Asinitas hominum, Casaubon's remark on, 644.
Asker, An, i. e. a beggar, 364. Aspalux. See Schol. in Ly- cophr. v. 121, and Etymol. Mag. in v. Aristotle writes 'Aopáλa. Cf. Hist. Animal. lib. i. 1, 9. viii. 28, 433. Aspen-poplar, Tafod y Mirchens, or, Woman's Tongue, 172. Ass, singular taste of one for tobacco, 593. A student of philosophy, 368. Astræa, remarks on, 279. Astronomy, Turkish, 156. Hin- doo prolixity, 435. Atone, meaning of, 288. ATTILA, the Sword of, 241. AUGUSTINE, saying of, 630. Anecdote of, unde? 436. Opi- nion of the human soul, 479. Aurora Borealis, Captain T. Southey's account of, 6, 162. North and South Indian's name for, Ed-thin, 168. AUSONIUS, beautiful epigram of, 456.
Avale, i. e. to descend, 89. Avarice ever finds in itself mat- ter of ambition, 637. Its own plague, 718.
Awkwardness at Court, 44. AYSCOUGH, Sir Izaac Newton's uncle, his absence of mind,
Azincour, Song on the Battle of,
BABER EMPEROR, saying of, when speaking of an infa- mous deed, 684. Babel, derivation of! 582. BACHAUMONT, Mem. Sec. ex.
tracts, 573, 617, 621. Bachelors' Buttons, 244. Bachelor, i. e. Bas Chevalier, 713.
Banks, temples used as, 685. Bantams, the Javanese, nearly as large as a bustard, 367. BAPTISTA PORTA, observation of, 476.
Baptists, why they seceded from the Evangelical Maga- zine, 410. BARBER,THE, his consequence,
BEAUCHAMP, RICHARD, Eng Warwick, 270. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, I marks on, 306, &c. Estrat 457,9; 635, &c, 646, 20. 657, &c.
Beavers, formerly in Was 140 Account of one, 48. Bedminster, subject for an ho logue, 193.
Bee, why a fool, 198. Beech and Beech-mast, 154, Richness of the beech-trees in the Forest of Dean, 21. Bedare and dare, the same word,
Bee hires, carried to the Mours. why, 709.
Beer, bottled, origin of, 390. Bees, seem formerly to have been destroyed by water, 16. The breed of, discouraged s wine countries, why? 701 Beggar of Moorfield, story of
Beings, Scale of, 576. BELLARMINE, 430. BELLAY, Epitaph by, and Translation of by R. S. 73. Bell-ringing, its music-"the poetry of steeples"- Sou they's love for, 7. Accounts of, 389, 400, 417, 418, 447. Bells, extracts relative to, 425, 477, 582.
Benevolence, Practical, curious letter, 623.
Benin, notions in the kingdom of, 246.
BENEZET, ANTONY, saying of
637. BENSERADE, 641.
Berkeley, old woman of, 124. BERNAL DIAZ, saying of, 633. BERNARDS', Isle of Man, ex- tracts from, 320, BERTRAND OF
Berwick, omitted in the first Income Tax Bill, story of, 367.
Betele, vermilion dye of, for lips, 257.
BETTINELLI P. SAVERIO, SON- net by, 49. Translation of, 80.
Bhurtpore, an officer's observa- tion on the carnage at, 702. Bible, English sailors' love for,
Book-keeper, correct and in- correct, P. Tompkin's, death of, 390. BOSWELL had a faculty for man-
ners, said Adam Smith, 617. Botany, Medical, extracts, 573. BOUCHET, Serées, 704.
Bourg de Bar, le Capitaine, 170. BOVIUS, THOMAS, an Empiric,
his Hercules and Aurum Po- tabile, 436. BOWDWOIN, JAMES, astrono mical opinions of, 431. BOWLES CAROLINE, i. e. Mrs. Southey, remark of, 621. Bracha, Gallia Braccata, &c.40. Brama, how he first made man,
Burgomaster, strange mode of choosing, 454. BURGOINGNE, DUC DE, Lettres envoyées de, par le Roy d'An- gleterre au, 21. Charles the Warlike, Duke of, 104, 109, 115, 164.
Burial, Royal and Noble Modes of, 133.
