EARTH, poffefed of internal heat,
independent of the fun, 504. ELIZABETH, Queen, various fashions of dress 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. Al- lowance to be made for the difference between their ideas and thofe of gentle- men who turn their thoughts to agri- culture, 344.
ARTHINGAL, whence derived, 216. FEVER, miliary, Dr. Johnfon's account of, 144. Method of cure, 146. Apho- rifms relative to, 173. FONTENELLE, M. bis kind regard for M. Marivaux, 549. FOUGEROUX, M. his obfervations made at Solfatara, 510. On a burning coal- mine, 512.
FRANCIS I. contes the imperial diadem with Charles V, 8. Seeks the friend- fhip of Henry VIII, of England, 10. Grand interview between these two princes, 11. Defeated by Charles, and taken prifoner, 85. Regains his 1 ber- ty, 88. His death, 89. His great cha- racter, 90.
FREDERIC, Duke of Saxony, his great character, 8.
FRENCH, utter flaves to forms and cuf- toms, 451. Equally attached to plea. fure and business, 45%. Great fol- lowers of fashion, 453.
FRIENDSHIP, poetical apoftrophe to 58.
Gcommunication, 52, Of Tolc-
AILLARD, M. his opinion of ex-
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 Scoland, 301. GOUT, new theory of the causes of, 168. Method of cure, 16). Exercite the chief remedy, ib.
GRAMMONT and Hamilton, ftory of, 306. Not a fiction, 488. GRIFFITH, Mr. and Mrs. joint nova- 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 against 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 diffolving the rocks on the Alps with vinegar, al- fested, 554.
HANSEATIC league, origin and progrefs 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, q. Courted by Francis I. and Charles V. ib. His character, 10. His grand in- terview with Franc s, 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 contes with Wilkes, 380.
Hons, improved me hods of rearing and feeding, 70.
HOOPING COUGH, method of curing,
MACLAINE, Dr. his account, and de- fence of, Archbishop Wake's corre- fpondence 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 fto- 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- nefs, 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, should not be fufpected of leading to impiety, 407. Incompleat manner of teaching this fcience in the universities, 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, 28. Paffions and habits of, 28. Enquiry into the conflitution of the mind, 113. Mode of exiftence, 117. The fame
with what we call fpirit, 118. Influ. ence of the mind on the body, 250. Bad effects of immoderate application of to ftudy, 251. To other employ- ments, 254. Due relaxation of, re- commended in fuch cafes, 256. MONKS, their usefulness to fociety in the 7th and 8th centuries, 531. Their li- terary merit, ib. Music, its correfpondence with poetry, 321. The manner in which it acts on the paffions, 322. Laws of, univerfal in their influence, 325. Sentimental intercourse between the fifter arts, 326.
PAOLI, his greatness of mind, 254. Bafe ly attacked in the English news-papers. &c. 481.
PARIS, character of the citizens and fhop- keepers there, 453. PARLIAMENT, diffolution of, not an ada vifeable measure at this juncture, 466. PASCAL, M. injures his brain by too intense application to fludy, 253. PASSIONS, their medical ufes pointed out, 358.
PASTORAL poetry, obfervations on, 496 -498. At what era in the annals of mankind fuppofed to have been first written, 499.
PAVIA, battle of, defcribed, 85. One of the most fatal that ever happened to France, 86.
PEASANTRY, remarkable inftance of the extreme poverty and mifery of, in Ger- many, 182.
PERUKES, enormous fashions of, in for- mer days, 214.
PETIT, M. his obfervations on an aneu- rifm attended with fome very fingular circumstances, 513.
PETRIFACTIONS, Voltaire's remarks on, 555.
PETRONIUS, the author of the fatires, his identity afcertained, 552. A filthy writer, 553.
PHYSICIAN, moral qualities requifite in his character, 403. The faculty vin- dicated from the charge of irreligion, 405, 411.
PIRRHONISM of hiftory, Voltaire's re- marks on, 552.
