THE MONTHLY REVIEW, OR, LITERARY JOUNRAL

How EL, Mifs, her early progress
in literature, 210, feq.
HUTCHESON, Francis, account of
his life, method of his studies,
character, and death, 62---77.
I

IDRIS, a Perfian tale, 51, feq.
JEROM, St. his opinion concern-
ing the author of the epistle to
the Hebrews, 226.
IMMORTALITY of the foul, ar-
guments in favour of, 450.
INDIANS, badly inftructed by the
jefuits, 461.

JOHN, St. his gofpel wrote as a
fupplement to the other three,
exprefly afferts the divinity of
Chrift against the heresies of
Ebion and Cerinthus, 16.
JOSEPH, emperor of Germany, his
annals, 82, feq.

IRELAND, advantages accruing

from its union with England, 80.
JULIUS II. Pope, his intrigues
and obftinacy, 18. Death and
character, 19.
JUPITER and the ape, and her
young ones, fable of, applied,
309.
Jus, in the Roman law, an equi-
vocal term, 392, feq.

KRAKEN, a moft immenfe fea-
monster, circumftances in fup-
port of its existence in the
north-fea, and conjectural de-
fcription of it, 41, 42. 43.
KINGS of Rome,hillory of, doubt-
ful, 391.
KIRCHER, his plan for conftruct-
ing a burning machine, 421.

LANDEN, John, his theorems re-
lating to fome remarkable pro-
perties of the circle, 327.
LANGUAGE, the purity and

pro-
priety of our own to be care-
fully attended to in education,
415.
LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester,

becomes a zealous proteftant,
22. The effects of his good
humour and eloquence on the
junior ftudents at Cambridge,
24. Was a very popular
preacher, ib. His prefent to
the King, 27. Sent to the
Tower, 28. Set at liberty, ib.
Character of his fermons, 29.
Sent again to the Tower, 33.
Goes through his laft fufferings
with great composure and firm-
nefs of mind, 34-
LAW, Roman, character of, 390.
LEWIS, Dr. his experiments on
platina, 423.

LIBERTY of the will, the real
fource of moral evil, 58. Some
plain questions in relation to it,
402.

LIFE, a fingle one, the value of
inveftigated, 155.

LIGHT, the difference of the re-

frangibility of the rays of, ac-
counted for, 427.
LLANDRINDOD, analyffes and vir-
tues of three medicinal waters
there, 382, 383, feq.
LONDON, how many inhabitants
in, 428. Have gradually de-
creafed fince 1743, ib.
LOVE,contributes to a refinement
of manners, 51, seq.
LUKE, St. his ftile not lefs charge-
able with Syriac idioms than
that of the other evangelifts, 16.
M

MAGISTRATE, civil, has no
right to inflict penalties upon
men, for not agreeing to the
opinions he thinks just, 175.
MAGNETIC-NEEDLE, proposals
to ascertain the variation of,
433.
MALEVOLENCE, inconfiftent with
Deity, 107. Caufes of, 108.
MANKIND, their right to the use
of things inanimate, and the
lower animals confidered, 162
---166.

from being a zealous papift, MARK, St. his gofpel, not wrote

in Latin, as fome have pre-
tended, but in Greek, 16.
MARRIAGE, Plato's fcheme of,
not adapted to human nature,
174. Prohibition againft, un-
der particular circumftances,
among the Romans, and by the
canonifts, condemned, 394.
Why to be prohibited within
certain degrees of affinity, 174,
395. May be annulled by the
civil power, 306.
MARTYN, John, his remark on
the fex of holly, 420.
MATTHEW, St. his gofpel pro-

bably wrote, by that apostle,
both in Hebrew and Greek, 15.
MEDICINES, Mrs. Stephens's, ab-
furdity of fuppofing their ex-
hibition indifferent in doubtful
cafes, 79.
MEDICI, Cardinal de, elected
Pope, and affumes the name of
Leo X. 20,

MERMAID, and Merman, evi-
dence of their existence in the
Danish and Norwegian feas,
with their defcription, 36, 37:
METHOD, utility of, in written
compofitions, 267.

MILES, Dr. his method of ac-
counting for fudden thaws, 325.
MINOTAUR, ingenious applica-
tion of that fable to the falu-
tary confequences of inocula-
tion, 142.
MIRACLES in the church after
the time of the apoftles, 15.
Ceafed at the establishment of
the Chriftian religion, 115.
Can be a proof of nothing
which is against virtue and the
good of mankind, ib.
MISSIONARIES, English, in the
American colonies, not rightly
difpofed of, 277.
MONEY, public, regulations pro-

pofed for the difpofal of, 117.
MONTHLY REVIEW, letter to
the authors of, propofing a cor-
refpondence in regard to fo

