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Quidnunckis. On the death of the duke regent of France, xvii. 446
Quillet. His character of England, xviii. 23.



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Rackstraw (Mr). Some account of him, xviii. 388.
Radcliffe (Dr). How represented in Martinus Scriblerus's map of diseases, xi. 343. Sent for, in the queen's last illness, but declined attending, xi. 386. Remarks on his conduct, its motives, and consequences, 387-389. From what motive he took particular care to save lord chief justice Holt's wife, xii. 310.
Raillery. When not corrupted, the finest part of conversation, v. 232. The difference between the English and French sense of the word, 233. A species of it introduced by Oliver Cromwell, 234. In England, safer to make use of it with a great minister or a duchess, than in Ireland with an attorney or his wife, xi. 139. Swift's talent, but a bar to his preferment, xii. 440.
Rake. Qualifications of one, ii. 87.
Ralph bishop of Durham (a chief instrument of oppression under William I and II). Imprisoned by Henry the First, xvi. 30. Escaping from prison, fled to duke Robert, whom he stirred up to renew his pretensions to the English crown, 31.
Rape of the Lock. Its political key, xvii. 99.
Raphoe. What the yearly value of its bishoprick, xi. 312.
Rapin. His history, wherein defective, xiii. 294.
Ratcliffe (captain). The inventor of punch, ix. 277.
Raymond (Dr). Presented by Dr. Swift to lord Wharton, xiv. 198.
Read (sir William). A famous quack, xv. 19.
Readers. Three classes of them described, ii. 182.
Reason. The corruption of it worse than brutality, vi. 292. The use made of it tends only to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, 306. Among the houyhnhnms, not opinion, but always conviction, 318. Things may be above it, without being contrary to it, x. 26. Though designed by Providence to govern our passions, yet in two points of the greatest moment God has intended it should submit to them, 169. The wisdom of God, and the madness of man unaccountable to reason, and not the object of it, xvii. 387. Wherein that faculty consists, xii. 130.
Receipt. To boil oysters, xv. 278. For stewing veal, xiii. 207. For the cure of giddiness, xiii. 248.

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