of criticism in matters of religion, 29. DARKNESS, remarkable inftance of, 213.
DAVAL, Mr. his account of the fun's diftance from the earth, 417.
DAWES's account of the plague at Aleppo, 211.
DEITY, will and power of, whether those terms have diftin&t meanings, 498, the note; also
ERGUSON, Mr. his account of
DENMARK, account of a ftrange the tranfit of Venus expect
fect in that country, 244. DE SIND, baron, his celebrated remedy for the glanders, 188. DESOLATION, poetically defcribed, 300. DEVONSHIRE, earls and dukes of, memoirs of that family, 3238. Countess of, her character, 34. William, first duke of, his notable fray at the French opera, 36, DIALOGUE on freedom of fenti
DRY Belly-ach, observations on, 184-187. DUCHALL, Dr. his amiable character, 278. His indefatigable industry and application, 282. DUNN, Mr. his account of the
ed in 1769, 418. Of the eclipfe of the fun April 1st, 1764,
422. FERMENTATION of alimentary mixtures, obfervations and experiments on, 288-297 FITZGERALD, Mr, his method of leffening the friction of engines, 267. FRANCE fatirically characterized,
203. FRANCISCANS, humourous account of their variance with the Dominicans, 219. FREE-Thinking, Christianity indebted to, for its eftablishment, 511.
FRICTION of engines, method of leffening, 269.
moon's appulfe to the planet GEORGE I. infolence of his
Jupiter, 419. His refutation
of Mr. Weft's cenfure on Mercator's chart, 419.
JGerman attendants, owing to the fervility of the English courtiers, 502. GLANDERS in horses, preservative electary for, 189.
GLASS, Mr. his account of the Canaries, 54. Journey up the Pike of Tenerife, 57. Affronted by an infolent friar, 69. GOLD-FISH increafe of, for the table, recommended, 556. GOSPEL, how and wherein liable to be misrepresented, as a wicked book, 493. GOSPELS, when, and in what arO o
HENRY VII. the worst of princes, KAR POS, the gardener, his ca
454 HERVEY, lady Caroline, her pa
negyric, 205. HIERRO, inland of, account of the
wonderful water-tree there, 62. HOLWELL, Mr. his apology for his tracts on Eaft-India affairs, 77. HORNSBY, Mr. his difcourfe on the parallax of the fun, 427. HORSES, the refpect due from man to that noble animal, 189. Juft cenfure of a late flagitious horfe race, ib. HURRICANE in the West-Indies, poetically described, 110. HUSBAND, in what cafes the act of, legally binds the wife, 192. In what not binding on the wife, 193. In what the bufband bound by the act of the wife, 194. Wherein act, ib. HUSBANDRY, the New, advantages of, 45.
ENNY Salisbury, her ftory, 475. JESTING, philofophically investigated, 433. IGNATIUS, remarks on his martyrdom, 244.
KINNERSLEY, Mr. his electrical
experiments, 261. KuSTER, his critical examen of Gronovius's edition of Herodo tus, 46z.
LIBEL, Juries judges of, both as to law and fact, 456. Cafe of, refpecting members of parlia ment, 457-
LIFE, importance of laying down a certain plan for the conduct of, 332.
LONGITUDE, real difference of, between Greenwich and Patis, 422.
LORD, fatirical defcription of one, 273. Weighed against a bard,
ib. LORETTO, owes its grandeur to an afs, 219.
LOVE, the violence of that paffion exemplified in the ftory of a Canarian lady, 67. LOVERS, affecting story of an un- fortunate pair, from a poem en- titled the Sugar-Cane, 112. LUCERNE, proper culture of, 47. LUTHER, Martin, invidious repre- fentation of his character, 135.
ACKNIGHT, Dr. his at- count of Chrift's burial controverted, 359.
MAGIC, natural, the effects of, how eafily mistaken for miracles, 500. MAGISTRATE, civil, how far he ought to interfere in fuppreffing bad books, 503; and in what manner, 504, 505. Not to in- terfere in the province of the clergy, ib.
MAHOMET's fleeve, 5i2. MANURES for land, various forts
of, 41. MARRIAGES among the Jews of Barbary, how folemnized, 163. MATRIMONY, scheme for encour- ing, 79.
MEANNESS perfonified and poeti- cally characterised, 202. MEASLES, Convertible into the Imall pox, 446.
connection with the throne of Ruffia, 309. MEDICINE, requifites for a pro- found kill in, 551. Advice to ftudents in, ib.
MIND, the various operations of confidered, 1-21. MIRACLES, Rouffeau's opinion of, 498. Their reality not to be determined by the human capa- city, 499. Pretended miracles, or natural magic, various ways of performing, ib. MODERATION, ftriking arguments for, $43. MONASTERIES in England, fpe- cious account of the national ad- vantages accruing from them, 139. Extravagant reprefenta- tion of the national misfortunes and guilt incurred by diffolving them, 140. These pretences refuted, ib.
