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doctor's learning and judgment than of any one of our reformers; and that however fully the author of Pietas Oxonienfis may be perfuaded of a strict harmony between the facred oracles and the articles, liturgy, and homilies, others are as fully perfuaded of the contrary.' This writer goes on and urges his former plea, against those who subscribe to articles which they do not believe; and insists, that, upon the scheme of the remarker for allowing a latitude of fubfcription, any papist might hold a benefice in the church of England. In the latter part of his performance he intimates his fufpicions, that his opponent is a diffenter, and obferves, that if these furmifes are juft, it will be easily to account for the contemptuous manner in which he has treated the church and the reformers.

29.

The firft of a Series of Letters to the Author of Pietas Oxonienfis, in Answer to bis Letter to the rev. Dr. Adams, of Shrewfbury. 8vo. Pr. 9d. White.

This is a fenfible tract on the use of reafon in religious enquiries, in oppofition to the writer of the letter to Dr. Adams, who fays, that man's reafon cannot attain any knowledge of the nature and attributes of God, because God is incomprehenfible. Our author has manifeftly the advantage of his antagonist in this difpute, and clearly fhews, from plain declarations of fcripture, and from fact, that man by the exercise of his rational faculties can attain some knowledge of the nature and attributes of God. His knowledge he obferves, confifts in the following particulars :

1. To ufe St. Paul's own words,-The invifible things of bim, his Being and Perfections, which are invisible to our bodily eyes, even his eternal Power and Godhead, or universal dominion and providence, over the whole creation.

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2. That he is Goodness itself, and loveth his creatures. 3. That he is intimately prefent every where, with all things, and with all persons.

4. That a pious and well directed mind is his delight, and that he punisheth the wicked.'

The author has made. fome judicious remarks on the abfurdity of those who fet reafon in oppofition to divine revelation. 30. Reflections on the feven Days of the Week. 8vo. Pr. 11.

Rivington.

These reflections are faid to be the production of a female author, lately deceased. They are written in the usual strain of religious meditations, and seem to be the refult of good fenfe, and exalted piety, without any tincture of enthusiasm.

31. Fugitive Political Effays, which have appeared in the Public Advertiser during the laft Winter, 1769 and 1770, under the feveral Names of Old Slyboots, Faction, Hortenfius, A Lover of Confiftency, &c. 8vo. 3. Richardson and Urquhart. We have formerly read feveral of thefe effays with great pleasure, and are perfuaded that the more difcerning part of the public will not accufe us of any partiality, when we give it as our opinion, that they are written both with humour and good fenfe. The arguments used by the author are generally ftrong and convincing; and his raillery is directed rather against the political conduct, than the perfons, of the opponents of government. Though it is probable, that these fugitive effays were originally published in hafte, they are unworthy of being perused at leifure, and may afford, to the dif interested reader, both entertainment and political instruction. 32. Foote's Prologue Detected; with a Miniature-Profe Epilogue of bis Manner in fpeaking it. 8vo. Pr. Is. Williams.

Never had we the mortification of reviewing fuch dall, ftupid, and malicious stuff as is contained in this pamphlet. From beginning to end, there is not the fainteft gleam to be perceived of wit, humour, or argument. The whole is an invidious and impotent attempt to traduce the character of a gentleman whofe dramatic abilities have defervedly raifed him to the highest reputation with the public; and by this illiberal and injurious attack, our indignation is the more ftrongly excited, as the celebrated prologue, which has given rife to this contemptible piece of abfurdity, does honour to the British theatre. But we congratulate Mr. Foote, as friends to genius. and literary merit, on that acceffion of applaufe and public favour, which must naturally accrue to him from fuch virulent and defperate efforts of envy and malevolence.

33. A Candid and Impartial State of the Evidence of the very great Improbability that there is difcovered by M. Le Fevre, from Liege in Germany, a Specific for the Gout. 8vo. 15. Kearly. This pamphlet is a very fenfible examination into the pretended efficacy of Le Fevre's specific medicine; and we entirely agree with the author in the validity of his arguments against it.

