ORONTES, the only river in Sy

ria, 140. ORTON, John, his hermitage and skeleton discovered, in the wilds of Stanmore, 601. His fkull kept by Mr. Buncle, for a Memento Mori, ibid.

P

PAINTING, its origin, 112. Requifites neceffary for excelling in that art, 163-164. Causes of its degeneracy ridiculously affigned, 165. PANTOMIMES, whence derived,

110.

PAPERS found in Herculaneum,

method of unfolding, 361. PAPISTS, more confiftent than the Hutchinfonians, 474. PARALLAXES of the Moon, an eafy method of computing, 385. PARLIAMENTS, annual, long ago contended for, 522. PARTIES, courting the adminiftration, a union of, recommended as a Panacea for all diftempers of the state, 293, feq. PATRIARCHS, their laborious way of living, 322. PATTEN, Dr. his fermon feverely cenfured, 79, feq. Confuted from his own writings, 470, feq. His doctrines tend to lead us back to Popery, 472. PEACE, at Aix la Chapelle cenfured, 298. PEAT, method of preparing to make it useful in fmelting, 388. To what other good purposes it may be applied, 389.. PELAGIANISM, how introduced

and fuppreffed in Britain, 572. PERCEPTION, what, 44. PERSPECTIVE, that of Brook Taylor praised, 164-287.

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Some account of that ingenious art, ibid. PETRARCH, his high ideas of the magnificence of ancient Rome, 615. PHILOSOPHY, vain, St. Paul's caution against being feduced by, explained, 81. PHYSIC, its present state in the Eaft, 281. PILGRIMAGES to Rome, what the confequences of, 582. PISA, defcription of a whimsical diverfion at, 462-465. PITT, Chriftopher, fome poems. of his, published without his name, commended, 532. PLAGIARISM, an indictment againft, 621. Evidence in fupport of the indictment, 622627. PLANETS, thofe of Jupiter and Saturn, have ftronger attractive powers than the earth, 237, 238.

PLATO and Ariftotle bad guides in divinity, 80, 81. PLAYS performed in England

near fix hundred years ago, 73. PLEONASM, abuse of that figure, 130. Mr. Pope a great enemy to it, ibid, PLINY, fee Monochromata.Mistaken with respect to the entrance of the Nile into the first pyramid, 262. POEM, Heroi-Comic, unknown to the antients, 63. By whom introduced into Italy, France, and England, ib. Diftinguifhed performances in this species of poetry, 64. Epic, the firft in France, 72. POLYGAMY does not contribute to the increase of a people, 280. POPE, of Rome, his temporal power, vast revenues, military forces, &c. 616619.

His

pre

prerogative over angels, 616, Note. POPE, Mr. faid to have planned an Epic poem, 71. Some reafons for believing him unequal to the task of compleating it, ibid.

PORCUPINE Man, an account

of, 273

POWER Executive, what, and

how far it extends, 219-224. PREROGATIVE, what, 225. PRICE, a farmer, and his learned wife, their hofpitable entertainment of Mr. John Buncle, 586-590. PRIESTS enjoined to learn fome trade, 584. PRINCIPIA, Newton's, difficulties in the study of, 246. PRINTING, by whom introduced into Conftantinople, 281. Reafons why not permitted among the Turks, 282. PROBLEM of Kepler, what, 386.

folved by Mr. Stewart, 387. PROGNOSTICS, a caution to phyficians not to be too hafty in making, 398. PROLOGUE, Pope's to Cato, preferable to any of Dryden's, 65. PROMISSES, in what manner af

fected by Civil Law, 225. PROPERTY, its juft influence in fociety, 217, feq. PROPHECIES, (fecondary ones) defects in the Bishop of London's reasoning upon them,

122.

PRUSSIA, Court of, its allegations for invading Saxony, and breaking with the court of Vienna, 629-635 PRUSSIA, King of, his anfwer to the imperial thunder, 638 --641. PUNCH, various prefcriptions for making, 625, feq.

PYRAMIDS in Egypt, fmaller fee Obelisk. Larger, where fituated, 253, feq. Abfurdly accounted for by the inhabitants, 254. Defcription of, 253-256. Superftition the firft caufe of building, 259. Whether erected before the ufe of pillars was known, 261, Note.

PYRITE, alledged to give medicated waters their falutary qualities, 108. The fame hypothefis denied, ibid. Q QUICK-LIME, experiments on, 376. QUINTILIAN, his method not his only excellence, 59.

