Quakers-The origin of their doctrine, vii. 145. The reason of their
procuring their solemn affirmation to be accepted instead of an oath,
ibid. The lawfulness of taking oaths and wearing carnal weapons
may possibly be some time revealed to them, as a very shrewd
Quaker once suggested to the Dean, xiii. 230. Thank the duke of
Ormond for his kindness to their friends in Ireland, xxii. 58. Op-
pose the bill for recovering tithes in that kingdom, xv. 189. A letter
and present from an unknown Quaker in Philadelphia to the Dean,
xvii. 261.
Qualification Bill-The advantage of it to the kingdom, v. 165, 230,
Qualifications-Of a rake, iii. 77. Of a writer, viii. 185.
Queen-See Anne, Caroline, Mary.
Queensberry, James Douglas, duke of, secretary of state for the busi-
ness of Scotland, created duke of Dover, May 26, 1708, xv. 173.
duke and duchess of-Their kindness and friendship to
Mr. Gay, xvii. 276. Character of him by the duchess, xviii. 245.
Her reflections upon friendship, 246. Gives a fine sketch of true
greatness of mind, 260. A description of occurrences in their
journey to the Spa, xix. 53.
Quidnunckis-On the death of the duke-regent of France, xxiv. 57.
Quiet Life and a good Name, x. 318.
Quilca-Blunders, Deficiencies, &c. of, xii. 83.
Quillet-His character of England, iv. 219.
Rabelais-An idle scheme of his, xiii. 7.
Raby, Lord-See Strafford.
Rackstraw, Mr. the statuary-Some account of him, xx. 236.
Radcliffe, Dr-How represented in Martinus Scriblerus's map of dis-
eases, xvi. 45. Sent for, in the queen's last illness, but declined
attending, 83. Remarks on his conduct, its motives and conse-
quences, 83, 85. From what motive he took particular care to save
lord chief justice Holt's wife, xvii. 260.
Raillery-When not corrupted, the finest part of conversation, viii.
52. The difference between the English and French sense of the
word, ibid. A species of it introduced by Oliver Cromwell, 53. In
England, safer to make use of it with a great minister or a duchess,
than in Ireland with an attorney or his wife, xv. 155. Swift's
talent, but a bar to his preferment, xviii. 98.
Rake-Qualifications of one, iii. 77.
Ralph, bishop of Durham, a chief instrument of oppression under
William I. and II.-Imprisoned by Henry the First, vii. 248. Es-
caping from prison, fled to duke Robert, whom he stirred up to
renew his pretensions to the English crown, ibid.
Ramsay, Chevalier-Sends Dr. Swift his history of the marshal de
Turenne, xx. 149.
Ranelagh, Lord-See Jones.
Rape of the Lock-Its political key, xxiii. 127.
Raphoe-What the yearly value of its bishoprick, xvi. 15.
Rapin-His history, wherein defective, xx. 47.
Ratcliff, Captain-The inventor of punch, xiii, 186.
Raymond, Dr-Presented Dr. Swift to Lord Wharton, xxi. 5.
Read, Sir William, a famous quack, xxi. 193.
Readers Three classes of them described, iii. 163.
Reason-The corruption of it worse than brutality, ix. 279. The use
made of it tends only to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to
acquire new ones, 292. Among the Houyhnhnms, not opinion, but
always conviction, 303. Things may be above it, without being
contrary to it, xiv. 27. Thougli designed by Providence to govern
our passions, yet in two points of the greatest moment God has
intended it should submit to them, 161. The wisdom of God, and
the madness of man unaccountable to reason, and not the object of
it, xxiii. 372. Wherein that faculty consists, xvii. 17.
Rebus-By Vanessa, x. 150. Answer by the Dean, 151.
Receipt To boil oysters, xxii. 94
For stewing veal, xvii. 94.
the cure of giddiness, xix. 269.
Rechteren, Count-His character, vii. 202.
Recipe, or nostrum, for procuring an universal system, in a small
volume, of all things to be known, believed, imagined, or practised
in life, iii. 115.
Reckoning-That of a Dutch landlord humorously censured, xii. 172.
Recorder of the city of Dublin-His requisite qualifications, xiii. 256.
