potteries, difcovered in the Mof- quito country, 278. See also HEY.
LESBOS. See METELIN. LEXEL, Mr. his obf. on the peri- odical time of the comet of 1770,
LEXICON. See BIEL. LIFE, poetical picture of the mife- ries of. 393. LIGHT, philofophically inveftigat- ed, 153. Its nature contrary
to that of fure, 154: LIGHTNING. See CowPER. LOADSTONE, See KNIGHT. LONDON, poetical forefight of the ruins of, 128.
King's legislative authority over conquered countries, 139. MARCELLINUS, Ammianus, his advantageous account of the fer- tility of Judea, 569. MARTIN, honeft Tom, his objec- tions to the profeffion of an at- torney, 300. His hiftory of Thetford, ib. MASERES, Baron, his method of finding a near value of the very flowly converging infinite feries, &c. 42. His method of extend- ing Cardan's rule for refolving one cafe of a cubic equation, &c. MASSON, Mr. his account of the ifland of St. Miguel, 49.
LONGFIELD, Dr. See ASTRO- MEADOWS. See BoswELL.
LORT, Mr. his obf. on Celts, 110. LowтH, Bishop, his new tranfla-
tion of Ifaiah, fpecimen of, 285. LUCY, Sir Tho. fuppofed to be the perfon alluded to by Shake- fpear, under the character of Juftice Shallow, 258. LYON, Mr. his defcript. of a Ro man bath, discovered at Dover, 279.
MACHINES, to fhorten labour,
their utility, 225. MACQUART, M. his remarkable cure of an abfcefs formed in the cefophagus, by means of mer cury, 513. MADNESS, new treatise concern- ing the nature and cure of, 564. MAHON, Lord, his invention for fecuring buildings from fire, 51. The experiment tried, ib. MAILLA, Fath. de, mistaken in his opinion of the Chinese Chro- nology, 5c6.
MAN, his organization, vital prin- ciple, &c. inveftigated, 401. plan of a complete history of, 526. MANNERS, dramatic, crit. remarks on, 187.
MANSFIELD, Earl of, his opinion controverted, concerning the
MEDICINE, Royal Society of, in France, a new inftitution, 511. Hiftory of, ib.
MENGS, the celebrated painter, anecdotes of, 564.
METELIN, the ancient Lefbos de- fcribed, 517.
MIGUEL, St. ifland of, hot fount- ains there, defcribed, 49. Their efficacy, in the cure of the gout, 5.0. MILLES, Dr. his acc. of two Au rei, found by digging in the Tower of London, 276. See alfo, p. 282. MOGULS, their tyranny over the
Indians, 543. Mosquito fhore, curious eaftern vafes, found there, 277. See alfo the Letter and Note p. 278. Music, extraordinary genius for in an infant, 209.
Music, philofophically confidered, 541.
Music of the ancient Greeks, 577- MUTZENBECHER's edit, of Biel's Philological Thefaurus, 235.
NECESSITY, philofophical, at-
tacked, and defended, 29. NETHERLANDS, united provinces of, their glorious ftruggle for freedom, 373. Their wonder- ful fuccefs, 374. Arguments
ufed in their debates, for and against a peace with Spain, 375. NONSUCH-houfe, &c, fome ac- count of, 281. NOUVEAUX Elemens de la fcience de l'Homme, 401.
ORAN OUTANG, acc. of the or- gans of fpeech in, 220. ORRED, Mr. his account of a cafe in which the head of the os bu- meri was fawn off, 216. OS HUMERI. See ORRED.
PALESTINE, Country of, its ferti- lity, &c. afferted, in oppofition to Voltaire, and other infidel writers, 565.
PALMER, Mr. his notions refpect
ing philofoph. neceffity, &c. 29. PAN-fand. See EARTHEN-WARE. PARNEL, Mr. a remarkable faying of his, in the Irish Houfe of Commons, 247. PARTIES, ftate of, in the British court, in 1757, 118. PARTINGTON, Mr. his fuccefs in medical electricity, 309. PAU, M. his account of the Chi-
nese controverted, 521. PAUSANIUS, his teftimony to the fertility of Judea, 569. PEGGE, Mr. his account of St. George, the patron faint of Eng- land, 107.
his remarks relative to
Croyland abbey, 110.
his examination of the question whether Ireland and Thanet are void of ferpents, 113.
his account of some stone coffins, 271. His explanation of a paffage in Gildas, 274.
his obfervations on con- ventual feals, 279. PERSECUTION, excellent parable against, 196. PETRIFACTION. See KING. PEYERE, M. le, his fuccessful ap plication of the burning-glass in the cure of ulcers, 513. PICKERSGILL, Lieut. his account of the track of the brig Lion,
from Eng. to Davis's Streights, &c. 52. His accidental death, ib. the note.
PILE-driver, theory of that ma chine, 383.
