A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Том 2

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John Walker
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811

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On the Propriety of language in the Lords Prayer
70
The Author of the Whole Duty of Man
80
Sir ISAAC NEWTON on the Ancient Year
82
Classic Authors perverted
87
Obscure Phrases explained
88
Critical Explanations of the word EARING
89
Biblical Difficulty obviated
93
Ancient and Fabulous History not always alle gorical
94
Virgil illustrated
97
Comment on the old play of ALBUMAZAR
98
A Passage in JUVENAL explained
102
Criticism on a Passage in VIRGIL
104
Critical Remarks on HORACE
106
Critique on a Passage in Paradise Lost
107
CHAUCERS Description of the Sleep of Plants
110
Critique on a Passage in HORACE
112
Observations on an obsolete Latin word
113
A Passage in VIRGIL explained
115
A brief account of the various Translations of the BIBLE into English
116
Account of the Translators of the BIBLE
120
A Passage in CICERO DE SENECTUTE corrected from a MS
124
The pretended power of Witchcraft over the winds
126
A Passage in P MELA considered
131
Critical Remarks on a Passage in SHAKESPEARES OTHELLO
134
On the Conversion of ST PAUL
137
On the Ellipsis
140
Origin of some common Phrases
142
Derivation of the phraseto Run a Muck
143
Origin of the word Assassin
146
Account of the Collation and Revision of the English Bible by DR BLAYNEY
148
Remarks on the HUETIANA and a Passage in VIRGIL
151
On Translation MICKLES Lusiad Page
152
On the Mistakes of eminent Authors
157
MARTIAL and STATIUS on the Bath of CLAUDIUS ETRUSCUS
159
Greek Inscription to be read backwards as well
160
The AdageQuem Jupiter vult perdere c illus trated
162
Critique on VIRGIL and an Inquiry into the pro priety of some passages in SILIUS ITALICUS
164
Critique on SHAKESPEARE
170
Critical Remarks on the Tragedies of SENECA
172
Critical Remarks on some passages in V Pater CULUS and PETRONIUS
174
Inquiry as to the real author of the book De Imi
177
Night
182
scription of Night
186
Various Descriptions of Night compared
188
Critical Illustrations of obsolete Passages in SHAKESPEARE
192
The Latin AdageIncidis in Scyllam c whence taken
199
Of names retained when their origin is disused
200
NUGA VENALES PUGNA PORCORUM
208
Conjecture on an obscure Passage in SHAKESPEARE
212
On the introduction of Letters into Greece
213
Origin of Old Nick
215
On the Crasis a Grammatical Figure
216
On the word ORMESTA
223
Sameness of certain dissimilar Words
224
Criticism on GRAYS Bard
237
On the word Bleak
238
NINE LOVE at Cards or other Games ex plained
239
An Emendation of a Passage in Virgil
240
POPES Epitaph on GAY borrowedHAMMONDS
242
Elegies
243
Addition to GRAYs Churchyard Elegy
244
Virgilian Account of the Separation of Sicily from Italy
279
ASTLE on Writing
281
Parallel Passages and Remarks on SHAKESPEARE
282
Imitations and accidental Resemblances of MILTON C
291
Remarks on WARTONS Edition of MILTONS Juvenile Poems 302
304
Critical Remarks on MILTON
308
186
317
Parallel Passages in Authors of Note
320
On POPES Imitations of our early Poets
323
Critique on a Passage in VIRGIL
328
Strictures on Dr JoHNSONS Criticism on MIL
329
cles A and
333
Strictures on the use of the Interjection
341
Remarks on DRYDENS Ode in Memory of
347
BOURN whence probably derived
356
On the Particle
362
A List of Local Expressions with Illustrations
368
Latin Preface intended by BURTON for his HISTORY
378
200
383
Dissertation on Accents
385
Page
391
Surprising instances of the effects of Music in acute
406
Dissertation on a Poison of the Ancients called
414
History and culture of Cochineal
423
The cause of the lustre or resplendency of the Sea
434
Account of an inflammable Well
443
Fire from the Bowels of a Beast
445
Earthquakes how produced
446
Account of a moving Hill
448
History of Northern Lights in England
450
Curious Discoveries in making new Roads in Northamptonshire
454
Places in England where natural curiosities abound
457
Discoveries of Fossil Bones in several Counties
460
Fossils in the Vicinity of Oxford
468
On the Coluber of Virgil
471
On the Phenomenon of Dew
472
Observations on the Gossamer
476
On the Influx of Water into the Mediterranean
479
Immense Chesnut Tree at Tamworth
487
Remarkable Phenomenon of the Bath Waters
488
Account of Fires kindled of themselves 489
489
On the prodigious Growth of Trees
492
On Archbishop SECKERs Death and the Brit tleness of human Bones in Frosts
494
Whether Oily Substances are hurtful to the Bones?
497
208
498
Curious Account of the Dissection of Old Parr from a Manuscript of Dr HARVEY
499
Description of a Stone Eater
500
On the Stature and Figure of Old Persons
502
The Cruelty of Collectors of Insects censured
504
On the Process of Vegetation in Trees
505
Extraordinary Effects of Pestilential Winds
506
On the Leviathan
508
Stones not hurtful to Land
510
On the Serpent destroyed by REGULUS
511
On the Growth of Cedars in England
512
Harmless Nature of HedgeHogs
516
Account of the Free Martin
517
Account of a Gigantic Child
519
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529
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