their obfcurity or their importance. If, however, in the work. before us no new lights are ftruck out, yet thofe accounts are adopted, which feem the most authentic, and those Hiftorians are followed, who are the most remarkable for their veracity and candour. The manner of our Author is rather plain than elegant. He does not feek for any ornaments of ftyle: trufting to the dignity of the events he relates, he has not recourfe to art to fupport the attention of his reader.
Les Géorgiques de Virgile, Traduction Nouvelle en Vers François. A New Tranflation of Virgil's Georgics into French Verfe, with Notes, &c. by M. Delille, Profeffor in the University of Paris. Octavo, Paris. 1770.
Na difcourfe prefixed to this Tranflation, M. Delille examines the objections that have been made to Virgil's Georgics, characterizes the principal modern poems that have been written in imitation of Virgil, and points out the several advantages which the Latin poetry has over the French.-In this difcourfe the reader will meet with fome very ingenious and juft obfervations concerning the influence of government, climate, and manners, upon languages, and particularly fome very pertinent remarks upon the different genius of the Latin and French languages.
In regard to the translation, it is but juftice to M. Delille to acknowledge, that the whole of it does him honour, and that in fome parts, particularly the beautiful episode of Ariftæus, he has fucceeded admirably. Those who are moft fenfible of the difficulty of his tafk, will be difpofed to make the most favourable allowances for any failures in the execution of it.
The notes are principally intended to clear up difficult paffages, and there are fome obfervations in them, particularly in relation to plants, that appear to be new.
Voyage Pittorefque de la Flandre et du Brabant, &c. Travels through Flanders and Brabant, giving an Account of the Paintings to be met with in thefe Places; with a few Reflections relative to the Arts, and to fome Engravings; by M. J. B. Defchamps, Painter to the King of France, &c. 8vo. Paris. 1769.
ΤΗ HIS work contains a very ample enumeration or lift of
paintings, and has the appearance of being very exact. The judgments which the Author has given concerning the different pieces, which he examined, are comprized in a narrow compass; but, under each article, he refers his reader, for
farther information to a work, which he formerly published, and in which he has treated of the expreffion and other qualities of the Flemish, the German, and Dutch artists. He has mentioned the works of living artiits; but his delicacy has not allowed him to pronounce concerning their merits.
P. 59, art. 13, 1. 8, for content, r. contents.
P. 106, 1. 31, for fhaken, r. baking.
P. 107, for pheromena, r. phenomenon.
P. 194, . 1 f om the bottom, before European nations, put fome.
P. 201, 1. 14; for one death, r. not one death.
P. 209. 1. 3 from bottom, for phenomena, 1. phen enon.
P. 493, 1.7 from the bottom, for a univerfal, r. an univerfal
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume
ALEXANDER the Great, dedicates the
temple of, at Tees, its hi-
temple at Priene to Minerva Civica, Boy, 371. Ruins of, defcribed, ib.
373. Ambitious of the fame honour, in respect of the temple of Diana at Ephefus, but is refufed, 374. AMABED, his story, 557. AMERICA, obf. on the difcovery of, 518. Its confequences to Europe, 519. Varieties of the human fpecies obfervable in, 521. The accounts of the grandeur of the Incas of Peru, &c. highly exaggerated, 533. AMERICANS, enquiry into their origin, 516. Thoughts on their colour, and that of the negroes, 523. Their pig- mies and patagonian giants, 527. Their genius and difpofitions, 531. Sum- mary of their character, 532. Their ftrange and ridiculous cuftoms, 534. AMINTA, an elegy, 186. Talo's A- minta tranflated, 425.
ANATOMISTS, cenfured for their cruelty to animals, 197. ANCIENTS, the merit of their works too highly estimated by the moderns, 295.
ANEURISME, obf. on, 15. Of a par ticular species of, 16. ANGINA, diflertation of, 545.
BAILLY, M. his memoir on the cause of the variation in the inclination of the ad fatellite of Jupiter, 503. BARLEY, ramified, exp. relating to, 4:8.
BARRINGTON, hon. Mr. his investiga- tion of the difference between the past and present temperature of the air of Italy, &c. 110. Miftake of his, rec- tified, 111. BATH-WATERS, recommended in pal- fies, 350.
BENIVUTI, Dr. his account of an ex traordinary cure of a malignant fever, 195.
BEVILLE, Sir Charles, his conversation at the opera, on the subject of a fa- fhionable tafte, 42.
