HEMLOCK, a fpecific for the Chin- cough, 45. See, alfo Oenanthe
HENLY, Mr. his account of a form of lightning, 287. Of a curious electrometer, 288. Of other electrical experiments, ib. HIGGINS, Dr. his account of ac- tual fire and detonation produced by the contact of tinfoil with the falt compofed of copper and the nitrous acid, 479. HISTORY, its teftimony very pre- carious, 266. That of the an. cient gods and heroes univer- fally inifunderstood, 471. HORNSBY, Mr. his aftronomical inquiries, 352.
HORSLEY, Mr. his account of the
fieve of Eratofthenes, 32. HUNTER, John, his obf. on the digeftive power of the ftomach, after death, 280. HYDE, Sir Ed. his remarkable let- ter to his lady, 140. 1.
JAMES, Dr. his fever-powders.
See GOLDSMITH. JERNINGHAM. Mr. verfes, by him- felf, alluding to his poetic cha- racter, 504.
JOHN, K. of Denmark, his ami- able character, 428. JOHNSON, Sir Wm. his obf. on
the N. American Indians, 481. JONES, Col. his curious laconic
epistle to Lord Ormond, 53. INOCULATION proved to be idola- try, 71.
IRELAND, particulars of the hift. of, at the time of the grand re- bellion, 50-56. Natural pro- ductions of, 82. ISINGLASS. See JACKSON. JUPITER, new methods of im- proving the theory of his fatel- lites propofed, 353. JURIES, British, trial by, the no- blett form of policy that ever was invented, 454.
KINKCOUGH, nature and caufe of, 45. Hemlock a specific for, ib. Method of exhibiting, 46. KINNERSLEY, Mr. his account of fome peculiar effects of light- ning, 477. KNOWLEDGE of the world, study of recommended, 464. L.
LANGUAGES, origin of the di- verfity of, 440.
LANTONY, abbey of, curious de- fcription of, 425.
LAUD, Archbp. his character, 165. His strange diary, ib. the notes. LAUGHTER, decried, 265. LAW, question whether the pro- feffion of admits of eloquence, difcuffed, 340. Usefulness of hiftory to, 341.
LAWS, penal, for the direction of confcience, tyrannical, and fub. verfive of the real intereft of a community, 215. General ideas of the British laws, 453. Ex- cellence of our criminal law, 454- LETTER from the E. of Newcastle to Sec. Windebank, 23. From Sec. Windebank to K. Charles J. 24. From Lord Mountnorris to the E. of Strafford, 25. From the Marquis of Worcester to Lord Clarendon, 26. From Lord Culpeper to Mr. Ashburn- ham, 27. From the Bishops of London and Sarum to Charles I. 138. From Sir Ed. Hyde to his Lady, 140. From a tutor to a young man of fashion, 175. LIBERTY, love of, the ancient
national virtue of the English,
LIGHTNING, obf. on, 386. Form of conductors for, contefted, 387. Caution
ORANG-OUTANG, how far endued with the faculties of speech, 440. · P.
PAINTERS cenfured for their im- proper choice of facred fub- jects, 242.
PAIRING, the effects of, in the animal creation, 445. PARLIAMENTS, prefent Crcum- ftances of inadequate to the great defign of reprefentation, 13. Monftrous irregularity of, 115, Annual parliaments recommend ed, 121. Prefent, state of re- prefentation vindicated, 451. PEERS, fpiritual, their legislative rights afferted, 450.
PLEASURE, cautions against the feductions of, 263, 365. A reasonable indulgence of plea- fures recommended, 368. PLINY, the naturalift, obf. relating to the precise spot where he pe- rifhed, 410.
POLITICS, general obfervations on, 109-113.
POPE, Mr. forms the plan of an history of English poetry, 290. Improved and extended by Mr. Gray, 291. Mr. Warton's work formed on a different plan, ib. POPULATION, low ftate of in Eng- land, during the Saxon times, 195.
