Fashion (Ned).

Notwithstanding his politeness, is, in many re-

spects, not a well-bred person, v. 188.

Fathers in the church. Their apologies, iii. 162. A general cha-
racter of them and their writings, v. 100,
Faulkner (Mr. George). His intimacy with dean Swift, xi. 462.
xiii. 63. 112. 247. 268. 378. 434. xviii, 291. 292. Which
could not secure him from a chancery suit, for sending some of
his edition of the dean's works into England, xiii. 268. Voted
to Newgate, on a complaint of sergeant Bettesworth, vii. 200.
Verses thereon, ib. Applied to the dean, for permission to print
his works to prevent their falling into worse hands, xii. 209.
Suffers in Ireland, for printing a pamphlet written by bishop
Horte, xiii. 259:

Favourites. The danger of them to princes, iii. 135.

Fear. One of the two greatest natural motives of men's actions,
but will not put us in the way of virtue unless directed by con-
science, x. 49. Great abilities, without the fear of God, are
dangerous instruments when trusted with power, 52.

Feasts. Description of one, translated from the original irish, vii.
179. The vanity and luxury of the Irish respecting them,

xiii. 315.

Felicity. What the sublime and refined point of it, ii. 173.
Fenton (Mrs). See Swift (Jane).

Fiction. Its great advantages over truth, ii. 170. The trade of a
poet, v. 257.

Fiddes (rev. Mr). Letter from bishop Smalridge in his behalf, xi.

281.

Fielding (beau). A ridiculous instance of his vanity, xvi. 334.
Figures in poetry, xvii. 29.

Finly (one of Wood's evidences). His confession when examined,
ix. 60.

Finery. To be considered by ladies as a necessary folly, v. 141.
First-fruits and tenths. Proceedings respecting them, xi. 27. 45.
49. 57. 61. 67. 82. 83. 87. 95. 100-128. 161. 164. 168. 286.
450. xiv. 238. 268. Swift's memorial to Mr. Harley, xi. 91.
Fishery. The folly of the English, in suffering the Dutch to run
'away with it, xiii, 121. Mr. Grant's proposal for establishing
a white herring and cod fishery in Ireland, xiii. 117.
Fitzmaurice (John, afterward earl of Shelburne). Dr. Swift soli-
cits a small preferment for him, xiii. 190.

Flappers. The office of certain domesticks so called in Laputa,

vi. 182.

Flattery. The different motives to the love of it in men and women,
v. 463. The power of it, and the way to guard against it,
x. 15.
Fleetwood (bishop). Remarks on his Preface, xvi. 339. Pretended
Letter of Thanks from Lord Wharton to him. xviii. 141. His
principles of government, 143. The preface to his four ser-
mons burnt by order of the house of commons, 148.
Flemings. A set of vagabond soldiers, natives of Arragon, Navarre,
Biscay, Brabant, &c. who infested all Europe, xvi. 92. Were

ready

ready to be hired to any prince who chose to pay them, ibid.
Always hated in England, ibid.

Floyd (miss Biddy). Verses on, vii. 38.

Folly. Usually accompanied with perverseness, ix. 211. A term
that never gave fools offence, xii. 327. None but fools can be
in earnest about a trifle, 335. 397:

Fools. Imitate only the defects of their betters, x. 111.

Forbes (lord). For his firm attachment to king James II, sent
prisoner to the Tower, x. 376. Refuses to accept two hundred
pounds sent him by king William, ibid.

Ford (Charles). Introduced by Dr. Swift to the duke of Ormond,
xiv. zo. Appointed gazetteer by Dr. Swift's procurement, with
a salary of two hundred pounds a year, beside perquisites, xv.
310. Gives Dr. Swift an account of several expected changes in
the ninistry, and other matters of state, xi. 353. Of the pro-
ceedings against Arthur Moore, 355. His earnestness to have a
complete edition of Dr. Swift's works, of most of which Mr.
Ford had good copies, xiii. 95. 368. His curious law suit with
an Irish chairman, 271. Verses on his birthday, vii. 256. On
Stella's visit to his house, 253.

Fountain (sir Andrew). Dr. Swift visits him in a dangerous ill-
ness, and differs in opinion from his physicians, xiv. 306.
Character of his mother and brother, 319.

Fownes (sir William). His letter to Dr. Swift, respecting the foun-
dation of an hospital for lunaticks in Dublin, xiii. 5. His cha-
racter, 181.

