volume of Letters and Papers addreffed to the Society inftituted at Bath, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, &c. On planting barren lands with wood; from the fame 91 93 95 On the fcab in fheep, and fome approved remedies recommended; from the fame 1 ΑΝΤΙQUITIES. 100 On the office of High Steward of England; from Hearne's curious difcourfes 102 Tranflations of three authentic regifters of the monaftery of St. Edmund's Bury, formerly kept by the Sacrifts 105 Defcription and account of the caftle of Caernarvon ; from Pennant's Tour in Wales 107 109 An account of the ancient British games; from the fame 110 Account of Sir Richard Bulkeley; in which is a strong defcription of the favourite Earl of Leicester; from the fame An account of two ancient oil-mills in the kingdom of Naples MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S. 119 122 Difference between memory and imagination; from Differtations Morel and Critical, by J. Beattie, LL. D. 125 Of Accent, its nature and ufe; Standard of Pronunciation: from the Theory of Language, in the fame work 127 Extract from Illustrations on Sublimity, in the fame work 130 On Tafte; from Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Lettres, by Hugh Blair, D. D. 136 Comparative Strictures on Tillotson, Sir William Temple, Addifon, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bolingbroke, in point of ftyle; from the fame work 143 147 Comparative merit of the Ancients and Moderns; from the fame A letter from Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Prior; from vol. i. of Atterbury's Epiftolary Correfpondence 153 Reflections on a late fcandalous report about the repeal of the Test Act; from the fame Letter from Bishop Atterbury to Lord Inverness, after that bishop's banishment from England; from vol. iii. of the fame work An abstract from the King's books in the Royal Treafury of Goanaxuato, fince the establishment of that office the 30th of April 1665, to Dec. 31, 1778, fhewing, by accounts made up every five years, the weight of the gold and filver on which duties have been paid, and the whole amount of thefe duties during the above period of 114 years 165 A particular account of an Hindoo woman's burning herself alive with her deceafed ceafed husband; from an authentic letter, dated Calcutta, 25th July, 1779) 167 An extract from the fequel to Emilius and Sophia, by J. J. Rouffeau, found among his papers after his death POETRY. Ode for the new year 1783, by William Whitehead, Efq; 179 Ode for his Majefty's birth-day, June 4, 1783, by the fame 180 Extracts from Mafon's Tranflation of Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting 181 An extract from The Village, a poem, by the Rev. G. Crabbe, Chaplain to bis Grace the Duke of Rutland, &c. On the death of Dr. Robert Levet, by Dr. Johnson A farewell to Bath, by Lady M. W. Montagu 183 189 190 "The entertaining and facetious hiftory of John Gilpin; fhewing how be went further than he intended, and came home fafe at last." 191 On the Marriage of the Honourable Mifs Eliz, Sackville to Colonel Herbert, By Richard Cumberland, Efq; A fong Races. A Ballad. By the late Sir John Moore, Bart. 197 198 199 Lines to Mrs. Montague, on her happening to fall at St. James's,' by Mr. Rondeau Jerningham 200 200 201 201 ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1783. An account of the Hiftory of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain; by Robert Watfon, LL. D. &c. &c. 202 An account of Differtations Moral and Critical; by James Beattie, LL.D. &c. &c. 207 THE END. |