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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES, VOL. I.

The paging of the Table of Contents refers to the numeration at the
foot of the pages.

XIII-LIFE OF NIEBUHR.

(Biographical Series, No. 1.)

Bio-

Embark at

Travel over

Introduction, 3. Scientific Expedition to Arabia in 1760, 3.

graphical Sketch of the Author of this life, 4. Birth of Nie-

buhr, 9. His limited education in youth, 10. He removes to

Hamburgh to study mathematics, 11. At Göttingen in 1757, 12.

Character of Count Bernstorf, 13. Arabian Expedition, 14.

Arrangements of the Expedition by Michaelis, 15. Niebuhr's

preparatory Studies, 16. His companions-Von Haven, 18-For-

skaal, 19. Niebuhr's Employments during the Voyage, 21.

Attention paid to the travellers at Marseilles and Malta, 23.

Arrival.in Egypt-Visit to Mount Sinai, 24.

Suez, and reach Loheia in the close of 1762, 25.

Yemen Mocha-Death of Forskaal, 25. Embark for Bombay

-Death of Cramer, 26. Reception at Bombay, 28. Return

over land-Ruins of Persepolis, 30. Bassora-Bagdad-Alep-

po, 31.
Society at Aleppo-Visit to Cyprus and Palestine, 32.

Arrival at Constantinople, 33. Reception in Poland by Stanis-

laus Poniatowsky, 34. Return to Copenhagen, 34. Expences

of the Expedition, 35. Results of the Expedition, 36. Astro-

nomical Observations, 38. Publication of the Description of

Arabia, 40. Embassy of Abderrachman Aga, from Tripoli, 41.

Information gained from him by Niebuhr on the Geography of

Tripoli and Barbary, &c., 42. His marriage, 43. Publication

of his Travels, 44.—of Forskaal's works, 44. Appointed Land-

schreiber at Meldorf, 46. Pecuniary misfortunes, 47. Acquaint-

ance with Boie, 48. Contributions to the Deutsche Museum, 49.

Education of his children, 50. Bartold Niebuhr, 52. Niebuhr's

opinion of Bruce, 53. Correspondence with Dr. Russell and

Major Rennell, 55.—with Baron Silvestre De Sacy, 55. Destruc-

tion of the Plates of his Travels, 57. Proposal to publish the 3d

Volume of his Travels in England-his refusal, 58. Choson a

member of the French Institute, 59. His loss of sight, 61

Death, April 26, 1815, 65. Personal habits, 66. Michaelis'

Account of the Arabian expedition, extracted from his "Lebens-·

beschreibung," 69.

XIV.-LIFE OF KANT.

(Biographical Series, No. II.)

Introductory remarks, 81. Additional remarks, 84. Birth of

Kant in 1724, 89. Descent and character of his parents, 90,

Education, 91, Want of a philosophy which would consolidate

and connect the great mass of human sciences, 92. Insufficiency

of Locke's system, 92. Contrast between the strict scientific

form which logical science so early put on, and the uncertain pros.

gress of other philosophy, 94. Identity of the principles of logi

cal science, and the primordial laws which ontology prescribes to

nature, 95. Review of the sceptical arguments of Hume, on

cause and effect, 96. Reid's remarks on the subject, 97

Kant's theory of causality, 98. Not founded on experience, .98.

Imperfection of Hume's views, 99. The idea of causality ema

nates from the mind of the beholder himself, 101. This.vfew.

extended to the other absolute conceptions of the mind, .103...

New light which this view throws on the method of metaphysical

inquiry, 104, Right of Kant to be considered the author of

these views, 106. Limits of human knowledge, 198. Analysis.

of Kant's principal works:-I. CRITIC OF PURE REASON, 109.

Faculties of knowledge, 110. Space and time, 11 Categories

of the understanding, 111. Forms of reason notion of the th

solute, 112.-II. Prolegomena to all Metaphysics,' 115.I.....

CRITIC OF PRACTICAL REASON, 115.-IV. CRITIC OF JUDGMENT,

117.-V. Religion in accordance with Reason, 119. VI. Meta

physical principle of Law, 122. Essay on Peace-on Anthropo

logy, 123. Miscellaneous works of Kant, 125. Events of the

Life of Kant, 127. His character, 128. Occupations of his lat-

ter years, 129. Different opinions on the result of his analysis af

the human Mind, 131.

XV. LIFE OF MADAME DE STAËL.

Parentage, 135.

(Biographical Series, No. III.)

Birth, 136. Early occupations, 137. Educa-
tion, 139. Early taste for composition, 140. Her intercourse.
with her father, 142. Influence of her mother, 143. Ho early