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of the fecond rule relating to the doctrine of Chances, 226. CARDS, their bad tendency, 79. CHAMELION, curious account of that creature, 267. CHANDLER, Dr. his opinion how far the Diffenters are dangerous to the church of England, 197. CHARLES V. his great character,

and empire, 522. CHEESE, humorous debate on, 42. CHEROKEES, their country defcribed, 2; their manner of living, 5; remarkable fidelity of their women, 6; their proper names explained, 7. CHRISTIANITY, ftate of, under the heathen emperors, 436. Rather declining under chriftian princes, 438.

CHRISTIANS of the 3 first centuries,

their errors and virtues, 437CHURCH of England, enquiry into the dangers to which it is liable, 196. Reformation of, ftrenuously recommended, 229. COBLER, a poem, 478. COLICA pionum, cafes of perfons

afflicted with that diforder, 505. COLONIES, British, our right of taxing them difcuffed, 65; their claim of exempt on examined, 67, 161; their oppofition to the ftamp aft humorously confidered, 68; our jealousy of them hurtful to ourfelves, 70; their natural Connection and mutual intereft with the mother-country, 157, art. 18; their inetimable value, 158; wife and gentle treatment of them recommended, ib.-159. Proper reprefentation of, 160. COMMONS of England, in parliament, their great influence in preferving the Conftitution, 18190; antiquity of their legifla tive authority, 191. CONFESSIONS of Faith, the eftablishment of, by church-authority, examined into, 335CONSTITUTION of the English government how gradually improved, 186-195. Enquiry into the dangers to which it is 4

liable, and what profpect there is of its continuance, 195. Montefquieu's prophecy of its def trućtion, 201. Dr. Blackftone's idea of it, 379. CONTENT, poetically defcribed,

351.
CORINTHIANS, T. V. 29, critical
explication of, 448.

CORN, bounty on, advantages of,
317. Arguments on the other
fide of the question, 311. Mo-
derate bounty recommended, 360.
COTTON, Mr. his elegant Latin
verfes on the death of his wife,
166. Tranflated, 167.
CORNUCOPIA Circulatum, defcrip-
tion of that plant, 270.
CRAB, Chriftopher, his humorous
fpeech, 42. Anfwered. 43.
an infect, fome account of,

265.
CROWN of Gr. Br nominal power
of, how curtailed fince the reign
of James I. 389; real influence
of, how greatly extended of late,
by the national debt, by the taxes,
and by the officers and collectors
of the revenue, 390.
CURATES, their hardfhips poeti-
cally reprefented, 406.
CUTTLE-fith, the inveterate ene-
my of the pinna muricata, 269.
D.

ARKNESS, Cave of, poetically

D defcribed, 119.

DAUBENTON, Monf. concerned with Buffon in the Natural HiAtery, 529. DEITY, unity of, zealously afferted by Mohammed, 260. His goodness, the peculiar attribute, of which above all others, is moft concerns us to have just conceptions, 289. His divine adminiftration vindicated again.ft the doctrine of diabolism, 327. DEVIL, arguments to prove that the Scripture account of him myt be understood figuratively, 32. DIONYSIUS, the Areopagite, e ftory of him, in regard to Chri's crucifixion, not to be regarded,

37.

DISSENTERS,

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on, 345. EDUCATION, important remarks on, 306.

ENGLAND, general view of her

policy, trade, taxes, &c. 291. ENGLISH, nation, follies of, 507. EPICTETUS, the ftoic, his con

tempt of the Chriftians, 37. EQUALITY of mankind, enco

mium on, 22; an imaginary bleffing, 23. ERSKINE'S gospel fonnets, remarkable extract from, 168. ETHICS, or the law of nature, first principles of, 109. EVIL,origin of, difficulty of accounting for, 307. Afcribed to the agency of malignant spirits, 308.

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F.

AITH, inquiry into the true nature of, 203. FANCY, her exhortation to her votaries, 118. FEMALE SEX, their importance in their fingle state, 454. Defects of their education, 455. Their importance in wedlock, 456. Confidered as mothers, 457. Sobriety of mind recommended to them, 462. FERGUSON, James, his defcrip.

