A

GENERAL INDEX

TO THE

TWO VOLUMES OF THE GUARDIAN.

N. B. THE NUMERAL LETTERS DENOTE THE VOLUME, AND THE FIGURES RE-
FER TO THE PAGE IN WHICH THE MATTERS ARE CONTAINED.

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CADEMY, what a Youth firft learns there, Vol. i.

page 51.

Acts, public at Oxford, two great Reafons against them, ii, 202.

Adam, his Vifion of Souls, ii. 278.

Adamite, a Sect fo called, ii. 271.

Age, if healthy, happy, i. 56.

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dwells upon paft Times, i. 15.

Aguire, his Story; an Inftance of the Sp of Revenge, i. 21.

Airs the Penman, his Vanity, i. 7.

Alcibiades, his Character and Soliloquy before an Engagement, i. 171.
Alcinous, his Gardens defcribed, from Homer, ii. 344.

Alehoufe-keeper, an elegant one on Hampftead Road, ii. 287.

Alexander, a Letter from him to Ariftotle, ii. 228.

Allegories, Directions for ufing them, ii. 302.

Alnarafchin, King of Perfia, his Story, ii. 331.

Alonzo, Don, a fatal Inftance of the Effects of Jealousy, i. 78.

Alphonfo, his Story, from Strada's Lucan, ii. 240.

Aminta of Taffo, compared with Guarini's Paftor Fido, i. 60.

Anacreon, his Inftructions to a Painter for painting his Miftrefs, ii. 335.
Anaximander, a Saying of his, on being laughed at for Singing, ii. 272.
Ancestors, their Examples fhould excite to great and virtuous Actions, ii. 275,
Ancestry, how far to be venerated, ibid.

renders the Good only illuftrious, ii. 246.

ridiculous for a Man to value himself upon it, ii. 275.

Ancients, crying them up reproved, i. 54.

all that is good in Writing not borrowed from them, i. 81.
diftinguished by Strada, ii. 239.

Androcles, Story of him and the Lion, ii. 379.

Anger defined, ii. 257.

Animals, a Degree of Gratitude owing to them that ferve us, i. 139.
Cruelty towards them condemned, i. 129.

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Anne Bullen, Tragedy of, a Scene of Diftrefs therein, i. 43.

Annihilation, by whom defired, ii. 190.

Ants, natural Hiftory of them, ii. 304, 308 to 312.

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Apothecary

Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, described, i. 173.
Arcadian, the true Character of one, i. 50.

Ariftotle, condemned Cenfure, ii. 272.

Art, thofe moft capable of it, always fond of Nature, ii. 345.
Artificers, capital, a Petition from them, i. 136.
Afpafia, a molt excellent Woman, i. 10, 15.
Afphalties, Lake of, a Difcourfe thereon, i. 129.
Aftronomy, the Study of it recommended, i. 148.
Atalantis, the Author of it, to whom a-kin, ii. 222.
Athalia, of Racine, Part of it fublime, ii. 237.
Atheism more grievous than Religion, ii. 197.
Atheist, behaviour of one in Sickness, i. 82.

Athenais, a Grecian Virgin, married to the Emperor Theodofius, ii. 308.
Attraction of Bodies applied to Minds, ii. 252.

Auguftus Cæfar, Virgil's Praises of him, ii, 277.

Aurenge-Zebe, Tragedy of, wherein faulty, ii. 227.
Author, Account of one raifing Contributions, i. 124.

B.

BACON, Sir Francis, Remarks on the Stile of his History of Henry VII. i. 55.
Barbers, Inconveniences attending their being Hiftorians, i. 106.
Bareface (Will.) defires one of Lady Lizard's Daughters for a Wife, i. 80.
Barfifa, Santon, his Story from the Turkish 'Tales, ii. 293.

Bath, Customs of that Place, ii. 345.

Wife of, a Comedy, characterised, i. 107.

Bawd, a Mother fd, to her own Daughter, i, 40.
Bear-baiting a barbarous Cuftom, i. 129.
Beau, an academical one described, i. 26.

a Species to be commiferated, i. 133.

Beauty, Inconveniences attending it, ii. 181.

at War with Fortitude, ii. 302.
imperfect, defcribed by Prior, ii. 182.

Benevolence, the Seeds of it implanted in the human Soul, ii. 253.

