21; his explanation unsatisfactory, 22; author convicted by Philalethes of inaccuracy respecting the arminian divines, 23; logomachy between Dr. C. and Mr. Grinfield, ib. ; metaphor and analogy distinguished, 24; author's dis⚫ tinction inaccurate, 25; extract from bishop Brown on analogy, ib.; recapi. tulation of objections to author's phi- losophy, 26; his account of the man- ner in which we arrive at the idea of prescience incorrect, ib.; expectation not prescience, 27; necessity of what is certainly future, ib. ; prescience not destructive of motive in holy natures, 28; vulgar sophism examined, that Divice predestination supersedes moral agency, 29; what liberty is necessary to a moral agent, 31; opinion of the assembly of divines respecting free- will, 32; citation from Diderot on philo- sophical necessity, ib.; fallacy of his argument, 33; remarks of bishop Horsley on necessity and final causes, ib.; Dr. C. a superficial theologian, 36; calvinism truth ill-stated, 37. Crayon, Geoffrey, effect produced by his sketch-book, 233; see Bracebridge Ilall.
Creation, geological history of the, 46; see
Cruelty, cursory remarks on the evil of,
177, el seq.; atrocious barbarity of Smithfield drovers, 177; treatment of animals a criterion of character, 178: cruelty proceeds on the belief that brutes do suffer, ib.; importance of the act for prevention of cruelty, ib.; home missionaries called for, 179.
Deluge, geological opinions respecting the, 48.
Dissent, Johnson's reasons for, 91.. Dissenters, obligations of society to, 61; not guilty of breaking the laws, 92; not implicated in the catholic question, 194; vindicated from archbishop Ma- gee, 249. Downe's letters from Mecklenburg, 250, et seq.; merits of the volume, 250; curious blunders, 251; scene near Rat- zeburg, ib.; description of the castle of Schwerin, 252; Lubeck, 253; shop- keeping at Luberk, ib. ; the druid's altur near Albersdorff, 254 ; royal antiquarian- ism, 255; account of the Probsteiers, ib. legend of the Verwellenhoff estate, 257; visit to Klopstock's widow, 258; son. net, ib.
Driscol's Ireland, see O'Driscol. Druid's Altar near Albersdorff, 254.
Eccelino III., life and death of, 10—16. Edineston's Sacred Lyrics, third set, 277; hymn on the Divine Omnipresence,
ib. Edmonstone's, sir A., journey to the Oases, 155, et seq.; author's discovery of a fourth oasis, 455; his refutation of M. Drovetti's counter claim, 156; geo- graphy of the oases, ib. ; climate, soil, and productions, 157; taxation, 158; reflections suggested by the discovery, ib.; ancient necropolis of El Cargé, 159; the oases places of Christian exile, ib.; their probable origin, 160. Edwards's tour of the Dove, 459, et seq.; reviewer's apology to the rivers, 459; apostrophe to water, 460; address to the Dove, 461; millenurian oak, 462; cot- ton mill on the Dove, ib.; scenery of the peak, ib.; inaccuracy of Walton respect- ing the disappearance of the river, 464; concluding stanzas, ib.; sonnet, easter, 465.
Elliott's love, a poem, 342, et seq.; on the love of fame, 345; war among the poets, Byron, Bowles, &c., 344; au- thor's invective against lord Byron, ib. ; apostrophe to Greece, 345; address to domestic love, 346; effects of agricul tural improvements in the country, 348; the magdalene, 349; autumn flowers, $50.
Elmes's lectures on architecture, 270, et seq.; difficulty attending the specific application of general principles of art, 270; character of the work, 271; author's hypothesis, that the arch was known to the Egyptians, baseless, ib. ; importance of a knowledge of construction, 272; errors of modern builders, 273; respective character of Greek and Roman architecture, ib. ; round tower at Monasterboice, 274; estimate of Eng- lish architects, ib.; Waterloo bridge, ib. Elmes's memoirs of Wren, 539, et seq.; plan of the memoirs injudicious, 539; disadvantage of an exclusive study of Roman models, 540; early genius of Wren, ib. ; iuvention of the barometer, to whom attributable, 541; circum- stances which led to his public em- ployment, 542; plan of Wren for im- proving the banks of the Thames, ib. ; author's criticism on the new tower of the royal exchange, 543; the monument not unsafe, ib.; church of St. Mary-le-bow, ib.; description of the interior of St. Stephen's, Wallbrook, 544; comparative merits of the two models for St. Paul's, ib.; expedients used in removing the
old tower, 545; lucky omen, ib. ; St. James's church, 546; anecdote respect- ing the spire of St. Dunstan's, ib.; Wren's last days and death, ib.: cha- racters of Vanbrugh, Gibbs, and Hazoks- moor, 547; embellishments of the work, 548. Emancipation, roman catholic, remarks on, 194, 204, 5.
