Fishery. The folly of the English, in suffering the Dutch to run away with it, xix. 77. Mr Grant's proposal for establishing a white herring and cod fishery in Ireland, 73.
Fitzmaurice (John, afterward earl of Shelburne). Dr. Swift solicits a small preferment for him, xix. 163. Flappers. The office of certain domesticks so called in Laputa, ix. 177.
Flattery. The different motives to the love of it in men and women, xiv. 171. The power of it, and the way to guard against it, xiv. 16.
Fleetwood (bishop of St. Asaph), vi. 87.95. Remarks on his Preface, vi. 95. Pretended Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to him, vi. 87. His principles of government, 88. The preface to his four ser- mons burnt by order of the house of commons, 93. Flemings. A set of vagabond soldiers, natives of Ar- ragon, Navarre, Biscay, Brabant, &c. who infested all Europe, vii. 304. Were ready to be hired to any prince who chose to pay them, ibid. Always hated in England, ibid.
Fletcher (Andrew). His character, vi. 177. Floyd (Biddy). Verses on, x. 57. 58, 201.
Folly. Usually accompanied with perverseness, xiii. 5. A term that never gave fools offence, xviii. 40. None but fools can be in earnest about a trifle, 48. 103.
Fontenelle (Bernard de), iii. 19.
Fools. Imitate only the defects of their betters, xiv. 107.
Forbes (lord). For his firm attachment to king James II, sent prisoner to the Tower, xiv. 330, Refuses to accept two hundred pounds sent him by king William, ibid.
Ford (Charles). Introduced by Dr. Swift to the duke of Ormond, xxi, 7. Appointed gazetteer by Dr. Swift's procurement, with a salary of two hundred pounds a year, beside perquisites, xxii, 123. Gives
Dr. Swift an account of several expected changes in the ministry, and other matters of state, xvi. 50. Of the proceedings against Arthur Moore, 52. His earnestness to have a complete edition of Dr. Swift's Works, of most of which Mr. Ford had good copies, xix. 52. 148. His curious law-suit with an Irish chairman, xx. 20. Verses on his birth- day, x. 285. On Stella's visit to his house, 282. Ford (Charles, x. 285.
(James). The speaking doctor, xvi. 178. (Matthew), x. 285.
Forlorn Hope, viii. 99.
Forster (Mr. recorder), iv. 199,
Fortescue (William). A baron of the exchequer, xv. 188. xxiv. 101.
Fountaine (sir Andrew), xv. 46. Dr. Swift visits him in a dangerous illness, and differs in opinion from his physicians, xxi. 103. Character of his mother and brother, 114. A punster, xxii. 13.
Fornes (sir William), xvi. 202. 212. His letter to Dr. Swift, respecting the foundation of an hospital for lunaticks in Dublin, xviii. 258. His character, xix. 154.
France. Can much sooner recover itself after a war than England, v. 17.312. The genius and temper of that people, 146. In the war against queen Anne, very politically engrossed all the trade of Peru, 275. While under one monarch, will be always in some degree formidable to its neigh- bours, xv. 241. A litigious manner of treating peculiar to that country, vii. 214. The indigna- tion expressed by all ranks in that nation at the terms of peace offered to them by the allies, vii. 57. A royal academy established there, for the instruction of politicians, xvi. 105, Wooden shoes, and cottages like those in Ireland, are to be found within sight of Versailles, xix. 228. The stables in that kingdom truly magnificent, and the water-
works at Marli admirable, ibid. Ill treatment the Irish experienced there, xviii. 176.
Francis I. (king of France). Bargained with the pope, to divide the liberties of the Gallican church between them, viii. 116.
Frankland (sir Thos.), xxi. 6. His character, vi. 169. Fraud. Esteemed in Lilliput a greater crime than theft, ix. 59. Merits greater punishment than many crimes that are made capital, iv. 171. Frederick (prince of Wales). The exalted expecta- tions of him, if he should come to be king, xx.
231. Freedom. Wherein it consists, xii. 192. The Dean's letter to the mayor, &c. of Corke, when the free- dom of that city was sent to him, xx. 141. The substance of his speech, when that of the city of Dublin was presented to him, xiii. 257.
