volume of Letters and Papers addreffed to the Society inftituted at Bath, for the Encouragement of Agriculture, &c. On planting barren lands with wood; from the fame On watering meadows from the fame 91 93 95 On the scab in fbeep, and some approved remedies recommended; from the fame. ANTIQUITIES. 100 On the office of High Steward of England; from Hearne's curious difcourfes 102 Tranflations of three authentic registers of the monaftry of St. Edmund's Bury, formerly kept by the Sacrifts 105 Defcription and account of the caftle of Caernarvon; from Pennant's Tour in Wales 107 An account of the ancient British games; from the fame 109 Account of Sir Richard Bulkely; in which is a ftrong defeription of the favourite Earl of Leicefter; from the fame An account of two ancient oil-mills in the kingdom of Naples 122 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Difference between memory and imagination; from Dissertations Moral and Critical, by J. Beattie, L. L. D. 125 Of Accent, its nature and use; Standard of Pronunciation from the Theory of Language, in the fame work Extract from Illuftrations on Sublimity, in the fame work 127 130 On Tafte; from Lectures on Rhetoric and the Belles Letters, by Hugh Blair, D. D. 136 Comparative Strictures on Tillotson, Sir William Temple, Addifon, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bolingbroke, in point of ftyle; from the fame work Comparative merit of the Ancients and Moderns; from the fame 143 147 A letter from Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Prior; from vol. ii. of Atterbury's Epif tolary Correfpondence 153 Reflections on a late fcandalous report about the repeal of the Test Act; from the fame 155 160 Letter from Bishop Atterbury to Lord Inverness, after that bishop's banishment · from England; from vol. iii. of the fame work An abract from the King's books in the Royal Treafury of Goanaxuate, fince the establishment of that office, the 30th of April 1665, to Dec. 31, 1778, fhewing, by accounts, made up every five years, the weight of the gold and filver on which duties have been paid, and the whole amount of those duties during the above period of 114 years 165 A particular account of an Hindoo woman's burning herself alive with her deceafed 1 ceased husband; from an authentic letter, dated Calcutta, 25th July, 1779 167 An extract from the fequel to Emilius and Sophia, by F. J. Rousseau, found among his papers after his death POETRY. Ode for the new year 1783, by William Whitebead, Efq. Ode for his Majefly's birth-day, June 4, 1783, by the fame Extracts from Mafon's Tranflation of Du Frefnoy's Art of Painting 171 An extract from the Village, a poem, by the Rev. G. Crabbe, Chaplain w On the death of Dr. Robert Levet, by Dr. Johnson - 183 1*9 190 The entertaining and facetious biftory of John Gilpin; fhewing-bow be went further than he intended, and came home fafe at last.' On the Marriage of the Honourable Mifs Eliz. Sackville to Colonel Herben, A fong -Races. A Ballad. By the late Sir John Moore, Bart. 197 Lines to Mrs. Montague, on her happening to fall at St. James's, by Mr. An account of the Hiftory of the Reign of Philip the Third, King of Spain; by Robert Watson, L. L. D. &c. &c. 29 An account of Differtations Moral and Critical; by James Beattie, LL. D. |