ARDEN, English, tafte in,
Ggreatly improved in the pre-
fent century, 219.
chiefly consulted in, 221. False tafte in, exemplified, 222, 224. GENTLEMEN, of the country, their difregard of independency lamented, 507. GERMANY, fome remarks on the farming and husbandry in that country, 575. Abfurdity of our making it the feat of a war with France, 576. GIBRALTAR, account of a folid piece of the rock of, lately blown up, 184. GLASGOW defcribed, 154. GLOUCESTERSHIRE, account of
an epidem. fever in that county, 216. Effects of camphire and calomel in, ib.
GOLD, coin, valuation of, accu-
rately investigated, 245. GREEK church, refutation of the ridiculous stories told of it, 136. GROTIUS, his character, 484.
TALE, Judge, his opinion con-
HENRY I. parallel between his cha
racter and that of Hen. II. 522. HENRY II. undertakes and at- chieves the conqueft of Ireland, 411. His reconciliation with the court of Rome, 412. Flou❤ rifhing state of his affairs, 413. Great reverse of, ib. His pil- grimage to Becket's tomb, 414. His exceffive joy at the defeat and captivity of the King of Scotland, 517. His merciful difpofition ftrongly exemplified, 518. Scotland wholly fubmits to him, ib. Terms of the fub- miffion, 519. Censure of this measure, ib. Parallel of his char. with that of Hen. III. 522. HEWSON, Mr. his experiments on the blood, 422. Obf. on the lymph, &c. 424. On the ftop- ping of hæmorrhages, &c. ib. HILL, Mr. his claim, as to the first publication of the modern theory of evaporation, 176. Contraverted, ib. HOPETON-HOUSE described, 155. HORSEMANSHIP, principles of, 22. Of breaking colts to the bit and faddle, 25. Of the fnaffle, 27. HORSLEY, Mr. his obf. on the
Newtonian theory of light, 430. HOSPITALS, erroneous conftruc
tion and ill management of, 605. HOVEN-CATTLE, methods of re-
EALOUSY. See LovE. JERSEY, iflanders, their op- preffive government, 112.
Hcerning the office and power INDIA Company, its flender be-
of juries, 472, 473. HAMBURGH, fome account of, 577. HAMILTON, Mr. his journey to Mount Etna, 177. HANOVER, fome remarks on, by an English traveller, 576. HARRINGTON, Mrs. her propofals
for teaching geography, &c. 262. HARTLEY, Dr.jhis obfervations on man commended, 509.
ginning, and prodigious growth, 236. Its real conftitution, 238. Its deviation into other views and undertakings, foreign to its pri mitive defign, 239. Evil con- fequences of that deviation, 242. INDIANS, of N. America, their ceremonies at their adoption of ftrangers, 58. Other particu- lars concerning them, 59.
Curious table to illuftrate this, 99. Moral reflections on, 390. LIGHT, difficulties in the Newto-
nian theory of, confidered, 430. LIZARD, fcaly, fome acc. of, 185. LOVE and jealoufy, philofophi- cally confidered, 386. LOUGH Nefs defcribed, 150, 151, Au defcribed, 152. Lomond defcribed, 153. LYNN, Mr. his history of a retro- verted uterus, 47. LYTTELTON, Lord, his history of Henry II. characterifed, 526.
ACPHERSON, Mr. his in- trod. to the hift. of England refuted, 416. Abufive attack of this writer cenfured, 460. MADAN, Rev. Mr. his difinge- nuous conduct with regard to the memory of the great Dr. Clark, 161.
MANCHESTER, formerly a Roman ftation, 29. Antiquities difco- vered there, 30. Rife and ori- ginal conftruction of, 35. Re- volutions of, 111. MANNA-TREE, account of, 187. MARATTI, Carlo, his pictures criticifed, 480.
MARY, Queen, her cruel perfecu- tion of her fifter Elizabeth, 550. Conjectures as to fome fecret causes of, ib. MATHEMATICS, tracts relating to, 71-74, 255, 536.
Law, feudal, inquiry into it, MATRIMONY, caules of the pre-
587. See CONSTITUTION. LAWS, penal, British, neceffity of moderating the rigour of, 470. LEOFLING, the botanist, fome ac- count of, 61. LIBERTY, the natural birthright
of mankind, 579. Eftimate of the nations which do and which do not enjoy it, ib. The great- eft part of mankind flaves, 580. Equivocal liberty, 581. LIFE, human, difference between the ftate and duration of, in ci- ties, and in the country, 98.