R READING, no improper amufe ment for a foldier, 456. Of Sermons, when and how introduced into the English church, 584, feq. REASON, can come to no compofition with Authority, in matters of religion, 115. Her rights vindicated, 116. Its ufe and importance in defending Chriftianity, 78. Particularly neceffary for the fupport of Proteftantifm, 79. Rejec tion of, introductory of many abfurdities, 247, feq. Further confidered, 475 REMINISCENCE, what, 45. RESTITUTION of fiolen goods, how to be obtained in Eng. land, 15, 16. REVELATION, how to judge of, 80. The neceffity of appealing to Reafon to determine the merits of, 474, feq. REVIEWERS, Monthly, ftiled Infidels and Scorpians, by an angry Hutchinfonian, 516. RICHMAN, Profeffor, an ac

count

279.

RIGHT of Defence, how limit

ed, 224. Rops, pointed, their use in preventing the ftroke of Lightning, 380.

ROMAN Senate, as well as their Generals, inftrumental to the lofs of the battle of Cannæ, 666-668. ROMANS, fatal remifnefs and mifconduct in oppofing the progrefs of Annibal, 667669. ROME, Church of, governed by Harlots, 583. City of, its prefent ftate, extent, number of inhabitants, &c. 608 620. ROTA, at Rome, its functions, 618.

RowE, Nicholas, obfervations

on his writings, 70, feq. RUNDLE, Dr. vindicated from

Dr. Patten's afperfion, 249. RUPTURES, fallacy of empirical pretences to the cure of, 512. Perfons afflicted with, apt to be credulous, 512.

S

SAILING, a medicine among the ancient phyficians, 204. Revival of, recommended, ibid. Inftances of its utility, ibid. SAINT, a Turkish, metamorphofed to a ferpent, 487. Wonderful effects afcribed to, ibid.

SALVIATI, form of his initiation to the Cardinalship, 618, feq.. SAPPHO, remarks on her writings, 73, feq.

SASAUGE MAKER, refuses to be candidate for Prime-Minifter, 668. SCIENCE, moral and political, wherein fuperior to natural, 565.

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tants in, 378. If duly cultivated capable of maintaining a fourth more people than it now maintains, ibid. SCRIPTURE, facred; advantages of studying, 500. Highly preferable to the philofophy and morality of Greece and Rome, ibid.

SEA, the air of, more falutary to fome conftitutions than that on fhore, 204. SEAMEN, a fcheme for a more ready raifing of, 309. SEASONS, what occafions their variety, 478. SEA-WATER, Contents of, 205. SECURITY of Civil Governors,

wherein placed, 229, feq. SEPULCHRAL CAVES, or Grottos in Egypt, fome account of, 256. SHARP, Dr. (Archdeacon of Northumberland) grofsly abufed by an Hutchinfonian, 516. SHEEP, account of a remark. able one, 373SHIP-WORM, fee Nereis. SIENNA, ftrange executions at,

defcription of, 459-461, SIGHT, not abfolutely neceflary in acquiring mathematical learning. 245.

SOLDIERS, the ufe reading might be of, to them, 406. SOLITUDE, a fong, by Mr.Buncle, 507.

SPEAKING by action, what, 108. SPIRIT, igneous, produced from

volatile alcaline falts and quick-lime, what, 377. SPIRITUOUS Liquors, useful premonitions against the ufe of, 395, feq.

SPRING, abfurdity of a British Poet's celebrating that feafon

VARRO, the Roman General, obfervations on his misconduct at the battle of Cannæ, 666, feq. VERSE, Alexandrine, origin of,

72.

VESUVIUS, eruption of in 1754, defcribed, 274, feq. VILLENAGE, how far, and in what manner, it formerly was, or is now countenanced by the law of England, 8, 9. USAGES and Customs, how they affect, and even change the conftitutions of ftates, 233.

W WALES, the Britons obliged to retire thither, whence it became the feat of learning,

572. WALSH, Mr. character of, as a writer, 61. Pope's obligations and gratitude to, ibid. WAR, events of, not fo much beyond the reach of human forefight as is imagined, 658, Note. WARBURTON'S Divine Legation praised, 112.

WASPS Neft, American, obfervations on, 373. WATER, Epfom and Cheltenham, what difference between, 206. Tunbridge, contents of, ibid. Aix-la-Chapelle, and Bath, the contents of, not alike, 207. Bristol, in what diffimilar from Bath, ibid. WHARTON, Lord, his wager concerning the number of in habitants in London, 613, Note. WILD Cabbage-Tree, the anthelminthic virtues of, 392. Directions for ufing it, ibid. WILFRID, Bifhop of York, his grandeur, 579, 580. His character, 582. WIRE-drawing a Thought, the French writers great offenders in that way, 131, Note. WOMEN, whether more, than men born in the Eaft, anfwer to, 280. WORDS, Hebrew, fome better explained by comparing them with the Arabic, 23. WYCHERLY'S connections with Pope confidered, 57.