for his learning, by the king of Pruffia, 1735, 468. Died 1740,

471.

Bafhfulness, fometimes the effect of ftudious retirement, vii. 106. 114.
Frequently produced by too high an opinion of our own importance,
116.

Barretti, tranflation of fome lines at the end of his Eafy Phrafeology,
x'. 378.

Bavaria, Ele&or of, invested with the imperial dignity, iv. 555. Died
1745, iv. 577-

Baxter, Mr. Richard, incitement he often urged to the prefent exercise
of charity, vi. 4,

Bayes, that character defigned for Dryden, ii. 342. That character
alfo fuppofed to be defigned for Davenaat and Sir Robert Howard,
342.

Beaumont, defcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 168.

Beaumont and Fletcher, their plots in Spanish ftories, ii. 323.
Beauty, difguftingly described, ii. 37. A mental quality, merely re-
lative and comparative, vi. 128. The difadvantages incident to fuch
as are celebrated for it, 377. The folly of anxiety and folicitude
upon account of it, 378. The natural principle of, viii, 330.
The most general form of nature the most beautiful, 330. Depends
much on the general received ideas, 332, Novelty laid to be one of
the caufes of beauty, 333. Misfortunes which frequently attend
it, xi. 341.
Beautiful, review of the Philofophical Enquiry into the Origin of
our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, x. zco. In the fociety of
the fexes, and the general fociety with mankind, confidered, 2oz.
Examination into what it is not, and what it is, 212. Compared
with the fublime, 214.

Beggars, the best method of reducing the number, x. 269. As nu-
merous in Scotland as in England, 326. Account of, in the He-
brides, 475.

Behn, Afra, rejected from the affembly of bards, xi. 172.

Bellaria, her character, vii. 293.

Bellarmine, Card. writes in defence of Paul V. against the Venetians,
iv. 324

Bemoin (a prince of Africa), account of him, ix. 391. Is driven
from his kingdom, vifits Portugal, and becomes a Christian, ix. 392.
On his return to regain his kingdom, through the affillance of the
Portuguese, is ftabbed by the Portuguefe commander, 893.
Beneficence, mutual, the great end of fociety, v. 358. The extent and
proportion of it to be adjusted by the rules of juftice, vi, 63.
Ben Hannafe Rabbi Abraham, his account of the power of the magnet
in the detection of incontinence, vii. 341.

Benferade, Monf. tranflation of his lines, afon lit, xi, 379.
Bentley, Dr. his faying on Pope's tranflation of Homer, iv. 126.
Bernardi, John, account of him, iv. 145. Died in Newgate in 1736,
after being confined near forty years, for being concerned with
Rookwood in his plot againft K. William, without being brought to
a trial, 145.

Betterton, a picture of him painted by Pope, iv. 20. Defcribed in
the affembly of bards, xi. 185.

Bible

Bible, the veneration always paid to facred hiftory, ii. 55. Biography, impediments in the way of, iii. 76. By what means it is rendered difgultful and ufelefs, v. 385. A fpecies of writing entertaining and instructive, 386. Moft eagerly read of any kind of writing. viii. 339. More ufeful than hiftory, 339. Every man the beft writer of his own ftory, 340. Difficulties in writing the life of another, 341. Few authors write their own lives, whilit ftatefmen, generals, &c. frequently do, 405. The neceffity of adhering to truth in, xi. 198.

Biographia Britannica, many untruths in that publication in the life of Dr. E Young, iv. 253. 269.

