think, in justice to the world, as well as himself, he ought to have prevented this criticism, and frankly acknowledged the truth of his narration, although it might have somewhat lessened his reputation as an author.
I do not doubt, but this will clear Gulliver from another severe imputation which he lay under, for debasing human nature, by making men inferior to horses. Because, in the
treatise, it is so plain that antiquity professed to be of a very different opinion, and it is so manifest that the whole history is a fact and not a fiction, that if we think mankind disgraced by the comparison, it is to their own vices, and not to the traveller's relation we ought to impute it.
I hope, and expect, that all future commentators will copy the example I have given them in this critical essay; and that hereafter they will be at least as studious to shew their own learning, as to illustrate their author.
I am pretty well assured that the judicious will readily join with me in opinion; and, I must own, that I account it the highest honour to the critic, and the surest test of his genius, to demonstrate the truth and existence of those things which the whole world beside determine to be false and fictitious.
Cambridge, Jan. 26, 1734-5.
ABERDEEN, University of, 4, 162.
Account of the Sickness and Death of
Dr. W-dw-d, An, 95, 464–470.
Account of the State of Learning in the
Empire of Lilliput, An, 124, 483 490.
Addison, Joseph, 11, 85, 86, 161,
166, 167.
Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christ
Church, 12, 13, 15, 17, 24, 32, 33.
Allardyce, Colonel and the Misses,
ix, 171.
Allen, Ralph, 160.
Allen, Rev. W., 15.
Alsop, Anthony, 23.
Anne, Queen, 26, 33, 34, 38, 39, 41,
42, 46, 49 note, 50, 51, 60 note,
67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75-8, 81, 122,
143, 151, 155, 159.
Antidote, The, 95.
Appendix to John Bull still in his
Senses, An, 47, 257-268.
Arbuthnott, Rev. Alexander, Prin-
cipal of King's College, Aberdeen,
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Arbuthnot, Elizabeth, Dr. Arbuth-
not's sister, 159.
Elizabeth, Dr. Arbuthnot's
grand-niece, 161.
Esther, Dr. Arbuthnot's grand-
niece, 161, 162.
Mr. F. F., ix, 162.
George, Dr. Arbuthnot's
brother; birth, 3, 171; ensign
and lieutenant, 40; participation
in the rising of 1715, 84; mar-
riage, 104 note, 120; wife's death,
128; Swift's wine, 129; in China,
134 note, 144; date of death un-
certain, 159 note, 172.
George, Dr. Arbuthnot's son ;
Repudiation of the Miscellaneous
Works, 8; birth, 26; Miscellanies
of 1742, 30 note; 120 note; letter
from Pope on his father's death,
157, 158; executor, 158 in the
King's Remembrancer's Office,
159; friendship with Pope, 160,
161; death, 161.
Arbuthnott, James, of Lentischie, 2.
Arbuthnot, Mrs. James, ix, 162,
171.
Joan, Dr. Arbuthnot's sister,
Arbuthnott, John, Notary Public,
Dr. Arbuthnot's great grand-
father, 2, 172.
Arbuthnot, John, Dr. Arbuthnot's
nephew, 140, 161, 172.
Arbuthnott, John, Dr. Arbuthnot's
uncle, 2.
ARBUTHNOT, John, M.D., birth and
parentage, 1-3; early years, 3, 4;
father deposed from his living,
4, 5; death of his father, 6, 7;
departure for London, 7; the
Miscellaneous Works, 8; Of the Laws
of Chance, 9, 10; at Oxford, 10;
his pupil, 11; letters to Dr.
Charlett, 12-18; degree of M.D.
taken at St. Andrews, 18, 19;
spelling and pronunciation of his
name, 19, 20; Examination of Dr.
