character and writings of Tertullian, 445, 6. Humboldt's personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, &c. 289 et seq.; remarks on the general plan and execution of the work, 290, 1; sketch of the life of Humboldt, 291; he receives permis- sion from the Spanish court to travel in the Spanish provinces in America, 292; is joined by his friend Bonpland and sails from Corunna, ib.; the au- thor's description of his sensations on leaving the Colombian coast, 292, 3; Chateaubriand's remark that the beau- ty of landscapes depends on the effects of light, 294; the author's excursion to the summit of the Silla or Saddle moun- tain, 294, 5; description of the moun- tain, ib.; descent into the valley, 295; route pursued on leaving the Caraccas, 296; the Orinoko, ib.; appearance of the country beyond the Rio Apure, 296, 7; the Rio Meta, 298; the rapids of Alures and Maypures, 299; description of the country, and Christian establish- ments beyond the great cataracts, 300, 1; various rivers noticed by the travel- lers, 301; the black and the white waters, ib.; purity of the black waters, 302; the story of the Guahiba woman, 303 et seq.; the author's remarks on the cannibalism of the nations of Guyana, 305, 6; probable origin of cannibal- ism, 306, 7; the interior of the New Continent an unbroken solitude, 308; difficult navigation of the Cassiquiare, 308, 9; the cemetery of the cavern of Ataruipe, 523, 4; mode of preparing the skeletons among the Guaraons, 524, 5; the Otomaks great earth-eaters, 526; earth-eating prevalent in other coun- tries, 526, 7; Angostura, 528; Old Guyana, 529; the golden lake and the gilded man, 531,2; the institutions and arts of the Indian nations shewn to be of Asiatic origin, 533; population- of Colombia, 534; the Caribbees, 535; tumuli of an extinct nation in the plains of North America, 536; population of the West Indian Archipelago, 538; black population of continental and insular America, 538, 9; distribution of the races of the New World, 539; numerical proportion of the Roman Catholics and the Protestants in Eu- rope, 540; preponderance of lan- guages in America, 540. Idleness, Penseval's labours of, 371 et seq. India, the friend of, see Bataks.
inquisition, its commencement by Fou-
quet, bishop of Toulouse, 406; is per- manently established in Languedoc, 416. Institutions, judicial, of the principal countries of Europe, Meyer's genius, origin, and progress of, 125 et seq. Institution, the African, twentieth report of the directors of, 354 et seq.; im- portant results of the labours of the Society, 354; increase of the slave- trade owing to the inefficiency of the laws, &c. 355; case of the five negroes liberated from a French slave ship at St. Ives in Cornwall, 356 et seq.; Brazil and the Havannah the chief marts of the contraband traffic in slaves, 358,9; the French the slave carriers of the Antilles, 359, the Baron de Staël's account of the slave-trade as carried on at Nantz, ib.; notice of some other slave-marts, 360, 1; prices of slaves on the east and west coasts of South Africa, 361; remarks on Dr. Chalmers's opinion that the West In- dia planters have been unjustly stig- matized, 362: encouraging prospects to the cause of humanity from the present explorations in the interior of Africa, 363; extract from Gen. Turner's des- patch on the cession made by the Sherbro Bulloms, 363, 4; the director's remarks on it, 364:
Instruction, early religious, encouragement to persevere in it, 318, 19. Italy and Switzerland, sketches of, 76
Jenkinson, Anthony, his expedition into Independent Tartary, 49. Jennings, the Rev. John, Chaplin's ser- mon preached at the interment of, 381 el seq.
Jerome, his account of Tertullian, 437. Jesuits, the, the cause of the late opposition to the Bible Society in Russia, 133, 4.
Jews, of the Russian-Polish provinces, Dr. Henderson's account of their persons, manners, &c. 146; their superstitious allachment to their own land, 147; the sect of the Talmudists, 148; the Zo- hariles, ib.; the Karaites, 149; diffe- rence between the Karailes and the Rab- binists, 149 et seq.