France. Can much sooner recover itself after a war than England,
iii. 9. 396. The genius and temper of that people, 156. In the
war against queen Anne, very politically engrossed all the trade
of Peru, 353. While under one monarch, will be always in
some degree formidable to its neighbours, xi. 245. A litigious
manner of treating peculiar to that country, iv. 242. The in-
dignation expressed by all ranks in that nation at the terms of
peace offered to them by the allies, iv. 63. A royal academy
established there, for the instruction of politicians, xi. 417.
Wooden shoes, and cottages like those in Ireland, are to be found
within sight of Versailles, xiii. 231. The stables in that king-
dom truly magnificent, and the waterworks at Marli admirable,
ibid. Ill-treatment the Irish experienced there, xix. 73.
Francis I (king of France). Bargained with the pope, to divide
the liberties of the Gallican church between them, iv. 400.
Fraud. Esteemed in Lilliput a greater crime than theft, vi. 53.
Merits greater punishment than many crimes that are made
capital, ii. 423.

Frederick (prince of Wales). The exalted expectations of him, if
he should come to be king, xiii. 433.

Freedom. Wherein it consists, ix. 124. The dean's letter to the
mayor, &c. of Corke, when the freedom of that city was sent to
him, xiii. 364. The substance of his speech, when that of the
city of Dublin was presented to him, ix. 378.

Freethinkers. Have no great reason for their clamours against re-

ligious

ligious mysteries, v. 103. Are a little worse than the papists, and more dangerous to the church and state, iv. 408. Lord Bolingbroke's remarks on them, xii. 129.

Freethinking. Abstract of Mr. Collins's Discourse on it, X. 71. Some Thoughts on, xvi. 320. The inefficacy and imprudence of preaching against it, v. 105. What the principal ornament of it, viii. 253. By whom first introduced, 254. No complete body of atheology ever appeared before Mr. Collins's Discourse on Freethinking, x. 173. That discourse sufficiently exposel by an abstract of its contents, 176.

Freind (Dr). Recommended by Dr. Swift to be physician general, xv. 280.

French (Humphry, lord mayor of Dublin). His character, ix.406. Ode of Horace addressed to him, xviii. 447.

French. A mixture of their tongue first introduced with the Saxon by Edward the Confessor, v. 66. The genius and temper of hat nation, iii. 396. The oppressive practice of the government, of calling in their money when they have sunk it very low and then coining it anew at a higher rate, ix. 23. Have the hstory of Lewis XIV, in a regular series of medals, v. 469. French memoirs, to what their success is owing, xvi. 346. Their conduct and evasions in settling the articles of commerce withEngland, xv. 377. An instance, in which the vanity of that ation contributes to their pleasure, xvi. 293.

Friendship. Acts of it create friends even among strangers, x. 292. Lord Bolingbroke's reflections on it, xii. 12. 57. The flly of contracting too great and intimate a friendship, 190. Reection on it, by the duchess of Queensberry, xiii. 34. The loss of riends a tax upon long life, 38. The medicine and comfort of lif, 421. Not named in the New Testament, in the sense in whch we understand it, x. 193.

Frog (Nicholas). A true character of him, xvii. 142.
Frogs. Whence propagated in Ireland, xvi. 263.
Funds. Mischiefs of them, iii. 6. xiv. 22.

The use of tem in

England commenced at the revolution, iii. 6. iv. 110. Ariquity of the practice, iii. 7. Not such real wealth in the ntion as imagined, 8. The cunning jargon of stockjobbers, ibd. 97. Reflections on the managers of publick funds, 196. Anccount of those raised from 1707 to 1710, iv. 115.

Funerals. The only method of carrying some people to:hurch, xvii. 296.

Furnese (sir H.). Added or altered a letter of his name with every plum he acquired, iii. 221.

Furniture that best pleases the Dean of St. Patrick's, xviii.457.

G.

Gadbury (John). The astrologer, v. 12, note.

Gallantry. The nations who have most of it for the young are severest upon the old, xi. 7.

Gallas,

Gallas, count, (the Imperial envoy). Forbid the British court, for
h's infamous conduct, iv. 97. His base intrigues, ibid. De-
servedly disgraced, xv. 171.

Galstown House.

Verses on, xviii. 432.

Galway (earl of). Humorous threat of a surgeon whom he had
ofended, ix. 225.

Gaming. Some pertinent inquiries concerning it, made by the
kng of Brobdingnag, vi. 147.

Gamsters. In what respect courtiers may be said to resemble
them, xiii. 244.

Garb (Dr). A bon mot of his, when dying, xiii. 186.

Gason. Description of a week's sustenance of his family, xii. 34.
The artifice of one confined by the French king to speak only
one word, 200, 201.

