LEWIS XII. a party in the league LOTTERY, a literary one, 4. M MACKRELL, kill a man, 503. MALESTROM, a ftupendous vortex in Norway, defcription and probable cause of it, 454, 455. MANURES, obfervations on, 58. MARLBOROUGH, John, duke of, his remarkable efcape at the battle of Ramilies, by the affiftance of Capt. Molesworth, 346, & feq. in the notes. MARLE, its ufefulness, 60, & Seq. What quantity useful for an acre, 61, notes. Of what compofed, ib. MARRIAGE-ACT, the annulling claufes in, to prevent them examined, 111---117. Defended, 438---446. MARRIAGES, clandeftine, con- MATRIMONY, canons relating tals of, cenfured, 490. MIRACLES, difference between those recorded in the gofpels, and thofe afcribed to the Abbé de Paris, 179. MOLESWORTH, Viscount Richard, his military merit and preferment, 346, feq. Remarkable ftory of him, ib. MOON-LIGHT, why not accom-. panied with heat, 3. MOOR-ILD, fcintillation of the fea, attempt to account for it, 454. MORAVIANS, abftract of his prefent majefty's edict against them, 105. MORTIMER, his rules in husbandry not always confonant to practice, 58. MOSES, his prophecy of a prophet like unto himself, how to be understood, 39. The doctrines established by all the eastern nations, and by the Greek philofophers, derived from him, 168. MULLER, his experiments concerning the ftrength of timber, 122. N NAPLES, partition of, between Lewis of France, and Ferdinand of Spain, 201. Ceded entirely to the latter, ib. NEEDLE, magnetic, theory of its variation, 147. NovA-Scotia,confequence of, go. O-CONOLLY, a proteftant, first difcovered the defign of the Irish rebellion and maffacre, 217. OFFALEY, baron of, furnamed the Ape, remarkable ftory of him, 344. OFFICES, great, better regulated in France than Great Britain, 153. O NEALE, Sir Phelim, contriver of the Irish rebellion and maffacre, 217. Р PALMYRENE alphabet difcover- cerning elections to, how formerly determined, 417. PASSERILLAS, how prepared, 8. PAUL, George, author of the antichriftian opera, 233. PEGGING, an operation performed on brutes, for the cure of the fquinancy, 69, nates. PENNSYLVANIA, the moft flourifhing of the British colonies, 192. Firft fettled by quakers, ib. Their excellent plan of government, ib. Their fucceffors a different fort of men from the founders, and the government now in great need of a reformation, 153. PETRARCH, his letter to Charles king of the Romans, concerning Nicholas Gabrini de Rienzi, 32. PETRIFICATION of fea-fhells and other foffils accounted for, 269, 270. PIERCY, a principal adviser and director of the powder-plot, 209, 210. Pics, profits arifing from, 71. The fale of them not fairly calculated, ib. notes. PISANS fubmit to the Florentines, 206. PLAGUE, acting from a perfua fion of its not being importable, extremely imprudent, 130, feq. PLEASURE and infidelity said to generate each other reciprocally, 385. POPERY, the genius and spirit of that fuperftition, 214. Porrs, have enacted laws useful to Christendom, where their own perfonal interefts have not been concerned, 446 POWDER-plot, a diftinct narrative of that confpiracy, 208-- 214. PROPHECIES, thofe of fcripture to be understood not of fingle RAY, his divifion of marine productions, 183. REHEARSAL, a comedy, recommended, 42. REMARKS on Stebbing's pamplets against the marriage-act, 438. REVIEW, brief, of the laws re lating to marriage, 115. REVELATION, the authority of, not affected by any difficulties or obfcurities that are found in it, 273, 274. A divine one, why needful, 428. RIENZI, Nicholas Gabrini de, his birth and extraordinary talents, 28. Difgraced at Avignon, 29. Preferred and returns to Rome, ib. Declared fovereign of Rome, 31. And deliverer of his country, 32. Forced to abandon his ufurped authority, ib. Sent prifoner to Avignon, 33. Releafed from his confinement and restored to power, ib. His death and character, ib. RIGHTEOUSNESS, imputed,what, 384. Rock-oyftars, great variety of corallines found on, 183. ROMAINE, a grofs abufer of the clergy, 399. Humorously bantered, 475. Propofed for prefident prefident of a college of ftateinterpreters, ib. His nonfenfe about the felf-existence of Chrift, 515. His abject notion of the Holy Spirit of God, 516. ROMANS, degeneracy of, 410. RUPERT, prince, communicates the method of engraving in metzotinto to Mr. Evelyn, 390. S SALTS, urinous, deftructive to vegetables, 74. How rendered nitrous by the air, ib. Nitrous moft congruous to vegetation, ib. SAYER, his vindication of the marriage-act, 438---440. SAVARY'S dictionary, improved by Poftlethwayte, 85. SCRIPTURES, calculated to promote the civil as well as religious liberties of mankind, 40. SEA, fcintillation of, attempted to be accounted for, 454. SERPENTS, in Norway, their charming of birds, 499. SILK-worms, difficulty of rearing, 9. SOMERSET, Edward Lord Herbert, fome account of his commiffion in Ireland, 221, feq. SORTILEGES of the antients, remarks on, 13. STA SPANIARDS uneafy at the neighbourhood of the French in America, 88. SQUINANCY in brutes, what, and how cured, €9, notes. ADTHOLDER, fome account of his revenues, 481. STANZA, of four lines, with ten fyllables, and alternate rhymes, well adapted to particular fubjects, 354STEBBING, Dr. his differtation relating to the marriages of minors, 110. Observations on, ibid. and 114. Remarks on his fentiments on this subject, 112-114---440---415· STELLA, wife of Dean Swift, encomium on, 245, feq. STERCORARY, for the reception of dung, what, 74STILE, affected and ridiculous, fpecimens of, 119. STURGRASS, gramen offfragum, its furprifing poison, and ftrange cure of it, 458. SUPERSTITION, the nature of, 432. Wherein it differs from true religion, 433. SwIFT, Dr. Jonathan, his sketch of his own life and family, an inconfiderable prefent to an univerity, 242. The legacy left him by Sir W. T. 244. Reafons affigned for his never owning his marriage, 245. His conduct towards Vanessa apologized for, 250. His cavalier behaviour to Q. Anne's minifters, 253, feq. His character advantageoufly, but partially, drawn, 257. SWIFT, Deane, elq; a vain and injudicious writer. See his effay on the Doctor's life, throughout; and the account of it in this volume, 241, Seq. SWINE hurt by feeding on clover, 68. Difeafes of, ib. and feq. in the notes. Their dung how rendered useful, 70, notes. T TASTE, difference between the TIBERIUS, his character, 410. 124. TOAST, a prophane and obfcene poem, faid to be the work of Dr. King, 395 TOR TORGHATTEN, mountain in Nor- 411. TREES, foreft ones, great pub- V VALENZA, Cardinal. See BOR- GIA. WHIG, moderate-definition of, WINE, fold by apothecaries as a VALENTINO, Duke. See BOR- WOOD, its ftructure, 124. GIA. VARIATION of the magnetic ufe, 147. ftrength difficult to be compu- N. B. For the Title-pages, and Author's Names, fee the |