Irish troops in the French service-Danger of them, xiii. 94. It cannot rain but it pours-xxiii. 320.
Italian language-Has admitted few or no changes for some ages, vi. 50.
Italy-Anciently divided into petty commonwealths, ii. 296. Judas-A poem, xi. 247.
Judges-The replies of two judges to criminals who appealed to the general judgment, xii. 191. Eastern punishment of an iniquitous one, 204. Judges seldom have it in their power, if it be in their will, to mingle mercy with justice, xiv. 88. Those of Ireland have the examinations about murder taken out of their hands by the commons, xvi. 11.
Junto y. 99. Coalition for a time between the junto and late ministry, 132
Juries A resolution of the house of commons concerning gran
ries, on a proceeding of Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, xii 181, 203. Not to be discharged by a judge, while matters are under consideration, 181. Nor to be influenced by him, 202.
Jury, grand-Seasonable Advice to the, xii. 176. Their Presentment of such as should attempt to pass Wood's Halfpence, 182. Justice-Lilliputian image of, ix. 61.
Kearney, Dr-xvi. 223.
Kelley, Captain Dennis-xvi. 279.
George-xvi. ibid.
Kelly, Miss-Died of a consumption, xviii. 120. Kendal, duchess of-xi. 5. xii. 147. xvi. 218. Kendall, Rev. John-Vicar of Thornton, xv. 1. Kennett, Bishop-His description of Swift, xv. 304. Kensington-The speaking doctor there, viii. 170. Kent-A celebrated gardener, xvi. 295.
earl of His character, vi. 169.
Ker, Colonel-xi. 341.
Kerry, earl of One of the most ancient and noble families in Ireland, xix. 159.
Anne, Lady-xxi. 211.
Key to the Lock-xxiii. 127.
Keynes, William de-Takes King Stephen prisoner, vii. 286. Killaloe, bishop of Empowered to solicit the affair of the first fruits, &c in Ireland, xv. 103. What the yearly income of that bishoprick, xvi. 15.
Killingrew, William, Thomas, and Henry-Some account of each of them, iv. 326. A saying of Henry's to Lord Wharton, xiv. 178.
King-The true glory and greatness of a king of England, v. 184. Cannot legally refuse to pass a Bill approved by the commons, ii. 231. Explanation of the maxim, that he can do no wrong, iii. 318. Impolitie in one to prefer persons of merit, ix. 224. Can be as despotic as he pleases, xviii. 164. Peculiar advantage he enjoys, 166. The desire of unlimited power natural to kings, xix. 164. What alone can cool their lust of power, 165. How far it is proper he should have the choice of his ministers, xiv. 266. The title given as a matter of courtesy, not acknowledgment of right, v. 272. Kings often deceived in their grants, xii. 100. Why they should be obeyed, xiv, 89. Made of the same materials with their subjects, 79.
King, Peter, lord-vi. 195.
Dr. William, archbishop of Dublin-xv. 28. A character of him, iv. 26. His generosity to the clergy of his diocese, xiii. 160. Swift greatly feared or respected him, xv. 63. A repartee of his, xvii. 7. His enmity to the Dean, in return for many kind offices received, xvi. 142, 179. xvii. 122. Had a lawsuit with the dean and chapter of Christchurch on his right of visitation, xv. 39. His reflections on the character of the earl of Wharton, lord lieutenant of ireland, published at Dublin, xv. 142; on Guiscard's attempt to kill Mr. Harley, xv. 150. xxi. 190, 206; on the proceeding of the eity in the election of a mayor, xv. 166. His advice to Dr. Swift, 204. Reflections on the approaching peace, 203. Account of the proceedings at a convocation, pressing a representation of the state of religion in Ireland, 208.
Dr. William, the civilian-iii. 26. vi. 89. xxiv. 155. Made gazetteer, xv. 224.
Dr. William, principal of St. Mary Hall-xx. 126. His opinion of Swift's History, xx. 174. Published Swift's Verses on his own death, 201.
