Applied to the dean, for permission to print his works to prevent their falling into worse hands, xiii. 209. Suffers in Ireland, for printing a pamphlet written by bishop Horte, xiii. 250.
Favourites. The danger of them to princes, iii. 135.
Fear. One of the two greatest natural motives of men's actions, but will not put us in the way of virtue unless directed by conscience, x. 49. Great abilities, without the fear of God, are dangerous instruments when trusted with power, 52.
Feasts. Description of one, translated from the original Irish, vii. 179. The vanity and luxury of the Irish respecting them, xiii. 315.
Felicity. What the sublime and refined point of it, ii. 173.
Fenton (Mrs). See Swift (Jane).
Fielding (beau). A ridiculous instance of his vanity, xvi. 334.
Figures in poetry, xvii. 29.
Finery. To be considered by ladies as a necessary folly, v. 141.
First-fruits and tenths. Proceedings respecting them, xi. 27. 45. 49. 57. 61. 67. 82. 83. 87. 95. 100-128. 161. 164. 168. 286. 450. xiv. 238. 268. Swift's memorial to Mr. Harley, xi. 91.
Fishery. The folly of the English, in suffering the Dutch to away with it, xiii. 121. Mr. Grant's proposal for establishing a white herring and cod fishery in Ireland, xiii. 117.
Fitzmaurice (John, afterward earl of Shelburne). Dr. Swift solicits a small preferment for him, xiii. 190.
Flattery. The different motives to the love of it in men and women, v. 463. The power of it, and the way to guard against it, x. 15.
Fleetwood (bishop). Remarks on his Preface, xvi. 339. Pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to him. xviii. 141. His principles of government, 143. The preface to his four sermons burnt by order of the house of commons, 148.
Flemings. A set of vagabond soldiers, natives of Arragon, Navarre, Biscay, Brabant, &c. who infested all Europe, xvi. 92. Were ready to be hired to any prince who chose to pay them, ibid. Always hated in England, ibid.
Folly. Usually accompanied with perverseness, ix. 211. A term that never gave fools offence, xii. 327. None but fools can be in earnest about a trifle, 335. 397.
Fools. Imitate only the defects of their betters, x. 111.
Forbes (lord). For his firm attachment to king James II, sent prisoner to the Tower, x. 376. Refuses to accept two hundred pounds sent him by king William, ibid.
Ford (Charles). Introduced by Dr. Swift to the duke of Ormond, xiv. 20. Appointed gazetteer by Dr. Swift's procurement, with a salary of two hundred pounds a year, beside perquisites, xv. 310. Gives Dr. Swift an account of several expected changes in the ministry, and other matters of state, xi. 353. Of the proceedings against Arthur Moore, 355. His earnestness to have a complete edition of Dr. Swift's works, of most of which Mr. Ford had good copies, xiii. 95. 368. His curious law suit with an Irish chairman, 271. Verses on his birthday, vii. 256. On Stella's visit to his house. 253.
Fountaine (sir Andrew). Dr. Swift visits him in a dangerous illness, and differs in opinion from his physicians, xiv. 306. Character of his mother and brother, 319.
Fownes (sir William). His letter to Dr. Swift, respecting the foundation of an hospital for lunaticks in Dublin, xiii. 5. His character, 181.
France. Can much sooner recover itself after a war than England, iii. 9. 396. The genius and temper of that people, 156. In the war against queen Anne, very politically engrossed all the trade of Peru, 353. While under one monarch, will be always in some degree formidable to its neighbours, xi. 245. A litigious manner of treating peculiar to that country, iv. 242. The indignation expressed by all ranks in that nation at the terms of peace offered to them by the allies, iv. 63. A royal academy established there, for the instruction of politicians, xi. 417. Wooden shoes, and cottages like those in Ireland, are to be found within sight of Versailles, xiii. 231. The stables in that kingdom truly magnificent, and the waterworks at Marli admirable, ibid. Ill-treatment the Irish experienced there, xix. 73.
