of the fecond rule relating to the doctrine of Chances, 226. CARDS, their bad tendency, 79. CHAMELION, curious account of that creature, 267. CHANDLER, Dr. his opinion how far the Diffenters are dangerous to the church of England, 197. CHARLES V. his great character,
and empire, 522. CHEESE, humorous debate on, 42. CHEROKEES, their country def- cribed, 2; their manner of liv- ing, 5; remarkable fidelity of their women, 6; their proper names explained, 7. CHRISTIANITY, ftate of, under the heathen emperors, 436. Ra- ther declining under chriftian princes, 438. CHRISTIANS of the 3 first centuries,
their errors and virtues, 437. CHURCH of England, enquiry in- to the dangers to which it is li- able, 196. Reformation of, ftre- nuously recommended, 229. COBLER, a poem, 478. COLICA pictonum, cafes of perfons
afflicted with that diforder, 505. COLONIES, British, our right of taxing them difcuffed, 65; their claim of exempt on examined, 67, 161; their oppofition to the ftamp aft humorously confidered,
liable, and what profpect there. is of its continuance, 195. Mon- tefquieu's prophecy of its def- truction, 201. Dr. Blackftone's idea of it, 379.
CONTENT, poetically defcribed,
351. CORINTHIANS, I. V. 29, critical explication of, 448.
CORN, bounty on, advantages of, 317. Arguments on the other fide of the queftion, 311. Mo- derate bounty recommended, 360. COTTON, Mr. his elegant Latin
verfes on the death of his wife, 166. Tranflated, 167. CORNUCOPIA Circulatum, defcrip- tion of that plant, 270. CRAB, Chriftopher, his humorous fpeech, 42. Anfwered. 43.
an infect, fome account of,
265. CROWN of Gr. Br nominal power of, how curtailed fince the reign of James I. 389; real influence of, how greatly extended of late, by the national debt, by the taxes, and by the officers and collectors of the revenue, 390. CURATES, their hardfhips poeti- cally reprefented, 406. CUTTLE-fith, the inveterate ene- my of the pinna muricata, 269.
63; our jealoufy of them hurt D defcribed, 119.
ARKNESS, Cave of, poetically avg.
ful to ourselves, 70; their natural Connection and mutual intereft with the mother country, 157, art. 18; their inettimable value, 158; wife and gentle treatment of them recommended, ib.-159. Proper reprefentation of, 160. COMMONS of England, in parlia- ment, their great influence in pre- ferving the Conftitution, 18- 190; antiquity of their legifla tive authority, 19!. CONFESSIONS of Faith, the efta- blifhment of, by church-autho- rity, examined into, 335. CONSTITUTION of the Englifh government how gradually im- proved, 186-195. Enquiry into the dangers to which it is
DAUBENTON, Monf. concerned with Buffon in the Natural Hi- ftery, 529: DEITY, unity of, zealously af ferted by Mohammed, 260. His goodness, the peculiar attribute, of which above all others, i moft concerns us to have juft conceptions, 289. His divine adminiftration vindicated against the doctrine of diabolism, 327. DEVIL, arguments to prove that
the Scripture account of him mut be underflood figuratively, 32. DIONYSIUS, the Areopagite, the ftory of him, in regard to Chri's crucifixion, not to be regarded,
DISSENTERS, not dangerous to the established church of Eng- land, 197. Queries addreffed to them, concerning liturgic and ftated forms of worship, 257. DIVORCES, advantages of render- ing eafily attainable, 263. DOCK YARDS, royal, great walle of the timber in, 396. DODDRIDGE, Dr. his genius and learning, 147; his amazing di- ligence and activity, 151. DULANEY, Mr. His confiderations
on taxing the Colonies, E.
EDUCATION, important remarks on, 306.
ENGLAND, general view of her policy, trade, taxes, &c. 291. ENGLISH, nation, follies of, 507. EPICTETUS, the ftoic, his con-
tempt of the Christians, 37. EQUALITY of mankind, enco- mium on, 22; an imaginary bleffing, 23. ERSKINE'S gofpel fonnets, re- markable extract from, 168. ETHICS, or the law of nature, first principles of, 109. EVIL,origin of, difficulty of account- ing for, 307. Afcribed to the agency of malignant spirits, 308. F.
