INDE X.
N. B. To find any particular BOOK, or PAMPHLET, see the TABLE of CONTENTS, prefixed to the Volume.
ADAM and Eve, their adventures on
AUTHORS, a caution against them, 222.-distinction among, 223.
on their departure from Eden, BANQUET of Plato, characters
from Gefner, 110. Their pa- thetic reflexions on feeing, in a bird, the first inftance of death,
ADAMS, Parfon, in Jofeph An- drews, remarks on that cha- racter, 491. Who intended for, ib. EONIAN, how to be underflood when applied to the kingdom of Chrift, &c 182. AFFECTATION defcribed, 203. AGAMEMNON's Prayer, 458. ANSON, Lady, poem on the death of, 362.
ARIO TO, an examination into the merits of public opinion relating to him, 42. ARMADA, the invincible Spanish, history of, 279. ARMS of England, its fupporters originally leopards, 247. ARMY, the first confideration ne- ceffary to the forming a good one, 6c. ARTS, the flourishing of, an indi- cation of the flourishing state of a country, 244. ATONEMENT, only effected by perfonal contrition and reforma-
ATTENTION, how manifefted by behaviour, 201.
of the speakers in that dia- logue, 196.
BAREBONES the apothecary, his distress, and scheme for relief, 155. Extracts from his tran- flation of Homer, ib. &c. BEAUTY, difference in rank merely, no obitacle to its pow- er, 421.
BERING, Capt. his unhappy end,
CASIMIR V. king of Poland, his fpeech to the Diet on his ab- dication of the crown, 168, Marries a Wafherwoman, 169. CHARLES I. his enemies, con- fiftently enemies to Cromwel, 98.
II. ftory of, and the widow Oliver, 253. CHRIST, a concife view of the fcheme of falvation by, 116. His kingdom not eternal, 182. A ranfom for ALL, 186. CLERGY MEN'S widows, their pre- carious dependence, and di- ftreffed conditions, 127. Pro- ject for their relief, 128. COLIN and Lucy, a pastoral, 193.
COMEDY, middle, its fhort dura- tion in Athens and England,
371. COMMENTATOR, a toilfome em- ployment, 321. CONTROVERSY, religious, the difadvantages of heat and acri- mony in, 206.-Conftable hath no business in, 240. CONVOYS, military, hints con- cerning, 62. COURAGE, the tokens of, 203. Affectation of, how diftinguifh- ed, ib. CRITICISM, modern method of evading 29.
defined, 413. De- duced from organic principles, 414. Advantages of studying, 416. CROMWELL, the ranking all the enemies to Charles I. as his par- tifans, a mistake, 96. His en- thufiafin affected, 97. Cha- racterised by Cowley, 98. His hypocrify infifted on, 100. His arbitrary government, 101. Comparifon between, and Louis XIV. 102. CURIOSITY, how it operates,
ANCER, humorous philofo a phy of a female one, 351. DANCERS, droll affociation of, 349. DANCING and logic compared, 345. Its antiquity, ib. De- rivation of, 345. Divifions or characters in, 347. Negroes extravagantly addicted to, 356. Various kinds of dances among the Americans, ibid. DARIEN, the poflibility of cutting through that neck of Land in- fifted on, 429.
DAVID, king of Ifrael, in what sense a man after God's own heart, 210. Critical remarks on his transactions in the affair of Nabal, 211. His conduc in refpect to Achish king of Gath, not hitherto fatisfactorily juftified, 212. Expofition of his treatment of the Moabites, 213.--of the Ammonites, 216. DEIST, reflexions on the conver- fion of one, 480. DENMARK, its form of govern- ment characterised, 392. DENTRICAL improvement, 430. DESPAIR, depicted, 202. DIVORCES, on what occafions
granted by the Pruffian law, 7. Dog and Cat, a fable, 70. Dogs, extraordinary species of, and ftory concerning, 431. DRUNKENNESS, two excellent schemes for, 431.
ELISHA, the prophet, his cha-
racter vindicated, 309. ELOISA to Abelard, beauties in that epiftle pointed out, 225. EMOTION and paffion, diftinction between, 420.
EMOTIONS, how excited by fic- tion, 423. Pleafant and pain- ful, agreeable and disagreeable, diftinguished, 424.
how excited by fubli- mity, 425. By novelty, 426. By vifible objects, ib. By ri- fible objects, 427. ENGLAND more remarkable for folidity of judgment than reline- ment in talte, 13. Why pro- ductive of poets rather than painters and itatuaries, 19, 244- ENTHUSIASM defined, 467. EPIC Poem, its properties fpeci-
cenfure on the ma-
chinery of, 424. EPISTLE from lady Jane Grey to lord Guilford Dudley, extracts from, 227. ERROR, a picture of, 460. ETERNAL, everlafting, &c. un- fcriptural expreffions, 182. EVIL, principle deducible from the reafoning of enquirers after the origin of, 144. Various opinions relating to the origin of, ib.
