on, i. 233; translation of, v. 549; reduced S. that letter too frequent in the English Sabbath of heaven, speculations on, iv. Sabine women, their interference termi- Sacheverell, Henry, a poem of Mr. Addi- Sacks, women to be sold in, a proposal of Saffold, Dr., the successor of Dr. Lilly in Saints, our country once called a nation Salamanders, a species of women, so dis- Salaries and Payments to Addison; Tra- Salernum, its bay divided from that of Salforata, a stinking river, i. 482. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, the story Salmon, Mrs., erects the figure of her Saltera's museum at Chelsea, ii. 172. i. 517. Salutes, used for salutations, ii. 471, note. Salver of Spectators, a present for young Salvini, the abbot, his Italian translation San Marino, Republic of, described, i. Sanctorius, his balance, used by a vale- Sanctum Sanctorum, in Solomon's temple, Sandwich, use of the term, v. 676. Sannazarius, celebrates the city of Venice, its magistrates and the British mer- Saraband, Mrs., her puppet-show and sale Saracen's Head, a country sign, the por- Sartre, Dr., married Addison's sister, v. Satan, a principal actor in Paradise Lost, Satiety of joy, the expression corrected, Satire, what it delights in, i. 462; on pro- pular when aimed at eminent persons, 160; on particular persons, the disgrace of England, 458. Satires, compared to poisoned darts, ii. 275. Satirists, why they best illustrate ancient manners, i. 385; their custom of omitting the vowels of a great man's name, iv. 106. Saturday's papers of the Spectator, afford great comfort to a sick man, iv. 34. Saturnine, a class of readers so termed, iii. 38. Savage, an anecdote of him, Phillips, and Steele, v. 375, 376. Saviour, his submission to the Divine will, iii. 84; reasons why Pagan contemporary writers make no mention of his life and miracles, v. 104; books and records relating to him now lost, 105; account of him from Pontius Pilate to the Emperor referred to by Justin Martyr, ib.; his supposed correspondence with Agbarus, King of Edessa, 106; facts in his history noticed by Pagan authors, 108; his miracles attributed to magic by Celsus, 110; and by the other uncontroverted heathens, 109; fallacy of the assertion proved, ib.; a second list of Pagan authors who testify of him, 113; passage from a learned Athenian, 114; another Athenian philosopher converted, ib.; their belief at first founded on historical faith, 115; testimonies extended to all the particulars of his history as related by the evangelists, 116; this was the motive to the conversion of many learned men, 118; means by which they might inform themselves of its truth, 119; the tradition perpetuated by his apostles and their disciples, 120, 121; five generations might derive it from him, to the end of the third century, 122; writings of the evangelists agree with the tradition of the apostles, 127; his worship and doctrines propagated throughout the world, 128; miracles performed by prayers and adjurations in his name, 130; completion of his prophecies confirmed Pagans in their belief of the gospel, 125; his life, history, and the Jewish prophecies relating to him, an argument for the strengthening of their faith, 138, 139. Savoy, the duke of, his territories on the lake of Geneva, i. 510; why disappointed of taking Toulon, iv. 354. Savoy, exhausted by the war, iv. 361. Savoyards, their animosity to the King of France, i. 375. Sawney, a second-sighted Highlander, his vision, iv. 495, 496. Scale of being, infinite, ii. 445; reflections on, iv. 41; a consequence deducible from them, 42. Scales, on old coins, an emblem of justice, i. 297; golden, in Paradise Lost, a refinement on a thought in Homer, iii. 227; a vision of them, 477. Scaliger, on the vestis trabeata of the Romans, i. 261; his censure of Lucan's digressions, iii. 201; the younger ridicules the egotism of Montaigne, iv. 99, 100; says Tilenus speaks and writes well for a German, 507. Scandal, private, reprobated, ii. 266; printed, effectual mode of suppressing, iii. 457; in