PRECEDENTS, in law and parliamen

ADOLET, his great character, 533.

tary proceedings, their utility canvafied; SAP LAMMONIAC. See SOLFATA-

461.
PRESTLEY, Dr. his remarks on Dr.
Blackstone, relating to the Diffenters,
298.
PROPHECIES, the gradual and fucceffive
fulfilment of, pleaded in evidence for
Christianity, 269–271.

PULSATION of the arteries, caufe of,
518.
PUNCTUATION, in writing, obfervations
on, 55. Of a paffage in Shakespeare's
Macbeth, corrected, 143. Of a paffage
in King Lear, ib.

PUNISHMENTS, future, nature and de-
fign of, inveftigated, 99.

fended again the objections of Dr.
Langhorne, 488.

RICH, Mr. pleasant queftion put by him
to a ceftain play-wright, 487.
ROMANS, their generofity, in their civil
wars, remarkable inftance of, 3c8.
Acquainted with the horse-hoeing me-
thod of bulbandry, 351.

Its

ROME, in its infant flate, a neft of
rabble, 186. Its unhealthy fituation,
413. Several of the grand monuments
of antiquity there, defcribed, ib.
wonderful common fervers, 416. Cha-
racter of the modern inhabitants, 417.
Magnificent cavalcades of the pope, de-
fcribed, 418.

ROUNDHEADS, occafion of that name
being given to the fanatics, 215.
RUHNKENIUS, his recommendation of
Grou's French tranflation of Plato's
book of laws,. 541.

RURAL Life, happiness of, defcribed, 75.
RUSSIA, ftate of population in, 432.
Various caufes affigned for the decrease
of its inhabitants, ib. Eftimate of its
military force, 433- Charader of the
foldiery, 434. Naval force, 454. Ca-
ravan trade with China, 456.
RUSSIANS, their peculiar advantages as
a warlike people, 458. Their natural
advantage over the Turks, 459.

RA.

SALT-PETRE, pretended to be made
from earth, curious ftory of, $56.
SAPPHO, her hymn to Venus, tranflated,

429.

SCHOMBERG, Dr. his remarkable plagia.
rism, 230.

SCOTLAND, remarks on the climate of,
and ftate of agriculture there, 346.
SEARCH, Mr. his fanciful fyftem of our
existence in another ftate, 245. His
fcenical reprefentation of, 247. See
alfo SPIRIT and SouL.

curious account of the family
of the Search's, 248.
SECKER, Archb. his arguments in fa-
vour of epifcopifing the colonies, 220.
SEDENTARY life, fatal to health, 250—
255. How to remedy, 256.
SENTIMENTAL, that word pronounced
to be a barbarifm, 390.
SHAKESPEARE, apology for the faults in
his writings, 131. His merit, how to
be cftimated, 132. Parallel between
him and Corneille, 136. His preter-
natural Beings formed agreeably to the
prevailing fuperftitions of his time,
139. Garrick's ode in honour of this
bard, 235

SHELLS, various kinds of, found in flone
quarries, where they are not fuppofed
to have been originally depofited by the
fea, 555.

SHOES, ftrange fashion of, in the reign of
Richard II, 210: Law made to limit
the enormous length of their peaks,
ib.
SHREWSBURY, Duchefs, her criminal
amour with Buckingham, 304. Re-
Rections on, 307.

SIBERIA, the elevation of the foil of,
above the level of the fea, lefs than
hath been fuppofed, 438. Obferva
tions on the mines of that country,
ib.

SINICAGLIA, defcription of the fair
there, 333
SLAVERY,
land, 31.
SMALL-POX, ftate of inoculation for, in

how far tolerated in Eng-

France, from 1758 to 1765, 516. Ob-
jections to this practice antwered, 517%
SMOLLETT, Dr. his hiftory of England
cenfured, 535:

SOLFATARA, obfervations on the falt of,
affirmed by the natives to be fal-ammio-
1:40, 510.

