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Epitaph on Dr. Parnell, iv. 134.
Epitaph on Edward Purdon, iv.
129.

Epitaphs, on the folly of flattering,
iii. 43.

Epsom races, i. 126.

Erasmus, his panegyric on Cicero,
iv. 412.

Escobar, Anthony, ii. 3.
Eustathius, i. 213.

F.

'Faerie Queene,' Spenser's, iv. 440.
Falsehood and Deceit, on, i. 134.
Falsehood, propagated by books
seemingly sincere, ii. 57.
Falstaff, Sir John, i. 180.
Fame, ii. 306.

Fame Machine, the, a reverie, i. 83.
Famous Men, a search after, ii. 421.
Favours, evils of receiving, ii. 394
Female Characters, i. 338.
Female Warriors, i. 246.
Ferrers, Earl, ii. 153, 181.
Feyjoo, Father, some particulars re-
lating to, i. 54, 411.

Fiddle Case, story of the, ii. 265.
Fine gentleman, described, ii. 13.
Fine lady, described, ii. 13.
Fine Sense, fountain of, a dream,
i. 195.

Fishes, Introduction to the history
of, ii. 522.
Flattery, i. 103.

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Franks, Timothy, quack-doctor, ii.

275.

Frederick William, of Prussia, iii.
236.

Frederick the Second, of Prussia,
iii. 237, 243.
Freedom, iv. 26, 28.

French, the, iv. 22.

French nationalities, ii. 315.

French preachers, i. 333.

French prisoners of war, subscrip-
tion for, ii. 87.

Friendship, i. 381, ii. 106.
Frugality, on the duty of, i. 80.

Frugality, on political, i. 73.

Fudge!' ii. 21, iii. 51.

Funeral elegies on the Great ridi-
culed, ii. 411.

Funeral Solemnities, ii. 41.

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Generosity, ii. 265.

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Generosity and Justice, essay on, i.

50.

Genius, i. 252, iv. 463.
Geraghty, Catherine, iv. 58.
Germany, state of polite learning in,
i. 406- relative position of, during
the Seven Years' War, i. 501.
Gideon, Sampson, i. 46.

Gifford, William, ii. 394, iv. 61.

Gift, The,' iv. 116.

Goddess of Silence, address of the,

to the Ladies, i. 328.

Godinot, the Griper, i. 53.

Goethe, iii. 12, iv. 50.

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Governors, duty of submission to,
ii. 397.

Grace, preference of, to Beauty, ii.
308.

Grandeur, instability of wordly, i.
107.

Gratitude and Love, difference be-
tween, ii. 265.
Gravity, i. 133.

Greatness, characteristics of, i. 70.
Greaves, Sir Launcelot, i. 324.
Gray, Thomas, i. 559, iv. 380-re-

view of his Odes,' iv. 389.
Great, absurdity of some of the em-
ployments of the, ii. 191.
Gresset, i., 197, 423.

'Grumbler, The,' a Scene from, iv.
333.

Guicciardini, i. 539 review of his
History of Italy, iii. 476.

H.

Hamlet's soliloquy analyzed, i. 297.
Happiness in a great measure depen-
dant on constitution, i. 33-fre-
quently lost by seeking after re-
finement, ii. 24 — -on the pursuit
of, ii. 174-folly of changing it for
show, ii. 259.

Handel, i. 175, 177.

Hanway's Eight Days' Journey,'
review of, iii. 460.

'HAUNCH OF VENISON, The,' iv.
71.

Hawkins's Miscellanies, review of,
iii. 489.

Henry the Fifth, i. 188.

HERMIT; A BALLAD,' iv. 31.
Hickey, Mr., iv. 104.
Hiffernan, Dr. Paul, iv. 74.

High Life Below Stairs,' Town-
ley's farce of, i. 90.

Hill, Sir John, i. 83, 86.
Historian, duties of an, iii. 431
qualifications of an, 437.
Historical excellence, iii. 476.
History, iii. 253, 476.

History, on the study of, i. 527,
515.

History of England, in a Series of
Letters from a Nobleman to his
Son,' Preface and Introduction to,
i. 542.

History of the Earth and Animated
Nature,' Preface to, i. 574.
History of Miss Stanton,' i. 214.
'History of the World,' Introduction
to, i. 527.

Hobbes, Thomas, i. 133.
Hogarth, i. 442.

Holberg, Baron, i. 412.

Holland, iv., 210-relative position
of, during the Seven Years' War,
i. 518-state of polite learning in,
i. 410.

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Home, John, his tragedy of Doug-
las' reviewed, iv. 378.

Homer, i. 212, 286, 307, ii. 3, 38.
'Horace Modernized,' review of,
iv. 484.

Horneck, General, iv. 132.
Horneck, the Misses, iv. 132.
Hudibras, i. 139.

