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ABBEY LANDS-In Queen Mary's time, the grantees confirmed in
possession of them by the pope, vol. viii, page 109.

Abercorn, Lord-Swift secretly an advocate for him in his distress,
xxii. 167.

Abingdon, Earl of, his character, vi. 169.

Absurdities, public-In Ireland, xiii. 13. In England, xiv. 231.
Academy-Description of one to be erected for wits, iii. 51. Of pro-
jectors at Lagado, ix. 200. A political one established by the
king of France, xvi. 110.

Acheson, Sir Arthur-xvii. 236. Verses on occasion of Dr. Swift's
visit to his seat, xi. 69-83. His lady's complaint against the
Dean, 76. Estimate of the value of a grant made to him of a bar-
rack upon his estate, xiii. 88. Lets a farm to the Dean, called af-
terward Drapier's Hill, xi. 169, 170. Highly offended by the Dean,
xvii. 82.

More prevalent, even
argument in the world

Action-Its use to a public speaker, viii. 159.
when improper, than all the reason and
without it, 163.
Addison, Mr.-His character, xi 138. xv. 68. One of the few poets
who made a proper use of the sacred writings, viii. 62. Purchased
the place of keeper of the records in Bermingham's tower, the
salary of which he got raised from ten pounds to four hundred,
xii. 162. Went to Ireland in 1708, as secretary to Lord Wharton,
xv. 68, 78. Where he soon distinguished Stella's merit, xiv. 249.
Wrote the Whig Examiner in conjunction with Mr. Maynwaring,
xxiv. 158. Gave his Travels to Swift, with an elegant inscription,
i. 120. Swift's friendship for him, vii. 17. xxi. 91, 138. xxii. 164.
His sister, xxi. 45. His popularity, 32. His pride hurt, at being
under obligations to Swift for assisting Steele; yet solicits him for
an office for Philips, 92. Coldness between him and Swift, 123,
162.

Address of the House of Lords to the Queen, vi. 355.

Addresses, from all parts of the kingdom, the true sense of the nation,
v. 95-184. The folly of the address against making any peace
without the restitution of Spain, 192. The true meaning and de-
sign of it, ibid.

Egyptians-Arts and sciences derived to us from them and the In.
dians, xxiii. 106

Eolists-Held wind to be the original cause of all things, iii. 136.
Their doctrine consisted of two and thirty points, 137. The philo-
sophers among them delivered to their pupils all their opinions hy
eructation, 138 Their gods, 139. Their manner of performing
their mysteries and rites, 140; which were frequently managed by
female priests, 141. And this custom still kept up by some of the
modern Æolists, ibid.

Esebines-His proof of the power of eloquence, viii. 159.
Affairs-Free Thoughts on the present State of, vi. 231.
Aghrim-Valour of the Irish at the battle of, xviii. 129.

Aglionby, Dr-His character, vi. 176.

Agriculture-Greatly neglected and discouraged in Ireland, xii. 11.
61. 254. The improvement of it, a subject worthy the highest in-
quiry, 256. xx. 153. Without the encouragement of it, any coun-
try, however blessed by nature, must continue poor, xii. 296.
Ague-A disease little known in Ireland, xxi. 297.

Aid, (for marrying the king's eldest daughter.)-How levied, vii.

256.

Aislabie, John, made a speech against Swift in the House of Com-
mons, x. 118.

Alberoni, Parson-Extract from a work of Mr. Gordon's under that
title, xxiv. 143.

Alcibiades-The consequence of the impeachment of him by the Athe-
nian people, ii. 292.

Ale-More ancient than wine, and by whom invented, iii. 259. That
of Wexford famous, xxi. 245.

Alexander the Great-Honourably distinguished by Swift, viii. 178.
A reflection on the manner of his death, ix. 218. An instance of
his magnanimity, xiv. 226.

Alexandrine verses-Swift's dislike to them, xix. 151.

Allegiance-Reciprocal with protection, though not with preferment,
vi. 127.