Jowett's Lyra Sacra, 495 et seq.; proba- ble causes of the neglect of organ music, 495, 6; music considered too exclusively a drawing room accom- plishment, 497; merits of the present selection, 497, 8; the faculty of en- joying and comprehending music one of the best earthly gifts of the Crea-
tor, 498; the heathen world made no discoveries in the science of music, 499; music began in the courts of the sanc- tuary, and was consecrated to the honour of God, b.; remarks on the execution of the present work, 500; Bishops Horne and Atterbury on music, 501. Kershaw's simplicity in ministerial ad- dresses recommended, 563; cause of the disapproval of literature in connexion with the ministry, 564; the importance of simplicity of language in a Christian minister, 565, 6, the clergy of the Establishment who are distinguished for their literary attainments and their piety, are also distinguished for the simplicity of their ministerial ad- dresses, 567.
Knight's considerations on the subject
of Calvinism, &c. 364 et seq.; the author's wilful or ignorant mis-state- ment of the articles of the Synod of Dort, 370; remarks of the late Mr. Scott upon this mode of slandering the Calvinists, ih.
La Fayette, character of, by M. Mignet,
Landscapes, the beauty of, depends on
the effect of light, 294.
Language, the English, Smith's practical guide to the composition and applica- tion of, 266 el seq.
Language, the Latin, Kenrick's transla tion of Zumpt's grammar of, 25 et seq. Laws,the,of modern Europe, &c: Spence's inquiry into the origin of, 1 et seq. Leake's historical outline of the Greek revolution, 97, et seq.
Le Bas's sermons, 470, et seq.; revival of pulpit eloquence within the natio nal church, 470; design and charac- ter of the sermons, 471; warning against levily on religious subjects, 472, 3; on the agency of the Holy Spirit, 474,
Lee's, professor, additional remarks on Dr. Henderson's appeal to the Bible Society, &c., 326, el seq... Letters in defence of the British and Foreign Bible Society, &c., 86, et seq. Lexicon, Schleusner's, Carey's compen
dium of, 179, et seg..
Life, short account of the, of the Inte Thomas Bateman, M.D., 310, et seq. Lingard's history of England, character of it, 388. Literateur, le, by E. Mansart, 257, et seq. London in the olden time, 167, et seq.; description of London in the days of Henry the First, 169; Fitz-Stephen's description of London in the reign of
Henry the Second, ib. ; extracts from tales illustrative of the manners of the Lon- doners from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, 171, et seq.; ballad on the olden time, 176, et seq.
Lyra Sacra, by the Rev. J. Jowett, 495, et seg.
Lyte's tales, in verse, illustrative of the several petitions of the Lord's prayer, 269, el seq.; plan of the work, 269; extract from the tale on the first petition, 269, et seq.; the missionary, 273, et seq.; portrait of the widow in the third tale, 274, 5; objections to the last tale, 275, et seq.
M'Neile's seventeen sermons, 470; ad- dress to sinners on the shortness of time, &c., 476, 7.
Magazine, Evangelical, and Christian Guardian, for May 1826, review of, on the Apocrypha controversy, 193, el seg.
Mausart's Literateur, 257, et seq. Marmande, general massacre of its inhabi- tants, 414.
Medicines, mineral, universally adopted, to the exclusion of vegetable medi- cines, 561, 2. Members, dissentient, of the committee of the Edinburgh Bible Society, state- ments of the, 86, et seq.; names of the dissentient members, 89; remarks of Mr. Grey on the conduct of the Lon don committee, 89, et seq.; the question of the apocrypha an old question, 91, 2. Memorials, Christian, of the nineteenth
century, by Alfred Bishop, 181, et seq. Meyendorff's Voyage d'Orenburgh a Boukhara, 48, et seq.