Woodward's Account of the Deluge,
20-22; the Bentleian controversy,
22, 23; Essay on the Usefulness of
Mathematical Learning, 24-26; birth
of a son, 26; Fellow of the Royal
Society, and Physician Extra-
ordinary to the Queen, 26; Tables
of the Grecian, Roman, and Jewish Mea-
sures, Weights, and Coins, 27; friend-
ship with Lord Peterborough, 28-
30; the Union with Scotland, 30;
death of Dr. Gregory, 31-33; rise
of Robert Harley, 33, 34; Phy-
sician in Ordinary to the Queen,
35; correspondence with Sir Hans
Sloane, 35, 36; scientific con-
troversies, 36, 37; Swift in Lon-
don, 37; at Windsor, 38; the
Mashams, 39; George Arbuthnot,
40; negociations for a peace with
France, 41; illness of Arbuthnot,
41; Tory fears, 42; pamphlets
against Nottingham and Marl-
borough, 43; Law is a bottomless
pit, 44, 45; John Bull in his senses,
&c., 46-48; a Tory Society, 46;
the Earl of Mar, 49; Dr. Charlett's
application for a bishopric, 50;
illness of the Queen, 51; The Art
of Political Lying, 52; Robert Ar-
buthnot, 53; physician at Chelsea
Hospital, 54; Berkeley in Lon-
don, 54, 55; the Scriblerus Club,
56; the Memoirs of Martinus Scrib-
lerus, 57, 58; other Scriblerus
pieces, 59; Gay and Swift, 60,
61; the Schism Bill, 61; Swift
in retirement, 62; dissensions in
the Ministry, 63; hints for Scrib-
lerus, 64, 65; Oxford and Boling-
broke, 66-68; Pope's visit to
Swift at Letcombe, 69, 70; Boling.
broke in the ascendant, 70, 71;
Whiston and the longitude, 71,
72; Swift on the state of parties,
73; Oxford's fall, 74, 75; the
Queen's illness and death, 75-77;
Arbuthnot's removal from St.
James's, 77; friendship with
Swift, 78; the scattered members
of the Scriblerus Club, 79-81;
out of office, 82; impeachment of
the Tory ministers, 82, 83;
Arbuthnot's brothers and the
rising of 1715, 83, 84; satire on
Bishop Burnet, 85; Pope's Iliad,
85, 86; cheering words to Swift,
86, 87; a riding-party to Oxford,
87, 88; Petition of the Colliers, &c.,
88; Three Hours after Marriage, 88-
91;
Prior's
subscriptions to
poems, 91; visit to France, 91,
92; Swift's attacks of vertigo, 93;
a pamphlet by Thomas Gordon,
94, 95; attack upon Dr. Wood-
ward, 95; the South Sea bubble,
96; letters to Henry Watkins, at
Bath, 96-100; Pope's character
of Robert Arbuthnot, 100, 101;
arrest of Atterbury, 102; Swift
and his old friends, 102, 103;
Lord Peterborough and the Robin-
sons, 104; Censor at the College
of Physicians, 105; Swift's me-
lancholy, 105, 106; Arbuthnot
at Bath and Oxford, 106, 107;
Reasons humbly offered by the Com-
pany of Upholders, 107; Peter, the
wild boy, 107; illness of Arbuth-
not, 108; Swift's anxiety, 109;
Arbuthnot's recovery, 109; letter
to Swift, 110; another pamphlet
of Gordon's, 111; Swift in London
at the Prince's Court, 111-113;
Arbuthnot's love of music, 113;
Gulliver's Travels, 114, 115; Tables
of Ancient Coins, 115-117; Miscel-
lanies in Prose and Verse, 117; the
Walpoles, 118; an Elect of the
College of Physicians, 118; Ar-
buthnot's Harveian oration, 118;
Captain Innes, a kinsman in
Limerick, 119; news for Swift,
119; the Beggar's Opera, 120;
George Arbuthnot's marriage,
120; the Corporation of the Sons
of the Clergy, 120; the Dunciad, 120,
121; Mrs. Howard, 121, 122;
pieces attributed to Arbuthnot,
123, 124; Gay's Polly, 124-126;
letters to Swift, 126, 127; Ar-
buthnot's house in Cork Street,
127, 128; illness of Mrs. Arbuth-
not, 128; Swift's bad wine, 128,
129; Mrs. Arbuthnot's death,
129; reported appointment as
physician to the Queen, 129, 130;
Pope, James Moore Smythe, and
Lady M. W. Montagu, 130–132;
Mr. John Ginglicutt's Treatise, 132,
133; Lord Chesterfield, 133, 134;
at Tunbridge Wells, 134, 135;
Essay concerning the Nature of Ali-
ments, 135, 136; death of Charles
Arbuthnot, 136, 137; epitaph on
Colonel Chartres, 137, 138; the
Charitable Corporation, 138-141;
Gay's death, 141-143; illness of
Martha Blount, 142; a letter to
Swift, 142-144; Essay concerning the
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