quibbling one on judge Boat, 289. A tragical
one, called Cassinus and Peter, xi. 212. A sati-
rical one on the duke of Marlborough, x. 269.
Elephant, or The Parliament-Man, xxiv. 10.
Elizabeth (queen). Relation of the Riot intended on her
birthday, iv. 307. Her character, iii. 191. Her
birthday usually a day of dissipation, iv. 314.
Particularly so in 1679, which was intended to be
imitated in 1711, 316. Her circumstances much
resembled those of queen Anne, vi. 116. Some
account of her conduct, ibid. Mixed money coined
by her, for the payment of the army in Ireland,
in the time of Tyrone's rebellion, xii. 106. Could
not resist the artifices of the earl of Leicester; yet
would never suffer his openest enemies to be sacri-
ficed to his vengeance, xiv. 265.

Ellis (bishop), xv. 44.

Elliston (Ebenezer). His last Speech and dying Words,
xii. 55. Account of him, ibid.

Eloquence. Action necessary to it, viii. 159.
Elstob (Elizabeth), viii. 158.

Emperor (of Germany). Why inclined to continue
the war, vi. 216. Prospect of more danger to the
balance of Europe from his overrunning Italy, than
from France overrunning the empire, 219. Never
paid his contribution toward the Prussian troops,
v. 287. Nor furnished the quota of men stipulated,
288. But chose to sacrifice the whole alliance to
his passion of enslaving his subjects of Hungary,`
ibid. Hindered the taking of Toulon, 289. Em-
pire refuses to grant eight thousand men, for which
the English would have paid forty thousand
pounds toward carrying on the war on the side
of Italy, 290.
The emperor's conduct when Por-
tugal came into the grand alliance, 291. His re-
turn made for the places conquered for him by the
English, 293. His objections to the peace, vii. 214.
The reasons why he did not agree to it at last, 216.

ix. 20.

Emperor (of Lilliput). A great patron of learning, Lives chiefly upon his own demesnes, 29. His style in public instruments, 41. His palace described, 45. Employments. Good morals more to be regarded than great abilities, in choosing persons for them, ix. 61. None more eager for them than such as are least fit for them, xv 179. In general, very hard to get, xxii. 201. By the act of succession, no foreigner can enjoy any, civil or military, xvi. 103. Enclosures. Reflections on their consequences, XX. 40. England. History of, vii. 219.

England. Excellence of its government, iii. 316. General satire received in it with thanks instead of offence, whereas in Athens it might only be personal, iii. 59. The political state of it described, ix. 141. What the bulk of the people in, 212. Degeneracy of the people of, 225. State of in queen Anne's time, 280. What the only means the people of it have to pull down a ministry and government they are weary of, xxiii. 290. What necessary to frighten the people of it once a year, 293. Prosecuted the war with greater disadvantages than either its enemies or allies, and less able to recover itself at the conclusion of it, V. 17. 312. Ought not to have been a principal in the confederate war with France, v. 263. 267. Had no reason to boast of its success in that under king William, 266. No nation ever so long and scandalously abused by its domestick enemies and foreign friends, ibid. Its strength shamefully misapplied to ends very different from those for which the war was undertaken, 271. Carried on the war at a great expense in Spain, on a vain belief that the Spaniards, on the first appearance of a few troops, would revolt to the house of Austria, 273. Neglected to use her maritime power in the West Indies, 274. The reason alleged for this

conduct, 275. Must mortgage the malt tax, to carry on the war another campaign, 311. The landed popish interest in it much greater than in Ireland, vi. 313. Received the reformation in the most regular way, xiii. 229. What it gets yearly by Ireland, xii. 103. xiii. 7. The taste of it infamously corrupted by shoals of those who write for their bread, xviii. 146. Swift apprehensive that liberty could not long survive in, xix. 139. 159. An enumeration of its publick absurdities, xiv. 228. An abstract of its history before the conquest, vii. 224. Above nineteen millions expended by England in the war more than its proper proportion, vii. 122. The true way of increasing its inha bitants to the publick advantage, 131. Character of the people, iv. 219. vi. 122. xxiii. 161. Progress of its government, xviii. 203. 204. Its constitution admirably fitted for the purposes of a king, 211. General discontent, that it should be engaged in a very expensive war, while all the other powers of Europe were in peace, xvii. 85. What the too frequent practice there with respect to madhouses, xviii. 259. So connected with Ireland, that the natives of both islands should study and advance each others interest, xix. 73. English language. Letter to the Earl of Oxford on its Improvement, vi. 41. English tongue. Discourse to prove its Antiquity, xiv. 350. The expediency of an effectual method of correcting, enlarging, and ascertaining it, vi 43. Its improvements are not in proportion to its corruptions, 44. Had two or three hundred years ago a greater mixture with the French than at present, 46. Not arrived to such perfection as to occasion any apprehension of its decay, 47. The period wherein it received most improvement, 48. The state of it in king Charies the Second's time, 49 Has been much injured by the poets since the restoration, 50. Reasons why

