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LEWIS XII. a party in the league
of Cambray, 205.
LIBERTY of the prefs, a British
conftitutional liberty, 24.
LIFE, vegetable, abfurdity of ar-
guing from the date of it to the
duration of rational life, 55.
LIGHTS, northern, ingenious at-
tempt to account for them, 449.
LITERARY writing, not known
any where till about the time
of Mofes, 264---265.
LOBSTERS, Very uncommon ones
in Norway, 508.
LONGITUDE, an attempt to dif-
cover it, 147.
LORRAIN, duke of, odd remarks
on, 390.

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-
demned by the antient church,
443.

MATRIMONY, canons relating
to, 444.
MATY, Dr. his elogy on Dr.
Mead, 389.
MILITARY exploits, long reci-

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.

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PALMYRENE alphabet difcover-
ed, 507, feq.
PARLIAMENT, petitions con-
cerning

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

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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
objects of, and thofe of judg
ment, 248.
TESTIMONY, human, may be
fo ftrong, that none but a fool
or madman can doubt of it,
176.

TIBERIUS, his character, 410.
TIMBER, Rrength of, according
to Muller, 122. According to
Emerfon, 123. Great difficulty
of making such experiments,

124. TOAST, a prophane and obfcene poem, faid to be the work of Dr. King, 395

TOR

TORGHATTEN, mountain in Nor-
sway, a long natural perfora-
tion through it, 452.
TRADE, its importance to a na-
tion, 85. The study of it ne-
ceffary, ib. Eaft India trade,
propofals for regulating 150..
Reasons why the French are
more fuccefsful in it than the
English, 153.
TRANSLATIONS cenfured, 378,

411.

TREES, foreft ones, great pub-
lic benefit of increasing them,
472, feq.
TRINITY, the doctrine of, briefly
represented, 474, 475. Endea-
vour to vindicate it, 19---22.
Athanafian, generally embra-
ced as a mystery fuppofed to
be found in fcripture, 22.
TUNSTALL, Dr. his vindication
of the marriage-act, 438.

V

VALENZA, Cardinal. See BOR-

GIA.

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WHIG, moderate-definition of,
393.

WINE, fold by apothecaries as a
cordial about the beginning of
the fourteenth century, 463.
Its

VALENTINO, Duke. See BOR- WOOD, its ftructure, 124.

GIA.

VARIATION of the magnetic
needle, a theory of its great

ufe, 147.
VEIN, azygos, extraordinary ap-
pearance instead of it, 373.
VENETIANS, league against, 205.
Stripped of all their dominions

ftrength difficult to be compu-
ted, and why, ibid. Young
lefs ftrong than old, 125.

ZOROASTER, the Chaldæan, ar-
guments to prove that he was
no other than Mofes, 162-
165.

N. B. For the Title-pages, and Author's Names, fee the
Table of Contents, prefixed to this Volume.

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