265. Journal of an, 267. Seldom write their own lives, 405. Their lives full of incident, 406. Signs of knowing how a publication is received, 406. Writing their own lives recommended, 407. Their misfortune in not having their works understood by the readers, xi. 411. Not to be charged with plagiarism merely for similarity of sentiment, 477. No want of topick whilst mankind are mutable, 482. The present age an age of authors, 515. Want of patronage complained of, 516. Their importance to the welfare of the publick, 553. The good they do to mankind compared to a single drop in a shower of rain, 556. Who provide innocent amusement, may be considered as benefactors to life, 557. Their condition with regard to themselves, 559. Their expectation before publication considered, 560. The pleasure and difficulties of composition, 561. After all, the publick judgment frequently perverted from the merit of his work, 563. The merit of his works ascertained by the test of time which they have retained fame, x. 132. A century the term fixed for the test of literary merit, 134. The genius of the age to be considered in order to fix the abilities of, 73. The expectation they form of the reception of their labours, 305. Project for the employment of, xi. 46.

Authority, the accidental prescriptions of it ofteu confounded with the laws of nature, iv. 96.

Authority, parental, frequently exerted with rigour, iv. 45.
Autumn, an ode, i. 329.

B.

BACON, Francis, Lord, the life prefixed to the edition of his works, 1740, written by Mallet, viii. 352. His severe reflection on beautiful women, ii. 246. Was of opinion that his moral essays would be of longer duration than his other works, iii. 226. Observations on his character, xi. 547.

Bail, the danger of becoming, exemplified in the character of
Selenus, xi. 418.

Baillet, his collection of critical decisions remarked, iii. 138.
Bamff, account of that town, xii. 25.

Bards, uncertainty in the account of them, xii. 367.

Bargains, the folly of buying bargains exposed, v. 138.

Burra, Island of, account of, xii. 386. Horses there not more than thirty-six inches high, ibid.

Barratier, John Philip, his life, ix. 149. Son of a Calvinist minister, and born at Schwabach, 1720-21, 149. His early acquirements of learning, 150. In his ninth year could speak Latin, German, and French, equally well, 151. In his eleventh year translated the Travels of Rabbi Benjamin from the He

The

brew into French, with notes, 151.
his father taught him the languages, 154.
temonius, 1735, 156. Patronized for his

method by which
Published Anti-Ar-
learning by the King

of Prussia, 1735, 156. Died 1740, 159. Additions to Life,
159.
Barretti, translation of some lines at the end of his Easy Phrase-
ology, i. 356.

Bashfulness, sometimes the effect of studious retirement, iv. 106.
114. Frequently produced by too high an opinion of our own
importance, 116.

Baxter, Mr. Richard, incitement he often urged to the present
exercise of charity, iii. 4.

Bayes, that character designed for Dryden, vi. 349. That cha-
racter also supposed to be designed for Davenant and Sir Ro-
bert Howard, 350.

Beaumont and Fletcher, their plots in Spanish stories, vi. 330.
Beauty, disgustingly described, vi. 35. A mental quality, merely
relative and comparative, iii. 128. The disadvantages incident
to such as are celebrated for it, 377. The folly of anxiety and
solicitude upon account of it, 378. The natural principle of, v.
330. The most general form of nature the most beautiful,
330. Depends much on the general received ideas, 332. No-
velty said to be one of the causes of beauty, 333.

Beggars, the best method of reducing the number, xi. 250. As
numerous in Scotland as in England, xii. 240.

the Hebrides, 389.

Bell, Mrs. epitaph on, i. 365.

Bellaria, her character, iv. 293.

Account of, in

Bellarmine, Cardinal, writes in defence of Paul V. against the

Venetians, ix. 6.

Bemoin (a Prince of Africa), account of him, x. 274.

Is driven

from his kingdom, visits Portugal, and becomes a Christian,
275. On his return to regain his kingdom, through the
assistance of the Portuguese, is stabbed by the Portuguese com-
mander, 277.

Beneficence, mutual, the great end of society, ii. 357: The
extent and proportion of it to be adjusted by the rules of
justice, iii. 63.

Ben Hannase Rabbi Abraham, his account of the power of the
magnet in the detection of incontinence, iv. 341.

Benserade, Mons. translation of his lines à son lit, i. 357.

Bentley, Dr. his saying on Pope's translation of Homer, viii. 185.
Bernardi, John, account of him, viii. 205. Died in Newgate in
1736, 205.

