S Parthenope. Novies vult tellus mille Sicana. Papa fuo regit imperio ter millia quinque. Cum fex centuriis numerat fex millia Tufcus'. Centuriâ Ligures augent duo millia quartâ. Centuria octavam decadem addit Lucca fecundæ. Ut dicas, fpatiis quam latis imperet orbi Ruffia, myriadas ter denas adde trecentis : Sardiniam cum fexcentis fex millia complent. Cum fexagenis, dum plura recluferit ætas, Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra" colendas. Vult fibi vicenas millefima myrias addi, Vicenis quinas, Afiam" metata celebrem. Se quinquagenis octingentefima jungit Myrias, ut menti pateat tota Africa" doctæ. Myriadas feptem decies Europa" ducentis Et quadragenis quoque ter tria millia jungit. ingly, the Morea, in Templeman, to be fet down at 7,220 fquare miles.-Arabia, at 700,000.-Perfia, at 800,000.and Naples, at 22,000. "Sicily, in Templeman, is put down at 9,400. The pope's dominions, at 14,868. 7 Tuscany, at 6,640. Genoa in Templeman, as in Johnfon likewife, is fet down at 2,400. 9 Lucca, at 286. The Ruffian empire, in the 29th plate of Templeman, is fet down at 3,303,485 fquare miles. Sardinia, in Templeman, as likewife in Johnfon, 6,600. 12 The habitable world, in Templeman, is computed, in fquare miles, at 30,666,806. Afia, at 10,257,487. 14 Africa, at 8,506,208. " Europe, at 2,749,349. Myriadas 16 Myriadas denas dat, quinque et millia, fexque Centurias, et tres decadas Europa Britannis ". Ter tria myriadi conjungit millia quartæ, Centuriæ quartæ decades quinque " Anglia nectit Millia myriadi feptem fœcunda fecundæ Et quadragenis decades quinque addit Ierne", Quingentis quadragenis focialis adauget Millia Belga 19 novem. 19 Ter fex centurias Hollandia " jactat opima Undecimum Camber" vult feptem millibus addi. 16 The British dominions, at 105,634. 17 England, as likewife in Johnson's expression of the num ber, at 49,450. 18 Ireland, at 27,457. 19 In the three remaining inftances, which make the whole that Dr. Johnfon appears to have rendered into Latin verse, we find the numbers exactly agreeing with thofe of Templeman; who makes the fquare miles of the United Provinces, 9540 of the province of Holland, 1800-and of Wales, 7011. *The Lady on whom the Greek verfes, and the Latin ones that immediately follow, were written (page 397), is the celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, who tranflated the works of Epictetus from the Greek. INDE X. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume, A ABERBROTHICK, account of the town of, x. 322. Of the ruins of the monaftery there, 324. Aberdeen, account of, x. 327. Dr. Johnfon meets with an old acquaintance, Sir Alexander Gordon, there, 327. Account of the King's College, 329. Account of the Marifchal College, 330. Account of the Library, 330. The course of education there, 331. Account of the English chapel, 332. Abilities, the reward of, to be accepted when offered, and not fought for in another place, exemplified in the ftory of Gelaleddin of Bafora, vi. 300. Abouzaid, the dying advice of Morad his father to him, vii. 289. Affinia, preface to the tranflation of Father Lobo's voyage to, ix. 431. Acaftus, an instance of the commanding influence of curiofity, vii. 60. Achilles, his addrefs to a Grecian prince fupplicating life, improper for a picture, viii. 180. Action (dramatick), the laws of it flated and remarked, vii. 97. Action (exercife), neceffary to the health of the body, and the vigour of the mind, vi. 81.87. The fource of cheerfulness and vivacity, 86. Alion (in oratory), the want of, confidered, viii. 361. Tends to no good in any part of oratory, 362. Ations, every man the beft relater of his own, viii. 259. The injuftice of judging of them by the event, ix. 83. Adams Parfon, of Fielding, not Edward but William Young, iv. 272. Addifon, Jofeph, fuppofed to have taken the plan of his Dialogues on Medals from Dryden's Effay on Dramatick Poetry, ii. 315. His life, iii. 41. Born at Milton, in Wiltshire, May 1, 1672, 41. The various fchools at which he received inftruction, 41. Cultivates an early friendship with Steele, 42. Lends 100l. to Steele, and reclaims it by an execution, 43. Entered at Oxford, 1687, 43. Account of his Latin poems, 44. Account of his English poems, 44. 44. On being introduced by Congreve to Mr. Montague, becomes a courtier, 46. Obtains a penfion of 3c0l. a year, that he might be enabled to travel, 46. Publishes his travels, 47. Succeeds Mr. Locke as Commiffioner of Appeals, as a reward for his poem The Battle of Blenheim, 48. Went to Hanover with Lord Halifax, 48. Writes the opera of RofaMade Under-fecretary of State, 48. Wrote in mond, 49. Aflifts Steele in writing the Tender Hofband, 49. Goes to Ireland with Lord Wharton as Secretary, 49. Made Keeper of the Records in Birminghan.'s Tower, 49. The opposite characters of him and Wharton, 50. His reafon for refolving not to remit any fees to his friends, 50. Wrote in the Tatler, 51. the Spectators. 