HURD, Bp. his method of compo- fition characterized, 544 HYDE, Dr. his Religio veterum Perfarum cenfured, 109.
ICELAND, gen. defcript. of, 187.
Inhabitants, when firft chrif. tianized, 189. Their literature, ib. Their volcanos, 190. In- tenfe cold, ib. Manners of the people, 191. Mount Hecla de- fcribed, 193. Hot fprings, 194. Water-fpouts, 195.. Eruptions of Hecla, 196. Farther acc. of the Icelanders, 197. Dif- ferent stages of science there, ib. JOHNSON, Sam. his first appearance in the learned world, 208. Sets out as a schoolmafter, ib. His early friendsh. for D. Garrick, ib. INGENHOUSZ, Dr. his account of a new kind of inflammable air, or gafs, &c. 375. His improvem. in electricity, 377. His new me- thods of fufpending magnetical needles, ib. INSTRUMENTS, aftronomical, &c. new improvements in, 497. IRELAND, remarks and anecd. rel. to, 39. State of agriculture there, 40. Curious mountains and lakes in, defcribed, 44. Far- ther acc. of the state of agricult. and husbandry there, 97. Man- ners of the natives, 102. State of the tenantry, 161. Provifions and fubfiftence, 162. Deplo- rable fituation of the poor, 164. Of the formation of the Irish bogs, 166. Manufactures of Ireland, 169. IRISH, native, peculiar cuftoms of, 102. 161-168. Bad character of a particular clafs of their coun- try gentlemen, 168. Good cha- racter of the better fort of the Irish, 169.
KINGSBOROUGH, Lord, his laud- able improvem, on his eftates in Ireland, 41. KIPPIS, Dr. his letter to the Re-
viewers, concerning Mr. Madan's Thelyphthora, 479.
KOREISH, the noblest of the Ara- bic dialects, 109.
A CHAU, Abbé de, affifts in de
fcribing the gems in the cabi- net of the D. of Orleans, 293. L'ACTION du feu central banni de la furface du globe, &c. 139. LAMBERT, M. his treat. on Pyro- metry, or the meth. of measuring fire and heat, 140. LANGUAGE, orig. univerf. fource, and principles of, inveftig. 445.
Eng. See QUERIES. Erle. See GALIC. LATE HOURS, pernic. effects, 369. LAURENCEKIRK, village of, im- proved and made a burgh of ba- rony, 145. LE BLOND, Abbé, affifts in the defcrip. publifhed of the gems in the cab. of the D. d'Orleans, 293. LE ROY, M. his endeav. for find- ing the longitude by the means of time-keepers, 199. LONGITUDE, various attempts for its difcov. partic. hift, of, 198. LovE ficknefs, caufe and remedy of, 380, 381.
LYCERUS, john, a writer in de- fence of Polygamy, 323. LYTTELTON, Lord, poetical enco- mium on as an historian, 35.
MACDERMOT, an Irish chief, fome account of, 103. MACKEMIE, Rev. Mr. perfecuted by the Epifcopalian party in N. America, 440.
MACQUER, M. gre improv. in his Dict. of Chemistry, 507. MADAN, Rev. Mr. his Thelyphthora
criticited, 273. 321. 479. MAGELLAN, Mr. his fing. fuccefs in the improvements of mathe- matical and philofophical inftru- ments, 497-501. MAGNETIC needles, new methods of fufpending, 377: MAIMATSCHIN, a frontier town
between Ruffia and China, de- fcribed, 7. No women there, ib. MALONE, Mr. his Supplement to Johnson and Steevens's edit. of Shakef. commended, 249-256. MANN, Mr. his investigat. of rivers and canals, 462. Refult of his experiments, 464. MARIETTE, M. his excellent trea-
tife on engrav. prec. ftones, 295. MATHEMATICS, the ftudy of, how far profitable in a course of libe- ral education, 543.
