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CORRESPONDENCE.

WE
WE are extremely forry to find that Dr. Campbell has fo far

mifunderflood our meaning, in that part of our critique on The Philofophy of Rhetoric (in which we exprefs our furprize, that he had taken no notice of the fimilarity between his ideas and thofe of fome former writers, particularly Lord Kaims and Dr. Akenfide, on the fubjects of Wit, Humour, and Ridicule) fo far as to fuppofe that we intended to place him before the Public in the light of a plagiary. We apprehend our words do not neceffarily imply fuch an infinuation: if they do, they were improperly chofen; for the only idea we meant to convey, was, that it appeared to us rather difrefpectful to writers of fuch diftinguished reputation, to take no notice of what they had advanced on the subject, especially as their fentiments appear to be nearly the fame with those of Dr. Campbell, We are very fenfible that fimilarity of fentiment is no proof that a writer has stolen his thoughts from another, and that it would be extremely hard if an author must be accused of plagiarism for those fentiments in which he happens to agree with fome former writer whom he has not quoted. In the prefent cafe, we have unqueftionable proof that Dr. C. was not indebted to Lord Kaims for his ideas on this fubject; for this part of the work was written in the year 1750, and read foon after to a Literary Society in Aberdeen, long before Lord Kaims's work appeared, as we learn from Dr. Campbell's preface. That fimilarity of opinion does not neceffarily fuppofe plagiarism, and therefore that the former may be noticed without infinuating any charge of the latter, the following circumftance related in the Doctor's preface fufficiently proves. After having transcribed the prefent work, a manufcript of Dr. Beattie's (On Laughter and ludicrous Writing) was put into Dr. C.'s hands," in which it gave him a very agreeable furprize to difcover, that on a question fo nice and curious, there fhould, without any previous communication, be fo remarkable a coincidence of fentiments in every thing wherein their fubjects coincide."

By a letter from the Doctor to a friend near London.

INDEX

INDE X

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this

Volume.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

A

A.

BUSES in medicine. See
PLAN.

ACCORD de la Philofophie avec la
Religion, 472.

ADDISON, Mr. his account of Dr. Garth's infidelity, manifefted in the Doctor's dying moments, 440. AFRICA, feveral kingdoms of, defcribed, 524. AGRICULTURE, &c. various obfervations relative to, 128, 132,

179. AIR, fixed, fingular theory relative to, 211. Obfervations on, with refpect to refpiration, 412. See alfo article INGENHOUSZ. ALNWICK Caftle, its hiftory, 200. Description of, ib. ALPHEUS, river, defcribed, in its prefent ftate, 436. AMERICANS, their Declaration of Independency, anfwered, 345. their happy ftate, before the commencement of the prefent troubles, poetically defcribed, 481. AMPHITHEATRE, of Titus, defcribed, 43.

AMPUTATION, above the knee, method of, to prevent the protufion of the bone, 119. In the ankle, 256.

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BEGUELIN, M. his inquiry con-
cerning the variations of the
barometer, 492. On moral per-
ceptions, 496.
BELCOUR, M. his account of Si.
beria, 468.

BERKELEY, Bishop, memoirs of
his life, 438. His difpute with
the mathematicians concerning
religion, 440.
His death and
excellent character, 441. His
works, ib.

BERLIN, city of, its late great in-
creafe, both in houfes and po-

pulation, 553. Number of
hous in, 554. Of inhabitants,

ib.

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BIRTH, an extraordinary one, 118.
BLACKSTONE, Judge, his com-

mentaries criticised, 329.
BLAGDEN, Dr. his experiments

in an heated room, 121.
BORELLY, M. his plan for re-
forming elenientary ftudies, 469.
BRANDENBURG, marches of, ftate
of population in, 557. Reve-
nue of, ib. Improvements in
the country, ib. Schoolmasters
established in, ib.
BUFFALO, wild, dangerous to tra
vellers in Africa, 525.
BULLIARD, M. his defcription
and engravings of the plants
growing in the environs of Pa-
ris, 387.
BUSCHING, M. his Tour in Bran-
denburgh, &c. 553.

