IDRIS, a Persian tale, 51, seq.
JEROM, St. his opinion concern-
ing the author of the epiftle to
the Hebrews, 226.

IMMORTALITY of the foul, ar-
guments in favour of, 450.
INDIANS, badly instructed by the
jefuits, 461.

JOHN, St. his gospel wrote as a
supplement to the other three,
exprefly asserts the divinity of
Cbrift against the heresies of
Ebion and Cerinthus, 16.
JOSEPH, emperor of Germany, his
annals, 82, seq.
IRELAND, advantages accruing
- from its union with England, 80.
JULIUS II. Pope, his intrigues
and obstinacy, 18. Death and
character, 19.

JUPITER and the ape, and her
young ones, fable of, applied,
309.

Jus, in the Roman law, an equi-
vocal term, 392, feq.

K

KRAKEN, a most immense sea-
monster, circumstances in sup-
port of its existence in the
north-fea, and conjectural de-
scription of it, 41, 42. 43.
KINGS of Rome, history of, doubt-
ful, 391.
KIRCHER, his plan for construct-
ing a burning machine, 421.

L

LANDEN, John, his theorems re-
lating to fome remarkable pro-
perties of the circle, 327.
LANGUAGE, the purity and pro-
priety of our own to be care-
fully attended to in education,
415.
LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester,
from being a zealous papift,

becomes a zealous proteftant,

22.

The effects of his good
humour and eloquence on the
junior students at Cambridge,
24. Was a very popular
preacher, ib. His present to
the King, 27. Sent to the
Tower, 28. Set at liberty, ib.
Character of his fermons, 29.
Sent again to the Tower, 33.
Goes through his latt fufferings
with great composure and firm-
ness of mind, 34-

LAW, Roman, character of, 390.
LEWIS, Dr. his experiments on
platina, 423.
LIBERTY of the will, the real
source of moral evil, 58. Some
plain questions in relation to it,
402.

LIFE, a fingle one, the value of
investigated, 155.
LIGHT, the difference of the re-
frangibility of the rays of, ac-
counted for, 427.
LLANDRINDOD, analysses and vir-
tues of three medicinal waters
there, 382, 383, feq.
LONDON, how many inhabitants
in, 428. Have gradually de-
creased since 1743, ib.
LOVE, contributes to a refinement
of manners, 51, feq.
LUKE, St. his stile not less charge-
able with Syriac idioms than
that of the other evangelifts, 16.

in Latin, as some have pre-
tended, but in Greek, 16.
MARRIAGE, Plato's scheme of,
not adapted to human nature,
174- Prohibition against, un-
der particular circumstances,
among the Romans, and by the
canoniits, condemned, 394.
Why to be prohibited within
certain degrees of affinity, 174,
395. May be annulled by the
civil power, 306.
MARTYN, John, his remark on
the sex of holly, 420.
MATTHEW, St. his gospel pro-
bably wrote, by that apoftle,
both in Hebrew and Greek, 15.
MEDICINES, Mrs. Stephens's, ab-
furdity of fuppofing their ex-
hibition indifferent in doubtful
cafes, 79.

MEDICI, Cardinal de, elected
Pope, and affumes the name of
Leo X. 20,

MERMAID, and Merman, evi-
dence of their existence in the
Danish and Norwegian seas,
with their description, 36, 37.
METHOD, utility of, in written
compositions, 267.
MILES, Dr. his method of ac-
counting for fudden thaws, 325.
MINOTAUR, ingenious applica-
tion of that fable to the falu-
tary consequences of inocula-
tion, 142.

MIRACLES in the church after
the time of the apostles, 15.
Ceafed at the establishment of
the Chriftian religion, 115.
Can be a proof of nothing
which is againft virtue and the
good of mankind, ib.
MISSIONARIES, English, in the
American colonies, not rightly
disposed of, 277.

MONEY, public, regulations pro-
poted for the disposal of, 117.
MONTHLY REVIEW, letter to
the authors of, propofing a cor-
respondence in regard to fo

reign books, 493.
MONUMENTS, a poetical reflec-
tion on, 376.

N

NATIONS, character of, marked
by poetry and eloquence, 86.
NATURE, the perfection of, 109.
Objections to its frailties an-
fwered, ibid.---111.

