FALLOWING, of ground, advan- tages of, 257.
DALSTON, family of, in Cum- FARM, proportional one described,
berland, its pedigree, 351. DELISLE, M. his new maps of Georgia, Armenia, Babylonia, &c. 524.
DE RE RUSTICA, that publica- tion cenfured, 478. DISSENTERS, their right to a full and free toleration maintained, 190-194. DOG-FISH defcribed, 398.
FARMING affairs, 54, 162, 230, 257, 303, 378, 388, 448, 477. FEVER-FEW, fweet, its medicinal virtues, 414. FLUIDS. See BORDA. FORESIGHT. See
racters of their different tribes, 559. GOLDSMITH, Dr. remarkable in- accuracies in his life of Lord Bolingbroke, 109.
GOOCH, Mr. his account of a re- markable feparation of the scarf fkin, 213.
GOULARD, M. his doctrine in re- fpect to the faturnine applica- tions in furgery, &c. contefted, 486. GREEKS, modern, ftill refemble their ancestors in their great love of their country, 505. Inftances of, 506, feq. Their adherence alfo to the old cuftoms of their country, 513. Manners of their ladies, ib. GROUND, how to lay out, agree- able to the modern tafte in gar. dening, 346.
the Perfian poet, fpe-
cimen of his works, 427. HAMILTON, Mr. his account of a late eruption of Vesuvius, 201. HARTE, Mr. his agricultural wri- tings extolled, 239. HEAT, general effects of, enume- rated, 155 HEBERDEN, Dr. his obf. on the number of inhabitants in Ma-
deira, 139, 140. On the d f- ferent quantities of rain which appear to fall at different heights on the fame ground, 331. HEROD'S cruelty in the flaughter of the infants, critical remarks on, 296. HEWSON, Mr. his account of the lymphatic fyltem in fish, &c.
ancient, their ftrong attachment to liberty, 177. Their regulations of go- vernment, &c. ib.
JEBB, Rev. Mr. his apology for his lectures, 82.
JEWS, conformity of their customs
with thofe of the negroes, 550. ILLINOIS, their country described, Government of, 11. INFIDELITY abounds in France, 533-536.
INOCULATION, of the fmall-pox, a great cause of the late increase of inhabitants in London, &c. 15.
JOHN, King of England, his con- tefts with Philip of France, &c. 575. With his English barons, 576. With the Pope, ib.
his bad character, 577, JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel, attacks Ju- nius, 330.
JONES, William, Efq; his demon- ftration of a law of motion, in the cafe of a body deflected by two forces, tending constantly to the fame point, 135. IRON. See LANE. JURIES, trials by, the great bul- wark of the English conftitution, 124.
LANDE, M. de la, his memoir on the theory of the planet Mercu- ry, 521.
LANE, Mr. his account of the fo- lubility of iron in fimple water, by the intervention of fixed air, 323.
LAWS, in terrorem, cruelty and in- justice of, 188. LEAD, preparations of, their ufe in furgery, 485. LEGARD, Sir Digby, his account of the drill hufbandry criticifed, 480.
LEIBNITZ. See BEGUELIN. LIBERTY, ftrong attachment of the ancient inhabitants of the north of Europe to it, 177. LIEUTEAUD, his fvnopfis, propo- fals for a tranflation of, into English, 496.
LIFE, the expectation of, in re- fpect to annuities, calculated, 136. LIGATURE of the artery.
AIKIN. See BROMFIELD. LIGHTNING, methods for fecuring churches, &c. from damage by,
320. LISLE, Mr. his book of hufban-
dry animadverted on, 234. LISTER, Dr. his book of fhells improved in a new edition, 484.
MAHOMET, a quack, 531. MAINTENON, Madam, account of her theatrical exhibitions at St. Cyr, 62. MANSFIELD, Lord, free expoftu- lation with, 35. His fpirited fpeech in defence of toleration and religious liberty, 190. See more of him under CAMDEN. MANUFACTURERS, British, their diffolutenets, 14.