34. An Analyfis of the Thoughts on the Caufe of the prefent Difcontents, and of the Obfervations on the fame. 8vo. Pr. 15. Robinson and Roberts.

In this ingenious performance, the writer traces, with great address and fhrewdnefs, the turnings and doublings of the ce

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lebrated Mr. B-, whose latent views he lays open to the public. Like a polite and well-bred man, he gently approaches the patriotic Mrs. M--y, pays her a genteel compliment, and immediately retires. From this circumftance, and fome peculiar modes of expreffion, we are inclined to believe, that the author is either a foreigner or a nobleman.

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reading a fcurrilous Paper, intitled,

With Remarks in Vindication of the

35. Reflections occafioned by
N° 134. North Briton.
Army. 8vo. Pr. 6d. Millan.

A cool, though spirited, vindication of a very useful body of his majesty's subjects, against the inflammatory invectives of a popular author.

36. Genuine Copies of the Love Letters and Cards which have paffed between an illuftrious Perfonage and a noble Lady, during the Courfe of a late Amour. 8vo. Pr. 1s. 6d. Brown.

A literary fraud, against which the laws of this country have not provided a proper remedy.

37. The Paffion: an Oratorio. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. 8vo. Pr. Is. Griffin.

Paffion, and pathos, totally forgot"."

38. A Difcourfe addressed to the Minority. By a primitive Ebrew. 8vo. 15. Fell.

The ravings of a political bedlamite.

39. The Modern Book-keeper; or Book-keeping made perfectly Eafy, &c. By W. Squire, Mafter of the Academy in Whitecrofsftreet, 8vo. Is. 6d. Cook.

A new method of advertising a school, from which we hope the mafter will derive fome advantage, as he appears to be fufficiently acquainted with the neceffary art of book-keeping.

40. A Sermon to Tradesmen. 8vo.
8vo. Pr. 6d. Cadell.

This discourse in ftile and manner very much resembles the Sermons to Young Women; and may be read with advantage by thofe tradesmen who are fincerely difpofed to receive inftruction from fermons.

* See Mr. Foote's New Occafional Prologue.

IN DE X.

ABBE'S, in France, an ac-

of the extract of lead of Mr.
Goulard; account of,
284
398
Art of dreffing the hair, a poem,
464

count of them,
Account of the character and
manners of the French; re-
view of, with copious ex-
tracts,

280

(a fhort) of the waters

of Recoaro,
471
Adams's (Dr.) fermon on the
teft of true and falfe doc-
trines; occafion of its being
preached, and fome account
of it,
319
Addrefs (an) to Junius on the
fubject of his letter of Dec.
19, 1769,
57
Admonisher admonished; ac-
count of,
477
Eolus, or the conflitutional po-
litician; characterised, 389
Allegories and visions for the
entertainment and inftruc-
tion of younger minds, 237
Amyntas,

214

Analfis (an) of the thoughts
on the caufe of the present
difcontents, and of the obfer-
vations on the fame, 480
Andrews's fcripture doctrine of
grace; account of, with
Atrictures,
158
Appeal (an) to the world, or a
vindication of the town of
68
Bofton,

-to the public on behalf of
Sam. Vaughan, elq. fub-
ftance of,
225
Appendix altera ad Opufcula,
394

-II. to Opufcula, by ir
Wm. Browne, M. D. ex-
tract from, and cenfure, 395
Armstrong's (Dr.) Mifcella-
nies; contents of, with ex.
tracts, and animadverfions,

340
Arnaud's (Dr.) Remarks on the
compofition, ufe, and effects
VOL. XXIX. June, 1770.

477

Ah and Evan's Colletion of
hymns,
Abion's (Dr.) Sermons on le-
veral occafions; fubjects of,
and fpecimen,
161
Auction (the), a poem; cha-
racterifed,

Audi alteram partem,

73

or a

counter-letter to the e- of
Hgh, on the late
and prefent ftate of affairs in
the island of G-n-a;
account of, with ftrictures,
136

B.