NATIONS, character of, marked
by poetry and eloquence, 86.
NATURE, the perfection of, 109.
Objections to its frailties an-
fwered, ibid.--- III,
NEWFOUNDLAND, the manner
of determining disputes among
the fishermen there, 276.
Quantity of cod-fifh annually
fhipped from thence, ibid.
NEW TESTAMENT, books of,
acknowleged as the genuine
writings of the apostles by
every fect of Chriftians, 10.
And even by the most antient
enemies of that religion, 14.
Confidered as the rule and
ftandard of Christianity before
there was any authority in the
church to impose them upon
the belief of Chriftians, 11. In-
ternal evidence of the truth of
thefe books, 12.

canonical books of,
at the time of the council of
Laodicea, the fame as our pre-
fent canon, except the book of
Revelation, 10.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac, his chro-
nology confirmed by the dura-
tion of reigns of the emperors,
84. Its rectitude and utility
confirmed, 182.
NORWEGIANS, general defcrip-
tion of their manners, &c.
45, 46, feq.
NUNNERY, a proteftant defcrip-.
tion of, 218, feq.

ODE, the most fublime fpecies
of poetry, 434. Tranflation
of the King of Prufia's, on
death, 436-438.
ORTHOGRAPHY, a new mode
of, 471. Ill regulated by pro-
nunciation, 472.

PAINTING, &c. ftudy of recom-
mended to players, 7.
PARALLAX of the fun determin-

ed from obfervations, 325.
PARENTS, Confent of, in mar-
riage, how far neceffary, 93,
feq.

PARSONS, Dr. his obfervations

on Archimedes's burning the
fleet of Marcellus, 421.
PASSIONS, rules for the govern-
ment of them, 448.
PAUL, St. most probably the
author of the epistle to the
Hebrews, 226. Lord Boling-
brake's unjust reflections upon
him cenfured, 233, 234.
PERSECUTION, on account of
religion, the greateft folly, as
well as the most horrid cruelty,
176.
PETER the Great, (Emperor of
Ruffia) befieges Afoph, carries
on the attack in an extraordi-
nary manner, 352, 353. Vi-
fits the most remarkable courts
in Europe, works as a fhip car-
penter at Amfterdam, his re-
ception in England, models his
army after the German method,
and reforms his whole empire,
354. His death and character,
355. Paffed himself through
all, even the loweft, ftations of
the army, and caufed his offi-
cers, in general, to do the like,
356. His character farther e-
lucidated, 357. Remarkable
anecdote, 358.

PETTY, Sir William, miftaken
with regard to the number of
inhabitants within the bills of
mortality, 428.
PHILOSOPHERS ftone, its palpa-
ble abfurdity, 452.
PHYSIC, its difadvantages, 359.
PHYSICIANS, antient, advantages
accruing from ftudying them,
360.

PIRATES, feem to abdicate all

rights and claims founded on
the focial laws of nature, 167.
PLAGUE, ftrong objection to the
inoculation of it, 77.
PLATINA, nearly as ponderous
as gold, 423. Acted upon only
by aqua regia, 424. Refifts
lead, bifmuti, an antimony,
ibid.
POPE, Mr. his connections with
Lord Bolingbroke, 124. Ri-
diculed by that nobleman,
125. His effay on man cen-
fured by M. de Croafaz, ibid.
Defended by Ld. Bolingbrake,
ibid. Confults Mr. Warburton
concerning Ld. Bolingbroke's
letters on the ftudy and use of
hiftory, 126. His memory tra-
duced on account of the Pa-
triot King, 127.

POT-ASH, fpecific benefit arifing
1 to trade from the best Ameri-
can, 155.
POURTRAITURE, different cha-
racter of antient and modern,
457.
PRACTICABLE men, their cha-
racter, 11,8.
PREDICTIONS, when fulfilled,
- undoubted proofs of a divine
foreknowlege, 13.
PROPERTY, private, how acquir.
ed, 166. How it may be ex-
tended or transferred, ibid.
PROVIDENCE, divine, arguments
in proof of, 447-
PRUNING fruit-trees, directions
for, 337---342.
PUNISHMENT, eternal, refults
from the fitnefs of things, and
the unchangeable nature of
the Divine Being, 368.
PYROMETER, a new one, 420.
Q

QUIXOTE, Don, history of, diffi-
cult to tranflate, 197. Scarce
understood by modern Spa-
niards, ib. Smallet's tranflation.
- compared with Jarvis's, ib.

R
RANCOUR, religious, the caufes
of, 106.

RELIGION, a genuine picture of,
17. State of, in the English-
American colonies, 277---283.
REVELATION, book of, first men-
tioned as-included in the canon
of fcripture, by the third coun
cil of Carthage, 10.
RHYME condemn'd, 96. Ap-
proved, ib. feq.
RICHMAN, profeffor at Peter/-
burgh, account of his death,
425.

RIGHTS, extraordinary ones,
from fome fingular neceflity,
166--171.