Betty, Mifs, her Hiftory, ii. 317.

Beveridge, Bishop, a fublime Paffage quoted from his Works, i. 156, 157, 158.
Bias, his Way of filencing Calumny, ii. 272.

Bicknell, Mrs. a Comedian, commended, i. 107.

furnished with a Drefs from the Wardrobe of the Lizards, ibid.

Binicorn, Humphry, his Propofal for Printing a Differtation on Horns, i. 249.

Birds, their Examples propofed to Imitation, ii. 251.

Obfervations on their conjugal and parental Affections, ii. ibid.

Blanket, when that Difcipline is necessary, i. 153:

Blood, by what tainted, ii. 275.

Bodkin, Timothy, his Letter concerning Short Swords, ii. 289.,

Boileau, a French Critic, his Account of the Sublime, ii, 237.

Books, an odd Collection of them, i. 128.

Bofoms, naked, a great Grievance, ii. 236.

the Pope's Order against them, ii. ibid.

Boys, their Delights cheap and innocent, i. 132.

Bribery, none in a prefent of Liquor, ii. 320.

Bruce, Lord, his Challenge to, and Duel with, Sir Edward Sackville, ii. 258,
267, &c.

Bubnelia, angry about the Tucker, ii. 224.

Building, Errors in undertaking it, i. 18.
Burial Service, folemn and moving, i. 47.

Button; Daniel, his Letter in Praife of his own Coffee-house, ii. 182.

Twilting, not cloquent, ii. 179.

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ALAMITIES, the general Source of them, i. 8.

Calumny, nothing fo hard for a generous Mind to get over, ii. 271,
how filenced by Philofophers, ii. 272.

Cambray, Fenelon, Archbishop of, Account of his Treatife of the Existence, Wif-
dom, and Omnipotence of God, i. 146.

the Caufe of his Difgrace, i. 102.

Cardan, the Philofopher, what he fays of the Affliction of Love, i. 21.
Care, Dorothy, complains of Mens open Bofoms, ii. 341. ̧ ̧
Cato, Tragedy of, commended, i. 69, 91.

beautiful Similies in that Tragedy, i. 138.

Prologue and Epilogue thereto, i. 70, 71.

Chaplains to Perfons of Quality ought to be respected, ii. 324.
Charity, a Virtue of the Heart, ii. 329.

a fignal Proof of the Divinity of the Christian Religion, ii. 253.
intended by Neftor Ironfide, Efq. ii. 329.

Schools recommended, ii. 218.

Charwell, Mr. his Character, i. 23. His purchase and Improvement of an Estate,
i. 24, 25. Borrowed many of his Maxims from Monfieur Colbert, i. 110.
Chastity, the nobleft Male Qualification, i. 95.

China, Emperor of, Honours none till after Death, ii. 203.

Chryfo, Magnet, or the Loadstone which attracts Gold, described by Strada, ii. 245.
Church (Chriftian) the divine Order and Economy thereof, compared to the Fa-
bric of St. Paul's, i. 148.

the Word mifapplied, i. 169.

wherein the Word wants Explanation, i. ibid.
Clarina, a young Lady unhappy by her Beauty, ii. 181.
Claffics, abfolutely neceffary to study them, ii. 183.
Claudian, (Strada's) ii. 235, 241.

his Court of Venus, ii. 254.

Pluto's Speech to Proferpine, from him, ii. 327.
Cleomenes, a Tragedy, by Dryden, wherein faulty, ii. 226.
Clergymen, Refpect due to them, i. 11.

confidered as Philofophers, ii. 260.

the End they fhould propofe to themselves, i. 32.
abused, i. 169, 170.

Climate, (British) very inconftant, ii. 213.

Clown, Character of an impudent one, ii. 322.

Club, of Little Men, ii. 192.

Short Club, ibid.

Silent Club, ii. 243.

Tall Club, ii. 223.

Terrible Club, ii. 286.

Coaches, young Gentlemen reproved for driving them, i. 33.

an Intrigue carried on by Means of one, i. 34, 35%

Cock-fighting, a barbarous Cuftom, i. 129.

Colbert, Monfieur, his Converfation with the French King concerning the great

Power of the Dutch, i. 110, &c.

Cold-Bath, recommended, ii. 214.

Colleges, chiefly erected on religious Confiderations, i. 133.

