qualifications requisite to a traveller
through this country, Itinerancy among the clergy, the spirit of, severely animadverted on by Dr. Law, bishop of Chester, 587
Ivory, on the grounds of Laplace's me- thod for computing the attractions of spheroids of every description, 383
on the attraction of an extensive class of spheroids, 383
James's, (Major) new and enlarged mi- litary dictionary, 98, et seq.; speci- mens of accurate translation and de- finition, ib. et seq.
Japan, see Langsdorff's voyages and tra- vels, 133, et seq.
Jaqueline, a tale, 395-8; its character
and merit, 399; extract, ib. et seq. Juggernaut, his car seized, broken, and sold, by order of a collector under the Madras presidency, 530-1
Junius, inquiry concerning the author of the letters of, with reference to the Memoirs of a celebrated literary cha- racter, 278, et seq.; mystery, its e fects on the mind, 279; Mr. Glover, the supposed author of the letters, 280; presumptive proofs, ib.; a diffi- culty stated and examined, 289; a se- cond difficulty in regard to the hand- writing; memoir, valuable, as an historical record, 284; political in- tegrity of Glover, 285; extracts, iv.
Kendal, Robert, see Davies's 'brand plucked out of the fire'
Kett's Flowers of wit, 184, et seq.; ex- tracts, 185
Kidd's sermons for the use of villages
and families, 389, et seq.; favourable character of the discourses, 390; ex- tracts, ib. et seq.
Knight on the attraction of such solids as are terminated by planes, and on so- lids of greatest attraction, 385
on the penetration of a hemis- phere by an indefinite number of equal and similar cylinders, 386
on the motions of the tendrils of plants, 600
Lacey's discourses for domestic use, 498,
et seq.; difficulty of selecting sermons for publication, ib.; character of the sermons, 500; calmness of mind arising from confidence in God, 500-1; the good man's prospect after death, 501-2 Lancasterian schools, unjustifiable charge against them in regard to religion, by the Bishop of Chester, 587
Langsdorff's voyages and travels in va- rious parts of the world, 133, et seq.; probability that the Sandwich Islands have been reduced under the sole au- thority of Tamalama, ib.; great in- tellectual capabilities of islanders, ib. 134.; Mowna Roa, its height, &c. ib.; inaccuracy of our charts of the Japan Islands, 136; arrival at Mangasaki,ib.; their reception, 137; the Opperban- jos, ih.; Russians required to surren- der their cannon, powder, &c. 138; rigorously restricted to their vessel, 139, et sq; desperate subordination of the people, 142; presents for the Emperor, 143; ambassador's residence described, 144; procession to the house of the governor, 148-9; the presents refused, with the alleged cause, 150; 'instance of matchless subordination, 154; Captain sails northward to St. Peter and St. Paul, 155; Sachalin, a penin- sula, 156; jealousy of the Chinese court more unreasonable than that of Japan, 157
Laplace's theory of probabilities, 562, et seq.; continued, ib. et seq.; princi- ples of his theory, 565; mode of apply- ing them, ib.; on the probability of error in the mean results of numerous observations, 567, et seq.; application of the theory to the investigation of va- rious phenomena, 568
Lara, a tale, 393, el seq.; extract, 395; liable in some instances to the charge of impiety, 398
Law's, (Dr.) charge to the clergy of the diocese of Chester, 578, et seq.; visi- tation charges ordinarily of a repul- sive nature, 579; philanthropy of the dissenters and methodists a great na- tional benefit, 580; Dr. L's remarks on the constitution and object of the Bible Society, 581; luminous illustration of his argument, 582; examined and ex- posed, ib. et seq.; real cause of the opposition to the Bible Society, 584; alleged cause of the clergy for with- holding their co-operation, 585; ex- amined and confuted, ib.; unjustifiable charge against the Lancasterian Schools, 587; his lordship's severe animadversions on the spirit of itinerancy in regard to the clergy, ib.; his generous feelings iu regard to the salaries of stipendiary curates, 589 Lauderdale's, Earl of, letter on the corn laws, 1, et seq.; leading features of the work described, 11, 16.
