“ how speciously foever it might mingle with heathen virtues, has no. 6 thing suitable to christian penitence. Many motives impel me earn. 4 estly to beg for life. I feel the natural horror of a violent death, " and the universal dread uf untimely dissolution. I am defirous to “ recompence the injury I have done to the clergy, to the world, and * to religion; and to efface the scandal of my crime by the example 4 of my repentance. But, above all, I wish to die with thoughes more composed, and calmer preparation. The gloom and confue 66 Gon of a prison; the anxiety of a trial; and the inevitable vicilli56 cudes of passion, leave not the mind in a due disposition to the holy o exercises of prayer and self-examination. Let not a little life be de “ nied me, in which I may, by meditation and contrition, prepare 66 myself to stand at the tribunal of Omnipotence; and support the presence of that Judge, who shall distribute to all according to their works; who will receive to pardon the repenting finner; and from 66 whom the merciful shall obtain mercy. For these reasons, amidft 4 shame and milery, I yet with to live.” " It is to be hoped that these were the Doctor's real sentiments, as being infinitely more becoming him than the rhapsody above quoted; they do not, however, bespeak the feelings of a man the preceding 30 years of whole life had “ been passed in exciting and exercising cha- į rity; in relieving such distrefies as he then felt; and in adminifter. « ing those consolations which he then wanted.” Such exercise of charity, such relief of distresses, and such an administration of confola. tion, as are here represented, had the same been the fruits, not of Vanity, but of genuine Christianity, would, Joubtless, have diminished his "dread of untimely disolution," and not have left his mind, even amidit “ the gloom and confusion of a prison," and the other circumftances lamented by the Doctor, in so unapt a “ disposition to the holy “ exercises of prayer and self-examination." Had this.writer been apprised of what is now generally known, that the latter speech was composed by a friend, he would not have wondered at the change. The difference, indeed, between the Doctor's profeífex compofitions under confinement and his other writings is so glaringly manifeft, that it is almost impossible to attribute such coinpositions to him undet circumstances which cannut realonably be supposed to have left him sufficient composure of mind for such a task. * * * An Account of the Life and Writings of the Rev. William Dodd, LL. D. in which is included ihe original and present State of the Magdalen Charity, &c. sc. is. Wenman. An occasional catchpennv; containing, however, a tolera. bly good account of the life of the unhappy object, who is the subject of it, and a better of the teveral public charities, in whole service he was engaged as a preacher. Obfervations Obfervations on Popular Antiquities : including the whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to every Chapter of that Worki as also an Appendix. By John Brand, Å. B. Svo. 58. sewed. Johnson. The Antiquitates Vulgares of Mr. Bourne were published in a small volume in the year 1725; and are here republished without variation. Mr. Brand's additional remarks stamp a value on the book, it had not before; his explication, how. ever, of popular notions and vulgar errors, is in itself free quently very doubtful, and probably erroneous. Be that as it may, the work is on the whole an amusing and curious, though Bot very important, performance. An Elegy on the Death of Sir Charles Saunders. By Robert English, Chaplain to the 12th Regiment of Foct, and 10 Edward Lord Hawke. Dedicated to Lord Hawke. 4to. Is. Becket. A poetical and animated eulogiuin on the death of Sir Charles Saunders, which an officer of such eminent gallantry, and public fpirit, well deserved. The author has occasionally paid a 'handiome compliment to the late Lord Anson, to Lord Hawke, and Admiral Keppel, in a stile worthy the great characters he celebrates. A Father's Instructions to his Children: consisting of Tales, Fables, and Reflections *. Part II. Small 8vo. 25. 6d. jewed. Johnson. An account of the first part of this ingenious and entertain et part of this in genous and .. ing work, to which the present is a suitable fequel, was given in the third volume of our Review, page 331, * By Dr. Percival of Manchester.. *** This Supplement to be continued in our Review for Auguft. ALPHA. 385 521 157 A Bishop of Bangor's sermon 531 514 526 Box-Hill, a descriptive poem 238 535 ture, &c. of civil liberty 141 ploded 155 5 26 462 Candor and good-nature of Eng- 231 158 79 153 Carpenter's sermon 264 519 Calpipina's letters 480 316 520 Characters of George the first, of David Hume, Eic; 332 Charles and Charlotte 245 398 Chesterfield, lord, his letter to his 26 384 Chenevix, bishop of Waterford, 535 Christian history 192 Civil liberty and colonization, 427 73 78 410 cerning 396 416 Clarke's penal statutes abridged 79 Eclogue ancient, supposed by 213 239 238 chap. of St. Matthew 184 Enquiry into the gospel demoniacks 434 160 • 414 524 80 Ely concerning the publication Lettfom's letter to the author history to poetry 151 .400 - on the dramatic character of 220 - on British liberty 399 Tucker 397 Examination of a charge against 319 435 29 Fair sex, instructions concerning - 365 447 367 383 esq. to C. W. Bampfylde, eiq. 286 28 Father's instructions to his chil- 535 poein 180 Z za Forfiter'i 80 375 Forfier's voyage round the world History of the Flagellants 29 305 Horatio and Amanda, a poem 525 153 154 Hurn's Heath-hilly a poem 400 254 270 H Gamblers, a poem 400 Illufiratio systematis sexualis Lin. 531 522 Introdution to reading and spelling 32 226 to the Highlands of Scot - land 281 from Gibraltar to Malaga 264 Melmoth 96 England and Wales 151 doctrine 150 Kello's God's departure from, a 158 48 efy. philosophical disquilitions 457 323 515 L 125—276 preached Sept, 16, 1776 159 400 Lavat, the term explained 322 Pinna Y Ruiz of Murcia 5.19 Letter, a pathetic one from a fon to a 65 131 --- to George Hardinge, esq.480 401 to a young nobleman 517 free states of antiquity 517 from Edmund Burke, Esq. to 151 on the worship of Christ 530 375, 98 - on teipale cducation 28 Letter |