Reformation-Transubstantiation, and communion in one kind, prin-
cipal occasions of it, iii. 111. Allegorical account of it, 123. Owed
nothing to the good intentions of Henry VIII. viii. 117, 118.
popish bishops at that time, apprehensive of ejectments, let long
leases, xii. 61. Received in the most regular way in England, xiii.
239. Presbyterian reformation founded upon rebellion, 240.
Regulus-An instance of his high sense of honour, xiv. 226.
Rehearsal-Runs to the opposite extreme of the Review and Observa
tor, v. 26.
Relations Quarrels among them harder to reconcile than any other,
xxiii. 223.
Religion-Project for the Advancement of, iv. 147. Thoughts on, xiv,
158. The advantage of it, at least to the vulgar, iv. 13. The best
means for advancing public and private happiness, 151. A short
view of the general depravity consequent to a disregard of it, 152.
An office resembling that of the censors at Rome would be of use
among us to promote it, 156. Why all projects for the advancement
of it have proved ineffectual, 167. Maxims relating to it, xiv. 158.
Seems to have grown an infant with age, xiv. 166. Those who are
against it must needs be fools, 175. The mysteries of the Christian
religion should not be explained in sermons, viii. 21. Disbelief of it
taken up as an expedient to keep in countenance the corruption of
our morals, 24. National religion called the religion of the magis-
trate, v. 171. The state of it in the American plantations, 219,
Opinions in it maintained with the greatest obstinacy, xiii. 239,
No solid foundation for virtue, but on a conscience guided by
religion, xiv. 46, 50, 52. Among whom the little of it there is bas
been observed chiefly to reside, 59. To what the decay of it is
owing, 124. Like other things, is soonest put out of countenance
by ridicule, 127. True religion, like learning and civility, has
always been in the world, but very often shifted scenes, xv. 67.
Religious processions have some good effects, 8. The Christian
religion proposed at first to jews and heathens without the article of
Christ's divinity, xiv. 159. The excellency of it beyond the philo-
sophy of the heathens, 132. Good treatises on, by laymen, best
received, iv. 45. What would make all rational and disinterested
people of one religion, xxiii. 370. True religion, what, xx. 237.
Persecution for, xviii. 167. Ladies, out of zeal for it, have hardly
time to say their prayers, xv. 30.
Repentance The fallacies in it, xiv. 7.
Repington, Mr. of Warwickshire-viii. 149.
Republican Politics-Mischievous to this kingdom, v. 73.
Reputation-That of some men so amiable, that we may love their
characters, though strangers to their persons, xx. 225.
Resignation-The most melancholy of all virtues, xx. 135.
Revenge-What the cruellest kind of it, xix. 49.
public-What proportion of it is sunk before the remainder
is applied to the proper use, iv. 168.
Revenues, Episcopal-So reduced in Ireland by alienations, that
three or four sees were often united, to make a tolerable com-
petency, xii. 63.
Revolution-The principal objection to its justifiableness answered,
iii. 320. Chiefly brought about by the tories, though the whigs
claimed the merit of it, v. 15. The dissenters great gainers by it,
176. Revolution principles, 200. xvi. 240. The whig maxim con-
cerning revolutions, v. 200. Revolution, in what it differed from
the rebellion under King Charles the First, xiv. 80.
Rewards, National-Essay on, viii. 223.
Reynard the Fox-History of, iii. 71.
Rice, Miss-Remarkably tall, xix. 186.
Richard II-When he made a mean figure, xiv. 228.
Richardson, Rev. John-His ingenious politeness to Dean Swift, xx.
159. His project for translating prayers and sermons into the Irish
language, xxi. 162, 182. xxii. 100.
-, Miss-Receives from Dr. Swift a beautiful diamond ring,
adorned with some of her own hair and some of the Dean's,
xx. 198.
William-Account of him, xx. 165. 171,248.
Riches-Why in some sort necessary to old men, xiv. 180. Not so
great a blessing as commonly thought to be, 97. Why not intend-
ed by God to be necessary for our happiness in this life, 99. Lord
Bolingbroke's reflections on them, xvi. 255. Dr. Swift's estimation
of them, 275.
Richmond, duke of His character, vi. 163.
Riddles-x. 326, 352.
Riding, what, x. 320.
Ridgeway, Mrs. the Dean's housekeeper-Legacy to her, ii. 240.
Some account of her, xix. 41.
