365; invaded by Truth and Wit, ib.;
vanishes before the presence of Truth,
366.

Falstaff, describes himself as a butt for
other men's wit, ii. 328.

Fame, a vision respecting, ii. 11, 12; its
mountain and palace described, 13;
generally coveted, 381; the desire of
it an incentive to great actions, iii. 156;
considered as a meanness and imper-
fection in a great character, 158; ex-
poses its possessor to envy and detrac-
tion, 159; more difficult to be main-
tained than acquired, 161; injurious to
happiness, 162; the passion sometimes
cured by disappointment, 163; why an
impediment to our attaining the happi-
ness reserved for us in another world,
164; the proper object to which it ought
to be directed, 167; danger in suppress-
ing it, v. 40.

Fame, her palace, as described by Ovid,
iii. 438.

Familiar style loves ellipses, iv. 264, note.
Family, the proper sphere for women to
shine in, ii. 391.

Family of children, the eldest and young-

est of them often spoiled, and why, iv.
21; the head of, should be wise and vir-
tuous, 319, &c.

Family pride exposed, iv. 261.
Families, great ones, their ill-directed
education of their sons, ii. 439; why
fallen off from the athletic constitution
of their progenitors, ii. 107.
Fan, an academy for training young wo-
men in its exercise, ii. 428, 429.
Fancy, her office in the Vision of the
Mountain of Miseries, iv. 90.
Fancy and imagination, loose sense of
those terms in the English language, iii.
394.

Fano, from whence so called, i. 406; its

triumphal arch and marble fountain, ib.
Fans to be used with succéss against
Popery, iv. 425; how to be used against
the Tories, 454; several devices to be
painted on them in ridicule of Popery,
455; others of a political nature pro-
posed, 456.

Fantasque, a species of artist, described

as a Venetian scaramouch, ii. 393.
Fardingal, its use allowed till the 20th
Feb., ii. 84.

Fashion, its slow progress in the country,
ii. 457, 488.

Fashionable nakedness exposed, iv. 252,
253.

Fashionable phrases, their intrinsic and
current value, iv. 87.

Fashionable world, a reformation in, ii.
455.

Fat men, a club of, ii. 249, 250.
Fathers, one of them, would not tell a lie
to gain heaven, iv. 27, 28.

Fathers of the church, their credulity, if
not the certainty of their reports of

miracles in their days, an argument for
Christianity, v. 129, note.

Faustina represented on a medal as Venus
caressing Mars, i. 448.

Faustina the younger, her levity, ii. 486.
Faustinas, the, how distinguished from
each other on medals, i. 264.
Fawn, a statue, i. 472.

Fear and Hope, Ovid's beautiful simili-
tude of, i 279.

Fear, of death, often mortal, ii. 280; re-
ligious, the foundation of true fortitude,
iv. 226.

Feasts, the gluttony of our modern ones,
iii. 65.

Felix, orthography of, in Roman inscrip-
tions, i. 263.

Felix the Fifth, an anti-Pope, account of
him, i. 5.

Felix, or Fortunaté, a title of several Ro-
man emperors, iii. 303.

Female Association of Whigs, form of its
declaration, iv. 428; account of its open-
ing, 441; criticisms of some of the ladies,
ib.; columns in the subscription, for
virgins, wives, and widows, 442; asso-
ciation ribbon, ib.; efforts of the con-
federates to quash rebellion, 454.
Female gamesters censured, iv. 232.
Female oratory, the excellence of it, iii.
143.

Female vanity, a gentle satire upon it, ii.
112.

Female world, utility of the Spectator to
it, ii. 254, 255.

Females, their pretensions settled by the
goddess of Justice, ii. 39; their real
characters exhibited in her mirror, 40;
the three departments of maids, wives,
and widows, 41; censoriousness and
detraction punished by loss of speech,
42; pregnancy caused in those who had
incurred the hazard of it, ib.; their vir-
tues of a domestic turn, ii. 391; altera-
tions in their dress since Queen Eliza-
beth's time, iv. 179; sharp political
humour prevailing among them, 492;
malcontents exhorted to go over to the
government, 493; their minds affected
with the Tory cry, "the danger of the
church," v. 20.

