P. 144, 1. penult. for modes, read mode.
209, 1. 8, for ftill the unforced, read the fill unforced, &c. 221, par. 2, 1. 13, 14, for than the prefent; read than the time prefent.
238, Art, 36, 1. 1. for remonstrance read remontrance.
- 352, par 4, 1. 2. for contrivance of economy or the animal creation, read contrivance or economy of the animal creation. 377. par. 2, l. 11, for but too seldom, read but seldom. 393, Art. 24, 1. 3, for recites in a plaintive yet shandyan kind of drollery, read in a plaintive fiyle, yet in a shandyan kind of drollery.
479, In the account of Gordon's arithmetic, 1. ult. for with us they usually fet to learn, read with us they are usually set to learn.
DÚCIS, M. of Voltaire, DUKE, his poetry briefly charac-
terifed, 189. DUMONT's inquiry into the admi- nistration of lands among the Romans, 219.
EARTH, new theory of the for-
mation of, EDWARD (William) extraordi- nary bridge built by him, 11. ELECTRICITY, experiments to fhew the advantage of pointed conductors, 401. The con- trary opinion maintained, 402. Decifion in favour of the Frank- linian conftruction, 406. Va- rious experiments on the Ley.. den phial, &c. 407. ELECTRICAL Conductors, the fu- periority of thofe that are ele- vated and pointed, proved by experim. made in France, 490. ELEPHANTS, bones of and of
other huge Southern animals, found in Siberia, 536554. ELOGE de Milord Marechal. See, D'ALEMBERT,
EPOCHAS Of Nature,› Buffon's ac-
count of, 531. ERSTE Grundlehren des ietzigen Europæifchen Voelker rechts,
&c. 57. ESSAI fur l'Hiftoire de la Maison d'Autriche, 52
fur la Jurifprudence Univer- felle. See IACOB.
fur l'Hiftoire des tribunaux, &c. See DES ESSARTS. ESTABLISHMENTS, religious, de- fended, 324. EVANGELISTS, critical account of the latitude with which they use certain forms of expreffion, 264. EVENING, fonnet or, 75, EURIPIDES, his dramatic compo-
fitions characterized, 511. EXPERIMENTING in agriculture, recommended, 128. Forms for recording the farmer's experi- ments, 246. EZOUR Vedam tranflated, 500. EZRA, his reformation of the Jew-
ith religion, 102. count of his preaching, 103. FARMING. See AGRICULTURE. FAULKNER, George, his ac- count of Sacheverel, 358. FEMALE Conduct, rules and obfer- vations relative to, 45. FENTON, Elijah, his fanciful idea of the periods of intellectual growth and decay, 9. FEUTRY, M. his Opufcula, 56. FLINT-GLASS, inquiry into the compolition of, and the means of giving it an higher degree of perfection, 496. FOUCHER, Abbé, his Supplement to his treatife on the Religion of the ancient Perfians, 529. FRIENDSHIP, the temple of, de- fcribed, 109,
GALLOWAY, Mr. account of him, and his evidence respect- ing American affairs, 71. GARRAULT's account of the filver mine at Chitty in Nivernois, 1e- published, 221. GENEALOGIES of Matthew and
Luke's Gofpels harmonized, 263. GENERAL of an army, qualifica- tions of a complete one, 202. GENEVA, catalogue of the library there, 543.
GENIUS diftinguished from bright parts, 202. GEORGICAL Society, plan for a
GOBET's ancient mineralogifts of France, 221.
GOSPELS, Harmonies of, their uti liy, 259
GOUT, fuccefsfully treated by blif- tering, 206.
GREEKS, ancient, their poetry philofophically invefligated,510. Farther accounts of, 523. GRIFFITH, John, his ridiculous fanaticiim, 372.
GUTHRIE, Dr. his account of the means by which the Ruffians are preferved from the fcurvy, 279,
JEFFERYS, Judge, anecdote rela
ILIAD and Odyffey ftrangely fymbolized, 483. The Heroes and Deities of, faid to be allegori cal beings, ib.
INDIANS, Creek, noble speech of, at a congrefs held at CharlesTown, 449.
Oriental, curious ac
count of their facred books, and different fects of Brahmins, &c.