MORO, abbe, his theory of the earth, 484. MOTION, laws of, 265. Whether they could have been made dif- ferent frem what they are, 523. Deducible frem one fimple prin- ciple established by Newton, 524. MOUNTAINE, Mr. his defence of
Mercator's chart, gainft Mr. Welt's pofthumous work, 421. MOWERS of grafs, &c. an im- provement in the posture in which they ftand to their work, recommended, 43.1
MOWING Wheat recommended, 45. MUSK and Cinnabar, propofed to be one of the belt medicines for the bite of a mad dog, 472. MYSTERIES, Chriftian, the com- mon fubjects of ftage-plays in the 13th and 14th centuries, 217. Droll anecdotes of, 218.
MECHANICS, curious, remarks in, NEGRO, Poet behalf, 16.
MECKLENBURGH, family of, its
Their dances described, 117. 002
PERAS, English, nature of, and defects, pointed out,
386. ORATORS of ancient Greece, re- marks on, 126. Of Rome, 127. OSSIAN, the authenticity of his poems doubted, 23.
APISTS, their religious books, of whatever kind, never to be countenanced by proteftants, 532. Prefer infidels to here- tics, 533. PARALLAX of the fun, determined from observations of the late tranfit of Venus, 425. courfe on this fubject, 427. Dif- PARENTS, fuch as traffic with the honour and virtue of their chil-. dren, ftigmatized, 203. PASTURES, Artificial, what, 41. PEMBERTON, Dr. his difcourfe on the Locus for three and four lines, recommended, 427. PERCEPTION philofophically con- fidered, 15. PHILOSOPHERS, apology for fuch whofe fentiments do not coin- cide with Christianity, 29.
their zeal for truth.
confidered, 506. Ought never to interfere in theological fub- jects. 523.
PIPA of Surinam, account of, 530. PLAGUE, account of the late dreadful one at Aleppo, 212.. Remarkable inftances of perfons efcaping the infection, 213,214. PLAYS, licenfing of, an execrable, fcheme, 247. By whom pro- jected, ib. POLE, cardinal, his good charac- His family, birth, &c. 134. Is elected to the pa- pacy, but is thrown out again, 142.
POLYPUS in the Nofe, how form- ed, 546. POLYCARP, remark on his martyr. PRIESTS, their domineering fpirit dom, 243. pointed out, 408. Their per- fecution of a modern sceptic a- PRIMO-GENITURE, fucceffion in, nimadverted on, 409. bad effects of, 151.
PRINCES, their piety often fatal- to their fubjects, 506, the note. PRIVILEGE of parliament, extent and limits of, 456. PROSPECT, Weft Indian, poeti- PSALMANAZAR, George, his ac- cally defcribed, 115. count of himself, 364, feq. His laft will, 365. His birth and education, 370. Begins his im- poftures abroad, 377. His con- nection with Innes, 444. Ar- rives in England, 447. Pub- lishes his famous hiftory of For- mofa, 449. Studies at Oxford, 450. Farther adventures, 451. Turns author by profeffion, 452. Engages in the Univerfal Hif PUTREFACTION, experiments re- tory, ib. His penitence, 453- lating to, 293.
UADRUPEDS, their characte- riftic properties, 548.
EFORMERS from popery, ex- poftulation with, fuppofed,. KEINHARD, Mr. his enquiry into on the part of the papifts, 409. RELIGION, the Chriftian, import- the laws of motion, 522. ance of a good history thereof, 408. Account of a late work of that kind, 409. RESIDUAL Analyfis, its prefer- ence to the doctrine of Fluxions, &c. gr. Not fuperior to the Auxionary Calculus, 93. RHA
SOCIETY, Royal, cenfured for their conduct relating to their Philo- fophical Tranfactions, 205. Ac- cufed of pretending to prophe- cy, 207. Charged with timi- dity, and a false veneration for
great names, ib. SONG of Solomon, a pastoral dra- ma, or defcription of a real marriage in feven eclogues, 162. Objections to this opinion an- fwered, 165. Commentary on the third eclogue, 167. New tranflation of ditto, 168. An- notations, 169.
SOUL, its fpirituality philofophi- ..cally confidered, 29, Its union with organized bodies confider- ed, 540. SPAIN, fatirically characterized,
SPEECH, origin of, in general,"
SPY, an abfurd title for books," 534.
STAR-Chamber, its origin, 454- STIRLING, Mr. his account of a remarkable darkness in Ame- rica, 213.
STONE, Mr. his account of the cure of agues by the bark of the
willow, 215. STYLE, figurative, entirely found- ed in nature, 122. SUN, diftance of, from the earth," 417. Eclipfe of, Ap. 1, 1764. account of, 422. Parallax of, determined, 424. Difcourfe on the parallax, 426. SURINAM, toad of, fome account of, 530.
ALIESIN, the famous Welsh bard, account of, 23. Spe- cimen of his poetry, 24.
SMALL-POX, hypothefis for totally TENERIFE, its famous pike de-
SIGNS, natural, relative to our fenfations, confidered, 5.
fcribed, 57. Moft proper place in the world for an obfervatory, 62.
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