a year to the Prussian troops, the States one hun dred thousand, the emperor thirty thousand, which he never paid, v. 287. Neither of the emperors had ever twenty thousand men on their own account in the common cause, though by agree ment to furnish ninety thousand, 288. The confederate army to maintain forty thousand men against Spain on the Portugal side, 292. Fifty thousand on the side of Catalonia, which was chiefly at the English expense, ibid. The eighth article of the grand alliance translated, 3c2. The whole of it examined by the house of commons, vii. 114. Broken by every party in it, except the English, v. 326. Allies. Their refusal to bear their just proportion of the charges of the war connived at for private ends, vi. 213. 214. Infamously deserted the British troops, 215. The en peror inclined to con. tinue the war, because it affected not his own dominions, 216. See Alliance, and Conduct. Almanack-makers. Why alone excluded the privilege of other authors, to live after their deaths, iv. 139. Alsatia, iii. 29. Squire of, viii. 9. Ambassador. Wherever he is, his house has all the privileges of his master's dominions, xv. 30. Ambition. Not so strong a passion in young men as love, xv. 287. America. The state of religion in the plantations there, v. 216. 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, viii. 242. Why the Irish migrate thither, ibid. xiii. 56. xx. 101 The reasons urged for removing thither from Ireland ill founded, xiii. 58. Amplification. What; and the use of it in poetry, xxiii. 46. Amsterdam Gazette. The confidence of its writer, v. 325. Amusement. Whose happiness it is, xxiii. 358. Anglesey (Arthur Annesley, earl of. His zeal against Anne (queen). History of her four lust Years, vii. 1. began the change of ministry in 1708, she did not bringing in the pretender, 304. 331. Had a great› Annesley. See Anglesey. Annus Mirabilis, xxiii. 114. Anselm (a foreigner of great piety and learning). Answers, difficulty of writing, iii. 26. What some people call answering a book or discourse, v. Anthony (Mark). Appeared contemptible at Actium, Anthony (St.) The story of his pig, xxii. 301. Anthony (Dr.) A whimsical odd man in Ireland, Apollo, British, xxiv. 164. Apollo outwitted, x. 58. Apollo to the Dean, 193. Apology (An) &c. xi. 329. Apologies. Those of the Fathers, the most useful parts Arachne. The fable of her and Pallas applied, xii. 15. Arbitrary power. A greater evil than anarchy, iii. Arbuthnot (Dr.) The author of Political Lying, and VOL. XXIV. his fits of giddiness, 71. Writes a very bumourous treatise on the altercation of the ancients, go. His remark upon Curll the bookseller, 279. His freedom with the greatest persons in defence of liberty, virtue, and religion, 280. Affecting and friendly letter, written in his illness, and some few months before his death, to Dr. Swift, xix. 105. Account of his death, by Mr. Pulteney, 143. His character, xvii. 212. xxi. 315. Arbuthnot (Robert). Married an Irish lady of gool. a year, xvii. 75. Archimedes, viii. 182. Aretine. Had all the princes of Europe his tributaries, viii. 211. Argyll (earl of). Returns out of Holland to invade Scotland, in support of the duke of Monmouth's pretensions to the crown, xiv. 319. Is deserted by his Highlanders, and flies, 321. Being taken prisoner, is sent to Edinburgh, and beheaded, 322. Argyll (John Campbell, duke of). Zealously promoted the Union, but remonstrated against the malt tax, vi. 206. His extraordinary answer to a question from the queen, vi. 273. His character, vi. 175. XV. 215. xvii. 212. xxi. 191. A distinguisher of merit, xxi. 144. Tells Swift, his recommendation will have more weight with him than that of all the ministry together, 156. Married a niece of Duncomb the rich alderman, xxi. 191. Arians. Their opinions, xiv. 22. Aristides. His character, and for what banished, ii. 291. Aristotle. His character, vii. 323. viii. 179. ix. 219. xvii. 24. 184. His opinion that man is the most mimick of all animals, how confirmed, xxiii. 309. The greatest master of arguing in the world, iv. 84. His poetry, rhetorick, and politicks, admir |