Meyer's esprit, origine, et progrés des institutions judiciaires, 125, et seq.; Montesquieu's description of laws, in the most extensive acceptation of the term, 125; remarks on his mode of treating the subject, &c., ib.; obser- vations on M. Meyer's mode, &c., 126; the entire system of European law affirmed to be of Teutonic origin, ib.; the two epochs when the Euro- pean nations were subjected to one overpowering influence, ib.; attempt to shew that the great features of existing institutions are derived from a northern origin, 126, 7; the feudal system formed no part of the ancient Teuto- nic institutions, 127; five epochs in the judicial system of the Germans, 127, 8; progress of the civil and eri- minal jurisprudence in the earlier times, 127, 8; the author's account of the origin and character of the feudal sys-
tem, 128, 9; the trial by peers, cha- racteristic of the fourth epoch of Ger- man jurisprudence, 129; the fifth epoch that of permanent tribunals, ib.; the author's high estimate of the British national character, 130; persons who sustain the judicial character are generally the most strenuous oppo- nents of juridical reform, ib.; the au- thor formerly a magistrate in the Low Countries, 131; his testimony against secresy in juridical investigations, ib. Mignet's Histoire de la revolution Fran- çaise, 231, et seq.; merits of the pre- sent work, 232; Madame de Stael on the state of France before the revolu- tion, 233; M. Mignet on the refor mation effected by the revolution, ib. ; obstacles to this reformation overcome by the revolution, 234; the revolution not a sudden ebullition of popular feeling, 235; its remote and more recent causes, ib.; character of the constitu- ent assembly and of Mirabeau, 236, 77; of the legislative assembly, 238; of M. de la Fayette, 239; the massa- cres of September 1792, the work of Danton, ib.; the reign of terror, ib. ;. the mountain, 240; efforts and de- feat of the royalists, 240, 1;' the au- thor's character of the different phases of the revolution, ib. ; the directorial go- vernment dissolved by Bonaparte, 242. Mind, essay on, 78, et seq.; analysis of the first book, 79; illustrative extract, 79, 80; lines on Gibbon, 81; stanzas on Captain Demetrius's weeping at the mention of Lord Byron's name, 812. Minutes of the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, &c., 567,
et seq. Mirabeau, M. Mignet's character of, 237. Miriam, or the power of truth: a Jewish tale, 350, et seq.; the plot,' 351. Montanus, inquiry respecting his pecu- liar opinions, 437, et seq. Moreau, his shrewd advice to the allied sovereigns, respecting fighting Bona- parte, 511.
Morell, the Rev. Stephen, Binney's me- moir of, 56, et seq. Morris's Flora Conspicua, 261, et seq. observations on the present state of the art of drawing, &c., ib. Moss's manual of classical bibliography, 5, et seq.; remarks on the execution of the work, 7, 8; prices given for certain editions of some classical works, 9, 10; notice of valuable edi- tious of various Latin and Greek au thors, 10, et seq.; Earl Tiploft's trans-
lation of Cicero on old age, 13; editio princeps of Homer and of Horace, 13, et seq.; editio princeps of Livy, 15. Murat, his singular courage, 516, 519; his fierce altercation with Daroust, ib. Murray, Lindley, memoirs of the life and writings of, partly written by himself, 481, et seq.; his birth-place, parents, &c., 482; he secretly with- draws from his father's house, 483; his account of the circumstances that occa- sioned his return, 484, 5; and of his preservation from adopting sceptical sen- timents, 485, 6; he studies the law, and becomes a barrister, 486; is ne- cessitated to travel on account of his health, 487; visits the Moravian settle- ment at Bethlehem, ib.; fixes his resi- dence in Yorkshire, 488; interesting history of his first publication, the power of religion on the mind,' ib.; cir- cumstances that occasioned his wri- ting his English grammar, 489; his liberal spirit, 490; his explicit declara- ́ tion of his religious sentiments, 491; de- scription of his person, nature of his illness, &c., 491, 2; his reflections on his seventy-second birth-day, 493; his death, ib.; distribution of his pro- perty, 494.
Music, Bishops Horne and Atterbury's remarks on it, 501.
organ, causes of its neglect, 495. My thought book, 184, et seq. Nantz, number of vessels employed by that port in the slave trade, 359; the Baron de Stael's account of his visit to this port, ib.
Napoleon, histoire de, by the Count de Segur, 502, et seq.