Birch, Thomas, Eis Bigxo, xi. 397.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, charged by Dryden with ftealing the plan of Prince Arthur from him, ii. 357. Libels Dryden in his Satire upon Wit, 370. His life, iii. 172. Born at Corfham, in Wiltshire, 172. Educated at Westminster, and entered at Oxford, 1668, 172. Made Doctor of Phyfick, at Padua, 172. For a fhort time a fchoolmaster, 172. Fellow of the College of Phyficians, Apr. 12, 1687, 173. Refided at Sadler's Hall, Cheapfide, 173. Wrote for fame, or to engage poetry in the caufe of virtue, 173. Publifhed his Prince Arthur, 1695, 174. Made Phyfician in Ordinary to K. William, and knighted, 175. His paraphrafe of Job, 1700, 176. His Satire on Wit, the fame year, 176. Creation, a philofophical pcem, 1712, 178. His account of wit, 182. Obfervations on the Tale of a Tub, 183. Extract from his Effay on the Spleen, 184. Cenfor of the College of Phyficians, 1716, 185. His New Verfion of Pfalms, 1721, 186. His Alfred, 1723, 185. Becomes defpifed as a poet, and neglected as a physician, 186. Wrote many books on phyfick, 187. His cenfure of Hippocrates's Aphorifms, 187. His opinion of learning, 188. Died Oct. 8, 1729. His character, and

as an author, 189. Extract from his Prince Arthur, 191. Blank Verfe, characterized, iv. 291. Blake, Robert, Admiral, his life, iv. 358. Son of a merchant, and born at Bridgewater, 1598, 358. Entered at Oxford, 1615, where he continued to 1623, 358. On being refused a fellowship of Wadham College, retires to the country, 359. Chofen Member for Bridgewater, by the Puritan party, 1640, 359. Declares for the Parliament, and raifes a troop of dragoons, 359 Governor of Taunton, 1645, which he defends againft Lord Goring, 365. Commiffioner of the Navy, 1648-9, 350. Sent in purfait of Prince Rupert, whom he drives into the Tagus 30. Takes feventeen and burns three Portuguese fhips, 361. Takes a French man of war, valued at one million, 361. Drives Prince Rupert into Carthagena, 362. Attacks the Prince in the harbour of Malaga, 362. Takes a French man of war in the Mediterranean, 362. His conduct in the war with Holland, 1652, 363. His opinion that it is not the bufi- · ness of a feaman to mind ftate affairs, 370. Sent with a fleet into the Mediterranean, 1654, 372. Forces Algiers to fubmiffion, 1656, 373. Obliges Tunis and Tripoli to fubmit to him, 373 Obliges the Governor of Malaga to give up a prieft who had beat fome failors for paying no refpect to a proceffion of the hoit, 373.

Ff4

Leftroys

Destroys the plate fleet of Spain, 1656, 375. Died at fea, and bu-
ried in Henry VIIth's Chapel, 376. After the Reftoration, his body
taken up, and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's Church-yard, 376.
His military character, by Lord Clarendon, 376. His moral cha
racter, by the author of Lives English and Foreign, 377. Got his
brother discharged from the command of a fhip, for not having
done his duty, 378.

Blackwell, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of the Court of Auguftus,
x. 185. His vanity cenfured, 186.

Black Friars Bridge, confiderations on the plans offered for the con-
ftruction of, x. 290.

Blount, Martha, fome account of her acquaintance with Pope, iv. 85.
Blufer, Squire, fome account of his infamous character, vii. 9.
Body Natural and Body Politick, the parallel between, viii. 135.
Boerhaave, Herman, M. D. his life, iv. 329. Born at Voorhout, near

