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 *Spectators, ibid. his tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and supported both by the whigs and tories, 432,434. Cato warmly attacked by Dennis, 434. observations on his tragedy of Cato, 435. other honours and enmities showed to Cato, ibid. Cato translated both into Italian and Latin, 436. writes in the Guardian, ibid. his signature in the Spectator and Guardian, 437. declared by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, ibid. wrote several political pamphlets, ibid. appointed secretary to the regency, 439. in 1715 publishes the Freeholder, ibid. marries the countess of Warwick, 440. secretary of state, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore resigns it, 441. purposes writing a tragedy on the Death of Socrates, ibid. engages in his defence of the Christian religion, ibid. had a design of writing an English dictionary, 442. his controversy with Steele on the peerage bill, ibid. during his last illness sends for Gay, informs him that he had injured him, and promises, if he recovered, to recompense him, 445. sends for the young earl of Warwick, that he might see how a christian ought to die, ibid. died June 17, 1719, 446. his character, ibid. the course of his familiar day, 449. his literary character, 450. account of his works. 451. extracts from Dennis's Observations on Cato, 457. considered as a critick, 469. commended as a teacher of wisdom, 470. character of his prose works, 472. a conversation with Pope on Tickell's translation of Homer, viii. 87. becomes a rival of Pope, vii. 265. supposed to have been the translator of the Iliad, published under the name of Tickell, 268. his critical capacity remarked, ii. 404, 440, 442.

Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, ii. 353.

Adventurers, iv. 1-148.

Adversaries, the advantage of contending with illustrious ones, vi. 413.

Adversity, a season fitted to convey the most salutary and useful instruction to the mind, iii. 212. the appointed instrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 213.

Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, iv. 267.

Advice, good, too often disregarded, ii. 408. the causes of this assigned, 409. vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, ibid. when most offensive and ineffectual, iii. 235.

Affability, the extensive influence of this amiable quality, iii. 173.

Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, ii. 99,100. wherein it properly differs from hypocrisy, 101. the great absurdity of it exposed in the character of Gelasimus, iii. 339.

Afflictions, proper methods of obtaining consolation under them, ii. 85, 250.

Africa, progress of the discoveries made on that coast by the Portuguese, v. 217.

Age, the present an age of authors, iv. 109.

Agriculture, its extensive usefulness considered, iii. 188. thoughts on, both ancient and modern, v. 310. productions of, alone sufficient for the support of an industrious people, 311. in high consideration in Egypt, ibid. the many ancient writers on that subject, 313. the enrichment of England, 314. a proper subject for honorary rewards, 315. superior to trade and manufactures, 316. danger to be apprehended from the neglect of, ibid. an art which government ought to protect, every proprietor of lands to practise, and every inquirer into nature to improve, 320. account of, at Raasay, one of the Hebrides, ix. 58. bad state of, at Ostig, in Sky, 74. the raising of the rents of estates in Scotland considered, 91.

Ajut, his history, iii. 368-375.

Akenside, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, viii. 407. his life, 469. son of a butcher at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, born 1721. designed for a dissenting minister, but turns his mind to physick, ibid. Pleasures of Imagination published, 1744, ibid. studies at Leyden, and becomes, M.D. 1744, 470. an enthusiastick friend to liberty; and a lover of contradiction, ibid. practises physick at Northampton and Hampstead, 471. settles at London, ibid. allowed three hundred pounds a year by Mr. Dyson, ibid. by his writings obtains the name both of a wit and scholar, 472. died 1770, ibid. character of his works, ibid.

Alabaster's Roxana, commended, vii. 68.