and lord Byron, ib.; merits of the poem, 137; soliloquy of the old king, 138; scene, the king and lady of the house- hold, 139; scene, the king and the chief inquisitor, 140; description given by Don Carlos of an auto-da-fé, 142; scene, two inquisitors, 146; the subject wor- thy of a Russell, 148.
Scepticism, remarks on, 373. Schism, true nature of, 454. Scholefield's reply to Norris, 75, et seq.; malignant character of Norris's libels, 75; correspondence between him and Dr. Steinkopff, 76; his audacious attack on the Newbury bible society, 77; other instances of misrepresentation, ib.; charges against the bible society on the ground of expenditure, 78; charge of disrespect to episcopal au- thorities rebutted, 79; on the alleged concurrence of papists and sectaries in the opinion that the bible endangers the church, 80; opinion of Dissenters stated, ib.; the church in more danger from bishop Marsh and such men as Norris, 81; case of the dissenting place of worship at St. Petersburgh, ib.; Norris's charge of falsehood against the society as regards titlepages, exposed, 82; charges relating to the translations examined, 83; attack on Dr. Henderson and Professor Van Ess, 84; Norris's assertion that versions are commentaries, 85; true character of Norris's opposition, ib.; improper courtesy of the author, 86. Seaton's church in Canaan, 474, et seq. ; remarks on the true use of Scripture history, 474; extracts, ib. et seq. Sismondi's history of the Italian repub- lies, 1, et seq.; coincidences between the early and later periods of Italian history, 1; monumental proofs of the attainments of the Etruscans, ib.; absence of records relating to the early periods, 2; military character of Ro- man institutions, 5; difficulties of the historian, 4; laudable exertions of the author to secure historic accuracy, ib.; contemptuous estimate of his labours by Mr. Roscoe, 5; character of the work, ib.; state of Italy from the fifth to the tenth century, 6; antiquity and local advantages of Venice, 7; daring enterprise of Istrian pirates, 8; the as- cendancy of Venice over Greece ulti- mately disadvantageous, 10; charac- ter of Eccelino iii, ib.; cruelties of Ec- celino, 11, 12; a crusade declared against him, 13; massacre of the
Paduans, 14; superstition of Eccelino, 15; his capture and death, 16; re- marks on Mr. Roscoe's attack on the author, ib.; see Roscoe. Sketches of sermons, vol. iv, 278, el seg. ; sketches but sorry substitutes, 278; specimens of vicious style, 279; sketch of sermon on Heb. xii. 3, 280. Slander, essay on the evils of, 93. Smith, Dr. I. P., on the means of ascer- taining the truth of religious senti- ments, 175-7; danger of believing such satisfaction unattainable, 175; religious truth another name for thinking justly concerning God, 176. Smuggling, remarks on, 414. Socinianism, its prevalence in Ireland,
208; remarks on the character of, 209. Socinians, activity of modern, 385. Somatopsychonoologia, 447, et seq.; au- thor's ignorant attack on Paley's theology, 447; insidious character of the work, 448; inconsequential reasonings of the materialist, 449.
Spain, remarks on the state of things in, 408.
Stoical piety, nature of, 106. Syriac, easy method of acquiring the reading of, 285.
Talleyrand, character of, 316. Thiers's Pyrenees, &c. 399, et seq.;
south of France little known to the French, 400; greatness of the house of Savoy, ib.; physiognomical character- istics, 401; southern races, ib.; demo- cratical character of Marseilles, 402; singular change in its affairs, ib.; ris- ing commerce of the Greeks, 403; description of the Catalonians, 404; Spanish monks, ib.; Mata Florida, 406; anecdote of the Trappist, ib.; Baron d'Eroles, 407; encampment of the army of the faith, ib.; state of the Spanish nation, 408; description of a guerilla chief, 411; Spanish smugglers, 413; remarks on the prohibitory system, 414.
Thomson's sermons on infidelity, 551, et seq.; design and useful character of the work, 552; plan of the sermons, 553; deists chargeable with contempt for religion in general, ib.; the rejection of revelation leads to the rejection of all re- ligion, 554; the objections to Christianity applicable to natural religion, 555; a miracle nothing but a fact, ib. ; moral causes of disbelief fatal to all religion, 556; immoral doctrines of Hume, 557 ; infidelity destructive of happiness,
558; latent infidelity of professed be- lievers, 559; unbelief charged on the formalist and the inactive, ib.; merit of the work, 561.
Toleration, an American apologue, 358.
Vau, force of the Hebrew, 44. Venice, antiquity and situation of, 7. Village Lecturer, the, 163, et seq.; qua- lifications of a village teacher, 163; evil of abandoning village instruction to the illiterate, 164; character and contents of the volume, 165; reflections on the gospel's being preached to the poor, ib.; the harvest the end of the world, 168.
Virtue, Edwards's definition of, errone- ous, 100.
Walker's, John, representation of faith
exposed, 331; his letter to the Editor of the Eclectic Review, 574. Wellwood's, sir H. M., sermons, vol. ii. 261, et seq.; morality of Calvinists unimpeachable, 261; merits of the
volume, 262; on the true test of religious principle, 263; fidelity in little illustra- ted, 264; humiliating retrospect of life as inadequately employed, 265; the peni- tent malefactor, 266; his case no encou- ragement to the impenitent, 267 ; opinions respecting the graves opened at our Lord's resurrection, 268; argument for the separate state, 269. Wilberforce's appeal on behalf of negro slaves, 570.
Wilks's correlative claims and duties, remarks on, 54, et seq.
Wilson's travels in Egypt, 68, et seq. ; catchpenny character of the volume, 68; author's pious transports at approach- ing Jerusalem, 69; his feelings on Mount Olivet, 71; author's absurd notes, 72; interview with lady Hester Stanhope, 73.
Word of God, the, concerning all who are in trouble, 569.
Wren, sir C., memoirs of, 539, et seq.; see Elmes.
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