AST-India, the trade carried on there from Europe, vin-
dicated, 472. Antiquity of that trade traced, 476. ELECTRICITY, pofitive and ne- gative, defined, 91. EMBEZZLEMENT of public mo- ney, how confidered in Ruffia,
149. EPICUREANS, the abfurdity of
their notions, 390. EPISTLES of St. Paul, the differ- ent manner of reasoning in them accounted for, 273. EQUALITY among mankind not hitherto attainable, 337. Not intended by Nature, 338. ERASMUS, cenfured by the coun-
cil of Trent, for a propofition in baptifm, 197. His remarks on the contefted text in St. John, refpecting the Trinity, 200. His account of an an- nual pagan rite continued
among the English in his time, HEA
at St. Paul's church, 202. ESCHYLUS, fome account of, 7. His improvements in tragedy,
291. EVIL, enquiry into the reasons of its existence, 440. EURIPIDES, fome account of, 8. 'EXPOSITION of an obfcure text in St. Paul, 410.
TEAD, chirurgical cafes of wounds in, 276. HEAT of Weather, poetical pic ture of, 70.
HEATHEN Divinities, interpret- ed, 117.
HEBREW Bible, number of let- ters in it estimated, 15. Nu- meral, how expreffed, 13. Text of the Old Teftament, the expediency of correcting,
HEMLOCK, its virtues enume- rated, 285.
HERO, her fpeech to Leander trandated, 132.
HEROES, ancient and modern, how diftinguished, 456. HERVEY, the Rev. Mr. James, his character, 377. Verses on his picture, 379: HISTORIAN, ought to resemble an epic poet, 519. Nn a HIS-
DEAS, fimple, how diftin- guished from fentiment,
512. IMAGINATION, the nature of, 366. INFLAMATORY Disorders, re- formed method of treating them, 249. IRELAND, plea in favour of the
Roman Catholics there, 136. JAPANESE method of curing a peculiar fpecies of cholic, 469. Their method of curing the fmall-pox, 471. JEALOUSY, that paffion analyfed, 396. JESUITS, great Traders and Fore- ftallers, 45. The notoriety of their traffic, 47. Sell cheese by the pennyworth, 48. fraudulent failure of their bank at Seville, 49. Their Miffi- onaries oppofers of conversion to Chriftianity, and encourag- ers of Idolatry, 50. Miffion- aries of other orders fuppreffed by them, 51. Pomp of a fef- tival of theirs at Rome, 54. Their polite manner of record- ing their own history, 56. JUSTIFICATION, reconciliation of the feeming contrary ac- counts of it, given by St. Paul and St. James, 355.
EYSER, teftimonies in fa vour of his remedy again the venereal difeafe, 169. KNOUTING, explanation of that punishment, 149.
KNOWLEGE, ought to be com municated gradually to the mind, 349. How to be at tained, 365. Relating to any Being, refolvable into a know- lege of its effects, 385.
ATIN Language, obferva- tions on the arrangement of, 312. Critical instances of, 313.
LATINISM and Gallicifm, invef- tigation of, 311.
LAURENCE, St. miraculous ac
count of his thigh-bone, 322. LAW of Nature, and that of Na- tions, often mifunderflood, 104. Wolfius the first who diftinctly understood them, 106. Diftinguished, ibid. How lit- tle refpected by the managers of national concerns, 114. -, Its intricacy accounted for, 183, 185. Definitions of, 186.
Law-Language, criticisms on, 238. LAWS, caufe of the imperfection of thofe of England, 394. LEARNING, that branch of, con- fidered by us as the principal, which has been the object of our study, 1. LICIENSIS the conventual, droll ftory concerning him, 198. LIGHT, its power of action ab- folutely unknown, 384. LIGHTNING, cold fufion of me- tals by it denied, 102.
LINNÆUS, his method of claf- fing vegetables, 213. LONGITUDE, new fcheme for the finding, 164. LOOKING-Glafs, furprizing story of a retentive one, 407. LUNACY, remarkable cafe of, legally confidered, 451. LUXURY, its effects on the Eng- lifh form of government, en- quired into, 25.
ACHIAVEL, his politics
M condemned, 73.
MAHOMMED, Condition of the Roman empire when he ap- peared, 259.
MALICE, a legal definition of, 447.
MAN of Confequence, recipe for compounding, 66.
METEOR, account of an extra- ordinary one, 102- METHODISTS, religious Mounte banks, 199.
MISSIONARIES, their difficulty in making American Converts,
420. MODERNS, the folly of their ad- hering to the rules of the an- tients, 372. MONEY, its original ufe, 120.
the ancient and prefent ftandard of, in England, 160. Altering the nominal value of, whether or not detrimental to commerce, 161. MUSES, addrefs to, 526. Music, poetical difplay of its effects, 65.