Ridpath, Mr. the original author of the Flying Post-His charac-
ter as a writer, vi. 184. He and Roper both died Nov. 16, 1729,
xxiv. 157.
Rights of the Christian Church-Remarks on a Book so entitled.
See Tindal.
Rivers, Richard Savage, earl-Made lieutenant of the Tower, 1710,
by a stratagem, in opposition to the duke of Marlborough's intent,
iv. 293. vi. 259, 277. Sent to Hanover, to remove some prejudices
the elector had conceived against the queen's ministry, vii. 190.
XV. 136. Some particulars of his will, xxii. 139. His character, vi.
165. Solicits an acquaintance with Dr. Swift, xxi. 85..
Robberies, street-Want of common courage in gentlemen frequently
the cause of them, xii. 60.
Robert, eldest son to the conqueror-At his father's death took pos-
session of Normandy, vii. 229. Prepared to assert his claim to the
English crown, ibid. Farther particulars of his life, 231, 255. His
death and character, 268.
Robethon, M. de-Styled by Swift an inconsiderable French vagrant,
vi. 343. Having obtained the elector of Hanover's confidence, em-
ployed it to the basest purposes, 344. vii. 190.
Robin and Harry-A poem, xi. 195.
Robinson, Bishop John-xv. 102. xxii. 80. His promotions, vii. 34.
The substance of his order from the ministry, 151. Opened the as-
sembly at Utrecht with a speech to the French ministers, 158. His
answer to the complaints made of the duke of Ormond's conduct by
the Dutch, 170. His speech, after receiving orders to sign a peace,
213. Alluded to in a fictitious prophecy, x. 96. See Strafford.
Rochefoucault, duke de-The Dean's famous verses, founded on one
of his maxims, xi. 258. The verses founded on a maxim of his, when
first published, and by whom, xx. 203.
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, earl of iv. 208. Succeeded Lord Somers
as president of the council, v. 111. His character ibid. 207. Re-
signed his offices in King James's time, because he could not comply
with that king's measures, 127. Presented the duke of Somerset to
King William. vii, 35. Died suddenly, xxi. 211. His death a con-
cern to all good men, xv. 169.
Rochfort, Lady Betty-xvi. 280.
Lord Chief Baron-xvi. 176.
Mrs-viii. 82.
George-Verses written on a visit to his house, x. 242,
Rollin-Remarks on the translation of his history, xx. 112.
Rollinson, William-xxi. 184.
Roman History-Teaches us in our youth to nave a detestation of
tyranny, vi. 191.
pontiffs-Their usurpations, vii. 235. Their ingratitude,
Romance-A grain of it no ill ingredient to exalt the dignity of hu-
man nature, viii. 56.
Romans-The rewards bestowed by them on their victorious generals,
v. 36. Their success always testified by some public religious act,
216. Abounded in honorary rewards, viii. 223; particularly me-
dals, 224 which passed for current money, ibid; and were fre-
quently, when they grew scarce, recoined by a succeeding empe-
ror, kid. A custom constantly used by them at their triumphs,
xv. 96.
Rome-The dissensions between the patricians and plebeians the ruin
of that state, ii. 296, 301. Declared lawful for nobles and plebeians
to intermarry, 304. Increase of the people's power there for a cen-
tury and a half, to the third Punick war, 305; who were not more
fond to seize their own, than to give it up again to the worst bid-
der, 307. No impeachment from them against a patrician till the
consular state began, 311. Methods concerted there, for bringing
over England to popery, iv. 16. v. 195.
Romney, Henry Sidney, earl of His character, vi. 162.
Rooke, Sir George-How brought off by his lawyer, when he was in-
dicted for calling a gentleman knave and villain, xii. 224.
Rook, George, one of the most learned Quakers in the world-A
shrewd hint suggested by him to the Dean, xiii. 23. Author of an
humorous pastoral in the Quaker style, ibid.
Ross, Charles-Lieutenant general, xxii. 76.
Rota Club-ii. 320.
Rover, a Lady's Spaniel-Verses on, xi. 361.
Roundheads, the fanatics in Charles the First's time. Whence so
called, iii. 24.
Royal Grants-A bill proposed for their resumption, vii. 138. Re-
marks on the bill, vi. 81. The whigs missed the ends they propos→
ed by their opposition to it, 82.