Buried Money, story of, 426. Burke the miscreant, affrighted BURKE, his admiration of Spen- in his sleep, 708. ser, 312. Complimented by Lord G. Gordon, 689. His saying on Pitt's Economical Bill, 689. On the Growth of Atheism, 700.
BURNET, SIR THOMAS, son of
Bishop, saying of, 350. BURNET'S Theoria Sacra, ad- mired by Southey and Wordsworth, 184.
Burning, better than Inter- ment, 195.
Burrough, or Burgh, Hutchin- son's remark on name, 618.
BURTON, Anat. of Mel. ex-
tracts, 467-8, 473-4. BUSHELL'S Wells, account of at Enstone, 405. Butterfly, pretty lines of Hall Hartston's, 661.
Cader Idris, 242. CECILIA, ST., 67; sermons preached on her day as late as 1713, 703. CAFFARELLI, the singer, his CALDERON, extracts, 468, 471, wealth, 433. 501, 640. 658. CALVERT, F. LORD BALTI- MORE, works of, 348. Calvinistic Teachers, 716. CALVIN'S Institutes, Boling. broke's remarks on, 410. CAMDEN, Gough's, quotations from, 57, 61, 62. Camel, called the Ship of the Land, 176; conveyors of souls, Ib.; taught to dance,
CAMILLUS LEONARDUS, Mirror of Stones, 46. CAMOENS, 627.
Canary Fanciers, pattern bird of, 433. CANOVA's genius first manifest ed in modelling butter, 510.
Carnifex, an officer of great dignity under our Danish Kings, 400. CARRARA UBERTINO, his Co- lumbus, extracts from, 631,2. CARTE'S ORMOND, remarks | from, 690. CARTWRIGHT, MAJOR, the sportsman, anecdotes of,- his Book &c., 515. Carwichet, what, 509, 705. CASTILLEJO, to the Author of a bad Poem, 634. Castor Church, Lincolnshire, irreverent custom at, 414. Cataract, dislodged by a fall from a horse, 589. CATESBY, THOMAS, Lord Pa- get, Essay on Human Life,
Cat and Dog, instance of their travelling together, &c., 400. Cats, Madame de Custine's praise of, 490.
Cathedra Stercoris, what? 401. CATO's Letters, extracts from,
Cattle, some account of, and of
grazier's terms, 401, 488. Cure, King Arthur's, 160. Cavern, strange, 76; wind- guarded, 138. CEIREOC, battle of, 108, Celebes, poisonous tree of, 243. Cemeteries at Hamburg, with. out the city, 579. Chafing, cured by the slime of the slug, 555. Chaises private, made war upon in 1733 by stages and hack- ney coaches, 377; curious account of a chaise driver's last bequest, 418. CHALKHILL, JOHN, his Theal- ma and Clearchus, 630.
Chuma Gigas, great shell, 7. CHAMBERLAYNE, author of the Anglia Notitia, vanity of, 430. CHANCELLOR, LORD, is his of fice compatible with Speaker of the House of Lords? 395. Charitable men, St. Chrysos- tom's character of, 626. CHARLEMAGNE and his Mis- tress, tale of, 71. CHARLES I., omens of his fate, 159; A Marvel's lines on death of, 635. CHARLES II., best likeness of,
according to H. Walpole, 620. Charleton, Leicestershire, 392,
CHAUCER, extracts relative to, 322, 634.
Charms from Ceylon, 609. Cheve, chevir, 91. Child-Murder, Indian woman's
defence of, 276. Chili, Indians of, 114.
Chinese taste, increase of, 339. Chinon, situation of, Rabelais born there, 57. Chelmsford, antiquity of the Black Boy of, 392. CHENY, BP. his advice how to read the Scriptures, 639. Chestnut trees at Tortworth,
Chester, burial place of Henry, a Roman Emperor,-Harold
said to have retired there after the battle of Hastings, 406.
CHEVERNY,CHANCELLOR, pret- ty story of, 543. CHIABERRA, extracts, 497. Chimney-sweepers, women em. ployed as, 391. CHESTERFIELD's Letters, 716. Chivalry, stories connected with the manners of, 11; educa- tion of, 151; L'Amour de Dieu et des Dames, 152; chivalrous speech, 172. Choultries, account of, 238, 247. Christiad, the, poem by Robert Clarke, 537. Christian principles, duty of acting up to, 695. CHRISTINA, QUEEN, 158; Queen of Corinth intended for, 713. Christmas Tale, ideas for, 275. CHRISTOPHER, ST., Buffalmac- co's painting of, 433.