C.

AONGO, Country of defcribed,
524. Government of, 528.
CAILLE, Abbé de la, his life,
learned labours, and excellent
character, 540-543.
CAPE, of Good Hope, country of
defcribed, 546. Kolben's ac-
count of convicted of many
falfehoods, 545.

CARINUS, Emperor, his magni-
cent public fpectacles described,

42.

CASTILLON, M. his account of
the Flutes of the ancients, 490
CATACOMBS, in Italy, a Lady's
fearful adventure in, 111. Other
catacombs defcribed, 434.
CAVENDISH, Hon. Henry, his ac-
count of attempts to imitate the
effects of the torpedo, by elec
tricity, 409.
CHAMPIGNI'S Hiftory of Sweden,
311.

CHEMISTRY, experiments in, 215.
CHESTERFIELD, Lord, his ftyle
praifed, 27. His writings ex-
cellent, but with exceptions, 28,
-29. Commended as an ac-
complished gentleman, 30. Cen-
fured for the immorality of his
letters, 31. And for railing at
the women, 32.
CHINA, manufactory of, its flou-
rifhing ftate at Berlin, 554-
CHINESE, the antiquity of their
nation difproved, 51. Not a
learned people, 533. Their
hiftorical records all deftroyed
by authority of government, 534-
CHRIST, the cultom of praying
to, indefenfible, 197. No rep
ference made to him by the
word Logos, 198. Abfurdity of
two natures in Chrift, the di-
vine and the human, 264. His
pre-existence not maintained by
St. John, 265.
CHRISTIANITY, remarks on the
rife and progrefs of, among the
Romans, 45. Not unfriendly
to public virtue, 174.

-, primitive, allowed
great latitude for people to do
bufinefs on the Sabbath day,
185. See APOLOGISTS.
CHRISTIANS, primitive, their
character and conduct arraigned,
with refpect to the footing they
first obtained in the Roman Em-
pire, 46. Defended, 454.

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Their doctrines with regard to DICTIONNAIRE, Nouveau. See

a future life, 455. Miraculous
powers afcribed to, 457. Their
virtues, 458. Farther defend-
ed, 462.
CHRONOLGGY, Mofaic, not af
fected by the argument drawn
from the lavas of volcanos, 460.
CHURCH, High, curious Scottish
Threnodia on, 59.
CLARENDON, Lord, his charac-
ter as an historian cenfured, 448.
COLD. See WATER.
COLONIZATION, different princi-
ples of, in ancient and modern
times, 22. General advantage
of, to Europe, 24, Difadvan.
tages to England, ib.
COMPACT, original, between the
governor and the governed, the
popular notions of examined,
330.
COOPER, Dr. his account of an
extraordinary acephalous birth,
Of the performance of
the Cæfarian operation, 254.
CORNISH, Mr. his account of the
winter-fleep of fwallows, 117.
CORSICA. See HISTOIRE.
CORYAT'S Crudities, fpecimens
of, 230.

118.

COSMOGRAPHER, 474.

SUPPLEMENT.

geographique,

&c. See FOURGAULT.
DIONYSIUS, the tyrant, his fa-
mous ear prifon defcribed, 435-
DISSERTATIO Philologica. See

LONGINUS.

DOBSON, Dr. his experiments in a
heated room, 120. On the
urine, in a diabetes, 254.
DONATI, M. his travels and death,
551. Falfe report concerning,
contradicted, ib. His writings
and collection of natural curio-
fities, loft, ib.

DOUGLAS, Dr. his account of the
efficacy of hemlock in fchirrous
cafes, and ulcers, 152.
DRYDEN (jun.) his description of
famous places in Italy, 434

E.

ECLOGUE, French, a beautiful

one, 192.
ELECTRICITY, Latin poem on,
308. In what manner opera
ting, in the deprivation of ani-
mal life, 511. Applied to imi-
tate the effects of the torpedo.
See CAVENDISH. See HEY.

