364. The fame with æther, 467. Very different from fire, 468. Inftances of its ufe in the art of healing, 562, feq. ELIZABETH, Queen, the death of an irreparable loss to Europe, 214. Friendly intercourfe between her and Henry theGreat,. 209, feq. Grand defign projected between them, 214. ELOISA to Abelard, Pope's, criticifed and commended, 75-77. ELOQUENCE, British, abufe of, 300-302. EMBARGOS, difcuffion of their compatibility with our conftitution, 528, feq. ENGLAND, number of inhabitants in, 378. Capable of maintaining a third more than it at prefent does, if duely cultivated, ibid. Annual increase of people in, 379. A fee of the papacy, 584. ERASMUS, refpectable mention of, 60. ETERNITY, of the world, a ftrong philofophical argument against it, 240. ETHE, or Mores, among the an- ETHICS, advantages of studying, EXAMPLES, too many of, rather F FANCY, the productions of, whether less powerful than those of nature in moving the paffions, 65. FAN, of peacock's feathers, part of the Pope's parapharnalia, ar grand ceremonies, 618. FATHERS, primitive of the church, greatly mistaken in fome of their religious opinions, 81.1 FENTON, Elijah, observations on his writings, 74FIRE, different from electricity, 468. FLOWERS, and Vegetables, their beauty and ufes, 477, feq. FLUXIONS, Saunderfon's, account of, 245. FOETUS, how nourished, 378. FRENCH, character of, 458. Cau- G GAMING, a paffion for it, parti cularly detrimental to a Minifter of ftate, 105. GEORGE I. King of England, inftrumental in the promotion of a certain Cardinal, 620. GINGER, method of cultivating and curing, 332-337. Botanical characters of, 335. GOOD, moral, enquiry whether it preponderates in the world, 551-555: GOSPELS, the three first, could not be compofed till after, or about about the year fixty, 148. GOVERNMENT, beft form of, 221, feq. GRAMMATICAL Quantity, from whence derived, 110. GRAND defign, projected between Henry the Great, and Queen Elizabeth, 214. GRANITE found in uncommonly large maffes in Egypt, 252, 345, 347. GRAPHIC-ARTS, in a more improved ftate at prefent than formerly, 162. Óf advantage to manufactures, 163. Deficiency in them not owing to any want of genius in our countrymen, ibid. GRAVITY, reflections upon, 238 -240. Specific, leffened by electricity, 366. GREAVES, Mr. his account of the Egyptian pyramids controverted, 258, 260, 262. GRECIAN Writers, though fome times of polite literature, 62. GREEKS, their learning, 281. GRONOVIUS cenfured, 222. GUISE, Duke of, deferts the league, and makes his peace with Henry the Great, 10r. Their first interview afterwards, 102. Dutchess of, her character, 101. H HARRINGTON'S Oceana recommended, 218. HEARING, method propofed to reftore, 375. HEAT, whether that of the fun, is most intense at the equator, or at the tropics,480,feq. Caufes of Heat and Cold, 478. feq. Why they do not increase and decrease regularly, as the fun approaches, or departs, 479. HENBANE-SEED, white, uncomeffects of, 389. HENRY the Great, his acceffion, 97. Changes his religion, 98. Twice in danger of being af faffinated, 99, 102. Stabbed by Ravaillac, 215. His character, 215. HIEROGLYPHICS, whence, 112. Egyptian obfervations on, 263, feq. HISTORY, antient and modern, advantages of being well acquainted with, 501,502. How we ought to form our judg ment concerning it, 565, 566. HOBBES, the pureft English wri ter in the reign of Charles II. 57. This affertion controverted, ibid. HOGARTH, the celebrated pain. ter, his contempt for copiers, 285. HORACE, remarks on his imperfections and excellencies 57 -59. HOTEL-DIEU, at Paris, regulation of, commended, 456. HUMAN Nature, in a state of wildness, described, 107-109. Its ftructure remarked upon, 217. HUMMING-BIRD, defcription of, 343. I JAMAICA, quantity of improve able land in, 32. Exports from, 34, feq. Imports thither, and from whence, 36. Revenues, 41, feq. Salary of the Gover nor of, 42. Inhabitants of cha racterised, 42. JANISSARY, remarkable story of one, 352. JAMES II. King, remains unburied, 456. Why, 457. IDOLATRY, enquiry into the origin of, 330-333JEROM, cenfure of, 81. For what, fee CHRYSOSTOM. JESUITS, accufed of a plot against the life of Henry the Great. Banished the kingdom of France, but re-established there there at the inftance of the Pope, 163. JEWISH traditional books, a remark concerning them, 181, feq. IMAGINATION, what, 46, 47. INFANTRY and Cavalry, of mutual affiftance to each other, 405. INFIDELITY, the common people, as well as the better fort, infected with it, 483. INN-KEEPERS, chargeable with the goods of their guefts, 17, feq. INOCULATION, not practised by the Turks. 