NEWFOUNDLAND, the manner
of determining disputes among
the fishermen there, 276.
Quantity of cod-fish annually
shipped from thence, ibid.
NEW TESTAMENT, books of,
acknowleged as the genuine
writings of the apostles by
every sect of Christians, 10.
And even by the most antient
enemies of that religion, 14.
Confidered as the rule and
standard of Chriftianity before
there was any authority in the
church to impose them upon
the belief of Christians, 11. In-
ternal evidence of the truth of
these books, 12.

canonical books of,
at the time of the council of
Laodicea, the fame as our pre-
fent canon, except the book of
Revelation, 10.

NEWTON, Sir Isaac, his chro-
nology confirmed by the dura-
tion of reigns of the emperors,
84. Its rectitude and utility
confirmed, 182.

NORWEGIANS, general defcrip-
tion of their manners, &c.
45, 46, feq.

NUNNERY, a protestant defcrip-
tion of, 218, feq.

0

ODE, the most sublime species
of poetry, 434. Tranflation
of the King of Prufia's, on
death, 436---438.
ORTHOGRAPHY, a new mode
of, 471. Ill regulated by pro-
nunciation, 472.

P

PAINTING, &c. study of recom-
mended to players, 7.
PARALLAX of the fun determin-
ed from observations, 325.
PARENTS, consent of, in mar-
riage, how far neceffary, 93,
feq.

PARSONS, Dr. his observations
on Archimedes's burning the
fleet of Marcellus, 421.
PASSIONS, rules for the govern-
ment of them, 448.
PAUL, St. most probably the
author of the epiftle to the
Hebrews, 226. Lord Boling-
brake's unjust reflections upon
him cenfured, 233, 234.

PERSECUTION, on account of
religion, the greatest folly, as
well as the most horrid cruelty,
176.

PETER the Great, (Emperor of
Ruffia) befieges Afoph, carries
on the attack in an extraordi-
nary manner, 352, 353. Vi-
fits the most remarkable courts
in Europe, works as a ship car-
• penter at Amsterdam, his re-
ception in England, models his
army after the German method,
and reforms his whole empire,
354. His death and character,
355. Paffed himself through
all, even the lowest, stations of
the army, and caused his offi-
cers, in general, to do the like,
356.. His character farther e-
lucidated, 357.. Remarkable
anecdote, 358.

PETTY, Sir William, mistaken
with regard to the number of
inhabitants within the bills of
• mortality, 428.
PHILOSOPHERS stone, its palpa-

ble absurdity, 452.
PHYSIC, its difadvantages, 359.
PHYSICIANS, antient, advantages
accruing from studying them,
360.

PIRATES, seem to abdicate all

can, 155.

POURTRAITURE, different cha-
racter of antient and modern,
457-

PRACTICABLE men, their cha-
racter, 11,8.

PREDICTIONS, when fulfilled,
undoubted proofs of a divine
foreknowlege, 13.

PROPERTY, private, how acquir-.
ed, 166. How it may be ex-
tended or transferred, ibid.
PROVIDENCE, divine, arguments
in proof of, 447-
PRUNING fruit-trees, directions
for, 337---342.
PUNISHMENT, eternal, results
from the fitness of things, and
the unchangeable nature of
the Divine Being, 368.
PYROMETER, a new one, 420.

e
QUIXOTE, Don, history of, diffi-
cult to tranflate, 197.. Scarce
understood by modern Spa-
niards, ib. Smallet's tranflation.
- compared with Jarvis's, ib.

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R

RANCOUR, religious, the causes
of, 106.
RELIGION, a genuine picture of,
17. State of, in the English-
American colonies, 277---283.
REVELATION, book of, first men-
tioned as included in the canon
of scripture, by the third coun-
cil of Carthage, 10.

RHYME condemn'd, 96. Ap-
proved, ib. feq.
RICHMAN, professor at Peters-
burgh, account of his death,
425.

RIGHTS, extraordinary ones,
from some fingular necessity,
166---171.

ROBBERY, an abdication of the
protection of society, 167.
ROMAINE, Mr. remarkable ad-
vertisement concerning, 133.
ROMAN government, of a mili-
tary nature, 397, feq.
RUDBECK, his method of afcer-
taining chronology, 182.