Allen, Joshua, lord-xix. 134. His character, xiii. 77. See Traulus.
The Dean's advertisement in his defence against him, xvii. 282.
Alley, The-A poem, in imitation of Spenser, xxiv. 4.
Alliance--The principal cause of the grand alliance between the
Emperor, England, and the States General, v. 268. xxiii. 163. The
par ies in it agree to furnish near two hundred thousand men, ex-
clusive of garrisons, v. 288. vii. 117. Afterward the number of forces
increased, and the English bore an unequal proportion, v 289. vii.
120. The English to bear five eighths in the sea service, and the
Dutch three, v. 290. vii. 117. The English to pay two hundred
thousand crowns a year to the Prussian troops, the States one hun
dred thousand, the emperor thirty thousand, which he never paid,
v. 291. Neither of the emperors had ever twenty thousand men
on their own account in the common cause, though by agreement to
furnish ninety thousand, 292. The confederate army to maintain
forty thousand men against Spain on the Portugal side, 295. Fifty
thousand on the side of Catalonia, which was chiefly at the English
expense, 296. The eighth article of the grand alliance translated,
307. The whole of it examined by the house of commons, vii. 114.
Broken by every party in it, except the English, v. 331.
Allies Their refusal to bear their just proportion of the charges of
the war connived at for private ends, vi. 215, 216. Infamously de-
seted the British troops, 217. The emperor inclined to continue
the war, because it affected not his own dominions, 218. See Alli-
ance, and Conduct.

Almanac-makers-Why alone excluded the privilege of other authors,
to live after their deaths, iv. 139.
Alsatia-iii. 29. Squire of, viii. 9.

Ambassador-Wherever he is, his house has all the privileges of his
master's dominions, xv. 32.

Ambition-Not so strong a passion in young men as love, xv. 291.
America-The state of religion in the plantations there, v. 219. la
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, viii. 242. Why the Irish migrate thither, 243, xiii.
58. xx. 101. The reasons urged for removing thither from Ireland
ill founded, xiii. 59.

Amplification--What; and the use of it in poetry, xxiii. 47.
Amsterdam Gazette-The confidence of its writer, v. 330.

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Amusement-Whose happiness it is, xxiii. 372.

Anatomical figures-A collection of them recommended to Swift's
patronage, xx. 236.

Anglesey, Arthur Aunesley, Earl of His zeal against the bill for lay-
ing a duty on Irish yarn, xxi. 188.

Anglesey, John Annesley, Earl of-vi. 287. By his death, the tories
lost a great supporter, xxi. 12.

Anglo Latin-Specimens of, xxiv. 183-188.

Anjou, Duke of At the beginning of the war maintained six and
thirty thousand men out of the Spanish provinces he then possess-
ed, vi. 8. See Partition Treaty, Spain.

Anne, Queen-History of her four last Years, vii. 1. Considerations
on the Consequences of her Death, vi. 257. Modest Inquiry into
the Report of it, 111. Remarks on the Characters of her Court,
159. Her conduct in the change of the ministry, v. 13-18. Her
right hereditary and indefeasible, as much as an act of parliament
could make it, 32. Behaviour of the whigs toward her, 59. Began
her reign with a noble benefaction to the church, 72. Her charac-
ter, 90. vi. 268. Showed great prudence, firmness, and courage,
in the change of the ministry, v. 304. Put under the unreasonable
obligation of being guarantee of the whole barrier treaty, vi. 13.
Influenced in every action by negligence or procrastination, vi.
268. 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 ex-
pected, 259. A great mistress of royal reserve and delay: her
jealousy frequently destroying the good effects of her friendship,
259. 269-318. 350. Induced to change her ministry, more to pre-
serve her power and prerogative, than through apprehension of
danger to the church, 270. She and her minstry had no design of
bringing in the pretender, 306–334. Had a great personal regard
for the Lords Somers and Cowper, 309. An instance of her piety,
v.332 Degraded her dignity, in sending an humiliating embassy
to the Czar, xiv. 228. Her speech to both houses of parliament,
containing the foundation of the peace, vii. 173. Her circumstance
much resembled those of Elizabeth, vi. 118. A noble maxim of
hers, 119. Her remark on a conversation with the duke of Marl-
borough, xxi. 106. Much governed by the whig ministry, 151;
which made her very jealous of their successors, ibid. 161. Recom-
mends to the parliament to take a method to prevent libels, &c.
xxii. 88. Her birth-day celebrated with great splendour and luxu-
ry, 188. Tells the lords her reasons for parting with the lord trea-
surer Oxford, xvi. 77. Attacked in 1713 with an ague, vi. 112. Ac-
count of her last illness, xvi. 81. Her death, 84. Reasons of the
joy of some people on the report of it, vi. 111. Stocks rose on this
report, and also at her real decease, 129. An inscription proposed
for her tomb, ibid. Some observations respecting her, by Dr. Ar-
buthnot, xvi. 106.

