BSOLUTION, facerdotal, contrary to scripture, 430. ACCELLARATION of the moon, neceflity of making an allow- ance for in calculating antient eclipfes, p. 248. ACCENTS, propriety and inci- dental ufe of preferving the profaic account of words in English verfe, 151. Their mo- dern ufe in the Greek language cenfured as arbitrary, uncer- tain, contrary to analogy, rea- fon, and quantity, and as con- tradictory to itself, 458. But one in nature, viz. acute, 464. Of lefs ufe in the Greek than moft other languages, 461. Depend partly on the natural conftitution of a language, part. ly on the temper of its speakers, 461, 462. None marked in any Greek MSS. of 1000 years old and upwards, 457. Not generally written till after the leventh century, ib. Neceffa- rily lengthens the fyllable on which it is laid, 459. ADDINGTON, Dr. charged with
misbehaviour, 405. AGRICULTURE and trade, plan
of a fociety for their improve. ment, 149.
AIR, its refiftance to the motion of projectiles very confiderable, 491. AKINSIDE, Dr. extravagantly
praised, 455. ALLITERATION, in poetry, fre- quently used by the Anglo-Saxon poets, 116. Use of it by the Greek and Latin claffics feems rather cafual than defigned, ib. The reafon of its frequent agreeable effect, 117. Cau- tions with regard to the in- dulgence and reftraint of it, ib.
ANGLE, parallactic, new method of finding it, 38. ANIMALS,fmall ones more strong and active than the large, 493. ANTIMONY, butter of, Millar's procefs for making, 307. Boer- haave's procefs, 308. APICES, duft of, not neceflary for the production of fertile feeds, 387.
APOGEE, the moon's motion in that point conformable to the Newtonian law of attraction, 48 ARCHITECTURE, naval. See
SHIP-BUILDING. ARDINGHELLI, Mademoiselle, at fixteen years old, translates Hale's Hamaftatics into Italian,
ARTS, liberal and mechanical, how diftinguished from the fci- ences, 490.
BEAMS, of timber, their ftrength as the cube of their depth, 492. May be fuppofed fo large as not to bear their own weight, ib. In what form they will equally refift in all their parts, 495.
BEGGARS, vagrant, abomination of, 58. The reproach and ruin of every country, 132. Swift's fcheme for badging them, 58. BERKLEY, Bishop, executor to Savifi's Vanela, 64. BLACKLOCK, the blind poet, Spence's account of him, 481 BLINDNESS, poetical complaints of, and reflections on it, 483, 484 BOERHAAVE'S chemistry defend- ed, 307.
BOLINGBROKE, Lord, fhews how wrong notions and false princi- ples are begot in the mind by authority, 2. Bad confequen.
ees of principles thus begot, ib. Is of opinion that if men learn. ed lefs, they would often know more, 3. Alledges, that almoft all the fons of Adam, fcholars, and philofophers not excepted, are guided by vulgar opinions, ib. Shews in what cafes au- thority is to be relied on, 4. Compares theology to Pando. ra's box, 6. Shews how the fyftem of natural religion con- tained in the gofpel, has been corrupted by divines, 7. Af- firms that the gospel of Chrift, and the gospel of St. Paul, are different things, 9. Obferves how neceffary it is to diftinguish between what is really religion, and what has been made to pass for it, 13. Afferts, that the no- tion of two diftinct and inde- pendent focieties in the fame. fociety, was broached by ec- clefiaftical ambition, 14. Infi- nuates, that the falvation of fouls is rather the pretence than the end of ecclefiaftical policy, 16. Points out the political views of Conftantine, in the eftablishment of christianity, ib. Alledges, that the foul of man has no affinity with the all-per- fect Being, 88. Shews on what foundation morality ought to be built, 89. Gives his notion of the true conftitution of hu- man nature, 90, 91. Thinks that the first principles of na- tural religion want neither pa- raphrafe nor commentary, 92. Endeavours to prove, that po- litical focieties grew out of na- tural, 93-97. Shews, that the jewish and christian difpenfa tions have not reformed man- kind, 99-104. Obferves, that that the natural effect of the gofpel has been defeated by the manner in which it has been
propagated, 105. Alledges, that reafon cannot decide for a future ftate on principles of na- tural theology, 106. Abuses Dr. Clarke, 107, 108. De- nies the doctrine of particular providence, 110.
BORLASE, Mr. his account of the Sylley ifles, 243. BOTANY, the moderns excel more in the curious than the ufeful part, 412.
BRINE, Mr. charged with main- taining abfurdities, 477. BRITAIN, the effect of its con- ftitution on the genius of the people, 148.