MAYER On the fatellites of the fixed
fars, 140. MAYERNE, Sir Theod. phyfician, his credul. and fuperftition. 383. MEMOIRS relat. to the jurifprud. and hift. of Weftphalia, 141. MESSIAH, prophecies relating to, explained, 57. METEOROGRAPH, perpetual, a new piece of mechanifm, 499. MICROMETER. See RAMSDEN. MILITARY difcuffions, 416, 424. MILNER, Mr. his Memoir on the
preceffion of the equinoxes pro- duced by the fun's attraction, 461. MINERALOGY. See FERBERS. MIRACLE, Popifh. See HAYLES. MITCHELSTOWN, prodigiously im- proved by its noble propr. 42. MONTANUS, a celebrated maxim of his, 136. MOODY, Sufannab, cured by elec- tricity of a remark. diforder in her head and eyes, 434- Mucus, how distinguished from Pus, 288. MULLER'S account of Ruffian dif- coveries, 1. 3. 5•
CHINUS, Bernard, a writer in defence of Polygamy, 322. His hiftory, ib. the note. O'CONNOR, a defcendant of the anc. Irish Kings, acc. of, 103. OFFICERS in the army, knowl. in the fciences requifite for, 414. ORIENTAL MSS. an established inftitution for the translat. of, at Cambridge, recommended, 372. ORLEANS, D. of, his cabinet of gems described, 293. OSNABURGH, bishopric of, numb. of people in, 141.
OSSIAN, authenticity of his poems afferted, 264..
OXEN, ufed to plow by fixing the harness to their horns, 100. Great advant. of that meth. 101.
PALLAS, M. his new fpecies of quadrupeds, of the clafs of glis, 141. PARLIAMEMT, Eng. an equal re- prefentation of the people in, and annual elections, recom- mended, 53. Triennial elections preferred, 63-65. The expe- diency of frequent elections de- nied, 303.
PARTINGTON, Mr. his fuccefs in the medical application of elec- tricity, 438.
PERSIA, anc. hift. of, its remark- able difagreements with the Gre- cian, 110. PETERSBURGH, immense route of the traders who travel by land between there and Pekin, 7: PHOSPHORUS, new and. curious difcoveries relat. to, 508. Made from bones inftead of urine, 509. PHILIP of Macedon, his error in
attacking Melite, 416. His po- licy at the fiege of Prinaffus, 423. PLAYS, Eng. flate of, in the time of Shakespeare, 249. Bookfel- ler's price for the copy of a new play in those days, 253. PLENISNER, Capt. his voyages on discov, to the N. E. of Ruffia, 3. POLONIAN
POLONIAN Brethren, advantageous character of, 177. POLYGAMY, not only lawful in a religious, but advantageous in a civil light, and highly politic in a domeft. view, 276. This doc- trine controverted, 279-287. Subj. resumed, 321. Preceding writers in def. of Polygamy, 23. Madan's hypoth. refuted, 326— 338.
POPULATION, ftate of, in Glou-
POWELL, Dr. his pulpit difcourfes praifed, 544
PRIESTLEY, Dr, his controverfy with Mr. Bryant, conc, philof. neceffity, 348. With Mr. Pal- mer, on the fame fubject, 353, PRIORIES, alien, account of, 347. PRONUNCIATION of the Eng, lan- guage, propofal for establishing a ftandard of, 246,
Pus, how dilting. from mucus, 288. PYRAMIDS of Egypt, their origi- nal myític ufe poetically defc. 30. PYROMETRY. See LAMBERT. PURITANISM, unfavourable cha racter of, 179,
UADRANT, Hadley's, farther improvement of, 497. QUAKERS perfecuted in New Eng- land, 17.
QUEBEC act, ought to be re- pealed, 356.
QUERIES relat. to the importance of attending to the perfection of our language with relpect to pronunciation, &c. 246.
RAMSDEN, Mr. his defcript. of two new micrometers, 378. RAPIN, his Hift. of Eng. poetic encomium on, 34. RECHERCHES fur les caufes des af- fections by pocondriaques, &c. 136. REFRACTION. See DOLLAND. REVELS, kept on the anniversary
of the confecration of churches, cenfured, 14. REVILLON, M. his inquiries conc,
thofe hypochondriac. complaints generally called vapours, 136. ROME, modern, and its inhabi- tants, described, 47. Prifons there described, 531. ROUSSEAU, Jean Jaques, his poft- humous acc. of himself, 492. His jealoufy of mankind in ge- neral, 493. His Depofit con- figned to Providence,' 494. RUDDER'S new hiftory of Glou- cestershire, 10.