Life, different views arising from the consi-
deration of it in its earlier and later stages,
376 Life, Hunter's theory of, see Hunter its low estimate among the Min- doos, 636
of the soul, extracted from Kidd's sermon on the way of life, 390 Lindsey, the late Rev. Theoph., see Belsham's memoirs, 113
Lion hunt in the forest of Durlee, near Cambay, 644
Lofft's Laura, or anthology of sonnets,
502, et seq.; Gray's sonnet to the memory of West, with critical remarks, 502-3; sonnet from the Italian of G. Cotta, 504; from Shakspeare, 505; construction of the sonnet, ib.; author's fanciful ana- logy of the sonnet and the tones of a mu- sical octave, &c., 507; sonnet in France, Germany, &c., 509; extracts, 510,
Mahratta army described, 457-8
Mann's short discourses on the Lord's
Prayer, 630, extract, ib.
Malthus's observations on the effects of the corn laws, 1; his reasoning in- conclusive, 16
Maude's Kingdom of God, a sermon, 422
Meadley's memoirs of Algernon Sydney, 256, et seq.; his situation and circum- stauces unfavourable to the develop- ment of his character, 257; probable cause of the high estimation in which his name is held, 258; sketch of his life, ib. et seq.; noble conduct of one of Cromwell's soldiers, 259; Sydney approves of the sentence against- Charles I. ib.; preserves the life of the prince of Wales, (Charles II.) ib.; re- tires to the continent, ib.; his character of the French court, ib. et seq.; singular instance of his haughty independence, 262; picture of France under Louis XIV. 263; revisits England, 264; M. Baril- lon, 265; arrest and condemnation of Sydney, 266; his intrepid reply to the executioner, 267 Mease's picture of Philadelphia, 302, et seq.; defective nature of our inform- ation respecting the character, habits, &c. of the Anglo-Americans, 302; public opinion in Britain greatly ad- vanced before policy and law, 303; the national character not to be esti mated by the conduct of the governors, 304; remarks on national prejudice, ib.; Philadelphia built by Penn after
the model of Babylon, 306; subsiralum of the city, ib; progressive population of the city and liberties, 308; contrast between American and London porter, 309; American press, &c. 310; state of periodical literature, ib.; circuit court of Philadelphia, ib.; Penn on capital punishment, 312; management of crimi- mals, 313; religious societies, 314; charitable institutions, ib.; pecu. liarities attending the formation of the national character of the Anglo-Ame- ricans, 315
Memoirs of the Queen of Etruria, writ- ten by herself, 590, et seq.; prince of Parma appointed to the throne of Tuscany, 590; state of the palace at Florence, 592; queen appointed re- gent on the demise of the king, b.; dethroned by order of Buonaparte, ib.; imprisoned on account of an at- tempt to escape to England, 593; her harsh treatment from Gen. Miollis, her jailor, 593; liberated, ib.; estimate of her intellectual character, 595; seizure of the Pope, 596-7; enthusi- astic attachment of the French to the Pope, in his progress towards Paris, 598; alarm of Buonaparte, and return of the Pope, ib.
Memoirs of a celebrated literary and political character, see Junins Merivale's Orlando in Roncesvalles, a poem, 227, et seq.; works of the poet most interesting, as forming faithful and lively records of national charac- ter and manners, ib.; favourable esti- mate of the author's taste and judge- ment, 229; analysis of the poem, aud extracts, 229, et seq.
Miaco, the residence of the Daïri, the
ecclesiastical sovereign of Japan, 146 Military Dictionary, by Major James,
Mind, necessity of a holy influence on the, 54
Missionary, a poem, 69, et seq.; drama- tic poetry, its claims to attention; 69; not necessarily connected with the histrionic art, ib. (note); original pur- pose of the ancient drama, 70, (note); subject of the poem, and extracts, 71, et seq.