writings, a great help to the sale of them, iv. 106; a never-failing gratification with the public, v. 67. Scandalum magnatum, Goodman Fact accused of, by Count Tariff, iv. 366. Scaramouch, at a masquerade, iv. 281. Scarron, relates a curious expedient for keeping the peace, iv, 483. Schacabac and the Barmecide, an Arabian tale, iv. 313, 314. Scheil, Danish envoy in England, v. 245. Schellenberg, battle, celebrated, i. 45. Schism in the church during the papacy of Eugenio IV., i. 511. Scholar's egg, a Greek poem, ii. 344. Scholiasts, of service in explaining the familiar phrases of ancient authors, iv. 219. Schomberg, the Duke of, buried at Lausanne, i. 514; his advice to an eminent historian, v. 28. School frolic of Addison's-the barring out, v. 674. Schoolmaster, attempt of one to revive the worship of the heathen gods, v. 86. Schoolmen, their ludicrous case of an ass between two bundles of hay, iii. 60; a question started by one of them on happiness and misery, iv. 121. Schuldham, the affair of, v. 647. Science, best cultivated in a free state, iii. 299. Scolding heroes of Homer, more tolerable than bullies in petticoats, v. 38. Scolds, made up of canine particles, iii. 87. Scomberg, Duke, v. 548, note. Scorn, a commander in the war of the sexes, iv. 274. Scotch, a saying of theirs, on natural parts and learning, iii. 478. Scotch parliament to be called by the Pretender, iv. 434. Scotchman and the parrot, a story, iv. 389. Scotists, their contests with the Smiglesians at Oxford, iii. 131. Scotland, provision in the Act for Encouraging Loyalty there, iv. 308. See Union. Scott, Dr. his Christian Life, its merit, iii. 456. Scottish elective peers, on the making them hereditary, v. 301. Screech-owl, superstitious terrors on hearing one, ii. 245. Scribblers of lampoons and satires, their inhuman barbarity, ii. 277; why neglected by the Spectator, iii. 449. Scribendi Cacoëthes, an epidemical disease, iv. 132. Scriptures, medallic legends taken from the, i. 351. Scudery's Romances, relate a curious expedient of two absent lovers, iii. 135. Sculptors, ancient, more skilful in working marble than the moderns, i. 476. Sculpture, a notion concerning, applied to education, iii. 96. Scythian, his reply on being asked how his countrymen could bear to go naked, ii. 186. Scythian winter-piece in the third Georgic of Virgil, i. 260. Scythians, made perjury a capital crime, iv. 418. Sea, on sale, ii. 4; a certain species of females made from, iii. 87; generally filled with monsters, when there are no fleets on it, iv. 495. Seamen, their mode of judging of fruit by the peckings of birds, ii. 461. Seasons, the Spectator's choice of countries to pass them in, iii. 370. Secret Committee, v. 648, 649; Report of the, 650; the Speaker's warrant issued for the apprehension of persons named by the, 652; the Report read by Mr. Walpole, and the names given of the political personages mentioned therein, 653; details of the Report, 654, 655; important parliamentary debates on bringing up this Report, 656-668. Secret faults, methods for each person to discover his own, iii. 377. Secret Service Money, royal warrant for, v. 640. Secretary of State, regulation respecting appointment, v. 354; Addison's appointment, 436; royal warrants for his salary, 639. Secrets for widow-hunters, iv. 95. Sectaries, during the rebellion, tendency of their hypocrisy, iii. 472. Sects, in religion, tinctured with enthusiasm, iii. 72. Security, described on a medal, i. 279, 314. Sede vacante, never known in the Everlasting Club, ii. 379. Sedentary, the word misapplied, ii. 449, note. Seditious attempts to calumniate his Majesty's person and family, iv. 421. Seducers, a loose tribe of men, noticed, iii. 73; how to be punished, 75. Seduction, exemplified in the story of a Castilian, iii. 68, 69; its heinousness exposed, iv. 245. Segrais, Mons., his threefold distinction of the readers of poetry, ii. 361. Sejanus, his fall probably commemorated on a stone at Terni, i. 411. Self, Samuel, recommends the Spectator's Essay on Good-nature