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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 Levant, 127. His charac-
ter, 128; his adventure at Grand
Cairo, 136; arrives in the holy
land, 137; his account of va-
rious animals, infects, and plants
in the Levant, 265-270.
HEMLOCK, extract of, 63.
HENRIAD, of Voltaire, confider'd
as a fermon, 341.
HENRY VIII. his mistaken policy,
in order to make the crown ab.
folate, 189, 191.

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.
HOMER, prophecies difcoverable
in his hymns, 398.
HOMER, a preacher, 540.
HOMO SYLVESTRIS, defcription

of, 529.

HORSLEY, Mr. his obfervations at fea, for finding the longitude by the Moon, 226.

HUNS, fome account of that peo

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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.

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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.

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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
accounts of that animal, 271.
LITURGY. See DISSENTERS.
LOCKE, Mr. his idea of the fu-
preme power, as vested in the
people, confidered, 385, 386.
LOCUST, account of, 268.
LOWTH, Dr. his notes and remarks
on the fecond part of an epifto-
lary correspondence, 365.
M.

M

AGNESIA, in Turky, mifer-
able inns there, 131
MAN, religious and virtuous, his
character well delineated, 55.

curious difquifition on his
nature and faculties, 375.
MANDRAKES, account of, 143.*
MANNERS, of men, not reformed
by preaching, 538-546.
MARRIAGE, difadvantages attend-
ing the indiffolubility of that
rite, 263. Divorces, on fit oc-
cafions, recommended, 264.
MASKELYNE, Mr. his rules for
computing the effects of refrac-
tion and parallax, &c. 223. His
remarks on the equation of time,
226. See alfo 220.
MAYER, Mr. his account of the

.

MONOPOLIES, by patent, illegal
ufe of in former reigns, 183.
MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Wortley,
original papers of that lady's,
where lodged, 396.
MONTESQUIEU, Baron, his pro-
phecy of the destruction of the
English conftitution, 125, 201.
Letter afcribed to him on the
liberties of England, 309.
MOON, Valley of, a poem, 356.
Moors, their dominion in Spain,
490.-Books and manufcripts
relating to, 491.

tranfit of Venus, 222.
MESSIER, Monf. his table of the
places of the comet of 1764, dif-
covered at the obfervatory of
Paris, 221.
METHODISTS, their manner of

MORRIS, Dr. his experiments on
hemlock, 63.

MOSES, his account of the creation
objected to, 51. Defended, ib.
MOSHEIM, a mistake of his, con-

cerning Mr. King, corrected, 41,
MURDOCH, Dr. his method of de-
termining the moon's distance
and parallax, 220.

MUS JACULUS, that animal de-
scribed, 266.

Music, its great use in curing dif-
eafes, 515.
MYSTERIES, pagan, explication
of, 247.

N

N.

AZARETH, prefent ftate of
that place, 143.
NICE, the country of, described,

424.

O.

inconfiftent with Chri-

preaching humorously ridiculed, fianity, abufe of difplayed,

81.
MILTON, a noble and fublime

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by Mr. Herrort, 547. That
worthy divine perfecuted, 548.
OATH, form of that invented by
the Council of Toledo, 548.

that of a fovereign, form
of, recommended, 550.
OPIUM, exceffive ufe of, among
the Turks, 144-
ORANG-OUTANG, defcription of,
529.
OSSIAN, the poet, poetical picture
of, 122, 123.
OXFORD, printing how early fet
up in that city, 500.

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

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PARIS, confidered as the emporium
of vice and folly, 544.
PARLIAMENT, of England, law,
and cuftoms of, 384. Acts of,
old method of proclaiming, 388.
PENSIONS, from the government,
ought to be taxed, 304. Ratio
of such taxation, ib.
PERSECUTION, for freedom of
writing, a recent inftance of, in..into England, 499.
Swifferland, 547.
PHILLIP II of Spain, his character
at large, 524.

of Macedon, his charac-
ter compared with that of Henry
IV. of France, 554.
PHILOSOPHERS, excellent preach-
ers, 542; but infufficient for the
reformation of manners, 543.
PHYSICIANS, Confultation of, hu-
morously expofed, 468.
PIGEON, curious manner in which
the cock, affifts the hen in form-
ing her neft, 267.
PINGRE, Mr. his fupplement to his
Memoir on the Sun's Parallax,

222.

PINNA muricata, het furprising me

thod of defence against the cuttle. fish, 269...

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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-,
lings, 305.
PLINY, his teftimony with regard

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
account of, 19-21.
POTT, Mr. his cure of an hernia
cica, 62.

464.

RAMA, prefent ftate of, 138.
REASON, ufe of, in religious mat-
ters, recommended, 348.
REFORMATION of manners only
to be effected by government,
544.
REFORMATION of the established
church earnestly recommended,
329-333, 334.
RELIGION, reprefented in her na-
tive beauty, 84. That of a fo
vereign prince merely political,
319. Advantages derived to
mankind from religion, 376
RESISTANCE, fubjects right of, to
the will of the fovereign, en-

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ALIVARY fecretion, its use in the animal oeconomy, 30. SCHOOL-MASTERS, importance and difficulty of their office, 306.

SMITH, Dr. his difpute with Dr.
Kelly, 75.
SMOLLETT, Dr. his bold experi
ment on himself, by fea-bathing

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.

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