MININSKI'S Dictionary of the Per- fian language, new edit. of, re- commended to the encourage- ment of the public, 89. MIRACLES. See CHRIST. MONEY, judicious obf. on, 243. MOSSES, probable theory of the
formation of, in Lancashire, &c. 108. Their extraordinary burft ing accounted for, 109. N. JEw Teftament, criticisms on fome paffages in, 556-
RD of Caithness, a vast pro-
PETRARCH, his Laura, an elegy, tranflated, 511. PHILOSOPHY, its eulogium, 383. Schools and univerfities not fa- vourable to it, 384.
PLOUGHS, the utility of the feve ral kinds of, difcuffed, 124.
Omontory in Scotland, de- POPULATION, in England, flate
fcribed, 149. ORIENTAL literature, ftudy of ré- commended, 37. The Perfian tongue greatly used in India, 39, Critical remarks on that lan- guage, 40, 82-92. Farther recommendation of, 89. Poetry of the eastern nations commend- ed, 509. Specimen of, tran- flated, ib. OTAHITEE, or George's Ifland, account of the inhab. of, 205. Their religion, 206. Their wo- men, 207. Manufactures, 210. P.
AINTING, true principles of, 475. Hiflory painting the fame thing with Poetical, 478. Of Colouring, 479. The Lan- guage of painters, what, 481. Great Style of, remarks on, 482. PARABLE of the builder, juft obf. On that of Dives and
on, 12. Lazarus, 13. PARTIES, whimsical fcheme for the
coalition of, 451. PATAGONIANS, their great ftature exaggerated by voyagers, 180. PATRIOTISM, modern, inquiry in- to the true fpirit of, 441. Of the ancients, ib. PEOPLE, in England and Wales, prefent number of, 103. PERSIC, tongue, its general ufe in India, 39. Strictures on that Janguage, 41, 82, feq. Minin- fki's dictionary of, recommend- ed, 89.
PERTH, town of, defcribed, 52.
Its confiderable trade, 53. PETASITE, its medicinal uses, 249. PETITION of the Clergy, for re-
lief in the matter of subfcription to the 39 articles, tracts relating to, 63, 157.
of, inveftigated, 101. Effimate of the prefent number of people in this kingdom, 103. PREACHING, abfurd abuses, in practifed in Spain, 231, 432. PRESSING, of Seamen, inquiry into the legality of, 533. PRIESTLEY, Dr. his exper. on
charcoal, 426. Investigations relating to electricity, 427. PROPHECIES, obf. on the inter- pretation and application of, 393. The true way of reafoning on the fubject, 396. Prophecies relating to the Christian church, 485-494- PROPHETS, Jewish, their language and ftyle explained and illuftrat- ed, 486. PROSECUTION of felons, &c. great
defect of our laws and cuftoms in relation to, 474. PROVISIONS, obf. on the present dearness of, 620.
R. ASPE, M. his differtation de modo marmoris albi proda-
cendi, 182. REVELATIONS, book of, its lan- guage and ftyle illuftrated, 488.- RICHARD, the Monk, his curious
itinerary of Roman Britain, 30, By what means preferved, 31. ROMANS, in Britain, their grand military roads, 31. Their fum- mer camps, 33. Number of their troops in Britain, 34. - conomy of their government here, 105. Influence of their manners on the conquered Bri- tons, 108.
ROME, ancient buildings of, deli
neated by M. Defgodetz, 140.- RUSH, Dr.his acc. of the utefulnes
of wort, in the cure of ulcers, 47. RUSSIANS,
SCOTLAND, travels in, 49. Stone hedges in, 50. Spirit of plant- ing diffused throughout that kingdom, ib. Farther account
TURKISH Capt. affect. ftory of, 139. TURNIP, different kinds of, re. commended, 119. Method to preferve from the fly, ib. Cul- ture of, for feeding cattle, 120. TURNIP-ROOTED Cabbage con- demned, ib.
W. ALDO, Mr. his commentary
of, 142. Highlands described, Won the Liturgy, 565.
143-154. SCOTS, their entire fubjection to Henry II. King of England, 518. Terms of their fubmiffion and fealty, ib. Remarks on, 520. SERRANUS, Joannes, fome account
of him, and his Gr. poems, 544. SILVER, ftan. of inveftigated, 244. SINKING Fund, curious remarks on, 403. A different fcheme propofed, 531. SLAVE-TRADE vindicated, 541. Cenfured, 542.
SOCIETIES for providing annuities for perfons in age, &c. fevere ftrictures on, 103. SOLIMA, an oriental eclogue com- mended, 509. Specimen of, ib. SUBSCRIPTION to the 39 articles, remarks on, and centure of, 63. Tracts on, 465, 545, 611. SWINTON, Mr. his obf. on an inedited Greek coin, 421.
AITI. See OTAHITEE.
