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.

D.

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,

37.

DISSENTERS,

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.

65.

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.

N that place, 143.

AZARETH, prefent flate of

NICE, the country of, defcribed,

424.

0.

preaching humorously ridiculed, OTHS, inconfiftent with Chris

81.

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.

P.

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,

222.

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

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.

R.

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