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.
INDE X
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
&c. See FOURGAULT. DIONYSIUS, the tyrant, his fa- mous ear prifon defcribed, 435- DISSERTATIO Philologica. See
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
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,
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.
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,
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,
GOESMAN, M. his Political EL- fays, 474.
GOOCH, Mr. See AMPUTATION. GOODRICHE, Mr. his observations on Dr. Price's theory of liberty,
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..
HEMORRHAGE, uterine, obfer- vations with refpect to, 124. HAY, best method of making, 180. HEATED-
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