fhire, 124. Made Duke of Normanby, and after of Buckinghamfhire, 124. Joined the Tories, 124. Offered the Chancellorship, 124. Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold, 124. After the Queen's death, oppofed the Court, 124. Died Feb. 24, 1720-21, 125. His character, 125, Story of a workman extorting his bill on the leads of Buckingham-house, 125. His character as a writer, 126. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 176.

Bucolus, his account of Mrs. Bufy's economical character and conduct, vi. 426.

Budgel, Euftace, writes the Epilogue to Philips's tranflation of Racine's Andromache, iv. 191.

Buller of Buchan, account of the extraordinary cavity there, x. 334. Burke, Edmund, review of his Philofophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, x. 199.

Burman, Peter, his life, iv. 480. Born at Utrecht, 1668, 480. Educated at Utrecht, and admitted into the Univerfity in his thir teenth year, 481. His quick acquirement of learning, 481. Becomes a pupil under Grævius, 482. Studied Philofophy at Leyden, 483. Doctor of Laws, 1688, 484. Travelled into Switzerland and Germany, 484. Collector of the Tenths, 1691, 484. Vifits Paris, 1714, where he is introduced to Montfaucon, 485. Profeffor of Hiftory, Eloquence, and the Greek Language, at Leyden, 1715, 487. Chief Librarian at Leyden, 488. Died March 31, 1741, 489. His character, 489. Catalogue of fome of his works, 491. Burnet, Gilbert, Obfervations on Dryden's Anfwer to his Remarks on Varillas, ii. 351.

Bufinefs, the neglect of it foolish and pernicious, vii. 240. The folly of a man's attempting to do too much business himself, by which all is neglected: exemplified in the history of Jack Whistler, viii. 72. Very feldom reckoned a pleasure, 405.

Buffle, Lady, her character expreffive of the active scenes of a country life, v. 325.

Bufy, Mrs. the particularities of her character, vi. 426.

Butler, Samuel, affifted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, ii. 342. His life, 177. The fon of a farmer at Strentham, Worcestershire, born 1612, 177. Not known whether he was of either Univerfity, 178. Clerk to a Juftice of the Peace in Worcestershire, 179. Amufed himself in Mufick and Painting, 179. Taken into the family of the Countess of Kent, 179. Afterwards into the family of Sir S. Luke, 170. Secretary to the Earl of Carbury, and Steward of Ludlow Castle, 180. Married Mrs. Herbert, 180. Part I. of Hudibras published, 1663. Part II. 1664, 180. Supposed to have been Secretary to the Duke of Buckingham, when Chancellor of Cambridge, 181. Story of his being to be introduced to the Duke of Bucks, by Mr. Wycherly, 181. Part III. of Hudibras published, 1678, 182. Died 1680, and interred in the church-yard of Covent-Garden, 182. Reported to have received 100%. a year of the Treafury, 182. Copy of his monument in Weftminster-Abbey, 183. Three vols. of his Pofthumous Works published, 183. Two vols. more, lately by Mr, Thyer, of Manchefter, 183. He ridiculed the establishment

eftablishment of the Royal Society, 183. Character of his Hud
bras, 184. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 175.

C.

CADENCY, in poetick numbers confidered, vi. 143.
Cairne, in Sky, a burying-place defcribed, x. 378.
Calamities, the duty of not finking under, xi. 98.
Calder Caftle, account of, x. 342.

Calumnies, the difficulty in fuppreffing, iv. 339.

Camilla, her affected difrelifh of the difpofitions and conduct of her
own fex expofed, vi. 279. 281.

Canaries, Ilands of, account of the first discovery and fettlement of,
ix. 380. John de Cerda crowned King of the Canaries, 381.
Candidus, his hiftory, ix. 41.

Cannon, two obfervations on the danger of, iii. 120.

Cantilinus, his low tafte cenfured, vii. 218.

Capel, Edward, obfervations on his edition of Shakespear, ix. 283.
Captator, a legacy-hunter, his hiftory, vii. 327. 332.

Caftles in the Hebrides, account of, x. 508. Evidences of the fi&tions
of chivalry having had the manners of feudal times for their basis,
511.

Catacombs, vifited by Raffelas, xi. 138.

Catalogue of the Harleian Library, plan of the catalogue, ix. 337. Ge-
neral ufe of catalogues, 339.

Cato, rather a poem in dialogue than a play, iii. 90.
Mr. Dennis's Obfervations, 91.

Extracts from

Progress of the
Account of thofe

Cattle, the importance of the breeding of, x. 302.
breeding of, from the time of Abraham, 302.
bred in the islands of Sky, 414.
Cave, Edward, his life, iv. 521. Born in Warwickshire, 1691, 521.
Educated at Rugby School, 522. At firft encouraged by his matter,
but afterwards, being charged with ftealing a cock, lofes all his
mafter's favour, 522. Lives with a Collector of Excise, 523.
Comes to London, and lives fome time with a Timber-merchant,
523. Apprenticed to Collins, a printer, 523. After two years,
fent to conduct a printing-house, and manage a weekly paper, at
Norwich, 524. Writes in Mift's Journal, 524. Gets a small place
in the Poft-office, 524. Engaged in feveral small publications, 524.
Lofes his place in the Poft-office, 525. Purchases a small printing-
office, and begins the Gentleman's Magazine, 525. Spent much
money in projects, 526. Died 1754, 527. Infcription at Rugby,
written by Dr. Hawkefworth, to the memory of Cave's father,
himself, and brother, 527. His character, 528.