His

tion of a new crane, 220. new hygrometer, 222. EVER, not a difeafe, but a remedy, 20-31. FLORETTA, flory of, 357

four firft years of his reign, and the four laft of Anne, 325. GIBBON, a curious fpecies of ape, defeription of, 53.

GOSPEL, St. Matthew's, date of fettled, 402.

GOTHS, their origin, and incurfions into the Empire, 534 GOVERNMENT, confiderations on feveral kinds of, 380. Conftitutional, of England, dependent in the ultimate refort, on the fenfe and feeling of the people, 387. Executive power of, 389. How to be employed for the reformation of mankind, 543. GREY, Stephen, elegant veries o his death, 357.

H.

Hiftory of, 495

AKKAM, Caliph, remarkable

HASSELQUIST, Dr. his travels in the Levant, 127. His character, 128; his adventure at Grand Cairo, 136; arrives in the holy land, 137; his account of various animals, infects, and plants in the Levant, 265-270. HEMLOCK, extract of, 63. HENRIAD, of Voltaire, confider'd as a fermon, 341. HENRY VIII. his mistaken policy, in order to make the crown ab. folute, 189, 191.

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actions are celebrated in hiftory, afked Sully which of them all he most wished him to refemble?-If Sully had been well acquainted with the hiftory of Greece, our Author tells us, he would have found, among the heroes who are celebrated in it, a prince, whofe virtues, atchievements, good and bad fortune, &c. had fo perfect a refemblance to thofe of Henry, that he might have drawn an exact parallel between them. This prince was Philip, whofe conformity of character with that of Henry,. he now endeavours to fhew.

When Amyntas, King of Macedon, died, he left three fons, Alexander, Perdiccas, and Philip. According to the order of nature, the youngest of the three could never expect to mount the throne; this circumftance, however, was the caufe of his grandeur. Being fent to Thebes as an hostage, for reafons of ftate, he was committed to the care of Epaminondas, the greatest captain and the wifeft man of Greece; who took care to give him the best education in every refpect that a prince could receive, and by which Philip knew admirably well how to profit.

When Henry came into the world, he was ftill at a greater diftance from the crown which providence defigned for him, than Philip was from that of Macedonia. Four Princes, who might have a numerous progeny, feemed to exclude him from all poffibility of ever reaching the throne. He reached it, however, with this difference, that his poffeffion of it was lawful, whereas that of Philip appeared to be an ufurpation; for after the death of his two elder brothers, he took poffeffion of the crown, by excluding young Amyntas his nephew, whofe guardian he was; unlefs we fay, that the uncle might lawfully exclude the nephew, as there were precedents for it in the hiftory of Macedonia.

These two princes, born with the finest capacities that nature can beflow, derived great advantages from their education, which enabled them to make thofe folid reflections, which adverfity always fuggefts to brave and generous minds.

The education of Henry was not fo brilliant as that of Philip, who was inftructed in all the fciences known to the Greeks, the moft ingenious and polite people in the world. Accordingly he furpaffed all the princes who went before, him in eloquence, philofophy, the knowledge of war and politics. Henry was educated by his mother the Queen of Navarre, and by-Flor. Chretien, a man pretty well acquainted with history and polite literature, but who had not acquired that extensive owledge which thofe who were at the head of the Greek re lic were poflefled of, and with whom Philip had particular nections in his youth.

It is with reafon the Greeks boast of the eloquence of Philip; but it was not that kind of eloquence which impofes upon republicans, who are fond of ingenious and sprightly

turns,

turns, and who fuffer themfelves to be feduced by the charms
of a beautiful elocution. It was a fpecies of cloquence which
he had formed himself, nervous, fimple, manly, full of reason
and good fenfe, the only eloquence fit for kings.