Leyden, 1668, 329. His character of his father, 330. Defigned
for the miniftry, 330. A ftubborn ulcer on his thigh, the cause of
his turning his thoughts to medicine, 331. His progrefs in learning
at Leyden, 332. Lofes his father, 1682, 332. His diligence at the
Univerfity, 333, Continues in the ftudy of Divinity, 334 His
fortune being exhausted by his education, he reads Lectures in Ma-
thematicks, 335. Begins to fludy Phyfick, 335. Engages in the
practice of Chemistry, 336. Makes refearches in botanical know-
ledge, 337. Takes the M. D. degree at Hardewich, 1693, 337.
Defigns to obtain a licence to preach, but finds difficulties, from
being fufpected of atheifm, 337. Caufe of that fufpicion, 338.
Begins the practice of Phyfick, 340. Invited to fettle at the Hague,
but refufes it, 340. Elected Proteflor of Phyfick, 1701, 341. Re-
commends the study of Hippocrates, and reads Lectures as well in
Chemistry as Phyfick, 341. Invited to the Profefforfhip of Phyfick
at Gottingen, which he refufes, 342. Recommends Mathematicks
in the fcience of Phyfick, 342. Advanced to the highest degrees of
the University, 1714, 543. Makes an Oration, recommending the
attaining to certainty in Natural Philofophy, 343. This Oration
oppofed by the Profeffer of Franeker, who at length submits to
him, 344
Elected Member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris,
1728, 315. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1730, 345. Profeffor
of Chemistry at Leyden, 1718, 345. Violently afflicted with the
gout, 1722, 346. Seized with a violent fever, 1727, 347. Refiges
his Profefforfhips of Botany and Chemistry, 1726, 347. Vifited by
patients from all parts of Europe, 348. His readiness at difco-
vering diforders, 348. His own account of his laft illness, 349.
His opinion of the foul, 350. Died 1738. 351. His perfon de-
fcribed, 352. His character, 352. Catalogue of his works, 357.
His ferious reflection on the execution of criminals, vi. 272.
Boerhaave, James, character of him, by his fon Herman Boerhaave,
jv. 330.

Boetius, Hector (First Prefident of the King's College, Aberdeen), account
of him, x. 329. His revenue, as President, forty Scottish marks,
about 2. 41. 6d. 330.

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Boileau

Boileau, his opinion of epick poetry, ii. 356. His fentiments on the power of diction, vii. 164.

Bolingbroke, Lord, fuppofed to have declared his opinions to Mr. Hooke, though he concealed them from Pope, iv. 70. Pope leaves his MS. papers to him, 87. Burns 1500 copies of the Patriot King, printed by Pope, without his knowledge, 88. Employs Mallett to traduce the memory of Pope, and Warburton defends it, 88. Leaves his works to Mallett, 284.

Bombafine, Mrs. her character, v. 74.

Books, the ftudy of them not fufficient to conftitute literary eminence, vii. 86. Obfervations on the multiplication of, viii. 343. Compilations in general ufelefs, 343. Multiplication of books diftracts choice, and difappoints enquiry, 376. Of travels, most generally read of any, and in general difappoint their reader, 386. How they tend to the civilization of mankind, ix. 150. The various mo

tives to reading, 152.

Bookfellers, their treatment of authors complained of, viii. 222.
Bower, Archibald, patronized by Lord Lyttleton, iv. 313.

Royle, Robert, philofophy much improved by his discoveries, vi. 225.
His opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, vii.

352. Bracelet, obfervations on the re-appearance of it, viii. 155. Propofal to make them a mark of distinction of the character or temper of the wearer, 156. Proper emblems for foldiers to wear on bracelets, 158. Braidwood, Mr. account of his academy at Edinburgh for the deaf and dumb, x. 520.

Brazil, account of the Indians on that coaft, iv. 423.

Brevity, on what occafions it is neceffary and useful in an author, v. 5.
Bridges, confiderations on the ftrength of arches for bridges, x. 290.
Brifol and London, delineated by Savage, iii. 356.
Britain, Great. See Great-Britain.

Brodaus, Græcorum epigrammatum verfiones metricæ, xi. 407.
Brogues, thofe made ufe of in the ifles of Sky, defcribed, x. 373.
Broom, Betty, history of her life, viii. 100. Educated in a charity-

