will rather be of factious disputes about the diftribution. This danger alfo is attempted to be prevented; and, it is hoped, with fuccefs. Some narrow-minded perfons may poffibly grudge a tax, that loads the prefent generation for the advantage of those who come after but is it rational to grudge, that others fhould benefit by measures evidently calculated for advancing our own intereft? Let us suppose, that the heritors of a shire were to concert measures in common, for improving their lands: to make good roads would be one effectual measure; for, fuppofing their reparation to coft L. 5000, their eftates would be bettered double that fum. To conclude: it is not to be expected that any regulations concerning highways, or concerning any branch of police, can be fo framed as to please every individual. Wife men are practicable men, to use an expreffion of Lord Bacon, and will make conceffions, in order to promote a general good, if without fuch conceffions it cannot be obtained. Better far to have a good law, though, in our opinion, defective in some articles, than to have no law at all; or, which is worse, a law eminently defective, unjuft, and inexpedient. INDEX. In the following Index, the Roman Numerals mark the volume; A Actions, human. See Morality. Adultery, how punished among different nations, i. 452. Affection, parental, earlier in the mother than in the fa- Age, old, veneration anciently paid to, ii. 58. Note. Its effect in stopping the migration of barbarians, 77. Albuquerque, his patriotifm, ii. 143. Note. Alcavala, a ruinous Spanish tax, ii. 239. Aldrovandus, his prolixity, i. 252. Allegories, remarks on, ii. 458. et feq. Nature of, 463. America, origin and progrefs of the nations of, ii. 352. 365. et feq. Strange political phenomena in, 369. Analytics, account of the first of Aristotle, iii. 38. et seq, Ancients, their ignorance of natural history, and their cre- Animals claffed by Nature into different kinds, i. 3. Uti- 17. Appetite, carnal, remarks on its early appearance, j. 413. Ariflides, eulogy of, ii. 152. Ariftotle, his remarks on instinct, i, 489. On bees, ii. 9. hiş his theory of logic, 51. Quoted, 84. His opinion of Army, firft ftanding, ii. 253. Effects of, 255. Objections Arnobius, his argument against sacrifice, iii. 344. Quoted Articles of the English creed. Forged addition to, i. 143. Afia, great empires of, ii. 85. Revolutions frequent in, 106. Note. Affaffinations frequent in the middle ages, iii. 211. Athens, its bad government, iii. 219. Note. Avarice, vices owing to, iii. 230. Axioms, remarks on, ii. 400. B Bacon, ftyle of his hiftory of Henry VII. cenfured, i. 199, Bankruptcy, |