Annesley. See Anglesey.

Annus Mirabilis, xxiii. 118.

Anselm, (a foreigner of great piety and learning.)-Promoted to the
see of Canterbury by William Rufus, vii. 233. His dispute with
that king, on having made too small a present to him, 234. An-
selm, 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, 248. His disputé
with that king, on the right of investiture, 251: which was com-
promised by the pope, ibid. His death and character, 255.
Answers, difficulty of writing, iii. 26. What some people call an-
swering a book or discourses v. 27.

Anthony, Mark-Appeared contemptible at Actium, xiv. 223,
Anthony, St-The story of his pig, xxii 307.

Anthony, Dr-A whimsical odd man in Ireland, xix. 102.
Apollo, British, xxiv. 168.

Apollo outwitted, x 60

Apollo to the Dean, 201. Verses occasion-
ed by, 205. Apollo's Edict, occasioned by the foregoing, 208.
Apollo, or a Problem solved, xi. 244.

Apology, An, &c.—xi. 340.

Apologies-Those of the Fathers, the most useful parts of their writ-
ings, v. 153.

Arachne The fable of her and Pallas applied, xii. 15.

Arbitrary power-A greater evil than anarchy, iii. 316. The natu
ral object of temptation to a prince, xiv. 171. Whether the tories
or the whigs and fanatics are the greatest friends to it, v. 197,
198.
Arbuthnot, Dr-The author of Political Lying, and John Bull, xxii.
154. His acquaintance with Swift commenced probably in 1711, i.
116. xxi. 173. Some extempore verses made by him, xvi. 45.
Gives Dr. Swift a short account of a treasonable piece, called "A
History of the last invasion of Scotland," 57. His humourous cen-
sure of Whiston's project of the longitude, 66. His observations
respecting the death of Queen Anne, 106. Encomium on Dr. Swift,
107. His humourous remark respecting Miss Nelly Bennet, intro-
duced by him to the French court, 196. Mentions a droll incident
or two on the publication of Gulliver's Travels, xvii. 97. One mo-
tive of his particular care to save Mr Gay's life, xvii 260. His
prescription to Dr. Swift, for the cure of his fits of giddiness, xviii.
24, 25. Writes a very humourous treatise on the altercation of the
ancients, 42 His remark upon Curll the bookseller, 234. His free-
dom with the greatest persons in defence of liberty, virtue, and re-
ligion, 236. Affecting and friendly letter, written in his illness,
and some few months before his death, to Dr. Swift, xix 102.
count of his death, by Mr. Pulteney, 140. His character, xvik
214. xxi. 316.

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Arbuthnot, Robert-Married an Irish lady of 900l. a year, xvii. 75.
Archimedes, viii. 182.

Aretine-Had all the princes of Europe his tributaries, viii. 211.
Argyll, Earl of Returns out of Holland to invade Scotland, in sup-
port of the duke of Monmouth's pretensions to the crown, xiv. 321.
Is deserted by his Highlanders, and flies, 322. Being taken prison-
er, is sent to Edinburgh, and beheaded, 323

Argyll, John Campbell, Duke of-Zealously promoted the Union, but
remonstrated against the malt tax, vi. 208. His extraordinary an-
swer to a question from the queen, 274. His character, 178. 227.
xxi. 191. A distinguisher of merit, xxi. 145. Tells Swift, his re-
commendation will have more weight with him than that of all the
ministry together, 156. Married a niece of Duncomb the rich al-
derman, xxi. 191.

Arians-Their opinions, xiv. 22.

Aristides His character, and for what banished, ii. 290.
Aristotle His character, vii. 323. viii 179. ix. 220.

xvii. 24.

