DISSENTERS, not dangerous to the established church of England, 197. Queries addreffed to them, concerning liturgic and ftated forms of worship, 257. DIVORCES, advantages of rendering eafily attainable, 263. DOCK YARDS, royal, great wafte of the timber in, 396. DODDRIDGE, Dr. his genius and learning, 147; his amazing diligence and activity, 151. FLORIDA, fome account of, 12. FORNICATION Confidered, 87. FOUNTAINS, a fairy tale, 357. FRANCE, ill treatment of ftrangers in that kingdom, 421. Difagreeable view of that country, 429. FREEDOM of fpeech and writing on public affairs confidered, 392. FRENCH, their indelicacy at their meals, 422. G. DULANEY, Mr. His confiderations Gheory of, 63. ANGLIONS of the nerves, on taxing the Colonies, E. 65. EARTHQUAKE, extract from archbishop Secker's fermon on, 345. EDUCATION, important remarks on, 306. ENGLAND, general view of her policy, trade, taxes, &c. 291. ENGLISH, nation, follies of, 507. › EPICTETUS, the ftoic, his con tempt of the Chriftians, 37. EQUALITY of mankind, encomium on, 22; an imaginary bleffing, 23. ERSKINE'S gofpel fonnets, re." markable extract from, 168. ETHICS, or the law of nature, first principles of, 109. EVIL, origin of, difficulty of account ing for, 307. Afcribed to the agency of malignant fpirits, 308. F. F AITH, inquiry into the true nature of, 203. FANCY, her exhortation to her votaries, 118. FEMALE SEX, their importance in their fingle ftate, 454. Defects of their education, 455. Their importance in wedlock, 456. Confidered as mothers, 457. Sobriety of mind recommended to them, 462. FERGUSON, James, his defcrip. His tion of a new crane, 220. new hygrometer, 222. FEVER, not a difeafe, but a remedy, 30-31. FLORETTA, flory of, 357 GENERATION, beyond the reach of human enquiry, 497. GEORGE III. parallel between the four first years of his reign, and the four last of Anne, 325. GIBBON, a curious fpecies of ape, defeription of, 531. GOSPEL, St. Matthew's, date of fettled, 402. GOTHS, their origin, and incurfions into the Empire, 534 GOVERNMENT, confiderations on feveral kinds of, 380. Conftitutional, of England, dependent in the ultimate refort, on the fenfe and feeling of the people, 387. Executive power of, 389. How to be employed for the reformation of mankind, 543. · GREY, Stephen, elegant verfes on his death, 357 H. Hiftory of. 495. AKKAM, Caliph, remarkable HASSELQUIST, Dr. his travels in the Great of France, his PR 2 character character compared with that of. Phillip of Macedon, 554. HERNIA of the bladder, how cured, 62. HER ORT, Mr. Perfecuted for the freedom of his writings, 547. HIPPOPOTAMUS, defcription of that animal. 266. HOADLY, bishop. his manly notion of the fubject's right of refiftance, 194. HOBBES, difference between his manner of attacking Chriftianity, and that of other infidels, 89. HOLY LAND defcribed, 137. of, 529. HORSLEY, Mr. his obfervations at fea, for finding the longitude by the Moon, 226. HUNS, fome account of that peo JOHNSON, Mr. author of the Ram bler, poetically exhibited, 323. JOHNSTONE, Dr. his theory of the Ganglions of the nerves, 63. JORDAN, river, and its fhores defcribed, 141. JOSEPHUS, the paragraph in his history concerning Chrift not genuine, 31. ISAIAH, his celebrated prophecy (Ch. vii. ver. 13-16) four different opinions concerning, 300. Kennicott's explication of, 301. JUDEA, appearance of that country, in its prefent state, 139. L. ADIES, their paffion for cards cenfured, 79. fatirized, 472. LANDSCAPE, Foetical, 353. LANGUAGE, its mechanical formation, 525 LAW, why deemed an inelegant and uncouth study, 107. Means for obviating this reproach, r08. Definition of law, 109. Three grand divifions of, 379. Municipal, defined, ib. farther confidered, 381. LAWS, in general, confidered, 379 -383. Of England in parti cular, ib. LEGACIES, Mahometan, law relating to, z51. LEGION, the thundering, miracu lous ftory of, exploded, 37LIFE, requifites for continuing it beyond its ufual extent, 497LION, not to be met with in Paletine, 270. Query, from this circumstance, cumftance, concerning the Bible M AGNESIA, in