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 *universe, 23. by enlarging our curiosity after the works of nature we multiply the inlets of happiness, 24.

Nation, its state to be discovered by the manners of the common people, ix. 18.

Natural history, difficulties in writing on that subject, v. 220.

Nature, no danger of her being exhausted, iv. 312.

Navigation, no tradition of, before Noah's ark, v. 210. slow progress of, for two centuries after the discovery of the compass, 211. don Henry, son of John the first, king of Portugal, the first who formed the design of making new discoveries about 1410, ibid. short account of discoveries made under the direction of don Henry, 212. short account of the progress of other discoveries, 219.

Neale, Edmund, known by the name of Smith. See Smith.

Necessaries and superfluities of life considered, iv. 258.

Needlework, the folly of confining girls wholly to it, iv. 188.

Negligence, the power of it strengthened by small indulgencies, iii. 433.

Nelson, Robert, anecdote of him, iv. 138.

Neutrality, a prisoner may promise to observe it, vii. 9.

News, on the fond appetite for, ii. 290.

Newspapers, the advantage of, to idlers, iv. 169. contribute to the knowledge of the common people, ibid. directions for spinning out news, 170. the amazing increase of, 237. description of a news-writer, by sir Henry Wotton, 238. qualifications of a news-writer, ibid. on the increase of advertisements, 267. account of the Mercurius Aulicus, Mercurius Rusticus, and Mercurius Civicus, vii. 429. account of L'Estrange's Observator, and Lesley's Rehearsal, ibid.

Newton, sir Isaac, Pope's epitaph intended for him, viii. 360. observations on his character, v. 261. an epitaph recommended for him, ibid. review of his four letters to Dr. Bentley, containing some arguments in proof of a deity, vi. 16.

Night, described by Dr. Donne, vii. 29.

Nitella, her excessive nicety freely censured, iii. 47.

Noir, M. le, short account of, iv. 292.

Nombre de Dios, account of Drake's expedition against it, vi. 313.

Nothing, criticism on lord Rochester's poem on, vii. 159. Poema J. Passeratii de Nihilo, 162.

Novelty, the strong propensity of the human mind towards it, ii. 375. hence we grow weary of uniformity, 376. an eminent source of pleasing gratification, iii. 140. the charms of it transitory, however endearing the possession, 311. in writers, considered, iv. 80.

Nouradin, the merchant of Samarchand, his dying address to his son Almamoulin, iii. 71.

Nugaculus, his mean and absurd character delineated, ii. 489.

Obscurity in writing, often the effect of haste, iii. 299.

Obidah, his journey of a day, an instructive description of human life, ii. 309.

Old age, its best pleasures drawn from a review of a virtuous life, ii. 203. by what means it becomes entitled to veneration, 243. the peculiar vices of it described, ibid. the numerous infelicities which attend it, 327. wealth only an imaginary support of it, ibid. piety the only proper and adequate relief and best provision against the infirmities and distresses of that season, 330. is peculiarly given to procrastination, 335.

Oldfield, Mrs. allows Savage fifty pounds a year during her life, viii. 108. celebrated in the Wanderer for her beauty, ibid.

Oldisworth, with Broome and Ozell, translate the Iliad, viii. 229.

Omar, (the son of Hassan,) his history, iv. 443.

Opera, the Italian, an exotick and irrational entertainment, vii. 475.

Opinions, causes of the variety of, considered, iv. 95. formed in solitude, liable to errour, viii. 237.

Oppression, the difficulty of preventing it in governments, i. 215. domestick, the terrour and distress of it, iii. 204.

Opulence, visionary, the folly of, ii. 344.

Oratory, as practised by the English, considered, iv. 414.