Fencing, how learned by Bickerstaffe,

ii. 25.

Ferment, political, long in cooling, like a
comet, ii. 426.

Ferrara, thinly inhabited, the town de-
scribed, i. 398.

Ferrarius, his description of the cinctus
gabinus, i. 469.

Feuds, of English and Scotch noblemen,

occasioned the ballad of Chevy Chase,
ii. 375; of the Round-heads and Cava-
liers, exemplified, 475.
Fiction, the advantage writers of it have
to please the imagination, iii. 421.
Fictions, why delightful to read, ii. 68.
Fidelity, a goddess of the Romans, de-

scribed on a medal, i. 277; emblem of,
by two joined hands, 301.
Fields of melancholy, described by Virgil,
ii. 122.

Figleaf, Leonilla, proposes herself as a
lioness, iv. 228, 229.

Finding a hare, a technical phrase, ii.
438, note.

Fine arts, their tendency to elevate human
nature, ii. 51.

Fine men, in English comedy, their ac-
complishments, iii. 453.

Fine writing, in what the mystery of it
consists, iii. 389, note.

Finishing stroke, a Vindication of the Pa-
triarchal Scheme, recommended to the
perusal of the ladies, ii. 409.

Fir-trees, why they thrive best in free
countries, ii. 141, note.

Fire, its qualities compared to those of
love, ii. 300; always kept in, at the
everlasting club, ii. 380.

Fireworks on the Thames described, iv.
187.

First day of the week, a perpetual memo-

rial of Christ's resurrection, v. 126.
Fish, preached to by St. Anthony, i. 379.
Fishmonger, his bribe to Mr. Bicker-
staffe, ii. 106; the Spectator's host, ad-
vertises him in the Daily Courant, 256.
Fish-street politician, his remark on the
French king's death, iii. 381.
Flambeau, Mrs., action of debt brought
against her in the Court of Honour by
Lady Townly, ii. 220.

Flamsted, letter to, and extract of letter
from, v. 418.

Flanders, successes of the British in, iv.
347; the Pretender's campaigns in, v. 32.
Flavia, broken-hearted at the loss of her
parrot, ii. 100; verses on her fan, 177.
Flavius Clemens, of the Roman senate,
an early convert to Christianity, v. 117;
a martyr to it, ib.

Flea, its skeleton, ii. 73.

Flooring of rooms in Venice, of what
composed, i. 388.

Flora, a beautiful statue at Florence, i.
497.

Florella inquires for books written against
prudes, ii. 410; expostulates with Mr.
Ironside on his discourse respecting
tuckers, iv. 204.

Florence, the great duke's care to prevent
Civita Vecchia from being made a free
port, i. 492; incensed against the Luc-
quese, and why, 493; its public build-
ings, 495; its famous gallery and cu-
riosities, 496; excels Rome in modern
statues, 501; Duke of, reported to have
furnished money to the Pretender, v.
369.

Florio, the son of Eudoxus, educated by
Leontine, ii. 470; his passion for Leo-
nilla, 471; the secret of their birth dis-
closed, and their happy union, 472.

Flutter of the fan, its various kinds, ii.
430.

Flying, the art of, busied the philosophers
in King Charles's reign, iv. 213; letter
from Dædalus on that subject, 214; ill
consequences of the invention in love
affairs, 215.

Foligni, town, i. 409.

Folio, Tom, a broker in learning, some ac-
count of him, ii. 132; his visit to Mr.
Bickerstaffe, i. 133; his criticism on
Virgil, ib.

Folly, of ill consequence in the head of a
family, iv. 319; though not reclaimed
may be prevented by raillery, v. 64,

note.

Follies of the age, exposed by the Spec-
tator, iii. 436.

Fontanges, old-fashioned head-dresses, ii.
420.

Fontenelle, wherein faulty in his Dia-
logues, ii. 128, note; a remark of his on
frenzy, iv. 125.