Have no great reason for their cla- mours against religious mysteries, viii. 21. Are a little worse than the papists, and more dangerous to the church and state, viii. 123. Lord Boling- broke's remarks on them, xvii. 17. Freethinking. Abstract of Mr. Collins's Discourse on it, xiv. 191. Some Thoughts on, iii. 277. The inef ficacy and imprudence of preaching against it, viii. 21. What the principal ornaments of it, xxii. 250. By whom first introduced, 251. No com- plete body of atheology ever appeared before Mr. Collins's Discourse on Freethinking, xiv. 193. That discourse sufficiently exposed by an abstract of its contents, 195.
Freind (Dr. Johm). Recommended by Dr. Swift to be physician general, xxii. 95.
(Dr. Robert), xv. 272. xvi. 133.
French (Humphry, lord mayor of Dublin). Ode of Horace addressed to him, xi. 237. His character, xiii. 237. 243. xviii. 229. xix. 38.
French. A mixture of their tongue first introduced with the Saxon by Edward the Confessor, vi. 45. The genius and temper of that nation, v. 146. The oppressive practice of the government, of calling in their money when they have sunk it very low, and then coining it anew at a higher rate, xii. 104. Have the history of Lewis XIV. in a regular series of medals, viii, 225. French memoirs, to what their success is owing, iii. 289. Their conduct and evasion in settling the articles of commerce with England, xxii. 186. An in- stance, in which the vanity of that nation contri- butes to their pleasure, xiv, 259. French Prophets, iv. 108.
Friendship. Acts of it create friends even among strangers, xv. 286. Lord Bolingbroke's reflec- tions on it, xvi, 191.242. The folly of contracting too great and intimate a friendship, xvii. 74- Reflection on it, by the duchess of Queensberry, xviii, 290. The loss of friends a tax upon long life, 294. The medicine and comfort of life, xx, 243. Not named in the New Testament, in the sense in which we understand it, xiv. 215, Frisson (Mrs), vi. 343.
Frog (Nicholas). A true character of him, xxiii,
Frogs. Whence propagated in Ireland, xii, 276, Froude (Philip), xv, 43, xxii. 23.
Funds. Mischiefs of them, v. 14. xvi, 230. The use of them in England commenced at the Revo- lution, v. 15. vii. 99. Antiquity of the practice, v. 15. Not such real wealth in the nation as ima- gined, 16. The cunning jargon of stockjobbers, ibid. 94. Reflections on the managers of publick funds, 182. An account of those raised from 1797 to 1710, vii, 193,
Funerals. The only method of carrying some people to church, xxiii. 302,
Furnese (sir H.). Added or altered a letter of his name with every plum he acquired, v. 203.
Furniture that best pleases the Dean of St. Patrick's, xi,
Gadbury (John, the astrologer), iv. 102.
Gallantry. The nations who have the most of it for the young are severest upon the old, xv. 8. Gallas, count (the Imperial envoy). Forbid the British court for his infamous conduct, vii. 87. His base intrigues, ibid, Deservedly disgraced, xxi, 334
Gallstown House. Verses on, x. 230.
Galway (earl of), xxi. 33. His character, vi. 173. Humorous threat of a surgeon whom he had of fended, xiii. 72.
Gamesters. In what respect courtiers may be said to resemble them, xix, 269.
Gaming. Some pertinent inquiries concerning it, made by the king of Brobdingnag, ix, 146, Garraway's coffeehouse, x. 219.
Garth (Dr), A bon mot of his, when dying, xix, 159.
Gascon. Description of a week's sustenance of his family, xvi. 209. The artifice of one confined by the French king to speak only one word, xvii,
Gassendi. Character of, ix. 220,
Gay (Mr). His poetical character, x. 198. An epistle to him, in verse, xi, 230. Appointed se cretary to lord Clarendon, xvi. 132. Epigrammatical petition by him, 133, His treatment by the court, after a long attendance on it, viii. 234. Asthmatical, xviii, 14, Appointed a commis
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