Comet, a remarkable one in 1680 described, ii. 215.

Commandments were made for the Vulgar, i. 59.

Common Fame, Vifion of, i. 141, 142.

Complaifance, ufeful in Converfation to make it agreeable, ii. 322.
Congreve, Mr. Characters drawn by him, ii. 182, 234.
Confcience, is to the Soul what Health is to the Body, ii. 271.

the Efficacy and Force of it in the Hour of Death, ii. 272.
a good one, the only Relief against the Pain of Calumny, ibid,
Conversation, one of the noblest Privileges of Reason, i. sz.

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Conversation,

Converfation, Rules for it, i. 52.

Coquette, how the should paint herself, ii. 280.
Covetousness, Precautions against it, i. 43.

the Vice of, enters deeper into the Soul than any other, i. ibid.

Country Life, the Charms and Pleasures of it, i. 48.
why we are pleafed with it, i. 49.

Countrymen, meeting abroad, their Familiarity, ii. 252.
Courtship, the Extravagance of it described, ii. 231.
Cowards, never forgive, i. 45.

Cowley, Mr. Criticifin on his Songs, i. 38.

Coxcomb at the Head of a Family a melancholy Thing, ii. 328.
Crabtree, Major, his four Saying of the Ladies, i. 56.
Craffus, an old lethargic Valetudinarian, ii. 214.

Creation, Works of, the divine Confideration of them, ii. 348.
Critics, wherein they differ from Cavillers, ii. 226.

the Severity of one on the Fire-works on the Thames, ii. 215.
the Character and Marks of an ill one by Mr. Congreve, ii. 234.
falfe, i. 30, 38.

Criticifm on Song-Writing, i. 37. On feveral Plays of Dryden's and Lee's, ii. 226.
Cromwell, Oliver, what Monfieur Pafchal fays of his Death, ii. 273.

Cunning oppofed to Wisdom, ii. 302.

Cupid with Eyes, ii. 254.

Cultoms, barbarous in England, an Account of them, i. 129, 130.

Cyrus, his heroic Chastity, i. 131.

Cyr, St. Account of that Monastery founded by Madame Maintenon, i. 102.

D.

DEDALUS, his Letter about Flying, ii. 230.

Damo, a Daughter of Pythagoras, to whom he left his Writings, ii. 329.
Davigné, Mellrs. Father and Grandfather of Madam Maintenon, their Story, i. 96.
David, King, a rabbinical Story concerning him, ii. 278.

the Beauty of his Lamentation for Jonathan, i. 109.

Davis, Sir George, his Adventure with a Lion, ii. 290.

Dead Men, only have Honours in China, ii. 203.

Death, a Means to make the Thoughts thereof the sweetest Enjoyment, i. 41.
the Hope of good Men in it, ii. 336.

what only can fpeak Life in the Midst of it, ii. 273.

compared to Proteus, ii. 273. Whence the Abhorrence of it proceeds, i.
336. An Infirmity not to defire it, i. 46.

Dedications, the Abufe of them, i.

13, &c.

of an Author to himself, i. 15.

Defamation, the Art of it difcovered, ii. 340.

Definition of Words neceflary, i. 169.

Denham, Sir John, his Directions for Tranflating, ii. 326.

Derham, Mr. his Book of Phyfico-Theology commended, ii. 348.

Des Cartes, difcovered the Pineal Gland in the Brain, i. 73.

Detraction, too cafily given into by the Ladies, ii. 181.

Devotion, early Hours of, the Advantages of it, i. 139.

Dewlap, Dick, well made for a Jetter, i. 89.

Diaper, James, his Letter recommending Tom's Coffee-house for Politeness of Con
verfation, ii. 201.

Diogenes, a fevere Saying of his to one that flandered him, ii. 272.

his Opinion concerning the Poor and Rich, ii. 199.

Diftrefs, imaginary, the greatelt Part of Man's Affliction, ii. 323.
a Scene of it in the Tragedy of Anne Bullen, i. 43.

Ditton and Whifton, their Letter concerning the Longitude, ii. 22z.
Doune, Dr. a Criticism on his Songs, i. 38.

Don Sebaftian, by Dryden, wherein that Tragedy is faulty, ii. 226,
Dream of a Window in Aurelia's Breath, ii. 220.

concerning Death, ii. 273.

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