Modern Parnassus, a poem, 458, et seq.; enlightened criticism, distinguished from satire, ib. et seq.; subjects of the poem, ib.; Bloomfield's poetic claims considered, 461-2; source of the writer's satirical criticism, 463; hints to the author, &c. concerning the pre- requisites to readers of poetry, 464
Monkeys, instance of their distress and affection for a dead companion, 410 Moonsbine, 183
Moral influence of Buonaparte's despotism peculiarly dreadful, 627
Mowna Roa, its height and remarka- ble form, 134
National character of a people not to be estimated by the conduct of their go- vernors, 304 Nature, sketch from, 300-1; extracts, ib. New England contains but one profess-
edly Unitarian chapel, 122 Newport Pagnel, origin of the institu- tion there for the education of candi- dates for the Christian ministry, 413
Old age, delusive error arising from impro- per views of it, 391
Oran reduced by Cardinal Ximenes, 331 Orlando in Roncesvalles, a poem, by Merivale, 227, et seq.
Orton, Job, his inclination to rank Mr. Lindsey with the silenced and ejected ministers, repugnant to reason and scripture, &c. 130
Padua, decline of its schools, 471 Parnassian wild shrubs, by W. Taylor, 182
Parrots, their numbers, and destructive na-
Paulinus's Epistle to Celantia, 382 Peace of mind arising from confidence in the care of God, 500-1
Persecution, Chandler's history of, by Mr. Atmore, 237, et seq. Petrarcha's villa described, 476-7 Phædo, a dialogue on the immortality
of the soul, translated from the Greek of Plato, 79, et seq.; frivolous argu- ments advanced by Socrates, 80; Wollaston's argument examined, 80, et seq.; Butler's argument stated, 82; distinctness of the soul and body, 83-4 Philadelphia, Mease's picture of, 302,
et seq.; built by Penn after the model of Babylon, 306. See Mease Philanthropy of the dissenters and me- thodists a great national benefit, 580 Philosophical transactions of the royal
society of London, for 1812, part I. 244, et seq.; peculiarities in the struc- ture of the organ of hearing in the Balæna Mysticetus, 246; chemical researches on the blood, and some other animal fluids, 247; gaseous compound of carbonic oxide and chlorine, 249; eruption of a volcano
in the sea, 250; primitive crystals of carbonate of lime, bitter spar, and iron spar, 251; progressive motion of snakes performed by means of the ribs, ib.; combinations of different metals and chlorine, ib.; on the ac- tion of poisons on the animal system, 253. Part II. Additional experiments on the muriatic and oxymuriatic acids, 599; on the motions of the tendrils of plants, 600; account of some expe- riments on different combinations of fluoric acid, 601-2; experiments on the influence of the brain on the gene- ration of animal heat, 603; on the structures, &c. of the solvent glands, in the digestive organs of birds, &c. 604; on the combinations of phos phorus and sulphur, ib. Mathematical papers. On the grounds of Laplace's method for computing the attractions of spheroids of every description, 383; on the attraction of an extensive class of spheroids, ib.; Dr. Herschel's ob- servations on two comets which ap- peared in 1811, 1812, 385; on the attraction of such solids as are termi- nated by planes, and on solids of greatest attraction, ib.; on the pene- tration of a hemisphere by an indefi- nite number of equal and similar cy- linders, 386; observations on the measurement of three degrees of the meridian, ib.; on a periscopic came- ra obscura and microscope, 388 Pinkerton on the present state of the
Greek Church in Russia. See Platon Platon's present state of the Greek Church in Russia, translated by Pin- kerton, 429, el seg.; Russian empire, our notions of its religion, &c. incor- rect, ib.; grounds for anticipating its rapid improvement, 430-1; supersti- tion of the Greek Church not so great as generally supposed, ib.; Mr. Pin- kerton's qualifications for, and object in writing, 432; on the reverencing of pictures, with remarks, ib.; religious sentiments of the metropolitan, 435; sketch of the work, ib.; Platon on the present state of man, and the sacrifice of Christ, 436; probability that the Rus- sian Church will speedily become more scriptural in its forms of devo- tion, 437, et seq.