Betterton, a picture of him painted by Pope, viii. 74.
Bible, the veneration always paid to sacred history, vi. 54.
Biography, impediments in the way of, vii. 108. By what means
it is rendered disgustful and useless, ii. 385. A species of
writing entertaining and instructive, 386. Most eagerly read

of any kind of writing, v. 339. More useful than history,
339. Every man the best writer of his own story, 340. Diffi-
culties in writing the life of another, 341. Few authors write
their own lives, whilst statesmen, generals, &c. frequently do,

405.

Biographia Britannica, many untruths in that publication in the
life of Dr. E. Young, viii. 337.

Birch, Thomas, Eus Bioxiov, i. 387. Review of his History of the
Royal Society, xi. 314.

Black Friars Bridge, considerations on the plans offered for the
construction of, x. 379.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, charged by Dryden with stealing the
plan of Prince Arthur from him, vi. 365.
Libels Dryden

in his Satire upon Wit, 379, His life, vii. 206. Born at
Corsham, in Wiltshire, 206. Educated at Westminster, and
entered at Oxford 1668, 206. Made Doctor of Physick at
Padua, 206. For a short time a schoolmaster, 206. Fellow
of the College of Physicians, April 12, 1687, 207. Resided
at Sadlers' Hall, Cheapside, 207. Wrote for fame, or to engage
poetry in the cause of virtue, 207. Published his Prince Ar-
thur 1695, 208. Made Physician in ordinary to K. William,
and knighted, 209. His Paraphrase of Job 1700, 210. His
Satire on Wit, the same year, 211. Creation, a philosophical
poem, 1712, 212. His account of wit, 216. Observations on
the Tale of a Tub, 217. Extract from his Essay on the Spleen,
219. Censor of the College of Physicians 1716, 220. His
New Version of Psalms 1721, 220. lis Alfred 1723, 221.
Becomes despised as a poet, and neglected as a physician, 221.
Wrote many books on physick, 221. His censure of Hippo-
crates's Aphorisms, 222. His opinion of learning, 222. Died
Oct. 8, 1729, 223. His character, and as an author, 224. Ex-
tract from his Prince Arthur, 227.

Blackwell, Thomas, review of his Memoirs of the Court of
Augustus, xi. 225.

Blake, Robert, Admiral, his life, ix. 41. Son of a merchant, and
born at Bridgewater 1598, 41.
Entered at Oxford 1615,

where he continued to 1623, 41. On being refused a fellow-
ship of Wadham College, retires to the country, 42. Chosen
Member for Bridgewater, by the Puritan party, 1640, 42.
Declares for the Parliament, and raises a troop of dragoons,
43. Governor of Taunton 1645, which he defends against
Lord Goring, 43. Commissioner of the Navy 1648-9, 43.
Sent in pursuit of Prince Rupert, whom he drives into the Ta-
gus, 44. Takes seventeen and burns three Portuguese ships,
44. Takes a French man of war, valued at one million, 44.
Drives Prince Rupert into Carthagena, 45. Attacks the Prince
in the harbour of Malaga, 45. Takes a French man of war in
the Mediterranean, 45. His conduct in the war with Holland
1652, 46. His opinion that it is not the business of a seaman

to mind state affairs, 54. Sent with a fleet into the Mediter-
ranean 1654, 56. Forces Algiers to submission 1656, 56.
Obliges Tunis and Tripoli to submit to him, 57. Obliges the
Governor of Malaga to give up a priest who had beat some
sailors for paying no respect to a procession of the host, ibid.
Destroys the plate fleet of Spain 1656, 58. Died at sea, and
buried in Henry VII.'s Chapel, 60. After the Restoration, his
body taken up, and thrown into a pit in St. Margaret's Church-
yard, 60. His military character, by Lord Clarendon, 60. His
moral character, by the author of Lives English and Foreign,
Got his brother discharged from the command of a ship
for not having done his duty, 62.

61.

Blank Verse, characterized, viii. 363.

Blount, Martha, some account of her acquaintance with Pope,
viii. 144.