Food for newsmongers, iii. 462.

Fool, difference between him and the
wise man, iii. 108.

Fools, why subjects of laughter, ii. 326,
327.

Fool's-coat, a species of tulip, ii. 161.
Footmen, imitate the vices and follies of
their masters, iv. 319, 320.

Foppery, an indication of vice, ii. 266.
Fopperies, French, importation of them
ought to be prohibited, ii. 319.
Forehead, an essential organ to an orator,
iii. 119.

Forest, of numberless trees, picked out of
an acorn, ii. 73; of cedars, women's
head-dresses compared to one, 421.
Forgeries, political, exposed, iv. 461.
Forget, two participles passive, of that
verb, iv. 189, note.

Forgiveness, why an indispensable duty,
iii. 43.

Forgiveness of enemies, recommended,
iii. 342.

Forms of Prayer, an argument for them,
iii. 369.

Forster (Gen.), a farce on his escape from
prison, v. 26.

Fortitude, none true which is not found-

ed on the fear of God, iv. 226; a com-
mander of the male auxiliaries in the
war of the sexes, 274.

Fortune, her temple, formerly at Antium,
i. 456; Horace's address to her, ib.; the
most shining quality in the eye of the
world, iii. 99; good, why considered a
merit among the Romans, 304; saying
of a Grecian general respecting fortune,
305; often the reward of virtue, and
the effect of prudence, iv. 402.
Fortune-stealers, a letter respecting, iii.
317, 318; distinguished from fortune-
hunters, 319.

Fortune-telling, why popular, iv. 23.

and the Spectator, ii. 491.

Foundling hospital proposed, iv. 194.
Fountaine, Sir Andrew, letter to Swift, v.
383.

Fountains, periodical, in Switzerland,
whence arising, i. 512.

Fourberia della scena, stage tricks, so
called by the Italians, ii. 314.
Fox, teased by the fleas, how he drops
them, ii. 172; a class of females com-
pared to that animal, iii. 86.

Fox and seven stars, a sign, ii. 285.
Fox-chase, draws off a detachment of re-
bels, iv. 406.

Fox-hall, visited by the Spectator and Sir
Roger de Coverley, iii. 360.
Fox-hunters, why the greatest enemies to

his present Majesty and his govern-
ment, iv. 478. (See Tory Fox-hunter.)
Fox-hunting, a remedy for unrequited
love, ii. 450.

France, described on a medal, i. 326; dis-
tracted by factions for and against the
League, ii. 477; its happy climate, iv.
193; increase of power accruing from
her union with Spain, 344; causes which
straiten British commerce will enlarge
hers, ib.; no peace to be secured with-
out her disunion from Spain, 345; the
king's expensive projects to humour his
pleasures and ambition, 346; his allies
in Germany ruined, 347; means of ef-
fecting the disunion, 348; hopes of an
insurrection deceitful, 349; monarchy
exhausted of its bravest subjects, 350;
cavalry few and weak, 351; the mode of
recruiting superior to that of the allies,
353; a king kept, to set over England,
359; notwithstanding all her advan-
tages is poorer than England, 360; arbi-
trary method adopted by the king to
supply his exchequer, 465; uncertainty
of riches there, 466; its constant policy
is to foment discords in Great Britain,
500; her low condition in the war, v.
372.

France, king of, distributes his pensions
through all parts of Switzerland, i. 525;
promotes the art of printing, iii. 349;
news of his death produces many spe-
culations in the British coffee-houses,
380.

Francis, St., a curious instance of his sim-
plicity, iii. 139.

Franciscan convent at Inspruck, its curi-
osities, i. 535.

Frankincense, an emblem of Arabia, i.
335.

Fraud, his office in the Temple of Ava-
rice, ii. 91.

Freart, Mons., extract from his parallel
on ancient and modern architecture,
iii. 409.

Freedom of thought, its good and evil
tendency, iv. 504.