words in it ought not to be spelt as pronounced, 51. The pronunciation of it much more difficult to the Spaniards, French, and Italians, than to the Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Dutch, 52. Means to be used for reforming it, 53. A society of judicious men should be selected for that purpose, ibid. To whom the French academy, as far as it is right, might be a model, ibid. Many words ought to be thrown out of the English language; many more corrected; some, long since antiquated, restored on account of their energy and sound, ibid. When the language is fully corrected, it might occasionally be enlarged by the adoption of a new word, which, having once received a sanction, should never be suffered to become obsolete, 56. Corruptions of it, viii. 183. The progress of the Dean's plan, xv. 164. 216. 228.232. The language advanced by sir William Temple to great perfection, iii. 280. In Swift's younger days, had produced no letters of any value, 281. English Bubbles, Essay on, xii. 22. Englishman. A paper so called, vi. 183. Enthusiasm. The spring-head of it as troubled and muddy as the current, iii. 153. Has produced revolutions of the greatest figure in history, 243. Definition of the word in its universal acceptation, ibid. The various operations of religious enthusiasm, 244.

9.

Enthusiasm, Letter on. By whom written, iii. Epaminondas. One of the six greatest men in the world, ix.

peared grea18. An instance in which he ap

xiv. 224.

Ephori. Wherein their office consisted at Sparta, ii. 280. And in England, v 180.

Epick poem. A receipt to make one, xxiii. 82. Epicurus. Opinions ascribed to him not his own, iii. 268. Had no notion of justice, but as it was profitable, xiv 136. Misled his followers into the greatest vices, ibid. His sect began to spread at

Rome in the empire of Augustus, and in England in Charles II's reign, 176. The greatest of all freethinkers, 215. Epigrams. Tom cudgelled,x. 39. Catullus de Læsbia,117. From the French, 118. On scolding, 224. Joan cudgels Ned, 289. On Wood's brass money, xi. 4. On windows, 47-50. On a very old glass, 67. Paulus, 111. On Stephen Duck, 204. The power of time, 209. On the busts in Richmond hermitage, 262. On Gulliver, 322. The Dean and Duke, 323. By Dr. Swift on his deafness, 324. Answered, 325. On Vertiginosus, 326. On bishop Rundle's fall, 328. On the magazine at Dublin, 341. On Dr. Swift's intended hospital for idiots and lunatics, 343. On the Drapier, 350. On two great men, 351. Occasioned by an inscription on the Dean's monument, 355. On Carthy's threatening to translate Pindar, Delacourt's complimenting Carthy, ibid. stant lover, xx. 75. Umbra, xxiv. 23. Hough, 35. On Handel and Bononcini, Mrs. Tofts, ibid. Two or Three, 41. In a maid of honour's prayer book, ibid. The balance of Europe, ibid. On colonel Chartres, 70. On the death of a child, ibid. On a man's beating his head, ibid. From the French, 71. On the toasts of the kit-cat-, club, 72. To a lady with the temple of fame, ibid. Epilogue, to a play for the benefit of the Weavers, x.

226.

Epiphonema, viii, 11.

366. On The incon On bishop 40.

On

Epitaph. The Dean's written by himself, i. 323. On the Dean's servant, ii. 147. On Partridge, x. 74. On lord Berkeley, 87, On a miser, 191, On a great buried Bottle, 266. On judge Boat, 289. On the earl of Suffolk's Fool, xi. 71. On General Gorges and Lady Meath, 102. On duke

Of by

Schomberg, 211. On P. P a parish clerk, xxiii. 152. On colonel Chartres, xxiv. 69. words, 70. On G. 71.