To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume.
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
CADEMY, Imperial, at Petersburgh, has a lady for its prefident, 585.
EOLIAN ISLANDS. See LIPARI. AEROSTATIC machine, full acCount of, 551-568. See alfo AIR BALLOON. AIR-BALLOONS, defcription of, with a recital of the various experiments tried with them in France, 551. Critical remarks on the principles and conftruction of these machines, 561. Note relative to, 593. AMERICA, obf. rel. to our trade with, 377- Anecdotes concerning, 378. Future circumftances of, predicted, 379. AMPUTATION of limbs, improved mode of, 521. ANATOMICAL exper. on the preg nant uterus, the tubes, the ovaries, &c. of certain animals, 540. ANATOMY of animals, fchool for the ftudy of, inft. in France, 583. ANDRE, Mr. his microfcopic defcription of the king crab, 396. ANTIQUARY -his refearches highly advantageous to the hiftorian, 289. ANTIQUITIES, advantages refulting from the ftudy of, 14.
APTENODYTES, a bird fo called, where found, 252. ARLANDES, Marquis d', performs an aerial journey with M. de Rozier, 556. His conduct when arrived at their highest elevation, ib. Note rel. to, 593. ATHANASIUS referred to, in refpect of Unitarianism, 232, 235. ATONEMENT, opinions relative to that doctrine, 91. ATTERBURY, Bishop, anec. rel. to, 6. AUGUSTUS, Emp. review of his reign, 118.
AZAEL, a demon, who prefides over the toilet, 445. His office and character poetically defcribed, ib.
BALLOON. See AIR.
BAPTISM, opinions rel, to, 96. BARNABAS referred to, in the Socinian controverfy, 240. BECKMAN's exper. on dying cotton, 250.
account of the fubftance of which tobacco-pipes are made in the East, &c. 538. BISHOPS, hift. of their introduction into the Chriftian church, 101.
CESAR, Julius, account of his death, with the preceding cir- cumftances, 115. CAMBRIDGE, univerfity of, vindi- cated, 88.
CAMELEON defcribed, 531. CANNAE, battle of defcribed, 108. , modern appearance of the fcene of action, 277. Traces of the town, 278. Obf. on the face of the country, and the movements of the armies, 279. CAPELL, Mr. his notes on Shake- fpeare characterized, 484. Hift. of the rife and progrefs of, through a period of three and twenty years, to the time of their publication, ib-487. : CARTHAGE, a great military power, 536. Her refources for war, ib. CARTHAMUS, (the faf-flower), experiments on, to prove its ufe. fulness in dying cotton, 250. CATHOLICS, Roman, apology for, in regard to caths, 100.. CHALKE, ftrange ornaments in the church-porch there, 368. CHAMOUSSET, M. his great fuc- cefs in the military hofpitals under his direction, 424. CHARACTERS, ancient and mo. dern, difference between, 122.
COMUs, the conjuror, his fuccefs in the cure of diseases by electri- city, 425: COPLEY, Sir Godfrey, account of the affignments of his honorary medal, 329. COPPER-MINE, defcription of the great one in the isle of Anglesey, 469. CORSICA, mineralogical produc. tions of, 533. CROZET, M. his account of what befel Capt. Marion's crew, after the tragical death of that enter- prizing officer, 351. CUMBRIA, genius of, poetic ad- drefs to, 258.
CZERNISCHEFF, Count, his letter concerning the fpontaneous in- flammation of a mixture of foot and oil, 584.
DANCING, obf. on, 36.
DASCHOW, Princess, prefident of the Imperial academy of Sciences at Petersbugh, 585.