Freeholder, when undertaken and for what
purpose, iv. 396; title why chosen, 397;
the basis of all other titles, ib.; object
and aim of the paper, 399; reasons why
the ladies should be on the Freeholder's
side, 408; conducts his work on princi-
ples different from those of the Ex-
aminer, 470; his account of a Tory fox-
hunter, 478; the humorous papers the
best, the graver parts the worst, ib.,
note; enjoins the malcontents to be dis-
creet, 486; pleased with the labours of
those who translate the Classics, v. 48;
his account of the Tory fox-hunter's visit
to London, 61; and of his conversion
into a good subject to King George,
70; comparison of the Whig and Tory
schemes, 96-98; his concluding re-
marks on the affairs of the country, 99;
and on the general design of the work,
102.
Freeholders of Great Britain, a chief point
which has puzzled them, iv. 390; an
address in favour of non-resistance pro-
posed to them, 392; their declaration
in answer to that of the Pretender, 429;
conclude too hastily on one point, 434,
note.

Freelove, Jack, his letter from Pug the
monkey to his mistress, iii. 336.
Freeport, Sir Andrew, account of him, ii.

234; his hints to the Spectator respect.
ing the city, 295; answered by the argu-
ments of the clergyman, 296; his com-
mercial metaphors, 372; inclined to the
monied interest in opposition to Sir
Roger, 480; his moderation in politics,
495; his extract from the journal of a
citizen, iii. 322; his affliction at the
death of Sir Roger de Coverley, iv. 40;
he and the Spectator the sole remain-
ing members of the club, 77; announces
his resolution to retire from business,
and his future purposes of life, 78.
Freethinkers, humorous mode of reform-
ing one, ii. 50; considered in their dis-
tresses, 58; in politics, v. 92.
Freethinking, history of, false arguments
of its author on the examples of Socrates
and Cicero, v. 87.

French, their manners contrasted with
those of the Italians, i. 373; absurdities
in their opera, ii. 290, 291; drums,
trumpets, &c., banished from the stage,
313; have refined too much on Horace's
rule respecting the stage, 317; levity of
the nation censured, 320; their lan-
guage adapted to their character, 499;
industriously propagated, iii. 13; in-
stance, in a letter from an officer in the
English army, 14; terms therein intro-
duced now grown familiar, 15; the
most constant and dangerous enemies
of the British nation, iv. 340, 341; their
extravagant opinion of themselves and

mean one of their neighbours, 505; of
the English, 506; of the Germans, 507.
French cabin, in Nova Zembla, a thaw of
words there, ii. 197.

French critics, a rule of theirs as just as
any in Aristotle, iii. 220.
French lady, a young one, lost a thousand
pounds and a bridegroom by an edict of
Louis XIV., iv. 466.

Frenchman, a competitor at a grinning-
match, iii. 32.

French nation, its character, iii. 438; hap-
pier than the English, but not so wise,
iv. 183; their familiarity, 184; merrier
in conversation than the English, but
not so witty, 192; distinguished for
good translations, 33"; wines recom-
mended, as full of the seeds of good
humour, 307.

French officers, their custom of writing
"Memoirs," iv. 403.

French truth and British policy make a
conspicuous figure in nothing, iii. 317.
French wine, home-made, profitable to
the nation, ii. 94.

French wit, his comparison relating to the
sovereigns of France and Germany, v.

95.

Frescati, its fine walks and water-works,
i. 484.

Fribble, Josiah, his letter to the Spectator
on his wife's pin-money, iii. 306, 307.
Fribourg, in Switzerland, with its hermit-
age, described, i. 516; pictures of the
English rebels there, 517.

Fricassees, improper diet for Englishmen,
ii. 107.

Friend, rule respecting our behaviour to-
wards one, iii. 109.

Friends, two, their correspondence by
means of sympathetic needles, iv. 238,
239.

Friendship, its fruits, ii. 367; illustrated
in the Wisdom of the Son of Sirach,
ib.; the greatest blessing in life, 414;
qualifications of a good friend, 369.
Friezeland hen, compared to an old-
fashioned lady, ii. 489.

