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thus by the very first page prejudiced against the book, may deem it a
performance of no value, and on that account may become inftrumen-
tal in preventing the fpreading of thofe truths which are contained in it.
I fhould in particular fuffer in being reprefented as judging with fo little
regard of men whofe abilities I muft acknowledge; and if I thought
myfelf hurt by the rash judgment of a French Reviewer, in the Jurnal
Encyclopedique for May 1766, p. 137, and in the Gozette Litteraire de
PEurope for Jul. 1765, who, after quoting the English tide, fays, Cet
ouvrage eft ridicule, et prouve, que l'Auteur ne connoit ni les ecrits de Mr. de
Buffon, ni ceux de Mr. de Maupertuis, was not this reflexion folely
caufed by the title of the book which Mr. W. has printed under my
name and might I not with great juftice defire that this might be al-
tered? But, although I am little apprehenfive of being turned into ridi-
cule, yet I wish, the impartial world may neither impute to me fach
abufive and falfe reproaches gentlemen of an established character,
nor the defects of the tranflation. Should Mr. Wynne or the bookfeller
at any time think proper to give another edition, I would, if they defire
it, be very ready to fupply them with corrections, improvements, and
later additions to the work.

If you, Gentlemen, would do me the favour, to publish this decla.
ration to the literary world, you will very much oblige your moft obe-
dient fervant,

Hamburg, Nov. 18, 1766.

HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS,
Profeffor at Hambourgh.

We are forry to learn, from a manufcript paper enti·led, A Let-
er to the Monthly Reviewers, concerning Locke and Leibnitz, &c. that Mr.
Rafte, the learned and worthy Editor of the pofthumous works of the
laft-mentioned philofopher, hath mistaken fome paffages in our account
of that edition, in the Appendix to our thirty-third volume.-We have
neither leifure nor inclination to enter into any controverfy concerning
the pre-eminence due to the Lokian or the Leibnitz an philofophy; and
therefore we fhall only obferve, that the paffage in our article (wherein
fome late difrefpe&ful treatment of Mr. Locke's memory was glanced at)
which feems molt especially to have difpleafed Mr. Rafpe, did not allude
to his publication, but to another work, the natural produce of our own
country. We have too much respect for the character of Mr. Rafpe,
both as a PHILOSOPHER and as a MAN, to be capable of defignedly
giving him any juft caufe of offence. He will, therefore, we hope, con-
fider this acknowledgment as a fufficient conceflion, from perfons equally
engaged with himfelf, in fupport of the common interells of the repub-
lic of letters,

APP. Vol. XXXV.

PP

INDEX

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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fymptoms, and treat-
of one, 34; of the
from a tone in the
bladder, 454; in the liver, 455.
ACADEMY, Veterinary, at Lyons,
account of, 534.
ADMINISTRATION, a late fhort
one, fat iotic measures of, 160.
Esor, encomium on him and his
Fables, 542.

AIR, various phænomena of, ac-
counted for, by new experiments,
380.
AMERICA, favages of, recommend-
ed as the principal objects of
converfion, by the Society for
Prop. the Gospel, 282. Some
late minifterial regulations and
reftrictions of trade there, con-
demned, 445.
ANCIENTS, not ignorant of the
great difcoveries attributed to the
moderns, 544. feq.

ANMET, Mr. his Tracts republifh-
ed, 467.
ANTONINUS, emperor, compared
with Epictetus, 542.
ARCHIMEDE, his burning fpecu-
lum, reality of, 554
ARGUS, bird fo called, 450.
ARTS, mechanic, theory and prac-

tice of, feldom agree, 50.
ATHENIANS, their violent and ca-

pricious difpofition always detri.
mental to the ftate, 500.
AUSTRIANS, character of their
Soldiery, 82.
AVIGNON, excellent police in that
city, 32.

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B.

his to K. James, 412. Proofs
of his corruption in his judicial

BARTRAM, Mr, fome account of,

457.
BATHURST, Lord, his humorous
Advice to Swift, 134.
BEAU, French, ftory of, 353.
BEAUTY, nature of, defined and
explained, 561,

BERKELEY, Bp. faid to have bor,
rowed his opinion of the non-
exiflence of bodies from the most
ancient philofophers, 545-
BEES, ufual number of, in each
hive, 21.

