Dresden, Heyne's residence in, 35.
Bombarded, 36.

Dresses, patterns for ladies' drawn
by Ferguson, 188.
Drury, Robert, 122.

F.

Facts, modern philosophy derived
from, 14, 22.

Faculties, weakened and strength-
ened, 218.

Ducrest, Madame, on Huber and Falconer, William, 122.
his wife, 245.

Dunbar, Sir James, Ferguson's
residence with, 188.
Dundas, Port, canal from, 262.
Du Perron, Anquetil, 196.
Durer, Albert, effect of a work of,
on Breitkopf, 197.
Duval, Valentine Jameray, 41.

E.

Earlom, Richard, 196.

Early age of great men, 73.
Ecliptic, Ferguson on the, 188.
Edwards, George, 195.
Egerton, Francis, 257.
Egyptians, canal built by, 251.
Enamelled pottery, introduced into
France and improved, 197.
Encouragement, remarks on, 187.
England, ignorance in, in the time
of Alfred, 67. Neglect of the
mother-tongue in, 81. See Great
Britain.

English language, early neglect of
the, 81.

Engraving, mezzotinto, discovered,

22.

Epictetus, Heyne's edition of, 36.

Facts respecting, 38.
Epitaph of Adrian VI., 204.
Erasmus, Desiderius, his opinion

of Froben, 155. Remark by,200.
Eugene Aram, 279.

Euler, Leonard, Algebra and other
works by, after his blindness,
230. Lacroix on, 230.
Europe, neglect of mother-tongues
in, 80.

Eusebius, an Asiatic, blind, 227,
228.

Euxine Sea, Ovid banished to the

coasts of the, 212.
Exile and imprisonment, successful
pursuit of literary labors in, 212. ||
Eyes, uses of the, 219.

Farmer, Richard, on Shakspeare,
302.

Faust, John, invention of printing
ascribed to, 174.
Feeling, Saunderson's

sense of,

226.
Fenning's Introduction to Algebra,

318.

Ferdinand II., 118.
Ferguson, James, 180. By stealth
learns to read, 181. Experi-
ments with the lever, 181; with
the wheel and axle, 182. A
shepherd, 182. His mode of
studying the stars, 183, 188.
Aided by Glashan and Gilchrist,
183; by Grant, 184. Instructed
by Cantley, 184. Makes globes,
184, 188. Starved and abused,
185. His wooden watch, 186.
With Dunbar, 188. Draws dress
patterns, 188. Paints portraits,
189. Advice to, by Keith, 189.
Practises medicine, 189. Dis-
covers the cause of eclipses, and
makes orreries, 190. Patronised
by Maclaurin, 190. Publishes
works, 191. Lectures, 191.
Pensioned and honored, 191.
Remarks on, 191.

Ferracino, Bartholomew, 265.
Fielding, Henry, criticises Richard-
son's Pamela,' 157. On the
character of Lillo, 177.
Flinders, Lieutenant, 128.
Florence, North's visit to, 134.
Fluxions, discovery of, 92. Works
on, 93.

Folcz, John, facts respecting, 49.
Force of application, 284.
Forster befriends Duval, 42.
Forth and Clyde, canal between,
252, 262.

Fortification, Count de Pagan on,
229.

Galileo, his knowledge of gravita-
tion, 14, 18. Discovers the oscil-
lation of the pendulum, 17, 26,||
note. Conclusion of, respecting
air, 20. Invents the telescope,
and surveys the heavens, 29.
Galloway, literary history of, 298.
Garnock, canal at the, 262.

Ged, William, inventor of stereo-Glashan, James, aids Ferguson,

type printing, 175.

Gelli, a literary tailor, 46.
Gems, paste, by Tassie, 194.
Generalization, discovery in phi-
losophy dependent upon, 26,

Genius, remarks on, 306.

Genlis, Madame de, on Ferguson's
Astronomy, 191.

Gower, Lord, Brindley employed
by, 257.

Grand Junction Canal, 262.
Geometry, discovery in, by Pytha- | Grand Trunk Navigation, 261, 264.
goras, 27. Problem in, solved | Grangemouth, canal from, 262.

Gravitation, discoveries in, 14.
Early promulgation of the law
of, 18.
Great Britain, importation of types
into, discontinued, 63. Roman
canal in, 251. Canal navigation
in, 252, 253, 261. See England.

265. Marine chronometers by,
266. Remarks on, 266.
Harry, Blind, 240.
Harvest Moon, 191.
Haüy, Abbé, 39.
crystallography by, 40.
Hautefeuille, Abbe, 48.

Discoveries in

Great men, early age and short|| Haydn, Joseph, parentage of, 46.

lives of, 73.

Hayes on Fluxions, 93.

Greece, Guys' Literary Travels in, || Hearing, Saunderson's, 227. Moy-

131.

Greeks, canal by the, 251.

Gregory, David, on
Principia, 223.

Newton's

es's, 232.

Heavens, Galileo's joy on seeing
the, through a telescope, 30.
Heminge on Shakspeare, 305.

Gregory, James, early death of, 75.|| Hemsterhuys, Francis, 36.
Grey, Lady Jane, 215.
Grosvenor, Lord, patron of Gif-
ford, 321.

Grotius, Hugo,his union of literary,
professional, and other pursuits,
115. Works by, 116. Con-
demnation of, 116. Escapes from
prison, 117.

Henry, the Scotch minstrel, 240.
Henshall, Brindley's brother-in-

law, 248. Finishes a canal, 258.
Heptaglotton Lexicon, Castell's,

208.

