Excursion, part of a poem, to be called the Recluse. See Wordsworth's Ex- cursion
Face, its measure not indicative of the understanding, 335
Fallacies of the senses, 135-6 Fish, a peculiar kind used by some African fishermen for catching tur- tles, 227; an immense shoal of dead ⚫ones, 229
Flowers of spring, description of, 518 France, its disorganized state, 75; its scenery, ib.; poverty, 76; effects of the revolution on the French character, 77; causes of its deterioration, ib. ; progress of protestantism in France inconsider- able, 78; results of the revolution, 79 French, their conduct contrasted with that of the English, in regard to the article in the treaty of peace, concerning the Slave Trade, 494-5 Fry's Sick Man's Friend, 209
Gala oxen, their enormous horns, 405 Gall, Dr. Physiognomical System, see Spurzheim.
Geological Society, transactions of 558,
et seq. on certain products obtained in the distillation of wood, with some account of bituminous substances, and remarks on coal, ib.; mineralo- gical account of the isle of Man, 559; on the granite Tors of Corn- wall, ib.; on the mineralogy of the neighbourhood of St. David's, 560; account of the brine springs at Droit- wich, ib.; on the veins of Cornwall, 561; on the fresh-water formations in the Isle of Wight; and observa- tions on the strata over the chalk in the S. E. of England, ib., on the vi- trified forts of Scotland, 562; on the sublimation of Silica, 564; on the specimens of Hippurites from Sicily, 565, account of the coalfield at Brad- ford, near Manchester, ib.; account of the island of Teneriffe, ib.; on the junction of trap and sandstone, at Stirling Castle, 568; on the eco- nomy of the mines of Cornwall and Devon, ib.; on the origin of a re. markable class of organic impres- sions, occurring in nodules of flint, 571; description of the oxyd of tip, &c., 571; on some new varieties of fossil alcyonia, 572; miscellaneous re- marks on a catalogue of specimens:— remarks on several parts of Scotland which exhibit quartz rock, and on the nature and connexion of this rock in
general, 673; notice relative to the geology of the coast of Labrador, 575; memoranda relative to Clovelly, North Devon, 576; on Staffa, ib. ; on vegetable remains preserved in chal- cedony, ib.; on the vitreous tubes found near to Drigg, in Cumberland, 576
Geometria legitima,by Francis Reynard, 174-7, et seq.
Geometry, plane, Keith's elements of, 174, et seq.
Gilfillan's essay on the sanctification of the Lord's-day, 515 Gias, torrent of, 557
Gogue, prophecy of Ezekiel concerning, See Penn's prophecy.
Gospel, its reasonableness not, in the first instance, the ground of its autho- rity, 370 Gravitation, a proof of the original ex- istence and continual operation of a de- signing agent, 488; probability of a law still more general than gravitation, 490
Grecian fables, origin of, 32
'Greenlanders, their infauts, on the 'death of their mothers, sometimes 'buried alive,' 10
Gregoire, M. on the Slave Trade, 490, et seq.; Buonaparte abolishes the Slave Trade in France, probably from po- litical not humane motives, 491: the greatest good frequently produced by the vilest instruments, ib.; conduct of some Heathens and Christians con- trasted, ib.; Christians import blood hounds from Cuba into St. Domingo, for the destruction of the negroes, 493; attempts in Paris to stigmatize the English in regard to their motive in advancing the abolition of the Slave Trade, ib.; privateers fitted out to prosecute the trade, 494; conduct of the French and English contrasted, in regard to the obnoxious article in the late treaty, 494-5; author's remarks on the sixth resolution of the Abolition so- ciety of June, 495; remarkable de- claration of two Roman Pontiffs against the Slave Trade, ib.; pretext of reasons of state considered, ib. ; excellent remarks of the author, ib.; European outrages against Africa compared with the Algerine piracies, 496; plausible claims of a modern Genseric, founded upon existing encroachments on the right of the subject, 496-7; effect of the ob- noxious article in the treaty of peace on the Haytians, ib.; tendency of mo ral evil to perpetuate its own exist,