Plato's dialogue on the immortality of the soul, see Phædo.
Poet, his works peculiarly interesting
as forming faithful and lively records of national character and manners,
Poet and Painter seldom united in one poem, 187
Poisons, observations on their action on the animal system, 253 Pope, his seizure by order of Buona- parte, 596; enthusiastic behaviour of the French during his journey to Paris, 598; alarm of Buonaparte, and order for the Pope's return, ib.
Popery, remarks on, in the Velvet Cushion, 340
Portugal, its subjects busied in enslav-
ing the Africans, 198
Prayer, Dissenters accused of underva-
luing its importance, 356-7; prayer, i the employment of angels, 357 Predestined Thief, or a dialogue be-
tween a Calvinistic teacher and a con- demned thief; translated from the Latin of Archbishop Sancroft, with an Application to the recent case of Robert Kendal, by the Editor, 213, et seq.; offensive tendency of the work, ib.; author's design in publishing it, 214; accordance of parts of the dia- logue with some of the Articles of the Church, 215; tendency of Calvinistic principles examined, 216, et seq.; Appendix, and Mr. Davies's Brief Ac- count, 219 principles of Calvinism inapplicable to Kendal's case, ib.; glaring mistatement of the editor, ib. ; unwarrantable declarations of Mr. Davies respecting the conversion, &c. of Kendal, 220-1; cautions to ministers who visit condemned crimi- nals, 221; objectionable nature of the accounts of converted malefac- tors,' 222, et seq.; late conversions, 224; penitent thief,' peculiarities of his case, 225.
Priestley, Dr. bis admissions that we
know nothing of the nature of God,614 Probabilities, Laplace's theory of, 562,
Puerperal fever, Armstrong's facts and
observations relative to it, 400, et seq. Puritans unjustly accused by the Velvet Cushion of the rebellion against Charles 1., and of his murder, 344; source of the troubles of his reign, as given by Lord Clarendon. 344; by Bishop Burnet, ib.; and Dr. Moulin, 346
Quarrels of authors, 288, et seq.; 'con- tents, 289; mixed nature of the claims of this work to public attention, 290; author's industry, 291; a hint, ib.; character of the work, ib.; Dr. South's sarcastic remark on the members of
the Royal Society, 292; Charles the Second's waggish test of their philosophi- cal qualifications, 292; Bishop Sprat's unchristianizing politica! spirit, 293; melancholy complexion of the literary history of Warburton, and extract, ib. Queen of Etruria, memoirs of, written by herself, 690, et seq.; Gen. Miollis's harsh treatment of her during her capti- vity, 593
Rebellion against Charles I. unjustly charged upon the Puritans by the Velvet Cushion, 344; its sources, as given by Lord Clarendon, Bishop Burnet, and Dr. Moulin, 344, et seq.; unconstitutional application of the term rebellion, 347 Reflections of a French constitutional royalist, 624
Reformation preachers, their excellencies,
Religious seminaries, necessity for elevating their intellectual and literary, as well as moral character, 414 Repentance explained and enforced, by J. Thornton, 294-5
Report of the committee of the Church missionary society, 526
Residence in a Pagan country usually inju- rious to the moral and religious character, 87
Reverencing of pictures in the Greek Church, Platon's remarks on, 434
Reynolds, Shee's commemoration of, see Shee
Rhetians, their amiable character, 471 Robinson's Plea for the Divinity of
Christ, Archdeacon Blackburne's opi- nion of it, 124-5
Rodriguez's observations on the mea- surement of three degrees of the me- ridian, conducted in England by Lt. Col. Mudge, 386
Rome and Jerusalem, their tendency to excite classical recollections and devo- tional sentiments, 541, et seq. Rome, most interesting as the subject of prophecy, 545; view of ancient and modern, from the tower of the capitol, 546-7
Rose's, Rt. Hon. G. speech on the corn laws, 1 Rouse's doctrine of chances, or theory of gaming, 562, et seq.; design and contents of the work, 563
Sandwich Islands probably form one sovereignty, 133; intellectual powers of the natives, ib. et seq. Scott's light shining out of darkness, a sermon on the late peace, 421; ex- tract, 422
Scripture prints, the old masters, hav- ing belonged to the Church of Rome, were ill acquainted with their sub- jects, 192; absurd representations, ib. Sellon's Individuality, a poem, 513; ex- tract, 514
Sermons for domestic reading, by the Rev. J. Evans, 295, el seq.; their cha- racter, 296; extracts illustrative of their spirit and manner, 298, et seq.
