state of the poor, 174; reflections on the present state of society, and anti- cipations of an improved state, 176-7 Bioscope, or Dial of life explained, 373, et seq.; print of the dial described, 373-4; disadvantages attending em- blematical representations of moral truths, 374; sanguine views of the Au- thor in regard to its effects, 375; design of the work, 376; different views arising from the consideration of our age in early and in later life, 376; author's opinion of the cause of the defection of our nature, 377; tendency of the Bioscope to excite reflections on the value of time, 377-8; expedients to impress on the mind the transitoriness of time, 379; remarks on the glory acquired by a military life, 379-80; happy combination of re- ligion with the feelings of childhood, 380, 1; delusive error arising from improper views of old age, 381; Gibbon and Ad- dison's views at the close of lite con- trasted, 382; Epistle of Paulinus to Çelantia, ib.
Bashop of St. David's brief memorial,
160, et seq.; substance of the statute repealed, ib.; his Lordship's opinion of it, 161; and false deductions, ib.; repeal of the Test laws would not en- danger the church, 162; would mere- ly render Dissenters admissible to of- fices, but would give no right or claim to admission, 162; ambiguous use of the term Church by certain writers, 163; the real evil of the Test laws, 164-5; his Lordship's 'Three Truths,' 165; his remarks on some of Mr. Bel- sham's propositions, 166, et seq. Bloomfield, his poetic claims considered, 461-2
Bologna, with some account of its institu-
Bowden's Remains, 628, el seq.; con- tents, ib. ; limits to students for the Christian ministry, 629 Boydell's illustrations of Holy Writ, 191; means of the old masters inade- quate to the production of correct pieces of scripture history, 192, ab- surdities of the moderns, ib. Brande's chemical researches on the blood, and some other animal fluids, 247-8
Brief Memorial by the Bishop of St.
David's, 160, et seq. Brodie's further experiments and obser- vations on the action of poisons on the animal system, 253
Brody on the influence of the brain on
the generation of animal heat, 603 Buchanan's, Dr. address to the missionaries
of the Church missionary society, extracts from it, 529, et seq.
Cabanel's poems and imitations, 615; extract, 616
Calicut, large city found there by Vasco de Gama, now lost to the world, 452; tops of minarets and temples sometimes seen at low water, ib. Calvinistic principles, their tendency examined and defended against Arch- bishop Sancroft's virulent aspersions in his Fur predestinatus,' 216, et seq. Cambridge, Dyer's history of the uni- versity and colleges of, 518, et seq.; founder, and era of the foundation of its university, 524
Campagna di Roma, description of its ap- pearance, 487
Carey, Eustace, Mr. Hall's address to hiin, 85, et seq.
Carnot's defence of fortified places, translated by the Baron de Monta- lembert, 92, et seq.; subjects of the treatise, 93; Buonaparte's commission to the Commandant of Antwerp, 94-5; translation unsatisfactory, 96, et seq. Caste of the Brahmins, 450; the Puoleaks, ib.; the Pariars, 451
Cavern temples of Salsette and Ele- phanta, 452
Chalmers on the influence of Bible so- cieties, 169
Chamelion, description of, 413 Chances, Rouse's doctrine of, 562, et seq.
Chandler's history of persecution, 237, et seq.; contents, 238; author's mis- application of the term persecution, 239; work defective in not developing the occasions and consequences of the persecutions, 240; extract from Eva- grius, on the violent deaths of some of the heathen emperors, ib.; disın- genuous allusion to the conduct of St. John, 242; to the Arian controversy, ib.; to Calvin and Francis Davides, 243; letter of John Wesley to a bishop, on account of the persecution of some of his preachers, 244 Channing's discourse at Boston, North America, on the deliverance of Europe from m 1 tary despotism, 625, et seq.; reasons for its reprint in this country, ib.; extract illustrative of the preacher's philanthropic feelings, 625; moral influ- ence of Napoleon's despotism, 626-7; its fall a cause for gratitude, ib.
Charge to the clergy of the diocese of Chester, by Dr. Law, Bishop of Ches- ter, 578, et seq.