Henry the Fourth had not perhaps carefully ftudied the
works of Demofthenes and Cicero; indeed he had not time
for this he had however a true, fimple, and perfuafive elo-
quence, as appears by his letters and thofe fpeeches of his
which are ftill extant. Both Philip and he excelled in quick
and fprightly repartees. Several of their apothegms and bons
mots are ftill preferved, full of good fenfe and pleafantry. Thofe
of Henry I have related occafionally; Philip's may be feen in
the life I have given of him.

Henry and Philip were inftructed in the military art by the
example and counfels of the two greatest captains of their
times, Epaminondas and Coligny, under whom they learned
to obey before they commanded. Both thefe princes profited
fo much by the inftructions of their mafters, that they were
without difpute the greatest captains of the age they lived in, and
furpaffed all those who went before them.

When Philip mounted the throne of Macedon, he found
his kingdom almoft intirely invaded by his neighbours who were
laying it waste, and his Grandees acting in concert with them,
that each might fecure to himself a fhare of the provinces.
We have feen in the life of Henry, what the condition of
France was when he came to the crown. The greatest part of
-his nobles deferted him, invited foreigners to affilt and fupport
them, and feized the revenues of the ftate. But both thefe
princes, fuperiour to adverfity, and founding their hopes and
their glory upon their courage, boldly attacked their enemies,
beat them in feveral engagements, and forced them to return to
their allegiance. The victories of Argues and Ivry confounded
the league, as that which Philip gained over Bardillus, King
of the Illyrians, made him mafter of Macedon, and that at Che-
ronæa, of all Greece.

One of the nobleft qualities thefe princes were poffeffd
of, was their attention to make their fubjects happy and their
dominions flourish. If their defigns were not always crowned
with fuccefs, it was because they were not always mafters of
thofe circumftances which do not depend upon the power or
forefight of man; but they never loft fight of thefe glorious ob-
jects. Philip had no fooner driven his foreign enemies from his
dominions, and established the tranquillity of his people, than
he made himself mafter of Amphipolis, a city which belonged
to his predeceffors, and which had an excellent harbour. He
ordered fleets to be equipped, with which he attacked the Athe-
nians, who had made themselves lords at fea, and obliged them to
give his fubjects a fhare in their commerce.

actions are celebrated in hiftory, afked Sully which of them all be most wilted him to refemble?-If Sally had been well acquainted with the history of Greece, our Author tells us, he would have found, among the heroes who are celebrated in it, a prince, whofe virtues, atchievements, good and bad fortune, &c. had to perfect a refemblance to thofe of Henry, that he might have drawn an exact parallel between them. This prince. was Philip, whofe conformity of character with that of Henry,. he now endeavours to fhew.

When Amyntas, King of Macedon, died, he left three fon, Alexander, Perd:ccas, and Philip. According to the order of nature, the youngest of the three could never expect to mount the throne; this circumftance, however, was the caufe of his grandeur. Being fent to Thebes as an hoftage, for reafons of ftate, he was committed to the care of Epaminondas, the greateft captain and the wifeft man of Greece; who took care to give him the best education in every respect that a prince could receive, and by which Philip knew admirably well how to profit.

When Henry came into the world, he was ftill at a greater diftance from the crown which providence defigned for him, than Philip was from that of Macedonia. Four Princes, who might have a numerous progeny, feemed to exclude him from all poffibility of ever reaching the throne. He reached it, however, with this difference, that his poffeffion of it was lawful, whereas that of Philip appeared to be an ufurpation; for after the death of his two elder brothers, he took poffeffion of the crown, by excluding young Amyntas his nephew, whofe guardian he was; unless we fay, that the uncle might lawfully exclude the nephew, as there were precedents for it in the history of Macedonia.

Thefe two princes, born with the fineft capacities that nature can beflow, derived great advantages from their education, which enabled them to make thofe folid reflections, which adverfity always fuggefts to brave and generous minds.

The education of Henry was not fo brilliant as that of Philip, who was inftructed in all the fciences known to the Greeks, the most ingenious and politele in the world. Accordingly he furpaffed all the prince

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