Locke, Mr. his philofophical wri- MANURES, lift of, 258.
tings extolled, 280. LOGIC, obf. on, 282. LONDON, calculations of the num- ber of the inhabitants, 137. Critical obf. on the public build- ings of, 280.
Louis, the Fat, rivalship between
him and Henry of England, 568. Louis, the Young, (King of
France) his contests with Henry King of England, 569. Re- flections on his character, 570. Louis, Prince, fon to Philip, King of France, his expedition to England, and defign upon the
MATTHEW, St, authenticity of the ift and 2d chapters of his gof- pel, difputed, 293. MAYER, Profeffor, his tables of the moon's motions, &c. pub. lifhed here by authority, 214, 284-290. MERIAN, M. his enquiry into the
comparative duration and inten- fity of pleasure and pain, 547- MILTON, his political writings extolled, 335. MONADES, of Leibnitz, curious
account of the nature of, 445. MONKEY, a fingular one defcribed, 207.
MONTESPAN, Mad. de, curious
ftory of her parting from Louis XIV. 61.
MOOR-PARK defcribed, 346.
MORTAR, recipe for making it OCTAVIUS, Cæfar, his cha-
impenetrable, 479.
MOTION, a particular law of, de- monftrated. See JONES. MOULT, Mr. his method of pre- paring Salep from the root of the orchis, 205. MOUNIER, M. le, his new method of afcertaining the quantity of the horizontal refraction, 523. MOUNTAINS, produced by vol- canos, 201.
Music, ingenious enquiry into the theory of, 551.
ABI EFFENDI, a Turkish poet, his fenfible obf. on poetry, 429. His excellent verfes on the fpring, 430. NARSETES, the famous eunuch and warrior, his rife at court, and progrefs in the armies of the Emperor Juftinian, 103. NEEDHAM, Mr. his curious fyf- tem relating to microscopical animalcules in vegetable and animal infufions, 208. HIS conjectures on a fuppofed con- nection between the hierogly- phical writing of ancient Egyp- tians, and the characteristic wri- ting of the Chinese, 318. NEGROES, their customs compared
with thefe of the Jews, 550. NEWTON, his phyfical principles reconciled with the metaphyfics of Leibnitz, 545.. NOLLET, Abbé, his account of fome new hydrostatical pheno- mena, 518.
NUMA, his quackery applauded, 531.
charge of cowardice, 8. See more of him under AUGUSTUS. ODE, Perfian, tranflated, 427. OIL, made from American ground- nuts, fome account of, 206.
from beech-maft, 537.
OPTICS, curious memoir on, by M. L. Euler, 541.
ORCHIS, how to prepare for falep,
AIN and pleasure compared, with respect to their different intenfities, &c. 548.
PAINTING, ftudents in, directions to, with regard to the imitation of the ancients, 377. PAPER, a natural fort, found at Cortona, 206.
PARABLES, the mode of inftruc- tion by, confidered, 440. PENAL laws, ftrictures on the fe- verity of those which affect the lives of criminals, 85. Princi- ples of, investigated, 444. PERSIAN ode, 427. PERSIANS, modern, fome account of their manners, by a late tra- veller, 159.
PHILIP I. King of France, his bickerings with England, 567.
II. his contefts with the King of England, 570. PHILOSOPHER, dialogue between one and a Whig, 39.
PHILOSOPHER, character of a real RASPE, Mr. his differtation on the
philofopher, 584. PHYSICIANS, chiefly abound in great cities, and why, 530. PINS, extraordinary cafe of three fwallowed by a girl, and dil- charged at her fhoulder, 211. PLANTS, elementary nourishment of, 256.
PLEASURE compared with pain, in respect of duration and inten- fity, 547.
PLUTARCH, his character as a phi- lofopher, 2. His amiable be-
ponevolencer, not deftitute of the vehetable prepare, from
POMPEY, his chara&er, 7. Ex- SARUM, Old, fome account of,
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