Abel, remarks on the sacrifice of, 262 Abernethy, the centre of the operations
of the Culdees in the Lowlands, 55 Abridgment, requisites of a good, 1007 Africa, Meredith's account of the Gold Coast of, 1053; comercial advan- tages of, 1054; climate, negroes, tra- ders, &c. 1055, et seq. African Institution, Sixth Report of the
Directors of the, 1273; remarks on some oppressive enactments of our colonial lawgivers, 1275, et seq. scan- dalous neglect in securing religious instruction, 1276; want of an er- officio protector of the slaves, ib. ab- stract of the report, 1277, et seq. account of the Kroomen, 1282; state of the population of the river Sherbro, 1283
Africans, 80,000 still transported an. nually across the Atlantic, 1274; the presumption in our colonies always against the freedom of a slave, 1275 Algebra, Lea's treatise on the resolution of the higher equations in, 703, et seq. principle of Mr. L.'s operation, 703; subsequent process, 703; his method pursued through a variety of problems, 707
Alpaca, the, described, 107 Amalgamation, account of the process of, 598
Amherst, Nicholas, a miserable author, 939
Ancient times, increasing facilities af-
forded to our investigation of, 1206; on what account this augmentation of knowledge is beneficial, 1207 Antediluvian world, remains of. See Organic.
Apostacy, its nature, causes, and con- sequences, 1181
· Arab, address of an, to his horse, 1105 Arabian horses, inferior to the Persian, 237
Arbelon, quoted by Archimedes, 1140 Architecture, ecclesiastical, Milner and
Whittington's treatise on, 1166, et seq.; characters of the several gothic styles, 1170
Arithmetic, Mr. Lancaster's inventions in teaching, 655 Arthur's stone,
or Maen Arthur, de- scription of, 1095 Articles of faith, thoughts on the inef- ficacy of subscription to, 745 Assessments parochial, expediency of,
Assurance, the doctrine of, explained, 1050
Atonement, admirable passage from Arch- bishop Tillotson on the subject of, 181
Magee's discourses and dis- sertations on the Scripture doctrine of, 252, et seq.; importance of just and comprehensive views of the Divine character, 252; immethodical ar- rangement of Dr. M.'s work, 253; principles of moral government, 254, inadequacy of repentance to satisfy the claims of justice, 256; conclusive refu- tation of the system of pure intercession, 259, 260; remarks on the sacrifice of Abel, 262; typical reference of sacri- fices, 264; meaning of the word atone- ment, 266-8; uses and design of the Jewish dispensation, 268; prophetic testimony, 269; the idea of vicarious substitution inseparable from the Christian system, 379; different lan- guage of the Gospels and Epistles accounted for, 381; versatile reasoning of Dr. Priestley exposed, 383; remarks on Dr. M.'s notes and dissertations, 384-5
Aulicus Coquinariæ, an answer to Wel- don's Court and Character of King James, 713
Authors, fallacy of their epistolary compliments, 847
Bampton Lectures, account of their in stitution and object, 63
Banks, Sir J. his antipathy to Cardan's rules, 1010
Baptism, absurdity of ascribing to this rite the office of regeneration, 1047
Barbauld, Mrs. remarks on and extracts from her unpatriotic performance, en- titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, 474, et seq.
Bareith, whimsical account of the nobility of that court, 1016 Bushire, description of, 122
Batavia, causes of its unhealthiness, 819 Bell, Dr. See Education.
Bellingham, Wilson's substance of a conversation with, 965
Benevolence, obligations to the duly of, enforced, 1228
Bentham's Theory of Rewards and Pu- nishments, 77, et seq.; this subject singularly neglected by English states- men, 77; analysis of Mr. Bentham's work, 78, et seq.; classification of punishments, 79; rules of propor tion between punishments and offen- ces, ib.; desiderata in punishments, 80; different modes of punishment, ib.; inequality of the punishment of death, 81; transportation, 82; pri- vate and misplaced punishments, ib.; some of the enormous anomalies of the English code pointed out, 83; the source of reward identical with that of punishment, 84; the funds of re- ward, ib.; Devil's advocate, 85; sala- ries to be considered as inducements rather than rewards, 86 Bible Society, account of the naval and military, 2
Bible Society, controversy respecting
the British and Foreign, 1210, et seq.; increasing conviction in the public mind of its utility, 1210: its progress and proceedings since the year 1810, 1212; history of the controversy set on foot by Dr. Marsh, with notices of the publications in answer to him, 1214; Dr. Marsh's arguments refu- ted, 1215, et seq.; the circulation of the Bible involves no neglect of the Liturgy, 1216, irrelevancy of Dr. Marsh's facts, 1219; probable in- fluence of the society on the establish- ed church, 1222; considerations, evincing that the whole scriptures are designed for general circulation, 1223; inconsistencies of the society's adver- saries, 1226; solemn and magnificent spectacle of the institution itself, 1227
extracts from a poem in-
Birch, uses of, 1115 Biographie Moderne, 713, et seq.; ob- ject of this work, 715; can be regarded as authentic only in so far as cor- roborated by other testimonies, 716; misrepresentation of Madame Ro- land's memoirs in the article Grange- neuve, 717; character of Fouquier Tin- ville, 720: conflict between the Jaco- bins and Girondists, 722
Books, multitude of supererogatory, 1196 Botany, elementary tracts on, 279, et seq.