Charles I. apology for his conduct by the
author of the Velvet Cushion, 342; Bishop Burnet's character of Charles, ib.; on the application of the terms martyr and saint to Charles, 343; death of the King not compassed by the Puritans, 346
Charles II. his life preserved, when prince of Wales, by Algernon Sydney, 259
Charles the second's waggish test of the qua-
lifications of the members of the Royal Society, on the day of its institution, 292 Cheeta, or hunting leopard, described, 443 Childe Alarique, a poet's reverie, 617,
et seq.; feebleness the prevailing cha- racter of these poems, 618; extracts, 619; on the vicissitudes of elevation and despondency of poetic minds, 620; re- marks on the author's classing toge. ther of minds of opposite texture and character, 620; extract, 623 Children frequently sold on the Malabar coast by their mothers for a small sum, 448-9
Christian world, Evans's sketch of the denominations of, 486, el seq.
Christ's death, its cause and end examined, 167
Church, unwarrantable use of the term by certain writers, 163
Cimbri and Teutones, colony of, still found in Italy, 473
Classical English letter writer, 525-6; contents, ib.
Claudian's Rape of Proserpine, traus lated by J. G. Strutt, 363, el seq. Clayton's Prayer for the multiplication
of evangelical labourers, a sermon, preached before the patrons of the Newport Faguel institution, 413; origin of the institution, ib. ; necessity of elevating the intellectual and literary character of religious seminaries, 414; causes of the decline of literary at- tainments among the dissenters, 415; reasons tending to excite a spirit of prayer, for the increase of evangelical teachers, 418
Clergy of Russia unanimous in their en- deavours to circulate the scriptures, 439 Complutensian Polyglott Bible, compiled under the patronage of Cardinal Ximenes,
330 Congratulatory odes, by Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, 179 Condemned criminals, great judgement and discretion requisite in ministers who visit them, 221, 226 Controversialists, hints to them, 363 Converted Malefactors, objectionable na.
ture of the accounts sometimes pub- lished respecting them, 222, et seq. Corn Laws, observations on them, 1, et seq.; comforts of the community in proportion to the labour requisite for the supply of necessary food, 2; con- tradictory nature of the pleas in fa- vour of the corn laws, 4; pretence of their affording a provision against un- certainty of supply examined, 5, et seq.; and that the land-owners should be protected like certain manufac- turers, 10, et seq.; corn subject to a small tax only in the production, and none in the consumption, 14; glaring rapacity and injustice of the land- owners, ib. et seq.; their disinterested- ness delusive, 15
Cubbee, or sacred verses of the Hindoos, in- quiry into their nature, 529
Davies's Brand plucked out of the fire', or brief account of Robert Kendal, 213, 219
Davy on a gaseous compound of carbo- nic oxide and chlorine, 249
-on some experiments on the com- binations of different metals and chlo- rine, 251
- and of fluoric acid, 601-2 on some combinations of phospho- rus and sulphur, &c. 604 Dawson's Inquiry into the causes of the
general poverty and dependence of mankind, 1, et seq.; favourable cha- racter of the piece, 16
Dean of Wells's sermon before the Church missionary society, 526, et seq.; extract illustrative of the spirit and style of the discourse, 527; the Dean's remarks on the conduct of the India Di- rectors, 528; Dr. Buchanan's caution to beware of men, 529; Cubbee, or sacred verses of Hindoos, inquiry into their na- ture, ib. et seq.; Mr. Wilberforce's re- marks on the seizure of the idol and car of Juggernaut for arrear of tri- bute, 520; car of Juggernaut broken and sold by order of a collector under the Madras Presidency, 530-1; extracts from Dr. Buchanan's address, on de- nying Christ, ib.; on the harvest being great, &c. ib.; Dean Ryder on the union of spirit among Christians of different Communions, 533-4 Deity of Jesus, and doctrine of the Tri-
nity, Simpson's plea for, 600, et seq. Dial of life. See Bioscope Discourse delivered at Boston, N. Ame- rica, on the deliverance of Europe, 623, et seq.
Discourses for domestic use, by Henry
D'Israel's quarrels of authors, 288, et seq.
