proofs of bias in the translator, 519; author's notions of a purgatory, 520. Bible, the, Alexander's new version of, 376.
Society, Norris's charges against the, exposed, 75, et seq.; see Schole- field.
Bible teacher's manual, 188, et seq. ; im- portance of a literal acquaintance with the Scriptures, 189.
Biblical illustrations, 171; see Belsham, Burder, Gisborne.
Body and Soul, 283-5; objections which lie against religious novels, 283; avowed object of the author to coun- teract evangelical religion, ib. ; carica- ture of certain gloomy religionists, ib. ; establishments rest on an alliance be- tween religion and the world, 284; ri- baldry and profaneness of the author, 285.
Bonaparte, memoirs of, 113, 313; see Napoleon.
Bonar's observations on the conduct of
Judas Iscariot, 87, et seq.; the tract recommended by Dr. Doddridge, 87; exceptions to its statements as regard the views of Judas, 88; Macknight's remarks on the probable motives of the traitor, ib.; Bishop Porteus's view of the case, 89; true explanation of his conduct, ib.
Bore, the, phenomenon of, 51. Borrenstein's tables of the Syriac and Arabic characters, 285.
Bracebridge Hall, 233, et seq.; effect produced on the public by the Sketch Book, 233; author's farewell to England, 234; comparative merit of the pre- sent work, 236; English scenery, ib. ; remarks on the English character, 237; Dame Heyliger's shop, 239; her son Dolph, 248; his introduction to Dr. Knipperhausen, 241; a rainy Sunday at an inn, 242; the rookery, 243. Brown's memoirs of Hervey, 456, 7;
character of Hervey's writings, 456; his want of success as a preacher, 457. Bowles's grave of the last Saxon, 562, et seq.; notice of author's controversy with Lord Byron, 562; author's son- nets, ib.; want of compresion the fault of his blank verse, 563; the present poem a failure, ib.; song of the spirits, ib.; speech of Edgar-Atheling, 564; defects of the story, 565; even- ing scene, ib. ; song, 566. Bowring's details of an arrest, &c. 548,
et seq.; grounds of the decision of the English government, 548; opinion of
French counsel, ib.; the principle of non-interference unsound, 549; conse- quences of the alien bill, 550; its opera- tion distinguished from Mr. Bowring's case, 551.
Bristed on the Anglican and Anglo- American churches, 53, et seq.; real nature of the point at issue relative to church polity, 53; episcopacy dis- relished if divest of power, 54; cha- racter of Wilks's “correlative claims and duties," ib.; importance of the in- quiry to America, 54; pedigree and early life of the author, ib.; bishop Mant the head of a school rebellion, ib. ; reasons for not entering the church, 56; bishop Warburton's theory of alliance, un- scriptural, ib.; test and corporation acts impolitic, 57; present state of the Ameri- can episcopal church, 58; character of the author's performance, 59; state of the Irish church an argument against church establishments, ib.; more evange- lical piety out of, than in the church of England, 60; obligations of society to English dissenters, 61; the Anglican church a persecutor of evangelical religion, 62; "Christian observer's" apology for the act of uniformity exposed, 63; infi- delity in England prevalent before the French revolution, 64; moral effici- ency of an establishment to be exa- mined apart from the religious insti- tutions independent on it, ib.; com- plaints of pious churchmen on the subject of patronage an argument against church establishments, 65; case of Thomas Scott, ib.; numbers of clergy in America, 66; question of supply and demand in respect to religious instruction, ib.; episcopal church of America the least effi cient in the country, 67; reasons for not wishing the subversion of existing esta- blishments, 68.
Burder (H. F.) on the attributes, 351, et seq.; the Divine attributes not suffici- ently dwelt on by modern divines, 352; advantages of preaching in a series, 353; merits of the volume, ib. ; nature of future blessedness and prospect of the impenitent as arising from the eternity of God, 354; Divine patience illustrated in reference to idolatry, 356; Divine sovereignty, ib.
Burder's (Sam.) oriental literature, 170, et seq.; verbal coincidences often mis- taken for legitimate illustration of Scripture, 171; instances of critical trifling, ib.; on the phrase daughter of Zion,' 172; illustration of Psalm xlv.
6, ib.; other exceptionable illustra- tions, 175.
Butler's, Bishop, definition of piety ex. amined, 106.
