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NEAS defended against the imputation of an unmanly fear of death, 220. AGRICULTURE, account of a courfe of expertments in, 162- 167. Char. of various writers on, 231. Experiments in, 303, 378, 449, 477.
AIKIN, Mr. his effay on the liga- ture of arteries, 219. His obf. on the external use of prepara- tions of lead, 485. ALEXANDER the Great, his cha- racter, 7.
ALMIDA, a tragedy, critique on, 150.
AMERICA difcovered by the Green- landers, 183. ANGLO-SAXONS, their spirit of li- berty, and care for its preferva- tion in their conftitution of go. vernment, 496. ANIMALCULA, produced in veget- able infufions, curious account of, and hypothefes concerning,
207. ANTONY, Març, relation of the remarkable manner of his death, 113.
BAPTISM, the duty, circumstances, BROWNRIGG, Mr. his account of the American oil of ground-nuts, 206.
and benefits of, investigated, 432. Parther obf. on the sub- ject, 499. BARON, Richard, his zeal for the political writings of Milton, 334. Sketch of his character, 336. BATTLES, military obf. on several, in modern wars, 273. BEAUSOBRE, M. de, his obf, on forefight, &c. 549. BECKET,, Archbishop, his worth- lefs character, 569. BEECH-MAST oil, the making of, recommended, to fupply the place of oil of olives, 537. BEGUELIN, M. his attempt to re. concile the metaphyfics of Leib- nitz with the physical principles of Newton, 545. BEHMEN, Jacob, fpecimen of the nonfenfical jargon of his follow- ers, 80. BELISARIUS, his military exploits in Italy, 97. His wretched fub- jection to his wife, 100. Far- ther particulars of his hiftory, 101-103.
BERNOUILLE, M. his three me- moirs in the Hift. of the Acad. of Sciences, 541. BLYTHE'S book of husbandry cri-
BOILEAU, Mr. his art of poetry,
the best extant, 558. BORDA, Chevalier, his inveftiga- gation of a famous problem on the motion of fluids, 520. BOTANY, encomium on that fci- ence, 131.
BRAKENRIDGE, Dr. remarks on his calculations of the number of inhabitants in London, 138- 141.
BRITONS, ancient, their manner of life, &c. 405.-Their lan guage, 410. BROMFIELD, Mr. his method of performing the ligatures of ar- teries, 219. BROWN, Dr. his curious method of detecting a thief, 531. APP. Rev. vol. xliv.
CAMDEN, Lord, oppofes the judg- ment of Lord Mansfield, in re- gard to the idea of the credibi- lity of witneffes, 340. CANTON, Mr. his experiments re- fpecting the luminous appear- ance of the fea, 329.
city of, defcribed, 401. CATO, the elder, his ungenerous treatment of his fervants, &c. 4. CATTI, a tribe of ancient Ger- mans, their warlike turn and' character, 560.
CELTE, ancient, their manner of life, &c. 405. Their enthu- fiaftic love of freedom, 409. Their language, 410. CHALIEU, Abbé de, his verfes, bidding adieu to Fontenay, 5:2. Englished, ib. CHATEAUVICEUX, M. de, his writings on husbandry, 236. CHERUSCI, ancient Germans, their character, 560.
CHINA, number of inhabitants in,
CKEBERG, his voyage to China, 404. ELLIS, Mr. his obf. on a particu- lar manner of increafe in the ani- malcula of vegetable infufions, 207.
the farmer, his writings, characterized, 235. ENGLAND the rival of France, from what æra, 567. ENGLISH, ancient conftitution of, 469. ENTHUSIASM, poetic, effects op- pofite to thofe of religious en- thufiafm, 266, Pope deficient in it, ib. EPHEMERIS,
afronomical, for
1772, account of, 214. ESTABLISHMENTS, of religion, productive of bad effects, 193. Right of, to require fabf, to ar- ticles of faith, controverted, 199.
racters of their different tribes, 559. GOLDSMITH, Dr. remarkable in- accuracies in his life of Lord Bolingbroke, 109. GOOCH, Mr. his account of a re- markable feparation of the fearf fkin, 213.
GOULARD, M. his doctrine in re- fpect to the faturnine applica- tions in furgery, &c. contefted, 486. GREEKS, modern, still resemble their ancestors in their great love of their country, 505. Inftances of, 506, feq. Their adherence alfo to the old cuftoms of their country, 513. Manners of their ladies, ib. GROUND, how to lay out, agree- able to the modern tafte in gar. dening, 346.
