The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 27E. Cave, 1757 - Books Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia." |
Contents
of France | 3 |
Meteorolog journals of the weather | 9 |
Miraculous preferv of the guards | 15 |
Vertebra of an enormous animal | 21 |
Propofals for amending the laws | 27 |
The machine for the year 1757 | 34 |
Attempt to affaffinate the Fr king | 40 |
Inhuman murder | 50 |
Account of Medical obfervations | 296 |
Claufe refpecting quakers | 302 |
Barbarous cuftom of the natives | 308 |
Obfervations on light and colours | 314 |
Copy of a lawyers bill in the reign | 320 |
On study John and Bett A paftoral | 326 |
JUNE A correct Map of Weftphalia | 331 |
Particulars of retaking Bengal | 332 |
FEBRUARY Plate XII of Shells | 64 |
A Map of that Part of America that lies at the Back of Albany | 74 |
MARCH A Phyfical Planifphere a whole Sheet | 110 |
APRIL Plate XIII of Shells | 125 |
Four Views of the ruinous Condition of St Catherines Tower in the Iſle | 176 |
Ill conduct of Penſylvania and | 196 |
MAY Plate XIV of Shells | 200 |
Defcription of the ſhell plate | 201 |
The luminous appearance of the | 209 |
Aftronomical obfervations on the | 215 |
Two Roman Altars | 220 |
His Britannic majeſtys declaration | 233 |
Lift of fhips taken on both fides 23940 | 243 |
Letter from M Voltaire to Adm B 44 | 246 |
Price of ſtocks and corn | 252 |
AUGUST A Plan of the Battle of Haftenbeck and a Map of the adjacent | 341 |
Prices of stocks | 342 |
A Peprefentation of the Buccinum Ampullatum c | 364 |
OCTOBER Four Views of a nondefcript Shell | 448 |
NOVEMBER A Map of the French Coaſt about Rochfort with the Ities | 492 |
Account of an earthq at the Azores | 493 |
New and curious obfervations on | 498 |
A Mifcellaneous Plate | 500 |
Directions to prevent a vapid taſte | 504 |
Memorial to the dyet of the empire | 512 |
DECEMBER Repreſentation of a new Way of making Artificial Magnets 540 | 518 |
Ode on folitude A ſong Of Volupta | 520 |
Plan of operations of the French | 532 |
508 | 548 |