N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
CADEMY, French, in Italy
for painting, the present
ftate of, 520.
Memoirs of the royal at
Paris, 555. Alteration in the
manner of publishing their hif-
tory, 556.
ACTION, the term indifcriminately
applied to God and created Be-
ings, 499. Philofophers have in
vain attempted to define it, ib.
AMPUTATION of limbs generally
unneceffary, 569.
ANNOTATORS, periodical, on the
holy Scriptures, the prefent,
cenfured, 44.
ANTHROPOMORPHITISM, fpiri-
tual, what, 499.
The causes
of, 500.
APOSTLES, their illiterate Cha-
racter, fitness of, 201.
ARCHITECTS fhould study in Ita-
ly, 523.
ARISTOTLE, forbidden to be writ-
ten against, 528. Now fleeps
in peace, ib.
ARMS, Coats of, caution against
bearing false ones, 440.
ARTS, polite, contradistinguished
from the sciences,
Phyfical, metaphyfical, and mo-
ral, 537
BENGAL, ftate of the English af-
fairs there, when lord Clive left
the East-Indies, 247. And when
Mr. Vanfittart became governor
of Bengal, 248.
BISHOPS, amazing ignorance and
illiterateness of fome, in the fif-
teenth century, 171.
BONNER, bishop of London, his
furious and obftinate temper, 3.
Deprived of his bishoprick, and
imprifoned, ib. Rettored, 10.
BOURN, Daniel, account of his
new invented waggon, 491.
BRADFORD, Matt. fome account
of, 255.
BRENTFORD town defcribed, 265.
BRITAIN, poetically defcribed,
ALAS, Marc Anthony, his ca-
ATTRIBUTES of God, incompa- Conization, 5230
tible with those of human na-
CESAR, Julius, his character, 183.
His conduct with regard to his
invafion of Britain, cenfured,
189.
CATARRH, method of cure, 393.
CATECHISM, reformation of, re-
commended, 230.
CATHERINE, Empress of Ruffia,
her great character, 208. Her
admirable
admirable conduct, in the cam-
paign on the Pruth, 209.
CATO, M. Portius, his character,
182. Cæfar's remarkable ac-
count of Cato's inebriety, 183.
Drol dialogue, in the moon, be-
tween him and beau Nash, 353.
CAVERNS, fubterraneous, in sici-
ly, 553. An extraordinary one
converted into a cemetery, ib.
CENTURY the thirteenth, chrono-
logical feries of inventions and
improvements in, 166.
the fourteenth, charac-
ter of, go. Chronological fe-
ries of inventions and improve-
ments in, 168.
fifteenth, ibid, 171.
fixteenth, ibid, 173.
CHAPLAIN, a noted one, fatiri-
cally defcribed, 157.
CHARYBDIS, gulph, where pro.
perly placed, 551.
CHILDERS, a famous running
horfe, his amazing speed, 342.
CHILDREN, not to be argued out
of their follies or vices, 303.
At what time their moral educa-
tion ought to commence, 304.
Important precepts relating to,
306.
CHRIST, his natural and affumed
character, 199. His wonderful ex-
cellence as a teacher and reform-
er, 200. Confidered as the Sa-
viour of the world, ib. and as
the Jewish Meffiah, 201.
His
temptation in the wilderness,
confidered in a new light, 473.
CHRISTIANITY, what reformation
it has produced in the world,
197. Suited to the neceffities
of mankind, 425. Tends to
the advantage of fociety, and to
promote good order in the world,
431.
CHRONOLOGY the foul of hiftory,
85.
CHURCHILL, Charles, parallel be-
tween his numbers and thofe of
the old fatirist, bishop Hall, 28.
..Charged with feveral great de-
fects, 152.
CICERO, fome frictures on his
conduct and character, 181. Re-
markable ftory of his purchafing
a fine house, 184. His great
reverse of fortune, 185; and
want of firmness to fupport it,
186. Changes his political con-
dact, 187. His wife and pru-
dent government of Cilicia, 188.
His opinion in favour of un-
written evidence, 477.
CIVILIZATION, of barbarons na-
tions, method of, 38.
CLERGY, their neceffary qualifi-
cations, 43. Scheme for an
augmentation of the income of
their indigent brethren, and pro-
viding for their widows and or-
phans, 330.
CLODIUS, his enmity against Ci-
cero, 185. His rencounter with
Milo, 188.
CONFLAGRATIONS, spontaneous,
accounted for, 556.