Caves, fome remarkable ones in the ifles of Sky, described, x. 402.
Account of a remarkable one in the island of Inch Kenneth, 498.
Caution, the connection of it with hope, vi. 306.

Cecilia, St. Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, iv. 114.
Celibaty, no pleasures in a ftate of, xi. 73.

Cellini,

Cellini, Benvenuto, account of a book called his Life, ix. 360. After lying a century and an half in MS. published at Naples, in 1730, 360. His extraordinary character, 361.

Cenfure, our fondness for it derived from an imagined fuperiority, v. 8. On what occafions it becomes equitable and laudable, 319.

Chairman, his complaint on charging the fat people no more than thin ones, viii. 112.

Character, not to be drawn from a perfon's own letters, iv. 96.

Characters, the general inclination to copy thofe of other perfons confidered, vii. 145. The variety of, in England, exemplified by the company in a stage-coach, ix. 55. The folly of affuming, 57. Charieffa, her reflections upon the fashionable follies of modifh life, vi. 183, 188.

Charity, the discharge of its duties fhould be regulated and adjufted by the rules of justice, vi. 62. Introduced by Revelation, viii. 13. No account of it in antient times tranfmitted to us, 13. Roman donatives rather popular than virtuous, 13. Of Mahometans tranfplanted from Chriftianity, 14. Of the prefent age commended, 14. Danger of its abating, 15. Danger from the competitions between different hofpitals, 16. If no want, no charity, 359.

Charity Schools, the falfe notion of the mischief of them, viii. Ico. Charles I. tries the Sortes Virgiliana, ii. 11. Charged with inferting

a prayer in the Icon Bafilike, taken from Sidney's Arcadia, which is, however, fuppofed to have been interpolated by Milton, 105. Charles II. employs Salmafius to write in defence of Charles I. and Monarchy, ii. 105. Paffes an A&t of Oblivion to all except the Regicides, 119.

Charles XII. of Sweden, the vanity of a warrior exemplified in him,

xi. 337.

Charters, their extent and authority, x. 107.

Chartophylax, his character, vii. 218.

Charybdis, her difpofition to profuse expences, vi. 282.

Chatterton Controverfy, Dr. Johnfon's opinion of it, xi. 208.

Chaucer, Geoffry, January and May; and the Prologue to the Wife of Bath, put into modern English, by Pope, iv. 5. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 166. His fpeech as Prefident of the affembly of bards for the admiffion of Milton, 186.

Cheerful man characterized, ii. 150.

Cheynel, Francis, his life, iv. 501. Born at Oxford, 1608, 501. Entered at that Univerfity, 1623, 501. Fellow of Merton College, 502. Takes orders in the church of England, 502. Refufed his degree of B. D. for difputing concerning Predeftination, 502. Account of the difputes at Merton College, 504. Prefented to a valuable living near Banbury, 504. Has a difpute with Archbishop Laud, 504. Declares himself a Prefbyterian, and a friend of the Parliament, 505. His houfe plundered, and living forfeited, 505. Retires into Suffex, 506. His behaviour to Chillingworth, when a prifoner to the Parliament's troops, 507. In the army of Effex, thews himself equally brave as learned, 508. Is prefented by Parliament to the living of Petworth, 5c9. Sent by the Parliament, with fix others, to reform the University, 5c9. Fixes a Scruple-fhop

at

at Oxford, 510. His difputes with Earbury and the Independents,
510. His controverfy with Mr. Hammond, on his Practical Cate-
chifm, 513. His further proceedings at Oxford, 514. Prefident
of St. John's College and Lady Margaret Profeffor, 516. Writes
in defence of the Trinity against the Socinians, 518. Retires from
Oxford to his living at Petworth, 5'8. Lofes Petworth at the Re,
ftoration, 519. Suppofed to have died distracted, 1665, 520.
Chillingworth, Dr. for a fhort time embraced Popery, ii. 349.

Ac

count of his fickness and death, in the hands of the Parliament's
troops, iv. 507.

Chinese, account of a man of that country at the island of Ternate, iv.
433.

Choice of life, aftronomers opinion of, xi. 131.

Chriftianus perfe&us, xi. 386.

Chryfalus, the fatal effects of his peevishnefs, vi. 261.

Cibber, Mr. the lives of the poets not written by him, but by one
Robert Shiels, iii. 237. Appointed Poet Laureat, 303. Takes
umbrage at the Volunteer Laureat, 307. Celebrated by Pope in his
laft book of the Dunciad, iv. 81. He refents the affront in a
pamphlet, 81.

