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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