Bluster, Squire, some account of his infamous character, iv. 9.
Body Natural und Body Politick, the parallel between, v. 135.
Boerhaave, Herman, M. D. his life, ix. 11. Born at Voorhout,
near Leyden, 1668, 11. His character of his father, 12. De-
signed for the ministry, 12. A stubborn ulcer on his thigh
the cause of his turning his thoughts to medicine, 13. His
progress in learning at Leyden, 14. Loses his father in 1682, 14.
His diligence at the University, 15. Continues in the study
of Divinity, 16. His fortune being exhausted by his educa-
tion, he reads Lectures in Mathematicks, 17. Begins to study
Physick, 17. Engages in the practice of Chemistry, 18. Makes
researches in botanical knowledge, 19. Takes the M. D. de-
gree at Hardewich 1693, 19. Designs to obtain a licence to
preach, but finds difficulties, from being suspected of atheism,
20. Cause of that suspicion, 20. Begins the practice of
Physick, 21. Invited to settle at the Hague, but refuses it,
22. Elected Professor of Physick 1701, 23. Recommends the
study of Hippocrates, and reads Lectures as well in Chemistry
as Physick, 23. Invited to the Professorship of Physick at
Groningen, which he refuses, 24. Recommends Mathematicks
in the science of Physick, 24. Advanced to the highest de-
grees of the University 1714, 25. Makes an Oration, recom-
mending the attaining to certainty in Natural Philosophy, 25.
This Oration opposed by the Professor of Franeker, who at
length submits to him, 26. Elected member of the Academy of
Sciences at Paris 1728, 27. Professor of Chemistry at Leyden
1718, 27. Violently afflicted with the gout 1722, 28. Seized
with a violent fever 1727, 29. Resigns his Professorships of
Botany and Chemistry 1726, 30. Visited by patients from all
parts of Europe, 31. His readiness at discovering disorders,
31. His own account of his last illness, 31. His opinion of
the soul, 32. Died 1738, 34. His person described, 34. His
character, 34. Catalogue of his works, 39. His serious
reflection on the execution of criminals, iii. 272.

Boerhaave, James, character of him, by his son Herman Boerhaave, xi. 11.

Boetius, Hector, (First President of the King's College, Aberdeen.) account of him, xii. 243. His revenue, as President, forty Scottish marks, about 21. 4s. 6d., ibid.

His sentiments

Boileau, his opinion of Epick Poetry, vi. 364. on the power of diction, iv. 164. Bolingbroke, Lord, supposed to have declared his opinions to Mr. Hooke, though he concealed them from Pope, viii. 127. Pope leaves his MS. papers to him, 146. Burns 1500 copies of the Patriot King, printed by Pope without his knowledge, 146. Employs Mallet to traduce the memory of Pope, and Warburton defends it, 147. Leaves his works to Mallet, 354. Bombasine, Mrs. her character, ii. 74.

Books, the study of them not sufficient to constitute literary eminence, iv. 86. Observations on the multiplication of, v. 343. Compilations in general useless, 343. Multiplication of books distracts choice, and disappoints inquiry, 376. Of travels, most generally read of any, and in general disappoint their readers, 386. How they tend to the civilization of mankind, xi. 555. The various motives to reading, 556. Booksellers, their treatment of authors complained of, v. 223. Boscovich, his interview with Dr. Johnson, i. 93.

Bower, Archibald, patronized by Lord Lyttelton, viii. 386. Boyle, Robert, philosophy much improved by his discoveries, iii. 225. His opinion of the best expedients for promoting manufactures, iv. 352.

Bracelet, observations on the re-appearance of it, v. 155. Proposal to make them a mark of distinction of the character or temper of the wearer, 156. Proper emblems for soldiers to wear on bracelets, 158.

Braidwood, Mr. account of his academy at Edinburgh for the deaf · and dumb, xii. 432.

Brevity, on what occasions it is necessary and useful in an author, ii. 5.

Bridges, considerations on the strength of arches for bridges,

x. 378.

Bristol and London, delineated by Savage, vii. 397.

Britain, Great. See Great Britain.

Brodeus, Græcorum epigrammatum versiones metricæ, i. 393. Brogues, those made use of in the isles of Sky, described, xii. 287. Brooke, Mr. See Stage.

Broom, Betty, history of her life, v. 100. Educated in a charity school, 100. Objected to as a servant because she could read and work, 101. Goes to London, and an account of the various places she engaged in there, 102. 113. Five hundred pounds left her by her mistress, with which she resolves to retire into the country, and teach poor girls to read and write, 116. Broome, William, born in Cheshire, viii. 49. Educated upon the