English character, observations on the, 237. Episcopacy, tendency of, to identify itself
with political rule, 54.
Erskine's essay on faith, 327, et seq.; divinity half metaphysics, 327; his- tory of controversy, 328; nature of the dispute about faith, 329; the dis- tinctions of theologians respecting differ ent kinds of faith deprecated, 330; ab- surd definitions of faith, ib.; faith de- nied by Mr. Walker to be an act of the mind, 331; illustration from a beg- gar's working by asking alms, ib.; con- tradictory representation of faith given by Mr. Carlile, 332; scriptural view of faith in Christ, ib.; what the gospel is, and not the mode in which we believe it, the point to be ascertained, 333; cha- racter of the author's work, ib.; moral operation of faith, 334; a defective view of truth the cause of the imper- fections of Christians, ib. ; a dead faith not a faith in the whole truth, ib.; faith of the metaphysician, the poetical believer, and the controvertist, examined, 335; phraseology unimportant, 337; no definitions given in scripture, ib.; technical definition of faith analysed, b.; faith an assent, in what sense, 338; assurance of faith, what, ib.; excellent remarks of Dr. T. Goodwin on assurance, 339; Boston's view of faith, ib.; defective statements some- times true in relation to opposite errors, ib.; Mr. Carlile's view of faith and repentance, 340; reluctance of men to submit to the Divine Lestimony, 341; warrant of faith not a subject for rational dispute, 342. Establishments, church, arguments for examined, 53, 59, et seq.; see Bristed, and O'Driscol.
evils inseparable from, 199.
Faith, definitions of examined, 330, 1, 337, 340; views of given by Boston, Goodwin, &c. 339; see Erskine. Fame, its unsubstantial nature, 347. Fifteen Years in India, 433, et seq.; or- der of Bonaparte against suicide, 434; travels of the writer, ib. ; sentiments
on approaching Calcutta, 435; import- ance of regimen to new-comers, 436; description of Calcutta, 436; high living at Calcutta, 438; state of the half-casts, 440; remarks on the policy of Leaden- hall street towards the natives, 441; British government unfriendly to evan- gelization, ib.; idol festivals at Calcutta, 442; prejudice against native converts, 443; the practice of suttee prevented by the Mahommedans, ib.; spirited conduct of colonel Walker in suppressing infanti- cide, ib. ; atrocities of the Brahmins coun- tenanced by the government, 444; Ma- hommedans more Christian in their policy than the British, ib.; present extent of the British dominions, ib.; po- pulation of Bombay, 445; account of the Parsees, ib. ; account of the Arme- nians, 446; noble conduct of Surkies Joannes, ib.; consequences of the overthrow of the Peishwa, 447. Finch's elements of self-improvement, 371, et seq.; growing disrelish for mental application, 371; mérits of the volume, 372; on scepticism and credulity, 373; on the will, 375.
France, court of, memoirs relating to the, 415.
travels in the south of, 399; see
Thiers. Franklin's journey to the polar sea, 521, et seq. polar regions sufficiently ex- plored, 521; object of the enterprise, ib.; cautious character of northern mari- ners in contrast with that of English sea- men, 522; critical state of the vessel in Hudson's straits, ib.; journey to Cumberland house, 523; magnetic island, ib.; Indian legend connected with lake Winipeg, ib.; extreme suf- fering of the Indians from disease and weather, 524; Indian conjuror, dis- ̧ comfiture of an, 525; religious notions of the natives, 526; their opinions re- specting a future state, ib.; half-casts, 527; mode of travelling in snow shoes, ib.; description of the Stone Indians, 528; traditional origin of the Chipew yans, 529; portage of the drowned, origin of the name, 530; trying and hazardous circumstances of the en- terprise, ib.; probability of a north-west passage, 531; sufferings of the ex- ploring party in returning to Fort En- terprise, 532; Dr. Richardson's narra- tive of the death of Mr. Hood, 535 singular mental effect of debility, 538; arrival at York factory, ib.; contents and embellishments of the volume, ib.