Ence, 537; and to paralyze the mass of the people in regard to all virtu- ous feeling, 538; móral evil of slavery, ib.; of ignorance, ib.; of war, 539; demoralizing influence of military despotism, 540; moral emancipation must precede political freedom, 541, prospect of brighter days for poste- rity, 542; enlightened views of the au- thor in regard to liberty, 543; his re- flections on catholic emancipation, 544; invidious tendency of national distinctions on account of religious opinions, 545; author's remarks on the plea of the Coronation Oath, 546; his PREDICTION in regard to the papacy, 547; he disclaims the mere personal infallibility of the pope, 547; coinci- dence between the reasoning of the author and that of the Parisian San- hedrim, ib.; M. Gregoire's opinion upon a civil establishment for a particular mode of public worship, 548; his attempt to evade the charge of no salvation out of the church,' ib. ; reflections on the pre- sent state of Europe in a moral view, 549
Habits, inquiry if they become auto- matical, 139
Haven Jens forms a Moravian settle- ment at Nain, on the coast of Labra- dor, 13
Heathens and Christians, their conduct contrasted, 492
Henry VIII., his jester's advice to him, 130; state of religion during his reign, 266 Heroic poem to be popular, must be a national one, 354
Hierarchy of England, probability of its being involved in the downfall of mystical Babylon, the opinion of many, 550
Hieroglyphic writing not conducive to the invention of Letters, 85 Hill's essay on the prevention and cure of insanity, 39, et seq.; deep interest of the subject, ib. et seq.; its fre- quent occurrence, 40, materiality the prominent feature of the essay, ib. ; author's assertion that insanity is al- ways founded on corporeal disease, ib.; source of the error of the mate- rialists, 41; division of the subject, 42; author's first proposition controverted by his own statement, 43; inconsistency of his remarks, 44; the two states of Sthenia and Asthenia, 45; his defini- tion of madness deficient, 46; time unnoticed by the insane, ib.; proximate
cause of insanity, 47; on the here. ditary nature of the disease, 48; the preventive and curative treatment of the complaint, ib.; abuses and evils of lunatic asylums, 49; melancholy il- lustrative incident, ib.; on the preven- tion of insanity, ib.; decisive symp- toms of actual madness, 50; Bel- lingham not mad, ib.; remarks on al- leged irresistibility in regard to crimi- nal acts, 51; medical management of the insane, 52; cautious conduct ne- cessary in regard to insane convalescents, 53, on the detection of pretenders to madness, 53-4; extract; ib. ; literary character of the work, ib. Hippopotamus, account of a vain a tempt to kill this animal by shooting at it,
Hogg's Pilgrims of the Sun, 280, et seq., poetry not estimated by its intrinsic qualities, 281; analysis of the poem and extracts, ib., et seq.
Home's description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea Ar- gula, the Casuarius Emu, and the long legged Cassowary, from New South Wales, 259
Home's experiments to ascertain the co- agulating power of the secretion of the gastric glands, 261; on the tusks of the Narwhale, 264 Hopedale, on the coast of Labrador, Moravian settlement formed there,
13 Hopkinson's religious and moral reflec- tions, 399, et seq.; specimen of the wri- ter's incoherent style, 400; his false doc- trine, 401
Horner's account of the brine springs at Droitwich, 560 Horsley's, Bishop, caution to opposers of Calvinism, 339
Huguenots, religious liberty their sole object, 154
Hull on the doctrine of atonement, 621, et seq.; reflections on the death of Christ, 622
Human mind, Stewart's philosophy of, 130, et seq.
Humphreys, on a new variety in the breeds of sheep, 260
Hunter's opinions respecting some dis- eases, Abernethy on, 586 Hunt's Descent of Liberty, a mask, 517, et et seq., definition of a mask, ib.; sub- ject of the piece, 517; and extracts, flowers of Spring, description of, 518; extracts, 519; fourth song of peace, 520; chorus in welcome of Ceres, 521; fa-
vourable estimate of the piece, ib.