Byron's, lord, 'heaven and earth,' notice of, 216; exhausted appearance of the author's mind, ib.
Werner, 136, 148, et seq. ; his lordship's public, character con- trasted with that of lord John Russell, 136; argument of the poem, 148; merits of Miss Lee's original, ib.; dialogue between Werner and his wife, 149; remarks on the character of Werner, 153; injudicious deviations from Kruitzner,' ib.; fine apostrophe to a diamond, 154; the poem a confir- anation of the opinion that the author has not the dramatic faculty, 155.
Calvinism, tendency of, vindicated from
Dr. Copleston's charges, &c. 22, 261; indecency of inveighing against, 232. Campan's, madame, memoirs of Marie Antoinette, 415, et seq.; licentiousness of the court of France under Louis XV., 415; anecdote of the seduction of mile. de Romans, 416; atrocious abduction of mile. Tiercelin, 417; absurd etiquette of the princess's toilet, ib.; character of Marie Antoinette, 418; account of mad. Campan, 419; description of the four daughters of Louis XV., ib. ; etiquette of their daily interviews with the king, 420; dexterity of the king in break- ing eggs, 421; author's first introduction to the king, ib.; sequel to the history of mad. Campan, ib.; ominous cir- cumstances connected with the life of Marie Antoinette, 422; affecting anec- dote, 423; fatal influence of the abbe de Vermond, ib.; first appearance at court, of the dauphiness, 424; death of Louis XV., ib.; description of Louis XVI., 425; remarks on author's apo- logy for the queen's levity of conduct, ib.; anecdote of the queen's milliner, 426; man with the iron mask, ib.; in- fluence of the Polignac family, 427; anecdote of Gluck and Vestris, ib.; anec- dote of Necker, 428; disastrous choice of the archbishop of Sens as minister, 429; anecdote of the queen, ib. ; conduct of the court at the commencement of the revolution, 430; noble conduct of Barnave, ib.; grossness and weakness of the king, 431; storming of the Tuileries, 432.
Carlile's sermons on repentance and faith, 327, et seq.; author's illustration of Mr. Walker's sophism, 331; his own
view of faith contradictory, ib,; cor- rectness of his representation of the efficacy of faith as derived from the truth it introduces into the soul, 340; his distinction between faith and belief inadmissible, ih.; reluctance of men to submit to the Divine testimony, 341; con- tents of the volume, 342. Carrington's banks of Tamar, 459; lines on Christmas Morn, 465; author's ac- count of his circumstances, 467; the holiday, 468; scenery of mount Edge- cumbe, 469; ship-launch, 470; scene on the Tumar, 471; tower near the Weir, 472; merits of the poem, 473. Chateaubriand, character of, 321. Churches, remarks on the architecture of, 544, et seq. ;
Clarke's history of intolerance, vol. ii,,. 450, et seq.; contents and character of the work, 450; respective inconsistency of Mohammedans and Christians, ib.; mahommedism more Christian thau popery, 451; spread of mahommedism to be accounted for only on this prin- ciple, 452; Christianity innocent of sanctioning intolerance, 453; protes- tantism not the originator of heresies, ib. ; schisms quite as numerous before the reformation, 454; scriptural nature of heresy and schism, ib.; heresy and schism equally chargeable on national and sectarian churches, 455. Collet's relics of literature, 557, et seq. ; the nonsense of one age the wisdom of another, 357; loleration, an American apologue, 358; the snow-spirit, a poem, 360; character of Wilmot, earl of Rochester, ib.; letters to his lady, 361; letter from a condemned criminal offering to sell his body, ib.; manuscript diary, 1772, 4, 362; we have a Douglas yet, 364. Confessions of an opium-eater, 366, et seq.; character of the work, 366; re- cords of opium-eaters, 367; early history of the author, ib.; origin of his contracting the habit, 368; his absurd denial of the intoxicating power of opium, ib.; case of a surgeon, 369; case of an old whiskey drinker, ib.; author's own case examined, 370; ef- fects of the practice on the consti- tution, ib.; immoral tendency of the work, 371. Copleston's remarks on objections to his inquiry, 18, et seq.; state of the con- troversy, 18; author charged by Mr. Grinfield with eating up his words respect- ing archbishop King, 19; his attempt to account for the morality of predestinurians
21; his explanation unsatisfactory, 22; author convicted by Philalethes of inaccuracy respecting the armiuian divines, 23; logomachy between Dr. C. and Mr. Grinfield, ib. ; metaphor and analogy distinguished, 24; author's dis tinction inaccurate, 25; extract from bishop Brown on analogy, ib.; recapi- tulation of objections to author's phi losophy, 26; his account of the man- ner in which we arrive at the idea of prescience incorrect, ib.; expectation not prescience, 27; necessity of what is certainly future, ib. ; prescience not destructive of motive in holy natures, 28; vulgar sophism examined, that DiviLe predestination supersedes moral agency, 29; what liberty is necessary to a moral agent, 31; opinion of the assembly of divines respecting free- will, 32; cilation from Diderot on philo- sophical necessity, ib.; fallacy of his argument, 33; remarks of bishop Horsley on necessity and final causes, ib.; Dr. C. a superficial theologian, 36; calvinism truth ill-stated, 37. Crayon, Geoffrey, effect produced by his sketch-book, 233; see Bracebridge Hall.