BOLINBROKE, Lord, his apology
for the Free-thinkers, 65. Let-
ter between Lord Hide and Mr.
Mallet, concerning the publica-
tion of his pofthumous works,
63-65. Philofophical fenti-
ments of his lordship's, 140.
His encomium on Pope's Moral
Elays, 142.

BOTANY, elementary demonftra-
tions of, for the use of the Royal
Veterinary Academy at Lyons,
535. Sexual fyllem, known to
the ancients, 554.
BROWNRIGG, Dr. his inquiry in-
to the mineral elastic spirit in
Spa-water, 452.

BUFFON, Mr. faid to have bor-

rowed his fyftem of generation
and nutrition from Anaxagoras,

&c. 547:
BUNCLE, John, his character as a

writer, 34. His defcription of
the company of Harrowgate, 39,
His account of a Carthufian mo-
naftery, 110; of the four phy-
ficians who attended one of his
wives, 118.

capacity, 413. Forefees the Bri CA

tish empire of the fea, 494.

C.

ARDS, an improper amufe-
ment for the fair fex, 18.
CELTIC,

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CELTIC, the univerfal elementary
language of Europe, 363
CHARACTERS, in genteel life, ex-
hibited, 287-347•
CHOLERA MORBUS, remedies for,
308.

CHRISTIANITY, cruel methods of
propagating, in the time of
Charlemagne, 173. Evidences
for confidered, 178-187. Ad-
vantages derived to from the op-
pofition of infidels, 257.
CICESBEOS, Italian, account of
them, 332-336.

CLIVE, Mrs. abufive verfes on,
388.
COKE, Sir Edward, ftrictures on
his character, 415 His pitiful
behaviour in the cruel profecu-
tion of one Floid, 416.
COLONISTS, British, in America,
dealers in the commodity called
free-thinking, 281.
CONDE, Pr. of, his great natural
capacity, 518. His general-
fhip at the battle of Rocroi, 522
-526. His difinterestedness in
love and friendship, 527. His
perfonal valour, ib. General
view of his character, 528. Cu-
red of a love-fit by phlebotomy,
529.
CONVERSATION, in genteel life,
recited, 287, 347.
COPERNICUS, his fyftem of the
world fuppofed to have been
known to the ancients, 550
CORK, experiment on its specific
buoyancy in different waters,
451.

CORN, debate in the H, of C. on
the importation of, in the R. of

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corn, 417.

DEBT, national, project to pay off
by means of the gold-mines in
Africa, 496.

DEISTS, invited to flate their fulle
eft objections against chriftianity,
126.

DELAVAL, Mr. his experiments to
fhew the agreement between the
fpecific gravities of metals and
their colours, 374.
DEMOSTHENES, his oratory over-
matched by the policy of Philip,
504.

DESCARTES, borrowed his philo-
fophy from Aristotle, 544; and
his notion of innate ideas front
Plato, 545
DISPENSING power, in the crown,
with regard to the laws, ex-
ploded, 474

DOLLAND, Mr. his improved tel-
lescopes. 375.
DYSENTERY, fymptoms and cure
of, 308.

E.

Ja. I. 417. General reflection EARTHQUAKEOMETER, what,

on that fubject, 418. Bounty
on, for exportation, arraigned
and defended, 475-477. Ad-
vantages of exportation, 479.
CORNBURY, Lord, his letter to
Mallet, concerning Lord Bolin-
broke's works, 63.
CORNEILLE, M. his epigram on
Card, Richlicu, 520.

449.

EGERTON, Mr. his petition to the
house of commons against Lord

Bacon, 413.
ELLIS, Mr. his account of the na-
ture of sponges, 450.
EMPHYSEMA, cafe of, 453.
ENGLAND, her immenfe maritime
force, 495. her trade in danger
from her conquefis, and vaft in
Pp2
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creafe of the national debt, 496.
means to pay off that debt, by
the help of our African fettle-
ments, ib.

ENGROSSERS of cattle, fcheme to
prevent their iniquitous jobbing,
147. Of corn, &c. apology
for, 478.

veral parts of his minifterial con-
duct, 440-446.

GOD, definitions of, by divines
and philofophers, their abfurdity,
539.

H.

EPICURUS, exemplary goodness HAMILTON, Dr. his differta-

of his character, 541. morality
of his doctrine afferted, ib.
ERGOT, a disease so called, 447•

F

F.