Napoleon's campaign in Russia, 503, et seq.; remarks on the earlier conflicts between the Russian and the French armies, 505; M. Boutourlin's hypocri- tical defence of the Emperor Alexander's invasion of Finland, 505, 6; conduct and policy of Russia in the Austrian war of 1809, 507; M. Boutourlin's statement of the total number of the French soldiery at the beginning of the Russian campaign, ib. ; amount of troops employed in the grand cam- paign, ib.; animated discussions between Napoleon and his confidants, respecting a war with Russia, 508; cause of his po- pularity with his soldiers, 508, 9; errors of the Russians on the opening of the campaign, 509, 10; the French army crosses the Niemen, 511; the disasters of the French army during their march not to be attributed to Napo
leon, ib.; his successful policy, ib. ; shrewd advice of Moreau, 511; battle of Mohilef, 513, 14; General Gour- gaud's details of Napoleon's mode of life during active warfare, 515, 16; singular charge of Murat at the head of the Polish lancers, 516; the French march upon Smolensk, 517; Murat vainly_opposes Napoleon's resolution to cross the Dnieper, 518; Koutousof placed at the head of the Russian armies, 519; fierce alter cation between Murat and Davoust, ib.; chivalrous daring of Murat, ib. battle of Borodino, 520; timid con- duct of Napoleon, ib.; Count Segur's statement of its cause, 521; com- plexion of the battles subsequent to the burning of Moscow, 522. Necker, inordinate vanity his great error, 353.
Negroes, five, account of their liberation from a French slave ship, at St. Ives, Cornwall, 356, et seq.
New Testament, the Turkish version of it, 326, et seq.; Mr. Haldane's charge against Professor Lee of holding and de- fending heretical sentiments, 327; the Professor's comment on Ali Bey's version of Romans iv. 13, 327, 8; remarks on the comment, 328, et seq.; objection to Dr. Henderson's gloss on the pas- sage, 329; observations on the ren- dering of Romans iv. 3, 330; Mr. Haldane declares himself the public ac- cuser of the Eari-street eommittee, 333; Dr. Henderson and Professor Lee on the subject of Biblical translation, ib. ; Dr. Henderson attempts to link the name of Professor Lee with that of the Abbé Dubois, 334; nature of the Abbé's principles, 335; the real state of the case between Dr. H. and Pro- fessor Lee, 336; Dr. H.'s high esteem for Professor Kieffer, 337; concluding remarks, ib., et seq.
Noel's sermons, chiefly for the use of families, 116, et seq.; faults to be avoided in domestic sermons, 116, 17; the author's account of the design of his volume, 117; the name Christian affixed to persons with any other than a friendly molive, 118, el seq.; exordium to the seventeenth sermon on Christian self- denial, 120, et seq.; on the love of God in sending his Son into the world, 122, 3; benefit to the Christian of an entire surrender of himself to Christ, 123, 4. Novogorod, etymology of its name, its population, situation, &c., 135, 6, Office, pastoral, the appointment to, vested in the church, 381.
Opinions, religious, Sismondi's review of the progress of, during the nineteenth century, 278, el seq.
Oratio Dominica, in Romaic or modern Greek, 47.
Oration, Frost's, before the medico-bota- nical society of London, 561, 2. Owen, Dr. John, Wilson's selections from the works of, 287.
Parry's journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 319, et seq.; difficulty of the passage through Baffin's bay, 321; proceedings during the wintering at Port Bowen, 322; variation of the magnetic needle, ib. ; the author's testimony of the complete efficiency of Mr. Barlow's invention for counteracting the effects of the ship's attraction, 323; maternal affection of two she-bears, ib.; loss of the Fury, 324; the author's reflections on the unsuccessful termination of the expedition, 324 et seq. Passy, visit to the rectory of, 350 et seq.; the conscientious poacher, 350, 1. Passage, north-west, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Parry's journal of a third voyage for the discovery of, 319 et seq.
Penseval's labours of idleness, 371 et seq.; Lilian of the vale, 372 et seq.; Jenny Llewellyn, or Love's devotion, 374 et seq. Persecution, ecclesiastical, in Europe, its commencement, 404. Peyrani's, M., claim for the Waldenses to be considered as the first opposers of papal superstition and tyranny, 560, 1. Philosophy and faith, their opposite con- cerns, 314.
Pictures, Slatter's rural, &c. 82 et seq.,
4; extract, a ghost scene, 154 et seq.; stanzas, 156, 7; notice of the memoir of the author, 157.
Regions, equinoctial, of the New Conti- nent, Humboldt and Bonpland's per- sonal narrative of travels to them, 289.