Herbert, William, 174.
Hercules, 207.

Hero, fountain by, 19.

Grotius, Madame, shares her hus-Heron, Robert, 293.
band's imprisonment, 116;
ables him to escape, 117.
Guildford, Lord Keeper, 134.
Guthrie's Geographical Grammar,
308.

en-Heyne, Christian Gottlob, 32, 39.
Patronised, 33. At Leipsic, 34.
Copyist in a library, 35. First
literary works of, 35. Poverty
and marriage of, 36. Appoint-
ed professor, 36. Death of, 37.
Hiero, problem proposed to Ar-
chimedes by, 28.

Guttenbergh, John, invention of
printing ascribed to, 174.
Guys, Pierre Augustin, a mer-
chant, researches by, in Greece||
and the Archipelago, 131. Lit-Hill, Robert, work on, by Spence,
erary Travels in Greece by, 132.

H.

High birth, affectation of, 43.

272. Early days and habits
of, 272. Classical studies by,
272, 273. Teaches school, 273.
His stratagem in arithmetic,
274. Studies Hebrew, 274, 276.
Clerical friend of, 275. Works
by, 275. Poverty of, 275. Re-
marks on, 276.
Hoche, Lazarus, 206.
employ-Hogarth, William, 62.

Habits of mind, 26, note.
Hale, Sir Matthew, his union of
literary and other labors, 115.
Hamilton, Professor, cited
Murray, 299.

on

Hands, on using the, 219.
Happiness, in humble
ments, 140.
Ilarecastle Hill, tunnel through,
258.

Harleian Library, purchased of
John Bagford, 174.
Harrison, John, 193. Timepiece
by, for ascertaining_longitude,

Holcroft, Thomas, autobiography
of, 322. Birth and parentage of,
322. His father's apprentice,
323, 324. His mode of learn-
ing to read, 323. A beggar
boy, 324. Sufferings and sor-
- rows of, 324, 326. Learns
P. K.

Chevy Chase, 325. A stable
boy, 325. Voluptuous diet of,
325. Books loaned to, 327.
Learns music, 327; arithmetic
and French, 328. Removal from
Newmarket to London, 328.
A schoolmaster, shoemaker, and
actor, 329. Death of, 330.
Holland, types imported from, into
England, 63. Canals in, 252.
Home, Sir Everard, 52. On Hun-

William Jones, 105; of Fred-
erick the Great, 113.
Inscription over the tomb of Adrian
VI., 204.

Inspiration, discoveries ascribed
to, 13.

Instructers, not indispensable, 87.
Inventions, ascribed to inspiration,
13.

Irwell, canal carried across the,
255.

ter's collection and familiarity || Italy, influence of Dante, Petrarch,
with animals, 53; on his muse-
and Boccaccio, on the language
of, 81.

um,

54.

Homer, Ogilby's, 71. Cowper's,
76. Chapman's, 82. Iliad and
Odyssey of, 235.
Hooker, Richard, time of, 82.
Hôpital, Marquis de l', 93.
Horsemanship, Cæsar's, 110.
Howell's State Trials, 280.
Huber, Francis, blind, 244.
Humble station, no obstacle to
tainment of knowledge, 37. See
Ancestry.

Hume, David, 156.

J.

James I., of Scotland, imprison-
ment of, 215.
The King's

Quhair by, 216.

Jay, Guy Michel le, 208.
Johnson, Samuel, 206.

Joly, the French dramatist, 195.
at-Jones, Inigo, facts respecting, 48.
Jones, Richard Robert, 283, note.
Jones, Sir William, literary attain-

Hunter, John, facts respecting, 50.
Hunter, William, facts respecting,

51.

Hutton, William, early days of,

159. Treatment of, at school,
and as an apprentice, 160. His
adventures, on running away,
161. His reconciliation, 162.
Makes a dulcimer, 163. Buys
books and becomes book-bind-
er, 163.
As a bookseller, 164.
Various occupations of, 165.
History of Birmingham by, 166. ||
Other works by, 167. Death
of his wife, 168; of himself,
169. Remarks on, 169.
Hydrostatics, discoveries in, 28.

I.

Ibbetson, Julius Cæsar, 62.
Iliad, Homer's, 235.
Imperial canal in China, 251.
Imprisonment and exile, successful

pursuit of literary labors in, 212.
Industry of Cicero, 104; of Sir

es-

ments of, 65. His union of the
pursuits of knowledge with busi-
ness, 104, 179, note. His in-
dustry, 105. Maxims by, 105,
108. Society in Calcutta
tablished by, 106. His mode
of spending his day, 106. His
mode of life at Calcutta and vi-
cinity, 107. Last work and last
days of, 108.
Allusion to, 298.
Jonson, Ben, a mason and soldier,
49, 119. On Shakspeare, 304,
305.

Joseph II., Duval preceptor of, 41.
Joseph Ribera, 207.

Jourdain, the French Orientalist,

Laudanum, taken by Hunter, 55.

Kinnear, James, befriends Murray, Leather, Gifford's use of, 318.

Locks in canals, 252.
Lomonosoff, Michael, facts respec-
ting, 48.

Longitude, Williams on, 243, 244.
Timepiece for ascertaining, 265.
Longomontanus, 49.
Lope de Vega, 44.
Lorenzini, Lorenzo, 214.
Lorraine, Claude, 193, 205.

dying, 267. Cases of knowl-Lorraine, Duke of. See Francis I.
edge of, 267. See Classical stu- Lo Spagnoletto, Joseph Ribera,
dies.