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.
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.
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.
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. U u
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.
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.
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
CROCODILE, the vertebra of an huge one found in a quarry, 6:9.
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-
EPIGRAM on the Welch, Scotch, and Irish, teaching the English Language,
EULER, M. his folution of a difficult question in the calculation of probabi- lities, 562.
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.
TARLEY, Mr. his letter to Cartares,
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,
HUME, David, fome mistakes in his History refpecting ranks and degrees among the Anglo-Saxons, 504. HYGROMETRY, eflay on, 562.
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.
ores, curious difcoveries with re- gard to the melting of, 614.
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,
MECKEL, M, his anatomico-phyfiologi- cal differtation, 576.
MEDALS. See HEROLDT. MEDICAL and Botanical Dictionary. See BUCHOZ.
MEGAMETER, a new inftrument for marine furveying,
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.
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, 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,
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,
ALMYRA, pathetic reflections on the deftruction of, 133.
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,
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.
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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