DINAH, Jacob's daughter, obf. on FIRE, the force of, in the higher
Sechem's criminal connexion
new experiments in, Several phænomena of,
459. explained, 460. ELECTROMETER, account of a new one, 394. ELEPHANT, remarkable inftance of the fagacity of that animal,
532. EMANUEL, Charles, D. of Savoy, his character, 64. ERYSIPELAS, chirurgical rem. rel. to, 384. ESQUIRES of the King's body, fome account of, 16.
of household, 17. EULER, Mr. J. A. papers by him, in the tranfactions of the Impe- rial academy at Petersburgh, 586-588.
the late Mr. L. feveral memoirs written by him, inferted in the tranf, of the Imp. Acad. at Petersburgh, 586-588. His character, ib. great
FATAL CURIOSITY, a tragedy, the true story on which that play was founded, 79.
ftages, how measured by a new. invented thermometer, 386. Defcription of the inftrument, 387. Exper. made with, 388. FISH, account of their hearing, 395. FORSTER'S hiftory of the Apte- nodytes, 252.
acc, of the fucceffors of Ptolemy VII. &c. 257. Fox, Charles, his journey to the moon, 405. FRANKLAND's annals, tragical ftory extracted from, 80. FRIENDSHIP, the filence of the gospel with respect to, explain- ed, 401.
GATTERER, prof. on the funda- mental meteorolɔg. year, 251. on the Teutonic lan- guage, 253. His geographical differtation relative to Thrace, 525.
GENIUS, caufes of the diverfity
GEORGE III. his reign poetically celebrated, for its benignity to the arts, &c. 283.
GEORGI, M. his experiments re- lative to the fpontaneous in- flammation of foot mixed with different oils, 585. His description of a two-horned rhi- noceros, 586; and of a certain refinous ib. gum, GESNER, prof. his memoir con- cerning Silenus, 546. GLASSE, Mr. his Greek translation of Mafon's Caractacus critically investigated, 500. A wonderful performance for fo young a man, 505. Additions to the Review of, 593.
on argillaceous earths, 251. His experiments on mummies, 537. GRACE, &c. origin of the doctrine of, 94. GUETTARD, M. his notes to Pliny, 170,
HANNIBAL, his conduct at the
battle of Cannæ, 108. HARRIS, Mr. his comment on Lillo's fatal curiosity, 79. HEAT, memoir concerning a new method of measuring, read at the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 568. HECKINGHAM. See BLAGDEN. HEEMSKIRK, the Dutch Admiral, his memorable engagement with the Spanish fleer, 60. HEGESIPPUS, his teftimony refer- red to, in the difpute rel. to the Ebionites, 223-240. HELLINS, M. his new method of finding the equal roots of an equation by divifion, 457. HERCULES, Mufagetes, memoir concerning, 248. HERNHUTTERS, their amiable character, 581. HERSCHEL On the parallax of the fixed ftars, 211.
on magnifying powers, ib. HEYNE, prof. his confiderations on the ufe of allegory, 78.
his difquifition rel, to Hercules Mufagetes, 248.
on mummies, 254.his farther acc. of the K. of Den- mark's mummy, 542.-His me- moir rel. to ancient coins, 546. HINCKLEY, fome acc. of, 369. Of the flocking manufac, there, ib. HORACE, his real defign in the Epiftola ad Pifones, 145. Speci- mens of Mr. Colman's tranf. 201. Critical notes on, 204. HORSE ACADEMY founded in France, 584. HOSPITALS, propofal for improve- ments in the construction of, 421. HOWARD,Gorges Edmond, anec. of,
478. Character of his writ. 483. HUMANSTATURE not diminished fince the days of the antedilu- vians, 286. HUNTER, Mr. his acc, of the organ of hearing in fifh, 395.
AMBLICHUS. See MEINERS. JEROM, his epistle to Austin, concerning the Ebionites, 216. Paffage from, 217. IGNATIUS, St, controverfy rel. to a paffage in, concerning the di- vinity of Chrift, 321. INDIES, Eaft, remarks rel. to the ftate of our poffeffions there, 27. INFLAMMATION, chirurgical obf. rel. to, 383.
INGENHOUSZ, M. his confidera- tions on the influence of the vegetable on the animal crea- tion, 391.
