would lead me into too tedious enquiries. 'Tis enough for me to have imagined that I discovered several errors, arising from inattention, in fo great a genius: and 'tis fome confolation to one fo much confined and limited as mine, to be firmly perfuaded that the greatest men fall into mistakes, as well as the vulgar. "If I am not able to exhibit all these different "characteristics, and to employ, in a proper man66 ner, the various colours which all the above-men"tioned works require, why am I honoured with the "title of poet +?" REM. + Horace de Dacier, Tom. I. page 80, & feq. Hambourg, 1733. 12mo. A. CADEMY. Defign for establishing an academy, for the improvement of the Englifh tongue, p. 185. Reafon why that defign was laid afide. p. 186. Reflections on the French academy, and on that of the fciences, p. 187, 188. and of the advantages which might accrue from the French academy in France, p. 191. ACTIVE. Man would be wretched, if not fo, 228. ADDISION (Mr.) A confiderable fault in his beau tiful tragedy of Cato, p. 141. The high efteem in which his writings are held in England, p. 177. AGES (barbarous). The most useful inventions have been discovered in them, p. 190. ALEXANDER. Some remarks on his ambitious fpirit, p. 246, 247. ALTENA. The author's juftification of what he had advanced in his hiftory of Charles XII. relating to the burning of that city, p. 192, & feq. ANAXAGORAS. His opinion concerning the nature of the foul, p. 78. ANTONIO. A ridiculous character in one of Otway's plays, p. 134. ARGONAUTS. Sir Ifaac Newton fixes the time of their expedition, p. 78. ARISTOTLE. The only reason why he had fo many commentators was, because he was unintelligible, p. 78. ASTRO ASTRONOMY. The ufe Sir Ifaac Newton made B. BACON (Lord). His character and elogium, BARCLAY (Robert). Author of the apology BARNARD (St.) The fingular opinion of this BERNOUILLI. Whether he invented the inte- gral calculation, p. 123. BIBLIOTHEQUE RAISONNE'E. An useful journal but not known in France, p. 192. BODIES. Caufe of their denfity discovered by BOLINGBROKE (Vifcount). Confidered as one BROUNKER (Lord). Squared the hyperbola, p. 122. C. CA C. ESAR (Julius). Remarks on his ambitious CHANCE. Determines foldiers, bricklayers, and of life, 223. Strange ones given of CHARTA MAGNA. A famous edict which CHINESE. The practice of inoculation has CHRIST. His first and second coming was fore- CHRISTIANS. Why hated anciently, p. 231. CINEAS. His advice to king Pyrrhus, p. 227. CLARKE (Dr.) A famous divine. A ftickler Their morals better than thofe of the French clergy, p. 31. Moft English clergymen are pedants, |