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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

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342.

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.

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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.

E.

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-

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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.

H.

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HEMLOCK, a specific for the Chin-
cough, 45. See alfo Oenanthe

crocata.

Of a

Of

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.

I.

ACKSON, Mr. his account of
the manner of making ifinglafs,

473.

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-

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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

201.

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.

M.

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.

475 N.

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.

OAK,

ORANG-OUTANG, how far endued
with the faculties of speech, 440.

P.

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,

195.

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.

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W.

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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