her husband's house, went on board a ship in the road, and is now landed in inconsolable despair at Plymouth. POSTSCRIPT. After the above melancholy narration, it may perhaps be a relief to the reader to peruse the following expostulation. TO MR. SPECTATOR. The just Remonstance of affronted THAT. • THOUGH I deny not the petition of Mr. Who, and Which, yet you should not suffer them to be • rude and to call honest people names: for that bears very hard on some of those rules of decency, which 'you are justly famous for establishing. They may 'find fault, and correct speeches in the senate and at the bar but let them try to get themselves so often, and with so much eloquence repeated in a sen'tence, as a great orator doth frequently introduce me. "My Lords!" says he, "with humble submission, "That that I say is this: that, That, that that gentle66 man has advanced, is not That that he should have "proved to your Lordships." Let those two questionary petitioners try to do thus with their Who's and their Whiches. What great advantages was I of to Mr. Dryden in his Indian Emperor. "You force me still to answer you in That. to furnish out a rhyme to Morat? And what a poor 'figure would Mr. Bayes have made without his Egad and all That? How can a judicious man distinguish one thing from another, without saying, This here, or That there? And how can a sober man without using the expletives of oaths, in which indeed the rakes and bullies have a great advantage over others, make a discourse of any tolerable length, without That is; and if he be a very grave man indeed, without That is to say? And how instructive ( as well as entertaining are those usual expressions, in the mouths of great men, Such Things at That, and the like of That. 6 I am not against reforming the corruptions of speech you mention, and own there are proper sea'sons for the introduction of other words besides That; 'but I scorn as much to supply the place of a Who or " a Which at every turn, as they are unequal always to 'fill mine; and I expect good language and civil treatment, and hope to receive it for the future: That, that I shall only add is, that I am, Yours, 'THAT.' VOL. I. Ll ΤΟ VOLUME THE FIRST. ABIGAILS (male) in fashion among Ladies, No. 55. Acrostic, a piece of false wit divided into simple and com- Act of deformity for the use of the Ugly Club, No. 17. Advice: no order too considerable to be advised, No. 34. Age rendered ridiculous, No 6. how contemned by the Athe- Alexander the Great wry-necked, No. 32. Ambition never satisfied, No. 27. Americans, their opinion of souls, No. 56. Exemplified in a Ample (Lady) her uneasiness, and the reason of it, No. 32. April (the first of) the merriest day in the year, No. 47. Aristotle: his observation upon the Iambic verse, No. 31. Arsinoe, the first musical opera on the English stage, No. 18. Audiencies at present void of common sense, No. 13. Author: the necessity of his readers being acquainted with B. BACON (Sir Francis) his comparison of a book well writ- Bags of money: a sudden transformation of them into sticks Baptist Lully, his prudent management, No. 29. Bawdry never written but where there is a dearth of inven- Beaver, the haberdasher, a great politician, No. 49. Beauties, when plagiaries, No. 4. improve beauty, 33. heightened by virtue, ibid. The true secret how to Then the most charming when Bell (Mr.) his ingenious device, No. 28. Bell-Savage, its etymology, ibid. Birds, a cage-full for the Opera, No. 5. Biters, their business, No. 47. Blackmore (Sir Richard) his observation, No. 6. Blanks of society, who, No. 10. Blank verse proper for tragedy, No. 39. Bohours (M.) a great critic among the French, No. 62. Breeding: fine breeding distinguished from good, No. 66. Butts described, No. 47. The qualifications of a Butt, ib. |