ABLES, the French peafant,
321. the Nile and the fea,
481.
FERGUSON, Mr. his fort method
for finding the quantity of time
in any number of mean luna-
tions, 376.
FEVER, different notions and
treatment of, by four different
phyficians, 113. Malignant,
nature and care of, 307. In-
flammatory remedies for, 308.
Autumnal, 309. Intermitting,
ib.
FORNICATION, difadvantages of,
in civil life, 8.
FRANCE, directions for travelling
in, 31. English cautioned a-
gainst fending their children
there for education, 33.
FRANKLIN, Dr. his experiments
on the properties of air and
water, 385.

FRENCH, why more ready than
the English to publish treatifes
of the mechanic arts-49. Their
military character, 81.

G

G.

ALE, Mr. his account of ino-
culation in America, 448.
Of the bite of a rattle-fnake, ib.
GALLASPY, a furprising Irithman,

40.

tion on the Phænomena of
air, water, &c. 379.
HARRISON, the celebrated clock-
maker, character of, 51.

Captain, horrid dire

fes of him and his crew at fea,

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HERCULES, the Farnefian, cri-
tical remarks on that famous
flatue, 335.
HISTORY, the chronological plan
of, arraigned and defended,
507-509. Observations on the
style of hiftory, 512.
HOMILY, that mode of preach-

ing recommended, 196.
HOPE, Dr. coltivates the true rhu-
barb in Scotland, 450.
HORNSBY, his obfervations on the
transit of Venus that will hap-
pen in 1769, 38.
HUME. David, his quarrel with
Rouleau, 390. Eucomium on
his historic abilities, 513.
HYSTERIC CONvulions, how to
be cured, 345.

I.

TAMES I. remarkable fpeech of

GOLLOGHER, an extraordinary
an extraordinary his to Pt. 410
Irishman. 42.
GRACE, MIS. ftory of, 348.
GRENVILLE, Mr. Arictures on fe-

JANGARIUS, St. remarks on the
occafional liquefaction of his
blood, 338.

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ACNAMARAH, Daniel, his

M remarkable cafe, 327.

MALLET, Mr. his letter to Lord
Cernbury, concerning Lord Bo-
lingbroke's Works, 65.

LADIES, learned education of, MAN, experim. to thew his fpecific

recommended, 112.
LAVINGTON, Dr. his account of
a tumour, 446.
LAW, its valt bulk, and confufion,
a reproach to this country, 16.
Civil, ftudy of recommended,
69.
LEIBNITZ, borrowed his phyfics
from Pythagoras, 516.
LETTER from Lord Bolingbroke
to Swift, 60; from Lord Hyde to
Mr. Mallet, 63. From Mr.
Mallet to Lord Hyde, 65. From
Lord Bathurst to Dr. Swift, 134.
From Lady B. Germain to ditto.
137. from the Dutchefs of
Queensbury to ditto, 139. From
Lord Bolingbroke to ditto, 140.
From Mifs Vanhomrigh to ditto,
143. From a nun to Madam
Pompadour, 274. From Rouf-
feau to Hume, 394. From Do.
to the St. James's, Chronicle,
396. From Dr. Reimarus to
the Reviewers, 567.
LIBELS, remarks on our laws
against, 61.

weight in water, 451. Weak-
nefs of his mental powers, 538.
MICHELL, Mr. his particular ap-
plications of Hadley's quadrant,
378.
MICROSCOPES, new and curious
ones invented at Naples, 452.
MISSIONARIES, popish, their zeal

commended, 283.
MECENAS, his character in private
life, and connections with the
literati, 91. Deemed a thorough
courtier, 97.

MONTAGUE, his fingular manner
of travelling through the Holy-
Land, 331.
MORALITY well understood by the
ancients, 563, feq.

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of the lower people there,
339. Strange feftival there, 432.
Valt number of lawyers in that
city, 433. Familiar file of the
preachers there, 434. Droll
itory of a priest and a mounte-
bank, 435.

LIGONIER, Lord, anecdotes of, NEGOTIATION, minifterial, account

312.

LINUM, fax, characteristic exa-
mination of, acco.ding to the
Linnaan fytem, 536.
LOCKE, Mr. indebted to the an-

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of a late famous one, 152.
NEWTON, Sir Ifaac, his principal
difcoveries faid to have been be-
fre difovered, by the ancients,
548-550.

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