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 Study, the imbecility of spirit incident to persons addicted to, ii. 245, exercise the best relaxation from, vi. 271.

Sturdy, Bob, his story, iv. 397.

Style, the alteration of it humorously displayed, iii. 6.

Subordination, the necessity of, in places of publick education, vi. 415.

Sunday, the different methods of employing that sacred season, ii. 146. the true method recommended, 150.

Superfluities and necessaries of life considered, iv. 258.

Superstition, a disposition irrational and terrifying, ii. 214. the danger of falling into, i. 232.

Supreme good, falsely supposed by some to be a state of quiet, iv. 203.

Suretyship, the danger of, exemplified in the character of Candidus, iv. 37.

Suspicion, often the concomitant of guilt, ii. 372. an enemy to virtue and happiness, 373. old age peculiarly addicted to it, 373

Suspirius, the screechowl, his character, ii. 283.

Swift, dean Jonathan, his history of the last years of queen Anne saved by an accident, iv. 341. sir R. Blackmore's observations on the Tale of a Tub, viii. 45. his life, viii. 192. his birth and parentage uncertain, educated at Kilkenny, and entered in Dublin university, 1682, ibid. admitted bachelor of arts by special favour, ibid. attends his studies very closely, 193. on the death of his uncle, Godwin Swift, he is introduced to sir W. Temple, who patronises him, ibid. king William offers to make him captain of horse, ibid. consulted by the earl of Portland on triennial parliaments, ibid. the disorder which brought him to the grave supposed to be first contracted by eating fruit, 194. takes the degree of master of arts at Oxford, July 5, 1692, ibid. pays an annual visit to his mother at Leicester, and generally on foot, ibid. leaves sir W. Temple in discontent, 1694, 195. enters into the church, and obtains the prebend of Kilroot, in Connor, ibid. returns to Temple, and gives up his prebend, ibid. wrote Pindarick odes to the king, Temple, and the Athenian society, ibid. Dryden's declaration, that Swift would never be a poet, 196. Temple dies, and leaves his manuscripts to Swift, of whom he had obtained a promise of the first vacant prebend of Westminster or Canterbury, but never performed, dedicates Temple's posthumous works to the king, ibid. goes to Ireland with the earl of Berkeley as private secretary, ibid. disappointed of the deanery of Derry, he gets two small livings in the diocese of Meath, ibid. invites Stella to Ireland, ibid. publishes the dissensions in Athens and Rome, in 1701, 197. in 1704, the Tale of a Tub, ibid. in 1708, the Sentiments of a Church-of-England-man, and some other pamphlets, 198. enters into the service of Mr. Harley, 1710, 200. writes thirty-three papers in the Examiner, ibid. publishes a proposal for correcting, etc. the English tongue, 201. writes a letter to the October club, 202. in 1712 publishes the conduct of the Allies, ibid. Reflections on the Barrier Treaty, and Remarks on the Introduction to vol. iii. of Burnet's History of the Reformation, 203. discovers the misery of greatness, ibid. accepts the deanery of St. Patrick's, 1713, 205. refuses fifty pounds of lord Oxford, but accepts of a draft of one thousand pounds on the Exchequer, but intercepted by the death of the queen, ibid. keeps a journal of his visits, etc. ibid. endeavours to reconcile lord Oxford and Bolingbroke, but in vain, ibid. publishes, 1714, the Publick Spirit of the Whigs, in answer to the Crisis, 206. three hundred pounds offered for the discovery of the author, ibid. retires, in 1714, into Berkshire, ibid. goes to settle on his deanery in Ireland, 207. writes several other political pamphlets, ibid. Mrs. Johnson removes from the country to a house near the deanery, 208. marries Mrs. Johnson, becomes popular by recommending to the Irish the use of their own manufactures, ibid. account of the death of Vanessa, 209. acquires fresh esteem by the Drapier's Letters, 210. three hundred pounds offered for the discovery of the author, 211. his conduct to his butler, who was entrusted with his secret, ibid. makes his butler verger of St. Patrick's, obtains the appellation of The Dean, 212. in 1727, publishes his Miscellanies, three volumes, and Gulliver's Travels, ibid. his wife dies January 28, 1728, 214. he greatly laments her death, though supposed to have hastened it by neglect, ibid. his discourse with Bettisworth the law-*