RUSSIA, difcoveries relat. to that country, 2. Ilands belonging to. 4. Diff. nations of, defc. 184. Manner of recovering perfons in Ruffia who have been poisoned by the fumes of burning char- coal, &c. 373. RUHNKENIUS, M. his edit. of the Hymn to Ceres, 481, His opinion relat. to Homer's being the author of this hymn, 483.
SACRAMENT of the Lord's Sup- per, fcripture principles of, 450. Conclufion from, 452. SANTENA, Count of, his bravery in defending an old cattle againft M. Catinat, 424, His witty
anfwer to Catinat's officers, when a prifoner, and infulted by them, 425.
SAXE, Marshal, his account of the
battle of Belgrade, 422. SCOTLAND, affirmed to have pre- ceded England in elegance and the improvements of life, 268, SCOTT, Rev. Mr. his account of his converfion, 129. SECKER,. Archbp. his pulpit com-
pofitions characterized, 544. SERMONS, obf. on the compofition of, 541.
SHAKESPEAR, ftate of the Engish drama in his time, 250. Who the original performers in his plays, 254. His poems, 256. A beautiful paffage in one of his fonnets compared with a fimilar paffage in Paradife Loft, 257. For more particul. fee MALONE. SHANNON,
SHANNON, Lord, introduces the custom of plowing with oxen by the horns, ICO-102. SHUCKBURGH, Sir George, on the variation of the temperature of boiling water, 378. SKEHEENRINKY, a curious cave in Ireland, defcribed, 43. SMELT, Mr. acc. of his famous fpeech at the York meeting, by a Correfpondent of the Reviewers, 75.
SMITH, Dr. Hugh, his philofoph. inquiries animadverted on, 237. SOCIETY, primeval, whence derived, 444.
SOCINIANISM, first founders of, men of refpectable charact. 177. SOLAR heat, extraordinary inftances of its power through the operation of the burning-glafs, 511. SOUTH, Dr. his fermons cenfured, 544.
SPEECH. See LANGUAGE. STERRY, Peter, fome acc. of, 557. Specimens of his writings, ib. SтOSCH, Baron, his fine collect. of antique gems, 294. SULLIVAN, Mr. his perilous adventure in exploring a monstrous cavern in the Peake of Derbyshire, 26.
SULLY, Mr. his attempts for the difcovery of the longit. by the means of time-keepers, 199. SURGERY. See GALE. See BUL.
THOMSON, Mr. his ftory of the intrigues of a Nabob, 124, TRUDAINE, M. his large and magnificent burning-glafs, 511. Its extraordinary power in the fufion of gold, ib.
VAPOURS. See REVILLON. VIENNA, public fights and amufements there, 46. VIRGINIA, political state of, 100 years ago, 21.
VIRGIN flands, number and fituation of, &c. 69. Government of, in what manner neglected by the British Government, ib. VOLTAIRE, poetical portrait of,
32. URINE, remarkable medical obf. and cafes refpecting disorders relative to, 291.
WALMESLEY, Mr. his letters to Mr. Colfon in favour of Mr, Garrick, 208, 209. VATER, acc. of airs extracted from different kinds of, 375.
boiling. See SHUCKBURGH. WATTS, Dr. Ifaac, anecdotes relative to, 267-273. WATCHES, for the pocket, that go continually, without the necef fity of winding up, 499. WATSON, Dr. controverfy with, relat. to his polit. fentim. 146, Recommends, from the pulpit, the culture of oriental literature, 371. His propofal for an inftitut, at Cambridge, for tranflat. orient. MSS. ridiculed, 393. WARBURTON, Bp. his Inquiry into the Caufes of Prodigies and Miracles characterized, 36. Specimens of, ib. Account of an original letter of his to Concanen, 255. Afhamed of his connections with Mr. Pope's enemies, 256.
ZOROASTER, his writings total ly loft, 109.
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