Francis I (king of France). Bargained with the pope, to divide the liberties of the Gallican church between them, iv. 400.
Fraud. Esteemed in Lilliput a greater crime than theft, vi. 53. Merits greater punishment than many crimes that are made capital, ii. 423.
Frederick (prince of Wales). The exalted expectations of him, if he should come to be king, xiii. 433.
Freedom. Wherein it consists, ix. 124. [[The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 13/From Jonathan Swift to City of Cork - 1|The dean's letter to the mayor, &c. of Corke, when the freedom of that city was sent to him]], xiii. 364. The substance of his speech, when that of the city of Dublin was presented to him, ix. 378.
Freethinkers. Have no great reason for their clamours against religious mysteries, v. 103. Are a little worse than the papists, and more dangerous to the church and state, iv. 408. Lord Bolingbroke's remarks on them, xii. 129.
Freethinking. Abstract of Mr. Collins's Discourse on it, x. 171. Some Thoughts on, xvi. 320. The inefficacy and imprudence of preaching against it, v. 105. What the principal ornament of it, viii. 253. By whom first introduced, 254. No complete body of atheology ever appeared before Mr. Collins's Discourse on Freethinking, x. 173. That discourse sufficiently exposed by an abstract of its contents, 176.
French [Humphry, lord mayor of Dublin). His character, ix. 406. Ode of Horace addressed to him, xviii. 447.
French. A mixture of their tongue first introduced with the Saxon by Edward the Confessor, v. 66. The genius and temper of that nation, iii. 396. The oppressive practice of the government, of calling in their money when they have sunk it very low, and then coining it anew at a higher rate, ix. 23. Have the history of Lewis XIV, in a regular series of medals, v. 469. French memoirs, to what their success is owing, xvi. 346. Their conduct and evasions in settling the articles of commerce with England, xv. 377. An instance, in which the vanity of that nation contributes to their pleasure, xvi. 293.
Friendship. Acts of it create friends even among strangers, xi. 292. Lord Bolingbroke's reflections on it, xii. 12. 57. The folly of contracting too great and intimate a friendship, 190. Reflection on it, by the duchess of Queensberry, xiii. 34. The loss of friends a tax upon long life, 38. The medicine and comfort of life, 421. Not named in the New Testament, in the sense in which we understand it, x. 193.
Frog (Nicholas). A true character of him, xvii. 142.
Funds. Mischiefs of them, iii. 6. xiv. 22. The use of them in England commenced at the revolution, iii. 6. iv. 110. Antiquity of the practice, iii. 7. Not such real wealth in the nation as imagined, 8. The cunning jargon of stockjobbers, ibid. 97. Reflections on the managers of publick funds, 196. An account of those raised from 1707 to 1710, iv. 115.
Funerals. The only method of carrying some people to church, xvii. 296.
Furnese (sir H.). Added or altered a letter of his name with every plum he acquired, iii. 221.
G.
Gallantry. The nations who have most of it for the young are severest upon the old, xi. 7.
Gallas, count, (the Imperial envoy). Forbid the British court, for his infamous conduct, iv. 97. His base intrigues, ibid. Deservedly disgraced, xv. 171.
Galway (earl of). Humorous threat of a surgeon whom he had offended, ix. 225.
Gaming. Some pertinent inquiries concerning it, made by the king of Brobdingnag, vi. 147.
Garth (Dr). A bon mot of his, when dying, xiii. 186.
Gascon. Description of a week's sustenance of his family, xii. 34. The artifice of one confined by the French king to speak only one word, 200, 201.