MARCUS Aurelius, his character NATION, the poffibility of
of Titus Antoninus, 504. His reign characterised, 506. MARY Queen of Scots, how the letters which furnished the ac- cufation against her were faid to be found, 33. Reafons for concluding them to be a forge- ry, ibid. Unfair treatment of her by Queen Elizabeth, 35. Reply to Hume and Robert- fon, relating to them, 38. MASORA, what, 14. MATHEMATICAL Knowlege, the pride of the human mind, 363. MATTER, its properties debated, 229. Its capability of think- ing examined into, 368. MEAD, Dr. his character, 304. MEASLES, Cautions in the ma- nagement of, 281.
its being united again its own intereft, 29. Charac- teristics of a powerful one, 75. Sign of its decay, 76. NATIONS, independent, their
natural equality afferted, 107. NATURAL Children, tendernefs of the Scottish law toward them, 194
Religion, the foun- dation of all herefies, 142. NATURALIZATION, univerfal, propofed, 154.. NEEDLE, magnetic, obfervations on the diurnal variation of, 95. The caufe fuggefted, 96. NEGRO, extraordinary change in the colour of one, to white,
NERVA, Emperor, his character, 498. Inftances of his mild- nefs, 499.
METAPHYSICIANS, why in no NOVEL-writing, an examination
PAUL, St. his different manners
PORTUGUESE, caufe of the de- cline of their East-India trade,
478. PRAYER, why exercised in the name of Chrift, 359. PRESS, confequences refulting from the liberty of, 379- PRINCES, thofe of former ages
greater adepts in fcience, than thofe of modern times, 394. PROJECTORS, apology for, 487. Scheme for a college of, 490. PRUSSIA, King of, his prayer in behalf of Poets, 227. PUBLIC Virtue, in extremes, a private vice, 133-
UEBEC, the method of liv-
of reafoning in different places, Quing there, 419.
accounted for, 273. Expofi- tion of an obscure text in, 410.
Picrs Wall, lamentation on the demolition of it, 126. PEOPLE, number of upon the globe computed, 78. PERRON, Cardinal, an everlast- ing talker, 198.
PERSEUS and Andromeda, in- terpretation of that fable, 141. PHILOSOPHY, no lefs in need of restriction within the bounds of probability than Poetry, 338. One of its nobleft pur- pofes, 339. Enquiry into the cause of its prefent difrepute, 393, 395. Its dignity, 434. PHYSICAL Knowlege, its vague- nels, 362. Method of en- larging it with certainty, 381. PLATO, fome account of his life, 346. His reflections on the government of Athens, 347. Defence of his republic, 351. POLISHED Planes, curious re- marks on the reflection of light from, 387.
REDOUBTS, their preference to Lines of Circumvallation in fieges, 152.
REMORSE, an evidence of Free.
agency, 439. RESIDENCE of the Clergy, ob- structions to, 252. RETIREMENT, a recommenda- tion of, 69.
RIDICULE, the proper applica- tion of, 319. RICHES and Honour, destructive to genius and learning, 490. ROMAINE, Mr. his definition of Gofpel, 307. His defcription of the Godhead, 309. ROMANS, evidences of their to- tal depravity under their Em- perors, 498. ROUSSEAU, M. comedy in ridi cule of, 320. RUSSIA, Computation of the
inhabitants in, 401. The an- cient obfcurity of, 519.
AMARITAN Pentateuch, fu- perior to the Hebrew text,
SAXE, Marshal, reciprocal blun- ders between him and the D- of C, laft war, 151. SCARLET colour, its efficacy in the cure of the small-pox, 471. SCHEMERS, apology for, 487. A college for, projected, 490. SCHOOL-Boys tranfgreffing their bounds, verfes on, in Latin and in English, 246. SCOTTISH Law, recommended to the study of English Law- yers, 178. SCRIPTURES, inftances of varia- tions in the different verfions of, 17, 21, SEEDS, method of preferving, for growth, 99. SELF-murder, how confidered in common law, 444. In civil law, 446. SEPTUAGINT Tranflation of the Scriptures, its authority vindi- cated, 139. SHAKESPEAR, his neglect of uni- ties, apology for, 372, 374. abfurdities in him noted, 463. SILK-worm, new fpecies of, 96. SILVER, in what light to be con- fidered in trade, 474- SLAVERY, the unlawfulness of holding any perfon in fuch a ftate, 192. SLOANE, Sir HaNs, his method of living in his decline of life, 303. SMALL-pox, efficacy of the co- lour of fcarlet in the treatment of this diforder, 471.
SOCIETY, the origin of it traced, 179. The progrefs of dedu- ced, 182, Scheme of, for
uniting all the nations in the world, 340. Conjectural bad confequences, from a perfect fyftem of 344.
SOCIETY for the encouragement of arts, foundation of, 431. SOIL, none too bad for improve-
ment and vegetation, 508. SOLILOQUIES in modern tragedy, their fuperiority in comparison with the ancient chorus, 4. SOPHISTS, character of those Philofophers, 349. Obferva- tions on Socrates's manage- ment in difputing with them,
350. SOPHOCLES, fome account of, 8. The first who bestowed white fhoes and stockings upon Tra- gedians, 294.
SPANISH Formality, ridiculous inftances of, 77.
SPHINX, how expounded, 141. STANISLAUS, King of Poland, his oppofition to infidelity, 389. STATESMEN, thofe beft entitled to the favour of heaven, who beft confult the happiness of the people, 23. STOCKINGS, black and white, curious electrical experiment with, 93. STOICAL Principles, fallacy of, 187.
STRELITZES, Ruffian foldiers,
terrible fedition among, 401. SUBORDINATION, the obliga- tions to, confidered, refpecting Rulers, from whom a people have forcibly obtained redress of grievances, 24. SUSPICIOUS Hufband, criticism on that comedy, 465.
TALMUD, what, and when published, 19. TASTE, an enemy to genius, 375- TAXES,
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