HEAT, animal, philofophically confi- dered, 301.
Huw language, genuine antiquity of ? The vowel points of, defended, 341. HERCULANEUM, poetical reflections on the fate of 99 HERMAPHRODITEs, curious account of,
HERNIAS, inconveniences arifing from, 3 with respect to Romish priefts, 14. Hernias of the omentum, 19. Extraor- dinary cafe of, 20. Crural hernia, 21. Divifion of hernias, with an account of a new fpecies of ventral hernia, 546 HEWSON, Mt. his account of the lym- phatic fyftem in birds, 197. HIERARCHY, English, their affumed titles and powers, bbjected to, 25. HOMER, his poetical merit too highly eftimated, 295.
HORSEFALL, Mr. his folution of a cu rious queftion in chronology, 396. MOSPITABLE-DAKE, a poem, from Harrington's papers, 57. HULLO Water defcribed, 263. HUMAN species, varieties obfervable in, 5215
HUNTER on the Hernia Congenita, tran. Aated into French, 14. His papers on a particular species of aneurifm, 16. His obf. on the large foffil bones found in America, 108.
LARDNER, Dr. his literary correfpon. dence, 159.
Laws, notable, in the reign of Dago- bert I. 435.
LEGES Malcolmi, enquiry into its authen ticity, 428.
LEISGANIG, Father, his account of the mcafurement of 3 deg, of latitude, una, der the meridian of Vienna, 420. LESLEY, a monarchical bigor, his expo- Atulatory letter to James Harrington, 56.
Lxo X. a voluptuous Pope, 560. LIFE, in its fimple, natural state, posti- cally contrafted with the vices and mi- feries of polished life, 442.
JANKING, profeffor, his obf. on the LIGHTNING, methods of preferving
foramina of the skull, $44. His method of injecting the mall, and -particularly the cutaneous veins of the human body, ib.
INDIA, Eaft, importance of our trade
and connexions there, 322. INOCULATION, fee SMALL Pox, prac- tice of, in Arabia, 194. JOHNSON, Sam. his notable faying on Mallet's publication of Bolingbroke's philofophical writings, 37, the note. IONIA, the rival of Attica, in regard to the fplendor of its public edifices, 368. Account of fome ancient temples there, 370-377.
IRISH, their national character, 179. JUPITER's fatellites. See BAILLY, MARALDI, DE LA LANDI, &c.
buildings from, 200. Strange negli gence of the parishioners of St. Bride's, London, in regard to the prefervation of their fine fteeple, 204. Humorous reprehenfion of, 205.
Louis IX. his artifice for increafing the number of perfons of condition to en- gage in the croifade, 439.
XIV. account of his ladies, 570. LUTTRELL, Mr. accufed of ill treating Mifs Bolton, 251, and Dr. Kelly, ib. LYMPH, account of the extravafatien and abforption of, 309.
JUVENAL; fpecimen of French MAD
MANTEGNA, Andrea, a cele brated painter and engraver, fome aż- Count of, 367.
MARALDI, M. his memoir on the va- riation in the inclination of the orbit of the ad fatellite of Jupiter, 503.
MARCIS, Marie le, a celebrated herma- phrodite, hiftory of, 18. MARGRAFF, M. his enemical experi iments contfaverted by M. de Machy, 497. MASKELYNE, Mr. his obfervations on 1, the trinit of Venus, &c. 397 His account of the obfervations made by Meif. Maion and Dixon to afcertain the value of a degree of latitude in Maryland, &c. 417.- MASON and Dixon, their obf. on the celestial bodies, made in Penfylvania, 400. Their obf. for determining the length of a degree of latitude in Mary- land and Penfylvania, 417. MATILLON, bishop of Clermont, eulo- gium on, as a preacher, 269. Extracts from his fermons on the duties of the great, 270.
MAYNE, Mr. his account of the effects
of a violent flash of lightning on his conducting apparatus, 202. MEAD, Dr. his prohibition of warm bathing in paralytic cafes, contraverted, 350. MELVILE, Mr. gov. of Grenada, his conduct, 69. Strongly impeached, 151. Account of proceedings against him be- fore the Lords of the Council, 402. His return to his government, ib. MEXICO. See PERU. MEZZOTINTO, by whom invented, 366. MICAIAH, the prophet, his honeft and fpirited conduct, 334.
MIDDLETON, the fine country about it defcribed, 261.
MILLER, Mr. his experiments on sow- ing wheat, 192. *
MINERALS, the several classes of, 312. MINERVA, temple of, at Priene, ac- count of, 372. Ruins of, defcribed, 374.
