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To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this
Volume, including the FOREIGN ARTICLES
in the Reviews April, May, June, and Appendix.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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AIKIN, Mr. See TACITUS, 152.
AMERICA. See COLONIES.
ANNALS of the reign of Maria The

refa, Emprefs, 535.
ANALYSIS of L'Hiftoire Philofopbique des
Etabliffemens des Européans dans le deux
Indes, 597.

ANATOMY, comparative, new fpecies
of, 623.

ANIMALCULES, &c. natural history of,
167.

ANTIMONIALS. See FEVERS.
ARTICLES, grammatic, explained, 98.
ARTICULATION. See SPEECH.
ARTS, polite, obftructions to their pro-

grefs in England enquired into, 300.
AUGER, M. his difc. on education, 536.
AUSTRIA, general hiftory of, 350.

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ton and Leibnitz concerning space and
a vacuum, 568. His memoir con-
cerning the equilibrium of the mind
between equal and oppofite motives,
and the principle of choice, 579.
BEHAVIOUR, polite and the contrary,
exemplified, 115.

BELLES LETTRES. See PHILOSOPHY.
BERLIN, Royal Academy of, begins a
new series of its Memoirs, 574.
BERNARD, M. his poetry commended,
639.

BETZKY, M. his account of plans of
education, laws, &c. founded by the
Emprefs of Ruffia, 342.
BIBLE. See RONDET.

BITAUBE, M. his inveftigation of the
Italian language, 572. His difcourfe
on Moliere, 584.

BLACKSTONE, Judge, his mistake con-
cerning the divifion of tythings, 502.
BLAKE, Mr. introduces the art of ma-
nufacturing Morocco leather into Eng-
land, 557

BossUT, Abtê, his course of mathema-
tics, 441.

BRISTOL, prefent Bp. of, charge against
him retracted, 279.

Bucнoz, M. his univerfal hiftory of the
vegetable world, 440. His engravings
relative to the above work, 535.
BUFFON'S natural hiftory of birds,
Vol. III. 437.

BUSCHING's topography of Brandenburg,
444.

CA

C.

ADMUS, a different perfonage front
A what he is generally fuppofed to
have been, 484.

CAMPBELL, Mr. his cafe, relating
the Grenada duty, 89.
CANCERS cured by arfenic, 533.
CANNON, iron, improvements in the
cafting of, 614.
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CARRACCIOLI, Mr. his life of Pope
Clement XIV. 344.
CARSTARES, Mr. memoirs of his life,
145. His ftate papers, 217.
CARTE, Thomas, his materials for a
continuation of his Hiftory of England,
243.

CASANOVA's hiftory of the troubles in
Poland, 342.

CACE, Dr. account of, 203.
CASTILLON, M. his attempt to recon-

cile Defcartes and Locke, 583.
CATINAT, Marshal, memoirs of, 348.
CATT, M. de, his contest with Pernety,
concerning phyfiognomy, 573, 584.
CERES, goddess, explanatory account of,
477.

CHABANON on the phrenzy of imitating
the English garden, 345.
CHARTREUSE, mountain of, defcribed,
384.

CHEMISTRY, legerdemain tricks per-
formed by, 27.

CISTERCIAN Monks, great privileges
of that order, 224.

DELISLE, Abbé, his poem on rural life,
344.

DE L'ORME's Gouvernement Oeconomique,
532.

DEMONIACS, of the New Testament,

controverfy concerning, 205.
DESMAREST, his mem. on the origin,
&c. of the Bafaltes, 619. On the pa-
per manufactories of Holland, 624-
DICTIONARY. See RONDET.

See

FAVART. See Bucнoz.
Docs, act of parliament to reduce the
numbers of, recommended, 18.
DRAMA, English, fatirical remarks on

the prefent ftate of, 140. New fpecies
of the drama, in France, 634.
DUANE, Mr. his collection of the Brun-
fwick ftate papers, 244.

DUSAULX, M. his letters, &c, on the
paffion for gaming, 536.

DU SEJOUR, his effay on comets, 524.
DuvoISIN, Abbé, his defence of the
New Teftament against unbelievers,
590.