Brazil, Mawe's travels in the interior of, 940, et seq.; the author no en- thusiast, 941; incidents of the voyage, 942; his unpleasant reception__on Terra Firma, 943; town of St. Paul, 944; visit to the gold mines of Jara- gua, 945, and the diamond mines of Serra de Frio, 947; splendid beggary, 951; agriculture, &c. 194, et seq. Britain, chronicle of the kings of, 1151; statements of Archdeacon Walter Geoffry of Monmouth and the Archa- iology concerning, 1152; its genuine date, 1153
thoughts on the early popula- tion of, 1156 Bruce Robert, his appearance at Dumfries after escaping from the English court, 1067
Brute sagacity, curious example of, 509 Brutus, the fable of, why adopted,
Bryant, his comprehensive. view. of superstitions, 332
Buonaparte, not indifferent to public opinion, 395; his habits of travelling, 396-7; unjustly accused of poisoning his soldiers at Jaffa, 1106
Calvin, alledged intolerance of, no ar- gument against his doctrines, 1042 Calvinism, Scott's remarks on the Bishop of Lincoln's refutation of, 399, et seq. candid and manly tone of the re- marker, 399; his desultory and mis- cellaneous manner, 400; statement of the tenets of modern Calvinists, ib. misrepresentations of Bishop Tomlin, 403; objections answered, 409
modern, Dr. Williams's de- fence of, 486, et seq.; compared with the remarks of Mr. Scott, 486; ana- lysis of the work, 487; original sin, free will, and divine operations, 487; the Holy Spirit's agency something more
than mere persuasion, 488; regeneration used by the sacred writers to express, generally, a great change, 489; absur- dities attaching to the Bishop of Lincoln's view of justification, 490; good works not undervalued by modern Calvinists, 491; Dr. W.'s discussion of the subject of Redemption entitled to peculiar praise, 493; irrelevancy of the bishop's quotations from the Fathers, 494; causes of his inconsistencies traced to the use of equivocal terms- confused perception of the grounds of obligation, and false views respecting the supremacy of the Deity, 496; re- marks on the excellence and attainment of religious knowledge, 497; Christian can- dor recommended and exemplified in Dr. W.'s work, 499; calvinism not hostile to the established church, ib. Calyddon, the British term for Germans, 445
Candour, recommended in our enquiries after truth, 499
Caraccas, Semple's sketch of the, 682, et seq.; incidents of the voyage, 683; Curaçoa, 684; town of Caraccas, de- scription of, 684; its population, ib.; character and politics of the women, 688; religion, 689; agriculture, 690; ge- neral manners, 691
Cataract, absorption of, how promoted,
429; congenital, improvements ef- fected by Mr. Saunders in the treat- ment of, 808-9
Cape of Good Hope, flourishing state of
the Moravian mission there, 621 Catholic Emancipation, opposed by bishop Porteus, 762; and Archbishop Usher, 274; propriety of conceding it, 1205
Ceylon, account of the ravages com- mitted by the small-pox in that island, 319
Channel Islands, geological structure of the, 1255
Charem, minute description of the Sultan's, by Dr. Clarke, 1091
Charles I. compared with Louis 16th of France, 1067
Charles II. Dr. Whitaker's absurd de- fence of, 521
Charleroi, remarks on the siege of, 73 Chateaubriand, M. travels in Greece,
Egypt, and Barbary, 12-31; why undertaken, 13-16; his qualifica- tions and character, 13, 14, 16; cre- dibility of the traditions relative to the scene of our Saviour's labours, 13; ob- servations on the climate of Greece and its influence, 17; Turkish system of
police, 21; description of a Laconian kar, 23; travelling, 17; approach to Athens, and the author's enthusiasm on beholding it, 18-19; anecdote illustrative of the state of the people of the modern Peloponnesus, 28; Corinth, Athens, 23; more emotions, ib.; observations on Grecian buildings, 24; censure on Lord Elgin unjust, 25; description of the Dead Sea, 29, 30 Chateaubriand's Martyrs, or Triumphs of the Christian religion, 883; ro. mantic origin of this work,. 884; its avowed design, 885; outline of the story, 887-896; concluding re- marks, 897-8
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a romaunt, by Lord Byron, 630: Lord B. an apt illustration of the principles of criti- cism usually applied to noble authors, 631; plan and versification of the poem, 632; unengaging tone of Lord B.'s philosophy, 633; estimate of his poetical merits, 634; instance of argu- mentative sublimity, 635; personification of battle, 636; address to Parnassus, 636; stanzas to Inez, 637; Albanese song, 673; Lord B.'s failure as a sati- rist, 673 comments on his undis- guised infidelity.