as an excellent sweetener of the blood, iv. 76. Self-examination, a precept for, iii. 343; recommended, iv. 300. Self-knowledge, how attainable, iii. 378. Self-murder among females, mode of preventing it in Greece, iii. 120. Self-sufficiency, proceeds from inexperience and ignorance, iv. 505. Selkirk, Alexander, v. 477. Semele, consumed in the embraces of Jupiter, i. 124. Semiramis, figure of, cut from a huge rock, iii. 407. Sempronia, a fine lady, ii. 320; on what occasion she holds her tongue, ib. Sempronius, a senator, (in Čato,) i. 175, 177, 187, 191, 199, 207, 209, 210, 212. Senate, Roman, analogous to our nobility, iii. 297. Seneca, his remark on the waste of time, ii. 411; his style faulty, 419, note; his opinion of modesty, iii. 120; stricture on a great author's style applied to Milton, 202; a pattern for essay-writing, 497; a saying of his on drunkenness, with more of turn than of truth in it, iv. 112; a remarkable passage in his epistles, on the Holy Spirit, 116; his nostrum for raising love, v. 37; his style and subjects, 598. Seneca, de Beneficiis, inferior in illustration to the device of gratitude on a medal, i. 269; his invocation to concord from the Medea, 275; his allegorical description of happiness, 293; his picture of the Trojan matrons bewailing their captivity, 331. Sensoriola, of brutes and men, iv. 104. Sensorium of the Godhead, what, iv. 104. Sentences, legal, not to be influenced by passion, iv. 177. Sentiments, in an epic poem, how to be considered, iii. 185; two kinds, the natural and the sublime, 187; in Dryden's plays, out of character, iv. 208. Sentry, Captain, account of him, ii. 234; cautions the Spectator not to touch on the army, 296; satisfied by the arguments of the clergyman, 297; accompanies the Spectator and Sir Roger to the play, iii. 333. Septennial bill, commended, v. 36. "Serve God, and be cheerful," the motto of a bishop, v. 66. Septimius Severus, medal in compliment to his wife Julia, i. 304; an excellent bust of him at Florence, 497. Serenade of cat-calls, for what purpose performed. iii. 347. Serenity, a title given to princes, iii. 99. Seraphim, a set of angels who love most, iv. 156. Serini, Count, a prisoner in the castle of Rottenburg, i. 537. Seriousness, when commendable, iv. 511. | Shepherd, an Italian, his extraordinary Sermons, illustrated by Quæ genus and As in præsenti, iii. 103. Sermons of Sir Roger's chaplain, how chosen, ii. 436. Serpent, hyperbole in Ovid's description of one, i. 146; story of, from Scripture, how treated by Milton, iii. 258. Servius, the scholiast, his remark on a passage in Virgil, v. 226. Sesostris, his character, how drawn in Telemachus, ii. 131. Settala, Canon, his cabinet of curiosities at Milan, i. 371. Settlement act, hung up in the Hall of Public Credit, ii 237. Seven stars, an oversight of Ovid respecting, i. 143. Sewell, G., his remarks on Addison's Latin Poems, v. 549; his translation of the Barometer, 555; Puppet Show, 580; declares Addison the author of "Skating," 585. Sexes, their respective duties, ii. 339; their mutual regard tends to the improvement of each, iii. 431; contending for superiority, an allegory, iv. 273. Sextus Quintus, his severe treatment of a satirist, ii. 276, 277. Sfondrati, Cardinal, the last abbot of St. Gaul, i. 522. Shadows and realities not to be mixed in the same piece. ii. 240. Shadwell, Mr., trait in the character of a rake in one of his plays, ii. 298. Shaftesbury, Earl of, his taciturnity in parliament, v. 725. Shake of wind, why a bad expression, iv. 397, note. Shakspeare, his allusion in Hamlet to the cock-crowing, ii. 57; his style, wherein faulty, 306; his tragedy of Lear admirable, 309; his tragedies abounding in puns, 354; an instance of the first kind of great geniuses, 505; excels in "the fairy way of writing," iii. 423; and in ghosts, 424; compared to the stone in Pyrrhus's ring, iv. 150; the prettiest and justest compliment ever paid to our great poet. ib., note. Shallow, Josias, indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 