Cicero, his reflections upon the vanity of tranfitory applause, vi. 300.
His remarks upon the importance of being acquainted with past
tranfactions, vii. 85.

Clarendon, Lord, the ftory of Smith being employed to alter his hiflory,
falte, ii. 470. His character of Waller, with obfervations on it,
252. His character of Admiral Blake, iv. 376. The peculiar ex-
cellency of his Hiftory of the Rebellion, vi. 330. Thoughts on the
publication of the fequel to his hiftory, viii. 259. Doubts of the
unfaithful publication of his hiftory, 261.
Cleobulus, his maxim on the excellence of mediocrity, v. 245.
Cleora, her Letter on Gaming, v. 96. 100.

Clergy, Milton's objections to entering into the miniftry, ii. 88.

Clifford, Martin, attacks Dryden's Conqueft of Grenada, with a fpe-
cimen, ii. 325. Affifted Buckingham in writing the Rehearsal, 342.
Climate, has no influence on freedom and flavery, or virtue and vice,
viii. 41.

Coach, provided by marriage-articles without horses, viii. 218.
Coal-pit compared to the fun, ii. 34.

Coins, obfervations on the collectors of, viii. 226.

Col, ifland of, account of, x. 465. Account of Griffipol in Col, 467.
Account of the caftle of Col, 469. Turnips introduced there, 470.
Account of the violent tempests there, 471. The inhabitants at-
tempt to fupply their own wants, 478. Malt-tax of the island
only 20s. a year, 479. No emigrations from, 480. Their fu
nerals, 481. Amusements on New Year's Eve, 482. Account of
the custom of protecting murderers there, 482. Account of the
cuftom of foflerage there, 484.

Collier, Jeremy, account of his difpute on the entertainments of the
ftage, iii. 160.

Collins, William, his life, iv. 204. Born at Chichester, 1720, 204.
Admitted at Winchester College, 1733. 204. Came to London,
about 1744, a literary adventurer, 205. His uncle leaves him

about

about 2,cool. 205.
Troubled with disease and infanity, 206.
His character, 206. Died 1756, 207. His works characterized,.
209.

Colonies, obfervations on the fettlement of, iii. 320. More politick
to remove grievances than to drive men to feek fhelter in foreign
countries, 320. Crimes committed by the discoverers of new re-
gions, 321. Confiderations how they are conftituted, x. 102.
Conftitution of English colonies, 106. Their power from their
charters, 107. Compared to a member of the body, 108. Ought
to be bound by ftatutes of the Mother-country, 109. The plea of
want of reprefentation examined, 110. Advantages of, to the Mo-
ther-country, 172.

Columbus, little advantage to Europe from his discoveries, x. 104.
Comedy, critical remarks upon the manner of compofing it, vi. 345.
Commendation, falfe claims to it cenfured, vii. 282.

Commentators, the difficulties they meet with, ix. 289.

Commerce, Preface to Rolt's Dictionary of, ix. 422. The prefent pre-
dilection of mankind to, 422. Difficulties in acquiring the know-
ledge of, 424. One of the daughters of fortune, x.
owe its fuccefs to Agriculture, 308.

306. Mult

Companions, different claffes of them defcribed, vii. 280.
Compaffion, fuppofed by fome to be a felfish paffion, viii. 14.

Competitions, often fupported by intereft and envy, vii. 249. Their
different influence on this occafion ftated, 250, 251.

Complainers, inceffant, reprefented as the fcreech-owls of mankind, v. 376.

Complaint, little got by it, viii. 378.

Complaints of the conduct of others, what principles will fupport our claim to it, v. 319, 320.

Compofition, different methods of, iv. 105.

Compton, Sir Spencer, prefents Thomson with twenty guineas,
having dedicated Winter to him, iv. 166.

Comus, the Mafque of, first acted in 1634, ii. 89. Derived from Ho-
mer's Circe, 89. The fact on which it was founded, 89. Suppofed
by the editor to be derived from the Comus of Erycius Puteanus,
90. A&ted April 5, 1750, for the benefit of a grand-daughter of
Milton, 146. Characterized, 151. Prologue to, when acted for
the benefit of a grand-daughter of Milton, xi. 346.
Conduct, the absurdity of it, whence it arifeth, vi. 4c7.
Congo, ifland of, firft difcovered by the Portuguese, ix. 398.
Congreve, William, his life, iii. 155. Defcended from a family in
Staffordshire, 155: Born about 1672, the place uncertain, 155.
First educated at Kilkenny, afterwards at Dublin, 156. Entered at
the Middle-Temple, but paid little attention to Statutes or Reports,
156. The Old Batchelor, his firft dramatick labour, 1693. 157.
This play procured him the patronage of Halifax, who made him a
Commiffioner for licenfing Coaches, and places in the Pipe-office and
Cuftoms, 158. Account of this comedy, 158. The Double Dealer,
1694, 159. Love for Love, 1695, 159. Mourning Bride, 1697.
159 Defends the ftage against Collier, 161. Writes The Way of
the World, 163. Rétires from the world as a writer, 163. Made
Secretary