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XLVIII. Letters from Dr. Johnson and Dr. Adams
XLIX. Letters to and from Dr. Johnson on Suicide
L. Letters from Addison to Lord Wharton
LI. The Rev. Mr. Hearne, Rector of the United Pa-
rishes of St. Alphage, and St. Mary North-
gate, Canterbury, to the Rev. George Horne,
Dean of Canterbury
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LII. Dr. Timothy Neve to the Rev. Littleton Brown,
at Bishop's Castle, Shropshire
LIII. Letters from Mr. Howard
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LIV. Sir Dudley Carlton to Mr. Winwood
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LV. The Earl of Buchan's Address to his learned
LVI. Letters from Sir Richard Steele to his second Lady,
(Mrs. Mary Scurlocke,) before Marriage
127
LVII. Letters from Ephraim Chambers
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LVIII. Letters from Dr. Young to Mr. Williams
LIX. Letters from Mr. Pope and the Earl of Oxford
LX. Letters from Zachary Williams, on the Longitude,
some of them corrected, and others written,
by Dr. Samuel Johnson
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LXI. Letters from Cowley and Dryden to Dr. Busby
LXII. Extracts of Letters from Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr.
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Watkins
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LXIII. Letters- from Richard Savage, a few weeks before
his death
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LXIV. Thomas Hearne to Lord Harley, on the Alexan-
drian MS. of the New Testament
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LXV. David Hume to Sir John Pringle, M.D. on the Pre-
159
LXVI. The Rev. Dr. Free to Archbishop Moore
162
tender's being in London in 1753
LXVII. The Rev. S. Pegge to the Rev. Charles Hope,
Minister of All Saints, Derby, relative to the
subscription for the reparation, &c. of the
Cathedral Church of Lichfield
LXVIII. Letters from Mr. Henderson to Dr. Priestley
LXIX. From Dr. Johnson
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LXX. Bishop Newton to a Gentleman at Lichfield
LXXI. Dr. Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyn, Esq.
LXXII. Bishop Sherlock to Dr. R. Grey
LXXIII. From General Wolfe
LXXIV. Dr. Kennicott to Mr. Daddo
179
LXXV. From Bp. Horne, a Letter of Consolation
LXXVI. From Dean Stanhope, containing advice to a
Young Clergyman
LXXVII. Bp. Horne to a Young Clergyman
LXXVIII. From Bp. Horne
LXXIX. Col. Stedman to his Son
LXXX. Letters from Charles II. and Lord Lauder-
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dale to the Earl of Northesk, reiative to
the Marriage of Lord Northesk's Daughter
LXXXL From Dr. Johnson on the Death of his Wife
LXXXII. Dr. Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Buchan
LXXXIII. Dr. Doddridge to Bishop Hildesley
LXXXIV. Letters from Doctors Hildesley, Hales, Leland,
and Mr. Samuel Richardson
LXXXV. Dean Swift to Mr. Windar
LXXXVI. Dean Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of
Canterbury, to Mr. Nicholas Hunt, of that
City, while labouring under a Cancer, of
which he died, A.D. 1687
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LXXXVII. Lewis Morris, Esq. to his Brother William
Morris, Comptroller of the Customs, Holy-
head, on Mine-knockers
LXXXVIII. Dr. Young to the Rev. Thomas Newcombe
LXXXIX. From John Locke
XC. From John Evelyn, on the Culture and Im-
provement of the English Tongue
XCI. From the Rev. Thomas Seward
XCII. Letter written at Paris by Dr. Benjamin Frank-
lin. Communicated by the Gentleman who
received it
XCIII. Letters from the Earl of Orford to Governor
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Pownal
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XCIV. Letters from Bishops Hoadly and Butler, and
the Duchess of Marlborough, to Sir Robert
Walpole
XCV. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales to Nathaniel Booth,
Esq. afterwards Lord Delamer
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I. ACCOUNT of the premature genius and learning of
Barretier
II. Method of staining Marble
III. An invention in Architecture, communicated by a
person of distinction in Switzerland to an Italian
Merchant
249
IV. Wonderful memory of William Lyon
250
V. Method of increasing the Solidity, Strength, and
IX. Account of Robert Hill, the learned tailor of
X. Account of Henry Wild, the learned tailor of Nor-
wich. -
XI. Account of John Ludwig, a Saxon Peasant
XII. Secret of the Fire-eating Art
XIII Experiments for preserving Water sweet.
XVII. Dr. Hales's method of obtaining fresh Sea-water
XVIII. Experiments for sweetening ill-tasted Milk and
stinking Water by Ventilation, &c. by Dr.
Hales
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283
285
287
XIX. Anecdote of the late Duke of Montague
288
XX. Toads found in Stones
290
XXI, The effect of Musk in curing the Gout in the
Stomach, by Mr. James Pringle, late Surgeon
XXIII. History of Frauds and Cheating, by Mr. Jus-
tice Fielding
294
300
XXIV. Method to prevent Water-pipes from freezing
XXV. Chinese manner of laying out Gardens. By Mr.
Chambers, Architect, Member of the Impe-
rial Academy of Arts at Florence
XXVI. A genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the
Persons who were confined in the Prison
called the Black Hole, in Fort William, at
Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, after
the surrender of that Place to the Indians,
304
in June, 1756, from a letter of I. Z. Holwell,
Esq. to William Davis, Esq.
309
XXVII. Account of threatening Letters sent to the
Duke of Marlborough, and a Prosecution
which his Grace carried on against William
Barnard, supposing him to have written them
XXVIII. On the unlikeness of Shakespeare's Busts
XXIX. Contrivance for Muscular Exercise
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