COLLINS, William, his fine poeti-
cal genius, 21. Specimens taken
from his odes, ib. feq. Me-
moirs of his life, 120. Sonnets
alluding to his unhappy infani-
ty, 123.
COLONIES, whether promoted or
injured by great ftriétnefs in reli-
gion, &c. 254. Propofal for a
special political department for
the adminiftration of Colonies,
441.Laws for regulating the trade
of, remarks on, 444. Trade of,
confidered, 464. Cautions against
too much limitation of, 465.
COMMON Council of London, how
far privileged to interfere in the
conduct of the city's reprefenta-
tives in parliament, 326. Styl-
ed heaven-born lawyers, 327:
CONSCIENCE, a tribunal within
ourselves, 278.
CONSTITUTION, political of Gr.
Britain, how far endangered by
the licentiousness of the people,
267.
CONTEMPLATION, poetically per-
fonified, 137-218, 222.
CON-
CONTRAPPUNTO, or Effay on my
fical compofition, 568.
CORNEILLE, Peter, Mr. Voltaire's
account of his works, published
for the benefit of his peice, 532.
ELANY, Dr. cenfured, 154. FANCY, poctically and beauti-
D'EON, Mr. his quarrel with
Mr. De Vergy, 79. Summary
of his quarrel with Count de
Guerchy, 432. Remarkable
account of expences attending
his embafly, 435.
DEVIL, or evil Being, reduced to
a perfonalizing figure in rheto-
ric, 473.
DICTIONARY, etymological, plan
of, 510.
DODSLEY, Mr. his account of the
life and writings of Mr. Shen-
stone, 378.
D'ORVILLE, Mr. publishes Cha-
riton of Aphrodifios, 62.
DE VERGY, Mr. his quarrel with
Mr. D'Eon, 79.
DYSENTERY, feldom to be claffed
among acute difeafes, 389. Me.
thod of cure, 399.
tions of, controverted, 301.
General directions, for, 306.
EDWARD III. K. of England, his
great attention to the improve-
ment of his kingdom by trade
and manufactures, 91.
EGYPT, beautifully defcribed in
Mr. Ogilvie's allegorical poem
on Providence, 223.
ELECTRICITY, Dr. Franklin's fyf-
tem confirmed by father. Rieger,
a Spanish Jefuit, 369.
ELEMENTS of Languages, what,
505. Monofyllables, ib. Not
verbs, but nouns, ib.
ENGLAND, a nation of flaves and
beggars before the reformation,
87. Brief defcription of, in that
flate, ib. Introduction of arts
and commerce into, 89.
FLOATING Batteries, method of
conftructing, 401.
FLORIDA, defcription of that coun-
try, 39. Character of the mas
tive Indians there, 41.
FOWLER, Mifs, ade to, 30.
FRENCHMEN as fufceptible of the
oppreffion of their governors as
any people on earth, 566.
G.
ARMENTS, English, of form.
er times, fome account of,
GENESIS, chap. xlix. new tranfla-
tion of the ten firft verfes of, 102.
Notes on, ib.
GHOSTS, why admiffible on the
ftage, and wizards not, 535:
GoD, in what fenfe he can be faid
to have begotten a fon, 192.
Spirit of God, in what manner
proceeding from the Father, ib.
His interpofition for the falva
tion of men, how to be under-
food, 194. Evidence of, 199.
The being and attributes of, en-
quired into, 498. Not intelli-
gent, good, nor holy, 502.
GOODNESS and Happiness, in a
Prince, contra diftinguifhed, 74.
GOSPEL,History, evidences in fup-
port of, 191. Sentiments in,
none, improbable, 202. Pre-
cepts of, worthy the Son of God,
ib.
Actions recorded in, not
improbable, 203. Miracles in,
liable to no juft objections, 204.
GOSPELS, their compofition as
books of hiftory, confidered,
204. The moft capital circum-
ftances of the matters recorded
in them, viewed in a friking
light, 205.
GRASSHOPPERS, the excommu-
nication of, abolished, 528.
GROTIUS, a key to his epiftles,
570.
GUERCHY, Count de, his mifun-
derstanding with M. D'Eon,
HALE, Judge, misfortune of
his writings not being pub-
lished till after his death, 289.
HANMER, Sir Thomas, his quarrel
with Mr. Warburton, 252.
HEATHEN nations, their ignorance
of a future ftate of rewards and
punishments,
HEBREW new
of, 296.
HISTORIANS, their practice of
prefacing their account of a
man's actions, by giving his cha-
racter, cenfured, 111.
HOLT, Lord chief juftice, his great
character, 97. Memoirs of his
life, 98. A remarkable Dictum
of his, 101. A mistake in the
account of him rectified, 416.