His opinion that man is the most mimic of all animals, how con-
firmed, xxiii. 321. The greatest master of arguing in the world,
iv. 84. His poetry, rhetoric, and politics, admirable, ibid. His
foundation of happiness absurd, xiv. 136.

Arlington, Henry Bennet, Earl of His character, iii. 290.
Army-The mention of standing armies in the midst of peace, and
among a free people, amazed the king of Brobdingnag, ix. 145.
The general contempt of religion in that of the English, iv. 152.
The vice of drinking restored by the army, after having been
almost dropped in England, 159. What commerce a general has
with the civil power in a well instituted state, v. 34. The armies
of Greece and Rome, in the early times, composed of their citizens,

who took no pay, 62. Two originals of the custom in Europe of
keeping them in pay, 63. Reflections upon the behaviour of some
officers in it, and their execrations of the new ministry, 67. Not
blameable for preferring the whig to the tory ministry, 89. A
standing army in England, either in war or peace, a public ab-
surdity, xiv. 232. The superior valour of the British troops beyond
those of any of the allies, vii. 193. How raised and paid in the
feudal ages, 237.

Arnall, William, xvii. 176.

Arran, earl of His reply to Archbishop Burnet, xiv. 331. Solicited
by Dr. Swift to resign the claim made by the Ormond family to the
rectoral tithes of Cloumel, xx. 238.

Artemisia, xxiv 6.

Arts-Professors in most of them deficient, in not explaining their
meanings, viii. 6. Whence derived to us, xxiii. 106.
Asgyll, John, iv. 7.

Ashbrook, Henry, viscount, xx. 89.

Ashburnham, Lord-Married to Lady Mary Butler, xxi. 42, 242.
Her death, with a short character of her, xxii. 169.
Ashe, Rev. Dillon, xxi. 113. A hard drinker, 192.

Ashe, St. George, bishop of Clogher, xvi. 130, xx. 2. Specimen of his
puns, xxii. 211. His seat at the council board preserved to him by
Swift, xxi. 124.

Ashe, Tom-An eternal punster, his pretended dying speech, xiii. 299.
Account of him, ibid.

Assemblies, public-Their infirmities, follies, and vices, ii. 321.

Astell, Mrs. Mary, viii. 150, 152.

Astle, Thomas, vi. 160.

Astrology-The abuse of it in this kingdom, iv. 101. Partridge's

apology for his own practice of it, 121.

Athanasian creed-On what occasion composed, xiv. 22.

Atheism-Preaching against it imprudent, viii. 21.

Athenians-The rise and consequences of their dissensions, ii. 287.

Not always too obstinate to correct an ill step, 291.
character of them, 295.

Athenian Gazette, xv. 4.

Oracle, xv. 5.

Polybius's

Society-Ode to the, x. 19. Letter to the, xv. 4.
Athens The privilege of every citizen and poet there, iii. 59.
Atlas, or the Minister of State; to the lord treasurer Oxford, x. 88.
Atterbury, Bishop-His character as a preacher, viii. 160. Gives Dr.
Swift his advice and opinion, for his conduct in the dispute between
him and his chapter, xvi. 135, 138. An allusion to his trial, ix. 214.
Rise and progress of his intimacy with Swift, xv. 193. Instance of
his probity, and the occasion of his ruin, 287.

Attraction-The doctrine of, not founded on nature, ix. 222.
Augustus Cæsar, viii. 181.

Augustus, king of Poland-Dethroned by the king of Sweden, re-as-
sumes the crown, v. 325. When he appeared mean, xiv. 228.
D'Aumont, Duke-His house burnt to the ground, with the various
speculations thereupon, xxii. 182, 133. Thought to have been done
through malice, 184.

Austria, house of-See Spain.

Authors-Should consult their genius rather than interest, if they
cannot reconcile them, xviii 47. Composing godly books no re-
commendation to them in England, 223. The admired ones of the
last age, xxii. 263, 264.

Authors, modern-How far they have eclipsed the ancients, iii. 116.
Illustrate the beauty of their own writings, when they would
correct the ill nature of critical, or inform the ignorance of cour-

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