500% INGENHOUSZ, Dr. his method of procuring inflammable air from vitriolic æther, 170. His invention for lighting a candle by electricity, 407. His experiments to fhew how far the phenomena of the Electrophorus may be accounted for by Dr. Frank, lin's theory of positive and negative electricity, 408. INSURANCE, mercantile, plan recommended for inftituting a court of merchants, &c. for de
riments, 41C. HERETIC, St. Paul's meaning with refpect to, 123. HERODOTUS, a reformer of ancient hiftory, 523. Compared with Homer, 524. HERVEY, Mr. unites the flowers. of poetry with the thistles. af theology, 95. HIGGINS, Bryant, on the ufe of..
an amalgam of zinc, in electri-..termining difficult cafes in, 423.
cal excitation, 407. HIPPONE, city of. See L BLOND. HISTOIRE naturelle, &c. du Tonquin, &c. 54.
critique des opinions des
naturelle du Tuffilage,
&c. 306. HISTORY of the German empire,
HOLLAR, his view of St. James's,
&c. from the village of Charing,
HOMER, whimfical hypothefis re- lative to, 483. A fabulous being, ib. His writings fymbo- lized, ib.
HUME, David, his literary fame ungenerously attacked by Lord Monboddo, 195. Extracts from his Dialogues on natural Reli- gion, 343. Cenfure of that work, 354. Асов On
JOHN, the footman, his conference with Mr. Clement, on reLigion, 99...:
-, St. his first Epiftle ad Spartos. meaning of, 546. KEMPFER's history of Japan,
new edition of, from the Author's original MS. 145. KEATE, Mr. account of his va
rious writings, 117. KEITH, George, Lord Marshal of Scotland, his eulogy, 300. LABYRINTH, the famous one at Lemnos, no traces of now re maining, 484.
LA SERKE, his history of the entry of Mary de Medicis into England, 12.
LASSONE, M. De, his new obser
vations on the analyfis of cryf tals of verdegris and fait of lead, &c. 495. On fome new phe nomena produced by different faline mixtures, 496.
univerfal jarifpru LEAR, King, and his three Daughters, an old play, on which Shakespeare
Shakespeare founded his tragedy on the fame fubject, extract from, 296.
LE BEAU, M. his memoirs rela- ting to the Roman legion, 528. LE BLOND, Abbé, his account of two Imperial medals of the city of Hippone, 528.
LE BRUN, remarks on his man- ner of painting, with respect to the difpofition of light and fhade, 19.
LEIPSIC, academical differtation concerning the literature of, 60. LEITH, Sir Alexander, his trial for felony, 393.
LEMNOS, ifle of. See VOLCANO.
See LABYRINTH.
LEO X. Pope, more worthy of a
crown than a mitre, 522. LE ROY, M. his memoir on the form of elect. conductors, 491. LETTER, Curious one from a Scotch warrior, 16.
LETTRES d'un voyageur Anglois, 462.
LESLIE, Sir John, his extraordi- nary epiftle to Sir Thomas Rid- dle, 16.
LIBERTY, religious, fpirited re- marks on, 101. LIGHT, its effects on water, evin- ced by experiments, 168, LIVER, obf. on the fituation of, in its natural ftate, 491. The growth of, not proportionable to the other parts of the body, 492. Changes its fituation in different attitudes, ib. LOBSCHRIFT auf Winkelman, 223. LONDON (Old) views of, in cu.
rious ancient drawings, 13. LowTH, Bishop, poetical compli- ment to, 334. LULLIN, Amadeus, fome account of that eminent divine, 545. LYCOPHRON the poet characteri- zed, 513. MACBRIDE, Dr. remarks by, on
the efficacy of wort, as a re- medy for the fcurvy, 276. MAGI, their vifit to the Holy Fa mily, critical account of, 263.
MACQUER, M. his inquiries con cerning the compofition of flint- glafs, 496.
MAGNET. See MONNIER. MAHOMET, curious Latin poèm in honour of, 547• MANSFIELD, Lord, his opinions with respect to the power of the crown over conquered countries difcuffed, 177-179. MANUSCRIPTS, general account of those in the library of Gene- va, 543. MARTANO, Dr. his obfervations on the fcurvy, 412. MASERES, Baron, his arguments in oppofition to Lord Mansfield's opinion relative to the power of the crown in Canada, 172-180. MEASURES and Weights. See SCOTLAND.