Froth, Lord, educated in punctilio, iv.

261.

Frowde, Col. Philip, v. 324; letter to, ib.
Frugality in words, observable in the
English language, ii. 498.

Fruitfulness, an emblem of it on a medal,
i. 304.

Fry of scribblers infesting the Tatler, to
what compared, ii. 173.

Fucinus, lake, drained by the emperor
Claudius, i. 508.

Fulvia, a character, ii. 264.

Fulvius places his happiness in a blue
string, ii. 100.

Funeral sermon, extract from an excellent
one, iv. 55.

Funeral oration on an honest husband-
man, iv. 136.

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Funnell, Will. the West Saxon, his glo-
rious exploits in drinking, iv. 110.
Fury, described as guarding the abode of
unhappy spirits, ii 123.

Future state, described by Homer, ii. 110,
&c.; by Virgil, 120; from whence the
happiness and torments of it arise, ac-
cording to the Platonists, 122, 123; de-
scribed by the author of Telemachus,
128; benefits arising from the pros-
pects of it, 131; a prospect of it, the
secret comfort of a virtuous soul, iii. 54;
its happiness, in what likely to consist,
127; its infelicity, whence probably to
arise, 128.

Futurity, the desire of looking into, gives
birth to many ridiculous arts and in-
ventions, iv. 22.

Gabels, of Naples, their inequality and
injustice, i. 429.

Gabriel, his discovery of Satan, finely
imagined, iii. 226.

Galen, converted from atheism by his dis-
sections, iv. 70.

Galien the elder, his bust in alabaster at
Florence, i. 496.

Galland (Mons.), an Arabian fable from
his translations, on idleness, iv. 57, 58.
Gallantries of Paradise, iii. 228.
Gallantry, alias Tulon, his illegal trading
at the Island of St. Peters, v. 476.
Gallery, of the old palace at Florence, its
noble collection of curiosities, i. 496,
498; wainscoted with looking-glass, at
Versailles, iv. 183.

Galley-slave, exchanges his chains for a
fit of the gout, iv. 92.

Gallienus, a gold medal of, in the French
king's cabinet, i. 448.

Galway, Lord, his desire to be recalled, v.
355, 357; his character, 358; commands
in Spain, 362.

Game, preserved by the termination of
the rebellion, iv. 407.

Game Act, called by a fox-hunter the

only good law since King William's
accession, iv. 479.

Games, the book of, in the Iliad and
Eneid, why introduced, iii. 179.
Gaming, the folly of it, ii. 414; the ladies
censured for that vice, iv. 231; its ill
consequences on the mind and body,
232, 233.

Gaper, a common sign in Amsterdam, ii.
326.

Garda, lake, formerly called Benacus, de-
scribed, i. 376.

Gardening, a letter on, iii. 499-502; praise
of Mr. Addison's invention, by what
exceeded, 502, note.

Gardens, English, why not so entertain-
ing to the fancy as those of France and
Italy, iii. 405; hints on their improve-
ment now attended to, 406, note.
Garigliano, river, anciently called Liris,

celebrated for the gentleness of its
course, i. 422.

Garrets, inhabited by statesmen who
watch over the liberties of their country,
iv. 85.

Garter, king at arms, his remark on a
marriage in the Bickerstaffe family, ii. 8.
Garter, the dropping of one, the greatest
blow the French nation ever received,
iv. 443.

Garth, Dr., his epilogue to the tragedy of
Cato, i. 226; called by a conceited critic
the brother of the Tatler, ii. 176; his
poem, annotations of the Examiner on,
criticised, iv. 370, 371; Addison's phy-
sician, v. 365, 394; his infidelity, 736.
Gaul, defiance of her arts and arms, i. 37;
aggrandizement of, prior to the Duke of
Marlborough's campaign, i. 43.
Gaul, St., the great apostle of Germany,
story of his interview with a bear, i.
225; the abbot of, extent of his territo-
ries and manner of his election, 522;
linen manufacture, 523; dispute be-
tween the town and the abbey, 523, 524;
pension from France, 525.