PINE-apple, a valuable treatise for the culture of, recommended, 355- POLITICAL intrigues, of the cabi net under Henry IV. &e. 554. POPE, Mr. his description of the tower of Dornadilla, 271. POPERY, principles of appreciated, 67. See more under CATHO
POWNAL, Mr. his account of the earthen-ware discovered in the fea, near Whitstable Bay, 275.
· of curious earth-
en vases, found on the Mosquito fhore, 277. POTTERIES, ancient remains of, difcovered on the Mosquito coaft,
PRAISE, the love of, difcuffed, 294. PRICE, Dr. his notion with re- fpect to fome in the neceffarian doctrine, 35
cenfured for his foreboding and defponding fpirit, in respect of our political affairs, 447. His remarks refpecting annuities, &c. ib.
PRIESTLEY, Dr. his notions of philofophical neceffity, and ma- terialism, attacked and defended, 29. Ridiculed, 64.
sketch of the controver- fy between him and his oppo- nents on matter, &c. 223. PRINCES, education proper for, 574. Ought not to employ their time and attention on any arts or fciences not immediately relative to government, 575. PRUSSIA, K. of, his ideas of the relation between a citizen and his country, 132.
SHAKESPEAR, his plays arranged according to their dates, 18. His acquaintance with the stage, when began, 19. Remarks on his excellencies, 25. Critical explanations of remarkable paf- fages in his plays, 257-270. SHERIDAN, Counsellor, combats Sir W. Blackstone's doctrine, respecting the power of the Bri- tifh Parliament in regard to re- land, 359. SHUCKBURGH, Sir George, his rules for measuring of heights with the barometer, compared with thofe of Col. Roy, 37. See alfo HUTTON. SIGHT, extraordinary particulars respecting a moft remarkable im- perfection of that fenfe, 50. SMITH, Edw. ftory of his being
employed to alter Clarendon's history, 303.
SOCIETY, new. See MEDICINE. SOPHOCLES, his Oedipus Tyrannus. tranflated, 394. SPECULATION, a poem, by Mr. Anstey, extracts from, 474. ST. GEORGE, the patron faint of England, the personal existence of disputed, 106.
STRANGE, Mr. his account of Roman antiquities in Wales, 107.
his account of fome Ro- man infcriptions, &c. in Iftria,
&c. 114. STUART, Lord James, a great pro-
mcter of the Reformation in Scotland, his character, 338. ST. VITUS's dance, cured by elec- tricity, 215.
SUGAR, acid of, a new discovery, 76.
SUGAR Cane. See Cazaud.
TANJORE, conqueft of, confider ed, 124.
TCHESME, or Chefme, harbour of described, 518. TELESCOPE. See JEURAT. THETFORD, hift. of, 300. Cu- rious bill of expences for equip. ping two horfemen there, to ferve in the wars, in the reign of Ed. III. 301. TOLERATION of Roman Catholics in England defended, 116. And in Scotland, 149. TRANSLATOR, his principal qua- lifications and duty, 282. TRELAWNEY, Sir Harry, his ver- fatility, 326.
VANITY, admirable picture of,
VAN SWINDEN's plan for a treatise on the Aurora Borealis, 310. VASES, Ancient, difcovered on the Mosquito Shore, 277. VEGETABLES, their power of cor- recting bad air, 346. Yet they themselves emit a noxious air in
the night, ib. Experiments re- lative to, 347, 504.
VISION, Curious exper. relative
ULCERS, cured by the burning- glass, 513-
ULLOA, Don, his obfervations on the eclipfe of the Sun, June 27, 1778, 213. VOLCANOES. See EARTHQUAKE. VOLTAIRE, his argument againit the authority of the Scriptures, drawn from the fterility of Ju- dea, &c. obviated, 566.
WALES, Roman antiquities in,
107. WALLERIUS, Profeffor, his phy- fico-chymical meditations on the origin of the world, 153. His introduction to the history of writers on mineralogy, 160. WALPOLE,Sir Robert, his fuppofed dialogue with Mr. Pelham, on his fyftem of political corruption, 454.
WARBURTON, Mifs, verfes to,
130. WARING, Profeffor, his Problems
concerning interpolations, 381. His general refolution of alge- braical equations, 383. WATERING of Meadows, direc- tions for, 456.
WATERS, rules, &c. for the ana- lyfis of, 73.
WATSON, Dr. his experiments on lead ore, 48.
WATSON, Mr. his acc. of fome an- tiquities in Cheshire, &c. 109. WASHINGTON, General, compli mentary verses to, 389. Me- moirs of, where to be found, 390.
WEST, Mr. his account of fome Roman antiquities at Lancaster,
WILSON, Mr. his account of Dr.
Knight's method of making ar- tificial loadstones, 221. WOMEN, young, falutary effect of their breath, upon old men, 353.
WOULFE, Mr. his experiments on mineral substances, 217. WYNDHAM, Mr. his conjecture re- lative to an ancient building at? Warnford, 280.
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