MEDALS of Hippone, 528. MEMOIRES Hiftoriques et Geo- graph. fur la Valachia, &c. 304. MEMOIRS, aftronomical, by feve ral members of the French aca- demy, 497-498.
MERIAN, M. his differtation on the influence of the fciences on
poetry, 509. MEYER, M. his letters concern- ing Ruffia, 58. MICHAELIS, Dr. bis account of the angyna polypofa, 222. MILTON, particulars of his life,
His education, 82, Com- mences teacher of the claffics, &c. 83. His political charac- ter, 86. His poetry, 87. His religion, 89. Critical remarks on his poems, 90 MIND, Lord Monboddo's ftrange hypothefis relating to, 192. MINES, accounts of thofe in France,
MONBODDO, Lord, his fingular
hypothefis of mind, 192. His unhandsome attack of the lite-
rary fame of David Hume, 195. His account of the Jumping Ague. 197. His extravagant admiration of Ariftotle and an cient metaphyfics, 198. MONNET'S
MONNET's System of Mineralogy, OTHMAN Lillus Anconitanus, hi
MONNIER, M. his memoir on the variations of the magnet, 489. On horizontal refractions at fun- fetting, 497. On Saturn's Ring, 498. On the variations in the obliquity of the ecliptic, ib. MOREAU'S moral political dif courfes on the government of France, 214 MOSER'S principles of the law of nations, 57.
MOSQUITO thore, country and in-
habitants of, defcribed, 473. MOUNTAINS, new theory of the original formation of, 550. MUSGRAVE, Dr. his argument in favour of Mr. Wilfon's electrical experiments, and blunt conduc- tors, 402.
NAIRNE, Mr. his electrical ex- periments, 401.
NATURE, wonderful changes of, in the earliest ages of the world, 532. NATURAL caufes, their influence on the mind of man, 508. NAVIGATION, feveral important obfervations relative to, by Meff. De Borda, Pingre, and De Ver- dun, 498. NAVIGATIONS, inland. See CA-
NECKER, M. De, his natural hif- tory of the Tuffilago and Peta- vites, 306.
NETLEY abbey, defcript. of, 14. NICANDER, the poet characterised, 513.
Nouvelles Obf fur l'Angleterre. Sce COYER.
- recherches fur la fcience des Medailles, &c. See SIVRY. NOUVEAU Syfteme de Mineralo- gie. See MONNET. ORGANS, ufe of, in churches,
when first introduced in this country, 399, 480. ORIENTAL legiflation lefs defpotic
than is generally fuppofed, 553. ORIGINALS, literary, rare pro- ductions, 117. The Seafons of Thomfor, an original, 118.
remarkable epic poem in prai of Mahomet, and his great ex ploits, 547-
OTWAY, his poetry cenfured, 189. PAROS, ifle of, defcribed, 481. Antiquities there, ib. PASCAL, Blaife, his great charac ter for wit and learning, 505 Account of a complete edition of his writings, 507.. PERLIN, Stephen, his ftrange account of the English, 12. PERNETY, Dom. his memoir concerning the influence of na- tural caufes in the mind of man, 508. PERSECUTION, religious, account of a late inftance of, in Ireland, 443.
PERSIANS, ancient, remarks on their religion, 529.
PHILIPPA, Queen, her oratorical address to King Edward, in fa- vour of the burghers of Ca- lais. 438.
PHILOSOPHERS, of ancient Greece, their great contempt for poetry, 512. PHILOSOPHY, natural, experi ments relating to, 162. PHILOSOPHICAL
investigations, how to be conducted, 559. PHILOXENUS, Bifhop, his Syriac verfion of the gospels, 36. PIGEONS, numerous catalogue of the forts, 66.
PILEUR d'Apligny, M. le, his treatife on colours and colour- ing, 55.
PLATO's Io, an excellent French tranflation of, 528.
PLANTS, experiments on, relative to the properties of the air, 165. POETRY, facred, why generally anfuccessful, 8.
Of the ancient Greeks, the repofitory of their wisdom and philofophy, 509. Their only means of recording history, 523. Its abufe of hiftory, ib. POETS, metaphyfical, an account of, 2.
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