ROBBERY, an abdication of the

protection of fociety, 167.
ROMAINE, Mr. remarkable ad-
vertisement concerning, 133.
ROMAN government, of a mili-
tary nature, 397, feq.
RUDBECK, his method of afcer.
taining chronology, 182.
S
SACRIFICES, their nature, and
origin, 179--180. Legal, the
proper defign of them, 237.
SADI, a Perfian writer, his poem
on the power of the Supreme
Being, 86.

SALT, how used to meliorate
foils, 334. Ufeful to prevent
the depredations of infects on
fruit trees, and the injuries of
honey-dews, 344.
SCHOMBERG, Dr. Duncan, a
clergyman, remarkable de-
feription of, 203. note.
SCHOMBERG, Mirs. her history,
206, feq.
SCRIPTURE, remarks on the
double fenfe afcribed to it,
229, 230.

SEA WATER, how to make fresh

at fea, 309.
SENECA, more inclined to the
ftudy of philofophy than elo-
quence, 248. Prattifed a P.

thagorean abftinence, ib. Some
ftrictures on his ftile and man-
ner of speaking, 249. His be-
haviour during his exile, 251.
An inftance of his fervility,
252.
SENSE, moral, an original deter-
mination in our nature, 103.
Defigned for regulating and
controuling all our powers, ib.
When in full vigour, makes
the generous determination to
public happiness the supreme
one in the foul, 104.
SERIES, eafy method of comput-
ing the fums of, 379.
SHAME, a fenfe of, its early ap-

pearance, 105.

SHIP's way, machine for mea-
furing of, 326.

SKIN, a remarkable disease of,
329---334.
SMALL-POX, new remark on the
event of inoculating it, 141.
SMEATON, John, his new pyro-
meter, 420.
SOCIETY for propagating the
gofpel in foreign parts, a pious
defign, 277. Badly executed
in British North America, ib.
SOE-ORMEN, or fea-snake, evi-

dence of its existence on the
coast of Norway, and defcrip-
tion of it, 38, 39, 40.
SOVEREIGNTY of God, where-
in it confifts, 446.
SPEECH, our duty and obliga-

tions in the ufe of, 167, 168.
STATES, their decay, and the
causes thereof, 177.
STILE of the New Teftament,
very different from that of an-
tient Greece, 14.
STILL-BORN, children seeming
fo, how sometimes recovered,
245.

STUDENT, in divinity, direc-
tions to, 189-192.
SUGAR, cultivation of the cane,
273.
SUPERSTITION, whether, and

in what fenfe, worse than a-

theism, 295.
SURGEON, his peculiar advanta-

ges over the physician, 358.
SYSTEMS, theological, temples
confecrated to implicit faith,
404.

TARTARUM Tartarifatum, its
efficacy in melancholy and ma-
niacal disorders, 243.
TESTAMENT, New, authentici-
ty of, proved from the decifions
of councils, 10. From the pri-
vate teftimonies of particular
approved writers, 11. Writers
of, true hiftorians, ibid, feq.
Predictions in, proofs of a di-
vine foreknowlege, 13. The
genuine writings of the perfons
whofe names they bear, 14.
Propagated by the deftruction
of Jerufalem, 15. Particular
hiftory of the feveral books.
therein contained, ib. feq.
THAW, fuppofed to be caufed by
warm fteams iffuing from the
earth, 325.

THUNDER, a poetical receipt to

make, 297.

fingular neceffity, 171, 172.
VERSE, blank and rhyming,
which of them moft preferable,
96, 97, feq. Why an immetri
cal, ill-founding one, may some-
times pleafe, 98.
UNITY of place, in theatrical

exhibitions, inconvenience of
too rigidly adhering to, 496.
VOLTAIRE, his letter to Mr. de

-, profeffor of hiftory,
concerning his intended uni-
verfal hiftory, 85-90. To
the Dutchefs of Saxe-Gotha.
on the fame fubject, 90–92.
His verfes in praife of liberty,
285-287. His notion of the
time of action in dramatic per-
formances controverted, 494.
His cenfure of Shakespear cen-
fured, 495.

WARBURTON, Dr. anecdote con-
cerning him, and Lord Boling-
broke, 124-128.
WATER, fresh, how to preserve
it sweet, 310.
WEATHER, cold, in 1754, Mr.

Arderon's obfervations on, 324-
· Disagrees with Dr. Stahl, con-
cerning the taste of frozen lis
quors, 325.

WEST, Mifs Juliet, account of
her religious principles, andex-
traordinary qualifications, 210.
WILL, human, its natural calm
determinations, 100, 101.
WILKS, Mr. his power of action,
not impaired by age, 8.
WOMEN, advantages arifing from
converfing with them, 51.
WooL, quantity of, annually
fmuggled to Bologne, 464.
WORLD, its political, moral, re-
ligious, and domeftic ftate,
about the time of our Saviour's
appearance 313---319.
WORSHIP, external, forms of
obfervations on, 176.
WRITERS, antient, negligent of
chronology, 183.

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