AINTING, general hints relating to study of, 318. Cautions in re- gard to copying, 319. ftyle recommended, 320. joined, 221. PARALLAX, folar. See MASKELYNE," MURDOCK, PLASMAN, PINGEE PARS, Mr. fent by the Society of Dilet- tanti into lonia, in fearch of antiqui ties, 369.
PARSONS, Dr. his account of a parti cular fpecies of cameleon, 193. PATAGONIANS. See BYRON. PATRIOTISM, obs. on, 293.
MIRA's lamentation for the death of PENNANT, Mr. bis account of the dif-
ferent fpecies of Pinguins, 192. His Indian Zoology, 219. PERCUSSION. See RICHARDSON. PERSIUS, 3d fatire of, imitated, by Mr. Neville, 48.
PERU and MEXICO, the accounts of the ancient fplendor of those empires highly exaggerated, 533.
PHOSPHORUS, that will imbibe and emit light, like the Bolognian ftone,, 'me<? thod of making, 422. Exp. and obf. relating to ditto, 423.
PINGRE, M. his new enquiry concern- ing the determination of the fun's pa rallax, by the tranfit of Venus, 502. PLANMAN, his determination of the fo- lar parallax, by a peculiar method, 397. PLUTARCH'S
SECKER, archbishop, his letter to Wal-2 pole critically examined, 37% His life, 461. SEPTUAGINT verfion of the Q. T. com rupted both by Jews and Chriftians, 1. Recom- Its original rectitude, 2. mended by the firft preachers of Chrif tianity, 3. Quoted by St. Matthew, 5. Three other verfions mentioned, 7. SEPULCHRETUM, account of 101. SERMON, by Mad Tem, 182.
SHORT, Mr. his obf. on the cold of 1740, 113. SMALL-POX, method of inoculating it in Barbary and at Bengal, 194 Prac- tice of inoculation in Arabia, ib. SMEATON, Mr. his difcourfe on the menftrual parallax, 399. His method of obf. the heavenly bodies out of the meridian, ib. SMITH, Dr. extract from his fermon be- fore the Charitable Corporation in America, 31.
SONNET on fabella Markhame, 58. STERNE, Mr. not the author of the pofthumous works published as bis, 31.
STILL, Dr. bishop of Bath and Wells, his character, 52. His difpute with a fanatic, 54.
SWEDENBORG, Baron, an extraordi- nary fanatic of the prefent age, fome account of, 446.
SWINTON, Mr. his account of certain Punic and Etrufcan coins, 394.
THAMES, river, queries relating to the confervation of, 328.
TILLET, M. his machines to ascertain the proportion of different liquid and dry measures to the pint and bushel of
Paris, 507. TISSOT, Dr. declares against the use of opium in meft cafes of the fmall-pox, 541. In what cafes ufeful, ib. His account of the effects of electricity in pailies, 54%
WEDGWOOD, Mr. the great improver · of the English pottery, 267. WENDT, Dr. his differtation on pleurify and peripneumony, 543. WENTWORTH Caftle defcribed, 258. house-
VALSAZIA, his anatomical writings WHEAT, experiments on the sowing of,
VEINS, injection of. See JANKINS, VENEREAL difeafe given to Europe, by America, in return for the fmails pox, 519. Its furprizing progrefs, on its firft importation to Barcelona, 510. VESUVIUS, Mount, curious account of its eruption in 1707, 105. VILLAGE, poetically deferibed, 441. The parish priest characterized, 443- UNION, act of, objections drawn from it, against a revifal of our liturgy, ob- viates, 125.
VOGEL, Dr. his differtation on a double wound of the colon, 543- VOLTAIRE, his humorous letter to a bookfeller, 458. To Lord Lyttelton, 459- Letter to, from Mr. Haller, 460. His flory of Amabed and Father Fatutti, 556.
UVA U251, is lithontriptic powers com- pared with those of lime water, 546. USULA, inftrument for extirpating, 22.
WILCKE, Dr. his account of the fore throat, 545.
WINANDER-MERE described, 266. WINTHROP, profeffor, his reflection on the damage done to St. Bride's fteeple by lightning, 204. WISDOM, her behaviour in the Houfe of Commons, 137.
WIT, adventures of, in a journey from Cornwall to Derbyshire, 138. Sketch of that kind of wit which was current in the 13th century, 438. WORLGEMUTH, Mich. fuppefed to have invented the art of etching, 367. WRISBERG, Dr. his obf, on the com- mencement of respiration, the phrenic nerve, and animal heat, $44.
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