*become less intelligible, iv. 255.
difficulties they find in publishing their works, 313.
the precarious fame of, 323.
who write on subjects which have been preoccupied by great men generally sink, 345.
journal of an, 346.
seldom write their own lives, 446.
their lives full of incident, ibid.
signs of knowing how a publication is received, 447.
writing their own lives recommended, 448.
their misfortune in not having their works understood by the readers, 30.
not to be charged with plagiarism merely for similarity of sentiment, 79.
no want of topick whilst mankind are mutable, 83.
the present age an age of authors, 109.
want of patronage complained of, 110.
their importance to the welfare of the publick, 139.
the good they do to mankind compared to a single drop in a shower of rain, 141.
who provide innocent amusement, may be considered as benefactors to life, 142.
their condition with regard to themselves, 144.
their expectation before publication considered, 145.
the pleasure and difficulties of composition, ibid.
after all, the publick judgment frequently perverted from the merit of his work, 147.
the merit of his works ascertained by the test of time which they have retained fame, v. 103.
a century the term fixed for the test of literary merit, 104.
the genius of the age to be considered in order to fix the abilities of, 55.
the expectation they form of the reception of their labours, 247.
project for the employment of, 355.
Authority, the accidental prescriptions of it often confounded with the laws of nature, iii. 240.
Authority, parental, frequently exerted with rigour, iii. 201.
Autumn, an ode, i. 120.
Bacon, Francis, lord, the life prefixed to the edition of his works, 1740, written by Mallet, viii. 465.
his severe reflection on beautiful women, ii. 186.
was of opinion that his moral essays would be of longer duration than his other works, iii. 5.
observations on his character, iv. 134.
Bail, the danger of becoming, exemplified in the character of Serenus, iv. 36.
Baillet, his collection of critical decisions remarked, ii. 438.
Bamff, account of that town, ix. 17.
Bards, uncertainty in the account of them, ix. 109.
Bargains, the folly of buying bargains exposed, iv. 252.
Barra, island of, account of, ix. 124.
horses there not more than thirty-six inches high, ibid.
Barratier, John Philip, his life, vi. 376.
son of a calvinist minister, and born at Schwabach, 1720-21, ibid.
his early acquirements of learning, 377.
in his ninth year could speak Latin, German, and French, equally well, ibid.
in his eleventh year translated the travels of Rabbi Benjamin from the Hebrew into French, with notes, 378.
the method by which his father taught him the languages, 380.
published Anti-Artemonius, 1735, 381.
patronised for his learning by the king of Prussia, 1735, ibid.
died 1740, 384.
additions to Life, ibid.
Barretti, translation of some lines at the end of his Easy Phraseology, i. 143.
Bashfulness, sometimes the effect of studious retirement, iii. 247, 252.
frequently produced by too high an opinion of our own importance, 255.
Baxter, Mr. Richard, incitement he often urged to the present exercise of charity, ii. 336.
Bayes, that character designed for Dryden, vii. 272.
that character also supposed to be designed for Davenant and sir Robert Howard, 273.
Beaumont and Fletcher, their plots in Spanish stories, vii. 258.
Beauty, disgustingly described, vii. 27.
a mental quality, merely relative and comparative, ii. 431.
the disadvantages incident to such as are celebrated for it, iii. 117.
the folly of anxiety and solicitude upon account of it, ibid.
the natural principle of, iv. 392.
the most general form of nature the most beautiful, ibid.
depends much on the general received ideas, 393.
novelty said to be one of the causes of beauty, 394.
Beggars, the best method of reducing the number, vi. 27.
as numerous in Scotland as in England, ix. 9.
account of, in the Hebrides, 126.
Bell, Mrs. epitaph on, i. 151.
Bellaria, her character, iii. 387.
