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, pre cepts. 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. Reverend Dr. John Leland, Lancashire; Anfwer to Deistical Writers.. 1765 Reverend Dr. Edward Young; Night Thoughts, and other poems, three tragedies. Robert Simfon, Glafgow; Conic Sections, Euclid, Apollonius. 1768 Reverend Lawrence Sterne; 45 fermons, Sentimental Journey, Triftram Shandy. 1769 Robert Smith, Lincolnshire; harmonics and optics. 1770 Reverend Dr. Jortin; Life of Erafmus, Ecclefiaftical History, and fermons. Dr. Mark Akenfide, Newcastle upon Tyne; poems. Dr. Tobias Smollet, Dumbartonshire; Hiftory of England, novels, tranflations. 1771 Thomas Gray, Profeffor of Modern Hiftory, Cambridge; poems. 1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield; 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 Gloucefter; Divine Legation of Mofes, and various other works. 1780 Sir William Blackstone, Judge of the court of Common Pleas, London; Commentaries on the Laws of England. Dr. John Fothergill, Yorkshire; philofophy and medicine. James Harris; Hermes, Philological Inquiries, and Philofophical Arrange ments. 1782 Thomas Newton, bishop of Bristol, Litchfield; Difcourfes on the Prophecies, and other works. 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 Ainfworth's Dictionary, Hedericus's Lexicon, and fome Greek tragedies. Dr. Samuel Johnfon, Litchfield; English Dictionary, biography, effays, poetry. Died December 13, 1784, aged 71. 1785 William Whitehead, Poet Laureat; poems and plays. N. B. By the Dates is implied the Time when the above Writers died; but whe that Feriod ha, pens not to be known, the Age in which they flourished is sign fid ty fl. The names in Italics are those who have given the best English Tranflations, exclufive of School Books. |