Dissecting room, unfavourable to the faith as well as health of pupils, 78; its cause, ib.
Dissenters, remarks on the indefinite
sense lately attached to the term, 338 Drama, its original purpose, as exbi- bited in the ancient theatres, 70, (note)
Dramatic poetry, not necessarily con- nected with the histrionic art, 69, (note)
Drayton's poems, 181
Duschene's reflections of a French con- stitutional royalist, 624: right of the Senate to propose terms to the King ques- tioned, ib.
Dyer's history of the university and col- leges of Cambridge, 518, et seq.; re- verential partiality formerly felt by scholars for the university where their minds were trained, 518; origin of that feeling, ib.; its present decline, and cause of it, 519; no popular his- tory of Cambridge before written, 520; qualifications of the present writer, ib. et seq.; subjects of each vō- lume, 521, et seq.; era of the foundation of the university, and its founder, 524; its advancement under Edward III. ib.
Edible birds-nests, 445
Edinburgh Review, Art. Essai philoso-
phique sur les probabilités par La place, 562, 570, et seq.; Reviewer's dangerous perversion of the principles of Laplace's work, 570, et seq.; delu- sive nature of his remarks, 571; his dangerous and false conclusions, 574; Dr. Waring on the demonstration of pro- babilities, ib. et seq.; Reviewer's ar- gumentation examined and refuted, in regard to Scripture miracles, 575 Education of the Russian population, plan to render it universal, 439; be- Leficial effects likely to result from it in regard to the Greek church, ib.
what might be expected from it, if conducted by Christian philoso- phers, 17; not omnipotent, ib.; the mind and heart its primary objects, 18; whose business education is, or rather is not, ib.
Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: a poem, by Mrs. Grant, 101; extracts and remarks, 102
Errors of thought, their danger, 77 Essex-street chapel fitted up by Mr.
Lindsey, 118; reformed liturgy intro- duced, ib. et seq. Eustace's tour through Italy, 465, et seq.; qualifications necessary to the Italian traveller, 466, et seq.; the party quit Vienna, 470; defile of the Alps near Reichenhall, ib.; pleasing character of the modern Rhetians, 471; Verona, ib.; account of two mo- dern exhibitions in its amphitheatre, 472 ; colony of the Cimbri and Teutones still existing in Italy, 473; declining state of the schools at Padua, 474; the Brenta, ib.; Venice, 475; the Rialto, ib.; cause of the decline of Venice, ib.; villa of Petrarcha, 476; instance of Ita- lian industry, 477; on the supposed scenery of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics, 488; Bologna and its institutions, 480, et seq.; the Rubicon, 482; Santissima casa at Loretto, 483, et seq.; description of Campagna di Roma, 485; on the emotions occasioned by classical and devotional recollections connected with the cities of Rome and Jerusa lem, 541, et seq.; the spirit of the ancient idolatry, recognised in modern forms and institutions, 543; Rome most interesting as the subject of prophecy, 545; view of ancient and modern Rome from the capitol, 546; ma÷ terials of ancient Rome probably buried under the modern city, 548; remarks on some of the paintings in the Vatican, 550; Raffaello's celebrated painting of the ETERNAL FATHER, 551; St. Peter's, 552; compared with St. Paul's, 553; exhibition in St. Peter's on Good Friday evening, 555; palace of Trajan on the Lake of Nemi, 556; tomb of Virgil, 557; Solfatara, 558; infallibility of the pope not a doctrine of the Catholic creed, 560; indulgences, 561 Evangelical Labourers, Clayton's prayer for the multiplication of, 413, et seq. Evangelical pastor, Flavel's character of, 300
Evans's sermons for domestic reading, 495, et seq.; difficulty in selecting sermons adapted for family reading, ib. et seq.; requisites in such dis- courses, 296; short sketch of the an- thor's life, 296; character of the dis- courses, ib. et seq.; extracts illustra- tive of their spirit and manner, 298,
sketch of the denominations of the Christian world, 486, et seq.; pre- liminaries, 487-8; arrangement of the denominations, 491; injudicious treatment of some of the subjects, ib.;
opinions of Arius, 489; modification of Arian opinions traced, 490; Mo- ravian tenets ill-defined, 491; crude notions of the author on the right of private judgement, 491-2; instances of uncaudid statements, 493; cha- racter of the work inferior, 434 Expeditious arithmetician, by Messrs. Denby and Leng, 496-7
Faber's treatise on the ordinary opera- tions of the Holy Spirit, 50, et seq. ; radical difference in the religious cha- racter of those who adinit, and those who deny the doctrines of the Holy Spirit, ib.; change induced on the mind of one who rejects the doctrine, ib. et seq.; importance of the doctrine, 51; difficulties attending it, 53; ne- cessity of a holy influence on the mind, 54; some inaccuracies in the author's statement examined, ib.; Mr. F's remarks on a resistance of the Holy Spirit's operations, 56; objections, 57, et seq.; description of persons whose un- derstandings are enlightened while their hearts remain unaffected, 60; effects of Christianity and results of infidelity con- trasted, 62-3
Familiar scenes, histories, and reflec- tions, 514, et seq.; extracts and re- marks, ib.