Gaurus, Mount, near Naples, become bar-
ren, i. 433.

Gay, Mr., his zeal for Addison, v. 410;

his Pastorals owing to the management
of Philips, 415; notices, 736, 737.
Genealogy of the house of Bickerstaffe,
ii. 7; of an illegitimate family, iii. 74.
Generalissimo, a cant term for command-
er-in-chief, ii. 112, note.

Generals, in the grand alliance against
France, the greatest of the age, iv. 352.
Genesis, a passage in, its effect on a great
man in the Romish church, iii. 301.
Geneva and its lake described, i. 509; re-
semblance of the latter to a sea, 510;
situation of the town described, 515;
importation of its manufactures pro-
hibited by the emperor, 516; considered
as the court of the Alps, 528; adminis-
tration of affairs relating to public grana-
ries, ib.; custom respecting inherit-
ance, 529.

Genitive cases, a succession of, gracefully
introduced, iv. 122, note.
Genius, a character too indiscriminately
given, ii. 504; in what it consists, ib.;
the first class, 505; the second not in-
ferior to the first, 506; sometimes
wasted on trifles, ib.; the discovery of,
among his countrymen, a source of de-
light to the Spectator, iv. 44; often de-
viates from the rules of criticism, 149;
none but a man of genius should call
himself a critic, 240.

Genoa, its Gulf, i. 360; its noble appear-
ance, 362; its fine churches, 363; its
bank no burden to the Genoese, ib.;
bad policy of the republic, ib; its former
greatness by sea, 364; why incapable
of being made a free port, 493.

Genoese, cunning, industrious, and hardy,
i. 361.
Gentleman, the name given to the Spec-
tator at his lodgings, ii. 257.

George, St., the bank of, at Genoa, i. 363;
its importance to the government, ib.;
church of, at Verona, adorned by a
painting by Paul Veronese, represent-
ing the martyrdom of the saint, 378.
George I., not willing to have a single slave
in his dominions, iv. 398; regards our
civil liberties as the natural rights of
mankind, 400; his consistency and firm-
ness of mind, and attachment to Great
Britain, 401; his martial achievements,
ib.; his family distinguished for courage
and fortitude, 402; his constant good
fortune, ib.; interposition of Providence
in favour of him, 403; has an undoubt-
ed title to our duty and obedience, 415;
was considered, before he was king,
one of the greatest princes in Christen-
dom, 421; his zeal for the security of
the established church, 423; great-grand-
son of James I., and nearest to the
crown of the Protestant blood, 429; ex-
horts his subjects to assert the liberties
of their country, 435; suspends the
Habeas Corpus Act during the rebellion,
457; his wise conduct during this pe-
riod, 460; blest with heirs male in two
direct descents, 476; how supported
and strengthened by alliances, 486; his
chief strength lies in his own kingdoms,
ib.; confidence of foreign potentates in
his firmness and integrity, 489; the re-
bellion a means of trying the principles
of his subjects, 500; his moderation in
punishing the rebels, v. 4; shows his
inclination to rule without a standing
army, 15; his zeal for the church, ib.;
alteration of triennial elections neces-
sary for settling him on his throne, 36;
his exertions for the advancement of
trade, 50; treaties of Madrid and Utrecht
compared, ib.; his regulations in the
West India and Spanish trade, 52;
stipulates for the rights and privileges
of the latter trade as established in 1667,
53; advantages procured by him for the
trade to the Austrian Low Countries,
56; considerations on his birth-day, 67 ;
cruel treatment he has met with from
the tongues and pens of some of his
disaffected subjects, 68; an ill requital
for his love and regard for the consti-
tution, 69; mildness of his reign, 90,
firm adherence of the Whigs to his
cause, 98; words of Cicero on Cæsar's
conduct towards his enemies applied
to his Majesty, 101; Addison attends
Lord Halifax to present the garter to
him, 347; his objection while Elector
of Hanover to the doctrine of Hereditary
Right, 395; his arrival in England, 418,
421; ceremonial for his entry, 421.