TTALBOT, Mifs, fpecimen
of her talent for poetry, 392. TECKEL, Mr. his obf. on the in- fenfibility of tendons, 45. TEETH, human, procefs of the formation of, 603. Transplant- ing of, 604.
TENDONS, obf. on their infenfibi- lity, 45.
THOMSON, Dr. his account of a fatal effufion of blood into the pericardium, 45.
TUMOR, incefted, in the orbit of the eye, cured by Meff. Brom- field and Ingram, 47. TURKISH fleet deftroyed by the Ruffians, 138.
WALES, Mr. his obf. made in a voyage to Hudson's Bay, 184. WARBURTON, Bp. his inftitution of an annual lecture on the com. pletion of fcrip. prophecies, 393. WATSON, Dr. his account of a fuppofed hydrocephalus inter- nus, 45.
WHEAT, remarks on the feveral kinds and culture of, 121. WHITAKER, Mr. his inquiries into the ancient history of the Britons, 416. See alfo MANCHESTER. WHITEFIELD, his oratorical flou. rifhes, curious fpecimens of, 226. WHITELOCKE, Ld. Commiflioner, his refpectable character, 591. Sent ambaffador to Sweden, 593. Arrives at the court of Queen Chriftina, ib. Defcription of that princefs, 595: 595. Ceremo- nies at his first public audience, ib. His converfation with Chrif tina, relating to Cromwell, 597. She reveals to him her defign of abdicating the crown, 598. His advice to her, on that occafion, and pertinent ftory of an old gentleman, 600.
WILMER, Mr. his account of the good effects of dividing the apo- neurofis of the biceps muscle, in a painful lacerated wound, 45. WINN, Capt. his experiments on lightning, 429.
WOOLCOMB, Mr. his account of a mortal wound by gunshot, 422. WORKHOUSES, hints for their im- provement, 504. WORMS, three kinds pernicious to corn, 125. How to destroy, ib.
YOUNG, Arthur, his abfurd attack on the Monthly Re- viewers expofed, 169.
YOUTH, of the prefent age, their ignorance of religious matters reprefented, 499. Plan for their better inftruction, 501.
INDEX to the Remarkable Paffages in the FOREIGN ARTICLES Contained in the APPENDIX.
AXER, Mr. describes an infect, fup- pofed to be the fame with the plant tremella, defcribed by Adanson, 675. BAROMETER, new exper. on, 683. BARTOLI, his coloured drawings of an- tiquities, 630, 644.
BEAUSOBRE, his reflections on the na- ture of obfcure ideas, 673. BEGUELIN, M. his application of the principle of a fufficient reafon to the laws of mechanics, 672. BERNOULLI, M. his curious queftion in political arithmetic, 673. His obf. on the ecliples of the 1ft and ad fatellites of Jupiter, 674.
BITAUBE, M. his difcuffion of the
question whether the multitude are competent judges of eloquence, 674.
ALEMBERT, M. his inquiries re lating to optic glaffes, 678. DAMPS, in mines, curious obf. on, 684. DIVORCE, antiquity of, 651. DOLLAND, M. a famous telescope of his, excelling all his others, 679. DUTCH, their contefts with the English, relating to their Eaft India trade and fettlements, 638.
CLIPSES, new analytical obf. for
Bon, Chev. de, his memoir on the E calculating, 676.
refiftance of fluids, 678.
BUACHE, M. his curious maps of the EDUCATION, of a prince, an over-reli-
bafon of the Seine, &c. 677.
ALVIN, John, his fevere punishment, in the other world, for burning Ser- vetus, 662.
CAMERA obfcura, curious obf, on the pictures formed in, 671. CAOUTCHOUC. See MACQUER. CATS held in religious eftimation by the Egyptians, 652. Story of a Roman who had the misfortune to kill a cat in Egypt, ib.
CAYLUS, Count, his birth and educa- tion, 641. His great military charac- ter, 642. His travels in the Levant, ib. His paffion for antiquities, 643. Applies himself wholly to the fine arts, ib. His zeal and activity as an acade- mician, 644. His difcovery of encauf- tic painting, 646. His vaft collections of antiques, 648. His death, ib. CHABERT, M. his operations in furvey- ing the coafts of the Mediteranean,677,
gious one not conducive to the happi- nefs of a people, 652.
of a counfellor. See JESUIT. EGYPTIANS, their religious veneration for cats, 652.
ELOQUENCE, the multitude not compe- tent judges of, 674. Nor of the fine arts, ib.
ENCAUSTIC painting. See PAINTING. See CAYLUS.
ENGLISH, their trade and commerce for- merly managed altogether by Jews and other foreigners, 635. Begin to exert themselves in the reign of Elizabeth, 637. Eftablish a trade to the E. Indies, 638. Their contefts with the Dutch, ib,
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