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EARTH, poffefed of internal heat,

independent of the fun, 504.
ELIZABETH, Queen, various fashions
of dress in her reign, 211. Her im-
menfe wardrobe, ib.
ESTABLISHMENTS, ecclefiaftical, argu-
ments against, 368–370.
EXCOMMUNICATION, as practifed in
Roman-catholic countries, confidered
by a member of that church, 523. Ought
not to be attended by civil effects, ib.
EXERCISE, bodily, an excellent remedy
for the gout, 169. Of the mind, bad
effects of too much of it, 251. Of the
body, earnestly recommended to literary
and fedentary perfons, 250-256.
What kinds of, moft fuitable to men
of letters, 257.

EXPULSION of members from the House
of Commons, deemed illegal, and in-
compatible with the conftitution, 397.
The abolition of that power recom-
mended, 464.

FAL

F

ALSTAFF, his character defined,
137. His birth poetically defcrib.
ed, 236.
FARMERS, apology for them, in regard
to the charge of obftinacy, 343. Al-
lowance to be made for the difference
between their ideas and thofe of gentle-
men who turn their thoughts to agri-
culture, 344.

ARTHINGAL, whence derived, 216.
FEVER, miliary, Dr. Johnfon's account
of, 144. Method of cure, 146. Apho-
rifms relative to, 173.
FONTENELLE, M. bis kind regard for
M. Marivaux, 549.
FOUGEROUX, M. his obfervations made
at Solfatara, 510. On a burning coal-
mine, 512.

FRANCIS I. contes the imperial diadem
with Charles V, 8. Seeks the friend-
fhip of Henry VIII, of England, 10.
Grand interview between these two
princes, 11. Defeated by Charles, and
taken prifoner, 85. Regains his 1 ber-
ty, 88. His death, 89. His great cha-
racter, 90.

FREDERIC, Duke of Saxony, his great
character, 8.

FRENCH, utter flaves to forms and cuf-
toms, 451. Equally attached to plea.
fure and business, 45%. Great fol-
lowers of fashion, 453.

FRIENDSHIP, poetical apoftrophe to
58.

G

Gcommunication, 52, Of Tolc-

AILLARD, M. his opinion of ex-

ration, 524. Of Luther's conduct in
the reformation, and how far of advan-
tage to the church of Rome, 527-529.
GENEVA, remarks on the religion and
churches there, 329.

GIRLE, Mr. the first who undertook the
cure of a fractured limb in a flexed po-
fition, 400.
GOMERCINI, Madam, her remarkable
cafe and cure, by the extract of Saturn,
312.

GOODALL, Mr. author of an introduc-
tion to the hiftory of Scoland, 301.
GOUT, new theory of the causes of, 168.
Method of cure, 16). Exercite the
chief remedy, ib.

GRAMMONT and Hamilton, ftory of,
306. Not a fiction, 488.
GRIFFITH, Mr. and Mrs. joint nova-
writers, 232.

H

H

AIR, various modes of dreffing, in
the two laft centur es, 213-215.
HAM, the fon of Noah, remarkable ope-
ration of the curfe denounced against
him and his family, 270.
HAMILTON, Lady. See GRAMMONT

the Hon. William, his cu-
rious collection of Etrufcan, Greek, and
Roman antiquities, 567.
HANNIBAL, reality of his diffolving the
rocks on the Alps with vinegar, al-
fested, 554.

HANSEATIC league, origin and progrefs
of, 180. Decline of, 182.
HEAT, proved to be inherent in the
earth, independent of the fun, 503.
HENRY VIII. afcends the throne of Eng-
land with peculiar advantages, q.
Courted by Francis I. and Charles V.
ib. His character, 10. His grand in-
terview with Franc s, 12.

HOFKENS de Courcelles, his account of the
ute of Ol. Afpbali in ulcers of the in-
teftines, &c. 228.

HOGARTH, Mr. fory of his contes
with Wilkes, 380.

Hons, improved me hods of rearing and
feeding, 70.

HOOPING COUGH, method of curing,

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MACLAINE, Dr. his account, and de-
fence of, Archbishop Wake's corre-
fpondence with the doctors of the Sor-
bonne, 163. Answered, 165.

MAD DOG, bite of, cured by fea-falt,
313.