Afits

fchool, 10. Objected to as a fervant, because she could read and work, 101. Goes to London, and an account of the various places fhe engaged in there, 102. 113. Five hundred pounds left her by her mistress, with which the refolves to retire into the country, and teach poor girls to read and write, 116. Broome, William, born in Cheshire, iii. 414. Educated upon the foundation at Eton, and fent to St. John's College, 414. In conjunction with Ozell and Oldisworth, tranflates the Iliad, 415. Pope in the notes to the Iliad, 415. Some pieces of his poetry in Pope's M fcellanies, 415. Affifts Pope in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 415. Affilted Pope in the notes to the Iliad, iv. 26. And in the tranflation of the Odyffey, 48. Wrote all the notes to the Odyffey, 49. Wrote the notes to Pope's Odyffey, 129. Browne, Edward, M. D. his life, iv. 603. Son of Sir T. Browne, born at Norwich, 1642, 603. Educated at Norwich, first entered at Cambridge, and removed to Oxford, 603. Travelled through

Germany,

Germany, Auftria, Hungary, and Theffaly, 1668 and 1669, 603.
Published his Travels, 603. Phyfician to Charles II. and Bartho
lomew Hofpital, 603. Affifts in the tranflation of Plutarch's Lives,
603. Prefident of the College of Phyficians, and died 1708, 604.
Brown, Thomas, anfwers Dryden's Hind and Panther, ii. 352. Some
account of him, 353.

Browne, Sir Thomas, his life, iv. 581. Defcended from a family in
Cheshire, and born at London, 1605, 581. Educated at Winchester,
581. Deprived of part of his fortune by a guardian, 582. Entered
Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 1623, 582. Practifed Phyfick in
Oxfordshire, 582. Goes to Ireland with his father-in-law, 582.
Travels through France and Italy, 582. Created M. D. at Leyden,
583. Returns to London about 1634, 583. Wrote Religio Me-
dici, 1635, 583. History of that publication, 584.
into Latin, Italian, German, Dutch, and French, 588. Settled at
Tranflated
Norwich, 1636, 589. Incorporated M. D. at Oxford, 1637, 589.
Married Mrs. Mileham, 1641, 589. Printed his Enquiry into Vul-
gar Errors, 1646, 595. Writes his Hydriotaphia, 1658, 592.
His Account of the Belief of the Antients of a Future State, 593.
His Treatife on the Garden of Cyrus, 594. His partiality to
quincunx figures, 594. Two collections of his pofthumous works,
one published by Dr. Tenifon, the other, 1722, 596. Account of
thefe collections, 596. Chofen Honorary Fellow of the College of
Phyficians, 1665, 601. Knighted by Charles II. 1671, 601. Died
at Norwich, 168z, 601. His epitaph, 602. His character by Mr.
Whitefoot, 604. Remarks on his ftyle of writing, 611. Some ex-
preffions in his works tending to deism and atheism, accounted for,

612.

Brony (the fairy), account of, x. 448.

Brun, Le, faying of Prior to the king of France on the paintings of,

iii.
1. 132.

Buccarelli, the propriety of his attack of Fort Egmont confidered,

x. 73.

Buckingham, Edmund, Duke of, Pope's epitaph on him, with the Vi-
fitor's criticifms, iv. 157.

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, characterizes Dryden under the
character of Bayes, in the Rehearsal, ii. 342.
Son of Edmund Earl of Mulgrave, was born 1649, 119. Not fa-
His life, iii. 119.
tisfied with his tutor, undertakes his own education at twelve years
of age, 119. Served under Prince Rupert, in the war against the
Dutch, 119. Commanded an independent troop of horse, 120.
Had a quarrel with the Earl of Rochester, 120. Served at fea in the
Dutch war, 1672, 120.
of the Bed-chamber, 121.
Obtains a Garter, and made Gentleman
Lieutenant of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull, 121.
Entered into the French fervice, 121.
2000 men to the relief of Tangier, 121. Accepts places under
Sent with
King James, whom he attends to maf, 121. Acquiefces in the Re-
volution, 123. Made Marquis of Normanby, 1694, 124. Re-
ceived into the Cabinet Council, with a penfion of 3,000l. 124.
Said to have courted Queen Anne, when young, 124. Made Lord
ive Seal, 124. Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of York-

shire