proofs of bias in the translator, 519; author's notions of a purgatory, 520. Bible, the, Alexander's new version of, 376.
Society, Norris's charges against the, exposed, 75, et seq.; see Schole- field.
Bible teacher's manual, 188, et seq.; im- portance of a literal acquaintance with the Scriptures, 189.
Biblical illustrations, 171; see Belsham, Burder, Gisborne.
Body and Soul, 283-5; objections which lie against religious novels, 283; avowed object of the author to coun- teract evangelical religion, ib. ; carica- ture of certain gloomy religionists, ib. ; establishments rest on an alliance be tween religion and the world, 284; ri- baldry and profaneness of the author, 285.
Bonaparte, memoirs of, 113, 313; see Napoleon.
Bonar's observations on the conduct of Judas Iscariot, 87, et seq.; the tract recommended by Dr. Doddridge, 87; exceptions to its statements as regard the views of Judas, 88; Macknight's remarks on the probable motives of the traitor, ib.; Bishop Porteus's view of the case, 89; true explanation of his conduct, ib.
Bore, the, phenomenon of, 51. Borrenstein's tables of the Syriac and Arabic characters, 285.
Bracebridge Hall, 233, et seq.; effect produced on the public by the Sketch Book, 233; author's farewell to England, 234; comparative merit of the pre- sent work, 236; English scenery, ib. ; remarks on the English character, 237; Dame Heyliger's shop, 239; her son Dolph, 248; his introduction to Dr. Knipperhausen, 241; a rainy Sunday at an inn, 242; the rookery, 243. 'Brown's memoirs of Hervey, 456, 7;
character of Hervey's writings, 456; his want of success as a preacher, 457. Bowles's grave of the last Saxon, 562, et seq.; notice of author's controversy with Lord Byron, 562; author's son- nets, ib.; want of compresion the fault of his blank verse, 563; the present poem a failure, ib. ; song of the spirits, ib.; speech of Edgar-Atheling, 564; defects of the story, 565; even- ing scene, ib.; song, 566. Bowring's details of an arrest, &c. 548, et seq.; grounds of the decision of the English government, 548; opinion of
French counsel, ib.; the principle of non-interference unsound, 549; conse- quences of the alien bill, 550; its opera- tion distinguished from Mr. Bowring's case, 551.
Bristed on the Anglican and Anglo- American churches, 53, et seq.; real nature of the point at issue relative to church polity, 53; episcopacy dis- relished if divest of power, 54; cha- racter of Wilks's "correlative claims and duties," ib.; importance of the in- quiry to America, 54; pedigree and early life of the author, ib.; bishop Mant the head of a school rebellion, ib.; reasons for not entering the church, 56; bishop Warburton's theory of alliance, un- scriptural, ib. ; test and corporation acts impolitic, 57; present state of the Ameri- can episcopal church, 58; character of the author's performance, 59; state of the Irish church an argument against church establishments, ib.; more evange- lical piely out of, than in the church of England, 60; obligations of society to English dissenters, 61; the Anglican church a persecutor of evangelical religion, 62; "Christian observer's" apology for the act of uniformity exposed, 63; infi- delity in England prevalent before the French revolution, 64; moral effici- ency of an establishment to be exa- mined apart from the religious insti- tutions independent on it, ib.; com- plaints of pious churchmen on the subject of patronage an argument against church establishments, 65; case of Thomas Scott, ib.; numbers of clergy in America, 66; question of supply and demand in respect to religions instruction, ib. ; episcopal church of America the least effi cient in the country, 67; reasons for not wishing the subversion of existing esta- blishments, 68.
Burder (H. F.) on the attributes, 351, et seq.; the Divine attributes not suffici- ently dwelt on by modern divines, 352; advantages of preaching in a series, 353; merits of the volume, ib. ; nature of future blessedness and prospect of the impenitent as arising from the eternity of God, 354; Divine patience illustrated in reference to idolatry, 356; Divine sovereignty, ib.
Burder's (Sam.) oriental literature, 170, et seq.; verbal coincidences often mis- taken for legitimate illustration of Scripture, 171; instances of critical trifling, ib.; on the phrase daughter of Zion,' 172; illustration of Psalm xlv.
6, ib.; other exceptionable illustra- tions, 173.
Butler's, Bishop, definition of piety ex- amined, 106.
Byron's, lord, 'heaven and earth,' notice of, 216; exhausted appearance of the author's mind, ib.