Gay (Mr). An epistle to him, in verse, viii. 114. Appointed secretary to lord Clarendon, xi. 333. Epigrammatical petition by him, ibid. His treatment by the court, after a long attendance on it, v. 212. Asthmatical, xviii. 263. Proposes to print the second part of the Beggars Opera, ibid. Suspected unjustly of writing a libel against Mr. Walpole, xiii. 18; who was with difficulty persuaded to let Gay continue a second year commissioner to a lottery, 19. After fourteen years attendance on the court, rejects the servile dignity of gentleman usher to a girl of two years old, and retires in disgrace, vii. 3. viii. 114. xii. 259. xiii. 19. Wrote an eclogue in the quaker style, x. 213. Reflections on the conduct of great men toward him, xii. 89. Appointed a commissioner of the state lottery, 98. Gives Swift an account of the success of the Beggars Opera, 274. Acquaints him with more particulars respecting it, 276. The great friendship of the duke and duchess of Queensberry toward him, 305. Receives great contributions toward the publication of the second part of the Beggars Opera, 306. His fortune increased by oppression, 307. Most of the courtiers refuse to contribute to his undertaking, ibid. Chief author of the Craftsman, by which he becomes very popular, 310. Engaged in law suits with booksellers, for pirating his book, 313. Declines in the favour of courtiers, 456. Some account of his fables, to Dr. Swift, 469. 482. Gambadoes commended by him as a fine invention, xiii. 2. Finds in himself a natural propensity to write against vice, 12. His death, 22. Is universally lamented, and buried with great pomp, 23. Curll assiduous in procuring memoirs of his life, ibid. Duchess of Oueensberry's character of him, 33. Dr. Swift's condolence with the duchess for his death, with a short character of him, 38. His opera of Achilles [and the Distrest Mother a tragedy] brought out after his death, 14. 117. The Present State of Wit probably written by him, xviii. 28.
Gazetteer. A salary of two hundred pounds a year settled on that employment, by Dr. Swift's procurement, xv. 310.
General. The errour of commissioning such an officer for life, how great soever his merit maybe, iii. 60. Excessive avarice one of the greatest defects in one, 139.
Genius. The most fruitful age will produce but three or four in a nation, iv. 316.
Geoffry of Anjou. Married the empress Maude, xvi. 49. Attacked Stephen's Norman dominions, 61; from whom he afterward accepted a pension, 62. Foreseeing the extensive dominions which his eldest son Henry was likely to succeed to, bequeathed Anjou to his second son Geoffry, 93.
Geoffry (his son). Endeavoured to enforce his right to the earldom of Anjou, xvi. 93. Died of grief, 94.
George (prince of Denmark, who died in the end of October 1708, in his 56th year, having been married to the queen more than 25 years). His aversion to the earl of Godolphin, &c. but intimidated from getting him removed before his death, by a critical management of the duke of Marlborough, iv. 283. 284.
George I (king). See Hanover. His accession, x. 267. xi. 395. 403. xiv. 4. Succeeded to the crown with great unanimity among his subjects, iv. 356. Had a happy opportunity of reconciling parties for ever, by a moderating scheme, x. 268. Openly disgraced the principal and most popular tories, ibid. Left the management of publick business almost entirely to sir Robert Walpole, 269. His clemency ironically praised, xii. 84. Pastoral Dialogue on hs Death, vii. 364.
George II (king). During his father's reign, lived an almost private life, x. 272. Applied his time to the study of the language, religion, customs, and dispositions of his future subjects, ibid. His singular firmness and resolution in supporting the rights of his German subjects, ix. 326.
Germain (lady Elizabeth). Invites Dr. Swift to Drayton, xiv. 208. A smart remark made by her, on Colley Cibber's being appointed laureat, xii. 381. Vindicates to Dr. Swift the conduct of the countess of Suffolk respecting him, xiii. 30. Particulars of an affair between the bishop of Peterborow and her, 68. Recommends to Dr. Swift a medicine, said to be of efficacy against giddiness, 248. Highly commended by the dean, for her great and many virtues, 318.
German language. Has admitted few or no changes for some ages past, v. 69.
Gertruydenburgh. Some of the articles in the treaty there very unreasonable, iii. 388. The queen prevailed on to ratify it, though not interchangeably signed, ibid. Horatio Walpole's opinion of it, ibid.
