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After this I flatter my felf to have demonstrated that, neither the Friendly Qualities and kind Affections that are natural to Man, nor the real Virtues he is capable of acquiring by Reason and Self-Denial, are the Foundation of Society; but that what we call Evil in this World, Moral as well as Natural, is the grand Principle that makes us fociable Creatures, the solid Basis, the Life and Support of all Trades and Employments without Exception: That there we must look for the true Origin of all Arts and Sciences, and that the Moment Evil ceases, the Society must be spoiled, if not totally diffolved.

I could add a thousand things to enforce and further illustrate this Truth with abundance of Pleasure; but for fear of being troublesome I shall make an End, tho' I confess that I have not been half so sollicitous to gain the Approbation of others, as I have study'd to please my self in this Amusement; yet if ever I hear, that by following this Diversion I have given any to the intelligent Reader, it will always add to the Satisfaction I have received in the Performance. In the hope my Vanity forms of this, I leave him with regret, and conclude with repeating the seeming Paradox, the Substance of which is advanced in the Title Page; that Pri vate Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits.

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INDEX.

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A.

IR and Space no Objects of Sight, Pag. 375.
Acknowledgment due to Ancestors, 369.

Alexander the Great. The Recompence he had in
view, 40. Proved from his own Mouth, 41. Another

Demonstration of his Frailty, 383.

America, what the Conquest of it has cost, 214.
Anger defined, 221. Conquered by Fear, ibid. and 227.
The Operation of Strong Liquors imitates that of Anger,

235.

Apology (an) for several Passages in the Book, 256, 257, 258.
An Apology for recommending Ignorance, 332.

Atheism has had its Martyrs, 238.

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Avarice, 100. The Reason why it is generally hated, 101.
Why the Society stands in need of it, ibid. and 102. Is

equally necessary with Prodigality, 106, 283.

B.

Beards, the various Modes concerning them, 376.
Beggars, their Policy, 291, 292. What fort of People com-

plain of them most, ibid.

Behaviour of modett Women, 60. Of a Bride and Bride-
groom, 64. Of undisciplin'd Soldiers, 229.

Belief, when we deserve it, 169.

Benefits that accrue from the worst of People, 81, till 92.

Bleffings, Prejudicial, 254.

Brandy-

Brandy-Shops, the Qualifications required to keep them.

88.

Breeding (good) a Definition of it, 69. A Discourse on
it, 70 till 74.

Brewing and Baking Luxurious Inventions, 184.
Britain (Great) wants Ignorance, 345, 370.

Bustle (the) to be made in the World to procure a Scarlet

or Crimson Cloth, 411.

Cato, his Character, 385.

C.

Charity. A Definition of it, 285. Is often counterfeited by
our Paffions, 287, 291, 294. The Compliments paid to
all the Appearances of Charity, 295. Abuses of Charity,
ibid. and 296, 302.

Charity-Children have no Opportunity to learn good Man-
ners, 305. Why they are pleasing to the Eye, 320.
Charity-Schools are admired to Distraction, 303. What is
said in behalf of them, ibid. Not capable to prevent Thefts
and Robberies, 304. The Cause of our Fondness for those
Schools, 313. A Description of the first Rife and subse-
quent Steps that are made to erect a Charity-School, ibid.
till 320. The Joy they give, ibid. and 321. They are an
Inexhaustible Fund for Tittle-Tattle, ibid. and 322. The
Charms of them to the Multitude, 323. The different
Views Partymen have in wishing well to them, 354,
355. More Labour and Eloquence are laid out upon
them than on any other Duty, ibid. The Comfort the
Wicked find in liking them, 324. The true Motives of
the Bustle made about them, 325. Arguments against
Charity-Schools, shewing them to be destructive to the
Publick, 326, till 370. A perpetual Nursery for them,
344.

Children. What makes them mannerly, 305. What all de-
light in, 319. Labour the proper Province of the Children
of the Poor, 341.

Church, going to it of the utmost Neceffity to the Poor,
352.