Royal Society-A junior rival of Grub street, iii. 68.
Rump Assembly-Grew despicable to those who had raised them,
xiii. 119, 120.
Rundle, bishop of Derry-xix. 139, 204. Verses on him, xi. 350.
Mr. Pulteney's remark on his promotion to the see of Derry, xix.
139, 204.
Russel, archdeacon-His generosity to Dr. Sheridan, ii. 80.
Rymer-In his Fœdera, made no use of the great collections in the
Cotton library or paper office, or of the rolls of parliament, or jour-
nals of either house, xx. 48.
Ryswick Treaty-The French king not obliged by it to acknowledge
the queen's right to the crown of England, vi. 14, 27.
Ryves, William-xviii, 173.
Sacheverell, Dr-vi. 275. A living procured for him by the Dean, i
188. Nov. 6, 1709, preached his famous sermon against popular re
sistance of regal authority, xxiii. 174. Ill placed zeal in impeach
ing him, v. 83. His mentioning the nick name Volpone in it, used
as a motive to spur on his impeachment, 101. vi. 275. The hopes
of the whigs and fanatics from it, v. 126. Is paid one hundred
pounds by a bookseller for his sermon (which was the first after bis
suspension) preached at St. Saviour's church, xxii. 220. The mi-
nistry hate, and pretend to despise him, xxi. 284. Dr. Swift declines
being acquainted with him, but recommends his brother to the mi-
nistry, xxii. 62. Character of, xxiii. 157.
Sack, Le-Mr. Harley's French dancing-master. Anecdote of him,
viii. 42, 208.
Sackville, Lord George-xviii. 180. xix. 124.
Sacramental Test-Repealing it in Ireland would be followed by an
entire alteration of religion, iv. 30. Whether any attempt to repeal
it then would succeed, 33. The arguments used for repealing it
answered, 35, 40. Swift falsely charged with writing for repealing
it, xv. 68.
St. Cecilia's Day-Dr. Swift to himself on, xi. 111.
St. John, of Battersea, Henry lord-His great age, xx. 79, 91.
Mr-v. 113. xx. 272. Secretary of state at thirty; an em-
ployment which Sir William Temple was admired for having had
offered to him at fifty, xxi. 62. Gives Dr. Swift a short account of
himself after his fall, xvi. 153 Sees the pretender at an opera in
Paris, 161. vi. 336. Has permission to stay in France, provided he
retires from Paris, xvi. 166. His reflections on friendship, 200, 254.
His paraphrase of part of an epistle of Horace, 202. His reinark
on the rabble, 254. On Plato, 256. On riches, ibid. His censure
of Cato, 256. Describes his improvements in his rural retreat, 259.
Henry Guy's advice to him, 269. Moral and critical remarks on
Seneca and his writings, 270. Remarks respecting Mr. Prior, then
lately deceased, 273. His sentiments of the Freethinkers, xvii. 16.
What kind of Freethinker he laboured to be, ibid. His conduct at
variance with his professions on this subject, 17. Talks of a bulky
volume, to be called Noctes Gallica, 19. The manner in which he
would wish to divide life, 121. His reflections on the too frequent
consequences of a liberal education, 130. On chronological inqui-
ries, xviii. 78. His description of the plan of Mr. Pope's Ethick
Epistles, with some reflections on the subject of them, 81, 82.
Makes some proposals to Dr. Swift, respecting the exchange of his
deanery of St. Patrick for the rectory of Burfield, in Berkshire, 188.
His judgment of Berkeley's and Delany's treatises, 190. Reflections
on some points of moral philosophy, xix. 84. Character of the earl
of Oxford, 85. His judgment of Mr. Pope's Moral Essays, 87. His
first lady a descendant from the famous Jack of Newbury, xxi.
272. His second lady's letter to Dr. Swift, on the subject of Gul-
liver's Travels, and other matters, xvii. 109. xx. 291. Succeeded
Mr. Henry Boyle as secretary of state, v. 113. After Mr. Harley
was stabbed by Guiscard, takes to himself the merit of being the
intended victim, vi. 292, 311. His great application to public affaire,
when secretary of state, vii. 135. Sent with a very extensive com-
mission to France, 196, which he executed with great honour, be
ing received at court there with particular marks of distinction and
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