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1718 Nicholas Rowe, Devonshire; 7 tragedies, tranflation of Lucan's Pharfalia, 1719 Reverend John Flamsteed, Derbyshire; mathematics and aftronomy." Jofeph Addifon, Wiltshire; Spectator, Guardian, poems, politics.

Dr. John Keil, Edinburgh; mathematics and aftronomy.

1721 Matthew Prior, London; poems and politics.

1724 William Wollafton, Staffordshire; Religion of Nature delineated,

1727 Sir Ifaac Newton, Lincolnshire; mathematics, geometry, aftronomy, optics, 1729 Reverend Dr. Samuel Clarke, Norwich; mathematics, divinity, &c, Sir Richard Steele, Dublin; four comedies, papers in Tatler, &c, William Congreve, Staffordshire; feven dramatic pieces. 1732 John Gay, Exeter; poems, fables, and eleven dramatic pieces. 1734 Dr. John Arbuthnot, Mearns-fhire; medicine, coins, politics. 1742 Dr. Edmund Halley; natural philofophy, aftronomy, navigation. Dr. Richard Bentley, Yorkshire; claffical learning, criticifm. 1744 Alexander Pope, London; poems, letters, translation of Homer. 1745 Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dublin; poems, politics, and letters. 1746 Colin McLaurin, Argylefhire; Algebra, View of Newton's Philofophy. 1748 James Thomfon, Roxburghshire; Seafons, and other poems, five tragedies. Reverend Dr. Ifaac Watts, Southampton; logic, philofophy, pfalms, hymns, fer

mons, &c.

Dr. Francis Hutchefon, Airshire; Syftem of Moral Philofophy.

1750 Reverend Dr. Conyers Middleton, Yorkshire; life of Cicero, &c.

Andrew Baxter, Qld Aberdeen; metaphyfics, and natural philofophy.

1751 Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, Surrey; philosophy, metaphyfics, and politics.

Dr. Alexander Monro, Edinburgh; Anatomy of the Human Body. 1754 Dr. Richard Mead, London, on poifons, plague, fmall-pox, medicine, precepts, Henry Fielding, Somersetshire; Tom Jones, Jofeph Andrews, &c,

1757 Colley Cibber, London; 25 tragedies and comedies.

1761 Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London; 69 fermons, &c.

Benjamin Hoadley, bishop of Winchefter; fermons and controverfy.
Samuel Richardfon, London; Grandifon, Clariffa, Pamela.

Reverend Dr. John Leland, Lancashire; Answer to Deiftical Writers.

1765 Reverend Dr. Edward Young; Night Thoughts, and other poems, three trage. dies.

Robert Simfon, Glafgow; Conic Sections, Euclid, Apollonius.

1768 Reverend Lawrence Sterne; 45 fermons, Sentimental Journey, Tristram Shandy, 1769 Robert Smith, Lincolnshire; harmonics and optics.

1770 Reverend Dr. Jortin; Life of Erafmus, Ecclefiaftical Hiftory, and fermons.

Dr. Mark Akenfide, Newcastle upon Tyne; poems.

Dr. Tobias Smollet, Dumbartonshire; Hiftory of England, novels, translations. 1771 Thomas Gray, Profeffor of Modern Hiftory, Cambridge; poems.

1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chefterfield; letters."

George Lord Lyttelton, Worcestershire; Hiftory of England.

1774 Oliver Goldsmith; poems, effays, and other pieces.

Zachary Pearce, bishop of Rochefter; Annotations on the New Teftament, &c.

1775 Dr. John Hawkefworth; effays.

1776 David Hume, Merfe; Hiftory of England, and essays,

James Ferguson, Aberdeenshire; aftronomy.

1777 Samuel Foote, Cornwall; plays.

1779 David Garrick, Hereford; plays, &c.

William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester; Divine Legation of Mofes, and various other works.

1780 Sir William Blackftone, Judge of the court of Common Pleas, London; Commer taries on the Laws of England.

Dr. John Fothergill, Yorkshire; philosophy and medicine.

James Harris; Hermes, Philological Inquiries, and Philofophical Arrangemens 1782 Thomas Newton, bifhop of Bristol, Litchfield; Difcourfes on the Prophecies, and

other works.

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1782 Sir John Pringle, Bart. Roxburghshire; Difeafes of the Army.

Henry Home, Lord Kaimes, Scotland; Elements of Criticism, Sketches of the
Hiftory of Man.

1783 Dr. William Hunter, Lanerkshire; anatomy.

Dr. Benjamin Kennicott; Hebrew Verfion of the Bible, theological tracts.

1784 Dr. Thomas Morell; Editor of Ainsworth's Dictionary, Hedericus's Lexicon, and fome Greek tragedies.

Dr. Samuel Johnfon, Litchfield; English Dictionary, biography, effays, poetry.
Died December 13, aged 71.

1785 William Whitehead, Poet Laureat; poems and plays. Died April 14.

Reverend Richard Burn, LL. D. author of the Justice of Peace, Ecclefiaftical
Laws, &c. Died Nov. 20.

Richard Glover, Efq; Leonidas, Medea, &c. Died Nov. 25.

1786 Jonas Hanway, Efq; travels, mifcellaneous. Died Sept. 5, aged 74.

1787 Dr. Robert Lowth, bishop of London; criticism, divinity, grammar. Died

Nov. 3.

Soame Jenyns, Efq; Internal Evidence of the Chriftian Religion, and other pieces.
Died Dec. 18.

1788 James Stuart, Efq; celebrated by the name of " Athenian Stuart." Died Feb. 1. Thomas Gainsborough, Efq; the celebrated painter. Died Aug. 2.

Thomas Sheridan, Efq; English Dictionary, works on education, elocution, &c,
Died Aug. 14.

William Julius Mickle, Efq; tranflator of the Lufiad, Died Oct. 25.

1789 Dr. William Cullen; Practice of Phyfic, Materia Medica, &c. Died Feb. 5. 1790 Benjamin Franklin, Efq; electricity, natural philofophy, mifcellanies.

April 17.

Died

Reverend Thomas Warton, B. D. Poet Laureat; Hiftory of English Poetry,
poems. Died April 21.

Dr. Adam Smith; Moral Sentiments, Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations.
John Howard, Efq. Account of Prifons and Lazarettos, &c.

N. B. By the Dates is implied the Time when the above Writers died; but when
that Period happens not to be known, the Age in which they flourished is figni-
fied by A. The names in Italics, are those who have given the beft English
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