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cure of his fits of giddiness, 367. Writes a very humorous treatise on the altercation of the ancients, 380. His remark upon Curll the bookseller, xiii. 23. His freedom with the greatest persons, in defence of liberty, virtue, and religion, 25. Affecting and friendly letter, written in his illness, and some few months before his death, to Dr. Swift, 146. Account of his death, by Mr. Pulteney, 171. His character, xiv. 39. xv. 151.
Argyll (earl of). Returns out of Holland to invade Scotland, in support of the duke of Monmouth's pretensions to the crown, x. 365. Is deserted by his Highlanders, and flies, 366. Being taken prisoner, is sent to Edinburgh, and beheaded, 367.
Argyll (John Campbell, duke of). Zealously promoted the union, but remonstrated against the malt tax, iii. 300. His extraordinary answer to a question from the queen, iv 287. His character, xiv. 39. xviii. 236. A distinguisher of merit, xiv. 352. Tells Swift, his recommendation will have more weight with him than that of all the ministry together, 364. Married a niece of Duncomb the rich alderman, xv. 17.
Aristotle. His character, v. 172. vi. 227. xviii. 257. His opinion that man is the most mimick of all animals, how confirmed, xvii. 303. The greatest master of arguing in the world, xvi. 224. His poetry, rhetorick, and politicks, admirable, ibid. His foundation of happiness absurd, x. 142.
Arlington (Henry Bennet, earl of). His character, xvi. 348.
Army. The mention of standing armies in the midst of peace, and among a free people, amazed the king of Brobdingnag, vi. 147. The general contempt of religion in that of the English, ii. 402. The vice of drinking restored by the army, after having been almost dropped in England, 410. What commerce a general has with the civil power in a well instituted state, iii. 28. The armies of Greece and Rome, in the early times, composed of their citizens, who took no pay, 58. Two originals of the custom in Europe of keeping them in pay, 59. Reflections upon the behaviour of some officers in it, and their execrations of the new ministry, 64. Not blamable for preferring the whig to the tory ministry, 88. A standing army in England, either in war or peace, a publick absurdity, x. 305. The superiour valour of the British troops beyond those of any of the allies, iv. 217. How raised and paid in the feudal ages, xvi. 19.
Arran (earl of). His reply to archbishop Burnet, x. 375. Solicited by Dr. Swift to resign the claim made by the Ormond family to the rectorial tithes of Clonmel, xii. 324.
Arts. Professors in most of them deficient, in not explaining their meanings, v. 89. Whence derived to us, xvii. 72.
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