Church of England, has re nounced hidden things of darkness, 677. Church-Reformers, Sir G.Mack- enzie's remark upon, 384. Churches, want of in large towns, 419.
CHURCHILL, extracts from and remarks on, 335. Churchyards, Welsh, account of from Booker's Malvern, 104: a lesson to be learnt from, 290; desecration of Wool- wich one by some drunken sailors, 386.
Ciborium, meaning of, 283. Cider, an African liquor? 709. Circassian Gentleman, 237. Circelliones, or, wandering monks, 675.
Cistern, Silver, at Belvoir Cas- tle, 373.
CLARA, the Beata of Madrid, 384. CLARENDON, LORD, honest ad- vice of, 687; his saying re-
lative to the want of Bishops in Reformed Churches, 687. CLARKE, ADAM, extracts from, 505, 707, &c.
CLARKE ROBERT, his Chris- tiad, 537.
CLAUDIAN, extracts from, 221. Clergy, a beggarly, says Ful- ler, the forerunner of a bank- rupt religion, 696. Clothes, in Edw. III.'s time,— a project to show men's birth, &c. 712. Clover, American, 537. CLOVIS, christening of, 71. Coals, some particulars about shipping of, 393.
Course expressions, instead of strong ones, 717.
Coat, rapidity with which one
was made from wool of the same day's shearing,395,482. Cod-fish, prolific milt of, 435. Cock, crowing of, the notice of ghosts to quit, 80. Cockatoo, unruly one, 389. Cock-crower, the king's, office of? 375.
Cockmate and Copesmate,query, the same, 299, 300. Cock-roaches, exorcised, 109,
Coffin-rings, use of, 445. Coffins, cast iron ones, 386; Story of, 402, 403.
Colombiade La, extracts from, | CRANMER, ABP., said by Ful-
Colours, the love language of,
Cole's dog, Prov. 428, 676. Coltic Timber, what? 434. Columbia, i. e. Dr. Doveland, 584, 596. Comedy, writers of, 261. Comets, 396.
Con, the son of the Sun, 155. CONDER JOSIAH, stories by, 357.
Connoisseur, extracts from,338- 340.
Conqueror, duty of, 114. Contradiction, spirit of, 645. Consumption, certain messenger of death, 353. Cookery, old Scotch, 29. Cookoo, the, ever telling of one tale," 288.
ler to have had an amiable eye, 647.
Craw-fish, discharges its own stomach, curious fact in Na- tural History, 434. Credulity, effects of, 164; in- stances of English, 359. Cricket, merry as, Prov., 486. Cricket-match,between married women and maidens, 416; between Greenwich pension ers with one arm and one leg, 418.
Crimes, duty of exposing, 51. CRISPIN, ST., his day much kept at Keswick, 531. Criticism, which corrupts writer and readers, 673. Crocodiles, the king of, 176; superstition relative to the Indian, 237. CROMWELL, the Devil shall have it sooner than, 426. Cross by the wayside, a memen- to! 357; some of the Fa- thers saw it in every thing,
Crows, dutiful children, 109; curious account of a tame one, 411; caught in Italy with bird-limed hoods, 418. Crowthers, i. e. black pigs, ori- gin of the name, 498. Croyland, first ring of bells at, in England, 425. Crune, or Croon, to bellow like a disquiet ox, 422. Cuckoo, stuttering one? 535. Cucupha, quilted cap with ce- phalic powder in, 436. CUENCA LA BEATA DE, account of, 384.
Culm, small coal not exceeding
two inches in diameter, 393. Cumbrian Customs, 531. CUMMING, G. R., quare, as to the veracity of his adven tures, 256.
Customs, good old, the cause of religion and order, 195. CUTTS, Lord JOHN, why called a salamander by Marlboro',
Death, the bitterness of, 85; but a point which divides Adam from his remotest de- scendants, 626; striking ac- count of a sailor's death at sea, 627; extracts, 542, 544. Dee River and Ceiriol, account of from churchyard, 122. Deer, wounded, lie on the "Asphodelus Lancastriæ Ve- rus" for cure, see note, 547. DE FOE, remarks of, 688. Della Scenery, 180. Demigod's death, effects of,
Demoniacal possession, 693. Demons, dislike music, 569. Δῆμος Ονείρων, 243. DENNY, SIR WILLIAM, his Pe- lecanisidium, &c. 305. Dens inusitatæ belluæ, 37.