PRESS, liberty of, the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an English- man, 185. Reafons why go- vernment cannot form any dan- gerous defigns against it, 186. PRIESTLEY, Dr. his discoveries relating to air, 280.'
PROBITY, poetic encomium on, 213.
PULTENEY, Dr. his account of a cure of an inveterate fcorbutic diforder, by the hemlock drop- wort, 282.
OAK, new and valuable species PYRRHONISM, hiftorical, recom-
OENANTHE CROCATA, a cure for
fcorbutic diforders, 282.
WALDEMAR III. K. of Den- mark, his extraordinary qua. lities, 427.
WARNER, Mr. his account of the Glandula Ciliares, and their dif- eafes, 47.
WATSON, Dr. thermometrical ex- periment by, 481. WILKES, John, foretold in the revelations, 346.
WILSON, Mr. his propofal for al-
tering the form of metallic con- "ductors for lightning, 386. WINDEBANK, Secretary, fpeci- mens of his correfpondence, 23. WITCHELL, Mr. his account of obf. on the solar eclipse, July 25. 1767, 29. WOMEN, depreciating character of, 361. Their great influence under the Gothic conftitutions, 417. See alfo MATRIMONY. WOOLASTON, Mr. his account of an aftronomical clock, and other instruments, 351- WORCESTER, Marq. of, curious letter from, to Lord Clarendon, 26. WELSH, their animofity toward the Anglo-Saxons, 198. Their an- cient connections with Armorica, 296, With Cornwall, ib,
INDEX to the Remarkable Paffages in the FOREIGN ARTICLES Contained in the APPENDIX.
GLASS, the folubility of, in water, proved by experiment, 546- 548.
HARRISON, Mr. obf. on his time-keepers, 558-556. HERCULES, his real character and history investigated, 506. The common ftories of his heroiẩm all allegorical, ib. His exploits relate to agriculture, 509. Ido- lized under various names, 511. The Hercules Mufagetes explain- ed, 512.
HERETICS. See Huss. Huss, John, and Jerom of Prague, their burning, the most magni- ficent of all human facrifices, 528. HYDROMETERS, proposed im- provement in the construction of, 549.
ARS, M. his chemical experi ments, 551.
JEURAT, M. his memoir on the réfractive and difperfive powers of gláfs, 554.
ANDE, M. de la, his memoir
relative to the diameter of the fun, and to the protuberance obferved on its difk, during the tranfits of Venus, 552. On the fun's parallax, 553.
LAVOISIER, M. his memoir on the tranfmutation of water into earth, 544-
LAWS of Minos, one of Voltaire's best tragedies, 525.
LE ROI, M. his memoir on the conftruction of electrical con- ductors, 549. His reflections on hydrometers, ib.
SEXDIGITISM, a new word, mean- ing of, 550.
SILVER, new method of feparating from other metallic bodies, 551. SULLY, Mr. his time-keeper, 557. SUN, obf. relative to its true dia
meter, 552. On the dark pro- tuberance obferved on its difk, during the tranfits of Venus, ib.
VANDALS, &c. effect one of the greatest revolutions that ever happened, by the ruin of the Roman empire, 537. Re- flections on, ib.-543. VOLTAIRE, M. his account of the Gentoos, 522. Of the Bramins, Of ancient Heathen fu- perftitions, 525. Of his tragedy entitled, The Laws of Minos, ib. Of an august assembly of Popish princes, &c. at the burning of two heretics, 528. Of the ori- gin of the Crufades, 530. His Letter to the K. of Pruffia, 533- His age afcertained, ib. Letter to, from the prefent Czarina, ib. Clement's Letter to, 575.
W.. WATER, its tranfmutation into earth, proved by experiment, 44.
ERRAT A, in this VOLUME.
P. 160, for ftated, enforced, and fhewn, read stated and enforced; and it is fhewn, &c.'
304, for furgeon do not want, read ' surgeon does not want, &c.' 408, 1. 3 from the bottom, del. more.
456, par. 6, 1. ult. for improprieties of a fingular nature, read of a fimilar nature.'
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