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the most valuable, erroneous, 1009;
character of Newton. See Newton.
-Evelyn's description of what it

ought to be, 1113
Russians, Dr. Clarke's Picture of the.
overcharged, 1084

Sacrifice. See Atonement.

Salaries, in what light to be considered,
87

Salvation, of Jesus Christ and of him only,
824

Sardinia, picture of, 787

Scamander-eloquent description of the
sources of the, 1095

Scenery, influence of, on the imagination,
568

Scotch labourers, remuneration of, 702;
catalogue of, 698

Scotland, origin and progress of the Re-
formation in. See Reformation,
Scottish Hospital, historical sketch of,
427

Selden, Aikin's Life of, 200 et seq.

Self Control, a novel, strictures on, 612
et seq.

Sepulchre Holy, account of the, 1101
Seriousness, importance of, in perform-
ing the duties of public instruction,
676

Sermons, a formal and mechanical me-
thod in, to be avoided, 675; compa-
rison of modern with those of the last
century, 625; ought not to be recited,
807; reflections on their enormous
accumulation, 413; examination of
certain pleas frequently urged for print-
ing them, 415, 804

Serpents, curious account of catching them
in Nicobar, 801

Shells, various classifications of, 368
Shipwrecked persons, Manby's Essay on

the preservation of, 1288; description
of his interesting inventions, 1289
Shoes, the criterion of a gentleman, 388
Sicily, remarks on the state of, 734, 5;
exemption of articles of luxury from
taxation, 735

Simson, Dr., Trail's account of the Life
and writings of, 1131 et seq; biogra-
phical outline, 1132, 35; examina
tion of his works, 1137 et seq.
Slave trade, Gaisford's Essay on the good
effects of its Abolition, 501, et seq;
ruinous condition of the West India
Islands, 505; expensiveness of slaves,
506; comparatively small measure of
efficient labour that can be extorted
by the whip, 507; fourteen years the
average term in which a stock of
slaves may be supposed to perish,
507; remedial suggestions, 507, 508

Socinianism, reasons for not embracing,
it, 850
Socinians, propriety of this appella-
tion to denominate the abettors of the
simple humanity of Christ instead
of the deceptive term, Unitarians,
187
Song writing, Aikin's Essays on, 910; its
peculiar province, 913; classification
of Songs, 915; curious notions of
Mr. Plumptre on this subject, 917
Sounds, beauty and solemnity of, 130
Spirit, agency of, something more than
mere persuasion, 488; yet not com-
pulsory, 1045; tests by which it may be
known, 1045
Springs, warm,
574-579

in Sumatra and Iceland,

Stael, Mad. de, Sketch of her literary
career, 311

Steele, Sir Richard, epistolary corre-
spondence of, 295; specimens of the
trifling nature of the greater part of
it, 296-7; Lady S. unjustly cen-
sured by Mr. Nichols, 298
Strafford, remarkable for sagacity, de-
cision, and daring impetuosity, 515;
extracts from his letters, 519; Wel-
don's delineation of his character, 712
Stratification of Derbyshire. See Der
byshire.

Sulphur, mountains of, in Iceland, de-

scribed, 130; and of Montserrat, 1209
Sulphur springs, description of, 579
Sumatra, Marsden's history of, 290, et
seq.; natural productions, population
and customs, 292-95

Sunday parties, discountenanced by Bishop
Porteus, 765

Superstition, an agent of indefinite
power, 330; Bryant's historical view
of, 333

Superstitions of the Highlanders, 138
Surfs, enquiry into the cause of, 292
Sylva, Evelyn's, a Discourse on forest

trees, 1109;this book one of those that
fix an epoch in the sciences to which
they relate, 1109; biographical
sketch of its author, 1109, et seq.;
abstract of the work, 1115, et seq.;
notice of the editor, 1120

Tarsus, excision of the, described, 904
Taste, the delicacy of not destroyed by
habits of criticism, 95

desirableness of its cultivation
in subordination to more important
pursuits, 357

Alison's Essays on the nature
and principles of, 126, et seq.; an in-
judicious fondness for simplicity ma-
nifested by most writers on this

subject, 1127; analysis of Mr. Alison's
work, 123, el seq.; the qualities pro-
ducing the emotion of taste distin-
guished from the faculty receiving
them, 128; illustrations of his theory
that the sublime and beautiful objects
affect us solely, as they excite a train
of associations, 129; Sounds, 130;
colours 133; forms, 134; invention of
Thyme and measure, 137; proportions
of the human frame, 140; objections
to Mr. A.'s hypothesis as unnecess-
arily complex, and as denying any in-
trinsic beauty in the qualities of mat-
ter, 142, 3

Travels, books of, thoughts on the ac-
cumulation of, 114; qualities which
are requisite to give them permanent
interest, 116

Temper, trials of, compared to insect
tormentors, 991

Terebinthine vale, correspondence of
its present appearance with the Scrip-
ture record, 1103
Terracottas, Ancient, Coombe's descrip-
tion of, 1206

Traditions Jewish, in the authority of,
1125

Transportation,-radical and incurable
defects of this practice, 82; vices and
misery of the transit, 1179
Travelling, reflections on, 1053'
Trees. See Sylva.

Triads Welsh, their probable date, 1154;
and historical authority, 1162
Trinidad,-Dr. Nugent's visit to the Pitch
lake of, 1257

Triangle, the area of a rational right
angle, cannot be equal to a square,
348
Trigonometrical Survey, carried on by
Col. Mudge, and Captain Colby, ac-
count of, 233, et seq.; contents of the six
sections into which the work is divided,
2268; table of the latitude, lon-
gitude, and altitude of all the emi-
nences in Great Britain exceeding
2000 feet, 229; singular coincidences
in the results afforded by Triangula-
tion and the base line, 230; disgrace.
ful misrepresentations of the Survey
by the Monthly Review, 232, et seq.
Turkish Army, remarks on the, 740
Turks, ravages of the, exaggerated,
1089; their system of police in the Morea,

22

Unitarian, deceitful use of this epithet

by modern Socinians, 187
United Brethren. See Moravians.
Usher, Aikin's Life of, 269; comparison
of Usher, with Selden, 269, et seq; his-
tory of his Treatise on the Power of
the Prince, 270; his remarkable industry
and attainments in early life, 271; his
opposition to an enlarged toleration of
the Irish Catholics, 273

Vanilla,-mode in which it is collected,
593

Vera Cruz, principal objects of expor-
tation from that port, 599

Veins, in mineralogy discriminated from
Faults, 829; manner in which the Ore
and Spars are lodged in them, 834
Vermes, considered under their gene-
ra, 366

Virtue and vice, contrasted, 920

War, Muller's Elements of the Science
of, 71, et seq.

Waynflete, Bishop, Chandler's Life of
387, et seq.

Wishart, trial and execution of, 40, 41
White, Ebenezer, Select Remains of
1059, et seq.

Whitfield, Memoirs of the Life of, 1232;
the wonderful effects of his discourses
not to be accounted for by human
causes, 1222; estimate of his intellec-
tual endowments, 1233; unparalleled
display of energy and nature in his
oratory, 1235; instances of his un
quenchable zeal, 1238

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