Ghosts. Whence it may be concluded that the stories of them in general are false, v. 455.
Giddiness. A good medicine to relieve from that disorder, and the headach, xiii. 248.
Gifts. Their value enhanced by the manner of their distribution, xiii. 420.
Gillicranky (the battle of). When fought, x. 386.
Gloucester (Robert, earl of). Takes up arms in behalf of the empress Maude, his sister, xvi. 64. Overpowered by the king, withdrew into Normandy, 66. With only twenty followers, marched boldly to his own city of Gloucester, to raise forces for the empress, 70. Joined by the earl of Chester, gives the king battle near Lincoln, 72; and takes him prisoner, 73. Taken prisoner by the king's army, and in his turn presented to queen Maude, who sent him to Rochester, to be treated as the king had been, 76. The two prisoners by mutual consent exchanged, 77. Went to Normandy, to urge Geoffry to come over in person, 78. His death, and character, 80.
Glubbdubdrib (or the island of sorcerers). Account of the governor of it, and his power of raising up the dead, vi. 222.
Godfrey (colonel). Married the duke of Marlborough's sister, mother to the duke of Berwick by king James, xv. 138.
Godolphin (Sidney, earl of). His character, iv. 30. 122. xvi. 345. His wrong management brought on the necessity of the union with Scotland, iii. 300. iv. 285. Resigned his place of first lord commissioner of the treasury when the war was first engaged in; but, on the duke of Marlborough's being made general, in 1702, was appointed lord high treasurer, iii. 338. His spleen at being removed from it, in 1710, xi. 84. A notion propagated, that the publick credit would suffer if he was removed, xvii. 207. Dismissed in an ungracious manner, iv. 291. xi. 85. Reasons of the queen's early disgust against him, iv. 281. 372. Reproaches the queen unjustly with privately admitting Harley into her presence, 373. His exemplary fidelity to king James II at his abdication, iv. 30. An act of general pardon, obtained by his credit, calculated for his own security, 49. His misconduct, ibid. Why talked of by the ministers with humanity and pity, xv. 322, 323.
Gold. See Money.
Good manners. See Manners.
Gordon (Thomas). Some account of him, viii. 420.
Goths. Their form of government in some measure borrowed from the Germans, xvi. 42. When a body of them had fixed in a tract of land, their military government soon became civil, their general being king, his officers nobles, and the soldiers freemen, the natives being considered as slaves, ibid. The nobles were a standing council, to which the freemen were occasionally called, by their representatives, ibid. On the conversion of the gothick princes to christianity, the clergy, being rich and powerful, formed themselves into a body, held synods or assemblies, and became a third estate, in most kingdoms of Europe, ibid. 43. These assemblies seldom called in England before the reign of Henry the First, 43. Nor had the people in that age any representative beside the barons and other nobles, who did not sit in those assemblies by virtue of their birth or creation, but of the lands or baronies they held, ibid. The Gothick system of limited monarchy extinguished in all the nations of Europe, xiii. 167. 195.
Goverment. Never intended by Providence to be a mystery comprehended only by a few, vi. 55. Project for the improvement of, 217. A method for discovering plots and conspiracies against it, 220. The institutions of it owing to our gross defects in reason and in virtue, 307. Naturally and originally placed in the whole body, wherever the executive part of it lies, ii. 291. xvi. 191. The mixed form of it no Gothick invention, but has place in nature and reason, ii. 297. The corruptions that destroy it grow up with, and are incident to, every form of it, 320. The dissolution of it worse in its consequences in some conjunctures than it would be in others, 336. The sentiments of a church of England man concerning it, 364. By what means the great ends of it are provided for, 366. Why every species of it, though equally lawful, not equally expedient, 369. A great unhappiness in it, when the continuance of a war is for the interest of numbers, iii. 5. The nicest constitutions of it often like the finest pieces of clock work, xvii. 374. The Gothick governments in Europe, their conduct with their armies, iii. 58. Mr. Steele's account of the original of it examined, 291. Opinions in it right or wrong according to the humour and disposition of the times, x. 91. No duty in religion more easy than obedience to it, 92. Great breaches in its frame are like vices in a man, which seldom end but with himself, iv. 371. The two extremes of absolute submission and frivolous opposition to government, x. 82. An absolute, unlimited power in, xvi. 191. This supreme power can do more than it ought, but some things it cannot do, 192. The governments of Europe began with limited monarchies, xix. 103. Its progress in England, 104.