Gay Mr). An epistle to him, in verse, viii. 114. Appointed
secretary to lord Clarendon, xi. 333. Epigrammatical petition
by him, ibid. His treatment by the court, after a long attend-
ane on it, v. 212. Asthmatical, xviii. 263. Proposes to print
thesecond part of the Beggars Opera, ibid. Suspected unjustly
of vriting a libel against Mr. Walpole, xiii. 18; who was with
diffulty persuaded to let Gay continue a second year com-
misioner to a lottery, 19. After fourteen years attendance on
thecourt, rejects the servile dignity of gentleman usher to a girl
of wo years old, and retires in disgrace, vii. 3. viii. 114. xii.
259 xiii. 19. Wrote an eclogue in the quaker style, x. 213.
Refictions on the conduct of great men toward him, xii. 89.
Appinted a commissioner of the state lottery, 98. Gives Swift
an acount of the success of the Beggars Opera, 274. Acquaints
himwith more particulars respecting it, 276. The great friend-
shipof the duke and duchess of Queensberry toward him, 305.
Recives great contributions toward the publication of the second
part of the Beggars Opera, 306. His fortune increased by op-
presson, 307. Most of the courtiers refuse to contribute to his
undetaking, ibid. Chief author of the Craftsman, by which he
becomes very popular, 310. Engaged in law suits with book-
selle, for pirating his book, 313. Declines in the favour of
couriers, 456. Some account of his fables, to Dr. Swift, 469.
482. Gambadoes commended by him as a fine invention, xiii.
2. inds in himself a natural propensity to write against vice,
12. His death, 22. Is universally lamented, and buried with
greatomp, 23. Curll assiduous in procuring memoirs of his
life, id. Duchess of Queensberry's character of him, 33. Dr.
Swifts condolence with the duchess for his death, with a short
charater of him, 38. His opera of Achilles [and the Distrest
Mothr a tragedy] brought out after his death, 14. 117. The
Presen State of Wit probably written by him, xviii. 28.
Gazettee. A salary of two hundred pounds a year settled on that
employment, by Dr. Swift's procurement, xv. 310.

Gee (Dr) His vanity humbled by Mr. Prior, x. 244•

General. The errour of commissioning such an officer for life, how

great soever his merit may be, iii. 60. Excessive avarice one
of the greatest defects in one, 139.

Genius. The most fruitful age will produce but three or four in a
nation, iv. 316.

Geoffry of Anjous Married the empress Maude, xvi. 49. Attacked
Stephen's Norman dominions, 61; from whom he afterward
accepted a pension, 62. Foreseeing the extensive dominions.
which his eldest son Henry was likely to succeed to, bequeathed
Anjou to his second son Geoffry, 93.

Geoffry (his son). Endeavoured to enforce his right to the earldom
of Anjou, xvi. 93. Died of grief, 94.

George (prince of Denmark, who died in the end of October 1708,
in his 56th year, having been married to the queen more than 25
years). His aversion to the earl of Godolphin, &c. but intimi
dated from getting him removed before his death, by a critical
management of the duke of Marlborough, iv. 283. 284.
George I (king). See Hanover. His accession, x. 267. xi. 395-
403. xiv. 4. Succeeded to the crown with great unanimity
among his subjects, iv. 356. Had a happy opportunity of re-
conciling parties for ever, by a moderating scheme, x. 268.
Openly disgraced the principal and most popular tories, ibid.
Left the management of publick business almost entirely to sir
Robert Walpole, 269. His clemency ironically praised, xii. 84.
Pastoral Dialogue on his Death, vii. 364.

George II (king). During his father's reign, lived an almost pri-
vate life, x. 272. Applied his time to the study of the language,
religion, customs, and dispositions of his future subjects, ibid.
His singular firmness and resolution in supporting the rights of
his German subjects, ix. 326.

Germain (lady Elizabeth). Invites Dr. Swift to Drayton, xiv.
208. A smart remark made by her, on Colley Cibber's being
appointed laureat, xii. 381. Vindicates to Dr. Swift the con-
duct of the countess of Suffolk respecting him, xiii. 30. Parti-
culars of an affair between the bishop of Peterborow and her, 68.
Recommends to Dr. Swift a medicine, said to be of efficacy
against giddiness, 248. Highly commended by the dean, for her
great and many virtues, 318.

German language. Has admitted few or no changes for some ages
past, v. 69.

Gertruydenburgh. Some of the articles in the treaty there very
unreasonable, iii. 388. The queen prevailed on to ratify it,
though not interchangeably signed, ibid. Horatio Walpole's
opinion of it, ibid.

Ghosts. Whence it may be concluded that the stories of them in
general are false, v. 455.

Gibbs (Dr.) Remarks on his Translation of the Psalms, xvi. 359.
Giddiness. A good medicine to relieve from that disorder, and the
headach, xiii. 248.

Gifts. Their value enhanced by the manner of their distribution,

xiii. 420.

Gildon. A writer of criticisms and libels, xvii. 336.

Gillicranky