Hiftoire des Caufes Premieres, ou Expofition Sommaire des Penfies dit Philofophes fur les Principes des étres.
The History of Firft Caufes, or a fummary View of the Sentiments of Philofophers concerning the Original Principles of Things. By M. I l'Abbe Batteaux, Profeffor of Philofophy, &c. 8vo. Paris, 1769.
This work is intended for the ufe of fuch readers, as being engaged in other ftudies, are defirous of knowing, with little expence of time or pains, the real value of the fpeculations of Pythagoras, Plato, the two Zenos, and Ariftotle, concerning the fyftem of the univerfe.-la this view it is a valuable performance, as it will fave young students a great deal of time; and perfons of profound erudition too, if they will condefcend to look into it, how much foever they may pique themfelves upon an accurate acquaintance with the opinions of the antient philofophers concerning the origin of things, may learn from it, that the time and pains they have employed to gain this acquaintance, might have been employed in much more valuable and useful refearches.
As this ingenious and learned Author has given feveral differtations upon the fame fubject in the Memoirs of the Academy of Inferiptions and Relles Lettres, he has not fcrupled to make a free use of them in the work now before us. He has likewife, in another volume, given the original text, with a French translation of Ocellus Lucanus, Timæus of Locri, and Ariftotle's Letter to Alexander; which being fhort works, and not loaded with commentaries, or long, learned remarks, may, as they all relate to the system of the universe, be of ufe to thofe who want to have a general acquaintance with this part of antient philofophy.
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To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
remarkably instanced, 262.
AGUR's Prayer, abfurd paraphrastic in-
Albany, duke of, droll ftory relating to, 532.
ALBINUS, fix of his anatomical tables reduced by a smaller scale, 148. ALEXANDER, Mr. ftricture on his ex-
periments relating to antifeptics, 362. AMERICA. See COLONIES. AMERICAN, gives an account of Eng- land an hundred years hence, 68. ANACREON, his difregard of money, 427. His fecond ode tranflated, 428. His third ode, 429.
ANATOMY, picturefque, ufes of, to the phyfician, 149; to the Painter, 150. ANEURISM, attended with fome fingu
lar circumstances, 513. ANTONINUS, A. in what manner he injured his health by an over-exertion of the faculties of the mind, 251. ARIOSTO, See TASSO. ARISTOTLE, his dramatic rules contra- verted, 131. Injured his health by too much study, 251. His letter to Alex- ander, tranflated into French, 568. ASTHMA, by what different names di ftinguished, 12. Different stages of defcribed, 14. Cure of, 15. Chiefly incident to children, 16. ASSAFOETIDA, genuine fort diftinguish- ed from the adulterated, 17.
TION, in Ruffia, curious account he, 457.
is, his mausoleum at Rome de- 13. His obelifk, 414.
ENEVOLENCE, advantages of, to a mind bleffed with that happy tem- per, 121.
BENLOWES, his prints of the dresses of Gentlemen and Ladies in the laft cen- tury, 214.
BERNARD, Governor, becomes unpo- pular at Bofton through his great zeal for court-meafures, 398. His Letters to the miniftry cenfured, 468. BERTIN, M. his memoir on the circulation of the blood in the liver of the fœtus, 512. BIANCHINI, M. his difcoveries in fearching the ruins of the palace of the Cæfars, at Rome, 415. His dan- gerous adventure there, and death, ib. BILLS of exchange, laws and cuftoms re- lating to, 314.
BLACKSTONE, Dr. vindicates himself
from the charge of inconfiftency be- tween his writings and his conduct in parliament, 77. His prejudice against Diffenters, 295. Animadverted on by Dr. Prieftiey, 298. His encomium on the clergy of the established church, 300. BLONDEL, M. his Comparaifon de Pin- dare et d'Horace vamped into English, and published as an original, 230. BLOOD, an account of the circulation of, in the liver of the fœtus, 512. BOCHART, his Phaleg and Canaan praif- ed, 536. Strictures on his work, 537. BOLOGNA, account of the famous Infti- tute there, 331. Of the noble public library there, 332.
ALMUCK Tartars, remarkable revo- lution among, 434. Some account of their religion, ib. CANCAR, a colony of the Chinese, cu-
rious account of, 262.
CAPE of Good Hope, excellent culture of the land there, by the Dutch, 259. CASAN, brief view of the face of that country, 435.