for the use of villages and fami- lies, by Thornhill Kidd, 389, et seq. on the occasion of the late peace, 419, et seq. Shark's fins, a valuable article of trade to China, 445
Shee's commemoration of Reynolds,
186; features of resemblance between the painter and the poet, ib.; not mere copyists of, ib.; should seize the imagination of the spectator or reader, 187; objections to West's large histo- rical pieces, ib.; difference between their modes of attaining their objects, 186; the two characters seldom united, 187
Simpson's plea for the Deity of Jesus,
and the doctrine of the Trinity, 606, et seq.; his entrance into life, 606; persuaded by Mr. Lindsey to study the Bible, and purchases one in conse- quence, ib.; becomes curate of Rams- den, in Essex, 607; Bishop of Lin- coln's testimony to his good conduct, ib.; Bishop of Chester silences him on the plea of methodism, 607; restored to his former situation at Macclesfield, 608; second attempt to get him si- lenced, and another church built for him, 609; his intention to quit the church prevented by his death, ib.; his liberal opinions concerning the right of private judgement in religious matters, 610; analysis of the work, 611; its character, ib.; Unitarians blind to the doctrines of the aucient Church, 612; doctrines of the New Testa- ment not calculated to leave a Unita- rian impression on the mind, 643; admissions of Dr. Priestley that we know nothing of the nature of God, 614; Socinians cannot know what can or cannot consist with the unity of God, 615
Sketch from nature, a moral poem, 300- 1; extracts, ib.
Smith's French dictionary, 494 Snakes appointed guardians to conceal. ed treasures among the Hindoos, 64] ►
Home's observations on the progressive motions of, 251 Socinianism on the decline in England, 119, et seq.; ill founded representa- tions of its rapid conversions apolo- gized for by Mr. Belsham, 122 Socinians cannot know what can or cannot consist with the Unity of God, 615
Socinus, the character of his system,
Solfatara, description of the plain, 558 Sonnets, anthology of, or Lofft's Laura, 502, et seq.
Southey's congratulatory odes, 179, et seq.; extracts, ib.
South's, Dr. sarcastic remark on the members of the Royal Society, 292 Southwark Auxiliary Bible Society, se- cond annual report of it, 178' Sprat, Bishop, his violent political pre- judices induce him to unchristianze Milton, 293
Stendy Resolution exem^lified in the conduct of the three Hebrew truths; from Kidd's sermons, 392
Stipendiary curates, Dr. Law's generons
feeling in respect to their salaries, 589 Strutt's Rape of Proserpine, translated from Claudian, 363, et seq.; inquiry concerning the declension of taste among the Romans, ib. et seq.; cha racter of Claudian as a poet, 366; his manner not happily caught by his trans- lator, instances, ib, et seq.; extract, 367; on the choice of language, as connect- ed with poetical composition, 369; extracts illustrative of the work, and of the translator's poetical qualifica- tious, 373 Sunderbunds described, 449; wretched,
condition of the Molungies or salt- boilers in those districts, 448 Sunderland, Dr. Armstrong's successful
treatment of the puerperal fever there, and in its neighburhood, 400, et seq. Sutcliffe, Mr. extract from the obituary of, 361
Sydney, Algernon, Meadley's memoirs of, 256, et seq. ; instance of his haughty, independence, 262; his intrepid reply to the executioner, 267 Teak tree, its durability, 442
Termites, or white ants, their destructive nature, 445
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