Cicero, his Character, 384.

Claffes. The two Classes Men are divided into, 30.

Clergy, Pride conceal'd in them, 136. Their Value for

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the Comforts of Life, 165, 166. A deceitful Plea of
theirs, 167. What brings them into Contempt, 168,
169. The fame illustrated by Example, 170. The Cler-
gy when poor, expose themselves by Matrimony, 172,
173.

Cloaths, the Use of them, 129.

Comforts of Life, various as the Condition of Men vary,
109.

Company (good) 387. The love of it not the Cause of
Man's Sociableness, 386. Solitude to be preferr'd to
some Company, 390. Love of Company no Virtue, 391.
The Reason why we love Company, 392.

Compaffion. A Story of a Child to raise Compaffion, 287.
See Pity.

Conclufion of the Remarks, 280 till 285.
Constitution, what it consists in, 234.

Content the Bane of Industry, 17, 67. A Definition of Con-
tent, 272. Is a precarious Virtue, ibid. An Instance of
it, ibid. 274. Content more opposite to Industry than
Laziness, 275.

Conversation between a Mercer and a Lady his Customer,
403, till 407.

Courage (natural) proceeds from Anger, 226. Spurious and
Artificial Courage, 228. Natural Courage good for no-
thing in War, 229. Stratagems to create Courage, 230.
231, 233, 239, 240. How Pride is mistaken for Courage,
230. A Definition of Artificial Courage, 232.

Custom, the Force of it, 186.

Customers, the different ways of drawing them, 407.

D.

Death not always the thing we fear the most, 231. Interest
of Money after Death, 300.

Decencies and Conveniencies have a large Signification, 275.
Descartes, his Opinion refuted, 197.
Description (a) of the Pleasures of the Voluptuous, 157, 158.
Of the killing of a Bullock, 196.

Distiller, (a) what is required to make an Eminent one,

89.

Divines, what it is we are obliged to for the great Num-
bers of them, 336, 337-

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Duelling

Duelling proceeeds not from false Notions of Honour, 242.
The Benefit it is of to Society, 243. The Custom of it
not to be abolish'd, ibid. How to prevent it, ibid.

Dutch (the) not frugal by Principle, 202. Their Calamities
under Philip II. of Spain, ibid. Their other Disadvantages,
203. How they differ from us, 204. Their Profuseness,
206. Their policy in encouraging the Extravagancies of
Sailors, ibid.

Ε.

Education, Observations concerning it, 39, 46.
Effendi (Mahomet) died for Atheism, 238.
Elements (the) are all our Enemies, 396.

Emulation, Mankind divided in two Classes for Emulati-
on's fake, 30. The Emulation of School-Boys not de-
rived from Virtue, 143.
Englishmen don't covet Spartan Greatness, 278.
Enthusiasm, the force of it, 278.

Envy, 139. A definition of it, ibid. The various Symptoms
of it, 141, 142. Envy confpicuous in Brute Beasts, ibid.
An Argument to thew that Envy is rivetted in our Na-
ture, 143. The use of Envy in Painters, 144. Envy
has reform'd more bad Husbands than Preaching, 145.
An Instance of Envy, 146. No Body is without, ibid.
Cato's Envy to Cafar, 385.

Epicurus, his highest Good, 150. Pious Christians the
greatest Epicures, ibid. The Pleas and Apologies of E-
picures, 127, 128, 260, 261.
Effay (an) on Charity and Charity Schools, 285.

Evil both Moral and Natural the solid Basis of Society, 428.

F.


Fame, what the Thirst after Fame confifts in, 46.
Fear, not to be conquer'd by Reason, 220. A Definition
of Fear, ibid. The Neceffity of Fear in the Society,
227. Fear of Death when the strongest, 383.
Flattery, no Man Proof against it, 37. The various Arts
of it, 39, 40.9

Flesh of Animals, to eat it is a cruel piece of Luxury, 187,
188, 189.

Footmen, the Faults they are generally guilty of in England,
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