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his works, iii. 90-102.

SHOEING-HORNS, ii. 297, note.

SILHOUETTE, a term not to be found in any dictionary, iii. 84; originated in a political nickname, ib.

SILK stockings, pair of, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 226.

SILLI, ancient parodies, ii. 455.

SKELTON, his satire on Wolsey, iii. 187.

SNEEZING, the custom of saluting after, i. 126; attributed to St. Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.

SNUFF-BOXES, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the Jesuits', reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.

SOLITUDE, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.

SOLOMON, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and the Queen of Sheba, 202.

SONGS among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun, and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin's, 144; old English, 145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici, ib.; French "Chansons de' Vendange," 147; parodied, by Puritans, 148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from Athenæus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English customs, 150; political, iii. 179, 180.

SONNAH, the, i. 113.

SOTADES travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.

SOTTIES, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.

SOVEREIGNTY of the seas, ii. 79-81.

SPANISH Etiquette, instances of its absurdity, i. 194.

SPANISH Poetry, i. 100; remarks on and illustrative quotations of, 101; translation of a madrigal found in a newspaper, 102.

SPEED, the historian, suspicions of his originality, ii. 445.

SPENSER, Fuller's character of, i. 379.

SPIDERS, influence of music on, i. 272; admired as food, ii. 355, note.

STANZAS to Laura, i. 230.

STARCHING, origin of, i. 227.

STEEVENS, George, the Puck of commentators, iii. 296; account of his literary forgeries, 297, 298; the story of Milton and the Italian lady attributed to, 299; his motives for omitting the Poems from his edition of Shakespeare, 301; his trick on the antiquary Gough, 303, 304.

STEPHENS, Robert, the printer, his family and their works, i. 76, note; divided the Bible into chapter and verse, iii. 433.

STERNHOLD and Hopkins, their version of the Psalms, ii. 472.

STONES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244, 245.

STOSCH, Baron, his dishonest collecting, iii. 318.

STREETS of London, origin of many of their names, ii. 239-243.

STUART, Arabella, mistakes of historians regarding, ii. 502; her history, 503-519.

STUCLEY, Sir Lewis, Vice-Admiral of Devon, accepted a surveillance over his kinsman, Sir Walter Rawleigh, iii. 116; his base treachery, 119; universally shunned in consequence, 120; convicted of clipping gold, ib.; his miserable death, 121.

STUDENT in the metropolis, the, description of, by Gibbon, Rogers, and Descartes, i. 112.

STUDY, plans of historical, ii. 90-92.

STUKELEY, Dr., his Imaginary History of the Empress Oriuna, i. 324, note.

STYLE, remarks on, in the composition of works of science, i. 89; strictures on the, of theological writers, ii. 21, 22; on that of Lancelot Addison, 23.

SUGAR-LOAF-COURT, origin of the name, ii. 10.

SUPPRESSION of MSS.--See MANUSCRIPTS.

SYDENHAM, F., his melancholy death occasions the foundation of the Literary Fund, i. 34, and note.

TABLETS, and Table-books, ii. 26.

TALMUD, many copies of, burnt, i. 48; a collection of Jewish traditions orally preserved, 114; comprises _Mishna_, which is the text of the _Gemara_, its commentary, ib.; general account of, ib.; believed apocryphal, even by a few among the Jews, ib.; time of the first appearance of its traditions uncertain, ib.; compiled by Jewish doctors to oppose the Christians, ib.; analysis of, by W. Wotton, 115; two Talmuds, ib.; committed to writing, and arranged by R. Juda, prince of the Rabbins, forming the Mishna, ib.; disputes and opinions of the Rabbins on the form of the Mishna, ib.; God's study of, ib.; curious, from its antiquity, 116; specimens of, from the Mishnic titles, 116-118; and from the Gemara, 119.

TASSO, various opinions on the respective merits of him and Ariosto, i. 386; Boileau's criticism on, 388; his errors national, ib.; his verses sung by the gondoliers, ib.