MAIRAN, M. de, his enquiry into the

general cause of heat in fummer, and
cold in winter, 503.

MALACCA, the laws and cuftoms of,
fimilar to thofe of the ancient inhabi-
tants of Europe, 260. Curious parti-
culars of, 261.

MANSFIELD, Countefs, remarkable fto-
ry of, 182.

MARIVAUX, M. his birth and educa-
tion, 543. Writes for the ftage, 544.
His novels, 545. His French Specta-
tor, ib. His family connections, 446.
His extraordinary benevolence and lazi-
nefs, 547. His death, 549.
MARRIAGES, clandeftine, confidered,
36. Palliated, 37. Not detrimental
to the public, 38.

MARTINELLI, Signior, fatirized, 18.
MATTER, its infinite divifibility contra-
verted, 116.
MEDICINE, of all profeffions, should not
be fufpected of leading to impiety, 407.
Incompleat manner of teaching this
fcience in the universities, 410.
'MEDMENHAM ABBEY, fome account
of, 374. Levities lately practifed there,
under the name of Eleufinian myfteries,
ib.
MICHAELIS, Dr. his fupplement to
Bochart, 537.

MILTON, celebrated by Mr. Gray, as the
friend of freedom, 159.

MIND, its faculties diftinguished, 22. Its

ideas philofophically inveftigated, 24.
Its motives to action confidered, 28.
Paffions and habits of, 28. Enquiry
into the conflitution of the mind, 113.
Mode of exiftence, 117. The fame

with

with what we call fpirit, 118. Influ.
ence of the mind on the body, 250.
Bad effects of immoderate application
of to ftudy, 251. To other employ-
ments, 254. Due relaxation of, re-
commended in fuch cafes, 256.
MONKS, their usefulness to fociety in the
7th and 8th centuries, 531. Their li-
terary merit, ib.
Music, its correfpondence with poetry,
321. The manner in which it acts on
the paffions, 322. Laws of, univerfal
in their influence, 325. Sentimental
intercourse between the fifter arts, 326.

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PAOLI, his greatness of mind, 254. Bafe
ly attacked in the English news-papers.
&c. 481.

PARIS, character of the citizens and fhop-
keepers there, 453.
PARLIAMENT, diffolution of, not an ada
vifeable measure at this juncture, 466.
PASCAL, M. injures his brain by too
intense application to fludy, 253.
PASSIONS, their medical ufes pointed
out, 358.

PASTORAL poetry, obfervations on, 496
-498. At what era in the annals of
mankind fuppofed to have been first
written, 499.

PAVIA, battle of, defcribed, 85. One of
the most fatal that ever happened to
France, 86.

PEASANTRY, remarkable inftance of the
extreme poverty and mifery of, in Ger-
many, 182.

PERUKES, enormous fashions of, in for-
mer days, 214.

PETIT, M. his obfervations on an aneu-
rifm attended with fome very fingular
circumstances, 513.

PETRIFACTIONS, Voltaire's remarks
on, 555.

PETRONIUS, the author of the fatires,
his identity afcertained, 552. A filthy
writer, 553.

PHYSICIAN, moral qualities requifite in
his character, 403. The faculty vin-
dicated from the charge of irreligion,
405, 411.

PIRRHONISM of hiftory, Voltaire's re-
marks on, 552.

PITT, Lord Chatham, his character and
political conduct, 375. His oratorical
abilities contemned, 376.

PLATO, his book of laws a more folid
performance than his republic, &c. 541-
Tranflation of into French, ib.
PLOUGHING, obfervations on, and direc-
tions for, 347.

POETRY, its correspondence with music,
321. Combines eloquence with it,
322. Farther curious obfervations on
this fubject, 327, feq.
POIVRE, M. le, his philofophical tra-
vels, 258.

PONTHIAMAS. See CANCAR.

POPE, Clement VIIth, droll flory of three
ladies who applied to him for flefbly in-
dulgence on faft days, 522.
POPE, Mr. original letters of his, fup-
pofed to Mrs. M. Blount, 62. His trait
of Mrs. Howard, 64. His private cha-
rafter attacked by Churchill, 377. Said
not to have understood his own reafon-
ing, in the Effay on Man, 379.

POSSESSO,

Possesso, or grand cavalcade of the pope

defcribed, 418.