CHAPPE, Abie, leaves Tobolik, 435. Arrives at Calan, ib. His entertain- ment there, 436. Arrives at Peterf- burgh, ib. His operations for taking the level of the furface of the globe, ib. His obfervations on the mines of Siberia, 433. His obfervations and ex- periments on natural electricity, made in that country, 419. His obferva- tions made there on the variation of the magnetic needle, 440. CHARLES V. Imp. his birth, 3. For. tunate events preparative to his vaft empire, ib. His military genius, 4. His rivalship with Francis I, 8. His Friendship with Henry VIII, 10. De- feats Francis, and takes him prifoner, 85. Enlarges his ambitious views, 87. Refolves to refiga bie crown, and ends his days in a monaftery, 91. Portrait
of his extra rdinary character, 92. CHEMIST, German, remarkable ftory of, 556.
CHINESE merchant, curious hiftory of a fettlement made by one, near the Malaccas, 262.
CHRIST, his curfing the fig-tree, diffi- culties relating to this event difcufied, 103. His temptation in the wilderness inveftigated, 107. Difficulties relating to, Ic8.
CHURCH-AUTHORITY, arguments a- gain, 368-370.
CHURCHILL, Charles, Letter from to Wilkes, 377. His enmity towards Rope, 378 Stricture on, ib. fence of, by Wilkes, ib. His quarrel with Hogarth, 382.
COAL-MINE, account of one, in France,
which has continued burning for a long time past, 512.
CoLIC, endemical, of Devon, not caused by a folution of lead in the cyder, 353. This disease attributed rather to the roughness and acidity of that liquor, 364. COLONIES, propofal for ending our dif putes with, 54. The establishment of epifcopacy in, recommended, 220. Rea fons against it, 221.
COMETS, ridiculous fuperftitions con- cerning, 485.
CONDAMINE, M. de la, his third me moir concerning inoculation, 516. CONFESSIONAL, apology for, 165. CORN. See SowING.
CORNEILLE, his dramas compared with Shakespeare's, 138.
CORTES, in Spain, their bold oppofition to the power of the crown, in the time of Charles V. COVELLE, Robert, his adventure with Kitty, 94. Has recourfe to Routeau, ibid.
COURTS-MARTIAL formed on principles of equity fimilar to thofe of civil courts, 424.
'ALEMBERT, M. his encomium on Marfais's logic, 565.
D'ARCY, Chevalier, his memoir on the duration of the fenfations excited in us through the organ of fight, 500. DEITY, his goodness, rational and pious eflimate of, 119. Other attributes of, 240. His character as Creator, 243, As governor, ib. DERBY-NECK, account of that species of tumor, 359 Method of cure, 360. DEVON, Obfervations on the climate and foil of that country, with respect to the cyder fruit trees, 364. See COLIC.
DIFFIDENCE, philofophical, facilitates the progre's of real knowledge, 408. DISSENTERS, neceffarily friends to civil liberty, 40. Advice to their minif- ters, 42. DRESS, English, curious account of the various fashions of, in former times, 211. DRYDEN, his poetry preferred to Pope's, 378.
DU HAMEL, M. his botanical and me- teorological obfervations made at De- nainvilliers, 512.
His treatife on fruit-trees, 564,
ARTH, poffeffed of internal heat, independent of the fun, 504. ELIZABETH, Queen, various fashions of drefs in her reign, 211. Her im- menfe wardrobe, ib. ESTABLISHMENTS, ecclefiaftical, argu- ments against, 368-370. EXCOMMUNICATION, as practifed in Roman-catholic countries, confidered by a member of that church, 523. Ought not to be attended by civil effects, ib. EXERCISE, bodily, an excellent remedy for the gout, 169. Of the mind, bad effects of too much of it, 251. Of the body, earnestly recommended to literary and fedentary perfons, 250-256. What kinds of, moft fuitable to men of letters, 257. EXPULSION of members from the House of Commons, deemed illegal, and in- compatible with the conftitution, 397. The abolition of that power recom- mended, 464.
ALSTAFF, his character defined, 137. His birth poetically defcrib. ed, 236. FARMERS, apology for them, in regard to the charge of obftinacy, 343. lowance to be made for the difference between their ideas and thofe of gentle- men who turn their thoughts to agri- culture, 344.
FARTHINGAL, whence derived, 210. FEVER, miliary, Dr. Johnson's account of, 144. Method of cure, 146. Apho- rifms relative to, 173. FONTENELLE, M. his kind regard for M. Marivaux, 549. FOUGEROUX, M. his obfervations made at Solfatara, 510. On a burning coal- mine, 512.