DERMODY, THOMAS, account of, 516.
DERRICK, Johnson's saying of,
Desert, produce of, 224. DESPARD, COLONEL, 194. Despotism, Eastern, instance of, 498. Δευτερόποτμοι, who, 431. Devil, hath not always had his due, 195; visit to St. An- thony, 196; original of the Devil's walk, 199; gran Fi- losofo, 443; ugliness of, 463; Scotch dislike to mentioning,
Devil's Dust, what? 610. Dew-water of Ferrea, 225; of St. John's night, has the vir tue to stop the plague, 274. Der, the larva of a beetle, which
corroded the wood the Greeks used for seals, 431. Dhahi, statues in, 96. Diabolorum Regnum, applied to England, 353.
DIANA'S Chamber, near St. Paul's-her temple supposed to have been on the present site, 414. Jewel's Works, vii. 292. ed. Jelf. Diet, 599. Dilapidations, friends of Bp. Kidder strangely sued for,
whom? 603. Diseases, Languis held all to
be animalcular, 436; Dr. Hahnemann's notion of cho- leraic miasma, 439; effect of the Fall, 690.
Disports, master of merry, 115. Dissenting Churches, remark on, 693.
Divination by Torrent, or, Tag- hairn, 39.
Divine Right, remark on, 665. Dock, floating one of iron, ac- count of, 386. DOCTOR, THE, &c. Collections for, 427, &c. Dog-ribbed Indian Woman, ac- count of, 166. Dogs, know the dog-killer, ac- cording to Lord Bacon, 108; Mrs. Wilson's story of, 194; extracts relative to, 584;
Newfoundland dog's puppy inherited its mother's tricks, 593; church-going, 356; gone to heaven, story of, 363; hunt of wild one, 369; famished, 370; instinct, 371; over-tempted, 372; speaking one, 378; the pride of old Cole's, proverb, 428; sacri ficed to the dog-star by the Romans, 443, 478, 482; af- fected by music, 573. Dollars, Spanish, wide spread of, 389.
Dolwyddelan Castle, 39. DOM DANAEL, the destruction of, 181.
Doncaster, collections about, 452-3.
Dondego, what? 706. DONNE's Letters, extracts from, 612, 620-1; poems, 647-8. Doome's-day, Lord Sterlinge's,
Doring or during, meaning of,
Dotterel catching, proverb,454. Double stars, 434. Dragon, standard of, 132. DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS, tradi- tion of in Somersetshire, 424. Dramatist's English, extracts from, passim.
DRAYTON, remarks on, 291. Dreams, extracts relative to,
565; recurrence of, 566, 601. Drowned persons, Finlanders
said to recover after two or three days! 553. Druids, United Lodges of, ce- remonies at, 402. Drum, miraculous ones, 7; of captives' skins, 158. Drunkenness, Johnson's mark on, 624. Druses, opinion of relative to transmigration, 586. DRYDEN, remarks on, and ex. tracts relative to, 328; Charles, his eldest son, usher of the palace to Clement XI. drowned in Thames, 351. Ducking-stool, a legal punish- ment, 401. Duelling, effectual against, 492. Dulness, Triumph of, a poem, origin of, 714. DUNCOMBE, WILLIAM, notice of, 351.
Dwarfs, boys bred up for by
Eel, skinning of, barbarous story of, 356; how one came in at a bedroom window, 371; story of the man with eels in his inside, 402; mere so full of small eels as to supply eel-cakes, 409.
Eggs, hatched by a man, queer story, 416.
Egregori of the Book of Enoch, who? 122.
Egypt, night in, 223; their medicine wholly upon astro- logical or magical grounds, 547; leprosy and elephan- tiasis peculiar to, 551. Elden Hole, 243.
Election trick, 392. Electricity, cure for agues, 436. Elephants, majestic bearing of,
ELIDORE, descent of, 139. ELIZABETH, sick exile cured for joy at her succession- Fuller knew his father"right
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