Mildmay (lord Fitzwalter). Avaricious, xvii. 191.
Milles, bishop of Waterford, xv. 40. 44. xxi 261.
Milton. Why his book on divorce soon rejected,
iv. 46. His Paradise Lost, a proposal to turn it
into rhyme, viii. 69. The first edition of it long
in going off, xviii. 145. Swift's opinion of it,
viii. 69. xviii. 145. But once quoted by Swift,
xvi. 141; though glanced at among intellectual
triflers, viii. 147.

Mind. Tritical essay on its faculties, iii. 265.
Minerals. The richest are ever found under the
most ragged and withered surface of earth, viii,

73.

Ministers of state. A definition of one, ix. 285.
Plato's observation on them, ii. 314. Events im.
puted to their skill and address, frequently the ef.
fect of negligence, weakness, humour, passion,
or pride, vi. 233. Have no virtues or defects by
which the publick is not affected, 234. 235. Re-
putation of secrecy a character of no advantage to
them, 235. Are wont to have a mean opinion
of most men's understanding, 243. The general
wishes of a people more obvious to others than te
them, ibid. The whig ministers praised for those
very qualities which their admirers owned they
chiefly wanted, v. 108. Morals more necessary
than abilities in, ix. 61. The greatest princes see
only by their eyes, 74. The difficulties they are
often subjected to, from a necessity of concealing
their want of the power they are thought to be
possessed of, vi. 328. Make no scruple of mould-
ing the alphabet into what words they please, xv.
110. The felicity of a familiarity with them
consists only in the vanity of it, 283. Seldom re-
cord the important parts of their own administra-
tion, and why, vi. 264. Ministers of genius sel.
dom so fortunate in life as those of meaner quali
fications, xvi. 204. The cause of it, 205. When

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120.

they have received bad impressions of any one, though groundless, seldom lay them aside, xviii. 76. A minister of State however he may cover his designs, can never wholly conceal his opinions, vi. 333. He is grievously mistaken, in neglecting or despising, but still more in irritating, men of genius and learning, xii. 283. It is not impossible for a bad minister to find a man of wit to defend him; but in such cases, the writer's head rebelling against his heart, his genius utterly forsakes him, ibid. When a ministry is at any charge in the election of senators, it is an acknowledgement of the worst designs, 230. An observation respecting new ones, xv. 61. What consequent to the loss of their places, 103. Why they should avoid all inquiry, and every thing that would embroil them, 135. Never talk politicks in conversation, xxii. 198. Access to them usually converted by most men to their own single interest, xv. 285. 286. Well-disposed remembrancers the most useful servants to them in their leisure hours, 286. The faults of men who are most trusted in publick business difficult to be defended, xiv. 259. How far their choice should be left to the king, 263. Remarks on those of queen Anne, xxi. 117. Dr. Swift tells them, they would leave him, Jonathan, as they found him, and that he never knew a ministry do any thing for those whom they made companions of their pleasures, 150. Stand on a very narrow bottom, between the whigs and the violent tories, 161. Dr. Swift their ablest champion, 186. Their disinterestedness, iv. 277. Their character and capacity, 303. Character of their predecessors, 318. Ministry. Memoirs relating to the Change in the, vi. 261. Inquiry into the Behaviour of the, 293. Objections against the change made in it an

swered, v. 13. 18. 51. 130. 180. 182. Some of the facts that contributed to the change of it, :28. 130. Thei tyranny over the conscience, 59. Ill consequences apprehended from the change of it, not in any proportion to the good ones, 95. What to be expected from the whig ministry, if again in power, 98. The severity of the whig, and the lenity of the tory ministry, with relation to libels against them, ibid. The latter have their defects, as well as virtues, 109. But were the queen's personal voluntary choice, 135. What the greatest advantage received from the change of it, 162. The expedients by which the whig ministry escaped the punishments due to their counsels and corrupt management, 188. By what steps the tory ministry might have established themselves, vi. 345. xv. 151. xvi. 92. Overthrown by the disagreement between Harley and Bolingbroke, XX. 122. Cleared from the charge of a design to bring in the pretender, vi. 331. 334. 346. One ministry, in general, seldom more virtuous than another, 350. Change of the whig ministry not designed by the queen to be carried so far as the church party expected, 257. That of the court of Britain described; under the characters of the emperor Regoge, king George I; Lelop-Aw, sir Robert Walpole; Nomptoc, Spencer Compton; Ramney, sir Thomas Haumer, vii. 311. A ministry may generally be judged of by the talents of those who are their advocates in print, xii. 283.