Creation, geological history of the, 46; see
Cruelty, cursory remarks on the evil of,
177, et seq.; atrocious barbarity of Smithfield drovers, 177; treatment of animals a criterion of character, 178: cruelty proceeds on the belief that brutes do suffer, ib.; importance of the act for prevention of cruelty, ib.; home missionaries called for, 179.
Deluge, geological opinions respecting the, 48.
Dissent, Johnson's reasons for, 91. Dissenters, obligations of society to, 61;
not guilty of breaking the laws, 92; not implicated in the catholic question, 194; vindicated from archbishop Ma- gee, 249.
Downe's letters from Mecklenburg, 250, et seq.; merits of the volume, 250; curious blunders, 251; scene near Rat- zeburg, ib.; description of the castle of Schwerin, 252; Lubeck, 253; shop- keeping at Luberk, ib.; the druid's altar near Albersdorff, 254 ; royal antiquarian- ism, 255; account of the Probsteiers, ib. ; legend of the Verwellenhoff estate, 257; visit to Klopstock's widow, 258; son- net, ib.
Driscol's Ireland, see O'Driscol
Druid's Altar near Albersdorff, 254.
Eccelino III., life and death of, 10-16. Edmeston's Sacred Lyrics, third set, 277; hymn on the Divine Omnipresence,
ib. Edmonstone's, sir A., journey to the Oases, 155, et seq.; author's discovery of a fourth oasis, 455 ; his refulation of M. Drovetti's counter claim, 156; geo- graphy of the oases, ib. ; climate, soil, and productions, 157; taxation, 158; reflections suggested by the discovery, ib.; ancient necropolis of El Cargé, 159; the oases places of Christian exile, ib.; their probable origin, 160. Edwards's tour of the Dove, 459, et seq. ; reviewer's apology to the rivers, 459; apostrophe to water, 460; address to the Dove, 461; millenarian oak, 462; col- ton mill on the Dove, ib. ; scenery of the peak, ib.; inaccuracy of Walton respect- ing the disappearance of the river, 464; concluding stanzas, ib. ; sonnet,' easter, 465.
Elliott's love, a poem, 342, et seq.; on the love of fame, 343; war among the poets, Byron, Bowles, &c., 344; au- thor's invective against lord Byron, ib. ; apostrophe to Greece, 345; address to domestic love, 346; effects of agricul- tural improvements in the country, 348; the magdalene, 349; autumn flowers,
Elmes's lectures on architecture, 270, et seq.; difficulty attending the specific application of general principles of art, 270; character of the work, 271; author's hypothesis, that the arch was known to the Egyptians, baseless, ib. ; importance of a knowledge of construction, 272; errors of modern builders, 273; respective character of Greek and Roman architecture, ib.; round tower at Monasterboice, 274; estimate of Eng- lish architects, ib.; Waterloo bridge,
ib. Elines's memoirs of Wren, 539, el seq. ; plan of the memoirs injudicious, 539; disadvantage of an exclusive study of Roman models, 540; early genius of Wren, ib.; invention of the barometer, to whom attributable, 541; circum- stances which led to his public em- ployment, 542; plan of Wren for im- proving the banks of the Thames, ib. ; author's criticism on the new lower of the royal exchange, 543; the monument not unsafe, ib.; church of St. Mary-le-bow, ib.; description of the interior of St. Stephen's, Wallbrook, 544; comparative merits of the two models for St. Paul's, ib.; expedients used in removing the
old tower, 545; lucky omen, ib.; St. James's church, 546; anecdote respect- ing the spire of St. Dunstan's, ib.; Wren's last days and death, ib. : cha- racters of Vanbrugh, Gibbs, and Hawks- moor, 547; embellishments of the work, 548. Emancipation, roman catholic, remarks on, 194, 204, 5. English character, observations on the, 237. Episcopacy, tendency of, to identify itself
with political rule, 54.
