real pleasure in rendering to all these gentlemen the justice which is their due. The tenth volume will contain very curious articles, which, under the favour of God, will be likely to give new piquancy to the wit which we shall endeavour to infuse into the thanks we return to all these gentlemen. Given at Mount Krapac, the 30th of the month of Janus, in the year of the world, according to Scaliger According to Les Etrennes Mignonnes* 5722 5776 5956 According to Eusebius 6972 According to the Alphonsine tables 8707 According to the Egyptians 370,000 According to the Chaldeans 465,102 According to the Bramins 780,000 According to the Philosophers * The name, it is presumed, of a pocket-book or almanac, in the manner of English yearly works of the same description.-T. GENERAL INDEX. [Note. When the subjects are also articles, the article is placed Magus PREFACE; including a few Observations on the Life, A-Letter (article) Accounted sacred Aaron-Talmudical story of him and a widow Abauzot-His explanation of the Trinity Abbadie-His credulity in regard to the forged letters from Pilate to Tiberius ABBE (article) ABBEY ABBOT (article) Abbots-Princely ones of Germany Abel-His death sceptically considered Abdias-His ridiculous legend of St. Peter and Simon Vol. Page vii Abeliens-Their reputed mode of worship 5 120 ABILITY (article) Able-Distinguished from capable 1 17 ABRAHAM (article) Different opinions as to the time of his birth 20 Not explained how related to Sarah Origin of French Academy Academies-First instituted by the Italians Academy, English-One proposed by Dr. Swift Members originally proposed Academy, French-Its absurd eulogies Services which it might render 1 40 1 40 Vol. Page ADAM (article) Unknown to any but the Jews An hermaphrodite, according to Madame Bourignon 1 Not a Jew Adamites-Their mode of worship Address Singular one to a queen of China or Japan Never alluded to by the ancients in reference to love What the Romans meant by adoring Adrian, Emperor-His character of the inhabitants of Egypt ADULTERY (article) Application of the word, metaphorical 1 41 1 43 46 The word horns' first used by the Greeks in refe- Memorial from a magistrate on the subject of A case of conscience relative thereto Cheat in regard to, put upon a duke of Bouillon ALCORAN, or KORAN (article) Extent of country acknowledging it Opening of Regulations of with respect to wives Mahomet not assisted to compose it by a Monk or á Jew ALEXANDER (article) Probable foundation of the story of Alexander and Not adored in the strict sense of the term Fables of Plutarch in regard to ALEXANDRIA (article) Character of its inhabitants Moral sense of not always discoverable Strange ones of St. Augustin Coarse ones, abound in old sermons and addresses Alma (Prior's) Account of 1 62 ALMANAC (article) Vol. Page Kingdom of the, a fiction Absurd quackery contained in them Chaldean, Syrian, and Egyptian notion of Held in abomination by the early christians None possessed by christians before the reign of AMAZONS (article) AMBIGUITY-EQUIVOCATION (article) Of all laws 102 ancients Fine instances of Anaxagoras-Accused of Atheism His absurd doctrines Ancients-Several fabled to have risen again Sentiments on the controversy in regard to the pre- cedence between Prejudice of Sir William Temple in favour of the Andrew, St.-His death unknown ANECDOTES (article) 1 108 Fall and punishment of, according to the Shastah 149 151 the Hebrews Socrates The ancient doctrine of The Hierarchy of, by Dionysius the Areopagite Rank of, according to the Jews The Fall of, not in the books of Moses Christian religion founded on the doctrine of the Mythology of Good and Bad, passed from the east to Greece and Rome Fall of, alluded to by St. Jude ANNALS (article) Great part of the world without any ANNATS (article) Rise and abolition of Pusillanimously restored in France Anthony the Preacher, his reason for turning Jew His extraordinary belief and fate Jews and Mahometans both such According to Dionysius of Alexandria, rejected by nearly all the doctors, and attributed, not to St. Were they married? Letter of St. Ignatius, decisive as to the marriage of Peter and Paul Children of the Apostles Under what discipline did they live? 220 1 220 |