CESAR, remarks on his affaffi- nation, and the real motives of the confpirators, 267. CAROLINA, South, political tranf actions in that province, 208. Inconfiderate grant of money to the Bill of Rights, 210. CARTHAGE, obf. on the def. &ts of her police, &c. 252. CHARLES I, his own account of his zealous attachment to the Church, 137. Confults two of the Bishops about a temporary allowance of the Prefbyterian mode of worship, 138. The anfwer of the Bishops, ib. CHESTERFIELD, Lord, sketch of
his character, 258. General account of his letters to his fon, 259.
His advice on the fubje& of negligence in behaviour, 261. His character of an abfent man, 262. His cautions against the feductions af pleasure, 263. His invective against laughter, 265. His cautions againit biftorical teftimony, 266. His flight opi- nion of women, 361, His ad- vice with regard to the art of concealing our contempt of others, 362. His remarks on good company, 363. Confeffes his own past errors, 365. His cha- 'racter of the great D. of Marl- borough, 366. Of the Chancel lor Cowper, 368. Of Lord Bolingbroke, 39. His licen- tious counsel, relative to an il- 1-cit commerce between the fexes, 457. His excellent fer- mon on fucetness of manners, with firmness of mind.458. His anecdotes with regard to the act
CLARKE, Dr. Sam. his lift of ex- ceptionable paffages in our li turgy, 102. Proposals for the Amendment of, ib.
CLIMATES, various, naturally pro- duce the moft wholefome food for the inhabitants appointed to live under them, 438. COFFEE, curious hiftorical parti- culars relative to, 497. COLONIES, British, plan for tax- ing them propofed, 274. Mea- fures now ufed, by the mother country with respect to them ex- ploded, 381. Another plan for reconciliation, 485. CONSTITUTION, British, its great
excellence difplayed, 455. CONTEMPT of others, not to be too freely discovered, 362. CoUNTRY 'fquires, farcastic ac- count of, 190. CoURAGE defined, 16. Its affi- nity with patience, 18. CowPER, Lord Chancellor, his
oratorical character, 368. CROWN, of England, how far he- editary among the Anglo-Sax- ons, 196.
DUNKIN, Dr. his poetical cha- racter, 355. His humourous verfes relative to Mr. Faulkner, 356. DENMARK, great revolution there in the reign of Fred. III. 433. See more of this kingdom under CHRISTIAN. DISSENTERS, their late applica tion to parliament defended, 214. Farther vindicated, 384. DROWNING, detail of the fuccefs attending the establishment at Paris, for the recovery of per- fons fuppofed to be drowned, 150.
DUBLIN Society, when, and for what purposes inftituted, 81, Beneficial effects of, ib. DUELLING exploded, 11. Me- thod of abolishing devifed by Guftavus Adolphus, 15. DUNSTABLE, Robert, his literary performances, 424. DYING. See FORSTER.
EACHARD, Dr. John, his cha- racter, 141. His epitaph, 143. EAST India Company, mifmanage. ment of their hipping, 65. Charged with the most criminal rapacity, 253. State of their fhipping, 276. Obf. on their private trade, 279. ECLIPSE, folar, account of one obferved at George's Island, 29. ELDER, recommended for preferv- ing vegetables from the fly, &c. 286. ELECTRICITY. See HENLY. See LIGHTNING. See KINNER- SLEY. See BRYDONE. ENGLAND, form of government in, favourable to literary contro- verfies, on all fubje&is, 147. Her inhabitants opprobriously cha-
GLOVER, Mr. his general opinion of the prefent ftate of our linen trade, 487.
GOLD, coinage, obf, on the late act relating to, 295. GOLDSMITH, Dr. how far bene- fited or hurt by the fever pow der in his laft illness, 404. GooD company, common idea of, exploded, 363.
GoтHs, their poetry, 293. GOVERNMENT, ideas relating to the origin and first forms of, 449 GYRALDUS Cambrenfis, his great learning, 425. His curious de- fcription of the abbey of Lan tony, ib.
HEMLOCK, a specific for the Chin- cough, 45. See alfo Oenanthe
HENLY, Mr. his account of a ftorm of lightning, 287. curious electrometer, 288. 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 infunderstood, 471. HORNSBY, Mr. his aftronomical inquiries, 352. HORSLEY, Mr. his account of the fieve of Eratosthenes, 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.
ACKSON, Mr. his account of the manner of making ifinglafs,
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
epiftle 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-
ANGUAGES, origin of the di- verfity of, 440.
LANTONY, abbey of, curious de- fcription of, 425.
LAUD, Archbp. his character, 165. His ftrange diary, ib. the notes. LAUGHTER, decried, 265. LAW, question whether the pro- feffion of admits of eloquence, difcuffed, 340. Usefulness of history to, 341.
LAWS, penal, for the direction of confcience, tyrannica', and sub- 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 I. 24. From Lord Mountnorris to the E. of Strafford, 25. From the Marquis of Worcester to Lord Clarendon, 26. From Lord Culpeper to Mr. Athburn- 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
proving the theory of his fatcl-national virtue of the English, lites propofed, 353. JURIES, British, trial by, the no- bleit form of policy that ever was inven.ed, 454..
LIGHTNING, obf. on, 386. Form of conductors for, contefted, 387. Caution
Caution with refpect to, ib. Some peculiar effects of, 477. LILLY, the aftrologer, fome.ac- count of, 168." LINDSEY, Rev. Mr. his account of his religious doubts and feru- ples, 57. Of his giving up his benefice, 61. His notion of the Trinity, 101: Aftrong Uni- tarian, 102. His farewell Ad- drefs to his parishioners, 159. LINEN-TRADE. See GLOVER. LITURGY; of the Church of Eng- land, alterations in propofed, 500.
LUCOMBE's oak, interefting ac-
count of. 285. LUTHER, his motives and conduct in the reformation fcrutinized, 266.
MAN, different races, or kinds
of, originally fitted to different climates, 438. By nature di- rected to matrimony, 444. De- ftined and fitted by the Creator to inhabit different parts of the globe, 469.
MARLBOROUGH, D. of, his real character, 366. MATRIMONY, natural to man, 444. Both fexes impelled to it,
415. MOUNTNORRIS, Lord, his affect- ing letter to the E. of Strafford, 25. MURDER and Manslaughter diftin- guished, 9. MUSTEL, M. his new obf. on ve- getation, 475.
NECKHAM, Alexander, fpeci-
mens of his Latin poetry, 426. NEGLIGENCE, in behaviour, ad- vice againit, 261. NEWCASTLE, Earl of, his letter to Sec. Windebank, 23. 0.
ORANG-OUTANG, how far endued with the faculties of speech, 440.
PAINTERS cenfured for their im- proper choice of sacred sub. jects, 242. PAIRING, the effects of, in the animal creation, 445. PARLIAMENTS, prefent circum- ftances of inadequate to the great defign of reprefentation, 113. Monftrous irregularity of, 116. Annual parliaments recommend- ed, 121. Prefent ftate 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 precife fpot where he pe- rished, 410.
POLITICS, general obfervations on, 109-113. POPF, Mr. forms the plan of an hiftory 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,
PRESS, liberty of, the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an English- man, 185. Reasons why go- vernment cannot form any dan- gerous designs 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 fcorbu c diforder, by the hemlock drop- wort, 282.
new and valuable fpecies PYRRHONISM, hiftorical, recom- of, 285. mended, 267.
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 folar eclipfe, 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 inftruments, 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.
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