Feathers Tavern, association of a part
of the Clergy held there to procure relief in the matter of subscription, 119
Flavel's character of an evangelical pas- tor, 300
Flowers of wit, by the Rev. H. Kett, 184 Forbes's oriental memoirs, 405, et seq.;
immense mass of composition prepared by the author, 406; his qualifications at the commencement of his travels, 406, et seq.; scene of his observations, 409; qualities of the cocoa-nut tree, ib.; Banian, 416; distress of some monkeys at the death of a companion, ib.; author's danger from a cobra di capello, 411; ac- count of the whip-snake, ib.; nocturnal visit from a tiger, 412; description of a Chameleon, 413; swingers, 441-2; teak tree, its durability, ib.; hospital for brutes, pride of the rich Hindoos, 443; its good effects, ib.; cheeta, or hunting leopard, ib.; edible birds-nests, 445; termites, ib. et seq.; parrots, their numbers, and depredations in the rice-fields, 447; salt- boilers, their wretched situation, 448; sale of children by their mothers not unfre- quent at Angengo, ib.; character of the
Malabar people, 450; caste of the Brah- mins of Malabar, 450; degraded stute of the Pooleahs, ib. et seq.; desperate wretchedness of the Pariahs, 451; Sy- rian Christians, 452; caverns of Sal- sette and Elephanta, 452-3; supersti- tion of a Mahratta chief, 455; admini- stration of justice, 456; Mahratta army described, 457, et seq.; desolation attend- ant on its progress, 631; dreadful nature of a field of battle in the East, 632; pe- culiar character and manners of the Bhauls, 633; the Tarakaw, a mode of murder, by way of revenge against oppression, practised by the Bhauts, 634; horrid, instance of it, as practised by a tribe of Brahmins, ib.; singular account of the death of a Raj-poot lady, 635; redections on the low estimate of life among the Hindoos, 636; inconve- nience attending Hindvo servants, 638; religious tolerance between the Hindoos and Mahomedans, ib.; its probable cause, 639; torture inflicted on an Hindoo collector to discover his treasures, 640; sheep-skin death, ib.; snakes ap- pointed guardians of Hindoo treasures, 641-2; monkeys rendered subservient to acts of revenge, 642; 'enviable mode of procuring a view of a natural exhibition of wild beasts, 643; lion hunt in the forest of Durlee, 644; remarkable petition of a Parsee merchant, 646; ordeals, ib.; testimony of the author highly favourable to the advocates for dif fusing Christianity in India, 617; ge- neral execution of the work, 618 Fortified places, Carnot's defence of, 92 France, observations on the late treaty of peace with, 197
French Dictionary, by W. Smith, 494 French language, Worsley's rules for pronouncing and reading it, 496 Fruits of the Spirit, a view of the graces that adorn the Christian character, 193; necessarily connected with His influences, 194; extract on Antinomian bigotry, ib, el seq.; fanatic delusion, 195
Gibbon and Addison, their views at the
close of life contrasted, 382
Glory acquired by a military life, its doubtful nature, 380
Glory of the latter days, a discourse by Wm. Roby, 90
Glover, author of Leonidas, the sup-
posed author of Junius's letters, 280; his political integrity, 285 Golden cow, passing through one, a mode of procuring the remission of sins, by the ra-
jah of Travancore at the instigation of the Brahmins, 485
Good man's prospect after death, 501-2 Grant's, (Mrs.) Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen, a poem, 102
Greek church in Russia, less supersti- tious than is generally supposed, 431; its instrumentality in widely propa- gating the Christian truth, anticipated from the consideration of the purity of its doctrines, 437; from its exten- sively circulating the Scriptures, 438; and from the conduct of the Russian Clergy, 439