Erskine's essay on faith, 327, et seq.; divinity half metaphysics, 327; his- tory of controversy, 328; nature of the dispute about faith, 329; the dis- tinctions of theologians respecting differ- ent kinds of faith deprecated, 330; ab- surd definitions of faith, ib. ; faith de- nied by Mr. Walker to be an act of the mind, 331; illustration from a beg- gar's working by asking alms, ib.; con- tradictory representation of faith given by Mr. Carlile, 332; scriptural view of faith in Christ, ib.; what the gospel is, and not the mode in which we believe it, the point to be ascertained, 333; cha- racter of the author's work, ib.; moral operation of faith, 334; a defective view of truth the cause of the imper- fections of Christians, ib. ; a dead faith not a faith in the whole truth, ib.; faith of the metaphysician, the poetical believer, and the controvertist, examined, 335; phraseology unimportant, 337; no definitions given in scripture, ib.; technical definition of faith analysed, b.; faith an assent, in what sense, 338; assurance of faith, what, ib.; excellent remarks of Dr. T. Goodwin on assurance, 339; Boston's view of faith, ib.; defective statements some- times true in relation to opposite errors, ib.; Mr. Carlile's view of faith and repentance, 340; reluctance of men to submit to the Divine testimony, 341; warrant of faith not a subject for rational dispute, 342. Establishments, church, arguments for examined, 53, 59, et seq.; see Bristed, and O'Driscol,
evils inseparable from, 199.
Faith, definitions of examined, 330, 1, 337, 340; views of given by Boston, Goodwin, &c. 339; see Erskine. Fame, its unsubstantial nature, 347. Fifteen Years in India, 433, et seq.; or- der of Bonaparte against suicide, travels of the writer, ib. ; sentiments
on approaching Calcutta, 435; import- ance of regimen to new-comers, 436; description of Calcutta, 436; high living at Calcutta, 438; state of the half-casts, 440; remarks on the policy of Leaden- hall street towards the natives, 441; British government unfriendly to evan gelization, ib.; idol festivals at Calcutta, 442; prejudice against native converts, 443; the practice of sultee prevented by the Mahommedans, ib.; spirited conduct of colonel Walker in suppressing infanti- cide, ib. ; atrocities of the Brahmins coun- tenanced by the government, 444; Ma- hommedans more Christian in their policy than the British, ib.; present extent of the British dominions, ib.; po- pulation of Bombay, 445; account of the Parsees, ib.; account of the Arme- nians, 446; noble conduct of Sarkies Joannes, ib.; consequences of the overthrow of the Peishwa, 447. Finch's elements of self-improvement, 371, et seq.; growing disrelish for mental application, 371; merits of the volume, 372; on scepticism and credulity, 373; on the will, 375.
France, court of, memoirs relating to the,
Franklin's journey to the polar sea, 521, et seq.; polar regions sufficiently ex- plored, 521; object of the enterprise, ib.; cautious character of northern mari- ners in contrast with that of English sea- men, 522; critical state of the vessel in Hudson's straits, ib.; journey to Cumberland house, 523; magnetic island, ib.; Indian legend connected with lake Winipeg, ib.: extreme suf- fering of the Indians from disease and weather, 524; Indian conjuror, dis- comfiture of an, 525; religious notions of the natives, 526; their opinions re- specting a future state, ib.; half-casts, 527; mode of travelling in snow shoes, ib.; description of the Stone Indians, 528; traditional origin of the Chipew yans, 529; portage of the drowned, origin of the name, 530; trying and hazardous circumstances of the en- terprise, ib.; probability of a north-west passage, 531; sufferings of the ex- ploring party in returning to Fort En- terprise, 532; Dr. Richardson's narra- tive of the death of Mr. Hood, 535; singular mental effect of debility, 538; arrival at York factory, ib.; contents and embellishments of the volume, ib.
