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Jefuits, 498. Character of the
Natives, 499.

CARACTACUS, Extracts from, 509. CHANGEABLENESS in Mankind, no Proof of Infelicity, 429. CHORUS, the Omiffion of, in modern Tragedies juftified, 507.

CHRISTIAN Frederic Poft, fome

Account of him and his Embaffy, 547. CICERO, Character of his Trea

tife concerning the Orator, 65. CIVIL Law, why neglected 385 CLERGY, their Industry not to be wished, 352. Of the prefent, not to be feared, ib. CLOATHS, Marks of Immodefty, 133.

CoN, Silver, Caufes of its Scarcity, 310. Reafons against altering the Value of, 312. A Remedy fuggefted, 314. COMEDIANS characterized, 122. COMET, the expected one, a Table of its Appearance, 375CONFORMITY, univerial, in Religion, a Proof of Ignorance and Barbarity in a People, 361. CORK-WAISTCOAT, its Uies,

606.

CoSSACKS defcribed, 450. COURT of Honour recommended, 124.

D DANIEL'S Prophecy, a new Tranflation of, 37. Proofs of its Authenticity, 150.

DIALOGUE between a Npmph, FLY, Method of preferving Plants

and her Lover going to the
Wars, 454. Between two
Phyficians, 456.
DRAMATIC Entertainments, Spe-
culations concerning, 120.
DUELLING, Thoughts upon, 124.
DUMBARTON Catile, how taken
by the Regent of Scotland, 194.
DUNG, of no prefent Advantage

to Land, 439
DUTCH, their Right of being
French Carriers in Time of
War difproved, 56.

E

EARTH, its Figure afcertained,

Im-

53.
EDUCATION, mif judged
provents in, 127.
ELECTRICIANS, Caution recom-
mended to them, 301.
ELIZABETH, Queen, her Cha-
racter, 11, 204. The critical
Situation of Affairs at the Com-
mencement of her Reign, 4co.
Excommunicated by the Pope,
194. fier Appointment of
James to fucceed her doubtful,
252. Inflances of her rivalling
the Perfon and Qualifications of
Mary Q. of Scots, 405.
ELOQUENCE of the Pulpit, Ob-
fervations concerning, 74.
ENGLISH characterifed, 130. Un-
jatly accufed of Want of Re-
gard toward their kings, 204.
EPICUREAN Philofophy expofed,

433.
EXALTED Stations, their Darger,

231.
EXCHEQUER, Court of, whence
derived, 99.

Excise, its Origin and Establish-

inent, 108..

F

FAMINE, a pathetic Defcription
of, 18.

FIGURES, in Writing, Obferva-
tions concerning, 73.

from, 444.

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HAPPINESS, whether attainable
or not, 9. Reason a Foe to,
575-
HAYWARD, the Rev. Mr. Story
of his pofthumous Letter, 191.
HENRY VII. the firft Founder of
English Liberty, 345. His
Character, 347-
His Laws
against Retainers, 330.
HENRY VIII. his Vices more
beneficial to Mankind, than the
Virtues of other Princes, 172.
His Character, 359. His Friend-
thip with the K. of France, 360.
HIGH-LIFE, a Defcription of,
380.

HILL, the learned Taylor, fome
Account of, 218.
HISTORY, the Requifites of a
good one, 163.
HUSBAND and Wife, their law-
ful Rights, 600,

I,

I

I, the Letter, Epigram concerning, 382. JAMES I. his undutiful Tteatment to his Mother, 199. His Ignorance in Hiftory, 203. Why Latin was much used in his Time, 206. His Advice to his Son justified, 446. JERUSALEM, our Saviour's Prophecies relating to the Deftruction of, explained, 153. IMITATION, the Subject and Manner of, 482. Of the Ancients, the great Advantages of, 66.

IMITATORS and original Writers

distinguished, 502. IMMORTALITY of the Soul, a Doctrine often weakly attacked, and lamely defended, 14. IMPOSTURE, a remarkable one found out at the Diffolution of Monafteries, 355. INTELLIGENCE, the only moral Senfe in all rational Beings, 519. JOAN, Pope, her Birth and Adventures, 332. Her Story contested, 338. JUDGMENT, the laft, pathetic Defcription of, 144.

K

KINGS afferted to be the Devil's

Children, 204. KNOWLEDGE, particular, previously neceflary to general, 300. KNOX, John, the Scotch Reformer, his Character, 196. His rude Treatment of Mary Q, of Scots, 403.

L

LACONIC Cup, what, 291. LAW-Books, Arguments for and against ftudying the old ones, 596.

LIBELLERS defcribed, 555. LIFE, its Pleafures and Pains, how proportioned, 220. LOGIC, the Study of, neceffary to an Orator, 69. LUTZEN, Battle of, and Death of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden, 516. LYCURGUS, feveral Particulars relating to him, and his Regulations at Sparta, 290, 425.

M

MAGDEBURGH, Cruel Massacre at the taking of, 452. M. MAINTENON, her extraordinary Advice to the Dutchess of Burgundy, 465.

