MONNET's Syftem of Mineralogy, OTHMAN Lillus Anconitanus, his remarkable epic poem in praise of Mahomet, and his great ex- ploits, 547.
219. MONNIER, M. his memoir on the variations of the magnet, 489. On horizontal refractions at fun- fetting, 497. On Saturn's Ring, 498. On the variations in the obliquity of the ecliptic, ib. MOREAU'S moral political dif- courfes on the government of France, 214. MOSER's principles of the law of nations, 57. Mosquito fhore, country and in-
habitants of, defcribed, 473. MOUNTAINS, new theory of the original formation of, 550. MUSGRAVE, Dr. his argument in favour of Mr. Wilfon's electrical experiments, and blunt conduc- tors, 402.
NAIRNE, Mr. his electrical ex- periments, 401. NATURE, wonderful changes of, in the earliest ages of the world, 532. NATURAL caufes, their influence on the mind of man, 508. NAVIGATION, feveral important obfervations relative to, by Meff. De Borda, Pingre, and De Ver- dun, 498.
NAVIGATIONS, inland. See CA-
NECKER, M. De, his natural hif- tory of the Tuffilago and Peta- vites, 306.
NETLEY abbey, defcript. of, 14. NICANDER, the poet characterised, ·513.
Nouvelles Obf fur l'Angleterre. Ste COYER.
-recherches fur la fcience des Medailles, &c. See SIVRY. NOUVEAU Systeme de Mineralo- gie. See MONNET. ORGAN'S, ufe of, in churches,
when first introduced in this country, 399, 480. ORIENTAL legfiation lefs defpotic than is generally fuppofed, 553. ORIGINALS, literary, rare pro- ductions, 17. The Seafons of Thomfor, an original, 118.
OTWAY, his poetry cenfured, 189. PAROS, ifle of, defcribed, 481. Antiquities there, ib. PASCAL, Blaife, his great charac- ter for wit and learning, 505. Account of a complete edition of his writings, 507. PERLIN, Stephen, his ftrange account of the English, 12. PERNETY, Dom. his memoir concerning the influence of na- tural caufes in the mind of man, 508, PERSECUTION, religious, account of a late inftance of, in Ireland, 443. PERSIANS, ancient, remarks on their religion, 529.
PHILIPPA, Queen, her oratorical addrefs to King Edward, in fa- vour of the burghers of Ca- lais, 438.
PHILOSOPHERS, of ancient Greece, their great contempt for poetry, 512. PHILOSOPHY,
natural, experi ments relating to, 162, PHILOSOPHICAL inveftigations, how to be conducted, 559. PHILOXENUS, Bifhop, his Syriac verfion of the gospels, 36. PIGEONS, numerous catalogue of the forts, 66.
PILEUR d' Apligny, M. le, his treatife on colours and colour- ing, 55.
PLATO's Io, an excellent French tranflation of, 528.
PLANTS, experiments on, relative to the properties of the air, 165. POETRY, facred, why generally unfuccefsful, 8.
— Of the ancient Greeks, the repofitory of their wisdom and philofophy, 509. Their only means of recording history, 523. Its abufe of history, ib. POETS, metaphyfical, an account of, 2.
PRAYER, an excellent one, of a Indian Brahmin, 503. PREACHING, remarks on the progress of, 105. PREGNANCY, an aftonishing cafe of, 492. PRINCIPES MOREAU. PRUSSIA, King of, anecdotes re- lative to, 462. PULPIT, always in the fervice of the ftate, 108.
de morale. See
PUTTER'S hiftory of the German
empire, 59. UINZY, membranous. QUIN
READERS, the various kinds
and characters of, 111. RECHERCHES Hiftoriques, Sc. See DUMONT, REIMARUS on thunder and light- ning, 58.
REMBRANDT, remarks on his ftyle of painting, 18. Compared with Pouffin, ib. REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua, his cri- tical observations on the art of painting, 17. RICHARD, Abbé, his hiftory of Tonquin, 54. ROCHEFORT, M. de, his critical history of the opinions of the Ancients, 55.
his memoir concern- ing the history of Herodotus, His controverfy with 523. Abbé Batteaux concerning the ancient Greek Tragedy, 525. ROUSSEAU, John James, defended against D'Alembert, 302.