Werner, 136, 148, et seq. ; his lordship's public character con- trasted with that of lord John Russell, 136; argument of the poem, 148; merits of Miss Lee's original, ib.; dialogue between Werner and his wife, 149; remarks on the character of Werner, 153; injudicious deviations from Kruitzner,' ib.; fine apostrophe to a diamond, 154; the poem a confir- mation of the opinion that the author has not the dramatic faculty, 155.
Calvinism, tendency of, vindicated from
Dr. Copleston's charges, &c. 22, 261; indecency of inveighing against, 232. Campan's, madame, memoirs of Marie Antoinette, 415, et seq.; licentiousness of the court of France under Louis XV., 415; anecdote of the seduction of mile. de Romans, 416; atrocious abduction of mile. Tiercelin, 417; absurd etiquette of the princess's toilet, ib.; character of Marie Antoinette, 418; account of mad. Campan, 419; description of the four daughters of Louis XV., ib.; eliquette of their daily interviews with the king, 420; dexterity of the king in break- ing eggs, 421; author's first introduction to the king, ib.; sequel to the history of mad. Campan, ib.; ominous cir- cumstances connected with the life of Marie Antoinette, 422; affecting anec- dote, 423; fatal influence of the abbè de Vermond, ib.; first appearance at court, of the dauphiness, 424; death of Louis XV., ib.; description of Louis XVI., 425; remarks on author's apo- logy for the queen's levity of conduct, ib.; anecdote of the queen's milliner, 426; man with the iron mask, ib. ; in- fluence of the Polignac family, 427; anecdote of Gluck and Vestris, ib.; anec- dote of Necker, 428; disastrous choice of the archbishop of Sens as minister, 429; anecdote of the queen, ib. ; conduct of the court at the commencement of the revolution, 430; noble conduct of Barnave, ib.; grossness and weakness of the king, 431; storming of the Tuileries, 432.
Carlile's sermons on repentance and faith, 327, et seq.; author's illustration of Mr. Walker's sophism, 331; his own
view of faith contradictory, ib.; cor- rectness of his representation of the efficacy of faith as derived from the truth it introduces into the soul, 340; his distinction between faith and belief inadmissible, ih.; reluctance of men to submit to the Divine testimony, 341; con- tents of the volume, 342.. Carrington's banks of Tamar, 459; lines on Christmas Morn, 465; author's ac- count of his circumstances, 467; the holiday, 468; scenery of mount Edge- cumbe, 469; ship-launch, 470; scene on the Tamar, 471; tower near the Weir, 472; merits of the poem, 473. Chateaubriand, character of, 321. Churches, remarks on the architecture of, 544, et seq.;
Clarke's history of intolerance, vol. ii., 450, et seq.; contents and character of the work, 450; respective inconsistency of Mohammedans and Christians, ib.; mahommedism more Christian than popery, 451; spread of mahommedism to be accounted for only on this prin- ciple, 452; Christianity innocent of sanctioning intolerance, 453; protes- tantism not the originator of heresies, ib. ; schisms quite as numerous before the reformation, 454; scriptural nature of keresy and schism, ib.; heresy and schism equally chargeable on national and sectarian churches, 455. Collet's relics of literature, 357, et seq.; the nonsense of one age the wisdom of another, 357; toleration, an American apologue, 358; the snow-spirit, a poem, 360; character of Wilmot, earl of Rochester, ib,; letters to his lady, 361; letter from a condemned criminal offering to sell his body, ib.; manuscript diary, 1772, 4, 362; we have a Douglas yet,' 364. Confessions of an opium-eater, 366, el seq.; character of the work, 366; re- cords of opium-eaters, 367; early history of the author, ib.; origin of his contracting the habit, 368; his absurd denial of the intoxicating power of opium, ib.; case of a surgeon, 369; case of an old whiskey drinker, ib.; author's own case examined, 370; ef- fects of the practice on the consti- tution, ib. ; immoral tendency of the work, 371. Copleston's remarks on objections to his inquiry, 18, et seq.; state of the con- troversy, 18; author charged by Mr. Grinfield with eating up his words respect- ing archbishop King, 19; his attempt to account for the morality of predestinarians
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 Divine predestination supersedes moral agency, 29; what liberty is necessary to a moral agent, 31; opinion of the assembly of divines respecting free- will, 32; cilation 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, Set 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 waler, 460; address to the Dove, 461; millenarian oak, 462; cot- ton mill on the Dove, ib. ; scenery of the peak, ib.; inaccuracy of Walton respecl- 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, 343; 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,
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 lower 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
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