FRANCIS I. contefts the imperial diadem with Charles V, 8. Seeks the friend- Ship of Henry VIII. of England, 10. Grand interview between these two princes, 11. Defeated by Charles, and taken prifoner, 85. Regains bis 1 ber- ty, 88. His death, S. His great cha- racter, go.
FREDERIC, Duke of Saxony, his great character, 8.
FRENCH, utter flares to forms and cuf- toms, 451. Equally attached to plea- fure and bufinefs, 452. Great tol- lowers of fashion, 453.
FRIENDSHIP, poetical apeftrophe to 58.
GAILLARD, M. his opinion of ex-
communication, 523. Of Tole ration, 524. Of Luther's conduct in the reformation, and how far of advan- tage to the church of Rome, 527-529. GENEVA, remarks; on the religion and churches there, 329.
GIRLE, Mr. the first who undertook the cure of a fractured limb in a flexed po- fition, 400. GOMERCINI, Madam, her remarkable cafe and cure, by the extract of Saturn, 312.
GOODALL, Mr. author of an introduc tion to the hiftory of Scotland, 301. GOUT, new theory of the causes of, 168. Method of cure, 163. Exercife the chief remedy, ib.
GRAMMONT and Hamilton, ftory of, 3c6. Not a fiction, 488. GRIFFITH, Mr. and Mrs. joint novel- writers, 232.
AIR, various modes of dreffing, in the two laft centur es, 213-215. HAM, the fon of Noah, remarkable ope- ration of the curfe denounced againft him and his family, 270. HAMILTON, Lady. See GRAMMONT. the Hon. William, his cu- rious collection of Etrufcan, Greek, and Roman antiquities, 567. HANNIBAL, reality of his diff lving the rocks on the Alps with vinegar, af- ferted, 554.
HANSEATIC league, oligin and progress of, 180. Decline of, 182. HEAT, proved to be inherent in the
earth, independent of the fun, 503. HENRY VIII. afcends the throne of Eng- land with peculiar advantages, g. Courted by Francis I. and Charles V. ib. His character, 10. His grand in- terview with Francis, 12.
HOFKENS de Courcelles, his account of the ute of Ol. Afpbali in ulcers of the in- teftines, &c. 228.
HOGARTH, Mr. fory of his contefts with Wilkes, 380.
Hous, improved methods of rearing and freding, 70
HOOPING COUGH, method of curing,
LIBERTY, warm fentiment in favour of, by a Frenchman, 259.
LITERATURE, ftudy of, too much appli- cation to, fatal to health, 250-255- How to remedy, 256.
LocKE, Mr. Search's imaginary inter- view with him, in the webicular ftate, 247. LUTHER, fevere ftrictures on his charac ter and conduct, by a French Roman- catholic, 525.
ACBETH, tragedy of. See Punc-
MACLAINE, Dr. his account, and de- fence of, Archbishop Wake's core- spondence with the doctors of the Sor- bonne, 163. Answered, 165. MAD DOG, bite of, cured by fea-falt, 313.
MAIRAN, M. de, his enquiry into the
general cause of heat in fummer, and cold in winter, 503.
MALACCA, the laws and cuftoms of, fimilar to thofe of the ancient inhabi- tants of Europe, 260. Curious parti- culars of, 261. MANSFIELD, Countefs, remarkable flo- ry of, 182.
MARIVAUX, M. his birth and educa- tion, 543. Writes for the ftage, 544. His novels, 545. His French Specta tor, ib. His family connections, 446. His extraordinary benevolence and lazi- nes, 547. His death, 549. MARRIAGES, clandeftine, confidered, 36. Palliated, 37. Not detrimental to the public, 38.
MARTINELLI, Signior, fatirized, 18. MATTER, its infinite divifibility contra- verted, 116.
MEDICINE, of all profeffions, fhould not be fufpected of leading to impiety, 407. Incompleat manner of teaching this fcience in the univerfities, 410. MEDMENHAM-ABBEY, fome account of, 374. Levities lately practifed there, under the name of Eleufinian myfteries, ib. MICHAELIS, Dr. his fupplement to Bochart, 537.
MILTON, celebrated by Mr. Gray, as the friend of freedom, 159.
MIND, its faculties diftinguished, 22. Its ideas philofophically inveftigated, 24. Its motives to action confidered, 26. Patons and habits of, 28. Enquiry
conflitution of the mind, 113. viftence, 117. The fame With
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