212; John, Esq., his letter on cat-calls at the theatre, iii. 344, 345. Shalum and Hilpa, an antediluvian novel, iv. 138, 140. Sham-doctor, second part of that farce, ii. 169. Shapely, Rebecca, indicted in the Court of Honour, ii. 219. Sheep, the emblem of France, i. 326. Sheep-biter, why a term of reproach, ii. 107. Sheer-lane, the abode of Mr. Bickerstaffe, ii. 20. Shekinah, descent of, at the dedication of Solomon's temple, v. 97. Shell-fish, a species of, the lowest in the scale of animals, iv. 41. genius in tossing of eggs, ii. 506. Shepherd's pipe, a species of minor Greek poetry, ii. 344. Sherlock on Death, why so generally perused, iii. 301; has improved the notion of Heaven and Hell, 456; his representation of the state of the soul on its first separation from the body, iv. 34. Sherlock, Mrs., her petition, v. 484. Shewbridge, Mr., recommended as an honest man, v. 652. Shield, on an emperor's coin, designed as a compliment from the senate, i. 270. Shifts, resorted to in a dearth of news, ii. 5. Shilling, the Adventures of one, ii. 185,&c.; the occasion of a burlesque poem, 188; a crooked one, the talisman of absent lovers, iii. 141. Ship in a storm, described by the Psalm ist, iv. 8; how preferable to the descriptions of the heathen poets, ib. Ship under sail, an emblem of happiness, i. 298. Shippen, Wm., M.P. for Newton, his remarks on the Mutiny Bill, v. 649, 650; a firm adherent of the Stuarts, 649; sent to the Tower, ib.; designated by Pope as "honest Shippen," ib.; his speech in the Committee of Supply, 668. Ship-timber, in England, its approaching scarcity, iv. 135. Ships of the ancients, generally under the guardianship of some god, i. 295. Shire Lane, the Kit-cat Club established in, v. 676, 677. Shirts, Hanoverian, occasion a riot, and are publicly burnt, v. 651. Shoeing-horns, a set of fellows useful to the ladies, iv. 62. Shops of London open, v. 740. Short Club, remonstrance on, from the secretary of the Tall Club, iv. 202; threatened, 203. Short-sightedness, how remedied, ii. 46. Shoulder-knot, a topic for profound disquisition among the learned in future ages, i. 261. Shovell, Sir Cloudesley, his monument illdesigned, ii. 283; reply of the emperor of Morocco to him, on his reprisals for English captives, iv. 439; arrival of his fleet at Lisbon, v. 351; fired on at Lisbon, 358; his shipwreck and death, 364. Shows and diversions, the peculiar province of the Spectator, iii. 124. Shrew in domestic life is a scold in politics, iv. 483. Shrewsbury, Duke of, Addison's three days' conversation with him at Florence, v. 336; probability of his resignation, 395; accused by the Secret Committee, 653. Shuckborough, Mr., v. 651, 652. Shute, Mr. Barrington, his opinion on Sibyls, their finely-wrought statues at Sicilian women, their petition to Vulcan 36; another of Mons. Des Barreaux, 37. Sienna, described, i. 489; its cathedral a Signatures to the Spectator, conjectures Sign-posts, a letter concerning, ii. 285. Sigonia, John de, story relating to him Silence, sometimes more significant than Silence of three hours, a penalty on dis- Silent Club, account of, iv. 234; member Silius Italicus, his description of virtue, i. Silvia, a demurrer in courtship till past Silvio, his bill of costs during his court- Simætha perishes in the Lover's Leap, iii. 122. Simeon, one of the seventy disciples, his long life and martyrdom, v. 125. Simile, on a maid, in Valentinian, iv. 198. Similitudes, in Holy Writ, more bold than Simonides, the author of the oldest satire Simplicity of thought, a primary requisite Sin, why properly the portress of Hell, Sin and Death, a beautiful allegory in Sion, the songs of, in great repute among Sippet, Harry, an expert wine-brewer, ii. 95. Sirach, Wisdom of the Son of, an apo- Sirenum Scopuli, near the island of Ca- Sistrum, or timbrel of the Egyptians, i. Sisyphus rolling the stone, admirably de- Skating, a poem attributed to Addison, v. Skiomachia, or fighting with a man's own Slattern described in her bed, ii. 182. Slaves, how they became citizens of Rome, |