Christ, reflections on the manner of his ap- pearance and moral character, 49, 50; animating spread of his kingdom, 426; the doctrine of his deity of essential importance in the Christian system, 541; remarks on his person and office, 417-420
Christian Ethics, Wintle's, 589; decep- tiveness of the title, 590
Christians, early, remarks on their de-
facement of the pagan temples, 366 Christianity, Dr. Gregory's letters on the evidences, doctrines, and duties of, 1; the powers of mind requisite for conducting a subject so exten- sive, ib.; injured frequently by in- judicious treatment, 2; analysis of the work, 2, et seq.; credulity of un- believers, 3; necessity of revelation, 3-6 mysteries in religion, analogous to the difficulties inseparable from other branches of knowledge, 7 and 12; genuineness and authenticity of the bible, 8; prophecies, especially those relating to the Messiah, 9; mi- racles, ib.; four criteria of, 10; their evidence not weakened by time, 11; the evidences of Christianity subservient to its doctrines, 177; in the state- ment of these two extremes to be avoided, 178; the true way of con-
templating them, ib.; importance of right views of the Christian system, 180; the atonement, 181; Divine in- fluence, 183; the resurrection illustrated by analogies, 185; concluding obser- vations, 189
Naylor's series of discourses of the evidences of Christianity, 286, et seq.
by whom introduced into
Britain, 444 Chronology, Hales's new analysis of, 298, et seq.; designed as a competent history of the Bible, 299; unfounded assumptions of geological writers, in regard to the Mosaic cosmogony, 306; Dr. H. injudicious in his re- marks on Adam's formation, 306; valuable illustrations of the book of Job, 306; prophecies relating to the person and mediation of the Messiah, 420; origin of the Gospel, 423; re- marks on Dr. H.'s gloomy interpreta- tion of the prophecies yet to be ac- complished, 425
Church of England in no danger from the "Evangelical" party, 500 Cicuta virosa, injuriousness of this plant to cattle, 58
Clarke's (Dr.) travels in Greece, Egypt
and the Holy Land, 1083; his tra velling qualifications, 1085, et seq.; this portion of his travels less inter- esting than the former, but equally meritorious, 1087; reflections on the history of Greece, 1089; picture of Constantinople, 1090; visit to the Charem, 1091; superstitions of the Der- vishes, 1093; source of the Scamander, 1095; Djezzar Pacha, 1096; Naza- reth, Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives and Bethlehem, 1098-1103; the Dead Sea, 1104; Arab manners, 1105; Dr. Clarke a distinguished ad- vocate of the best interests of his fel- low men, 1107
Clergy, evangelical, vindicated, 1147; comparison of the orthodox and evan- gelical, 1048
Cochineal, account of its cultivation, 595 Collieries, method of working, 835 Collins, anecdote illustrating his attachment
to the Bible, 1144; outline of his life, 1145
Colours, associations connected with, 133 Columba, particulars of his life, 447 Conchology, Sowerby's Mineral, of Great Britain, 748
Constantinople, description of, 740
Conversion, instantaneous, not held to
be indispensable by any set of Chris- tians, 1047
Convicts, passage of to New South Wales, 1180
Countenance, the human, beauty of de- pendant on associations, 140 Cottage Sketches, remarks on, with ex- tracts, 928
Crabbe, Mr. characteristics of his poe- try, with extracts from his tales, 1242; his faulty choice of subjects, ib. wearisome minuteness of his de- tails, 1244; his carelessness, 1246; his great power in the pathetic, 1247; fine finish of his descriptions, 1249 Criticism, periodical, defence of, 91, et seq.
