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

crocata.

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.
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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

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.

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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,

201.

LIGHTNING, obf. on, 386. Form
of conductors for, contefted, 387.
Caution

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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-

of, 285.

OENANTHE CROCATA, a cure for

fcorbutic diforders, 282.

mended, 267.

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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 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.

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GLASS, the folubility of, in water,
proved by experiment, 546-
548.

H.

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.

JARS,

1.

ARS, M. his chemical experi
ments, 551.

JEURAT, M. his memoir on the
réfractive and difperfive powers of
gláfs, 554.

L.

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.

LEWIS,

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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.

523.

V.

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.'

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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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