DECEMBER, 1811, TO JUNË, 1812, INCLUSIVE. διλοσοφιά» δ ου την Στωικης λεγω; ουδ. την Πλατωνικην, και την Επικουρείου και Αριστοτελικην· αλλ' όσα ειρηται παρ εκάστη των αιρεσεων τουτων καλας, CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. i. LONDON : ÞRINTED FORGALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. EDINBURGH ; M. REENES DUBLIN Z PARKER 646 BIOGRAPHY. WITH 98 436 School of Instruction 642 Scripture History 316 Aikin's Lives of Selden and Usher 200 Buller's Account of the Character and Bentham's Theorie des peines et de Chandler's Life of Bishop Waynflete Daubeny's Remarks on Parish Regis- Dairyman's Daughter (the) an au- 211 646 Jotroduction to the Memoirs of Prince 105 Inquiry into the Application of the To- Memoirs of H. Taylor, of North Shields 105 Memoirs of the Life of Prince Potemkin 283 Legal Argument on the Test Act Whitaker's Life and Correspondence of Sir G. Radcliffe 511 AND PRICE ANNEXED, 109, 222, 326, 439, 526 *545, 648 Dede's English Botanist's Companion 277 Elements of the Science of Botany 277 Lee's Introduction to the Science of Sprengel's Introduction to the Study of Account of the Trigonometrical Sur- vey, carried on from 1801-9, by Col. Mudge and Capt. Colby 227 CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORY. Barlow's Elementary Investigation of the Theory of Numbers 340 Creswell's Elements of Linear Per- Cool's History of the Reforniation in spective 193 31, 144 Barry's Esculapiau Monitor 209 Christie's Account of the Ravages of the Small Pox in Ceylon 319 Jameson's Physiological Essays 307 Marsden's History of Sumatra 290 Naylor's History of the Helvetic Re- Ware on puncturing the Crystalline Dillon's Commentary on the Military Barker's Edition of Cicero de Senec- Establishments, &c, of the British Carpenter's Geography of the New Müller's Elements of the Science of Pepping's Evening Entertainments 12 Robinson's Letter on the Recruiting 437 99 Sterling's Views of Military Reform 190 644 Hodgkin's Definitions of Geographical 318 Account of the Naval and Military Introduction to Writing 318 Bible Society 318 Alison's Essays on the Nature and manship Burdon's Letters on the Annual Sub- 433 scription for the Sons of the Cler- Howard's London Vocabulary 436 gy 645 : Hussey's Letter to a younger brother S22 Conferences between the Danish Mis- 215 sionaries and the Natives of Hindos- 100 Murray's Selection from Bishop 313 621 402 Correspondence inedité de Madame THEOLOGY." 545 Account of the present State of the Moravian Missions Campbell's Lectures on the Pastoral Foote's Vindication of his Conduct 195 Gregory's Letters on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Chris- 464 tian Religion Gaisford on the good Effects to be de- Jones's Scripture Directory rived from the Abolition of the Slave Magee on the Scriptural Doctrines of Grant's Essays on the Superstitions Letters of the Marquis du Deffand to Pennington's Redemption 580 Scott's Remarks on the Bishop of Lin- 545 coln's Refutation of Calvinism 399 Sentinel, thenor Conjectures on Sec- Thornton's Advantages of Early Piety 311 Williams's Defence of Modern Calvi- Bannockburn, a Poem, in fout book's 340 nism 485 589 534 Battles of the Danube and Barossa 320 Bronte's Cottage Poems in2 65 Burder's Village Sermons, Vol. VI. 643 Clunie's Sermon - Jonah's Deliverance 316 Conduct of Man, a Didactic Poem 536 Davies's Sermon on the Deity of Christ 541 Fletcher's Sermon--the last Enemy Griffin's Sermon on the Evils of Per- Jesse's Serinons on the Person and Of. Ingram's Poems in the English and Lines sacred to the Memory of James 87 Lawson's Serinon--Christian Loyalty 317 Nature of Man, a Didactic Poem 536 Naylor's Discourses on the Evidences 432 287 Roberts's Sermon--the Outcasts Deli- Porter's Ballad Romances, and other Ryland's Sermon--Harmony of the Di- 317 Ryland's Sermon-Revelation vari. Small's Sermons to young People Savile's Discourses on the peculiar Waite's Sermon-Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Stockdale's Elegy-the Widow and Or. 423 POLITICAL. TOPOGRAPHY AND TRAŇELS. Estrada on the Dispute between Spain Chateaubriand's Travels in Greece, and her Colonies 436 Palestine, &c. during the years 18DB, 7. 18 Faber's Sketches of the Internal State Hooker's Journal of a Tour to Iceland 561 of France 393 Humboldt's Essay on the Kingdom of Hints on the State of the Country 217 New Spain 596 Montgaillard on the Situation of Great Linnæus's Tour in Lapland 52 Britain 318 Morier's Journey through Persia, &c. to Constantinople, in 1808, 9. Residence in France 478 645 215 Yates' Arguments on Parliamentary Wakefield's Perambulations in London 218 'Reforma 641 Wood's Account of the Isle of Man 50g ) 114, 235 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1812. Art. I. Letters to a Friend on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Dulies of the Christian Religion. By Olinthus Gregory, LL.D. Of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Two volumes 8vo. pp. 310. 301. Price 14s. extra boards. Baldwin. 1812. AS this is a work of no ordinary merit, and written upon a subject which all must confess to be of the last importance, we shall endeavour, after being indulged with a few preliminary remarks, to give a pretty copious analysis of its contents; not doubting the greater part of our readers will be solicitous to avail themselves of the rich entertainment and instruction, which its perusal will unquestionably afford. The first volume is employed in the discussion of a subject which has engaged the powers of the wisest of men through a series of ages; and minds of every size and of every diversity of acquisition, having contributed their quota towards its illucidation, the accumulation of materials is such, that it has become more necessary, perhaps more difficult, to arrange than to invent. In the conduct of so extensive an argument, the talents of the writer will chiefly appear, in giving the due · degree of relief and prominence to ihe different branches of the subject,-in determining what should be placed in a strong and brilliant light, what should be more slightly sketched,and disposing the whole in such a manner as shall give it the most impressive effect. If there is little room for the display of invention, other powers are requisite, not less rare or less useful; a nice and discriminating judgement, a true logical taste, and a talent of extensive combination. An ordinary thinker feels bimself lost in so wide a field; is incapable of classifying the objects it presents; and wastes his attention on such as are trite and common, instead of directing it to those which are great and interesting. If there are subjects which it is difficult to discuss for want of data to proceed upon, and, while they allure VOL. VIII. B |
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