Mass John, a noted preacher among the covenanters-A short account of him, xiv. 294. Taken prisoner by Captain Creich- ton, 303. Sent to Edinburgh, and hanged there, 304.
Kingdom-A depending kingdom, a modern term of art, unknown to the ancient civilians, xii. 166. What meant by the expression, ibid. The several causes of a kingdom's thriving enumerated, xii. 295, 297.
Jenny, a maid of honour-Colonel Disney's saying of her, Kingston, Evelyn Pierpoint, duke of Imported a foreign commodity, not worth the carriage, xx. 151.
Kirk of Scotland, v. 140.
Kirkwood, an Episcopalian minister in Scotland-Preserves his life and fortune by a singular presence of mind, xiv. 347. Kirleus, Mary-The noted quack, iv. 120. Kit-cat-Derivation of the term, vi. 89.
Kit cat club-Some account of it, vi. 89. Knatchbull, Edward-xx. 118.
Knaves-Whence have art enough to elude the laws, iii. The term originally not infamous, xii. 224.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey-Painted portraits of the members of the Kit: cat club, vi. 89.
Knights of the Garter-Six made at one time, xv. 245. Knox, Mr-His patent for coining halfpence, xii. 129, 133.
Ladder-A symbol of faction and poetry, iii. 67.
Ladies, in England-Their manner of writing, ix. 59; and spelling, xiii. 308. The insignificancy of many of them when past their youth and beauty, viii. 91. Why they love tragedies more than comedies, xxiii. 371. Verses to one who desired the author to write some on her in the heroic Style, xi. 36. On the five at Sot's Hole, 83. Their Answer, 85. The Beau's Reply, 86. Journal of a mo- dern fine Lady, 87. The Lady's Dressing-Room, xi. 220. The Hardship upon them, 296. New Simile for them, 322. The Art- swer, 325. On the Education of, xiv. 236. Verses on one at Court, xxiv. 78.
Lagado, the capital of Balnibarbi, described, ix. 195.
Lamb, William-Recommended by Mr. Pope and Mr. Lyttelton to Swift, to be made one of his vicars choral, xx. 195, 224, 231. Lambert, Dr-Chaplain to Lord Wharton, xv. 65. xxi. 91. Lancaster, Henry, duke of His hospital at Leicester, xii. 68. Land-What raises the value of it, xii. 65. Whence the dearness in Ireland, xii. 298. xiii. 170.
Landed Interest-Lessened by the increase of the monied, v. 14: Which may prove dangerous to the constitution, 172.
Landlords-Their cruelty and oppression in Ireland, xiv. 108. Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury-His being preferred by Wil- liam Rufus, in his favour and ministry, the cause of Odo's dis- content, vii. 230. On his death, the see kept vacant four years, 231. Langford, Sir Arthur-Reproved by Dr. Swift, for erecting a conven- ticle, xvi. 120.
Langton, Dominick-His false charge of a plot, xv. 138, 186, 201. Language-Better not wholly perfect, than perpetually changing, vi. 56. One of its greatest perfections, simplicity, 57. What esteem- ed fine language by the better sort of vulgar, viii. 5. The language of the northern nations full of monosyllables and mute consonants united, 186. See English language.
Lansdown, Lord-Offended at a passage in the Examiner, xxii.
Laputa, or the flying island-The people of it described, ix. 177. Laracor -The Dean purchases a glebe, for the benefit of his successors in that living, xvi. 162. 169. xvii. 276.
Latin tongue-In Britain, never in its purity, nor yet so vulgar as in Gaul and Spain, vi 47. More words of it remain in the British tongue than in the old Saxon, ibid. Suffered as much change in three hundred years âs the English and French in the same space, 48. Reasons assigned for the corruptions of it, 49.
Latinitas Grattaniana-xx. 109.
Laughter-Causes of it, xxii. 244.
Launcelot, Mr-Swift's letter to the earl of Chesterfield, in his behalf, xviii. 22. Married a relation of the Dean, ibid.
Lavallin, Captain-His remarkable story, and its melancholy conse quences, xxi. 32.