Governors. What their main design when sent to their governments, xi. 166.
Grafton (Charles Fitzroy, duke of). Generously granted a noli prosequi in the cause of a printer's persecution, ix. 343.
Graham (laird of Clavers). Created lord Dundee, major general of the forces in Scotland, x. 369. Ordered with his horse up to London by king James, on the invasion of the prince of Orange, 370. Acts no longer as colonel, on hearing the prince intended to place himself on the throne, 377. Goes incognito to the convention at Stirling, 381. Retires into the Highlands, 382. At the battle of Gillicranky, with only seventeen hundred foot, routs major general McCoy with five thousand men; but is killed by a random shot in the action, 386.
Graham (colonel James). The inventor of a set of words and phrases used in his time, viii. 249.
Grandeur, human, contemptibleness of, vi. 115.
Grant (Francis, esq.). His project for establishing a herring and cod fishery, with Dr. Swift's remarks on it, xiii. 117. 120.
Gratitude. A comparison between Roman gratitude and British ingratitude, iii. 30. What required at least from it, xiii. 315.
Greece. Civilized by Theseus, ii. 302. The custom of particular impeachments proved the ruin of it, 304. Anciently divided into several kingdoms, 312. By what means the inhabitants of it are become slavish, ignorant, and superstitious, xii. 438. What sometimes happened among the petty tyrants of it, xiii. 196.
Greek tongue. The purity of it continued from Homer to Plutarch, v. 68. Received many enlargements within that period, 78.
Greg (an underclerk to Mr. secretary Harley). Executed for treasonable practices, iii. 157, 158. Remarks on a Letter to the seven Lords appointed to examine him, v. 373. Designs of the whigs against Mr. Harley in this business, iii. 87, 88. 157. 216. v. 377. xix. 11.
Grierson (Mrs. Constantia). Some account of her, xviii. 450.
Grimston (lord). Succeeded sir Richard Blackmore in one species of poetry, viii. 177.
Grub street writers. Their triumph in these latter ages over time, ii. 77. Advice to the verse writers of that street, vii. 345.
Guiscard (Marquis de). Narrative of what passed at his Examination, xviii. 3. Stabs Mr. Harley at the council board, iii. 154. His profligate character, 157. 161. xviii. 6. Invited over by a great man, iii. 161; who at last dropped him for shame, 157. Suspected of a design against the life of the queen, 161. A comparison between the affair of Greg and Guiscard, 158. 169. If he had survived his attempt, could not by law have been punished with death, 203. See more, iv. 303. 324. xi. 182. xiv. 374-381. xv. 2. 33. xviii. 5. His dead body made a sight of for a fortnight, xv. 2.
Gulliver's Travels. The whole sixth volume. Remarks on them, vi. 357. i. 479. xii. 209-220. xiv. 58. Two dramatick pieces
made in France from the subject, xiii. 469. Epigram to be placed under Gulliver's head, xviii. 443.
Guy (Henry). His advice to lord Bolingbroke, xii. 73. Left a considerable sum to Mr. Pulteney, ibid.
Gyllenborg (count). Swift's letter to him, on the English history, xvi. 1. Some particulars of him and his character, ibid. 3.
Gymnosophists. The order of them by whom instituted, xvii. 75.
- ↑ "But what (says Dr. Johnson) makes a word obsolete, more than general agreement to forbear it? and how shall it be continued, when it conveys an offensive idea? or recalled again into the mouths of mankind, when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse, and unpleasing by familiarity?" Preface to English Dictionary.