DEATH, no object of fear to good. FRANCE, prefent King of, fome
people, 235. DEGLUTITION, total obftruction of, how cured, 259. DENMARK, remarks on the con- ftitution of its government, 31. Its capital defcribed, 32. DISSENTERS, tracts relating to their late application to parlia- ment, 75, 101, 163, 347, 402. DOLLAND'S micrometer, improve-
ment in the use of, 414. DROPSY, extra cures of, 261. DUHAMEL, Monf. his experiment to ascertain the fexual fyftem of plants, 272. DUMB-WAITERS, how used in the palace of the French King, 64. DUTCH, their wonderful industry, 62.
anecdotes relating to, 64.
people of, their man-
ners, &c. ib. FRIENDSHIP with God, its nature explained, on fcripture princi ples, 478.
ARDEN, Dr. his account of the virtues of the Indian pink root, 97. GARDENS, European, feverely ani- madverted on, 137. Vindi- cated, 138. Thofe of the Chi- nefe praifed, 140. Defcribed, ib. GARDINER, Dr. his method of giving the folution of mercury in fmall dofes, as an anthel- mintic, 184. His obf. on the abule of cauftics, in venereal excreffences, ib. GENESIS, chap. iv. tranflation of, 1. luftrations of, 2-7. GIANTS, of the Old Testament,
critical remarks on, 5. GILCHRIST, Dr. his account of an infectious diftemper, 97. His obf. on the catarrhal epi- demi, 185. Of the urinary bladder thickened, ib. Gon, the existence of, a truth too obvious for rational investiga tion, 50. His particular provi- dential difpenfations afferted, 52. His moral government of the world, 53. His friendship with man explained, 477- GRAMMAR, natural principles of
GREEKS, modern, their national
character, 223. Their man- ners and cultoms, compare with thofe of the ancient Greeks, ib. et feq.
HERESY, in the Chriftian church,
Sketch of the history of, 328. HOLLAND, obs, on, 62. HOLLINGSWORTH, Mr. his me- thod of destroying wild garlic,
345. HORNSBY, Mr. his deduction of
the fun's parallax, from obfer- vations of the tranfit of Venus
in 1769, 415. HORSES, the exceffive number de- trimental to a country, 83, 84. HUSBANDRY, obfervations on, and,
hints for improvement in, 94, HYDATIDS. See COLLET. HYDROPHOBIA, feveral cafes of, 256.
KARMS, Lord, his obf. on eva- poration, 95. KENNICOTT, Dr. his collation of the fcripture-manufcripts at- tacked, 245. KILLARNEY, lake of, poetically celebrated, 216. The flag- hunting there defcribed, ib. KINGS, of England, their power greatly limited in the feudal times, 39. Their gradual en- croachments on the rights of the people, ib.
ANDEN, Mr. his investigation of some new and useful the- orems in fluxions, 415. LANDLORDS, of estates in the country, advised to relide there, 37. Great improvements to be made by that means, ib. Law, feudal, account of, 39- LINNAEUS, his botanic fyftem il-
luftrated, 270. Order obferved in the establishment of, 273. LIVER, account of a dreadful dif- order incident to, in hot cli- mates, 134 Caule and cure of, 135. See, alfo, HEBER
MADNESS, canine, feveral cafes of, 2.6.
MAGNA CHARTA, &C. Great queftion, with respect to the origination of, difcuffed, 44. MAGNESIA, alba, improved me- thod of preparing, 261. MAGNOL, his botanical fyftem cenfured, 270. MANIFESTO of the courts of Ruf- fia, Vienna, and Berlin, examined and exploded, -447. MANKIND, the bulk of, incapa- ble of reafoning on religious fubjects, 438, MANUFACTORIES, proper fitua- tions for, investigated, 198. The country recommended in pre- ference to great cities, 199. MARRIAGE-ACT, Royal, incons fiftent with the Thirty nine Ar- ticles of the church of England, 300. MARSHALL, Mr. author of the Travels through Holland, &c. fome account of him, and the authenticity of his work afferted, 252. MASKELYNE, Mr. his account of a method of measuring differ- ences of right afcenfion and de- clination, with Dolland's micro- meter, 414.,, MATTER, curious theory of the
nature and properties of, 315. MEN-MIDWIVES, vulgar preju- dices againit exploded, 321.
MILLENIUM, ftate of the earlier controverfies relating to, 329. Rational hypothefis of, ib. Lord Barrington's opinion of, 443. MILMAN, Mr. his account of the fcurvy, 265.
MINERAL waters, enquiry into the reality of their fuppofed ful- phureous principle, 465. MINERALOGIST, his travelling apparatus defcribed, 460. Lo- ftructions for, 461.
MISISSIPPI, the propofals for a new fettlement on the banks of, confidered, and approved, 206. MONGLAS, Marq. de, his inter- efting history, 8.
MONRO, Dr. his experiments on the effects of opium, &c, on the nerves of animals, 93. His ac- count of the Lisbon diet-drink, in venereal cafes, 185. On the ftate of the inteftines in old dy- fenteries, 186. On the use of mercury in convulfive diforders, 187. His account of fome un- common cafes, 264. MOREL, Mr. his account of beni- feed oil, 345.
Moscow, city of, defcribed, 36. MUNCKLEY, the late Dr. N. his account of a cafe of the hydro- phobia, 256.