HOPER, Bifhop of Gloucefter, his
famous difpute de re veftiaria,
with bifhop Ridley, 6.
HORSES, British, their nature and
properties, 341. Their extreme
fwiftnefs, 342. Sketch of the
natural hiftory of the horse,
343.
HUGUENOTS, tho' heretofore fan-
taftical and cruel, of late much
refined, 527.
HUME, David, his Treatise on
. Human Nature controverted,
370.
HYBLA, Mount, now planted with
far-canes, 555.
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LANGUAGE, of our laws, reflec-
tions on, 286.
LANGUAGES originally defcrip-
tive, 507.
How formed, ib.
The caufe of their scarcity of
radical terms, ib. Oriental, why
fo metaphorical, 508.
LATIMER, bishop, his martyrdom,
and heroic behaviour, 15.
Law, account of fome peculiar
terms formerly much ufed in,
286.
LEXICOGRAPHERS, their error in
fixing on the radicals, and de-
ducing the etymologies of words,
505-510.
LIBERTY, the natural right of all
mankind, 516.
LINNAEUS, explanation of fundry
botanical terms in his fyftem,
LIPARI iflands, volcanos in, 551.
LITURGY, fee Liverpool.
that of the church of
England feverely cenfured, 217-
LIVERPOOL, a congregation of
Proteftant-diffenters there on a
new plan, 214. Specimens of
their liturgy, 215.
LOGICIAN, his greateft defect,
next to proving nothing at all,
is proving too much, 556.
MAGDALEN account
of the fuccefs of, 72.
MAN, not left to himself to work
out his own scheme of religion,
but affifted by repeated revela-
tions from God, 419.
MARIUS, his remarkable ftory, 114.
MARRINER'S Compafs, its inven-
tion, 168. Its great benefit in
navigation, ib.
MARTYRS, primitive, very few,
529.
MARY, Princefs, her bigotry, and
angry behaviour toward Bishop
Ridley, 9. Her cruel revenge
against him, on her acceffion to
the throne, 10.
MASON-SPIDER, an indefcript in-
fect, curious account of, 559.
MATRIMONY, hints for a refor-
mation in the laws relating to,
246.
MEDALS, their utility to chrono-
logers and hiftorians, 568.
MEDEA, Corneille's tragedy of,
defective, 532.
Yet much better than the
preceding dramas on the French
stage, 534.
MEDITATION, religious, advan-
tages of, 468.
METAPHYSICAL attributes nega-
tive, 539.
Beings, objects of the un-
derstanding, 540.
The elements of matter,
and germina of plants,&c. 542.
Their criterion and ef-
Their energy or action,
545.
MIDDLESEX, County, general de
fcription of, 265.
MIDDLETON, Dr. Conyers, an
obfervation of his on the state of
Rome, when in the zenith of
her power, criticised, 108.
MIND, human, philofophy of,
fruitful in creating doubts, but
unhappy in refolving them, 363.
Unequal in the conteft with
common fenfe, 364.
MITHRIDATES, King of Pontus,
his extraordinary education, 112.
His misfortunes, and unhappy
end, 179-181.
His charac-
ter, ib.
MONARCHY, why favourable to
trade, 17.
MORAL Beings, à mixt fpecies or
compound of physical and me-
taphyfical exiftences, 541.
Their effence and energy dif-
tinguished and afcertained, 549.
MORALITY, enquiry into the ftate
of, in the heathen world, 426.
That taught by the ancient phi-
lofophers, not a fufficient guide
to virtue, 427. The Stoical
fyftem particularly examined,
428.
not incompatible with
pleasure, 24.
MOTION, the laws of, could not
be otherwise than Sir Ifaac New-
ton hath fhewn them to be, 543.
of bodies neceffarily takes up
time, and why, 544.
not thought, although all
thought is motion, 546.
MURDER, the price of, in Poland,
516.
MURRAY, John Phillip, his dif
courfe on the effect of illuftrious
examples, 570.
ABOв, of Bengal, account
of, 247.
NAMES, of perfons, English,
whence derived, 439.
NASH, Beau, droll dialogue in the
moon, between him and Cato,
335
NETLEY Abbey, see KEATE.
NEW Teftament, divers paffages
in, new tranflated, 297.
-England, letter from, to the
NICHOLLS, Philip, a writer in
the Biographia Britannica, his
narrative of a remarkable caf-
trated sheet in that work, 252.
NOBLEMEN, in Poland, their pre-
rogative, 518. Their vanity
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