AITH, inquiry into the true nature of, 203. FANCY, her exhortation to her votaries, 118. FEMALE SEX, their importance in Defects
their fingle ftate, 454.
of their education, 455. Their importance in wedlock, 456. Confidered as mothers, 457. So- briety of mind recommended to them, 462. FERGUSON, James, his defcrip. tion of a new crape, 220. His new hygrometer, 222. EVER, not a difeafe, but a remedy, 30-31. FLORETTA, flory of, 357-
Gheory of, 63.
ANGLIONS of the nerves,
GENERATION, beyond the reach of human enquiry, 497.
Gef Roum ill. parallel between the
four first years of his reign, and the four last of Anne, 325. GIBBON, a curious fpecies of ape, defeription of, 53.
GOSPEL, St. Matthew's, date of fettled, 402.
Gorus, their origin, and incurfions into the Empire, 534 GOVERNMENT, confiderations on feveral kinds of, 380. Confti- tutional, of England, dependent in the ultimate refort, on the fenfe and feeling of the people, 397. Executive power of, 389. How to be employed for the re- formation of mankind, 543- GREY, Stephen, elegant veries o his death, 357.
Haftory of, 495.
AKKAM, Caliph, remarkable
HASSELQUIST, Dr. his travels in the Levant, 127. His charac- ter, 128; his adventure at Grand Cairo, 136; arrives in the holy land, 137; his account of va rious animals, infects, and plants in the Levant, 265-270. HEMLOCK, extract of, 63. HENRIAD, of Voltaire, confider'd as a fermon, 341. HENRY VIII. his mistaken policy, in order to make the crown ab. folute, 189, 191.
the Great of France, his character
AMES I. his policy to render the crown abfolute, 190.
-II. the oppofition to at the "Revelation confidered, 192. JERICHO, prefent deferted state of that place, 141. Jews, great number of still dwell- ing at Jerufalem, 138. INCLOSURES Ofcommon fields, ar- guments for and againit, 361. INDIANS, North-American, the 5 nations of defcribed, 14-18. INHERITANCE, Mohammedan law of, 201.
ISECTION, in anatomical prepa- rations, inftructions concerning, 567. INK, Indian, compofition of, 1743 of Printer's Ink, 179; rolling- prefs, Do. 180. Common writ- ing, Do. 278. A more durable
fatirized, 472. LANDSCAPE, poetical, 353. LANGUAGE, its mechanical for- mation, 525. Law, why deemed an inelegant
and uncouth ftudy, 107. Means for obviating this reproach, 108. Definition of law, 109. Three grand divifions of, 379. Mu- nicipal, defined, ib. farther con- fidered, 381. LAWS, in general, confidered, 379 -383.Of England in parti- cular, ib.. LEGACIES, Mahometan, law re- lating to, 261.
LEGION, the thundering, miracu-
lous ftory of, exploded, 37. LIFE, requifites for continuing it
beyond its ufual extent, 497. LION, not to be met with in Pale- tine, 270. Query, from this en cumftance,
Mable inns there, 131.
AGNESIA, in Turky, mifer-
MAN, religious and virtuous, his character well delineated, 55.
curious difquifition on his nature and faculties, 375. MANDRAKES, account of, 143. MANNERS, of men, not reformed by preaching, 538-546. MARRIAGE, difadvantages attend- ing the indiffolubility of that rite, 263. Divorces, on fit oc- cafions, recommended, 264. MASKELYNE, Mr. his rules for computing the effects of refrac- tion and parallax, &c. 223. His remarks on the equation of time, 226. See alfo 220. MAYER, Mr. his account of the tranfit of Venus, 222. MESSIER, Monf. his table of the places of the comet of 1764, dif- covered at the obfervatory of Paris, 221. METHODISTS, their manner of Preaching
MONOPOLIES, by patent, illegal ufe of in former reigns, 183. MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Wortley, original papers of that lady's, where lodged, 396. MONTESQUIEU, Baron, his pro- phecy of the deftruction of the English conftitution, 125, 201. Letter afcribed to him on the liberties of England, 309. MOON, Valley of, a poem, 356. MOORS, their dominion in Spain, 490.-Books and manufcripts relating to, 491.
