thus by the very first page prejudiced against the book, may deem it a performance of no value, and on that account may become inftrumen- tal in preventing the fpreading of thofe truths which are contained in it. I fhould in particular fuffer in being reprefented as judging with fo little regard of men whofe abilities I muft acknowledge; and if I thought myfelf hurt by the rash judgment of a French Reviewer, in the Jurnal Encyclopedique for May 1766, p. 137, and in the Gozette Litteraire de PEurope for Jul. 1765, who, after quoting the English tide, fays, Cet ouvrage eft ridicule, et prouve, que l'Auteur ne connoit ni les ecrits de Mr. de Buffon, ni ceux de Mr. de Maupertuis, was not this reflexion folely caufed by the title of the book which Mr. W. has printed under my name and might I not with great juftice defire that this might be al- tered? But, although I am little apprehenfive of being turned into ridi- cule, yet I wish, the impartial world may neither impute to me fach abufive and falfe reproaches gentlemen of an established character, nor the defects of the tranflation. Should Mr. Wynne or the bookfeller at any time think proper to give another edition, I would, if they defire it, be very ready to fupply them with corrections, improvements, and later additions to the work.
If you, Gentlemen, would do me the favour, to publish this decla. ration to the literary world, you will very much oblige your moft obe- dient fervant,
HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS, Profeffor at Hambourgh.
We are forry to learn, from a manufcript paper enti·led, A Let- er to the Monthly Reviewers, concerning Locke and Leibnitz, &c. that Mr. Rafte, the learned and worthy Editor of the pofthumous works of the laft-mentioned philofopher, hath mistaken fome paffages in our account of that edition, in the Appendix to our thirty-third volume.-We have neither leifure nor inclination to enter into any controverfy concerning the pre-eminence due to the Lokian or the Leibnitz an philofophy; and therefore we fhall only obferve, that the paffage in our article (wherein fome late difrefpe&ful treatment of Mr. Locke's memory was glanced at) which feems molt especially to have difpleafed Mr. Rafpe, did not allude to his publication, but to another work, the natural produce of our own country. We have too much respect for the character of Mr. Rafpe, both as a PHILOSOPHER and as a MAN, to be capable of defignedly giving him any juft caufe of offence. He will, therefore, we hope, con- fider this acknowledgment as a fufficient conceflion, from perfons equally engaged with himfelf, in fupport of the common interells of the repub- lic of letters,
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
fymptoms, and treat- of one, 34; of the from a tone in the bladder, 454; in the liver, 455. ACADEMY, Veterinary, at Lyons, account of, 534. ADMINISTRATION, a late fhort one, fat iotic measures of, 160. Esor, encomium on him and his Fables, 542.
AIR, various phænomena of, ac- counted for, by new experiments, 380. AMERICA, favages of, recommend- ed as the principal objects of converfion, by the Society for Prop. the Gospel, 282. Some late minifterial regulations and reftrictions of trade there, con- demned, 445. ANCIENTS, not ignorant of the great difcoveries attributed to the moderns, 544. feq.
ANMET, Mr. his Tracts republifh- ed, 467. ANTONINUS, emperor, compared with Epictetus, 542. ARCHIMEDE, his burning fpecu- lum, reality of, 554 ARGUS, bird fo called, 450. ARTS, mechanic, theory and prac-
tice of, feldom agree, 50. ATHENIANS, their violent and ca-
pricious difpofition always detri. mental to the ftate, 500. AUSTRIANS, character of their Soldiery, 82. AVIGNON, excellent police in that city, 32.
his to K. James, 412. Proofs of his corruption in his judicial
BARTRAM, Mr, fome account of,
457. BATHURST, Lord, his humorous Advice to Swift, 134. BEAU, French, ftory of, 353. BEAUTY, nature of, defined and explained, 561,
BERKELEY, Bp. faid to have bor, rowed his opinion of the non- exiflence of bodies from the most ancient philofophers, 545- BEES, ufual number of, in each hive, 21.