Balaam and his afs; a fpeci-

men of,

233

70

Baldwin's Survey of the British
customs; account of, and re-
commendation,
368
Belfour's Hiftory of Scotland;
character of,
Bell's Short effay on military
first principles; fpecimen of,
and commendation, 462
Biefeld's Elements of univer-
fal erudition; plan of, with
fome animadverfions, 449
Birkett's Sermon, preached at
Greenwich in Kent, on
Christmas day, 1769; ex-
tract from,
239
Birth-day offering to a young
lady from her lover, 148
Bleeding, injunctions and cb-
fervations in regard to,
Brief confiderations on the ex-
pediency of a plan for a corps
of light troops to be em-
ployed in detached fervices
in the Eat-Indies, -.69
Brown's (fir Witam) Appen-
dix II. to Opufcula,

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191

395

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400

of,
Candid Enquiry into the pre-
fent ruined ftate of the French
monarchy; account of, with
copious extracts, and ani-
madverfions,
251
—and impartial ftate of
the evidence of the very
great improbability that there
is difcovered by M. Le Fe-
vre, from Liege in Germa-
ny, a fpecific for the gout,
479
Canons of the church of Scot-
land relating to celebacy, &c.
45
Caverhill's (Dr.) Experiments
on the cause of heat in living
animals, &c.
471
Character of the Spaniards,
from Totze
go
246

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239

-of the Weth,
of the Welsh women,
as wives and mothers, 245
Charleton's (Dr.) Enquiry into
the efficacy of warm-bathing
in palfies; account of, with
extracts,
Chriftian's hearts-eafe, a fer-
mon, in verse,
Chronological feries of engravers,
from the invention of the art
to the beginning of the pre-
fent century,
155
Churchill's (W.) Temple of
Corruption, characterised, 145
Clio, or a difcourfe on tafte, fe.
cond edition; account of,
with strictures,
Cobler's End (the) a tale, 74
Conduct of the bishop of Win-
chefter, as vifitor of St. Mary
Magdalen College, Oxford,
fully fated,
238
Confiderations on the exportation

of corn,

152

70

Confpiracy of the Spaniards a

gainst the republic of Ve-
nice; fpecimen of, 396
Conftantia, or the diftreffed
friend; account of, and chi-

364

racter,
Conftitution defended and
pen-
fioner expofed; characterised,
389

Court of Alexander; defign of,
with a specimen,
71
Copies (genuine) of all the let-
ters which have paffed be-
tween the lord chancellor and
the fheriffs of London and
Middlefex, and between the
fheriffs and fecretaries of
ftate, in relation to the exe-
cution of Doyle and Valine,
68
Cronstedt's Effay towards a fyf-
tem of mineralogy; plan of,
37

57

Crifis, in anfwer to the Falle
Alarm,
Critical commentary on arch-
bishop's Secker's letter to the
rtight hon. Horatio Walpole,
concerning bifhops in Ame-
rica; account of, with ex-
tracts,
176

-remarks on a treatife
entitled, A fyftem of eccle-
fiaftical hiftory and morality;
account of,

D.

318
Dalrymple's (fir David) Hiftori-
cal memoirs; fubjects of, 1
Decifive Trial (the) on the pro-
ceedings in the court of com-
mon-fenfe, between the fup-
porters of the bill of rights
and the petitioners of Mid-
dlefex, London, and Surry,
plaintiffs, and the prefent ad-
miniftration, defendants; ac-
count of, with an extract, 59
Defence of the proceedings of
the house of commons, in the
Middlefex election,
Deferter (the) a poem,
148
Defraction of trade, and the

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