BULL, Bishop, his fevere reflec- tion on immoral ministers, 442 C CADENUS and Vanea, Swift's poem, its publication fhocks the author and Stella, 63. CAMDEN, his annals of Queen Elizabeth, wherein defective, 241.
CARBUNCLES, peftilential, how cured, 219. CARTARET, Lord, remarkable compliment paid him bySwift, 59. CASSITERIDES of the Greeks, our Sylley ifles, 243. CEBES, a great coincidence be-
tween fome of his fentiments, and others in the fcriptures, 506. His table a valuable compendium of ethics, 508. CEREMONIES in behaviour trou blefome, humourous inftances of, 76.
CHARLES VIII. king of France, invades Italy, 20. Conquers Naples, 23--28. His death, 153.
CHAUCER unhappily confidered rather as an old than a good poet, 119. CHEMISTRY, falfely reprefent- ed both by its admirers and
oppofers, 299. Of the greatest ufe in phyfics, 300. Why for- merly productive of errors, ib. Rational theory of, what, 301. Difference between_operations and processes, 302. The know- ledge of an operation, how ac- quired, 303. The practice carried into theory, what, ib. An operation of, how deduced from proceffes, ib. The know- ledge of the theory of, in what it confifts, 304. CHINESE curiofities. See IN-
CHRIST, his true and proper di- vinity afferted, 51. In what fenfe the creation of the world is afcribed to him, 52. Where- in his incarnation confifts, 53. 377- His coequality with the father difproved, 36, 127. CHRONOLOGY, ufefulness of, 380. CICISBEI, gallants to married ladies in Italy, 200. CLOUDS, whether electrified po- fitively or negatively, 417. COAL-MINES, poetical defcrip- tion of, 487, feq. COLDEN's defence of Franklin against Noilet, COMPANIES, exclufive, injurious to commerce, 163. CONVERSAZIONE, at Florence, account of, 199. CORPORATIONS, their effect on trade, 161. COVENTRY, Countess of, ftupid verfes to her, 399. CREED, the Athenian, 291.
· Athanafian, repugnant to the fcriptures, 255. Its diction and manner of inftruction dif- approved, ib. Places the fal- vation of men upon an erro- neous foundation, 253. Is in- ferior in dignity and antiquity to the Nicene creed, 255. CUDWORTH, Dr. his notion of VOL. XI.
the Lord's fupper difprov'd,
DELANY, Dean, 61--73--405-- 406--409. DISPENSATION, the peculiar de- fign of it pointed out, 333. DIVERSIONS, public, hurtful to industry, 145.
Doc, funeral of one described, 498.
DRUIDS, faid to have received the patriarchal religion from the Phænicians, 86. Monu- ments of, in Sylley, 244 DRUMMOND, Alexander, efq; his converfation with a nun, 199. Describes the ceremony at a young lady's taking the veil,
DUELS, folly and guilt of, 133
---137. DUELLERS, why ought to be to- lerated, 76.
E ECLIPSE of the fun, that foretold by Thales terminates a war be- tween the Medes and the Ly- dians, 274. Coftard's calcula- tion of that eclipfe, 246. Stuke- y's calculation thereof, ib. Pli- ny's error in determining it, 248. Clemens Alexandrinus mistaken in fetting its time, ib. and Sir Ifaac Newton, ib. ECLIPSES, geometrical conftruc- tion of, ufeful 38.
EGYPT, never subject to the I- raelites, 196. ELECTRICITY, See NOLLET. ELEGY, in a country church- yard, preferred to the beft piece of the kind in Ovid, Ti- bullus, &c. 425. ELIZABETH, queen of England, preferves a good understanding with Pope Sixtus V. 362. feq. ENTHUSIASTIC Credulity, force of, 192. EUSTACE, lady, 70.
FAITH and repentance, effential conditions of acceptance, 254-* 333. FERDINANDO, king of Naples, his character, 18. Hiftory of his grandfon, 30, feq. Cha- racter, 193. FLEET, a grand fhew of, exhibi-
ted by Sir John Norris, 201. FLORA Sibirica. See Gmelin. FLORENCE, revolution at, 25. FLUID, electric, a quantity of it diffused through this globe, 418 Why more of it contained in one fort of matter than another, ibid. FRANCE, benefits accruing to, from foreigners travelling thi- ther, 142. Her method of feducing other countries to fol- low her fashions, 143. The high intereft of money there a difadvantage to her trade, 147. FRENCH academies, aukward imi- tations of the English, 146. FUND, finking, its effects confi- dered, 166. feq. leq. G GMELIN, his treatife of the flora Sibirica, account of, 215. GoD, his moral attributes, in what manner to be ascertained, 266. The father the one, and only true God, 54, 256. Alone, felf-exiftent, and independent, 55, 127. Fear and love of God defcribed, 335. Good manners, Swift's definition of, 75. Good fenfe, the principal foun- dation of good manners, 76. GREEK accents. See ACCENTS. language, early taught in English fchools, 392. GUICCIARDINI, his knowledge of mankind, 37. Diftinguished for defcribing characters, 194.
