[Footnote 4:  They lodged over the shop of Mr. Arne—­father of Dr. Arne and Mrs. Cibber—­in King Street, Covent Garden. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 5:  The edition of 1712 has, “as the surface of a pebble.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 6:  In “The Tatler” for February 4th, 1709/10 (No. 129), Steele prints a letter from “Pasquin of Rome,” in which he says:  “It would also be very acceptable here to receive an account of those two religious orders which are lately sprung up amongst you, the Whigs and the Tories, with the points of doctrine, severities in discipline, penances, mortifications, and good works, by which they differ one from another.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  The edition of 1712 has:  “the persons of the greatest abilities among them.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 8:  See “The Spectator,” No. 81, and “The Examiner,” No. 32.  The “black spots” are the patches ladies stuck on their faces. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  This paper is signed “C.”, in the edition of 1712, which is one of the signatures used by Addison.  See, however, Swift’s “Journal,” quoted above. [T.S.]]

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[The following paragraph in “The Spectator,” No. 575 Monday, August 2. 1714. is believed to have been contributed by Swift.]

“The following question is started by one of the schoolmen.  Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand, and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years.  Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after; or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years:  Which of these two cases would you make your choice?”

CONTRIBUTIONS TO “THE INTELLIGENCER.”

NOTE.

“THE INTELLIGENCER” was published in Dublin, commencing May 11th, 1728, and continued for nineteen numbers.  On June 12th, 1731, Swift, writing to Pope, gives some account of its inception, and the amount of writing he did for it:  “Two or three of us had a fancy, three years ago, to write a weekly paper, and call it an ‘Intelligencer.’  But it continued not long; for the whole volume (it was reprinted in London, and I find you have seen it) was the work only of two, myself, and Dr. Sheridan.  If we could have got some ingenious young man to have been the manager, who should have published all that might be sent him, it might have continued longer, for there were hints enough.  But the printer here could not afford such a young man one farthing for his trouble, the sale being so small, and the price one halfpenny; and so it dropped.  In the volume