S

SACRIFICES, their nature, and
origin, 179---180. Legal, the
proper defign of them, 237.
SADI, a Perfian writer, his poem
on the power of the Supreme
Being, 86.

SALT, how used to meliorate
foils, 334. Useful to prevent
the depredations of insects on
fruit trees, and the injuries of
honey-dews, 344.

SCHOMBERG, Dr. Duncan, a
clergyman, remarkable de-
feription of, 203. note.
SCHOMBERG, Mrs. her history,
206, feq.

-SCRIPTURE, remarks on the
double sense ascribed to it,
229, 230.

SEA WATER, how to make fresh
at fea, 309.
SENECA, more inclined to the
study of philosophy than elo-
quence, 248. Pratifed a Pyo

329---334-

SMALL-POX, new remark on the
event of inoculating it, 141.
SMEATON, John, his new pyro-

meter, 420.
SOCIETY for propagating the
gospel in foreign parts, a pious
design, 277. Badly executed
in British North America, ib.
SOE-ORMEN, or fea-snake, evi-
dence of its existence on the
coast of Norway, and defcrip-
tion of it, 38, 39, 40.

SOVEREIGNTY of God, where-
in it confifts, 446.
SPEECH, our duty and obliga-
tions in the use of, 167, 168.
STATES, their decay, and the
causes thereof, 177.
STILE of the New Teflament,
very different from that of an-
tient Greece, 14.
STILL-BORN, children seeming
so, how sometimes recovered,
245.

STUDENT, in divinity, direc-
tions to, 189---192.
SUGAR, cultivation of the cane,
273.

SUPERSTITION, whether, and

in what sense, worse than a-
theism, 295.

SURGEON, his peculiar advanta-
ges over the physician, 358.
SYSTEMS, theological, temples
confecrated to implicit faith,
404.

T

TARTARUM Tartarifatum, its
efficacy in melancholy and ma-
niacal diforders, 243.
TESTAMENT, New, authentici-
ty of, proved from the decifions
of councils, 10. From the pri-
vate testimonies of particular
approved writers, 11. Writers
of, true hiftorians, ibid, feq.
Predictions, in, proofs of a di-
vine foreknowlege, 13. The
genuine writings of the perfons
whose names they bear, 14.
Propagated by the destruction
of Jerufalem, 15. Particular
history of the several books
therein contained, ib. feq.
THAW, supposed to be caused by
warm steams issuing from the
earth, 326.

THUNDER, a poetical receipt to
make, 297.

TIME, students should be as fru-
gal of it as a miser is of his
money, 189. Directions for
improving it; ib.

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V

VARIATION of the magnetic
needle, whether poffible to be
accounted for, 433. Advan-
tages accruing from a periodic
review of it, ib.

VERACITY, the common rule
of, may be fuperceded by a

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fingular necessity, 171, 172.
VERSE, blank and rhyming,
which of them most preferable,
96, 97, feq. Why an immetri-
cal, ill-founding one, may fome-
times please, 98.

UNITY of place, in theatrical
exhibitions, inconvenience of

too rigidly adhering to, 496.
VOLTAIRE, his letter to Mr. de
-, profeffor of hiftory,
concerning his intended uni-
versal history, 85-90. Το
the Dutchess of Saxe-Gotba.
on the same subject, go-92.
His verses in praise of liberty,
285-287. His notion of the
time of action in dramatic per-
formances controverted, 494.
His cenfure of Shakespear cen-
fured, 495.

W

WARBURTON, Dr. anecdote con-
cerning him, and Lord Boling-
broke, 124---128.

WATER, fresh, how to preserve
it sweet, 310.
WEATHER, cold, in 1754, Mr.
Arderon's observations on, 324.
Disagrees with Dr. Stabl, con-
cerning the taste of frozen li
quors, 325.

WEST, Miss Juliet, account of
her religious principles, and ex-
traordinary qualifications, 210.
WILL, human, its natural calm
determinations, 100, 101.
WILKS, Mr. nis power of action,
not impaired by age, 8.
WOMEN, advantages arifing from
converfing with them, 51.
WOOL, quantity of, annually
fmuggled to Bologne, 464.
*WORLD, its political, moral, re-
ligious, and domeftic ftate,
about the time of our Saviour's