Laws-Those of Brobdingnag described, ix. 152. That men should be ruined by them, a paradox not understood by the Houyhnhnms, 280. Method of suits at law as practised in England, ibid. Owing to the defects in reason, 293. Those of the twelve tables whence formed, ii. 301. What law in a free country is, or ought to be, xiv. 173. Qualifications requisite to those who are to make them, viii. 45. Why the force of them is often eluded by knaves, v. 187. Our laws extremely defective in many instances, 189. Laws to bind men without their own consent not obligatory, xii. 17. Law of God, all other laws precarious without it, xiv. 49. Itself invaria- ble, iv. 55. Law the will of the supreme legislature, 54. What is now called common law was first introduced by Edward the Confes sor, vii. 227. Observations on the Salique law, 197 A lawsuit a suit for life, xxiii. 181. Their execution should not be trusted to those whose interest it is to see them broken, vii. 268. Lawyer-See Rooke.
Lawyers-Bred up in the art of proving white black, and black white, as they are paid, ix. 280. Avoid entering into the merits of a cause, but dwell upon the circumstances of it, 281. Their cha- racter, exclusive of their profession, 282. Seem least of all others to understand the nature of government in general, iii. 323. A specimen of their Reports, xxiv. 105. Why not always well açı
quainted with the old English constitution, iv. 65. Their sense of the statute of Henry VIII. relating to the leases of hospitals, &c.
Learning-What among the people of Brobdingnag, ix. 152. The effects of it on a brain unfit to receive it, xxiii. 334. Men who have nuch, are generally the worst ready speakers, viii. 54. Leases A law wished for, to prevent bishops letting them for lives, viii. 110. Custom of letting long leases of church lands, practised by some of the popish bishops at the time of the reformation, held many years after, xii. 64. Remarks on the custom of letting them for lives upon many estates in England, 68. What the worth of a bishop's lease for the full term, xiii 171.
Lechmere, Nicholas, lord-Some account of him, xxiv. 24.
Le Clerc, Mons-His letter to Mr. Addison, on his being appointed secretary to the earl of Wharton, xv. 76. xx. 284.
Leech, Sir Edward-His daughter Dorothy, xxii. 40.
Legion club-Satirically described, xi. 330
Leicester-An hospital founded there by Henry, duke of Lancaster, xii. 68. A specimen of the sagacity of the justices at a quarter ses- sions there, 151. The Dean's character of that town, xv. 3, 4. Robert Dudley, earl of His character, xiv. 268. Leigh, Mr. James-xxi. 5.
Lent-Why hated by Dr. Swift, xxii. 93.
Lepidus-In what he made a mean figure, xiv. 228.
Leslie, Dr. Charles-iii. 309. Strictures on him, ibid. Accused by Dr. Burnet of impudence, for proposing a union between the Eng lish and Gallican church, viii. 126. Character of him, ibid; and of his sons, xi. 190, 193, 195.
Leslie, Col. Harry, xi. 190, 195.
Levintz, Sir Richard-xv. 136. xxi. 66.
Levity-The last crime the world will pardon in a clergyman, viii. 29.
Lewis le Gros-His design on Normandy, vii. 260. Jealous for the future aggrandisement of England, raises William, son of duke Ro- bert, to the earldom of Flanders, ibid; which drew on him the ven- geance of Henry, ibid.
XIV-Spent his time in turning a good name into a great one, ii. 148. His resemblance to the whigs, vi. 139. See
Erasmus-Refutation of the Falsehoods alleged against him, vi. 101. Some account of him, vi. 103. xv. 281. xvi. 309. xxii. 14,182 His friendly hint to Dr. Swift to take care of his papers, xvi. 121. Gives some account of Mr. Prior, and the proposal for printing his poems, 165.
alias Levi, Henry-A Hamburgh merchant, vi. 104. In- consistencies of his narrative, 109.
Lexington, Lord-His character, vi. 170. Leyden, Jack of-iii. 130.
Libel-Vindication of the-xi. 338.