E.

ARTH, curious fuggeftions concern-

CLARENDON, Lord, wrote his hiftorying the age of, 615. Its deftruc-

under prejudices and fuperftition, 135.
CLERC's French tranflation of M. Betz-

ky's Ruffian plans, ftatutes, &c. 341,
CLEMENT XIV. his life, 344.
COCKFIGHTING, fermon against, 95.
COLMAN, his tranflation of Terence

compared with a later attempt, 322.
COLONIES, British, adminiftration of the
government of, 9. Mr. Burke's fen-
timents on, 79. Other opinions, 83-
88. Farther difcuffion, 173. Great
queftion relative to the taxation of dif-
cuffed, 253, 446. Remarks on the
acts of the last parliament relative to,
519. Galloway's plan of accommoda-
tion with, 537. Farther fentiments

of Mr. Burke relative to, 543.
COMETS, Curious obf. on the nature of,
524.
CONVENTION Parliament, character of,
242.

COPPER, poifon of, obf, on, 164.
COUET, Abbé, his philofophical con-
terences, 591.
CRITIC, modern, droll recipe to make

one, 92.

CROCODILE, the vertebra of an huge
one found in a quarry, 6:9.

D.

ALMATIA, &c. hiftory of, 594.

weeks, new explication of, 487.
DEBT, national, inconveniences and ad-
vantages arifing from, 39-41.
DE HAEN, his defence of magic, 591.

tion prognofticated from extreme cold,
618.

EDUCATION, rural, preferable to that
in cities, 49.

EEL, quaking, account of the phenome-
non obfervable in, 577.
ELECTRICITY, amufing experiments
in, 24, Some new and valuable oner,
33°.

EMPHASIS explained, 402.
ENGLISH, their capacity for excelling in
the polite arts, inveftigated, 300. Re-

markable for their integrity in ancient
times, 422. Their manly amufe-

ments, 424.

EPIGRAM on the Welch, Scotch, and
Irish, teaching the English Language,

74

EULER, M. his folution of a difficult
question in the calculation of probabi-
lities, 562.

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GARDENS. See WATELET. See CHA-
BANOU.

GAUBIUS, Profeffor, his oration in praise

of the university of Leyden, 598.
GENIUS, nature of, 1. General fources
of, 3. Diverfity of, 5..

GENTIL, M. his voyage into the Indian
fea, 626.

GLEDITSCH, M. his account of a faline
earth, 575.
GLOCESTER,
Charles II.) his character, 241.
GLOVER, Mr. his reprefentation of the

Duke of, (brother to

cafe of the W. India planters, &c. 450.
GOULIN, M. his history of phyfic, 534.
GRANGE, M. his demonftration of a

very difficult arithmetic theorem, 579.
GRAY, Mr. his birth and family con-
nexions, 378. His letter to Weft, ex-
preffing his diflike of a college life, ib.
His letter to Walpole defcribing the
manner of paffing his time in the coun-
try, 379. His fapphic ode, in Latin,
the first production of his Mufe, 380.
His defcription of Versailles, 382. Of
the amusements at Rheims, ib. Of
the confluence of the Rhône and Saône,
383. Of his journey up the Alps, ib.
Of the Grand Chartreufe, 384. His
Latin ode written there, 385. His de.
fcription of the Duke of Modena's pa-
lace, ib. Of a ball at a Roman villa,
387.

GRENADA, litigation relating to the 41
per. cent. on exports, 89.
GRESSET, M. his difcourfes on the cor
ruption of the French language, 347.

H.

TARLEY, Mr. his letter to Cartares,

HAR

219.

HARPIES, a college of priests, 477.
HEAT, duration of, in bodies, 610.
HENLEY, Mr. his new experim. in elec-
tricity, &c. 330.

HENRY VII. his character traced in his
will, 252.

HERCULANEUM, account of ftatues, &c.
difcovered there, 629. Comments on,
by the Neapolitan academicians, 630,
HERCULES, explan. circumstances in the
history of that hero, 480.

HEROLDT, M. his defcript. of 100 gold
medals, 595.

