Physle, strange peculiarity of the practice of in China, 359. Pindar, Peter, publications rela- tive to his late fracas in a bookseller's shop, 104. 321. Plants. See Vauquelin, and La Grange.
Poet, the duties of his office and
province, in what respects dif ferent from those of the philo- sopher, 461. Poetry, the dignity and utility of, poetically asserted, 150.
abominable vulgarity and grossness of the antient Scottish poetry, 204.
--, Apology for the bodily excellences of the heroes of antient poetry, 462. See also Aristotle, Voltaire, Epopee, and Tragedy. Poor, management of receptacles for, in houses of industry, &c. 33. Other publications on this subject, 332... Porson, Mr. his edition of the
Phoenissæ of Euripides, 375. Potatoes, the frequent culture of. them unfavourable to the soil, 277.
Pretyman, Ep. his Elements of
Christianity criticized, 162. Prony, M. on balancing, 534. Provisions, high price of, ascribed
to the war, 433; also to a re- duction of the national debt, 435.
е Quackery, in religion, bad conse- quences of, 212.
Raymond, M. on phosphorus, 532 Rennell, Major, his curious exa-
mination of the geography of Herodotus, 337, &c. See also a note relative to this work, in- serted in the Correspondence for December, 448. Resurrection of the body, question how far that doctrine be or be
not asserted in the book of Job, 501. General design of
the author of that work ex-
plained, 502. Antiquity of the doctrine questioned, 503. Reversions, contingent, &c. See Morgan. Revolution in France, primary causes of, 167. Early mea- sures of the French court to produce a feigned coalition of other powers against France, 170. Plan to rescue the King, 172. Views of the Royalists, 175. Mr. Fox's assertion of the regal conspiracy canvassed, 176.
Rhus radicans. See La Grange. See Mons.
Rumsey, Mr. account of the croup,
as it appeared at Chesham, 78. Russel, Dr. two cases of the ex- istence of the small-pox and the measles at the same time, in the same person, 79,
Salmon-fishery in Northumberland, curious estimate of, 369. Sandwich, Earl of, memoirs rela- tive to, 2. His political ca- reer, 3. His private character, 4. His voyage to the Levant, 5. Character of the Turks, 9. Visit to Egypt, 12. Saxons, antient language of its origin, &c. 294. Scarcity. See Forestalling, Far- mers, Scarcity, Grain, &c. Shrewsbury, account of the House of Industry there, 32. Somerville, Lord, letter to, at- tacking the conduct of the Board of Agriculture, 371. Sophocles, critical stricture on his Tragedies, 464. Compared with Euripides, 465. Sores, successfully treated by the application of gastric juice, 82. See Harness, Dr. Sound and light, outlines of ex- periments and inquiries relative. to, 260. Spaniards, their proceedings in the discovery of unknown countries,
countries, not justifiable, 524.. Stephanopoli, Messrs. their late
travels in the Morea, &c. 482. Sturges, Dr. his controversy with Mr. Milner on the Papal Su- premacy, &c. 245. Sublime, in literary composition, unsusceptible of analysis, 457. Sugar, from Beet-rave. See Mar- graff and Vauquelin. Sun-setting, described, 287.
Tales, letters, &c. Arabic and
Persian, translated, 195. Tartini, his musical powers, 518. Taylor, Chevalier, the oculist, his dexterity in couching for the cataract noticed abroad, 508. Tempest at sea, poetically describ- ed, 284.
Theatre of the antients, how far
superior to the moderns, 463. Tippoo Sultaun, account of the late
war with, 85. His death, 87. Tongres, waters of analyzed, 535. Toulon, some account of, 512, Tragedy. See Voltaire. See Aristotle, Theatre, Sophocles, and Euripides. Tumour. See Home. Turks. See Constantinople. Greece. Turner, Captain, his embassy to the Court of Tibet, in 1783, 226-234. His reception by the regency at Tisulambu, 235. V and U
Vauquelin, M. on malate of lime, $30. On acids, 531. On the Gadolinite, 534. On the honey-
Vienne, in Italy, described, 509. Village, the Bard's favorite resi-
dence, poetically described, 283. Vipers, curious account of the Arab trade in those reptiles, 12. Virgil, inferior to Homer, 463. Ulcers. See Harness.
Veltaire, M. his misconception of the word Genius, 452. His censure of our dramatic repre- sentations, 455. His complaint of the defects of the French Voyage. See Missionary, Greece, larguage, 459. Marchand, Fleuricu. Uterus, rupture of. See Haden.
W Wales, droll account of, from the travels of the late Mr. Wig- stead, 444. Wallenstein, Gen. his rema kable greatness, pride, and ruin, 398. His assassination, 4c2. War asserted to be the real cause of the enormous price of every article of consumption, 433-
in some respects favorable to civilization, &c. 467. Wheat, culture of, 95. Scarcity of, 96. Importance of its due produce, 275. Remarks on the disease called smut, 276. Wines, observations on, 533. Wells, Dr. on the Erysipelas, 83.
on the entire want of hair on : the human body, ib. Wilson, Mr. case of aneurism, 83. Wurzer, Prof. on a new fixed al- kai, 536.
Yeomen, and country gentlemen, the present alarming decline of those useful classes, in England, lamented, 39:
York, laudable institution there,
for female charity-schools, 223. Yorkshire, west-riding of, view of its extent, population, agricul- ture, &c. 279. An increase of industry in the cultivation of the waste lands, &c. strongly re- commended, 281. Manufac tures of, ib.
Young, Dr. on sound and light, 260.
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