281. Whence derived, ibid. Answer to an ob. jection to, 396, feq. Reflections on fome late attempts for a chirurgical monopoly of, 541, feq. INSTINCT, what, 49. Joв, book of, Bishop of London's differtation upon it confidered, 123-125. JOHN, St. defign of his gospel, his perfonal character, 150152. JOSEPH, his Well, in Egypt, defcribed, 354, feq. his granary, 355IRELAND, number of inhabitants in, 378. Capable of maintaining three times the number it does maintain, ibid. IRON-ORE, account of a mountain of, 273. ISOPERIMETRICAL problems, general rule for folving, 272. ISRAELITES, their manner of living, marriages, education of children, religion, &c. 323329. JUDGING, what, 51. JUROR, what damages are recoverable against one who receives a bribe for a verdict, 18. Rev. 1756. K KENT, kingdom of, how con verted to Chriftianity, 537-Relapfes from Christianity, 575, feq. KEPLER's problem, what, 386. KEYSLER, John George, his birth and education, 604. Commences his travels in the capacity of Tutor to two young Noblemen, ibid. His learned acquaintance, 605. Honours paid him in England, ibid. Account of his writings, 606. Further anecdotes concerning him, ibid-608. KINDRED, nearness of, no obftacle to matrimony, under the Old Teftament difpenfation, 176-183. Nor under the New, 184, feq. L improved, 107-112. 576. LEGATEE, whether, and under Yy what what circumstances, his teftimony concerning a will can be admitted by the law of England, 12, feq. LETTERS, how invented, 112. the Author of four to the People, excufed of propa. gating falfhoods, 411. Selfcondemned, 418. LIME-WATER, inftance of the efficacy of, in the cure of Dyfenteries, 391. LIGHT and Colours, Melvil's obfervations on, 382. LIGHTNING, method of preventing, or weakening the ftroke of, 380. LITERATURE, late of, in Turkey, 281. LOCKE, Mr. advantages of ftudying his Effay on the Human Understanding, 499. Defended against Condillac, 113. LONDON, eftimate of the number of its inhabitants, in 1716, 6:3. Of the number of cattle killed in that city, for provifions, in one year, 614. LONGINUS, the obfervations of, too general, and his method too loose, 59. Love, that paffion not naturally treated by most of the Poets, 477, feq. LUCIUS, the first Christian King of Britain, opens a correfpondence with the Bishop of Rome, 570. LUKE, St. account of his Gofpel, 150. LYCOPERDON, recommended as a ftyptic, 277. LYCURGUS, oblervations on his laws, 545-348. M MAGNESIA, process for preparing, 387. Medical qualities of, 388. MAHOGANY, natural Hiftory of, 337. MALLET, his poem of the Hermit, vindicated, 55. MAMMILLARIANS, an account of, 549. MAPPS, original ones, few of, in the Turkish dominions, 228. MARK, St. account of his Gofpel, 150. MARRIAGES, what fort are forbidden in Scripture, 183. How affected by Civil Law, 225. MARS, orbit of, elliptical, 386. MATERIA Medica, animadverfion on the exuberance of, 204MATHEMATICS, attainable without the fenfe of fight, 245MATRIMONY, when, and in what manner, it may be vahdly contracted, according to the law of England, 10, 11. Recommended, 174MATTHEW, St. account of his Gospel, 149. MEMNON, famous ftatue of, where, and how feated, 489. Opinion of its vocal power exploded, 490 MEMORIAL, fubftance of the Saxon to the States of Holland, relative to the Pruffian invasion of that Electorate, 635, feq. Pruffian, in anfwer thereto, 336-338. Another in vindication of the King of Pruffia's conduct, from the accufations of Saxony, 641643. And a third, defcribing the dangerous defigns of the courts of Vienna and Saxony, againit Pruffia, 643-51. MEMORY, what, 46, feq. METHODISTS, their preaching cencured by Dr. Warner, 48 3MILITIA, objections to the late bill for, 415. Another plan for establishing, 416. MILITARY Dilcipline, feveral obfervations on, 404,—407. Writers, feveral men tioned, 8 tioned, ancient and modern, 403-407. MILTON, copies of his particular writings faid to be purchafed for the pleasure of burning them, 192. MINISTER'S of State, portrait of a good one, 104-106. Utility of truffing a Minifter up, every fifty or hundred years, 415. MINISTRY, late, vindication of, 294 298. Suppofed plan of at the commencement of the war, 408. Juftified in their choice of Adm. Byng to command in the Mediterranean, 410. More compliments to, 418-feq. MONASTERIES, what they originally were in England, 581. MONKERY, its golden reign, 584. Sanctity of, called in queftion, ibid. MONOCHROMATA, the ancient way of painting, 163. Inftanced in the practice of Zeuxis, ib. Examples of this kind of painting, difcovered at Her. culaneum, ib. Still frequently practifed, ib. Inftanced in the flair-cafe of the British Mufæum, ib. MONUMENTS, ancient in Egypt, proper time for vifiting, 257. MOON, parallaxes of, how computed, 385. MORADI, an Arabian poet taken for a forcerer, and drowned in the Nile, 356, Note. MORTALITY, Bills of, in London, why defective, 365. None kept among the Turks, 280. MOTION, of the earth, illuftrat ed, 237. MOUNTAINS, no hypothefis fuf ficient to account for, 275. MOUNTAIN of the Chain, in Egypt, whence fo called, and tradition concerning, 491. Music, by what degrees it arrived at perfection, 111. Mufic at Aleppo defcribed, 144. MUSK, remarkable inftance of its medical efficacy, 390, feq. N NARDUS Indica, account of, 340. How to prevent its mif- Lady, account of, 504-509. NORDEN, Mr. not expert in Arabic characters, 488. Did not understand Greek, 489. NORTHUMBERLAND, kingdom of, converted to Chriftianity |