Human Life, i. 549.

Human Nature, danger of having
too high an opinion of, ii. 447.
Hume, David, i. 573, iv. 377, 388.
Hypatia, history of, i. 46.

Hyperbole, on the use of, i. 312,

I.

Independence, a life of, praised, ii,
393.

Insects, Introduction to the His-
tory of, ii. 532.

Irving, Washington, iii. 11.
Islington, ii. 475.

Isocrates, his advice to his pupils,
iv. 390.

Italians, iv. 17.

Italy, academies of, i. 111-state of
polite learning in, i. 402.

J.

Jacob, Hildebrand, ii. 438.
James the First, state of England
at his accession, i. 471-his mode

of trying witches, i. 139-his cha-
racter, iii. 434.

" Jemima and Louisa,' review of, iii.
487.

Japan, meanness of the Dutch at
the court of, ii. 458.

Johnson, Charles, ii. 439.

Johnson, Dr., i. 88, 365, 438, 559,
ii. 420, iii. 231, 232, 356, 375,
377, iv. 167, 249, 384, 647,
481.

Justice and Generosity, essay on,
i. 50.

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Ladies, a true history for the, i. 205.
Ladies, advised to get husbands, ii.
353.

Ladies' trains ridiculed, ii. 326
Lambertus, i. 400.

Langhorne's' Death of Adonis,' from
the Greek of Bion, review of, iv.
445.

Language, on the use of, i. 40.
Languages, method of teaching the
learned, i. 105.

Lao, history of the kingdom of,
ii. 93.

'Last Good Night,' Johnny Arm-
strong's, i. 34.
Laughter, i. 133.

Law's delay, on the, ii. 387.

Law and customs compared, i. 123.
Learned, folly of useless disquisi-
tions among the, ii. 358.
Leasowes, on the tenants of the, i.
364.

Learning, causes of the decline of,
i. 389, 401.

Lectures, i. 457.

Lee, Nathaniel, i. 143.
Legacy hunters, ii. 395.
Leo the Tenth, ii. 258.
Leslie, Charles, i. 147.
Lessons to a Youth on entering the
World, ii. 245.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger, i. 141.
Lewis the Fourteenth, iii. 455.
Liberty, English, ii. 17.
Life, i. 458.

Life endeared by age, ii. 297.
Life, some cautions on, ii. 334.
Lightning, Lines on a beautiful
Youth struck blind with, i. 8.
Linnæus, ii. 486.

Lissoy, iv. 53.

Literary contest, in which both sides
fight by epigrain, ii. 437.
Literary reputation, difficulty of ob-
taining, ii. 228.

Literary success, uncertainty of, i. 56.
Literature, causes of the rise and de-
cline of, ii. 254.

Literature, almost every subject of,
exhausted, ii. 384.

Little great man, description of a,
ii. 301.

Livy, i. 548.

Lloyd, Charles, ii. 437, 441.
Locke, John, i. 99, 144.
'Logicians Refuted,' iv. 112.
London, streets and houses of, des-
cribed, ii. 9, 11.

London, on the clubs of, i. 158.
London shopkeeper and his journey-
man, ii. 312.

Londoners, their ardour in the pur-
suit of sights and monsters, ii. 179.
Longinus, i. 294.

Looking-glass of Lao, a dream, ii
184.

Lords, proneness to admire the wri-
tings of, ii. 373.

Love, whether it be a natural or
fictitious passion, ii. 451.

Love and gratitude, difference be-
tween, ii. 265.

Love of country, ii. 402.

Lucretius, iv. 386.

Luitprandus, i. 399.

Lulli, John Baptist, i. 174, 283.
Luxury, i. 76, 80, ii. 38, 94, iv.
64, 68.

Luxury and pride of the middling
classes, i. 126.

M.

Mackenzie, Henry, iv. 377 n.
Macpherson, James, iv. 102.
'Mad Dog; Elegy on the Death of
a,' iv. 127.

Mad dogs, fear of, ridiculed, ii. 278.
Maffei, i. 197, 403,

Magazine in miniature, specimen of
a, i. 349.

Maintenon, Madame de, review of
her Memoirs, iii. 465.
Maiolo, Simon, ii. 59.

Mallet's Remains of the Mythology
and Poetry of the Celtes,' review
of, iv. 356.

Man in Black, character of the, ii.
88-history of the, ii. 102.
Manton, Dr., iii. 382.
Marlborough, Duchess of, iii. 232,
255, 303.

Marriage Act censured, ii. 292, 442.
Marriages, Scotch, a registry of, i.
377.

Marriott's 'Female Conduct' re-
viewed, iv. 426.

'Martial Review,' Preface to the,
i. 526.

Massey's translation of Ovid's Fasti
reviewed, iv. 418.

