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would lead me into too tedious enquiries. 'Tis enough for me to have imagined that I discovered several errors, arising from inattention, in fo great a genius: and 'tis fome confolation to one fo much confined and limited as mine, to be firmly perfuaded that the greatest men fall into mistakes, as well as the vulgar.

"If I am not able to exhibit all these different "characteristics, and to employ, in a proper man66 ner, the various colours which all the above-men"tioned works require, why am I honoured with the "title of poet +?" REM.

+ Horace de Dacier, Tom. I. page 80, & feq. Hambourg, 1733. 12mo.

A.

CADEMY. Defign for establishing an academy, for the improvement of the Englifh tongue, p. 185. Reafon why that defign was laid afide. p. 186. Reflections on

the French academy, and on that of the fciences, p. 187, 188. and of the advantages which might accrue from the French academy in France, p. 191.

ACTIVE. Man would be wretched, if not fo, 228. ADDISION (Mr.) A confiderable fault in his beau

tiful tragedy of Cato, p. 141. The high efteem in which his writings are held in England, p. 177.

AGES (barbarous). The most useful inventions have been discovered in them, p. 190. ALEXANDER.

Some remarks on his ambitious

fpirit, p. 246, 247.

ALTENA. The author's juftification of what he had advanced in his hiftory of Charles XII. relating to the burning of that city, p. 192, & feq.

ANAXAGORAS. His opinion concerning the nature of the foul, p. 78.

ANTONIO. A ridiculous character in one of Otway's plays, p. 134.

ARGONAUTS. Sir Ifaac Newton fixes the time of their expedition, p. 78.

ARISTOTLE. The only reason why he had fo many commentators was, because he was unintelligible, p. 78.

ASTRO

ASTRONOMY. The ufe Sir Ifaac Newton made
of this fcience in rectifying chronology, p. 127.
ATTRACTION. Sir Iface Newton borrowed his
fyftem of attraction from the Lord Bacon, p.74.
Explication of that system, p. 102.
& feq.
Defence of the term attraction, p. 110, & feq.

B.

BACON (Lord). His character and elogium,
p. 69, & feq. Curious reflections on his
philofophical difcoveries and his works, p. 74.
&feq. His hiftory of Henry VII. cenfured, p 75.
BAPTISM. Idea which the Quakers entertain
of that inftitution, p. 4, 5.

BARCLAY (Robert). Author of the apology
for the Quakers, a work in great esteem, p.
6. prefents it to King Charles II. p. 18.
BASTILLE. Sir John Vanbrugh being in France
was imprisoned in the Bastille, without know-
ing why, p. 148.

BARNARD (St.) The fingular opinion of this
father with regard to the state of the soul after
death, p. 79.

BERNOUILLI.

Whether he invented the inte-

gral calculation, p. 123.

BIBLIOTHEQUE RAISONNE'E.

An useful journal

but not known in France, p. 192.

BODIES. Caufe of their denfity discovered by
Sir Ifaac Newton, p. 117.

BOLINGBROKE (Vifcount). Confidered as one
of the defenders of the church of England, p.
30. An ingenious and noble answer of that
Lord, relating to the duke of Marlborough,
in the oppofite party, p. 70.

BROUNKER (Lord). Squared the hyperbola, p.

122.

C.

CA

C.

ESAR (Julius). Remarks on his ambitious
fpirit, p. 246, 247.

CHANCE. Determines foldiers, bricklayers, and
mechanicks in general, in the choice of a way

of life, 223.
CHARACTERISTICS.
religion, 221.

Strange ones given of

CHARTA MAGNA. A famous edict which
the English look upon as the foundation of
their liberties, p. 52. Examination of that
charter, p. 52 & feq.

CHINESE. The practice of inoculation has
been among that people above two hundred
years, p. 67.

CHRIST. His first and second coming was fore-
told, p. 217.

CHRISTIANS. Why hated anciently, p. 231.
CHRONOLOGY. The new discoveries Sir Isaac
Newton made in that science, p. 125. Princi-
ples on which he established them, p. 126, 127.
CIBBER (Mr,) An English poet, and an excellent
commedian, p 149.

CINEAS. His advice to king Pyrrhus, p. 227.
Not properly introduced in a moral treatise, 228,
CIRCASSIANS. The inoculation of the small pox
invented by that people. Reasons why this
cuftom is practifed by them, p. 61, 62.

CLARKE (Dr.) A famous divine. A ftickler
for Socinianifm, p. 39. His character ibid.
His adherence to that fett of people though pre-
judicial to his fortune. p. 40.
CLERGY. Their authority in England, p. 30.

Their morals better than thofe of the French

clergy, p. 31. Moft English clergymen are

pedants,

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