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EVENTS

Jonathan Edwards becomes President of the institution that would later become Princeton University .

Pierre-Augustin Caron changes his name to Beaumarchais .

Robert Raikes becomes proprietor of the ''Gloucester Journal''.

Thomas Gray turns down the post of Poet Laureate of Great Britain.

Thomas Warton is appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford

NEW BOOKS

Madame Riccoboni - ''Lettres de Mistriss Fanny Butlerd''

NEW DRAMA

Denis Diderot - ''Le Fils naturel''

John Home - ''Douglas''

POETRY

Thomas Gray - ''Odes''

William Wilkie - ''Epigoniad''

NON-FICTION

Edmund Burke - '' A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And Beautiful ''

David Hume - ''The Natural History of Religion''

Richard Price - ''Review of the Principal Questions in Morals''

BIRTHS

November 13 - Archibald Alison (Scottish Author)

November 18 - William Blake

DEATHS

March 1 - Edward Moore , dramatist

''unknown date'' - Colley Cibber , Poet Laureate