TAXATION, remarks on the popular feeling on, in ancient and modern times, iii. 193; associated with the idea of tyranny, ib.; illustrative anecdotes, 194; efficacy of using a mitigated term for, 195; gifts, tribute, benevolences, and loans, 195-198; Burleigh's advice on, 199.

TAYLOR, Thomas, a modern professor of Platonism, i. 215.

TEA, opposition to the introduction of, ii. 317; present of, declined by the Russian ambassador, 318; Dutch bargain for, 319; introduction into Europe, ib.; shop-bill of the first vendor of, 320.

TENURES, curious ancient, i. 187, note.

THOMAS AQUINAS, some account of the works of, i. 63-65.

TIMON of Philius, his parodies of Homer, ii. 455.

TICHBOURNE, Chidiock, concerned in Babington's conspiracy, ii. 171; his address to the populace at his execution, 176; his letter to his wife, 177; verses composed by him the night before his execution, 178.

TITLES, origins of, and anecdotes concerning, i. 155; book of, published in Spain, ib.; Selden's _Titles of Honour_, ib.; of books, 288-292.

TOLERATION, practised by the Romans, and inculcated by Mahomet, iii. 245; caution used in publishing works on, ib.; early English advocates of, 246, and note; in Holland, ib.; facts illustrative of the history of, 247, 248; condemned by all parties, 249-253; opinions of an English clergyman on, 252.

TOM O' BEDLAMS, account of, ii. 311-314, and notes; songs of, 315-317.

TORTURE, Felton threatened with, ii. 376; its frequent use in England, ib.

TORQUEMADA, first Spanish inquisitor, in fourteen years persecuted 80,000 individuals, i. 166.

TOWNLEY, Zouch, his poem on Felton, ii. 378; collection of antique marbles formed by his descendant Charles Townley, purchased for the British Museum, ib., note.

TRAITORS, barbarous mode of execution of, in Queen Elizabeth's time, ii. 175, and note.

TREASURES in hills, iii. 295, note.

TREVOUX.--See DICTIONARY.

TROUBADORS, their poems and their loves, i. 444.

TRUSLER, Doctor, first vendor of printed sermons imitating manuscript, i. 400.

TURNER, Doctor, a violent opposition leader in the second Parliament of Charles I., iii. 451; an agent of the opposition in Parliament against the measures of Charles I., 466; a disappointed courtier, 467, note.

TURKISH SPY, the, i. 377; John Paul Marana, the author of, 378.

URBAN the Eighth, instances of his poetic sensibility, i. 456.

USURERS of the 17th century, notice of the practices of, ii. 158-170.

USURY, contrary opinions on, ii. 174, 175.

UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More's, missionaries proposed to be sent to, i. 320.

VACCINATION, strange dread of, ii. 317.

VALLANCEY'S Collectanea, curious error in, i. 326, note.

VANBRUGH, the architect of Blenheim, got a power from Lord Godolphin to contract in the Duke of Marlborough's name, iii. 104; produces the power, 106; his depositions, ib.; attempt of the Duchess of Marlborough to charge the debts of Blenheim on, 108; conduct of the Duchess towards, 109; discovery of his origin, 110, 111.

VARCHI, Benedetto, his "Storie Florentine," iii. 183; remarks of Mr. Merivale on, ib., note.

VARILLAS, his fictitious work on the Reformation, i. 132, note.

VASARI'S History of Artists, not entirely written by himself, iii. 131.

VATICAN, library of, i. 4.

VAUCANSON, his mechanical figures, iii. 284, note.

VAUDEVILLES, origin of the name, ii. 148.

VERSES, follies in the fantastical forms of, i. 295-300; reciprocal, ib.

VICAR OF BRAY, story of the, i. 196; Dr. Kitchen, Bishop of Llandaff, acted the same part, 197; type of, ii. 37.

VIDA, Jerome, from the humblest obscurity attained to the episcopacy, i. 105.

VISION OF ALBERICO, ii. 422; of Charles the Bald, 423.

VIRGIN MARY, images of, frequently portraits of mistresses and queens, i. 366; miraculous letter of, 367; Louis II. conveys Boulogne to, ib.; Life of, by Maria Agreda, ib.; worship paid to, in Spain, 368; system of, in seven folio vols., 369.