Hall's Address to the Rev. Eustace Carey, 85, et seq.; duties of a mission- ary, distinct from those of an ordinary pastor, 86, et seq.; views of an enlight- ened statesman and a Christian minister in regard to missions different, 89 Hamilton's, (Elizabeth), Essays on the Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart, 17, et seq.; primary ob- jects of education, 18; utility of the study of mind to those on whom it is devolved, ib.; necessity of exciting the attention, 19; senses rendered acute by exercise, 20; causes of the negligent habits of servants, 21-2, and extract; hints towards counteracting them, ib. et seq.; inquiry into the nature of duty, and its qualifications, 24-5; tention indispensable to clearness of perception, 26, and extract; its effects on the imagination, 27; and in pro- ducing the emotions of taste, 28; the propensity to magnify the idea of self, 29, et seq.; extensive prevalence of this principle, 31, et seq.; Miss H.'s appli- cation of il in respect to those who abstain from public amusement, 33, et seq.; ob- jections to her application, 34, et seq.; this principle considered in relation to pride, &c. 37; to party spirit, bigot- ry, and intolerance, 39; benevolent af- fections, an antidote against this pro- pensity, 41, et seq; active and passive benevolence, 44; human nature exhi- bits no example of perfect benevo- lence, 45; character of Christ, as re- vealed in scripture, calculated for hu- man imitation, 46; two chief causes of failure, ib. ct seq.; general remarks on the work, 48-9 Heathenish rites, their tendency to sensua- lize the mind, 554
Henry's additional experiments on the muriatic and oxymuriatic acids, 599 Herschel's, Dr. observations upon two
comets which appeared in the winter of 1811-1812, 383
Holland and Venice, almost entirely de- pendent on other states for corn, 7; have suffered but little inconvenience from hostile nations on that account, 8
Holy Spirit, Faber's treatise on the or dinary operations of the, 50, et seq. Home on some peculiarities in the struc- ture of the organ of hearing in the Balæna mysticetus of Linnæus, 246 — on the different structures of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, &c. 604
Home's observations, intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs, 251
Horne's, Melville, sermon of thanksgiv ing on the late peace, 422; extract, ib. Horsley's, (Bishop) speeches in parlia- ment, 64, et seq.; remarks on the sud- den advancement to the most elevated dignity offered to plebeians in the church, 64; its effects on the conduct of some prelates, 65; on Bishop H. ib.; intellectual character of his speeches, 66-7; their subjects, ib.; his dignified reproof of levity in a noble Lord, 68
Hunter's theory of life, Abernethy's in- quiry into the probability and ration- ality of, 75, et seq.; medical prospe- rity not always to be ascribed to me- rit, 76; danger of errors of thought, 77; mind probably acts upon matter by an intervening substance, 78; dissect- ing room unfavourable to the faith as well as health of pupils, ib.; its causes, ib.
Idolatry, ancient, its spirit recogniza- ble in certain modern institutions and forms, 543
Immortality of the soul, cannot be dis-
proved by the sceptical, nor proved by the pious heathen, 84; brought to light by the Gospel, ib. Individuality, a poem, by Martha A. Sellon, 514
Infallibility of the Pope denied, by Mr. Eustace, to be a doctrine of the Catholic creed, 560
Infidelity, its results compared with the ef- fects of Christianity, 62-3
Inquiry concerning the author of the letters of Junius, see Junius Irresistibility of the influence of the Holy Spirit, 56, 58
Italy, Eustace's tour through, 465;
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