HAPPINESS, unfocial and con- tracted fyftem of, 310, feq. HANDEL, Mr: See SWIFT. HELMO, St. his fire, what, 224. HELL, fure guide to, mistakenly claffed with books of bad ten- dency, 466.
HENRY VII. inftance of his ava- rice, 22.
HERCULANEUM. See PADERNI, HIGHLANDERS, of Scotland, their
pride, 344. Mifery of the fer- vants among them, 345, feq. Their clergy, what fort of preachers, 350, feq. Their burial-cuftoms, 354-
HISTORY, definition of, and uti- lity, 195.
HOFFMAN, Monf. story of him,
HOLIDAYS, number of, in France
destructive to commerce, 145, HUMILITY admirably pour- trayed, 130, feq. HYPOTHESIS, to explain by what means the clouds become ne- gatively electrified, 418. Ma- terial objections to it, 420. I
JAMES, apostle, new interpreta- tion of a paffage in his writings,
322. JEALOUSY, Stella's verses on, 63, feq. INCARVILE, father, his letter to C. Mortimer, concerning fun dry Chinese rarities, 226. INSECTS, caufe of, the luminous
appearance in fea-water, 417. INVERNESS, the poverty of its
inhabitants, 343- JOHNSTON, Mrs. the Stella of
Dean Swift, her death, where- in peculiarly unhappy for the Dean, 68. IRELAND, the focieties there for the advancement of trade com- mended, 149.
IRISH, how they corrupt each other in London, 317. JUSTICE, fteady adminiftration
of, in several inftances, 278. JUSTIN Martyr, his notion of the trinity inconfiftent with the A- thanajian scheme, 374, feq.
K KETTLEWELL, Mr. the editors of his works cenfured, 330. KINNERSLEY'S obfervations on electricity, 420. KNIGHT ERRANTRY, fpiritual, inftitution of, 446, seq. L
LADIES of Florence, fome account of, 199, feq. Of modern Cy- prus, defcription of, 210. LAW, in general, definition of, 294.
LEARNING, its influence on re-
velation, 439. LETI, Gregorio, his life of Sixtus V. cenfured by Mr. Farne- worth, 269. Wrote a life of Queen Elizabeth, 371. LIFE, fenfual, its defcription and confequences, 503, feq. Stu- dious, its devotees described, 404, feq. Virtuous, the diffi- culty and beatitude of attain- ing, 506, feq. LIMBORCH, his commentary on the Acts, and Epiftles to the Ro- mans and Hebrews, recom- mended, 255. LIMIT, a certain one not to be exceeded with regard to mag- nitude, 493. LOGARITHMIC curve, a pillar in the form of, equally strong in all its parts, 495. LONGITUDE to be found by a correct theory of the lunar motions, 38. LORD's fupper, the true nature
of that inftitution fhewn, 442 Not a feast upon a facrifice, ib. LOYOLA, Ignatius, his birth and family, 446. The occafion
MACHINE, animal, a steam en- gine, 155.
MACHINES, two principal pro- blems neceffary to explain the doctrine of, 469. Useful ob. fervations on, ib. feq. MAGNITUDE. See Limit. MANETHO's dynalties, fucceffive, not collateral, 196. MARRIAGE, definition of, 298. That of perfons related in the collateral line unlawful, ib Of a mixed nature, 440 Account of a grand one at Venice, 200: MAYO, Mr. the author of the
difputations concerning the Meffiah, 315. MEDICINE, would be ufelefs if mankind were traly virtuous, 240.
MERCHANDISE, Contempt of, a falfe and pernicious principle, 424. MERCHANTS of the greatest im- portance to a state, 423. All men are merchants, ib. feq. MESSIAH, a character which pro- perly belongs to our faviour, 314, 315. The evidence of this from miracles and prophe- cy, ib.
INISTERS, immoral, the treat- ment due to them, 444. MONTAGUE, Lady Mary Wort- ley, 210. MOON, Sir Ifaac Newton's theory of, defended, 40. Her motion
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