A Minority. Is usually assiduous in attendance, watchful of opportunities, zealous to gain proselytes, and often successful, xii. 3.

Mirmont (Marquis de), xi. 54.

Miser. An epitaph on one, x. 191. By living. miserably, and dying hated and despised, to leave great riches, may be said to have outwitted him

self, xviii, 102.

One lost thousands more by
starving himself, than he could have spent in good
living, xix. 248.

Misjudging. Whence it usually proceeds, xv. 229.
Mist (the printer). Severely prosecuted for reprint-
ing one of Dean Swift's tracts, xiii. 36.

Moderation. Consequences attending the mistaken
meaning of the word, xiv. 6o. 64. A moderate
man in the true sense of the word, 63.
ing to the new meaning of it, ibid.

Accord-
Modern history. Gross misrepresentations made in it,

ix. 221.

Modesty. Advantages received from it, xxiii. 350.
Mohocks. Wonderful Prophecy of the Spirit of one slain
by them, xxiv. 81. Their insolent barbarities, xv.
214. xxi. 109. The Dean attributes the origin of
their riots to prince Eugene, vii. 50. Their prac-
tices, xxii. 96. Were all whigs, ibid. Swift
thought to be in danger from them, ibid. 98.
More observations respecting them, 101. 102. 109.
Mohun (lord). Killed by duke Hamilton in a duel,
vii. 203. xxii. 146.

Molesworth (honourable Robert), vi. 188. xvi. 12.
Preface to his account of Denmark full of stale
profligate topicks, iv. 87. The book itself written
out of pique, ibid. Complained of by the lower
house of convocation in Ireland, ibid. Created a
peer by king George I, ibid. Author of an excellent
discourse for the encouragement of agriculture,
xii. 78. The Drapier addresses a letter to him, 18:.
(John, afterward second viscount), xxi.

14.

Molly Mog. Or, The fair Maid of the Inn, xxiv. 47.
Written on lady Harvey, xvii. 97.

Molyneux (Samuel), xvi. 157. xvii. 138. xxii, 143.
Monarchy. A singular argument in praise of it,
though absolute, iii. 315. Whigs pretend a due

regard to it when taking the largest steps toward
the ruin of it, v. 12.
Monckton (Robert), xvi. 70.

Money. A debate about the most effectual means of
raising money without oppressing the subjects,
ix. 210. The expedients used by governments

of borrowing, a practice as old as Eumenes, one
of Alexander's captains, v. 15. Gradual decline
of its value at Rome, xii. 65. The different value
of it in England for about four hundred years past,
66. The value of it at least nine tenths lower all
over Europe than it was four hundred years ago,
xiii. 194.
What the only money British subjects
are obliged to take, xii. 104. Agreed that copper
is not money, ibid. 191 214. What the current
money in England, 221.
What the current mo-
ney in Ireland, 102. 221. 294. xiii. 14. 38. xix.
77. Allowed to be cut into halves and quarters,
for the sake of small traffick, in some of the poor-
est American colonies, viii. 242. Why better
than counsel, xiv. 181. That money creates
power, an erroneous and corrupt notion, xviii.
57. A necessary caution in lending it, xxi. 64.
See Coin, Halfpence, Wood.

Monkeys. An odd stratagem made use of to catch
them, in the island of Borneo, xi. 175.
Monmouth (James Fitzroy duke of).

Commander
in chief against the rebels in Scotland, xiv. 296.
Acts contrary to the advice of his officers, 297.
Reproached by general Dalziel, who succeeded him
in the chief command, with betraying the king,
299. Beheaded on Tower Hill, iv. 317.
Montague (duke of). His character, vi. 162.
(John, second duke of), iv. 313.

Montaigne. Wrote a chapter in his Essays to force
ladies to keep the book in their closets, xv. 30.
Monthermer (lady), x. 287-

Monthly Amusement. By whom written, xxiv. 152,