51. His tragedy of Cato brought on the stage, and fopported both by the Whigs and Tories, 57. 59. Cato warmly Other honours and enmities fhewed to attacked by Dennis, 59. Cato, 60. Cato tranflated both into Italian and Latin, 60. Writes in the Guardian, 61. His fignature in the Spectator and Guardian, 62. Declared by Steele to have been the author of the Drummer, with the story on which that comedy is founded, 62. Wrote feveral political pamphlets, 63. Appointed Secretary to the Regency, 65. In 1715 publishes the Freeholder, 65. Marries the Countess of Warwick, Aug. 2, 1716, 66. Secretary of State, 1717, but unfit for the place, and therefore refigns it, 67. Sir J. Hawkins's Defence of the character he had given of Addifon in his Hiftory of Purposes Malick against the author of the Biog. Brit. 67. 72. Engages in his writing a tragedy on the death of Socrates, 72. Had a defign of writing an Defence of the Chriftian Religion, 73. English dictionary, 73. His controverfy with Steele on the Peerage Bill, 74. During his laft illnels fends for Gay, informs him that be had injured him, and promifes, if he recovered, to recompense him, 77. Sends for the young Earl of Warwick, that he might fee how a Chriftian ought to die, 78. Died June 17, 1719, 78. His character, 8. The courfe of his familiar day, 81. His literary chaExtracts from Denri's racter, 84. Account of his works, 85. Obfervations on Cato, 91. Confidered as a critick, 107. ComCharacter of his profe works, mended as a teacher of witdom, 110. 110. Example of his difintereited conduct in difpofing of places, A converfation with Pope on Tickell's tranflation of Homer, 233. Becomes a rival of Pope, iv. 39. Suppofed to have been the tranflator of the Iliad, published under the name Tickell, 43. His critical capacity remarked, vi. 91. 140. 143. Obfervations on his tragedy of Cato, ix. 267. Defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 183. Admiration, and ignorance, their mutual and reciprocal operation, vi. 11. No. xli. 8. 25. Adventurer, No. xxxiv. ix. 1. No. liii. 26. No. lviii. 32. No. lxii. 39 54. No. lxxxv. 61. No. xcii. 68. No. ci. 90. No. cvii. 97. No. xlv. 14. No. 1. 20. No. Ixix. 47. No. lxxxis. No. xcv. 77. No. xcix. 83. No. cviii. 103. No. cxi. 109. No. car. 116. No. cxix. 123. No. cxx. 129. No. cxxvi, 135. No. cxxxi. 142. No. cxxxvii. 149. No. cxxxviii. 156. Adverfaries, the advantage of contending with illurious ones, iv. 501. Adverfity, Adverfity, a feafon fitted to convey the moft falutary and useful in ftruction to the mind, vii. 58. The appointed inftrument of promoting our virtue and happiness, 60. Advertisements, on pompous and remarkable, viii. 160. Advice, good, too often difregarded, vi. 97. The caufes of this affigned, 98. Vanity often the apparent motive of giving it, 99. When molt offenfive and ineffectual, vii. 90. Affability, the extenfive influence of this amiable quality, vii. 2. Affectation, the vanity and folly of indulging it, v. 131. 133. Wherein at properly differs from hypocrify, 134. The great abfurdity of it expofed in the character of Gelafimus, vii. 228. Affliations, proper methods of obtaining confolation under them; v. 113. 332. Infeparable from human life, ix. 132. The benefits of, 134. Africa, progrefs of the difcoveries made on that coaft by the Portu guefe, ix. 376. Age, the prefent an age of authors, ix. 116. Agriculture, its extenfive ufefulness confidered, vii. 28. Thoughts on, Akenfide, Dr. Mark, his opinion of Dyer's Fleece, iv. 213. His life, 286. Son of a butcher at Newcastle upon Tyne, born 1721. Defigned for a diffenting minifter, but turns his mind to phyfick, 286. Pleafures of Imagination publifhed; 1744, 287. Studies at Leyden, and becomes M. D. 1744, 287. An enthufiaftick friend to liberty, and a lover of contradiction, 287. Practifes phyfick at Northampton and Hampftead, 288. Settles at London, 289. Allowed 300 l. a year by Mr. Dyfon, 289. By his writings obtains the name both of a wit and fcholar, 290. Died 1770, 290. Cha-racter of his works, 290. Alal after, Roxana, commended, ii. 85. Alacrity, the cultivation of it the fource of perfonal and focial pleasure, vi. 18, 19. Albion, in lat. 3o, account of the friendly inhabitants found there by Drake, iv. 443. Alexandrian Library, its lofs lamented, viii. 263. Aliger, his character, vii. 354. Allen, Mr. of Bath, praised by Pope in his Satires, iv. 77. All's Well that Ends Well, obfervations on Shakespeare's, ix. 309. Almamoulin, the dying fpeech of Nouradin, his father, to him, vi. 314. His though less extravagance, 316. The excellent advice which the fage gave him, 318. VOL. XI. Ff Altilia, |