EURIPIDES, character of that poet, 408. Inftance of the pa- thetic in, 412.
tion laid on theatric exhibition, 371. His genius characterifed, 482. The afperity of his mufe accounted for, 484. Anecdote relating to his comedy of the Wedding-Day, 485. Waftes his patrimony, 487. Studies law, ib. His account of fome of his own performances, 489. Three epochas of his genius pointed out, 490. FINGAL, ftory of, 48. Exami- nation into the propriety of fimilies and allufions in, 50. Unnatural episode in, 52. Cu- chullin's chariot described, 55. The battle, 56. Prepofterous civility of Cuchullin, 130. Cri tical comparison of an episode in, to the story of the Horatii, 131. Cuchullin routed, 133. Fingal, his character scrutinised, 134. Sublime paffage noted, 135. Fingal arrives, 136. Offian scares the foe by hum- ming a fong, 137. Combat between Fingal and Swaran, 138. Summary remarks on the general conduct of the poem, 139.
FLEET in a ftorm, management of, 278.
FoOTE, his character as a mimic
and a writer, afcertained, 476. FORTUNE TELLERS greatly en-
couraged in England, 313. FREDERICIAN Code of Laws, its imperfections pointed out, 2. Conjugal duty enforced by it, 6.
country, 436. Its learning, 437. om.nerce, 441. GOD, natural definition of, 443. Love to, how it operates, io. A belief in, a strong incentive to morality, 445• Warmth of affection toward, recommend- ed, 467.
Good and evil, moral, objects of perception, 376. GOODNESS, fcripture motives to, 176.
GRAVITY,how diftinguished,200. GRIEF, how expreffed, c1.
IV. reflexions concern- ing, 87. The diffolutenefs and reformation of his fon prince Henry, 88.
JEFFERY Hudfon, the famous dwarf, brief hiftory of, 251. JESUITS, inftances of their enor mities, 64.
Jews, cruelly plundered at the time of Henry III. 83. Se- vere law against marriages with them, ib.
ILIAD of Homer, rules of epic
poetry established from it, not formed by them, 41. IMMORTALITY of the foul, con- jecture relating to, 506. INEQUALITY of condition, no proof of inequality of enjoy- ment, 146. Two fpecies of, 332. Refulting originally from inequality of talents and bodily abilities, 333- INFIDELITY better than perfe- cution, 22.
Jö, the manner of her appearance on the antient ftage conjectured, 324.
VI. misfortunes of his JoAN d'Arc, hiftory of, 90. queen and fon, 92. JOSEPH Andrews, remarks on the HERMIONE, Critical difquifition plan of that novel, 490. relating to the manner of her Joy, general expreffions of, 200. cutting her hair, 409. JUGGLING, no fear of the decay HIGHLANDERS, their objections of that art, 315. to the union stated, 69. HILLARY, Dr. fome important phyfical difcoveries by, 265. Inftances of his knowledge in Arabic, 258.
HISTORY, the difference between that of kingdoms and itates, and that of arts and fciences, 241. HORACE, criticiẩm on his neglec of order in compofition, 419. HOSPITALITY, fingular kind of, among certain Afiatics, 433.- HUME, Mr. examination of his arguments against miracles,
500. His favourable notions of the heathen mythology, 501.
JUNO, her expoftulation with Ju- piter, 457. JUPITER, his character of Juno, 456.
ETEL, a Dutch painter, his whimsical methods of paint- ing, 251.
KINGS, whether elective or he- reditary fucceffion of, be pre- ferable, 165. KNOWLEDGE, practical, not transferable, 122.
ANGUAGES, when arrived at
L maturity, 30.
LAWS, few and brief, a preca-
rious fecurity for property, 1. LIBERTY, its influence on tafte, 17.
MALAGRIDA, Father, principal NATURE, the real ftate of,
points alledged against him from his life of St. Anne, 23. His fentence, 27. MAN, his reasonable, focial, and religious character, 305.
a picture of, in a state of nature, 334. Comparison be- tween a favage and a man civi- lized, 335 Whether void of fear naturally, 336. Civilized, a mifchievous being, 340. Balance ftated between the ci- tizen and the favage, 342. Naturally a focial being, 378.
after God's own heart, how that phrase is to be understood, 208.
MARRIAGE, poetical perfuafive to, 66.
MELANCHOLY characterised, 201.
MESSIAH, in what fenfe the pro- phecies accomplished in him, 311. His birth-place predic- ted by the prophet Micah, 312. METAPHYSICs, &c. diffuafive from making them a part of univerfity education, 234. Un- juftly decried, 503. MILITARY books, why more fre- quently written in France than in England, 276.
MISER, his confolation amidst hiffes and contempt, 233.
NAVAL Evolutions, the impor- tance of a fyftem of, 276. Management of a fleet in a ftorm, 278. NEWTON, plan of a new edition of his Arithmetica Univerfalis, 508.
NICE Lady, her character and adventures. 387. NIGHT, verfes on, 152. NOBILITY, antient, of England, characterised, 249. NORTH-EAST paflage to the Eaft- Indies difcovered by the Ruf- fians, 429.
OSSIAN, the antient Scottish bard, the different merits of his com- positions and those of Homer accounted for, 43. OWEN on in-dwelling fin, com- fortable properties of that book, 480.
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