INSECTS, exotic, curious circum- ftances rel. to the nat. hift. of, 44- JONES, Sir William, author of the pretended libel for which the Dean of St. Asaph was profe- cuted, 349.
JUSTIN Martyr, referred to, in the difpute concerning the hu- manity of Christ, 229.
controverfy rel. to, farther profecuted, 309-319..
KAESTNER, M. on the lunar
LAND CRAB, the breed of, culti
vated in the Weft-Indies for provifion, 47.
LAPIS Ollaris, found in Corfica, 532.
LAVATER, M. his effay on phyfi-
ognomy, acc. of continued, 588. LAVOISIER and De La Place, their memoir concerning a new method of meafuring heat, 568. LEDRU, fee COMUS. LEE, Mr. Solicitor-general, his fpeech on Atkinfon's trial, 348. LIGHT confidered as the transpa- rence of space, 332.
different effects of, in a landscape, 362.
LIGHTNING, fee BLAGDEN. LILLO, his ufe of the Cornish flory on which his Fatal Curiofity is founded, 79.
LUTON, or Luton-Ho, fome ac-
count of, 371. LUXURY, definition of, 139. LYSIUS, the Greek orator, his pe- culiar excellencies, 335.
MABLY, Abbé, account of his writings, 69. MADNESS, canine, efficacious re- medy for, 584. MADURA, kings and nobility of, derive their defcent from a lupe- rior breed of affes, 529. MARET, M. his memoir on the conftruction of an hospital, 421. On the air yielded by cream of lime, and minium, 423. His meteorogical hift, of the first fix months of the year 1782, ib. MARION du Frefne, his voyage to the South Sea, 549. His tragi cal death, fimilar to the fate of Capt. Cooke, 550. MATT. X. 34. Think not that I am come to fend peace, &c. ex- plained, 400. MEINERS, M. on the changes in the Perfian religion, 255.
his memoir on the judgment that ought to be form- ed of the book upon the Egyptian myfteries attributed to Jambli-
chus, 544 MEISTER, M. on Fortification and
gunnery, 253. On compen- dious methods of plowing, 542. MONSOONS philofophically ex- plained, 128.
MONTGOLFIER, Meffrs. invent the aerostatic machine, 552. Their exper, at Annonay, 553. Second exper, at Paris, 555 Third exper. 556. MOONSHINE, the notion of its pu-. trefactive quality, 28.1. MORAVIANS, fee BRETHREN.
MORVEAUX, M. his improvement of painters colours, 421. MOTION, beauty and awkwardness of, confidered, 33. MUMMIES, Chriftian, enquiry concerning, 253. On the an- cient Egyptian mummies, 254- experiments on, 537. MURRAY, profeffor, his explica- tions of rare plants in the King's botannic garden at Gottingen,
his account of fome plants little known, 538.
NABOBS, real and reputed, 27. . -, mushroom, 30.
NAPLES, acc. of the popular mufic there, 274. Dancing, 275- Women very riotous, ib., Fisher- men remarkably handsome, 276. Other particulars, ib. NATURAIST, difficulties encoun- tered by, when travelling in fearch of curiofities, 44—47. NERVES, fyftem of, analysed, 464 -467.
NORBERG, M. on the religion of the Sabæans, 257, 544.
ODEs, in Greek, by Hunting- ford, strictures on, 154. ORIGINAL fin, rife and progrefs of that doctrine, 94.
PARIS described, 183.
PAW, Mr. his treatife on poisoned arrows, 71. PEASANT, wretched condition of, through life, poetically deli neated, 418.
PERSIANS, ancient, account of the changes in their religion, 255. PETERSBURG, transactions of the Imperial Academy of Sciences there, 585. Lift of memoirs in their new publication, 586- 588.
PHYSIOGNOMY, fee LAVATER. PITT, W. (late Earl of Chatham) facrificed his popular principles to the prejudices of his fove- reign, 475.
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