MERCURY, enquiry into it opers, and oatmeal, condemn-
ration in the venereal disease,
OHIO, icheme for new fettlements on the banks of, examined and recommended, 210.
lars relating to, where to be met with, 239. OPTICS, ignorance of the ancients in relation to, 366. Progress of the science of, 307. Won- derful discoveries in by Newton, &c. 309.
ORRERY, new-invented one de- fcribed, 336.
ORTHODOXY, humourous defini- tion of, 294.
OXEN, in what refpects preferable
PoWER, Mr. his account of an ex- traordinary ptyalism, 256. PRODIGAL Son, reflections on the parable of, 234.
PRUSSIA, King of, his violent feizure of the Polish territories
expofed, 447 His vaunting exclamation, with respect to the British government, 451.
to horfes for p'ough and draught, QUADRANT, Hadley's, new
23. Remarks on the feeding of with oil cakes, 27. Bounty on the use of oxen recommended,, 84.
ARIS, defcription of, 63.. PEMBERTON, late Dr. his fo- lution of an abltrufe problem in aftronomy, 414. PERCIVAL, Dr. his history and cure of a difficulty in degluti- tion, 259. PERSECUTION never attended with good effects, 455. Inftanced in a remarkable story of Shaw Jehân, 456. PHYSIC, theory and practice of, fyftematically arranged and claff- ed, 376. PINK, Indian, medicinal virtues
of, 97. PLEASURE, the inordinate love of, in what refpects inconfiftent with religion, 233. PLOUGHING,hallon. See CLARK. PLURALITIES, ecclefiaftical, fe. verely cenfured, 287. POLAND, miferable prefent ftate of that country, 36, 447. POPULATION, as affected by the divifion of property, difcuffed,
81. POTATOES, Gerard's account of them at their first introduction into England, 130.
improvement in the conftruc- ion of, 337. QUICKSET hedges, remarks on the raifing and management of,
24. QUIER, Dr. his account of inocu- lation in Jamaica, 264.
not to be rationally in- vestigated by the bulk of maa- kind, 438. Any religion beter than Atheism, 439. Not fub- ject to the abfolute cognizance of government, 491. RICKETS, a fatal diftemper among fheep, 27. Brief investigation of, 28. RITTENHOUSE, Mr. his new in- vented orrery, 336. His obl on the comet of 1770, 340. His method of deducing the true time of the fan's paffing the meridian per clock, 341. RIVINUS, his botanical researches, 2'7.
ROMANS, their magnificence in
their baths, 366, State of the arts among them in the age of Auguftus, 371.
RUSSIA, Emprefs of, her conduct with respect to Poland, 447. RUSSIANS, fome account of their manners, &c. 35-
AINFOIN, cultivation of warmly recommended, 86. SATAN, fcripture meaning of that word, 191.
SAXONS, Anglo, account of their regulations with refpect to the militia, 43.
SCHEELE, Mr. his curious expe-
riments on the flour patofus, TARANTULA, bite of, vulgar
46v. SHAKESPEARE, poetic encomium on, 410. SHAMROCK, meaning of, in the Irish, 484. SHARPE, the late Dr. Gregory, his great learning, 231. His. pofthumous fermons commend- ed, ib.
SHAW Jehân, his fruitless attempt to root out the fuperftition of the Hindoos, 456. Story of his un- fortunate fon Dara, 457. SHEEP, remarks on the keeping of, 23. 24. Account of a re- markable diftemper among them,
SILESIA, flourishing state of that country, 37. SLAVERY, origin of, 423. Law- fulness and unlawfulness of ar gued, 424.
SMITH, Dr. his account of the transit of Mercury over the Sun, Nov. 9, 1769, as obferved in Pennsylvania, 342.
SPAR. See SCHEELE. SOLAR fyftem, relative and abfo- lute diftances of the planets in, table of, 415. STIRLING, Earl of, his account of
the comet of 1770, 341. STOMACH, the confcience of the body, 68. Its admonitions and functions, how fuperfeded, ib. STONE, in the bladder. See DAWSON. SUBSCRIPTION, to the Thirty- nine Articles of the church, re- flections on, 297, 402, 437, 474.
relative to, refuted,
TEA, obf. on the natural hiftory of, 131. Medicinal effects of, 132.
TOLERATION, principles of affert- ed, 347. Farther infifted on in favour of the Diffenters, 402. TOURNEFORT, his botanical fyf tem, 267.
TRITHEISM, orthodox doctrine of, ftated and exploded, 295. TURNBULL, Mr. his account of the tarantula, 95.
INE, culture of, and manu- facture of wine, in America, recommended, 343.
VISION. See OPTICS.
WALLACE, Mr. his fentiments
Mohsen of population, 82. WARREN, Dr. his account of the Colica Pictonum, 258. WARSAW, inagnificence of the royal palace there, 37. WASTE LANDS, advantages of converting into farms, 87. Pro- per time for adopting fuch mea- fures, 88.1
WATER, discoveries relating to its
impregnation with fixed air, 227. WENSLEY Dale, described, 115. WHEELS, new invention of, for fpinning cotton, 197. WHITEFIELD, Rev. Mr. his re- tractations of his errors, 249-
250. WHITELOCKE, Commiffioner, his converfation with the Archb.
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