BOLINBROKE, Lord, his apology for the Free-thinkers, 65. Let- ter between Lord Hide and Mr. Mallet, concerning the publica- tion of his pofthumous works, 63-65. Philofophical fenti- ments of his lordship's, 140. His encomium on Pope's Moral Elays, 142.
BOTANY, elementary demonftra- tions of, for the use of the Royal Veterinary Academy at Lyons, 535. Sexual fyllem, known to the ancients, 554. BROWNRIGG, Dr. his inquiry in- to the mineral elastic spirit in Spa-water, 452.
BUFFON, Mr. faid to have bor-
rowed his fyftem of generation and nutrition from Anaxagoras,
&c. 547: BUNCLE, John, his character as a
writer, 34. His defcription of the company of Harrowgate, 39, His account of a Carthufian mo- naftery, 110; of the four phy- ficians who attended one of his wives, 118.
capacity, 413. Forefees the Bri CA
tish empire of the fea, 494.
ARDS, an improper amufe- ment for the fair fex, 18. CELTIC,
CELTIC, the univerfal elementary language of Europe, 363 CHARACTERS, in genteel life, ex- hibited, 287-347• CHOLERA MORBUS, remedies for, 308.
CHRISTIANITY, cruel methods of propagating, in the time of Charlemagne, 173. Evidences for confidered, 178-187. Ad- vantages derived to from the op- pofition of infidels, 257. CICESBEOS, Italian, account of them, 332-336.
CLIVE, Mrs. abufive verfes on, 388. COKE, Sir Edward, ftrictures on his character, 415 His pitiful behaviour in the cruel profecu- tion of one Floid, 416. COLONISTS, British, in America, dealers in the commodity called free-thinking, 281. CONDE, Pr. of, his great natural capacity, 518. His general- fhip at the battle of Rocroi, 522 -526. His difinterestedness in love and friendship, 527. His perfonal valour, ib. General view of his character, 528. Cu- red of a love-fit by phlebotomy, 529. CONVERSATION, in genteel life, recited, 287, 347. COPERNICUS, his fyftem of the world fuppofed to have been known to the ancients, 550 CORK, experiment on its specific buoyancy in different waters, 451.
CORN, debate in the H, of C. on the importation of, in the R. of
DEBT, national, project to pay off by means of the gold-mines in Africa, 496.
DEISTS, invited to flate their fulle eft objections against chriftianity, 126.
DELAVAL, Mr. his experiments to fhew the agreement between the fpecific gravities of metals and their colours, 374. DEMOSTHENES, his oratory over- matched by the policy of Philip, 504.
DESCARTES, borrowed his philo- fophy from Aristotle, 544; and his notion of innate ideas front Plato, 545 DISPENSING power, in the crown, with regard to the laws, ex- ploded, 474
DOLLAND, Mr. his improved tel- lescopes. 375. DYSENTERY, fymptoms and cure of, 308.
Ja. I. 417. General reflection EARTHQUAKEOMETER, what,
on that fubject, 418. Bounty on, for exportation, arraigned and defended, 475-477. Ad- vantages of exportation, 479. CORNBURY, Lord, his letter to Mallet, concerning Lord Bolin- broke's works, 63. CORNEILLE, M. his epigram on Card, Richlicu, 520.
EGERTON, Mr. his petition to the house of commons against Lord
Bacon, 413. ELLIS, Mr. his account of the na- ture of sponges, 450. EMPHYSEMA, cafe of, 453. ENGLAND, her immenfe maritime force, 495. her trade in danger from her conquefis, and vaft in Pp2 creafe
creafe of the national debt, 496. means to pay off that debt, by the help of our African fettle- ments, ib.
ENGROSSERS of cattle, fcheme to prevent their iniquitous jobbing, 147. Of corn, &c. apology for, 478.
veral parts of his minifterial con- duct, 440-446.
GOD, definitions of, by divines and philofophers, their abfurdity, 539.