PITT, Lord Chatham, his character and political conduct, 375. His oratorical abilities contemned, 376.
PLATO, his book of laws a more folid performance than his republic, &c. 541- Tranflation of into French, ib. PLOUGHING, obfervations on, and direc- tions for, 347.
POETRY, its correspondence with music, 321. Combines eloquence with it, 322. Farther curious obfervations on this fubject, 327, feq. POIVRE, M. le, his philofophical tra- vels, 258.
PONTHIAMAS. See CANCAR.
POPE, Clement VIIth, droll flory of three ladies who applied to him for flefbly in- dulgence on faft days, 522. POPE, Mr. original letters of his, fup- pofed to Mrs. M. Blount, 62. His trait of Mrs. Howard, 64. His private cha- rafter attacked by Churchill, 377. Said not to have understood his own reafon- ing, in the Effay on Man, 379.
Possesso, or grand cavalcade of the pope
PRECEDENTS, in law and parliamen-
tary proceedings, their utility canvaffed, SADOLET, his great character, 5326
461. PRESTLEY, Dr. his remarks on Dr.
Blackflone, relating to the Diffenters, 298. PROPHECIES, the gradual and fucceffive fulfilment of, pleaded in evidence for Chriflianity, 269-271.. PULSATION of the arteries, cause of, 518.
PUNCTUATION, in writing, obfervations on, 55. Of a paflage in Shakespeare's Macbeth, corrected, 143. Of a patsage in King Lear, ib.
PUNISHMENTS, future, nature and de- fign of, inveftigated, 99.
EFORMERS, from popery, vindicat- ed from the charge of fanaticifm, against HUME, 162. Apology for the warmth of their zeal, ib. RELIGION, not within the province of the civil magiftrate, 366. RE-PRODUCTION of animals, curious account of, 483. Voltaire's remarks on, 554.
REVIEWERS, apology for their fevere treatment of an author, 291. De- fended against the objections of Dr. Langhorne, 488.
RICH, Mr. pleafant question put by him to a certain play-wright, 487. ROMANS, their generofity, in their civil wars, remarkable inftance of, 3c8. Acquainted with the horfe-hoeing me- thod of husbandry, 351. ROME, in its infant flate, a neft of rabble, 186. Its unhealthy fituation, 413. Several of the grand monuments of antiquity there, described, ib. wonderful commm servers, 416. Cha- racter of the modern inhabitants, 417. Magnificent cavalcades of the pope, de- scribed, 418.
ROUNDHEADS, occafion of that name being given to the fanatics, 215. RUHNKENIUS, his recommendation of Grou's French tranflation of Plato's bock of laws, 541.
RURAL life, happiness of, defcribed, 75. RUSSIA, fate of population in, 432. Varicus caufes afligned for the decrease of its inhabitants, ib, Eftimate of its military force, 433. Character of the foldiery, 434. Naval force, 454. Ca- ravan trade with China, 456. RUSSIANS, their peculiar advantages as a warlike people, 458. Their natural advantage over the Turks, 459.
SAL-AMMONIAC. See SOLFATA-
SALT-PETRE, pretended to be made from earth, curious ftory of, 556. SAPPHо, her hymn to Venus, tranflated, 429.
SCHOMBERG, Dr. his remarkable plagia- rifm, 239.
SCOTLAND, remarks on the climate of, and ftate of agriculture there, 346 SEARCH, Mr. his fanciful fyftem of our exiftence in another ftate, 245. His fcenical reprefentation of, 247. See allo SPIRIT and Soul.
curious account of the family
of the Search's, 248. SECKER Archb. his arguments in fa- vour of epifcopifing the colonies, 220. SEDENTARY life, fatal to health, 250- 255. How to remedy, 256. SENTIMENTAL, that word pronounced to be a barbarism, 390. SHAKESPEARE, apology for the faults in his writings, 131. His merit, how to be cflimated, 132. Parallel between him and Corneille, 136. His preter- natural Beings formed agreeably to the prevailing fuperftitions of his time, 139. Garrick's ode in honour of this bard, 235-
SHELLS, various kinds of; found in ftone
quarries, where they are not-fuppofed to have been originally depofited by the
SHOES, frange fashion of, in the reign of Richard II, 210. Law made to limit the enormous length of their peaks, ib. SHREWSBURY, Duchefs, her criminal amour with Buckingham, 304. Re- flections on, 307.
