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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

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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

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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

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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.

G.

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.

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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

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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

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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.

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ENNY Salisbury, her ftory, 475. JESTING, philofophically investigated, 433. IGNATIUS, remarks on his martyrdom, 244.

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KINNERSLEY, Mr. his electrical

experiments, 261. KuSTER, his critical examen of Gronovius's edition of Herodo tus, 46z.

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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.

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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.

M

M.

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.

N.

MECHANICS, curious, remarks in, NEGRO, Poet behalf, 16.

222, 26.

MECKLENBURGH, family of, its

Their dances described, 117.
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OPERAS,

0.

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.

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P.

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.

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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.

ter, 131.

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.

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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.

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UADRUPEDS, their characte-
riftic properties, 548.

R.

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.
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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,

203.

SPEECH, origin of, in general,"

429:

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.

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ALIESIN, the famous Welsh
bard, account of, 23. Spe-
cimen of his poetry, 24.

SMALL-POX, hypothefis for totally TENERIFE, its famous pike de-

eradicating, 546.

SIGNS, natural, relative to our
fenfations, confidered, 5.

fcribed, 57. Moft proper place
in the world for an obfervatory,
62.

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