Free-will, remarks on, 32, el seq.; 375. French's munusculum juventuti, 173, et seq.; character of the work, 173; rebuke of learned ladies, 174; fable of the wolf and the lamb, ib. Fuller's child's scripture examiner, 186, et seq.; specimen, 187.
Geology, mineral and mosaical contrast-
ed, 37, st seq.; see Penn. Gisborne's essays, 217, et se .; charac- ter of the writer, 217; contents, ib.; duly of studying the prophecies, 218; different ends to be answered by pro- phecies, ib.; grand design of the Old Testament predictions in general, 219; specific design of a particular class of literal predictions, 220; on the study of the Apocalypse, ib.; practical end of New Testament pro- phecies, 221; author's view of our Lord's prediction in Matt. xxiv., 222; interpretation of verse 33, ib. ; author's solution unsatisfactory-true expla- nation suggested, 223; on the phrase, the kingdom of Ged, 225; import of the figurative language of the predic- tion, 226; analysis of the essay on mutual recollections in the future state, ib.; objections to the doctrine an- swered, 227; future happiness cannot depend on ignorance or forgetfulness, 228; practical application of the subject, 229; question relating to the per- petuation of friendships examined, 231; indecency of inveighing against calvinistic tenets, 232.
Glen's journal of a tour to Karass, 180, et seq.; situation of the colony at Karass, 180; advantageous position for open- ing an attack on Islamism, 181; cir- cular letter from Mecca, ib.; conversa- tion with a Cabardian Mussulman, ib.; Islamitic legend respecting the escape of Christ, 183; concurrence of Mahom- medans and Socinians, ib.; importance of the Arian testimony to the authen- ticity of the New Testament, ib. ; timid and diffident tone of the author in reference to Mahommedism unad- visable, 184; symptoms of the ap- proaching fall of Islamism, 185; no- tice of the mountain tribes of the district, ih.; the Cabardians formerly Chris- tians, 186.
Goodisson's Ionian Islands, 457, et seq.;
merits of the work, 457; degraded cha- racter of the Ionian Greeks, 458. Greece, apostrophe to, 345; rising com. merce of, 403.
Grinfield's reply to Copleston, 19, et seq. Guelph, history of the house of, 275; see Halliday.
Halliday's history of the house of Guelph, 275-7; Geo. IV. descended from Alfred, 275; the Guelphs traceable to the Huns, ib.; history of the Bruns- wick line, 276; derivation of the pa- tronymic, ib.
Happiness, future, nature of, 109, 228. Heresy, true nature of, 454.
Hervey, character of as a writer, 456. Holstein, letters from, 250; see Downes. Horsley's, Bishop, remarks on moral
necessity and predestination, 33—6. Howe, character of the works of, 108.
Infidelity, nature and tendency of, 533, et seq.; see Thomson. India, travels in, 433, et seq. Indians, North American, remarks on, 90,1; peculiar claims of the Indians on British benevolence, 90; not in- capable of civilization, ib.; their de- struction effected by the policy of Euro- peans, 91; efforts making in America for their melioration, ib.; anecdotes of, 487, et seq.; 524, et seq.; see Frank- lin and James.
Innes's sermon on the doctrines of grace, 567-9; evil tendency of two oppo- site errors in preaching, 567; on the proper mode of preaching the doctrines of grace, 568.
Intolerance, history and nature of, 450; see Clarke.
Ionian islands, Goodisson's account of, 457.
Ireland, church of, remarks on, 59, 198,
state of, a subject of paramount interest, 193; see Magee and O'Dris- col.
Irving's, Washington, Bracebridge Hall. 233; see Bracebridge Hall. Italian republics, history of, 1, et seq. see Sismondi.