Turky, mifer- curious difquifition on his . MONOPOLIES, by patent, illegal tranfit of Venus, 222. MORRIS, Dr. his experiments on MOSES, his account of the creation cerning Mr. King, corrected, 41, MUS JACULUS, that animal de- Music, its great use in curing dif- N N. AZARETH, prefent ftate of 424. O. inconfiftent with Chri- preaching humorously ridiculed, fianity, abufe of difplayed, 81. by Mr. Herrort, 547. That that of a fovereign, form PAPISTS, P.. PAPISTS, compared with the Pharifees, 441. PARENTAL authority, how to be enforced, 5.45. POWNAL, Gov. Appendix to his Adminiftration of the Colonies, 65. PRAYER, free, preferred to farms, 249. The primitive mode of worship, 250. Advantages of Jet forms, ib. Inexpediency of, 251; and difadvantages, 255. PREACHING ineffectual for the reformation of mankind, 538. PRESBYTERIANISM, in what fenfe founded on popish principles,442. PRIDE, excellent declamation against, 211-214. PRINTING, art of, how firft brought PARIS, confidered as the emporium of Macedon, his charac- 222. PINNA muricata, het furprising me thod of defence against the cuttle. fish, 269... PRODIGAL fon, pathetic difcourfe on the parable of, 208. PRUSSIA, prefent king of, ftrange notion of the religion of a foyereign prince afcribed to him, 319. PULSE, enquiries concerning, 25; various fpecies of, and indications of disorders from, 26. PURVEYANCE, grievous effects of it to the fubject, 184. Q. UACKERY, various kinds of, 15. QUAIL, of Palestine, de-. fcribed, 267. Q QUAKERS, their oppofition to the doctrine of tythes exploded, gc. Their polity commended, 199. R. AKES to meet with aph; 9; fome account of, 426 Rough virtues women PLACEMEN ought not to be hire-, to the first Christians, 32. POETS, confidered as preachers, 539. Inutility of their preaching, 540. POETS, their Elifum poetically defcribed, 120. POLE, cardinal, fummary review of his character, 113. PONT DU GARDE, defcription of, 424. PONTEACH, the Indian king, fome 464. RAMA, prefent ftate of, 138. ALIVARY fecretion, its use in the animal oeconomy, 30. SCHOOL-MASTERS, importance and difficulty of their office, 306. SMITH, Dr. his difpute with Dr. 421. SMYRNA, the carnival there and the country defcribed, 130. SOLANO de Lugues, his obfervation on the pulfe, 25. SOLITUDE, her cell, poetically described, 120. STAR-CHAMBER, no precedents ought to be taken from that court in cafes of libels, 394. STATESMEN, ought to ferve their country gratis, 305. STONE, Chittick's medicine for, chemical investigation of, 415; genuine recipe for, 416. STRAWBERRY, various kinds of, a new species of discovered, 565. SUBSCRIPTIONS to the church articles and liturgy, curious remarks on, 341. T. Ought to be more liberally paid, TACITUS, too fatyrical and fe 307. SCOTTISH poetrie, curious fpecimen of, 404. SERPENTS, manner of fafcinating them in Egypt, 133. Of dreffing them for food, 134: SHAKESPEARE defcribed in the poet's Elyfium, 121, 122, 123. Abfurdity of retaining the exploded orthography, of his time, in new editions of his works, 237. SHALLOW, Simon, his fpeech, at a council in the moon, 44. SHEEP, compofitions for marking, 175. SIGNA morborum, of Duport, ex tracts from, 100. SILHOUETTE, Monfieur, his view of the policy, trade, &c. of England, 291. SILURUS CLERIAS, that remarkable fish mentioned, 268. SISENAND, the Goth, the inventor of oaths of allegiance, 548. Form of, ib. vere in his hiftory, 513. TAXES, arbitrary manner of impofing them under our ancient kings, 181. TIMBERLAKE, Lieut. his hard fate, 8. THROAT, fore, different kinds of 417; fymptoms of, ib. cures of, 418. TOLEDO, Council of, their horrid form of an oath of allegiance 548. TORTURE, abfurdity and cruelty of the laws for examining crimi. nals by that method, 394. TowNE, Mr. his (fuppofed) remarks on Dr. Lowth's letter to the Bp. of Gloucester, 362. TRAJAN, his refcript concerning the primitive Chriftians, a proof of their innocence, 36. TURKS, probable confequences, if they should ever become encouragers of literature, 263. TURNER, Robert, his means for decoying the first printer into England, 500. VAN |