SOUL,

SOUL, free enquiry into its existence,

124. Fanciful hypothefis relating to
its exiftence in a future ftate, 245.
SOWING of corn, remarks on, and direc-
tions for, 349.

SPINELLO, the painter, frighted out of
his fenfes by one of his own pictures,
253.
SPIRIT, or mind, its properties invefti-
gated, 118. Its individuality and dif-
tinct existence maintained, 119. See
more, under SOUL.

SPRING, the effect produced by a fine.
morning in, poetically defcribed in
French verfe, 500. The fame in Eng-
lish, 501.

STERNE, Laurence, his humorous hif-
tory of a watch-coat, fome account of,
486.

STUDY, ill effects of too much applica-

tion to, 250-255. How to remedy,
256.

SWIFT, his Tale of a Tub, borrowed from
the fable of the Three Rings, 551. Mis-
understood by Voltaire, ib.
SUBSTANCE, metaphyfical enquiry con-
cerning, 113. Of compound sub-
ftances, 115.

SUN, not the fole caufe of the difference
of heat and cold, in fummer and win-
ter, 504.

T

T

Asso and ARIOSTO, their poetical
machinery vindicated, 142.
THEOCRITUS, remarks on his paftorals
498.

THOMSON, his Seafons, curfory remarks
on, 497.

TIGER and the Sheep, fable of, 551.
TOLERATION, ecclefiaftical, fentiments

of a French Roman-catholic on that
fubject, 524.

TRANSMUTATION of earth into falt-

petre, curious ftory of, 556.
TUMOUR, cafe of an uncommon one,
399.

TURNER, Mrs. contributes to drive the
ladies ruffs out of fashion, by being
hanged in one, 212.

VASES, Etrufcan, &c. curious collection
of defigns from, 566.
VEILLARD, M. his extrordinary cafe of
an aneurifm, 514.

VENICE, ftate of religion there, 334.
Manuer of worship obferved by the
Greeks there, 335. Bad prefervation
of the paintings of great matters in the
public buildings at Venice, 336.
VIRGIL, his tomb, defcribed, 423.
VOLTAIRE, his character of Montef
quieu's Efprit de Loix, 213. Enume-
rates the errors of that work, ib. His
enquiry into the existence of the foul,
124. Denies the reality of laws of
war, 127. His criticifms on Shake-
fpeare refuted, 130, 141. His remark
on the different poetical merits of Dry-
den and Pope, 378.
His abuse of

Warburton, 549. His farcasms on the
Jews, 550. His mistake about Swift's
Tale of a Tub, 551. His Pirrhonism
of Hiftory, 552. His account of Pc-
tronius, ib. Of the fingularities of na-
ture, 554. His flory of a German
chemift, 556. His controverfy with
the Jews, 562.

WAX

W

AxE, Archbishop, vindication of
his correfpondence with the doc-
tors of the Sorbonne, 163.

WALPOLE, Lord, writes to Bishop Sec-
ker, against the scheme of fending bi-
fhops to America, 220.

WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his expulfion
from the House of Commons canvafled,
461.

WAK, LAWS OF, their exiflence denied,
127.

WATER, how to fweeten by ventila-
lation, 229.

WELCH, language, its affinity with the

Greek, 191. Its connection with
other languages confidered, ib. Study
of recommended, 193.
WILKES, Mr. a member of the Elcuf-
nian Society at Mednam abbey, 374.
His character of Mr. Pitt, 375. His
defence of Churchill's attack on Mr.
Pope, 378. His account of his quar-
rei with Hogarth, 38. His apology
for his perfon, 381.

WINDS, their infalutary effects on the
air, 352. In what re'pect faid to be
inftrumental in fpreading peftilential
disorders, 354.

WOLSEY, Cardinal, his extraordinary
character, 10. His vaft ambition,

WOMEN,