Libels-To a Friend who had been abused in many, x. 233. The queen recommends to her parliament, the taking a method to pre- vent them, xxii. 88. One published, called the Ambassadress, the printer of which was set in the pillory, fined, and imprisoned, 213. Liberty-The subversion of it in the Roman state to what owing, ii. What a sure sign of it in England, xxiii. 302. The daughter of Oppression, and parent of Faction, v. 142. The defect of our laws owing to it, 189. Mr. Steele's panegyric upon it in the Crisis,
Liberty of Conscience-See Conscience.
Life-The pleasures we most value in it such as dupe and play the wag with the senses, iii. 153. The latter part of a wise man's life taken up in curing the follies, &c. contracted in the former, xiv. 166. The last act of it a tragedy at best, but with bitter aggravation when our best friends go before us, xvii. 148. A tragedy, wherein we sit as spectators a while, and then act our own part, 171. An imperfect sort of a circle, which we repeat and run over every day, xiv. 12. Not intended by God as a blessing, in Swift's opinion, xxii. 169. The manner in which Lord Bolingbroke said he wished. to divide it, xvii. 121. There is a time wherein every one wishes for some settlement of his own, xviii. 11. Loss of friends a tax upon long life, xviii. 250.
Lilliput-Its chief ministers rope-dancers, ix. 36. Its laws and cus- toms described, 58. The manner of writing like that of the ladies in England, 59. See Emperor of Lilliput.
Lilliputian Ode to Quinbus Flestrin-xxiv 66.
Lilly-His grammar established by an act of parliament, xxii. 257. Lindsay, Dr-Primate of Ireland. His death, xv. 104. xvi. 223. earl of His character, vi. 169.
Robert-An eminent barrister, xi. 119. xii. 230.
Linen-How the Irish lost the whole trade in it to Spain, xii. 253. Lingen, secretary-xix. 147.
Lintot, Bernard-Verses to be prefixed to his New Miscellany, vxiv 12.
Lion-A dream concerning the parish lions, who were to judge of virginity, viii. 199, 204.
Liturgy, English-Great strains of the true sublime in it, vi. 57. Lloyd, Dr. of Trinity College, Dublin-His character, iv. 185. His marriage, 186.
Dr. William, bishop of Worcester-His prophecy, xv. 49,
Locke, Mr-His tenet of no innate ideas supposed by Dr. Swift to be dangerous, iv. 84.
London-True and faithful Narrative of what passed there, xxiv. 91. In point of money, is supposed to be one third of England, xiii. 28. Its parishes very unequally divided in Sir W. Petty's time, v. 216. Number of poets, orators, politicians, profound scholars, &c. there, xi. 286. Its native fools of the bear and puppy kind to those of Dublin as eleven to one, 287. The properest place in the world to renounce friendship in, xvii. 40. Some particulars relating to the sale of public offices in that city, xviii. 240.
Long, Mrs. Anne-Decree for concluding the Treaty between her and Dr. Swift, iii. 329 Account of her, ibid. xv. 215. xxi. 10, 63, 85. Her character, xv. 215. xxii. 39. Her own account of her situ- ation, xv. 210. Her death recorded by Swift, xxii. 40.
Longitude-Mr. Whiston's project for it, xvi. 66. An ode for music upon it, xxiv. 40.
Lorrain, duke of Invited over by the papists of Ireland during the usurpation, xiii. 245.
Lorraine, Paul-iii. 65. vii. 156. An observation of his, xii. 23. Lot, du-Inventor of bouts rimés, xi. 156.
Lottery in 1711-xxi. 289.
Love-Verses to, x. 149. Love Poem from a Physician, xi. 68. Love Song in the modern taste, 296. A fabulous account of the origin of it, from Plato, v. 140. Love and war the destruction of chairs in the kitchen, viii. 253. A much stronger passion in young men than ambition, xv. 304.
Lownds, William-Married Sw ft's uncle's wife's sister, xxi. 224. Hu- morous verses addressed to him by Gay, ibid.
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