MONTESPAN, Mad. de, curious
ftory of her parting from Louis XIV. 61.
MOOR-PARK described, 346.
MORTAR, recipe for making it OCTAVIUS, Cæfar, his cha-
impenetrable, 479.
MOTION, a particular law of, de- monftrated. See JONES. MOULT, Mr. his method of pre- paring Salep from the root of the orchis, 205. MOUNIER, M. le, his new method of afcertaining the quantity of the horizontal refraction, 523. MOUNTAINS, produced by vol- canos, 201.
Music, ingenious enquiry into the theory of, 551.
ABI EFFENDI, a Turkish poet, his fenfible obf. on poetry, 429. His excellent verfes on the fpring, 430. NARSETES, the famous eunuch and warrior, his rife at court, and progrefs in the armies of the Emperor Juftinian, 103. NEEDHAM, Mr. his curious fyf- tem relating to microscopical animalcules in vegetable and animal infufions, 208. HS conjectures on a fuppofed con- nection between the hierogly- phical writing of ancient Egyp- tians, and the characteristic wri- ting of the Chinese, 318. NEGROES, their customs compared with thofe of the Jews, 550. NEWTON, his phyfical principles reconciled with the metaphyfics of Leibnitz, 545. NOLLET, Abbé, his account of fome new hydroftatical pheno- mena, 518.
NUMA, his quackery applauded, V 531.
racter vindicated from the charge of cowardice, 8. See more of him under AUGUSTUS. ODE, Perfian, translated, 427. OIL, made from American ground- nuts, fome account of, 206. from beech-maft, 537- OPTICS, curious memoir on, by M. L. Euler, 541. ORCHIS, how to prepare for falep,
ORIENTAL writers, feveral com- mended, 425. Their historians, ib. Their poets, 426. Their phyficians, ib.
ORNANCE and Julia, ftory of. 48. OSBECK, Mr. an attentive obferver in his travels, 397:
OS HUMERI. See WHITE.
AIN and pleafure compared, with respect to their different intenfities, &c. 548.
PAINTING, ftudents in, directions to, with regard to the imitation of the ancients, 377. PAPER, a natural fort, found at Cortona, 206.
PARABLES, the mode of inftruc- tion by, confidered, 440. PENAL laws, ftrictures on the fe- verity of those which affect the lives of criminals, 85. Princi- ples of, investigated, 444. PERSIAN ode, 427. PERSIANS, modern, fome account of their manners, by a late tra- veller, 159. PHILIP I. King of France, his bickerings with England, 567.
II. his contefts with the King of England, 570. PHILOSOPHER, dialogue between one and a Whig, 39.
PHILOSOPHER, character of a real RASPE, Mr. his differtation on the
philofopher, 584. PHYSICIANS, chiefly abound in great cities, and why, 530. PINS, extraordinary cale of three fwallowed by a girl, and di- charged at her fhoulder, 211. PLANTS, elementary nourishment of, 256. PLEASURE compared with pain, in respect of duration and inten- fity, 547.
PLUTARCH, his character as a phi- lofopher, 2. His, amiable be- nevolence, 4
POETS, eatern, not deftitute of
ALEP, how to prepare, from
the vegetable roots of this country, 205.
POMPEY, his charaser, 7. Ex- SARUM, Old, fome account of,
amination of, 8. POPULATION, remarks on, 15. PORTUGAL, account of the fpecie remitted from, to Britain, from 1796, to 1769 inclufive, 495. PRESSENTIMENT, enquiry con- cerning, 549.
PRICE, Dr. his obf, on the ex- pectations of lives, &c. 136. PROBLEM. See GEOMETRY. PUNISHMENTS, legal, by death, reflections on, 85.
corporal, useful re-
SCIPIO, Africanus, his quackery,
SEA, the luminous appearance of, accounted for, 329. SENECIO farrenicus, the great in-
gredient of the Swifs arquebu- fade water, 415. SHAKESPEARE, Johnson's edit, of, remarkable ftricture on, 532. SHORT-HAND, remarks on, 69. SIGNS of the times, as obferved by
the Bishop of Carlisle, in his fer-
mon on the 30th of January, 263. SIMPLICITY, in poetry, obf. on, 429. SPARTANS, of old, their strong attachment to their country, 507, et feq. SPECULA. See HOFFMAN. SPRING, beautifully celebrated by a Turkish poet, 430. The fame imitated by a Reviewer, 431. STEPHENSON, Mr. his fantaftic manner of writing on busban- dry, 233.
STEUART, Mrs. Jean, her cha racter for piety, &c. 313. Her Meditations cenfured for their fanaticiim, 314. STILLINGFLEET, Mr. his tras on natural history, &c. extolled, 239.
THIERAULT, M. his determina- tion of the question, whether the first authors of any nation have written in verfe or in profe, 551
THIEF, Curious method of detect-
ing one, 530. THUNDER, remarkable effects of,
on the tower of a church in De- vonshire, 320. Method of pre- venting the like, ib. TIME, in the fcience of mufic, theory of, 121.
TOREEN, his voyage to Surat, 404.
TURKISH poets, feveral of them commended, 429. TYNE-WATER, analyfis of, 221.
VILLARS, the quack, curious anecdote of, 530.
VINLAND, originally a part of N. America, 181.
VIRGIL defended, with refpect to the character of Eneas, 220. VISME, Mr. his account of a very fingular kind of monkey,
207. VOLTAIRE, M. his difcoveries in nat. hift. ridiculed, 25. His dialogues in the shades with So- crates, Julian, &c. 28. His dif- pute with the Bishop of Anneci, 34. His mifreprefentations of the fcriptures detected, 460. His remarkable ftrictures on Johnfon's edit, of Shakefpeare, 532. See alfo QUESTIONS, &C.
ALLS, an excellent coping for, recommended, 479. WAR, art of, remarks on, 355- Want of a school for, lamented, 356. Partizan, duty of, 357. WATER, analyfis of that of the Tyne, 221. Curious hydrofla- tical phenomena of water, 518. See alfo LAKE. WATERS, chalybeate, &c. difco- veries tending to the production of excellent artificial ones, 323- 326.
WATSON, Mr. his defcript. of the
lymphatics of the urethra and neck of the bladder, 213. WESLEY, Mr. his religious zeal difcuffed, 73.
WEST-INDIAN, a comedy, critique
WESTON, Mr. his tracts on huf- bandry detailed, 299. WHEAT, experiments in the cul- ture of, 303. Comparison of profit between the old and new husbandry, 378.
WHITAKER, Rev. Mr. fome account of his death, 82. WHITE, Mr. his account of a remarkable cafe in furgery, 211. WHITEFIELD, George, his religious zeal animadverted on, 73. WOMEN, in Perfia, their remarkable modefty, 160. Their equality with the men, in the ancient northern nations of Europe, 184. Woods, groves, &c. in the grand Oops, groves, &c. in the grand ftyle of gardening, how to defign, 348.
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