James's expedition to the rocky moun- tains, 481, et seq.; history and result of the expedition, 481; formation of new towns on the Missouri, 483; pre- carious situation of every settlement on its banks, ib.; rapid progress of settle- ments, 484; character of the back settlers, 485; white hunters, ib.; nature of the soil, 486; physiological character of the Missouri Indians, ib.; their arts and manufactures, 487; occupations
during the year, 489; Indian card- parties, ib. ; effects of intoxication on the Indian, 490; treatment of their sick, ib.; religious sentiments, 491; hospitality, 492; mild treatment of captives, ib. ; social and domestic habits, ib.; can- nibalism not practised by them, 493; history of the abolition of human sacrifices among the Pawnecs, ib.; degraded state of the Kaskaias, 495; description of the red river Indians, 496; singular ves- pers of the Osages, 498; probable origin and numbers of the several tribes, ib.; singular custom among the Omawhaws, 499; visit to a Cherokee set- tlement, ib.; geography of the basin of the Mississippi, 500; sources of the four rivers supposed to be in the same plain, ib.; character of the region westward of Council Bluff, 501; geological cha- racter of the rocky mountains, ib. Johnson's further reasons for dissent, 91,
et seq.; the author a plain man, but stout polemic, 91; his refutation of Mr. Sykes's charge against Dissenters of breaking the laws, 92.
Joyce on love to God, 97, et seq.; merits of the work, 97; recommendations of the subject, 98; author's design, ib. ; analysis of the principle of love to : God, 99; Edwards's definition of vir- tue objectionable, ib.; Dwight's defi- nition of love erroneous, 100; benevo- lence not the highest virtue, ib.; goodness the object of love, 101; gra- titude an essential element of love to God, ib.; speculative complacency in ideal perfection distinguished from love or virtue, 103; on the Platonic doctrine of moral beauty, ib.; abstract qualities not the object of affection, 104; Bp. Butler's definition of piety radically defective, 106; necessary connexion of piety and happiness, 107; character of Howe's "Blessedness of the Righ- teous," 108; a sense of dependence on God an element of blessedness,' 109; love a source of highest feli- city,' 110; argument for the inspi ration of the Scriptures drawn from the Christian scheme of morals, 111. Judas Iscariot, remarks on the probable motives of, 88, et seq.; see Bonar. Justification, nature of, 394. et seq.
Karass, missionary station at, 180. Kruitzner, a tale, 148.
Las Cases, journal of, 113, et seq. ; 313,
et seq.; pedigree of, 133; character of as a biographer, 313; see Napoleon. Lee's, Miss H., tale of Kruitzner, merits of, 148; fine passages from, 149, 153. Letter from a condemned criminal to a sur- geon, 361.
Lorenzo de'Medici, Roscoe's illustrations of, 1, et seq.
Louis XV. Anecdotes of, 415, et seq. XVI., character of, 425. Love, a poem, see Elliott; apostrophe to, 346; Bonaparte's opinion of, 132; na- ture of, 100.
to God, analysis of, 99, et seq.; see Joyce.
Loves of the angels, see Moore.
Magee's, archbishop, primary charge. 244, et seq. reflections on his lord- ship's elevation to the primatial dig- nity, 244; solemn appeal to his clergy, ib.; oppressed and persecuted state of the national clergy in Ireland, 246; the national church hemmed in between a church without religion and a body of churchless religionists, 247; author's eva- sive attempt at explanation examined, 248; the presbyterians not without a church, 249; the charge examined as respects the independents, ib.; appa- ratus for evangelizing Ireland recom- mended by the archbishop, 250. Mahommedanism, remarks on the pre- sent state of, 181, et seq.; spread of accounted for, 452.
Mahommedans, conduct of, compared with Christians, 444, 450. Mant, bishop, anecdote of his early life, 55. Martyn, Henry, results of the labours of, in Persia, 293.
Mecklenburg, letters from, 250; see Downes.
Millhouse's poems, 258, et seq.; sonnet to gold, 258; to a daisy, ib.; on a ca- vern, 259; to time, ib.; biographical notice of the author, ib. Mississippi, geography of the region watered by the, 500. Missouri, progress of colonization on the banks of the, 483.
Indians, physiological character
of, 486. Montgomery's songs of Zion, 160, et seq.; design and peculiar qualifica- tions of the author, 160; psalm cxxii. 161; psalm xlvi., ib.
