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Ministers, account of the disputes between the independents and presbyterians on the authority of, vi. 420.

Misanthrope of Molière, a complete character, v. 381.

Misella, her affecting narrative of her being betrayed by the treachery of her uncle, and the fatal influence of it on her virtue and happiness, v. 175, 181.

Misellus, his account of his commencing an author, ii. 78.

Misery, how increased by comparison with happiness, iv. 105.

Miseries of the world, the knowledge of, necessary to happiness, i. 225.

Misocapelus, the events which discouraged him from engaging in trade, iii. 49.
  his appearing in the character of a wit, 84.

Misocolax, his censure of the practice of giving unmerited praise, iii. 101.

Misothea, her fondness for disputation, iii. 36.

Misty, Dick, his history, iv. 382.

Mitissa, her conduct in a married life described, ii. 174.

Modena, duke of, translation of a distich on his running away from a comet, i. 144.

Moderation, man of, his character, iii. 187.

Molesworth, his account of Denmark, answered by Dr. King, vii. 384.

Monastick life, considerations on, i. 303.

Monboddo, lord, visited by Dr. Johnson, ix. 10.

Money, no man can be born a lover of it, viii. 293.
  inquiry into the value of, in

Scotland, about two hundred years ago, ix. 12.

Money lenders, their vile practices exposed, iv. 12.

Montague, lady Mary Wortley, Savage's flattery of her in the dedication to his miscellany of poems, viii. 113.

Montague, Mrs. on her bust, i. 148.

Montrose, account of, ix. 9.

Morad, his history, iii. 383.

Morality, inquiries relating to it vastly preferable to physical contemplations, ii. 118.
  this truth illustrated in the character of Gelidus, 119.
  the ancient poets very exceptionable teachers of it, 142.

Morin, Lewis, his life translated from the Eloge, by Fontenelle, vi. 391.
  born at Mens, 1635, ibid.
  applies to the study of botany, ibid.
  studied philosophy at Paris, 392.
  studies physick, and confines himself to a regimen of bread, water, and fruit, ibid.
  admitted doctor of physick, 1662, ibid.
  physician to the Hôtel Dieu, 393.
  physician to the Mad. de Guise, who, at her death, leaves him a pension of two thousand livres, ibid.
  retires to St. Victor, 394.
  associate botanist of the royal academy, 1699, ibid.
  pensionary of the royal academy, ibid.
  died 1714, 395.
  he kept a journal of the weather for forty years, 396.

Morrow, Demetrius's speech on the expectation of, i. 64.

Mortality, the due consideration of it a proper means of preventing our misery, and promoting our happiness, ii. 83.

Mother, their greater cruelty in distressing their offspring than in murdering it, viii. 121.

Mountains, on the measurement of the height of, ix. 34.
  advantages of travelling through mountainous and barren countries, 36.

Muck island, account of, ix. 66.

Mull isle, account of, ix. 134.

Mulso, Miss, her papers in the Rambler, ii. 49.

Murray, lady Sophia, celebrated by Waller under the name of Amoret, vi. 181.

Myrtilla, her account of the character and behaviour of Flavia, ii. 393.

Muses, memory the mother of, iv. 367.

Musick, the pleasure of ladies in attending musical performances, iv. 202.

Mysargyrus, his history, iv. 1, 11.
  history of his companions in the Fleet prison, 25, 35.

Nairn, account of, ix. 21.

Narration, historical, the difficulty of this kind of writing illustrated, iii. 81.

Nature, the contemplation of its works, fitted to afford pleasure and instruction, ii. 22.
  it furnishes a source of proper materials for reflection from the objects about us, and discovers new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the*