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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,

713.

Azincour, Song on the Battle of,

57.

B.

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.

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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,

198.

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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,

323.

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

396.

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

death of, 109.

CLESQUIS

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,

483.

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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,

428.

Bramins, 238.

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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.

C.

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,

428.

CAMILLUS LEONARDUS, Mirror
of Stones, 46.
CAMOENS, 627.

Canary Fanciers, pattern bird
of, 433.
CANOVA's genius first manifest
ed in modelling butter, 510.

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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,

351.

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,

470.

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,

415.

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,

469.

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,

535.

Coffin-rings, use of, 445.
Coffins, cast iron ones, 386;
Story of, 402, 403.

Colombiade La, extracts from, | CRANMER, ABP., said by Ful-

222.

Colours, the love language of,

88.

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.

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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,

500.

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',

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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,

163.

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,

663.

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,

529.

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,

612.

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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,

16.

Doring or during, meaning of,

398.

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

re-

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.

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EDWY, 181.

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,

541.

ELIDORE, descent of, 139.
ELIZABETH, sick exile cured
for joy at her succession-
Fuller knew his father"right

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