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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

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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

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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

Penn.

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,

350.

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

434;

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,

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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.

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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,

457.

Ireland, church of, remarks on, 59, 198,

246.

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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