HIPPA, goddefs, explanat. account of,
476.
HISTORY, general, of the house of Au-
ftria, 350

of Afia, Africa, and America,
529. Philofophy of history, 584.
HUDSON, Henry, his voyage to discover
a paffage by the North Pole to China,

121.

HUME, David, fome mistakes in his
History refpecting ranks and degrees
among the Anglo-Saxons, 504.
HYGROMETRY, eflay on, 562.

JA

I.

AMES II. his memoirs relative to his
own reign, 244. His account of the
connexion of the patriots with the
French ambaffador, 411. Of the fea-
fight with the Dutch, 415. Of the
Duke of Monmouth, 417.

JARS, M. his metalurgical travels, 348.
INDIANS, of the Eaft, their skill in
aftronomy, 627.

INFANTS, anatomical obf. with refpect
to, 623.

INJURIES, analyfis of, with respect to
civil law, 200.
JOANNET, Abbé, on the knowledge of
man, 536.

JOHNSON, Dr. compared, as a traveller,

with Mr. Pennant, 57. His journey
in Scotland, 58. Sketches out the
landscape of the defert, 62. Defcribes
the manners of the Highlanders, 63.
His prejudices against the Prefbyterians,
65. His opinion of the Erfe language,
158. Inclines to believe in the Second
Sight, 162. His political pamphlets
att.cked, 184, 253, 446.

IROF, native, and malicable, found in
Siberia, 334.

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ores, curious difcoveries with re-
gard to the melting of, 614.

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M.
MACBRIDE, Dr. his letter on the revi
vifcence of fnails, 329.
MAGIC. See DE HAEN,
MAJOR ENUS on the agriculture of the
ancients, P. 443•

MAGNETISM, Conjuring tricks by, 25.
MAN, confidered in his nature and rela-
tions, 536. As a moral agent, 570,
MANOMETER, a new contrivance for
afcertaining the differences in the den-
fity of the air, 128, the note.
MASON, John, account of, 203.
MATTER, its inert, or its active princi
ple inveftigated, 567.
MAYER's pofthumous works, 443.
MECHANICS, experimental tricks in,

21.

MECKEL, M, his anatomico-phyfiologi-
cal differtation, 576.

MEDALS. See HEROLDT.
MEDICAL and Botanical Dictionary. See
BUCHOZ.

MEGAMETER, a new inftrument for
marine furveying,

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air, 562. On Taxeometry, 583,
LASSONE, M. his obf. relative to natu
ral hiftory, 619. His account of the
inoculation of the royal family of
France, 624.

LA TRAPPY, abbey of, fketch of, 349.
LEAD, poifon of, obf. on, 163.
LEIBNITZ, M. his doctrine of Monades,
567. Attempt to reconcile his notion
of space and a vacuum with the ideas
of Newton, 568.
LESSING on the antiquity of oil colours
in painting, 444.

LEYDEN, univerfity of, its providential
eftablishment afferted, 598.
LIGHTNING, remarkable ftorm of, 332.
LILLO, George, account of him and his
writings, 54.

LINGUET, Mr. his paradoxes, 589.
LINNET, a fable, 431.
LOCKE, Mr. his hypothefis with respect

to the manner in which we acquire our
ideas of extenfion and figure, 581. Re-
conciled with Defcantes, in regard to
the origin of our ideas, 583.
LONGEVITY, remarkable inftances of,
and how obtained, 47.
LOTTERY, curious calculation relating
to one, 563.

LOVET, Mr. his ridiculous pretensions
to fcience and literature, 335-
LUTWIDGE, Capt, his voyage to the
northward, 123. His defeription of
Mcffen-iland, 125.

LYONS, Ifrael, his inaccuracy in after-
taining the gain of the pendulum, in
Capt. Phipps's voyage, 131.

cal, &c. of ancient and modern phyfic,
534.

MERIAN, M. his obf. on the problem
of Molyneux, 581.

MESSTER, M. his catalogue of nebule
and of clusters of ftars feen above the
horizon of Paris, 625.

MODENA, Duke of, his palace defcribed,
385.