Free-will, remarks on, 32, et seq.; 375. French's munusculum juventuti, 173, et seq.; character of the work, 173; rebuke of learned ladies, 174; fable of the wolf and the lamb, ib. Fuller's child's scripture examiner, 186, et seq.; specimen, 187.
Geology, mineral and mosaical contrast-
ed, 37, st seq.; see Penn. Gisborne's essays, 217, et se.; charac- ter of the writer, 217; contents, ib. ; duty of studying the prophecies, 218; different ends to be answered by pro- phecies, ib.; grand design of the Old Testament predictions in general, 219; specific design of a particular class of literal predictions, 220; on the study of the Apocalypse, ib.; practical end of New Testament pro- phecies, 221; author's view of our Lord's prediction in Matt. xxiv., 222; interpretation of verse 33, ib.; author's solution unsatisfactory-true expla- nation suggested, 223; on the phrase, the kingdom of God, 225; import of the figurative language of the predic- tion, 226; analysis of the essay on mutual recollections in the future state, ib.; objections to the doctrine an- swered, 227; future happiness cannot depend on ignorance or forgetfulness, 228; practical application of the subject, 229; question relating to the per- petuation of friendships examined, 231; indecency of inveighing against calvinistic tenets, 232.
Glen's journal of a tour to Karass, 180, et seq.; situation of the colony at Karass, 180; advantageous position for open- ing an attack on Islamism, 181; cir- cular letter from Mecca, ib.; conversa- tion with a Cabardian Mussulman, ib.; Islamitic legend respecting the escape of Christ, 183; concurrence of Mahom- medans and Socinians, ib.; importance of the Arian testimony to the authen- ticity of the New Testament, ib. ; timid and diffident tone of the author in reference to Mahommedism unad- visable, 184; symptoms of the ap- proaching fall of Islamism, 185; no- tice of the mountain tribes of the district, ib.; the Cabardians formerly Chris- tians, 186.
Goodisson's Ionian Islands, 457, et seq. ; merits of the work, 457; degraded cha- racter of the Ionian Greeks, 458. Greece, apostrophe to, 345; rising com. merce of, 403.
Grinfield's reply to Copleston, 19, el seq. Guelph, history of the house of, 275; see Halliday.
Halliday's history of the house of Guelph, 275-7; Geo. IV. descended from Alfred, 275; the Guelphs traceable to the Huns, ib.; history of the Bruns- wick line, 276; derivation of the pa- tronymic, ib.
Happiness, future, nature of, 109, 228. Heresy, true nature of, 454.
Hervey, character of as a writer, 456. Holstein, letters from, 250; see Downes. Horsley's, Bishop, remarks on moral
necessity and predestination, 33—6. Howe, character of the works of, 108.
Infidelity, nature and tendency of, 533, el seq.; see Thomson. India, travels in, 433, et seq. Indians, North American, remarks on, 90,1; peculiar claims of the Indians on British benevolence, 90; not in- capable of civilization, ib.; their de- struction effected by the policy of Euro- peans, 91; efforts making in America for their melioration, ib.; anecdotes of, 487, et seq.; 524, et seq.; see Frank- lin and James.
Innes's sermon on the doctrines of grace, 567-9; evil tendency of two oppo- site errors in preaching, 567; on the proper mode of preaching the doctrines of grace, 568. Intolerance, history and nature of, 450; see Clarke.
Ionian islands, Goodisson's account of,
Ireland, church of, remarks on, 59, 198,
state of, a subject of paramount interest, 193; see Magee and O'Dris- col.
Irving's, Washington, Bracebridge Hall. 233; see Bracebridge Hall. Italian republics, history of, 1, et seq.; see Sismondi.
James's expedition to the rocky moun- tains, 481, et seq.; history and result of the expedition, 481; formation of new towns on the Missouri, 483; pre- carious situation of every settlement on its banks, ib.; rapid progress of settle- ments, 484; character of the back settlers, 485; white hunters, ib.; nature of the soil, 486; physiological character of the Missouri Indians, ib.; their arts and manufactures, 487; occupations
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