RUSSIA, revenue, &c. of the em❤
pire of, 59. Wonderful bones of gigantic animals found in, 535, 551. RUSSIANS, preferved from the fcurvy by their antifeptic diet, 279, 410.
SACHEVEREL, Dr. compared to
SAINTE CROIX, Baron de, his tranflation of the Ezour Ve- dam, 501.
SAMANEANS, a fect of Indian philofophers, 501.
SCIENCES, their influence on poetry, 509.
SCIROS, ifle of, fome ac. of, 483. SCOTLAND, propofal for an uni-
formity of weights and mea- fures in that kingdom, 21. SCURVY, obfervations and reme- dies relative to that diforder, See GUTHRIE, HAYGARTH, MACBRIDE, MARTANO, and SKIDDY.
SER. rapturous address tɔ, 115. SEXES, the different, of mankind,
treatise on the means of render- ing them nearly equal to each o- ther in point of number, 459. SHERLOCK, Martin, his counfel to a young poet, 465.
His letters of a travel-
ler, 462. SIBERIA, Curious relics found there, of the bones of ele- phants, &c. 535, 551. SIVRY, M. De, his inquiries concerning medals, infcrip- tions, &c. 304. His opinion relative to the fuppofed Egyp- tian bust at Turin, 306. SKIDDY, Mr. his account of the efficacy of wort, as a remedy for the fcurvy, 277. SOCIETY, remarks on the pro- grefs of, from the fettlement of the modern nations, to the eleventh century, 181. SORE THROAT, putrid, remedy for, 30. SOUL, human, treatise in proof of the existence and immateriality
of, in German, 224. Theory of, by a French writer, 486. Of the foul that animates the brute creation, 487.~ SPAIN, antiquities in that king- dom defcribed, 139. SPRAT, Dr. remark on his lite- rary character, 189.
STEPNEY, his merit as a poet efti-
STREATLAM CASTLE, ac. of, 283. SUSANNA and Margaret, their dialogue on religion, 97. SWIFT, Dean, his genius and character, 356. Anecdotes of, 357. His abusive characters of Lord Wharton, and other per- fons of diftinction, 361. His "unhappy end, 363. TAMERLANE, his military infti- His great cha-
tutes, 451. racter, 458. TEETH, difeafed, extraordinary cafe of, 62. TEUTSCHE Reichfgefchichte, &c.
59. THEOCRITUS, his poetry charac-
terifed, 513. TIME-KILLING, a ferious bu- finefs, 114. TITIAN, remark on his picture of Bacchus and Ariadne, 20. TONQUIN, people, refemblance of to the Chinese, 54. TRAILLES, Dr. his treatife on the foul, 224.
TRAITE des couleurs materielles
et de la maniere de colorer,
&c. 55. VARIATIONS in the obliquity of the ecliptic faid to amount to not a minute in 100 years, 497. VEDAMS, four diftinct forts of thole facred books of the
Brahmins, &c. 502. When publifhed, ib.
VOLCANOS, evident veftiges of, throughout Greece ftill obferv able, 483. A volcano in Lem- nos fuppofed to have given rife to the fable of Vulcan's forge there, ib. Whimsical theory of the ancient Grecian volcanos, ib. Farther account of their operation in the origi- nal formation of mountains, &c. 55.
VOLTAIRE, academical discourse in honour of, 220. Anecdotes of his life, 514. Of his death, 520.
Voм Blitze, &c. 58. WALLER, his failure in facred
poetry accounted for, 8. Ge- neral character of his poetry, 9. WATTS, Dr. Ifaac, memoirs of, 425. His pofthumous poetry and controverfial writings cen- fured, 429. WEGUELIN, M. his memoirs concerning the philofophy of history, 514. WEIGHTS and Meafures. See SCOTLAND.
WILSON, Ben. electrical experi ments by, 407. WINKELMAN, Abbé, Heine's eulogy on, 223. WOMEN, fketches relating to, in various ages and nations, 415,
WYCK, Thomas, his fine picture of old London, 13.
YEAR, enquiry concerning the diminution of the length of,
ENDS, learned books of an- cient Perfians, 529. ZENO, his great contempt for poetry, 512. ZOROASTER, tenets of his reli- gion, 529.
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