Ideas, theory of, unfounded, 132 Insanity, Hill's essay on the prevention and cure o^, 39, et seq.; its frequent occurrence, 40; asserted by the au- thor, to be always founded on cor- poral disease, ib.; its proximate cause, 47; its hereditary nature, 48; treatment, preventive and curative,ib., detection of pretenders to madness, 53-4
Instinct of animals a law of nature, and not an exertion of the reasoning prin- ciple, 327
Interpretation of the Bible, Dr. Marsh's
course of lectures on, 79, et seq., of words, 84
James I., state of religion in his reign, 271
Jephthah, a poem, 205, et seq. Jerome and Epiphanius, their assertion respecting the Hebrew Gospel used by the Ebionites, (note) 375 John, first epistle, v. and 20th, Ward- law's remarks on, 247 Johannes, a Mabikander Indian, his account of his conversion,' 5
Keith's geometry, 174, et seq. Kidd, on the mineralogy of the neigh- bourhood of St. David's, Pembroke- shire, 560
Kohlmeister and Kmoch's voyage from Okkak to Ungava Bay, 1, et seq.
Labaume's narrative of the campaign in Russia, 628, et seq., character of the work, 629, state of the French army on crossing the Niemen, ib. battle of Ostrowno, 630; admirable or- der of the Russians, 630; error of Buo- naparte, 630; destructive battle of Malo- Jaroslavitz, stern indifference of Buona- parte, 632; dreadful extremity of the French army in its retreat, 633; horrid catastrophe at Liadoui, 633
Lathorn Hall, siege and defence of, 592-3 Laud, his cruel persecution of Alexan- der Leighton, 273
Leftley's poems, 623, et seq.,, decline of his health, with his character, 624, in- cantation to the tooth-ach, 625-6 Lent, all food rigorously prohibited till after sun-set during its continuance, in Abyssinia, 420
Letters from a lady to her sister, du- ring a tour to Paris, in the months of April and May, 1814, 73-4; appear-
ance of Louis XVIII., at the Cathedral of Notre Dame described, ib. L'Hôpital, Butler's essay on the life of, 148, et seq.
Liadoui, dreadful catastrophe of the French sick and wounded there, 633
Liberty, Hunt's descent of, a mask, 517; definition of a mask, ib.; subject, 517; extracts, ib., et seq.: song of peace, 520; welcome of Ceres, 521
Linley's poems, G27-8
Lord of the Isles, a poem, by Walter Scott, 469, et seq; sketch of the poem, 470, et seq.; extracts, 472 Lunatic asylums, abuses and evils of, 49, melancholy instance of, ib. ̧
Mac Culloch, on certain products ob- tained in the distillation of wood, with some account of bituminous substances, and remarks on coal, 558; on the granite Tors of Cornwall, 559; Loggingrock, ib.; cheese-wring, 560; on the vitrified forts of Scotland, 562; on the sublimation of Silica, 564; on the junction of trap and sand- stone, at Stirling Castle, 568: miscel- laneous remarks accompanying a ca- talogue of specimens, 573; on several parts of Scotland that exhibit quartz rock, &c. 573, isle of Rum, ib.; Craig of Ailsa, ib.; Arran, 574; Portsey, ib.; Crinan, ib.; on Staffa, 576; on. vegetable remains found in Chalce- dony, 576
Madras and China, Wathen's voyage to, 447, et seq.; Conjeveram, 449; Vish- nou's temple, ib.; temple and carri- ages of Seeva, 451-2; Chinese tem- ple and holy pigsty, 455; British in- tegrity, its estimate in China, 457 Maladetta, one of the Pyrenean chain, re- flections occasioned by the desolate ap- pearance around it, 213 Malo-Jaroslavitz, destructive battle of, 632, Buonaparte's stern indifference on view ing the field of battle, ib. Malumpava or Elephant tree, 227 Man disqualified by sin for the full en- joyment of the beauties and blessings of nature, 13, et seq.
