dote, 40. The oratorical abilities of Murray (afterwards lord Mansfield), and of Lord Chatham, 40. In 1741. he marries, Miss Drummond. Ac- count of his domestic habit 43. The first among the Scottish gentry who endeavoured to bring the Fnglish mode of husbandry into use, 44. In 1752, appointed one of the judges of the court of session, 45. In 1757, published the statute law of Scotland, abridged, 46. In 1759. his histo- rical law tracts and his introduction to the art of thinking, 47. In 1762, the Elements of Criticism, 48. In- teresting particulars relative to the state of the Western Isles in 1764. Judicious observations on modern Mu- sic 125, Extract of a letter from Mrs. Montague, 127. From Lord Kames to the Duchess of Gordon, 127. Mrs. Montague's remarks on Ossian, 130. In 1774, Lord Kames published his "Sketches of the history of Man," 131. In 1781, Loose hints on edu- cation, Metrical Legends,
Uwins' modern medicine, Woolcombe on consumption, 425 Medicine, Uwins' modern, 188 Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis, Esq. 405. Mr. Brand born in 1719, edu- cated at Glasgow, sets out on a tour to the continent in company with Mr. T. Hollis, 405 who died in 1774, and left his tortune to Mr. Brand, who assumes his name, 406. Mr. B. Hollis convicted of bribery at an elec- tion, 407. A letter to B. Hollis from Mr. Adams, afterwards president of the United States,
411 Memoirs of the earl of Monmouth, vide Naunton's. Memoirs of the Life and writings of lord Kames, 35. Lord Kames born at Kames in the county of Berwick, in 1696.-In 1712, placed in the of- fice of a writer to the signet at Edin- burgh, 36. Called to the bar in 1723.-In 1732, published essays on several subjects in law, 39. An anec. APP. Vol. 16.
Monmouth, Naunton's memoirs of the Earl of, vide Naunton.
Murray's account of the life and writ- ings of James Bruce, vide Bruce. Murray's Mentorian Lectures on, sacred and moral subjects, 217
Penitentiary, Blair's answers to objec- tions against the London Female, 332 Physiognomist, Porta's translation of the, 494 The genuine science of physiognomy, 494. Remarks on the size of the head, 495. The man of probity and his opposite, 496 Phillips s letter to the Livery of London, 270. Freeholder's book, 271. The practice of committing prisoners for trial to the Cold-Bath Fields and other houses of correction, 273. Petition to parliament on the subject of the abuses of that prison, 273. On de- taining prisoners after the grand jury have thrown out the bills, 275. count of Newgate, 277. Of Borough Compter, 278 Philosophical Transactions for 1808, 18. Davy's Lectures on the decom- position of the fixed alkalies, 18. On the properties and nature of the basis of soda, 21. On the structure and use of the spleen, 24. On oxalic acid, 25. On super-acid, and sub-acid salts, 28. On the inconvertibility of bark into alburnum, 29. Account of Cretinism, 31. On a new pro- perty of the tangents of three angles of a plane triangle, and of the tangents of three arches trisecting the circumfe- rence of a circle, 32. Account of the application of the gas from coal to eco- nomical purposes, 33. Observations of a comet, made with a view to investi- gate its magnitude and the nature of its illumination, 113. Hydraulic inves. tigations subservient to an intended Croonian lecture on the motion of the blood, 115. Richardson's letter on the alterations that have taken place in the structure of rocks, on the surface of the basaltic country in the
counties of Derry and Antrim, 115. On the difference in the structure of calculi, which arise from their being formed in different parts of the urin- ary passage, and on the effects that are produced on them by the internal use of solvent medicines, 118. On the changes produced in the atmos- pheric air, and oxygen gas by respi- ration, 120. Description of an ap. paratus for the analysis of the com pound inflammable gases by slow combustion, 306. Anatomical struc- ture of the wombat, 309. Origin and office of the alburnum of trees, 310. Eclipses of the satellites of Ju- piter, 317. Electro-chemical re- searches on the decomposition of the earths, Picture of Valencia, vide Valencia. Poems and translations from the minor Greek Poets,
Poem on astronomy,
Porta's translation of the physiognomist,
Subsistence, Comber's inquiry into the state of national, vide Comber. Southey's Chronicle of the Cid, 1. Of the Chronica del famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador, 2. Of the Poema del Cid, 3. Of Cilicio, 5. Detail of the account on which Cor- neille's tragedy of the Cid was founded, 7. A signal instance of the reward of charity, 9. Death of Ferdinand, 10. Consequences thereof, 11. Banish- ment of the Cid, 16. Parting of the Cid from Donna Ximena his wife, 16. Conduct of the Cid towards Count Ramon Berenguer his prisoner, 156. Recall of the Cid, 157. Is again banished, ibid. Poem of la. mentations composed by a noble Moor residing in the city of Valencia, 158. Second return of the Cid to the court of Castile, 160. Marriage of the Cid's daughters with the infants of Carrion, 161. Extraordinary fondness of the Cid for his beard, 163. Extracts from the Poem del Cid, 163.et passim.
TESTAMENT, Paulus' commentary on the New, 449. The correct apprecia- tion of what are the real historical contents of the New Testament, 450. The preface to Luke's gospel, 451. Who Theophilus was considered,452. Of Zacharias, 453. Substance of a paraphrase of the 1st Chapter of Luke from ver. 26 to 38,on the Holy Ghost,
455. On the taxation mentioned in Luke, 458. Of the appearance of angels on the birth of Christ, 459. Of the genealogies of Matthew and Luke, 462. Of the religious sects founded by Judas of Gamala and a Pharisee named Saddok, 463. Phenomena at the baptism of Jesus, 466. The practice of medicine a part of the office of a priest, according to the Mosaic institution, 469. The storm described in Matthew, 471. Of the Gerasene maniac, 472. The cure of the paralytic analysed,472. The case of the hemorrhoidal woman explained, 473. On the police of leprosy, 474. On the widow's son at Nain, ibid. Of the dinner given by Simon the Pharisee, 476. The doctrine of for- giving sins discussed, 476. Original- ity and authenticity ascribed to the Gospel of Mark, Theodore and Blanche, Thomas's observations on Ophthalmia,
VALENCIA, Fischer's picture of, 50.
Glowing description of the first aspect of the country, 51. Account of the city of Valencia, 52. Cheapness of provisions, 53. Division of lands into huestas and secanos, 54. De- scription of the shoe called alpargates, 55. Putrid disorders prevalent in some of the districts of Valencia, 55. Cultivation of silk, 56. Sin- gular salt rock of Pinoso, 56. Of the esparto, a species of feather-grass, 56. Of the almond-tree, 57. Of water- thieves, ibid. Of the trobadores or itinerant bards, 57. Slinging a favourite exercise of the Valencians, 58. Account of the puppet showinen and directors of dancing dogs and monkies, 59. Division of the imposts into royal and manorial, 59. Climate of Valencia favourable to longevity, 60. Specific for the bite of vipers, 60. Vasseur's French student's vade mecum,
WARM and vapour baths, Kentish on, 439
Washington, Bancroft's life of General, 412. His early bent for a military life, 413. In 1753, is sent on a mis- sion to warn the French against a further prosecution of the plan they had formed of uniting Canada with Louisiana by a chain of posts, 413. Is appointed in 1755, to defend the frontiers with an inadequate force, 414. In 1759, marries Mrs Custis, 417. In 1775, appointed by congress commander in chief of the American force., 418. The American lines
Woman, a novel, Woodhouselee's memoirs of the life and
writings of lord Kames, vide Memoirs. Woodley's Church-yard and other poems
W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey, London.
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