COSMOGRAPHIE phyfice, &c, ELEUTHS, a nation of Tartars,

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their migration and fettlement
in Ruffia, 538. Their late re-
turn, and fubmiffion to the Em-
peror of China, ib.
ELLIS, Mr. his memoir on the
nature of the Gorgonia, 416.
EMIGRATION, wonderful one, of
a nation of Tartars, 528.
ENGLISH, their manners, &c. in
former times, 184.
EQUALITY, natural, of mankind,
philofophically difcuffed, zzo.
ERXLEBEN, M. his difcourfe rela-
tive to natural philofophy, &c.
470.

ESSAIS Politiques, &c. 474.
ESPRIT des Ufages et des Coûtumes
des differens Peuples, 474.

F.

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FABRE, M. his inquiry into the GALAND, M. his papers intend-

nature of man, 386.
FELICE, M. his edition of the
Paris Dictionary of the Arts and

Sciences, 390.
FERBER, M. his curious obferva-
tions in mineralogy, &c. 549.
FLODDEN, battle of, particularly
defcribed, 417.
FLORA Parienfis, 387,
FLOUR, memoir concerning the
true nature of, 386.
FLUTES of the ancients defcribed,

490.

FORD, Mr. his account of an ex-
traneous body cut out from the
joint of the knee, 257,
FOR MEY, M. his account of an
extraordinary fleeping diforder,
489.

FORSKAL-defcriptiones animali-
um, &c. 310.

his Flora Egyptiaco-
Arabica, 311.
FORSTER, Meffrs. their account
of natural productions in the
fouthern hemifphere, 479.
FOURGAULT, M. his geographi-
cal, hiftorical, and mythological
Dictionary, 473.
FOTHERGILL, Dr. his account of

a painful affection of the face,
cured by hemlock, 252. Of
the management proper at the
ceffation of the menfes, 253. Of
an bydrophobia, ib. Of the an.
gina pectoris, 254. On the
treatment of confumptions, 257.
On diforders incident to painters
in water-colours, ib.
FRANCE, unfavourable defcription
of fome parts of, 105. Farther
accounts of, 190-194.
FRANCHEVILLE, M. his inquiry
concerning the
the comparative
fruitfulness of women, 491,
FRISI, Father, his phyfical and
mathematical fyftem of cofmo-
graphy, 307.

ed for the fupplement to Her-
belot's Bib. Orientale, 312.
GARTH, Dr. his infidelity occa-

fions the Berkleyan controverfy
with the mathematicians, 440.
GEOGROPHIE Universelle, 473.
GEOMETRY, investigations rela-
tive to, 119, 120.
GERMANES, Abbé, his hiftory of
the revolutions of Corfica, Vol.
III. and laft, 224.

GOERTZ, Baron, juftification of,

227.

GOESMAN, M. his Political EL-
fays, 474.

GOOCH, Mr. See AMPUTATION.
GOODRICHE, Mr. his observations
on Dr. Price's theory of liberty,

239.

GORGONIA, fupposed to be an
animal, of the polype kind, 416.
GOVERNMENT, mutual obliga-
tions of prince and people, with
respect to, 330. Virtue the
great inftrument of a good one,
: 518. Morality the great foun-
dation of all law, 519.
GOUT, communicable by parti

cular modes of contact, 374.
GRAMMAR. See THIEBAULT.
GUENNE, Abbé, author of the
work entitled, Letters of certain
Portuguese, German, and Pelifb
Jerus, to M. de Voltaire, 510.
New edition of that work an-
nounced, ib.
GUICCIARDINI, his genuine ori.
ginal hiftory of Italy, 471.
GUNNERY, philofophical obferva-
tions relative to, 343.
GYMNOTUS Elearicus, anatomy
of, 118..

H.

HEMORRHAGE, uterine, obfer-
vations with refpect to, 124.
HAY, best method of making, 180.
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