MORRIS, Dr. his experiments on hemlock, 63.
MOSES, his account of the creation objected to, 51. Defended, ib. MOSHEIM, a mistake of his, con-
cerning Mr. King, corrected, 41. MURDOCH, Dr. his method of de- termining the moon's diftance and parallax, 220.
MUS JACULUS, that animal de- fcribed, 266.
MUSIC, its great ufe in curing dif- eafes, 515. MYSTERIES, pagan, explication of, 247.
N that place, 143.
AZARETH, prefent flate of
NICE, the country of, defcribed,
preaching humorously ridiculed, OTHS, inconfiftent with Chris
MILTON, a noble and fublime
flianity, abufe of difplayed.
by Mr. Herrort, 547. That worthy divine perfecuted, 548. OATH, form of that invented by the Council of Toledo, 548.
that of a fovereign, form of, recommended, 550. OPIUM, exceffive ufe of, among the Turks, 144. ORANG-OUTANG, defcription of, 529. OSSIAN, the poet, poetical picture of, 122, 123.
OXFORD, printing how early fet up in that city, 500.
APISTS, compared with the Pharifees, 44. PARENTAL authority, how to be enforced, 545- PARIS, confidered as the emporium of vice and folly, 544. PARLIAMENT, of England, law, and cuftoms of, 384. Acts of,
old method of proclaiming, 388. PENSIONS, from the government, ought to be taxed, 304. Ratio of fuch taxation, ib. PERSECUTION, for freedom of writing, a recent inftance of, in Swifferland, 547. PHILLIP II. of Spain, his character at large, 524.
of Macedon, his charac- ter compared with that of Henry IV. of France, 554. PHILOSOPHERS, excellent preach- ers, 542; but infufficient for the reformation of manners, 543. PHYSICIANS, confultation of, hu- morously expofed, 468. PIGEON, curious manner in which the cock affifts the hen in form- ing her neft, 267. PINGRE, Mr. his fupplement to his Memoir on the Sun's Parallax,
PINNA muricata, her furprifing me-
thod of defence against the cuttle- fish, 269.
POWNAL, Gov. Appendix to his
Adminiftration of the Colonies, 65. PRAYER, free, preferred to forms, 249. The primitive mode of worship, 250. Advantages of Jet forms, ib. Inexpediency of, 251; and difadvantages, 255. PREACHING ineffectual for the re- formation of mankind, 538. PRESBYTERIANISM, in what fenfe founded on popish principles,442. PRIDE, excellent declamation a- gainft, 211-214. PRINTING, art of, how first brought into England, 499. PRODIGAL fon, pathetic difcourfe on the parable of, 208. PRUSSIA, prefent king of, ftrange
notion of the religion of a fove- reign prince afcribed to him, 319. PULSE, enquiries concerning, 25;
various fpecies of, and indica- tions of diforders from, 26. PURVEYANCE, grievous effects of it to the fubject, 184.
Q UACKERY, Various kinds of, 15.
QUAIL, of Palestine, de- fcribed, 267.
QUAKERS, their oppofition to the doctrine of tythes exploded, 90. Their polity commended, 199.
PISA, city, fome account of, 426 R
PLACEMEN ought not to be hire- lings, 305- PEINY, his teftimony with regard
to the first Chriftians, 32. POETS, confidered as preachers, 539. Inutility of their preach- ing, 540.
POETS, their Elifium poetically de- fcribed, 120.
POLE, cardinal, fummary review
of his character, 113. PONT DU GARDE, defcription of, 424.
PONTEACH, the Indian king, fome account of, 19-21. POTT, Mr. his cure of an kernia fiftica, 62.
AKES ought to meet with no
favour from virtuous women, 464.
RAMA, prefent ftate of. 138. REASON, ufe of, in religious mat- ters, recommended, 348. REFORMATION of manners only to be effected by government, 544. REFORMATION of the established church earnestly recommended, 329-333, 334. RELIGION, represented in her na- tive beauty, 84. That of a fo- vereign prince merely political, 319. Advantages derived to mankind from religion, 376 RESISTANCE, fubjects right of, the will of the fovereign, en
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