EPICURUS, exemplary goodness HAMILTON, Dr. his differta-
of his character, 541. morality of his doctrine afferted, ib. ERGOT, a disease so called, 447•
ABLES, the French peafant, 321. the Nile and the fea, 481. FERGUSON, Mr. his fort method for finding the quantity of time in any number of mean luna- tions, 376. FEVER, different notions and treatment of, by four different phyficians, 113. Malignant, nature and care of, 307. In- flammatory remedies for, 308. Autumnal, 309. Intermitting, ib. FORNICATION, difadvantages of, in civil life, 8. FRANCE, directions for travelling in, 31. English cautioned a- gainst fending their children there for education, 33. FRANKLIN, Dr. his experiments on the properties of air and water, 385.
FRENCH, why more ready than the English to publish treatifes of the mechanic arts-49. Their military character, 81.
ALE, Mr. his account of ino- culation in America, 448. Of the bite of a rattle-fnake, ib. GALLASPY, a furprising Irithman,
tion on the Phænomena of air, water, &c. 379. HARRISON, the celebrated clock- maker, character of, 51.
Captain, horrid dire
fes of him and his crew at fea,
HERCULES, the Farnefian, cri- tical remarks on that famous flatue, 335. HISTORY, the chronological plan of, arraigned and defended, 507-509. Observations on the style of hiftory, 512. HOMILY, that mode of preach-
ing recommended, 196. HOPE, Dr. coltivates the true rhu- barb in Scotland, 450. HORNSBY, his obfervations on the transit of Venus that will hap- pen in 1769, 38. HUME. David, his quarrel with Rouleau, 390. Eucomium on his historic abilities, 513. HYSTERIC CONvulions, how to be cured, 345.
TAMES I. remarkable fpeech of
GOLLOGHER, an extraordinary an extraordinary his to Pt. 410 Irishman. 42. GRACE, MIS. ftory of, 348. GRENVILLE, Mr. Arictures on fe-
JANGARIUS, St. remarks on the occafional liquefaction of his blood, 338.
ACNAMARAH, Daniel, his
M remarkable cafe, 327.
MALLET, Mr. his letter to Lord Cernbury, concerning Lord Bo- lingbroke's Works, 65.
LADIES, learned education of, MAN, experim. to thew his fpecific
recommended, 112. LAVINGTON, Dr. his account of a tumour, 446. LAW, its valt bulk, and confufion, a reproach to this country, 16. Civil, ftudy of recommended, 69. LEIBNITZ, borrowed his phyfics from Pythagoras, 516. LETTER from Lord Bolingbroke to Swift, 60; from Lord Hyde to Mr. Mallet, 63. From Mr. Mallet to Lord Hyde, 65. From Lord Bathurst to Dr. Swift, 134. From Lady B. Germain to ditto. 137. from the Dutchefs of Queensbury to ditto, 139. From Lord Bolingbroke to ditto, 140. From Mifs Vanhomrigh to ditto, 143. From a nun to Madam Pompadour, 274. From Rouf- feau to Hume, 394. From Do. to the St. James's, Chronicle, 396. From Dr. Reimarus to the Reviewers, 567. LIBELS, remarks on our laws against, 61.
weight in water, 451. Weak- nefs of his mental powers, 538. MICHELL, Mr. his particular ap- plications of Hadley's quadrant, 378. MICROSCOPES, new and curious ones invented at Naples, 452. MISSIONARIES, popish, their zeal
commended, 283. MECENAS, his character in private life, and connections with the literati, 91. Deemed a thorough courtier, 97.
MONTAGUE, his fingular manner of travelling through the Holy- Land, 331. MORALITY well understood by the ancients, 563, feq.
of the lower people there, 339. Strange feftival there, 432. Valt number of lawyers in that city, 433. Familiar file of the preachers there, 434. Droll itory of a priest and a mounte- bank, 435.
LIGONIER, Lord, anecdotes of, NEGOTIATION, minifterial, account
LINUM, fax, characteristic exa- mination of, acco.ding to the Linnaan fytem, 536. LOCKE, Mr. indebted to the an-
of a late famous one, 152. NEWTON, Sir Ifaac, his principal difcoveries faid to have been be- fre difovered, by the ancients, 548-550.
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