Chocolate a great heater of the blood in women, 365.
Chremylus, his character out of Aristophanes, 464.
Christianity, the only system that can produce content, 574,
How much above philosophy, 634.
Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and excel-
lency of its doctrines, 186, 213.
Chronogram, a piece of false wit, 60.
Church-musicians reproved for not keeping to the text as
well as the preachers, 338. Church-work slow work, ac-
cording to sir Roger, 383.
Church-yard, the country Change on Sunday, 112.
Cicero, a punster, 61. The entertainment found in his phi-
losophic writings, ib. His genius, 404. The oracle's ad-
vice to him, ib. What he says of scandal, 427. Of the
Roman gladiators, 436. His extraordinary superstition,
505. And desire of glory, 554.
Clarendon, (lord) a reflection of that historian's, 485.
Clarendon, (earl of) his character of a person of a trouble-
some curiosity, 439.
Clarinda, an idol, in what manner worshipped, 73.
Clavius, proving incapable of any other studies, became a
celebrated mathematician, 307.
Cleanliness, the praise of it, 631.
Cleanthe, her story, 15.
Cleanthes, his character, 404.
Clergy, a threefold division of them, 21.
Clergyman, one of the Spectator's club, 2.
Clergymen, the vanity of some in wearing scarves, 609.
Cleopatra, a description of her sailing down the Cydnos, 400.
Club. The She Romp Club, 217. Methods observed by that
club, ib. The Mohock club, 324. The design of their in-
stitution, ib.
Club-law, a convincing argument, 239.
Clubs, the institution and use of them, 474. Nocturnal as-
semblies so called, 9. Several names of clubs, and their
originals, ib. &c. Rules prescribed to be observed in the
Twopenny club, ib. An account of the Ugly club, 17. The
Sighing club, 30. The Fringe-glove club, ib. The Amorous
club, ib. The Hebdomadal club: some account of the
members of that club, 43. And of the Everlasting club,
72. The club of Ugly Faces, 78. The difficulties met
with in erecting that club, ib.
Coffee-house disputes, 197. Debates seldom regular or me.
thodical, 476. Liars, two sorts of them, 521.
Colours, the eye takes most delight in them, 412. Why the
poets borrow most epithets from them, ib. Only ideas in
the mind, 413. Speak all languages, 416.
Comedies, English, vicious, 446.
Comfort an attendant on patience, 501. What, and where
found, 196.
Commendation generally followed by detraction, 348.
Commercial friendship preferable to generosity, 346.
Commerce, the extent and advantage of it, 69.
Common-prayer, some considerations on the reading of it,
147. The excellency of it, ib.
Company, temper chiefly to be considered in the choice of
it, 424.
Commonwealth of Amazons, 433.
Comparisons in Homer and Milton, defended by monsieur
Boileau against monsieur Perrault, 503.
Compassion, the exercise of it would tend to lessen the cala-
mities of life, 169. Civilizes human nature, 397. How to
touch it, ib.
Complaisance, what kind of it peculiar to courts, 390.
Compliments in ordinary discourse censured, 103. Exchange
of compliments, 155.
Concave and convex figures in architecture have the greatest
air, and why, 415.
Condé, (prince of) his face like that of an eagle, 86.
Confidence, the danger of it to the ladies, 395.
Connecte, (Thomas) & monk in the 14th century, a zealous
preacher against the women's commodes in those days, 98.
Conquests, the vanity of them, 180.
Constancy in sufferings, the excellency of it, 237.
Contemplation, the way to the mountain of the muses, 514.
Content, how described by a Rosicrucian, 574. The virtue of
it, ib.
Contentment, the utmost good we can hope for in this life,
163.
Consciousness, when cailed affectation, 38.
Conversation, most straitened in numerous assemblies, 68.
An improvement of taste in letters, 409. Usually stuffed
with too many compliments, 103. What properly to be
understood by the word conversation, 143.
Cordeliers, the story of St. Francis their founder, 245.
Cornaro, Lewis, a remarkable instance of the benefit of tem-
perance, 195.
Coquettes, the present numerous race, to what owing, 66.
Coquette's heart dissected, 281.
Cot-queans described by a lady who has one for her husband,
482.
Cotillus, his great equanimity, 143.
Coverley, (sir Roger de) he is something of an humourist, 106.
His choice of a chaplain, ib. His management of his fami-
ly, 107.
His account of his ancestors, 109. Is forced to
have every room in his house exorcised by his chaplain,
110. A great benefactor to his church in Worcestershire,
112. In which he suffers no one to sleep but himself, ib.
He gives the Spectator an account of his amours, and the
character of his widow, 113, 118. The trophies of his
several exploits in the country, 115. A great fox-hunter;
116. An instance of his good-nature, ib. His aversion to
confidents, 118. The manner of his reception at the as-
sizes, 122. Where he whispers the judge in the ear, ib.
His adventure when a school-boy, 125. A man for the
landed interest, 126. His adventure with some gipsies, 130.
Rarely sports near his own seat, 131. His reflections upon
visiting the tombs in Westminster-abbey, 329. A great
friend to beards, 331. Goes with the Spectator and captain
Sentry to a play called the Distressed Mother, 335. His
behaviour and remarks at it, ib. His uneasiness on the
widow's account, 359. His observations in his passage with
the Spectator to Spring Gardens, 383: In what manner
affronted on that occasion, ib. His adventure with Sukey,
410. His good humour, 424. A member of the Spectator's
club, his character, 2. His opinion of men of fine parts, 6.
A dispute between him and sir Andrew Freeport, 174.
An account of his death brought to the Spectator's club,
517. His legacies, ib. His return to town, and conversa-
tion with the Spectator in Gray's-inn walks, 269. His in-
tended generosity to his widow, 295.