Manuscripts of the books of Scripture, their various readings, 81 Marboré, one of the Pyrenees, picture of, 213
Marsh's course of lectures on the in- terpretation of the Bible, 79, et seg.; biblical criticism, its true object, 80; no book of Scripture extant in the author's own hand writing, ib.; form
in which the Scriptures ex'sted pre- viously to the invention of printing, 16.; manuscripts differ in their read- ings, 81; benefits resulting from bibli- cal criticism, 82: extract 83; inves- tigation of single words, ib.; Dr. Marsh, an advocate for the revision of the com mon version, 84; rules for the interpretation of words, ib.; literal and figurative use of words, 85; alle- gory, its definition, 86; the Pope's su- premacy declared in the first chapter of Genesis,86; remarks on allegorizing texts, 87
Mary 1st, state of religion during her reign, 267
Mask, what it is, 517
Mathematical tables, by the Rev. W. A. Barker, 291-3
Mechanics, Bridge's treatise on, 308 Memorial on behalf of the native Irish,
607, et seq.; good effects of the Gaelic schools, 603; advantages of teaching the Irish in their own tongue, 609; Dr. Johnson on circulating the Scriptures, 610
Memory, causes of a bad one, 142 Merbury Francis, his examination before Bishop Aulmer, 121, et seq. Mercury, table of its transits, 392 Mesuril, on the East coast of Africa, manu- factory of M nioca there, 224 Military despotism, its demoralizing influence, 540
Mind, its faculties not proportionate to the size of the brain, 334 Miscellaneous papers of John Smeaton, 298, et seq. titles of the papers 299 Mont Perdu, the highest eminence of the Pyrenean chain, 212
Monte Serrato, its hermitage decribed,. 308
Moon-light, a beautiful description of, from Southey's Roderick, 365 Moral emancipation must precede poli- tical freedom, 541
Moral evil, its tendency to perpetuate its own existence, 537; and to para- Iyze the mass of the people in regard to virtuous feeling, 538 Moravians, the public opinion of their mode of christianizing the Heathen, founded upon deficient information, 1, et seq.; their mode not different from that of other missionaries, 8; eleven brethren slain by the Indians, 11; fail in their first attempt to settle at Labrador, 12; form settlements at Nain, Okkak, and Hopedale, 13; specimen of a Moravian missionary, 157
More's (Mrs. H.) essay on the character and practical writings of St. Paul, 423; et seq.; chief difficulty of a writer on Christian morals, ib.; minds of various orders have respectively their appropriate scenes of action in their attempts to improve moral society, 435; causes that have tended to esta- blish the popularity of Mrs. More as a Christian Moralist, ib.; deficiency of her earlier writings in regard to Christian doctrine, 436; general cha- racter of her writings, 437, Author's views in treating on the character of St. Paul, 437-9; sketch of the contents, 438, et seq.; estimate of Pagan morality, ib; superiority of the Christian scheme, 439; on St. Peter's remark-that St. Paul's epistles contain things hard to be understood, 439, epistles of St. Paul, of equal authority with the other scriptures, 440; distinction in regard to the cha- racter of Jesus Christ as exhibited in the Gospel, and in the Epistles, ik.; in- stance of an incautious mode of ex- pression, ib; remarks on the Gospel con- sidered as being merely a scheme of words, 412; tendency of the doctrine of the Cross to raise the tone of moral obli- gation, 443; obedience requires not only motives, but inclination and power, 443; Paul's conduct in regard to ecclesiastical dignity, ib.; philosophy hostile to Chris- tian toleration, 444; evils incident to somnolence of character, 445, Author's reflections on the speculatists of the Ger- man school, ib. Mrs. More and Ma- dame de Stael contrasted, 446; St. Paul's heavenly mindedness, 600; on 'the love of money,' ib. et seq.; de- ceptive nature of the principle, ib. the conduct of mun in his reception of the Gospel, 603; God, the fountain of our mercies and virtues, ib.; on prayer, 604 ; Mrs. More's patriotism, 605; ENGLAND, remarks on her claims to having evan- gelized the heathen, &c. 606, estimate of Mrs. More's work, 607 More's (Mrs. Hannah) sacred dramas, 404.
Mosambique, some account of the Por- tuguese slave trade at that place, 224, et seq.