MALT, Directions for managing 441.

MANNERS of the Sexes their In

fluence on each other, 130. Thofe of the Antients not applicable to modern Times, 424. MARCELLO, Benedetto, the Italian Mufician, fome Account

of, 341. MARRIAGE of near Kindred, Remarks on, 353. And Celibacy, their Inconveniencies, 434. MARY, Queen of Scots, her Letter to Q. Elizabeth, 176. Her Reply to the Refufal of Leave to return from France through England, 401. Rudely treated by Knox the Reformer, 403. Ill treated by her Son James, 199. Her Trial, Execution, and Character, 200, 410. MATRIMONY, a critical Cafe in, 461 MASK, Sock, and Bufkin, of the Antients described, 318. MIRACLES, Reflections concerning, 490. MODESTY, female, Thoughts on, 131. MOON, new Discoveries in, 522. MOR

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PHILOSOPHICAL Experiments on feveral Fluids preserved in vacuo, 372. Speculations, why now in Dif-esteem, 1. PHILOSOPHY, its End, 285. PLANTS, Method of obtaining exact Drawings of, from dried Specimens, 369. POLITENESS, different Modes of, in different Places, 526. PREACHER, his neceffary Qualifications, 74, 260. A profitable Hint to them, 204. PREJUDICE, well directed, of benefit to weak Minds, 2. PRESSING for Seamen, its evil Confequences, 304. PROLIFEROUS Flowers defined, 382.

PROPHECY, St. Paul's, concerning the Man of Sin, explained and illuftrated, 157. PUDDING, the Revenues of a Convent given as a Reward for a good one, 355PUNISHMENT, prefent, more powerful in reftraining the Wicked than future, 222.

Q

QUINTILIAN, Anfwer to a Queition of his in Oratory, 69.

R

RAPHAEL, the famous Painter, whence he acquired his Excellence, 68.

REASON, the only Faculty that can diftinguish between Actions morally good and evil, 520. REFORMERS, Scotch, their Indignation against Female Vanity, 403. RELIGION, in many, the Result of Indolence and Cowardice, 6. A Review of its Effects, 533. RENT CHARGE, how created, 211. RESIDUAL Analyfis, what, 327.

Method of drawing Tangents to Curves by it, 328. The fame performed by Fluxions, 331. No new Invention, 557

The

The Operations more eafily performed by Fluxions, 559. REVELATION, its Intention a Teft of its Truth, 5. Its Infufficiency to fecure Mankind in the Truth, 591.

S

SALADIN, Sultan, Particulars of his Life, 43. SCOTTS, their Origin, 164. Ill ufed by Edward I. of England, 165. Their History divided into four Periods, ibid. Their Homage to the English Crown, for what, ibid. Derivation of their Conftitution, 167. Prefbyterian ChurchGovernment, how eftablished among them, 172. SCRIPTURE, the bad Effects of Doctrines built upon particular Texts of it, 25. SEAMEN, a competent Number not to be gained at the Commencement of a War, under three Years, 304. SELF-ESTEEM, Obfervations on, 524. SENEGAL, Manners of the Inhabitants there, 365. SERMONS, Directions about making them, 496. -Single, 94,282, 283, 480, 612. SHIPS, English, why not able to carry fo cheap as Foreigners, 305. Not to be wished, 306. SHRUBS, new Method of propagating, 568. SKIN, Comparison between that

of Negroes and Whites, 372. SMALL-POX, fuppofed to purify the Conftitution, 607. Inftance of its being carried off by an Hæmorrhage from the Nofe, 608. Mankind not alike liable to this Disease, ibid. SONG, a merry drinking one, 455.

SPIRIT, the various Meanings of that Word, 237.

SPIRT of God, the Manner of its peration, 33. STOIC, Philofophy, its Infufficienc, infinuated by a Tale, 431. SUBSCRIFIONS, in what Senfe required the Church of England, 494 SURGERY, hyal Academy of, at Paris, Rifend Establishment of, 239.

TASTE, not a dinct Faculty of the Mind, 64 Wherein it confifts, 534 efolved into its fimple Prinples, ibid. Formed and perfoed by the Union of the intual Senfes, 535. The Influenc of Judgment upon it, 536. How improveable, 537-53 Refinement, or Eleganc of, to what owing, 539. Grectnefs of, wherein it cuts, 540, The Objects of, 5— 544.

TAXES, the Philofopher's Sto

301.

TENURES, their Origin, 210. TIBULLUS, fome Particulars o his Life, 60.

TIPPLING, an Apology for, 128. TREES and Plants, a Table of the Times of their Leafing, 324. TRINITY, Anfwers to Objections against it, 592.

TYBURN, a Poem by, to the Marine Society, 472.

V

VIRTUE, its different Branches, 287. And Vice, their own Reward and Punishment, 221.

W WALSTEIN, General, Particulars of his Affaffination, 514. WAR defined, 387. Its Laws debated, 388. Between two Na

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