PRECEDENTS, in law and parliamen-

S

tary proceedings, their utility canvaffed, SADOLET, his great character, 5326

461.
PRESTLEY, Dr. his remarks on Dr.

Blackflone, relating to the Diffenters,
298.
PROPHECIES, the gradual and fucceffive
fulfilment of, pleaded in evidence for
Chriflianity, 269-271..
PULSATION of the arteries, cause of,
518.

PUNCTUATION, in writing, obfervations
on, 55. Of a paflage in Shakespeare's
Macbeth, corrected, 143. Of a patsage
in King Lear, ib.

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

RE

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EFORMERS, from popery, vindicat-
ed from the charge of fanaticifm,
against HUME, 162. Apology for the
warmth of their zeal, ib.
RELIGION, not within the province of
the civil magiftrate, 366.
RE-PRODUCTION of animals, curious
account of, 483. Voltaire's remarks
on, 554.

REVIEWERS, apology for their fevere
treatment of an author, 291. De-
fended against the objections of Dr.
Langhorne, 488.

RICH, Mr. pleafant question put by him
to a certain play-wright, 487.
ROMANS, their generofity, in their civil
wars, remarkable inftance of, 3c8.
Acquainted with the horfe-hoeing me-
thod of husbandry, 351.
ROME, in its infant flate, a neft of
rabble, 186. Its unhealthy fituation,
413. Several of the grand monuments
of antiquity there, described, ib.
wonderful commm servers, 416. Cha-
racter of the modern inhabitants, 417.
Magnificent cavalcades of the pope, de-
scribed, 418.

Its

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

RURAL life, happiness of, defcribed, 75.
RUSSIA, fate of population in, 432.
Varicus caufes afligned for the decrease
of its inhabitants, ib, Eftimate of its
military force, 433. Character 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.

SAL-AMMONIAC. See SOLFATA-

RA.

SALT-PETRE, pretended to be made
from earth, curious ftory of, 556.
SAPPHо, her hymn to Venus, tranflated,
429.

SCHOMBERG, Dr. his remarkable plagia-
rifm, 239.

SCOTLAND, remarks on the climate of,
and ftate of agriculture there, 346
SEARCH, Mr. his fanciful fyftem of our
exiftence in another ftate, 245. His
fcenical reprefentation of, 247. See
allo 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 barbarism, 390.
SHAKESPEARE, apology for the faults in
his writings, 131. His merit, how to
be cflimated, 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 ftone

quarries, where they are not-fuppofed
to have been originally depofited by the

fea, 555.

SHOES, frange 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-
flections 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.

SINIGACLIA, defcription of the fair
there, 333.

SLAVERY, how far tolerated in Eng-
land, 31.

SMALL-POX, ftate of inoculation for, in
France, from 1758 to 1765, 516. Ob-
jections to this practice anfwered, 517:
SMOLLETT, Dr. his hiftory of England
cenfured, 535:

SUI MATARA, obfervations on the falt of,
affirmed by the natives to be fal-ammo-
nide, $10.

SOUL,

BOUL, 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 investi-
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 fub-

ftances, 115.

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

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VASES, Etruscan, &c. curious colle&tion
of defigns from, 566.
VEILLARD, M. his extrordinary case of
an aneurism, 514.

VENICE, ftate of religion there, 334.
Manner of worship obferved by the
Greeks there, 335. Bad prefervation
of the paintings of great mafters in the
public buildings at Venice, 336.
VIRGIL, his tomb, described, 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 farcafms on the
Jews, 550. His miftake about Swift's
Tale of a Tub, 551. His Pirrhoniẩm
of Hiftory, 552. His account of Pe-
tronius, ib. Of the fingularities of na-
ture, 554. His flory of a German
chemift, 556. His controverfy with
the Jews, 562.

WA

W

TAKE, Archbishop, vindication of
his correfpondence with the doc-
tors of the Sorbonne, 163.
WALPOLE, Lord, writes to Bishop Sec-
ker, against the scheme of sending bi-
fhops to America, 220,

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

WAR, LAWS OF, their existence 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 Eleufi-
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-
rel with Hogarth, 385. His apology
for his perfen, 381.

WINDS, their infalutary effects on the
air, 352. In what refpect faid to be
instrumental in fpreading peftilential
diforders, 354.

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

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