SIBERIA, the elevation of the foil of, above the level of the fea, lefs than hath been fuppofed, 438. Obferva. tions on the mines of that country, ib.
SINIGACLIA, defcription of the fair there, 333.
SLAVERY, how far tolerated in Eng- land, 31.
SMALL-POX, ftate of inoculation for, in France, from 1758 to 1765, 516. Ob- jections to this practice anfwered, 517: SMOLLETT, Dr. his hiftory of England cenfured, 535:
SUI MATARA, obfervations on the falt of, affirmed by the natives to be fal-ammo- nide, $10.
BOUL, free enquiry into its existence, 124. Fanciful hypothefis relating to its exiftence in a future ftate, 245. SoWING of corn, remarks on, and direc- tions for, 349.
SPINELLO, the painter, frighted out of his fenfes by one of his own pictures, 253. SPIRIT, or mind, its properties investi- gated, 118. Its individuality and dif- tinct existence maintained, 119. See more, under SOUL.
SPRING, the effect produced by a fine morning in, poetically defcribed in French verfe, 500. The fame in Eng- lish, 501.
STERNE, Laurence, his humorous hif- tory of a watch-coat, fome account of, 486.
STUDY, ill effects of too much applica-
tion to, 250-255. How to remedy, 256.
SWIFT, his Tale of a Tub, borrowed from the fable of the Three Rings, 551. Mis- understood by Voltaire, ib. SUBSTANCE, metaphyfical enquiry con- cerning, 113. Of compound fub-
SUN, not the fole caufe of the difference of heat and cold, in fummer and win- ter, 504.
VASES, Etruscan, &c. curious colle&tion of defigns from, 566. VEILLARD, M. his extrordinary case of an aneurism, 514.
VENICE, ftate of religion there, 334. Manner of worship obferved by the Greeks there, 335. Bad prefervation of the paintings of great mafters in the public buildings at Venice, 336. VIRGIL, his tomb, described, 423. VOLTAIRE, his character of Montef
quieu's Efprit de Loix, 213. Enume- rates the errors of that work, ib. His enquiry into the existence of the foul, 124. Denies the reality of laws of
war, 127. His criticifms on Shake- fpeare refuted, 130, 141. His remark on the different poetical merits of Dry- den and Pope, 378. His abuse of Warburton, 549. His farcafms on the Jews, 550. His miftake about Swift's Tale of a Tub, 551. His Pirrhoniẩm of Hiftory, 552. His account of Pe- tronius, ib. Of the fingularities of na- ture, 554. His flory of a German chemift, 556. His controverfy with the Jews, 562.
TAKE, Archbishop, vindication of his correfpondence with the doc- tors of the Sorbonne, 163. WALPOLE, Lord, writes to Bishop Sec- ker, against the scheme of sending bi- fhops to America, 220,
WALPOLE, Sir Robert, his expulfion from the House of Commons canvaffed, 461.
WAR, LAWS OF, their existence denied, 127.
WATER, how to fweeten by ventila- lation, 229.
WELCH, language, its affinity with the
Greek, 191. Its connection with other languages confidered, ib. Study of recommended, 193. WILKES, Mr. a member of the Eleufi- nian Society at Mednam-abbey, 374- His character of Mr. Pitt, 375. His defence of Churchill's attack on Mr. Pope, 378. His account of his quar- rel with Hogarth, 385. His apology for his perfen, 381.
WINDS, their infalutary effects on the air, 352. In what refpect faid to be instrumental in fpreading peftilential diforders, 354.
WOLSEY, Cardinal, his extraordinary character, 10. His vaft ambition,
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