HAFIZ, the Perfian poet, spe-
cimen of his works, 427. HAMILTON, Mr. his account of a late eruption of Vesuvius, 201. HARTE, Mr. his agricultural wri- tings extolled, 239. HEAT, general effects of, enume- rated, 155 HEBERDEN, Dr. his obf, on the number of inhabitants in Ma- deira, 139, 140. On the dif ferent quantities of rain which appear to fall at different heights on the fame ground, 331. HEROD'S Cruelty in the flaughter of the infants, critical remarks on, 295. HEWSON, Mr. his account of the lymphatic fyftem in fith, &c.
ancient, their ftrong attachment to liberty, 177. Their regulations of go- vernment, &c. ib.
JEBB, Rev. Mr. his apology for his lectures, 82.
JEWS, conformity of their cuftoms
with thofe of the negroes, 550. ILLINOIS, their country defcribed, Government of, 11. INFIDELITY abounds in France, 533-536.
INOCULATION, of the fmall-pox,
a great cause of the late increase of inhabitants in London, &c. 15.
JOHN, King of England, his con- tefts with Philip of France, &c. 575. With his English barons, 576. With the Pope, ib.
his bad character, 577. JOHNSON, Dr. Samuel, attacks Ju- nius, 330.
JONES, William, Efq; his demon-
ftration of a law of motion, in the cafe of a body deflected by two forces, tending conftantly to the fame point, 135. IRON. See LANE. JURIES, trials by, the great bul- wark of the English conftitution,
LANDE, M. de la, his memoir on the theory of the planet Mercu- ry, 521.
LANE, Mr. his account of the fo- lubility of iron in fimple water, by the intervention of fixed air, 323.
LAWS, in terrorem, cruelty and in- justice of, 188. LEAD, preparations of, their ufe in furgery, 485. LEGARD, Sir Digby, his account of the drill husbandry criticifed, 480.
LEIBNITZ. See BEGUELIN. LIBERTY, ftrong attachment of the ancient inhabitants of the north of Europe to it, 177. LIEUTEAUD, his fynopus, propo- fals for a tranflation of, into English, 495. LIFE, the expectation of, in re- fpect to annuities, calculated, 136.
LIGATURE of the artery.
AIKIN. See BROMFIELD. LIGHTNING, methods for fecuring churches, &c. from damage by, 320. LISLE, Mr. his book of husban-
dry animadverted on, 234. LISTER, Dr. his book of thells improved in a new edition, 484.
LOCKE, Mr. his philofophical wri- tings extolled, 280. LOGIC, obf. on, 282. LONDON, calculations of the num- ber of the inhabitants, 137. Critical obf. on the public build- ings of, 280.
Louis, the Fat, rivalship between him and Henry of England, 568. Louis, the Young, (King of France) his contests with Henry King of England, 569. Re- flections on his character, 570. Louis, Prince, fon to Philip, King of France, his expedition to England, and defign upon the
crown, 577. Befieged in Lon- don, ib. LOUIS VIII. King of France, his quarrel with the English, 578. - IX. his character, ib. Louis XIV. ftory of him and Mad. de Montespan, 61. LYMPHATICS. See HEWSON,
See WATSON. LYSONS, Dr. his account of an extraordinary cafe of a girl who had fwallowed three pins, 210. LUCERNE. See BALDWIN.
ADOX, Dr. Bishop of Wor. his fermon on inoculation commended, 15.
MAGNETS, experiments on, 538. MAGNETICAL currents, curious memoir on the curvature of,
538. MAHOMET, a quack, 531. MAINTENON, Madam, account of her theatrical exhibitions at St. Cyr, 62. MANSFIELD, Lord, free expoftu lation with, 35. His fpirited fpeech in defence of toleration and religious liberty, 190. See more of him under CAMDEN. MANUFACTURERS, British, their diffoluteness, 14. MANURES, lift of, 258. MATTHEW, St. authenticity of the 1ft and zd chapters of his gof pel, difputed, 293. MAYER, Profeffor, his tables of the moon's motions, &c. pub. lished here by authority, 214, 284-290. MERIAN, M. his enquiry into the comparative duration and inten- fity of pleasure and pain, 547- MILTON, his political writings
extolled, 335. MONADES, of Leibnitz, curious
account of the nature of, 446. MONKEY, a fingular one described,
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