VIRGINITY, St. Ambrose's treatise on, i. 412.

WALKER, his account of the clergy of the Church of England who were sequestered, &c., iii. 243.

WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his magnificent building at Houghton, iii. 191.

WALSINGHAM, Sir Francis, died in debt, iii. 192.

WALWORTH, Sir William, his private motive for killing Wat Tyler, iii. 470, note.

WARBURTON, J., by neglect causes the destruction of old manuscript plays, i. 54, note.

WAT TYLER, anecdote of, iii. 470, note.

WESTMINSTER elections always turbulent from the days of Charles the First, iii. 461, note.

WHIG and Tory, origin of the terms, iii. 88.

WHISTLECRAFT'S Poem on King Arthur, ii. 496, note; imitated by Byron in his Beppo, ib.

WHITELOCKE, his Memorials, ii. 212; his remembrances, a work addressed to his family, lost or concealed, ib.; preface to the Remembrances preserved, ib.; omissions in first edition of his Memorials, ii. 448.

WIFE, Literary, i. 327; of Budæus, 328; of Evelyn, who designed the frontispiece to his translation of Lucretius, ib.; of Baron Haller, ib.; Calphurnia, wife of Pliny, ib.; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, 329; extract from her epistle to her husband, ib.; notices of the wives of various celebrated men, 332-337.

WIGS, custom of using, i. 217-220; Steele's, 229.

WILKINS, Bishop, his museum, iii. 291.

WINKELMANN, the plan on which he composed his works, ii. 89.

WOLSEY, Cardinal, his magnificent houses, iii. 187.

WOMEN, actors, first introduced on the Italian stage, ii. 140; on the English, 284; Kynaston a favourite actor of female characters, 285, note.

WOODCUTS, ancient, in the British Museum, i. 74, note.

WORDS, introduction of new.--See NEOLOGY.

WOOD, Anthony, when dying, caused his papers to be destroyed, ii. 243; some, however, preserved, ib.; secret history of the Earl of Oxford drawn from, ib.; compelled to disavow the translation of his book, 453; Gibbon's opinion of his dulness opposed, 538, note.

WRITING, minute, i. 275; ancient modes of, ii. 20-26; materials used for, 27-30.

WRITING-MASTERS, iii. 167; Massey's lives of, 169; anecdote of Tomkins, 171; Peter Bales, a celebrated, 173; account of his contest with David Johnson, 173-177.

XENOCRATES, pupil of Plato, attacked Aristotle, i. 142.

YVERY, notice of the History of the House of, iii. 420, and note.

ZANY, etymology of the word, ii. 123; and notes.

THE END.

Transcriber's note: The following typographical errors have been corrected:

In page 45: "Y l pedir dolor." amended to "Y el pedir dolor."

In page 47: "The plan consists of a dialogue betwen a philosopher and a Sancho Pança..." 'betwen' amended to 'between'.

In page 66: Added double quotes at the begining of: "Lo! the Nominalists and the Realists again!"

In page 208: Added double quotes at the end of: "He is dead, sir! asking your pardon for mentioning such a contemptible wretch!"

In page 229: "Journal and Dictionary, which latter is almost an enclycopædia as there are few things..." 'enclycopædia' amended to 'encyclopædia'.

In page 230: "Duc de Maine" amended to "Duc du Maine".

In page 318: "which of all those things which admit of being secretly purlioned, can only be practised in this department..." 'purlioned' amended to 'purloined'.

In page 504: "Cadell to the late Geroge Robinson, and that the successor of Dr. Kippis." 'Geroge' amended to 'George'.

In footnote 143: "The introductory account of Heylin has enabled us to correct the present article in some particulars, and add a few usefu notes." 'usefu' corrected to 'useful'.

In footnote 245: Added double quotes at the begining of: "heretykes, perverters of Christes relygyon."

In the Index: Discoveries in literature and science, aptitude in, obtained hy studious men, iii. 'hy' corrected to 'by'.