Nain, a Moravian settlement formed there, by Jens Haven, 13
Narrative of repassing the Beresina,
Native Irish, memorial of, 607, et seq. ; good effects of the Gaelic schools, 608; advantages of teaching the frish
in their native tongue, 609, letter of of Dr. Johnson, on circulating the scrip- tures, 610-11
Natural Philosophy, advantages derived from the study of it, 483 Natural Philosophy, Playfair's outlines of, 480, et seq.; Dynamics and its sub- divisions, 481-2; advantages arising from the study of this science, 483; phy- sical astronomy, 484; on the gravi- tation of bodies, 485; disturbing for- ces of the planets, 487; gravitation a proof of the original existence and con- tinued operation of a designing agent, 488; obliquity of the ecliptic, ib.; theo- rems of Laplace, 489; probability of a more general principle than the law of gravitation, 490
Needles, fatal consequences to the work- man, in that part of the manufacture called dry grinding, 189
New covering to the velvet cushion, 595, et seq.; its character, 596, et seq.; the story with remarks, 597; death of the Vicar, 599
Negres, de l'interêt de la France à l'egard
de la traite de; par J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi, 65 New mathematical tables, by P. Barlow, 291, et seq.
Nonconformist's remains, sermons com- piled by Richard Slate, 86, et seq. Nonconformity to the rites and cere- monies of the established church, its rise, 267
No salvation out of the Church, M. Gre- goire's remarks on it, 548
Obedience, Christian, requires not motives, but inclination and power, 443 Okkak, journal of a voyage from, to Ungava Bay, by Kohlmeister and Kmock, 1, et seq.; Moravians, their high estimation in the opinion of the world, ib.; its causes explained, 2; the public opinion founded on false principles, 3; mode pursued by the Moravian missionaries in their at- tempts to convert the Heathen, ib.; ⚫ extract from Spangenberg', 4; Johannes's account of his conversion,' 5; first mode practised by the Mora- vians to convert the Greenlanders un- successful, 7; a different mode adopt- ed, 8; their plans not different from those of other missionaries, ib.; civi- lization considered by the Moravians as subsequent to conversion, 9; · se- cond extract from Spangenberg,' ib. `et seq.; eleven brethren killed by the Indians,' 11; present appearance of
the later missions, not justly to be estimated by a contrast with the ad- vanced state of the Moravian mis- sions, 12; failure of the Moravians in their first attempt to settle in La- brador, ib.; Jens Haven renews the attempt and forms a settlement at Nain, 13; a second formed at Okkak, ib.; a third at Hopedale, 13; speci→ men of a Moravian missionary, 157; state of the Labrador mission in 1812, ib.; · extracts from their Periodical Accounts relative to the settlement at Nain,' 157, et seq.; at Hopedale', 159, el seq.; situation of Okkak and Ungava Bay, and course of the voy- age,' 160; extracts from the journal, 161; mountains of Nachvak, 163; Es- quimaux mode of catching salmon-trout, 164; address of an Esquimaux to his countrymen, 165; Esquimaux feast, 166; remarkable elevation of the tides, 167; extent of their voyage, 170; South river, ib.; Kohlmeister's address to the natives, 171; style and character of the work, 172; general success of the mission, ib.; appeal to the Chris- tian public on the embarrassments of the Moravian funds, 173
Oliver Heywood, short account of him, 89; extract, ib.
Organs, their situations and external marks according to Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, 468
Original lines and translations, 619, et seq.; extracts, 620-1 Ostrowno, battle of, 630
Oxen, Abyssinian custom of cutting the flesh from them while living, 417-8; Bruce's account wantonly false, ib.
Paris, Eustace's Letter from, 74, et seq. in 1802 and 1814, 72-3
letters from a lady to her sister during a tour to, in April and May 1814, 73-4
Parkinson, on the specimens of Hippu- rites from Sicily, 565
Pass, a terrific one, from Albinen to the baths of Leuck, 557
Paul, St., Mrs. More's essay on the character and practical writings of, 433, et seq.; her views in writing the present work, 437-8; contents, 438, et seq.; estimate of the Pagan morality, ib.; superiority of the Christian scheme, 439; St. Peter's remark, that the epistles contain things difficult of comprehension, 439; epistles of equal authority with the other scriptures, 440; character of Jesus Christ, as exhibited in the gospel and
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