Massilon, Bishop of Clermont, i.
117, 334.

Mathematics, i. 457, 545.
Matrimony, iii. 5.

Maupertuis, M., i. 20, iii. 245.
Maximus, Caius Julius, ii. 256.
Memoirs of a Protestant,' Preface
to, i. 463.

Ménage, i. 539.

Mencius, ii. 136, 267.

Merit, upon unfortunate, i. 92.
Metaphors, on the use of, i. 293.

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Misery best relieved by dissipation,
ii. 189-manner in which philoso-
phers make artificial, ii. 369.
Misfortunes, consolation under, ii.
378.

Missionaries, iii. 348.

Montaigne, iii. 478, iv. 413.
Montesquieu, i, 422, iii. 458-re-
view of his Miscellaneous Pieces,
iii. 485.

Moral government of the world, wis-
dom of God in, i. 353.
More, Hannah, iv. 449 n
More, James, i. 148.
More, Edward, i. 437, 563.
Motte, M. de la, iii. 212.
Moufett, Thomas, ii. 486.
Mourning, English, ridiculed, ii. 380.
• Or-
Murphy, Arthur, i. 87—his
phan of China' reviewed, iv. 453.
Mushroom-feast amongst the Tar-
tars described, ii. 126.

Music, on the different schools of, i.
173.

N.

Napier, General Robert, iv. 54.
NASH, RICHARD, LIFE OF,' iii. 248.
National concord, on, i. 241.
National prejudices, on, 220.
Natural History, Familiar Introduc-
tion to the Study of, ii.

Newmarket races ridiculed, ii. 347.
'New Simile, in the manner of
Swift,' iv. 125.

Newspapers, ii. 17, 21.

Nobility, English, ii. 126.

Novels, ii. 336, iii. 487-the absurd
taste for pert and obscene ones
ridiculed, ii. 212.

0.

Obligations, evils of receiving, ii.
394.

Old age, Cicero's treatise on, i. 179.
Old Maids, ii. 109.
Oldcastle, Sir John, i. 188.

'O Memory! thou fond Deceiver,'
iv. 120.

Opera in England, on the, i. 149.
Oratory, iv. 450.

'Orphan of China,' Murphy's, re-
viewed, iv. 453.
Orpheus, i. 210.
Otway, i. 142. 268.

Ovid, iv. 418, 430.

Ovid's Fasti,' Massey's translation
of, reviewed, iv. 418.

P.

Painting, passion of the nobility for,
ridiculed, ii. 135.

Paraguay, Charlevoix's History of,
reviewed, iii. 438.

'PARNELL, LIFE OF,' iii. 354.
Parnell, Dr., epitaph on, iv. 134.
Parr, Dr., ii. 33.
Peace-makers, i 78.
Peasantry, iv. 55.

Penal laws, evil tendency of in-
creasing them, ii. 321.

Percival, Dr. Thomas, iv. 67 11.
Pergolesi, i. 173.

Perseverance, i. 128.

Perugino, Pietro, iii. 113.

Peter the Great, i. 100.

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Pleasure, i 177.

'Poems for Young Ladies,' Preface
to, i. 555.

Poet, life of a, iii. 359.

Poetry, on the origin of, i. 270-as
distinguished from other writing,
i. 282-invocation to, iv. 69.
Poets, anecdotes of, who lived and
died in wretchedness, ii. 338.
Poets, English, ii. 160.

Poles, wretched condition of the, i.
17.

Polignac, Cardinal de, his' Anti-
Lucretius' reviewed, iv. 385.
Polite Learning, Enquiry into the
Present State of,' i. 385.
Politeness, progress of, i. 336-des-
cription of true, ii. 155.
Politics, passion of the English for,
ii. 19.

Polnitz, Baron, iii. 245.
Polybius, i. 539.

Poor, distresses of the, exemplified,
ii. 461.

Pope, i. 286, 306-ii. 48-his 'Rape
of the Lock,' i. 559, his 'Eloisa
to Abelard,' 590.
Porphyrogeneta, Constantine, i. 399.
Poverty, ii. 105, 271.

Preachers, on popular, i. 331.
Prejudices, national, i. 220.

Pride and luxury of the middling
classes, i. 126.

Prior, Matthew, i. 563.

Projectors, i. 72.

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Prologue to Zobeide,' iv. 135.

'Prologue, written and spoken by

Laberius,' iv. 111.

Providence, the equal dealings of,
demonstrated, iii. 164.

Prussia, relative position of, during
the Seven Years' War, i. 497.
Psellus, Michael, i. 399.

Pride, English, ii. 16.

Public rejoicings for victory, on, i.
167.

Pulpit eloquence, i. 113.

Purcell, i. 175, 176.

Purdon, Edward, Epitaph on, iv.

129.

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