INDE X.

A.

ABBEY LANDS. In queen Mary's time, the grantees con-
firmed in possession of them by the pope, vol. iv. page 393.
Abercorn (lord). Swift secretly an advocate for him in his distress,
xiv. 282.

Absurdities (publick). In England, x. 303. In Ireland, ix. 390.
Academy. Description of one to be erected for wits, ii. 58. Of
projectors at Lagado, vi. 204. A political one established by
the king of France, xi. 417.

Acheson (sir Arthur). Verses on occasion of Dr, Swift's visit to
his seat, vii. 377-382. viii. 26-51. His Lady's Complaint against
the Dean, vii. 382, Estimate of the value of a grant made to
him of a barrack upon his estate, ix, 238. Lets a farm to the
dean, called afterward Drapier's Hill, viii. 35, 36. Highly
offended by the dean, xix, 48,

Action. Its use to a publick speaker, v. 157.

More prevalent,
even when improper, than all the reason and argument in the
world without it, 161,

Addison (Mr.) His character, viii, 3. xi. 51. One of the few
poets who made a proper use of the sacred writings, v. 244,
Purchased the place of keeper of the records in Birmingham's
tower, the salary of which he got raised from ten pounds to four
hundred, ix, 85. Went to Ireland in 1708, as secretary to lord
Wharton, xi. 51; where he soon distinguished Stella's merit, x.
224. Wrote the Whig Examiner in conjunction with Mr.
Maynwaring, xviii. 32. Swift's friendship for him, iv, 18. xiv,
292. 344. xv. 352. His sister, xiv, 241. His popularity,
226. His pride hurt, at being under obligations to Swift for
assisting Steele; yet solicits him for an office for Phillips, 293.
Coldness between him and Swift, 327. 370.

Addresses, from all parts of the kingdom, the true sense of the na-
tion, iii. 95. 196. The folly of the address against making any
peace without the restitution of Spain, 205, The true meaning
and design of it, ibid,

Egyptians. Arts and sciences derived to us from them and the
Indians, xvii. 72.

olists. Held wind to be the original cause of all things, ii. 152.
Their doctrine consisted of two and thirty points, 153. The
philosophers among them delivered to their pupils all their opi
nions by eructation, 155. Their gods, ibid. Their manner of

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performing their mysteries and rites, 156; which were frequently
managed by female priests, 158. And this custom still kept
up by some of the modern Æolists, ibid.

Aschines. His proof of the power of eloquence, v. 157.
Affairs. Free Thoughts on the present State of, iv. 247.
Aghrim. Valour of the Irish at the battle of, xix. 72.
Agriculture. Greatly neglected and discouraged in Ireland, v. 272.
ix. 1. 187. The improvement of it, a subject worthy the highest
inquiry, 189. xiii. 374. Without the encouragement of it, any
country, however blessed by nature, must continue poor, ix. 199.
Ague. A disease little known in Ireland, xv. 123.

id for marrying the king's eldest daughter). How levied,
xvi 39.

Aistabie (Mr.) Made a speech in the house of commons against
the dean, vii. 94.

Alberoni (Parson). Extract from a work of Mr. Gordon's under that
title, viii. 419.

Alcibiades. The consequence of the impeachment of him by the
Athenian people, ii. 307.

Ale. More ancient than wine, and by whom invented, ii. 271.
That of Wexford famous, xv. 74.

Alexander the Great. Honourably distinguished by Swift, v. 171.
A reflection on the manner of his death, vi. 226. An instance
of his magnanimity, xvi. 330.

Alexandrine verses. Swift's dislike to them, xiii. 182.

Allegiance. Reciprocal with protection, though not with prefer-
ment, xviii. 166.

Allen (lord). His character, ix. 226. See Traulus. The dean's
advertisement in his defence against him, xiii. 471.