Country gentlemen, advice to them about spending their
time, 583. Memoirs of the life of one, 622.
Country life, why the poets in love with it, 414. What Ho-
race and Virgil say of it, ib. Rules for it, 424. A scheme
of it, 474.
Country-Wake, a farce, commended by the Spectator, 502.
Country, the charms of it, 118. Country gentleman and his
wife, neighbours to sir Roger, their different tempers de-
scribed, 128. Country Sunday, the use of it, 112. Country
wake described, 161.
Courage recommends a man to the female sex more than any
other quality, 99. One of the chief topics in books of
chivalry, ib. False courage, ib. Mechanic courage, what,
152. Wants other good qualities to set it off, 422. And
magnanimity inseparable, 350.
Court interest, the several ways of making it, 394.
Court and city, their peculiar ways of life and conversation,
403.
Courtiers' habit, on what occasions hieroglyphical, 64.
Courtship, the pleasantest part of a man's life, 261.
Cowards naturally impudent, 231.
Cowley, his opinion of Perseus, the Latin satirist, 330. His
magnanimity, 114. Abounds in mixt wit, 62.
Cowley, (Mr.) his description of heaven, 590. His story of
Aglaüs, 610. His ambition, 613.
Coxcombs, generally the women's favourites, 128.
Crab, of King's College in Cambridge, chaplain to the club of
Ugly Faces, 78.
Crazy, a man thought so by reading Milton aloud, 577.
Creation, a poem commended by the Spectator, 339. The
contemplations on creation a perpetual feast of delight to
the mind of a good man, 393.
Credit undone with a whisper, 320.
Credit, a beautiful virgin, her situation and equipage, 3. A
great valetudinarian, ib.
Credulity in women infamous, 190.
Cries of London require some regulation, 251.
Criminal love, some account of the state of it, 274.
Critic, the qualities requisite to a good one, 291.
Critics (French) friends to one another, 409.
Critics, modern ones, some errors of theirs about plays, 592.
Cross (Miss) wanted near half a ton of being as handsome
as madam Van Brisket, a great beauty in the low coun-
tries, 32.
Culkoldom abused on the stage, 446.
Cunning, the accomplishment of whom, 225.
Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting of our appe-
tites, 237. (Absurd) An instance of it 439.
Custom a second nature, 437. The effect of it, ib. How to
make a good use of it, ib. Cannot make every thing
pleasing, 455.
Cynæas, Pyrrhus's chief minister, his handsome reproof to
that prince, 180.
Cynthio and Flavia, break off their amour very whimsically,
399.
Cyrus, how he tried a young lord's virtue, 564.
DACINTHUS, his character, 462.
Dainty (Mrs. Mary) her memorial from the country infir-
mary, 429.
Damon and Strephon, their amour with Gloriana, 423.
Dancing displays beauty, 466. On the stage faulty, ib.
The advantages of it, ib. A necessary accomplishment, 334.
The disadvantages it lieth under to what owing, ib. Useful
on the stage, 370. A discourse on it, defended, 67.
Dangers past, why the reflection of them pleases, 418.
Dapperwit (Tom) his opinion of matrimony, 482. Recom-
mended by Will Honeycomb to succeed him in the Spec-
tator's club, 520.
Day, the several times of it in several parts of the town, 454.
Death, the contemplation of it affords a delight mixed with
terror and sorrow, 133. Intended for our relief, ib. Deaths
of eminent persons, the most improving passages in history,
289. The benefit of it, 349. The time and manner of our
death not known to us, 7.
Debauchee, his pleasure is that of a destroyer, 199.
Debt, the ill state of such as run in debt, 82.
Decency, nearly related to virtue, 104. 292. Of behaviour
generally transgressed, 292.
Dedications, the absurdity of them in general, 188.
Defamation, the sign of an ill heart, 427. Papers of that
kind a scandal to the government, 451. To be punished by
good ministers, ib.
Definitions, the use of them recommended by Mr. Locke, 373.
Deformity, no cause of shame, 17.
Delight and surprise, properties essential to wit, 62.
Delicacy; the difference between a true and false delicacy,
286. The standard of it, ib.
Deluge, Mr. Wn's notion of it reproved, 396.
Demurrers, what sort of women so to be called, 89.
Denying, sometimes a virtue, 458.
Dependants, objects of compassion, 282.
Deportment (religious) why so little appearance of it in
England, 448.
Descriptions come short of statuary and painting, 416. Please
sometimes more than the sight of things, ib. The same
not alike relished by all, ib What pleases in them, 418.
What is great, surprising, and beautiful, more acceptable
to the imagination than what is little, common, or deform-
ed, ib.
Desire, when corrected, 400.
Detraction, the general use of it in conversation, 348.
Devotion, the great advantage of it. 95. The most natural
relief in our afflictions, 163. A man is distinguished from
brutes by devotion more than by reason, 201. The errors
into which it often leads us, ib. The notions the most re-
fined among the heathens had of it, 207. Socrates's model
of devotions, ib. The noblest buildings owing to it, 415.
Devotee, the description of one, 354.
Diagoras, the Atheist, his behaviour to the Athenians in a
storm, 483.
Diana's cruel sacrifices condemned by an ancient poet, 453.
Dick Crastin challenges Tom Tulip, 91.
Dignitaries of the law, who, 21.
Dionysius, a club-tyrant, 508.
Dionysius's ear, what it was, 439.
Disappointments in love the most difficult to be conquered of
any other, 163.
Discontent, to what often owing, 214.
Discourse in conversation not to be engrossed by one man, 428.
Discretion, an under agent of Providence, 225. Distinguished
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