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performing their mysteries and rites, 156; which were frequently managed by female priests, 158. And this custom still kept up by some of the modern Æolists, ibid.

Æschines. His proof of the power of eloquence, v. 157.

Affairs. Free Thoughts on the present State of, iv. 247.

Aghrim. Valour of the Irish at the battle of, xix. 72.

Agriculture. Greatly neglected and discouraged in Ireland, v. 272, ix. 1. 187. The improvement of it, a subject worthy the highest inquiry, 189. xiii. 374. Without the encouragement of it, any country, however blessed by nature, must continue poor, ix. 199.

Ague. A disease little known in Ireland, xv. 123.

Aid (for marrying the king's eldest daughter). How levied, xvi. 39.

Aislabie (Mr.) Made a speech in the house of commons against the dean, vii. 94.

Alberoni (Parson). Extract from a work of Mr. Gordon's under that title, viii. 419.

Alcibiades. The consequence of the impeachment of him by the Athenian people, ii. 307.

Ale. More ancient than wine, and by whom invented, ii. 271. That of Wexford famous, xv. 74.

Alexander the Great. Honourably distinguished by Swift, v. 171. A reflection on the manner of his death, vi. 226. An instance of his magnanimity, xvi. 330.

Alexandrine verses. Swift's dislike to them, xiii. 182.

Allegiance. Reciprocal with protection, though not with preferment, xviii. 166.

Allen (lord). His character, ix. 226. See Tranlus. The dean's advertisement in his defence against him, xiii. 471.

Alley (The). A poem, in imitation of Spenser, xvii. 395.

Alliance. The principal cause of the grand alliance between the emperor, England, and the States General, iii. 347. xvii. 135. The parties in it agree to furnish near two hundred thousand men, exclusive of garrisons, iii. 363. iv. 130. Afterward the number of forces increased, and the English bore an unequal proportion, iii. 363. iv. 133. The English to bear five eighths in the sea service, and the Dutch three, iii. 365. iv. 130. The English to pay two hundred thousand crowns a year to the Prussian troops, the States one hundred thousand, the emperor thirty thousand, which he never paid, iii. 367. Neither of the emperors had ever twenty thousand men on their own account in the common cause, though by agreement to furnish ninety thousand, 368. The confederate army to maintain forty thousand men against Spain on the Portugal side, 372. Fifty thousand on the side of Catalonia, which was chiefly at the English expense, 373. The eighth article of the grand alliance translated 384. The whole of it examined by the house of commons, iv. 127. Broken by every party in it, except the English, xvi. 307.

Allies. Their refusal to bear their just proportion of the charges of the war connived at for private ends, iii. 308, 309. Infamously deserted the British troops, 310. The emperor inclined to con-

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