Alley (The). A poem, in imitation of Spenser, xvii. 395.
Alliance. The principal cause of the grand alliance between the
emperor, England, and the States General, iii. 347. xvii. 135.
The parties in it agree to furnish near two hundred thousand men,
exclusive of garrisons, iii. 363. iv. 130. Afterward the number
of forces increased, and the English bore an unequal proportion,
iii 363. iv. 133. The English to bear five eighths in the sea
service, and the Dutch three, iii. 365. iv. 130. The English
to pay two hundred thousand crowns a year to the Prussian troops,
the States one hundred thousand, the emperor thirty thousand,
which he never paid, iii. 367. Neither of the emperors had
ever twenty thousand men on their own account in the common
cause, though by agreement to furnish ninety thousand, 368. The
confederate army to maintain forty thousand men against Spain on
the Portugal side, 372. Fifty thousand on the side of Catalonia,
which was chiefly at the English expense, 373. The eighth
article of the grand alliance translated 384. The whole of it
examined by the house of commons, iv. 127. Broken by every
party in it, except the English, xvi. 307.
Allies. Their refusal to bear their just proportion of the charges of
the war connived at for private ends, iii. 308, 309. Infamously
deserted the British troops, 310. The emperor inclined to con-

tinue the war, because it affected not his own dominions, 311. See Alliance, and Conduct.

Almanack makers. Why alone excluded the privilege of other authors, to live after their deaths, v. 54.

Ambassador. Wherever he is, his house has all the privileges of his master's dominions, xi. 14.

Ambition. Not so strong a passion in young men as love, xi. 293. America. The state of religion in the plantations there, iii. 234. In some of the poorest colonies on the continent there, the people allowed to cut their money into halves and quarters for the sake of small traffick, v. 222. Why the Irish migrate thither, ibid. ix. 363. xviii. 353. The reasons urged for removing thither from Ireland ill founded, ix. 366.

Amplification. What; and the use of it in poetry, xvii. 22.
Amsterdam Gazette. The confidence of its writer, xvi. 305.
Amusement. Whose happiness it is, xvii. 387.

Anatomical figures. A collection of them recommended to Swift's patronage, xviii. 387.

Anglesea (Arthur, earl of). His zeal against the bill for laying a duty on Irish yarn, xv. 14.

Anglesey (John Annesley, earl of.) By his death, the tories lost a great supporter, xiv. 204.

Anglo-Latin. Specimens of, xvi. 366–371.

Anjou (duke of). At the beginning of the war maintained six and thirty thousand men out of the Spanish provinces he then possessed, iii. 418. See Partition Treaty, Spain.

Anne (queen). History of her four last Years, iv. 1. Considerations on the Consequences of her Death, iv. 372. Modest Inquiry into the Report of it, xviii. 149. Remarks on the Characters of her Court, 218. Her conduct in the change of the ministry, iii. 4-10. Her right hereditary and indefeasible, as much as an act of parliament could make it, 24. Behaviour of the whigs toward her, 53. Began her reign with a noble benefaction to the church, 69. Her character, 89. iv. 280. Showed great prudence, firmness, and courage, in the change of the ministry, iii. 381. Put under the unreasonable obligation of being guarantee of the whole barrier treaty, 424. Influenced in every action by negligence or procrastination, iv. 280. When she began the change of ministry in 1708, she did not intend to carry it so far as the high church party hoped and expected, 374. A great mistress of royal reserve and delay; her jealousy frequently destroying the good effects of her friendship, 280. 332. 368. 375. Induced to change her ministry, more to preserve her power and prerogative, than through apprehension of danger to the church, 282. She and her ministry had no design of bringing in the pretender, 319. 349. Had a great personal regard for the lords Somers and Cowper, 321. An instance of her piety, xvi. 307. Degraded her dignity, in sending an humiliating embassy to the Czar, 333. Her speech to both houses of parliament, containing the foundation of the peace, iv. 195. Her circumstances much resembled those of Elizabeth, xviii.