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 * ||||Raillery his talent, which was a bar to his farther preferment, xii. 440.
 * ||1745.||Fond of walking and therefore never wore boots, xviii. 281.
 * ||||His political principles, i. 39. 103. iii. 423. iv. 293, ix. 379. xiii. 31. Their consequences, ix. 381. xii. 441.
 * ||||His style, xiv. 61.
 * ||||His epistolary correspondence, prayers, and sermons. See Letters, Prayers, Sermons.
 * ||||Was a constant advocate for the whigs, under the Tory administration, ix. 381. xi. 310. xii. 358. A great support to poor families, by lending them money without interest, ix. 381.
 * ||||His account of his own behaviour to the earl of Oxford, xiii. 344.
 * ||||Treated the scribblers against him with sovereign contempt, xviii. 21.
 * ||||The requisites he expected in a wife, i. 281.
 * ||||List of desiderata in his works, ii. xxvii.
 * ||||Received memorial presents from several great personages. A paper book, finely bound, with a polite epistle in verse, from Lord Orrery, viii. 145. A silver standish, with verses, from Dr. Delany, 146. A snuffbox, from general Hill, xi. 220. xv. 324. A writing table from lady Orkney, 235334 [sic]. Two pictures from the duchess of Ormond, 243xv.346 [sic]. xv. 346. A case of instruments from lady Johnson, xii. 311. Reminded lord treasurer of the promise of his picture, xii. 87. At that lord's death, demanded the picture from his son as a legacy, 122. Received a valuable screen from Mrs. Pratt, xiii. 139xii. 139 [sic]. A picture of Charles I, from Dr. Stopford, xix. 35. 45. A ring from Mrs. Howard, xix. 49.
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 * ||||His account of his own behaviour to the earl of Oxford, xiii. 344.
 * ||||Treated the scribblers against him with sovereign contempt, xviii. 21.
 * ||||The requisites he expected in a wife, i. 281.
 * ||||List of desiderata in his works, ii. xxvii.
 * ||||Received memorial presents from several great personages. A paper book, finely bound, with a polite epistle in verse, from Lord Orrery, viii. 145. A silver standish, with verses, from Dr. Delany, 146. A snuffbox, from general Hill, xi. 220. xv. 324. A writing table from lady Orkney, 235334 [sic]. Two pictures from the duchess of Ormond, 243xv.346 [sic]. xv. 346. A case of instruments from lady Johnson, xii. 311. Reminded lord treasurer of the promise of his picture, xii. 87. At that lord's death, demanded the picture from his son as a legacy, 122. Received a valuable screen from Mrs. Pratt, xiii. 139xii. 139 [sic]. A picture of Charles I, from Dr. Stopford, xix. 35. 45. A ring from Mrs. Howard, xix. 49.
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 * ||||List of desiderata in his works, ii. xxvii.
 * ||||Received memorial presents from several great personages. A paper book, finely bound, with a polite epistle in verse, from Lord Orrery, viii. 145. A silver standish, with verses, from Dr. Delany, 146. A snuffbox, from general Hill, xi. 220. xv. 324. A writing table from lady Orkney, 235334 [sic]. Two pictures from the duchess of Ormond, 243xv.346 [sic]. xv. 346. A case of instruments from lady Johnson, xii. 311. Reminded lord treasurer of the promise of his picture, xii. 87. At that lord's death, demanded the picture from his son as a legacy, 122. Received a valuable screen from Mrs. Pratt, xiii. 139xii. 139 [sic]. A picture of Charles I, from Dr. Stopford, xix. 35. 45. A ring from Mrs. Howard, xix. 49.
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 * ||||Received memorial presents from several great personages. A paper book, finely bound, with a polite epistle in verse, from Lord Orrery, viii. 145. A silver standish, with verses, from Dr. Delany, 146. A snuffbox, from general Hill, xi. 220. xv. 324. A writing table from lady Orkney, 235334 [sic]. Two pictures from the duchess of Ormond, 243xv.346 [sic]. xv. 346. A case of instruments from lady Johnson, xii. 311. Reminded lord treasurer of the promise of his picture, xii. 87. At that lord's death, demanded the picture from his son as a legacy, 122. Received a valuable screen from Mrs. Pratt, xiii. 139xii. 139 [sic]. A picture of Charles I, from Dr. Stopford, xix. 35. 45. A ring from Mrs. Howard, xix. 49.
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. — Mr. Wotton actually busied himself to illustrate a work which he laboured to condemn, adding force to a satire pointed against himself, as captives were bound to the chariot-wheel of the victor, and compelled to increase the pomp of his triumph, whom they had in vain attempted to defeat, ii. 30. The fattest fellow in a crowd, the first to complain of it, 62. Satirists use the publick as pedants do a naughty boy ready horsed for discipline; first expostulate, then plead the necessity of the rod, and conclude every period with a lash, 64. Mistaken in supposing, that all weeds must sting, because nettles do, ibid. Wits are like razors, which are most apt to cut those who use them when they have lost their edge, 65. They, whose teeth are too rotten to bite, best qualified to revenge the defect with their breath, ibid. The world soonest provoked to praise by lashes, as men to love, ibid. A pulpit of rotten wood a double emblem of a fanatick preacher, whose principal qualifications are, his inward light and his head full of maggots; and the two different fates of whose writings are, to be burnt or wormeaten, Rh