BEVIS, Dr. his obf, on the cold of 1740, 113. BIELFIELD, Baron, his account of the court of Pruffia, 275. Of a remark- able piece of revelry there, ib. His account of the court of St. James's, and city of London, 277, Deane Ja
Brees, Richard, gardener at Bath, his attempt to invalidate Warburton's notes on Pope's Effay on Man, 412. BIRDS, account of the lymphatic fyftem in, 197. Account of fome curious birds in the E. Indies, 219. BLACKSTONE, Dr. his literary difpute with Sir William Meredith, 60. His objection against a review of our litur- gy, drawn from the act of Union, an- fwered, 125. His encomium on the clergy animadverted on, 245. His comment on the act of Toleration con- troverted, 353. His notion of heresy difputed, 35. His argument against altering the liturgy, drawn from the conditions of the union with Scotland, farther objected to, 359. BLOOD, its conftituent parts, 308.
CHAIS, Mr. his account of the method. of inoculating the small-pox in Barbary, and at Bengal, 194.
CHANDLER, Mr. employed by the Dilet tanti Society to affift in collecting Ionian antiquities, 369.
CHAULNES, duke de, his memoir on a new method of perfecting aftronomical inftruments, 500. On the determi- nation of the distance of Arcturus from the upper limb of the Sun, at the fum- 'mer folftice in 1765, 501. CHURCH of England, on what accounts objected to by Disfenters, 25-27. CLAY, various kinds of, their nature and uses, 313.
CLERGY, of Scotland, their profligacy the firft caufe of the reformation in that kingdom, 427.
BODY, human, natural hiftory of, its CLIMATE, its influence upon genius,
divifions and fubdivifions, 308. BONES, foffil, of large animals, found in America, obf. on, 108.
BONN, Dr. his differtation on the con-
tinuation of membranes, 544. BOULTER, late archbishop, his great benevolence to the poor of Ireland, 288.
BRANCHIDE, account of them and of
COIN, &c. fate of, in France, in the year 869.
COLONIES, their claim to an exemption from parliamentary taxation difallowed, 149. The whole fyftem of our late re- gulations and laws relating to them, impeached, 153-155. COMMON-SENSE, how employed, at va- rious periods of the English history, 137. This faculty defined, 454. CORN, the bounty on, for exportation, difapproved, 229. Arguments for the bounty, 232. CORPORATION, Charitable, for the re- lief of the widows and children of cler-- gymen in America, scheme of, 30. CRITICISM, obf. on, 115. CROWE, Mr. his improvements in huf- bandry, 83.
CURTIUS, Dr. his account of a mone ftrous twin-birth, 543-
AGOBERT I. king of France, his fine collection of laws,
Cing cattle, go. Superior to turnid, D'HANCAVILL, M. his differtations on
87. Beft method of cultivating them, 88. CABEYSA, a Spanish foldier, affecting
CANTON, Mr. his method of making a curious phosphorus ; with experiments, &c. 423.
CATHOLICS, of the Gallican ch. lefs Popish than the Catholics of other countries, 151. Their great influence at Grenada, 403.
CHAIR, chirurgical, conftruction of one by M. Arnaud, 21,
the Etrufcans, 511-515. DILETTANTI, Society of, its rife and defign, 368.
DISCONTENTS, popular, of the present time, their caufes inveftigated, 380. Remedy for, 389. Cautions with re- fpect to the propofed remedy, 390. DISSENTERS from the ch. of England, their principles and conduct defended, 23. The ftate b.nefited by the tole- ration of, 29.
DOUGLAS, Mr. his exp. on a blue fub- ftance found in a peat-moss, 422. Pp2
ELIZABETH, queen, curious particulars
FOREST, Eat Indian, fine description of, 220,
FRANCE, ruined state of the monarchy of, 221, Her national credit loft, 225. Deft cure of relources, 226, State of agriculture in, 227, Her cruel and despotic arres, 228- FRANKLIN, Dr. his new-invented Pen- fylvania fire-places described, 199. His improved apparatus for prefering buildings from lightning, 240.5 His experiments on the cold produced by evaporation, 206. His account of a curious philofophical inftrument, 297. Of the different fitness of natural bo- dies to be conductors of the electrical fid, 298. On the nature of fire, aço. O animal heat, 301 On varique other philofophical subjects, 306.
of her temper and behaviour in certain GIRARDUS. Dr. his exp. on the Uom
EMBLEM, droll account of one, on the rock at Flan borough head, 244. ENGLISH, their national character, 177. Baron Bielfield's account of, 282, ENGRAVING, art of, its origin and im. provement, 364-367. EPISTLE, Poetical, from an unfortunate, gentleman to a young lady, 188. EULER, M. his fummary of a general theory of dioptrics, 506. EXPERIMENTUM Teaketlianum, 209.
GLASS, the various operations performed upon, 537 New, apparatus for blow- ing, 538. Curious furnace, &fe for making prifms, mirrors, &c gibi Gon, his equity deduced and illußrated, 1. His incomprehensibility, ib, His Not an unconcerned Juffice, 12 fpectator of what paffes in the world,
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