Moore's loves of the angels, 210, et seq.; objections to the subject, 210 ); absurdities of the machinery, 211;
profaneness of the poem, 212; author's supposed reformation of morals, 213; his excellence as a song-writer, 214; tinsel character of the present poem, ib.; love of Zaraph and Nama, ib.; com. parison of the poem with lord Byron's
heaven and earth,' 216; exquisite allusion to the loves of angels in para- dise lost, 217.
Napoleon memoirs, 113, et seq.; 313,
el seq.; origin of the memoirs, 113; ac- count of Las Cases, 114; specimens of his conversations with his master, ib.; impolitic conduct of Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo, 116; anec- dotes of his early life, ib.; character of his mathematical master, Patrault, ib.; early attachment, 117; gains a prize essay at the academy of Lyons, 118; commencement of his career at the siege of Toulon, ib.; absurd conduct of Cartaux, 119; conduct of Napoleon in the affair of the 13th Vendemiaire, 120; his successes in Italy, 122; his ambition first kindled at Lodi, ib.; revolution of the 18th Brumaire, ib.; I policy of the first consul, 123; charac- ters of his chief partisans, ib.; cha- racter of Sieyes, 124; his prospectus of a new government, 125; over-ruled by Napoleon, 126; unworthy jealousy manifested towards Moreau, ib. ; his narrow escape at Toulon, 127; anec- dotes of his generals, 128; of the council of state, 129; his command of temper, ib.; the Robespierres, ib.; prodigious exertions of Napoleon, 130; sentimental emotions awakened by a dog on the field of battle, 131; his opinion of love, 132; vulgar-minded abuse of Mad. de Stael, ib.; pedigree of the count, 133; his opinion of St. Pierre and Vertot, ib. ; anecdole of Gar- nier, 134; character of the continen- tal armies, ib.; of the three sovereigns, 135; estimate of the historical value of the volumes, ib.; impression pro- duced by Las Cases's continuation, 313; risks run by Napoleon, 314; plan sketched by Napoleon of his intended proceedings after the battle of Waterloo, 315; character of Talleyrand, 316; Na- poleon's hopes of possible liberation, 317; character of M. de Narbonne, ib.; minute attention of Napoleon to domestic economy, 318; anecdote of the Persian ambassador, 319; characters of the French marshals, ib.; marshal and madame Soult, ib. ; imperial comments on the book of Joshua, 320; narrow escapes,
ib.; circumstances which led to the treaty of Leoben, 321; character of Chateaubriand, ib.; danger of per- mitting the clergy to inherit, 322; Na- poleon's deliberate anger, ib.; his senti- ments on religion, 323; self-righteous vindication of himself, ib.; character of the Directory, 324; imperial puns, ib.; conduct of the emperor in his cabinet, 325; remarks on the battle of Waterloo, ib.; remarks on the use of ar tillery, 326; Murat a dandy, ib.; death of marshal Lannes, 327.
Negro slavery, tracts on, 570. Norris, H. H. compared with Carlile, 87; see Scholefield.
Novels, religious, remarks on, 283.
Oases, description of the, 156. O'Driscol's views of Ireland, 193, et seq.; paramount interest of the state of Ire- land, 193; emancipation not a pana- cea for its disorders, 194; misguided zeal of the no popery alarmists, ib.; protestant dissenters not implicated in the Catholic question, ib.; the test act not designed originally to exclude them, 195; why the dissenters need not look for relief, 196; character and contents of the work, 197; Ireland made papal by the English, 198; anomalous character of the church of Ireland, ib.; evils inseparable from es- tablishments, 199; enormous wealth and inefficiency of the Irish church, ib.; fraud and oppression practised in building useless churches, 200; civilizing efficacy of spires, ib.; the protestant clergy not desirous of reclaiming the people, ib.; evil tendency of the present ecclesiastical policy, 201; papal cha- racter of the protestant establishment, 203; horrible nature of the penal laws of Ireland, ib.; true light in which to view the catholic question, 204; pro- bable influence of emancipation on the catholic gentry, 205; necessity for ply- ing moral means of counteracting popery, instead of penal measures, ib.; demoralizing tendency of the Ro- mish superstition as now taught by the priests, 206; popery not to be feared, 207; apostacy of the Irish presbyte- rian church, 208; patronage enjoyed by covert socinianism in Ireland, ib. ; true character of socinianism, 209; regium donum, 210.
Opium, baleful effects of, 370, 1; see confessions of an opium eater. Oriental literature, see Burder.
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