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XLVIII. Letters from Dr. Johnson and Dr. Adams

XLIX. Letters to and from Dr. Johnson on Suicide

L. Letters from Addison to Lord Wharton

LI. The Rev. Mr. Hearne, Rector of the United Pa-

rishes of St. Alphage, and St. Mary North-

gate, Canterbury, to the Rev. George Horne,

Dean of Canterbury

LII. Dr. Timothy Neve to the Rev. Littleton Brown,

at Bishop's Castle, Shropshire

LIII. Letters from Mr. Howard

LIV. Sir Dudley Carlton to Mr. Winwood

LV. The Earl of Buchan's Address to his learned

LVI. Letters from Sir Richard Steele to his second Lady,

(Mrs. Mary Scurlocke,) before Marriage

LVII. Letters from Ephraim Chambers

LVIII. Letters from Dr. Young to Mr. Williams

LIX. Letters from Mr. Pope and the Earl of Oxford

LX. Letters from Zachary Williams, on the Longitude,

some of them corrected, and others written,

by Dr. Samuel Johnson

LXI. Letters from Cowley and Dryden to Dr. Busby

LXII. Extracts of Letters from Dr. Arbuthnot to Mr.

LXIII. Letters- from Richard Savage, a few weeks before

LXIV. Thomas Hearne to Lord Harley, on the Alexan-

drian MS. of the New Testament

LXV. David Hume to Sir John Pringle, M.D. on the Pre-

LXVI. The Rev. Dr. Free to Archbishop Moore

tender's being in London in 1753

LXVII. The Rev. S. Pegge to the Rev. Charles Hope,

Minister of All Saints, Derby, relative to the

subscription for the reparation, &c. of the

Cathedral Church of Lichfield

LXVIII. Letters from Mr. Henderson to Dr. Priestley

LXIX. From Dr. Johnson

LXX. Bishop Newton to a Gentleman at Lichfield

LXXI. Dr. Benjamin Franklin to John Alleyn, Esq.

LXXII. Bishop Sherlock to Dr. R. Grey

LXXIII. From General Wolfe

LXXIV. Dr. Kennicott to Mr. Daddo

LXXV. From Bp. Horne, a Letter of Consolation

LXXVI. From Dean Stanhope, containing advice to a

Young Clergyman

LXXVII. Bp. Horne to a Young Clergyman

LXXVIII. From Bp. Horne

LXXIX. Col. Stedman to his Son

LXXX. Letters from Charles II. and Lord Lauder-

dale to the Earl of Northesk, reiative to

the Marriage of Lord Northesk's Daughter

LXXXL From Dr. Johnson on the Death of his Wife

LXXXII. Dr. Benjamin Franklin to the Earl of Buchan

LXXXIII. Dr. Doddridge to Bishop Hildesley

LXXXIV. Letters from Doctors Hildesley, Hales, Leland,

and Mr. Samuel Richardson

LXXXV. Dean Swift to Mr. Windar

LXXXVI. Dean Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of

Canterbury, to Mr. Nicholas Hunt, of that

City, while labouring under a Cancer, of

which he died, A.D. 1687

LXXXVII. Lewis Morris, Esq. to his Brother William

Morris, Comptroller of the Customs, Holy-

head, on Mine-knockers

LXXXVIII. Dr. Young to the Rev. Thomas Newcombe

LXXXIX. From John Locke

XC. From John Evelyn, on the Culture and Im-

provement of the English Tongue

XCI. From the Rev. Thomas Seward

XCII. Letter written at Paris by Dr. Benjamin Frank-

lin. Communicated by the Gentleman who

XCIII. Letters from the Earl of Orford to Governor

XCIV. Letters from Bishops Hoadly and Butler, and

the Duchess of Marlborough, to Sir Robert

XCV. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Hales to Nathaniel Booth,

Esq. afterwards Lord Delamer

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I. ACCOUNT of the premature genius and learning of

II. Method of staining Marble

III. An invention in Architecture, communicated by a

person of distinction in Switzerland to an Italian

IV. Wonderful memory of William Lyon

V. Method of increasing the Solidity, Strength, and

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IX. Account of Robert Hill, the learned tailor of

X. Account of Henry Wild, the learned tailor of Nor-

XI. Account of John Ludwig, a Saxon Peasant

XII. Secret of the Fire-eating Art

XIII Experiments for preserving Water sweet.

XVII. Dr. Hales's method of obtaining fresh Sea-water

XVIII. Experiments for sweetening ill-tasted Milk and

stinking Water by Ventilation, &c. by Dr.

XIX. Anecdote of the late Duke of Montague

XX. Toads found in Stones

XXI, The effect of Musk in curing the Gout in the

Stomach, by Mr. James Pringle, late Surgeon

XXIII. History of Frauds and Cheating, by Mr. Jus-

XXIV. Method to prevent Water-pipes from freezing

XXV. Chinese manner of laying out Gardens. By Mr.

Chambers, Architect, Member of the Impe-

rial Academy of Arts at Florence

XXVI. A genuine Narrative of the Sufferings of the

Persons who were confined in the Prison

called the Black Hole, in Fort William, at

Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, after

the surrender of that Place to the Indians,

in June, 1756, from a letter of I. Z. Holwell,

Esq. to William Davis, Esq.

XXVII. Account of threatening Letters sent to the

Duke of Marlborough, and a Prosecution

which his Grace carried on against William

Barnard, supposing him to have written them

XXVIII. On the unlikeness of Shakespeare's Busts

XXIX. Contrivance for Muscular Exercise

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