Remarks upon the recent accusations
against the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in a letter to a country clergyman, 567 et seq.; design of the letter, 568; the questions it considers, 569; the charge of studied concealment disproved. ib.; an edition of the Italian bible with an intermixed Apocrypha and copious index printed by Mr. Drummond at his own expense and circulated by him, 570 ; variance between the former and present conduct of some of the accusers of the Earl-street commit- tee, ib.; reasons for not stating the re- munerations given to certain individuals on the Continent for their services, 571; extensive nature of the operations of Pro- fessor Van Ess, 571, 2; real nature of the sums paid to Dr. Van Ess and Pro- fessor Kieffer, 572; advantage of the late controversy to the institution, 573. Rentrée, glorieuse, des Vandois, under their pastor Arnaud, 556, 7.
Report, the twentieth, of the directors of the African institution, 354 et seq. Revolution, Greek, Col. Leake's histori-
cal outline of, 97 et seq.
Robin Hood, Clym of the Clough, origin of the popular ballads of, 395,
Rogers's poems, miscellaneous and sa- cred, 158 et seq; Venice in the six- teenth century, 159 et seq.; verses to a father's memory, 161, 2; to a skeleton, 163, 4; the Messiah weeping over Jeru- salem, 165; the dedication of the temple, 166, 7.
Rouquet's critique on the seventeenth
article of the Church of England, &c. 364 et seq.; Calvinism asserted to be expressly condemned in the seven- teenth article, 365; gross misrepre- sentation of Calvin's language, 365, 6; grounds upon which it is pretended that the sentiments of Calvin are at variance with the seventeenth article, 368; remarks of Archbishop Laurence on this subject, 368, 9; the author's ignorance in exhibiting Cranmer in opposition to Calvin, as to doctrine, spirit, and character, 369, 70. Russia, Henderson's biblical researches and travels in, 132 et seq. Samarcand, its delightful scenery, 48. Saunders's discourses on the Lord's Prayer, 339, et seq.; Archbishop Leighton's remarks on this form, 340,
1; reflections on God as Our Father in Heaven.' 343 et seq.; on the proper manner of evincing our dependence on God, 345 et seq.
Scepticism, philosophical, of men of science, some probable causes of it, 313, 14. Segur's, the Count de, histoire de Napo- leon, &c. 502 et seq.
Sermons, by the Rev. Charles Webb Le Bas, A.M., 470 et seq.
intended chiefly for the use of families, by the Hon. Gerard T. Noel, 116 et seq.
Sermons, parochial, by Dr. Wilson, 470 et scq.
seventeen, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, 470 et seq. Sherwood's, Mrs. chronology of ancient history, 264 et seq.; objections to the work as a material of education, 265; the system adopted founded upon the speculations of Sir Isaac Newton, ib.; the dates greatly at variance with those given by Playfair and Blair, 266. Shoberl's Forget-me-not, 541 et seq. Silla, or the Saddle-mountain, description of it, 294, 5.
Sismondi's history of the crusades a- gainst the Albigenses, in the thirteenth century, 399 et seq.
review of the progress of re-
ligious opinions during the nineteenth century, 278 et seq.; the true source of religious intolerance, 278; fear makes men cruel, ib. ; remarks on his assertion that religious opinions can- not be considered as dangerous, 279; religious intolerance not confined to priests, ib.; the language of the author shewn ta breathe a spirit of animosity, 279, 80; he approves of the pastors of Geneva stifling religious controversy by forbidding to preach on certain controverted subjects, 281; M. Chas- tel's division of doctrines into primitive and interpretative, 282; the certainty of a doctrine will not authorize its being imposed upon the consciences of men, 283; confessions of faith tend to multiply heresies, ib.; excellent re- mark of M. Chastel, 284; M. Sismon- di's view of the subject incorrect, ib.; a respect for all varieties of opinion not indicative of a tolerant spirit, but of an indifference to truth, 284, 5; remarks on the author's assertion that all religions are true which express re- spect, gratitude, and love for the great Creator, 285.
Slatter's rural pictures, &c. 82 el seq.; early pleasures, 83; the holly tree, 84, 5; the Druid, 85, 6.
Slave-trade; see Institution, African.
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