F. FAilings of another Perfon to be made Leffons of Inftruction to ourselves, 306. Faith, Motive to it, 278, 279. Weakness of it to be pitied, 279. The Difference betwixt Faith and Reafon, 280, 281, &c. to 285. Fafhions, a Folly to furrender ourselves to them, 50. Tranfitory, ibid. Lead into Improprieties in Conduct, 62. Father, a wife one, like an artful Painter, 22. Favourable Prepoffeffions, in Marriage requifite, 263. Fear of Cowardice, its Effects, 145. Flattery defin'd, 98. Who moft fubject to it, ibid. grows from too large Ideas of their own Merit, 99. Flatterer defcrib'd, 102. Follow Nature, the Direction of an Oracle, 161. Folly in a Wife, its unfortunate Confequences, 248. Fops, a Species of them defcrib'd, 48, 49, 66. There fhould be a Medium, betwixt a Fop and a Sloven, 68. Forgiveness of Injuries, the greatest Act of the Hu man Mind, 143. Fortitude defcrib'd, 138. rection of Reason, ibid. rable, 153. Muft be under the Di- Forwardness to be disoblig'd, incident to Age, 416, 417. Freedom from Paffion, a Privilege of Age, 423. Friend, another felf, 88. Ufeful Friends, who, 89. How to be treated, 96. Profeffing one characteriz'd, 101. True one characteriz'd, ibid. Friends to be tried like Money, 104. Friendship, what requir'd in it, 89, 90. Its Advantages, 92, 93, 112, 113. Nothing more agreeable agreeable to Nature, 93. Its Force exemplified 94. Ought not to be founded on fordid Interest, 95. Freedoms of it, ibid. and 96. Established on the Principles of Nature, never diffolved, 96. Injustice inconfiftent with it, ibid. and 97. Only to be diffolved by Death, 114. But a faint Refemblance of conjugal Love, 272. Frugality of the Ancients fhould be a Curb to our Vanity, 64. Future State, Prospect of it a Comfort to our Souls, 287, 288. G. Gallantry, Gaming, the Ruin of Thousands, 187. A Difcourfe againft it, ibid. 188, 189. Garrulity, a Vice not curable, 317. Good and Evil not placed at Jupiter's Threshold, 380. Good Nature, more agreeable in Conversation than Wit, 219. Good Senfe required in a Wife, as well as Beauty, 251, 252, 253. Goods of Fortune, on what Condition held, 202. H.. HAllifax (Lord) his Defcription of Honour, 136, 137. Hannibal, unmanned by the Loofenefs of Campania, 110. Happiness, founded on Wisdom and Virtue, 376, 377. Impracticable without Society, 394. Hard to diftinguish the Flatterer from the Friend, 106. Impoffible to ascertain Rules for it, 108. Haywood, his Encomium on Conjugal Love, 245, 246. Hefiod, of the Idle Man, 163. Of Prudence in Talk, 318. Honesty and Virtue, lie in the Felicity of a good Education, 17. A Man's Intereft, 131. The Support of Commerce, ibid. Its Effects, 132. Man's Character, 133. Honour, twofold, 130. Only to be met with in Noble Minds, 134 Treated as Chimerical by some, 135. True Honour confined to Fortitude, 183. Mistaken Notions of it, 140, 141. Honour to be defended, a Maxim of Custom, 146. True Honour defined, 155. Horace, on our Partiality to ourselves, 310. His Caveat against impertinent Curiofity, 331. Human Friendship, founded on the Wants and Imperfections of Nature, 90. Humble Man, his Character, 355. Humour, every one ambitious of it, 226. Defined by Negatives, ibid. True Humour, wherein it confifts, 227. Cautions against straining after it, 228. Husband, not to be affected with Trifles, 259, 264. I. Amblichus, quoted on the Ruling of the Tongue, 326. Idleness and Inactivity accounted heinous by Antiquity, 163. Idle Man a kind of Monster in the Creation, 164. Its Confequences, 167, 186. Jealousy Jealousy, not to be harboured in Marriage, 265. Defin'd, 265. Its Effects, 267, 268. Its Torment, ibid. and 269, 270. Cautions against it, ibid. and 271. Ill-nature, paffes for Wit, 220. Impatience, its greatest Cause, 369. Impertinent Curiofity, coincident with Garrulity, 328. Character of it, 330, 331. Impertinent Studies, what, 192. Imprecations cenfured, 84. Improprieties, what, committed in Discourse, 75. Incontinence punifh'd in the Male, ibid. Inebriation of Words, what, 320. Inequalities inconfiftent with Friendship, 95. Intemperance in Youth creates Weakness in Age, 426. Invitation to Drinking, how it runs, 233. Judgment and Caution to be employed in the Choice of Friends, 86. Judgment effential to the Regu lation of Wit, 225. Juvenal, on our Propenfity to Scandal, 307. His Addrefs to the Nobility, 362. K. K Night-Errant inverted, who, 125. Knowledge, the Usefulness of it should excite our Ambition, 191. Must be followed by Practice, 34. Know 34. Knowledge, and Wisdom peculiar to Age, 422. L. LAcedæmonians, their Respect to an Aged Man, 421. Languages to be ftudied young, 38. Youth cannot be over-burthen'd with them, ibid. Are the Keys of Sciences, 39. Learning remote and useless ones, cenfured, 44. Laws owing to Dishonesty more than Weakness, 131. The Vice of it, what, Learning, a Recollection of our Ideas, 29. Figures we make with this Accomplishment, a proper Incentive to it, 30. 32, 33. When useful, 34. 39, 41. Defign of it, 40, portance to every one, ibid. in Men of Figure, 42. An indifcreet Value of Trifles has done it great Differvice, 44, 45. A plaufible Pretence for Pride, 357. Confuted 358, 359, 360. Levity of Addreffes cenfur'd, 120. Women betray'd by them, ibid. Levity of Mind, Hinderance to our Repofe, 377, 378. Libertines abroad, ill-natur'd at home 250. Life, without Morality, an uneafy Being, 119. Locrians, their Policy to prevent unreasonable Impertinence, 335. Loquacity defin'd, 315. Lofs of Conftitution, an Effect of Drinking, 231, 232. Love, its Force and Effects, 116, 117. Diftinguished from Luft, 118, 119. Made in a Romantic Stile condemn'd, 121. Lover's Declaration in Terence, 259. Lucretius |