anonymous, abuses and advan-
tages of, 847 Cryptogamous Plants, Sprengel's intro- duction to, 521, et seq.; this branch of botanical study hitherto overlooked, 521; but ably and diligently laboured by Mr. S. 522; natural history of the ferns and lichens, 522-526 Culdees of Iona, Jameson's historical account of the, 444, et seq.; intro- duction of Christianity into Britain, ib.; history of the Picts, 445; account of Colm or Columba, 446; settlement at Iona, 447; resemblance of the doc- trine of the Culdees to that of our re- formers, 449; their rejection of several requisitions of the Romish church, 451; sketch of the ecclesiastical his- tory of the reign of Oswald, and his successor Oswy; expulsion of the Culdees from England, 454; their extensive influence on the state of religion, 457; purity of their lives, 458; series of oppressions inflicted upon them, 459, el seq.; reformation in Scotland compared with that of England, 463
Cumberland, Mudford's memoirs of, 140; Cumberland's writings sinking fast to their proper level, 841; Mr. M.'s book a needless repetition of known facts, 842; his excessive self- complacency, 843
Curaçoa, remarkable dialect of, 684; defence of the island, 684 Cuvier, his inferences derived from the fossil remains of mammalia, 372
Days, origin of the names of, 535 Daun, Count, character of as a general, 75
Dead Sea, animated description of, by M.
Chateaubriand; commented on by Dr. Clarke, 1104
Death, effect of its abolition as a pu- nishment for murder in the dominions of the duke of Tuscany, 77; eminent- ly defective in point of equality, 81 Deffand, Mad. du, correspondence of, 547, el seq.; chiefly interesting as furnishing a picture of French society previous to the revolution, 547; cha- racter of Mad. D. as a letter-writer, 548; her portrait of Fox, and re- marks on it, 549; causes of her dis- like of Hume, 551; disgusting affec- tation of the philosophers, 553; enormous evils of the old government, 554; Walpole's contempt of courts, 555; his opinion of England, 557; vague usage of the term common sense, 559; Mad, du D. the victim of ennui, 560; active usefulness in youth essential to the comfort of old age, 561
Derbyshire, Farey's General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of, 826, et seq.; boundaries, 827; climate, 828; soils, 829
Dervishes, monstrous buffooneries of the, 1093
Despot, curious picture of a, 1097 Despotism, or the fate of the Jesuits,
D. Israeli's romance of, 585, et seq.; no object of horror to the generality of those who live under it, 557 Devonshire and Cornwall, stratification of, 1260
Edgeworth's (Miss) Tales of Fashion- able Life, 980; importance of a right use of the great trusts of mental power, 980; Miss E.'s talents exer- cised within contracted limits, 981; short comings of her morality, 982; truth and animation of her characters, 983; remarks on Vivian, Emilie de Coulanges, and the Absentee, with extracts, 983, et seq.; estimate of her qualifications and defects, 999; cen- sure of her irreligion, 1000; estimate of the characteristic qualities of her compositions, 1006
Education of the Poor, controversy on the, 651, et seq.; the utility of general education allowed by all, 652; the best mode of effecting it a subject of dispute, 653; origin of the new system of education, and account of the Madras school, 654; inventions and improvements of Mr. Lancaster, 655, et seq. his claims compared with those of Dr. Bell, 656; his meri-
torious activity, 657; history of his exertions, 656, et seq.; opposition raised by Mrs. Trimmer and the Arch- deacon Daubeny, 658; Dr. Bell brought forward into notice, 659; self- multiplying nature of the Lancasterian schools, 661; universality of their plan, 662; expenditure and finances, 664, et seq.; institution of the National Society, 667; the diffusion of know- ledge a matter of joy, whatever be the motives of those who engage in the design, 669; examination of objec- tions to the Lancasterian schools, 783; the founder's Quakerism, 784; his inventions individually canvassed," 785; impotent attempts to ridicule his punishments, 789; reasons for preferring Mr. Lancaster's system to that of Dr. Bell, 790, et seq.; not de trimental to the church, 792; nor productive of indifference in maters of religion, 794; not fettered like Dr. B.'s by little party distinctions, 797; entitled to support, if it were only to keep alive the zeal of its opponents,
Egotism, a weed which grows on any thing, 843; hints for exterminating it, 844-5
Elgin, Lord, remarks on his researches in Greece, 27-29
Enthusiasm, Dr. Bidlake's singular picture of, 66; legally established by Charles II. 69
Envy, reflections on, 912 Equations. See Algebra.
Euclid's Elements, state of, previous to Dr. Simson's edition, 1136 Evangelical Clergy, defence of the, 1147 Evidence, historical, not weakened by time, 11
Experience, religious, remarks on, 406 Eye, Saunders on the diseases of the,
899, et seq.; the author's professional merit very great, 900; copious ab- stract of his work, 901, et seq.
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