MOLYNEUX, Mr. his famous problem,
581.

MONMOUTH, Duke of, not the fon of

Charles II. 417. Particulars of his
rebellion, 419.

MONNIER. M. his inquiries into the

variation of the needle, 622.
Moon, its paft exiftence and future du-
ration fuggefted, 615.

MORELLET, M. his fatirical account of
Linguet's paradoxes, 589.

MoSSES, analogy between the propagation
of, and that of fome animals, 597.
MYTHOLOGY of the ancients explained,
475.

N mals, 533.

N.

JATURAL hiflory of teftaceous ani
NATURE, art of obferving, 350.
NEBULOSITIES, explanatory account of
thofe celeftial appearances, 625.
NECKER, Jof. de, his Phylogia Muf
corum, 597.

NEEDLE, magnetic, obf. on the varia
tion of, 6:2.

NEWTON, his notions of space and a va-
cum, how far reconcilable with the
ideas of Leibnitz, 568.

NICHOLSON,

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NICHOLSON, Mr. his account of a form
of lightning, &c. 33z.

NINUS, hiftory of, not relative to an in.
dividual, but to a nation, 482.
NORTH-EAST paffage, series of voyages
for the discovery of, 120—130,

0.

IL, its powerful effect on the fur-
face of agitated water, 325.
OIL-COLOURS. See LESSING.
OSIRIS, explanatory account of that
hero, 478.

OSSIAN, poems of, their antiquity dif
puted, 160.

OSWALD, Dr. grofsly attacked by Dr.
Priestley, 292.

ORPHEUS, a name characteristic both of
a deity and of his votaries, 483,

P.

ALMYRA, pathetic reflections on the
deftruction of, 133.

PALMY

PARS, Mr. accompanies Dr. Chandler in

his tour to Afia Minor and Greece, in
search of ancient infcriptions, &c. 193.
PENDULUM, obf. relating to, in Capt.
Phipps's voyage, 130.
Farther re-
marks on, 132.
PERNITY, Dom, his difcourfe on phy-
fiognomy, 573. Controversy on that
fubject continued, 584.
PERRENOT, M. his confiderations on
jurisprudence, 596.

PERSEUS, explanatory account of that
hero, 479.

PHILOSOPHICAL conferences, 591.
PHILOSOPHY, neceffity of its intimate
union with philology, 570.
PHIPPS, Captain, his voyage to try how
far navigation was practicable toward
the North Pole, 123.
PHYSIOGNOMY, principles of propofed
for investigation, 190. Literary con-
teft relative to this fubject, 573.
PINDAR, effay on, by Schneider, 444.
PLANETS, new theory of, 614.
POLAND, Hift. (Italian) of the troubles
of, 342.

POOLE, Jonas, his voyage to the north-
ward, on difcovery, &c. 122.
Poor, English laws relative to, great de-
fects of, 315.

PORTAL, M. curious anatomical obf. by,
623.

POTATOE, methods of cultivating, 16.
PRATER, a character, 108.

PRIESTLEY, Dr. cenfured for his want
of urbanity, in literary controverfies,

202.

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AYMOND de Vieuffens's history of
internal difeafes, 441.

REASON and Truth, hiftoric eulogy on.
585.

REID, Dr. grofsly treated by Dr. Priest-
ley, 293.

RESORPTION, of the excretory fluids,
its important advantages, 176.
REVETT, Mr, affociated with other gen-
tlemen, in a tour to Afia Minor, &c.
in fearch of antiquities, 193.
RHEIMS, amufements there described,
382,

ROME, ancient and modern, described,
443.
RONDET, M. new edit, of his Latin and
French Bible, 344.

his hift. and crit. Dictionary of
the Holy Scriptures, 442.

ROT, in sheep, method to prevent, 14.
Roy, M. le, his obf. on a ball of fire
feen in France, 622.

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350.

SESOSTR 18, an ideal hero, 481. Curious
difquifition concerning his history, ib.
SHAKESPEARE, a Lady's comment on
his "As you like it," 432. High
encomium on the morality of his wri
tings,

Rouband. M. his Histoire
generale de l'afi or.529

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