in the form of a narrative, 440, 1; the author's statement of the design of the present work, 441; observations on it, 442; strictures on a former work, entitled, The Human Heart,' 443, et seq; prejudicial influence on the mind, occasioned by an undue indul- gence in fictitious sorrows, 445; re- marks of Bishop Butler on habits of the mind, as produced by the exer- tions of inward practical principles, 446; the writers or readers of pathe- tic novels do not generally rank the foremost in works of benevolence, 447; character of the present volume, 448; extracis, 449, et seq.
Judson's, Mrs. Ann H. account of the
American baptist mission to the Bur- man empire, 482, et seq.; see Siam. Joannis Miltoni, Angli de doctrina Chris- tiana libri duo, &c. 1, 114.
Kaïlasa, excavation of, 62; see Elora. Kano, the great emporium of the king- dom of Haussa, in central Africa, its situation, &c. 419.
Keyworth's analytical part of Principia Hebraica, 439, et seq.; character of the work, 439; author's remarks on the Masoretic punctuation, 440.
Kings of England, Butcher's chronology of, 70, et seq.
Kirauea, an active volcano in Owhyhee,
visit to it by the missionaries, 461,2; tremendous and sublime appearance of its extensive crater, 458, 9; legendary his- tory of its eruption, 461, 2.
Laharpe, tutor to Alexander the First, of
Russia, strong attachment of the emperor to him, 387, 8.
Landscape from nature, Nicholson's practice of drawing and painting, &c. 333, et seq.
Legacies for young ladies, by the late Mrs. Barbauld, 70, et seq.
Letters from Spain, by Don Leucadio Doblado, 177, et seq.
Library, Cottage, and family expositor, by Thomas Williams, 438.
Lisbon in the years 1821, 22, and 23, 91, et seq.
Literature, its revival in the eleventh century, 311.
the revival of, in Europe, not to be attributed to the Crusades, 314, 15. Lloyd's Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, &c. 385, et seq.; the real cha-
raeter of monarchs generally estimated incorrectly, 386; causes of it, ib.; three agencies which tend to keep the Tzar of Russia in continual dread, ib. ; a higher order of faculty requisite to govern slaves than to govern a free people, 386; character of Alexander, 387; his tender affection for his mother, ib.; his gratitude to his tutors, ib. ; his strong attachment to Laharpe, 387, 8; anecdotes of the emperor's benevolence, &c. 389, et seq.; observations on his knowledge of the conspiracy against his father, 391; and on the late change in his measures, 391, 2; beneficial effects of his reign to his country, 392.
Mary, Queen, her conduct at the commence- ment of her reign, 41, 2.
Memorial, missionary, &c. by Bernard Barton, 560, et seq.
Memoirs and poetical remains of the late Miss J. Taylor, by Isaac Taylor, 145, et seq.
Milton's treatise on Christian doctrine,
1, et seq.; extracts from the preface of the treatise, 3, 4; peculiarity of the author's religious creed, 4, 5; the present treatise exhibits no new dis- closures, 5; the opinions of the author nearly Arian, 6; illustrative proofs from his Paradise Lost, 7; time of his embracing the Arian hypothesis, 7, 8; objections to Mr. Sumner's opinion of the grounds of the change in his tenets, 8; Milton's mind free from any ten- dency towards scepticism, ib.; origin of his bias against the authority of the church, 9; his defence of his conduct in writing the treatise, ib. ; is said to have followed chiefly Amesius and Wollebius in his system, 9, 10; opinion of Dr. Ames and of Milton, of God as an object of faith, contrasted, 10, 11; Dr. Ames's explanation of the substance of God as distinct from his essence, 11, 12; improbability that he followed such a master, 12; his mind of a poetical, rather than of a philosophical cast, ib. ; this cast of mind, and the construction of his grand poem, probably the predis- posing causes of his adopting his hy- pothesis, 12, 13; his main argument, that generation must be an external efficiency,' 13, 14; remarks of Secker, Witsius, Calvin, &c. on the existence of the second person, 14, 15; opinion of Milton on this subject, 15, 16; il- lustrative extracts, 16; his mode of
treating of the communication of the divine attributes to the Son considered, 17; difficulty of the subject and its true cause, 114, 15; on the degree of knowledge afforded by reason, 116; and by revelation, ib. ; the object of revelation altogether practical, 116, .17; the whole sum of man's duty, 117; the unity of God revealed for a moral purpose, ib.; inquiry how that purpose is best secured, ib.; the scrip- tures hold out no caution against su- preme reverence to the personal dig- nity of our Lord, ib. ; inconsistency of the Arian scheme, its cause, 119; Milton's piety and love to the Saviour not to be doubted, ib.; cardinal posi- tion upon which all Milton's reason- ing, on this controversy, hinges, 120; opinion of Hooker on the person of the Son, ib.; the Nicene creed sub- scribed by the Arians, 121; opinions of Hilary, Jerome, Athanasius, and remarks of Calvin, ib.; further re- marks on the unity of God, 122, et seq.; the author's opinions respecting the Holy Spirit, 124, et seq.; the trea- tise divided into two books, 125; his explanation of Christian doctrine, 126; definition of creation, ib.; his opinions respecting the original matter of the universe, ib. ; denies that darkness is a mere negation, 127; his remarks on the four kinds of causes, ib. ; on the death of the body, 128, 9, et seq.; observa- tions on this subject, ib.; on the sab- bath, 132; on marriage, ib. et seq.; on divorce, 134, et seq.; the doctrine of redemption, 136, et seq.; concluding remarks, 139, et seq.
Minnesingers, or German Troubadours
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, lays of the, 308, et seq.; era of Ger- man poetry, 309; is patronized by Frederic Barbarossa, ib.; epigram sup- posed to have been written by him, ib.; Frederic the second, a patron of litera- tare, ib.; it is encouraged by many of the petty princes of Germany, 310; and in Spain, ib.; revival of literature in the eleventh century, 311; William 9th, count of Poictou, the earliest lyric poet of that era, ib. ; on the ori- gin of the Provençal poetry, ib. ; the opinion of its derivation from the Moors of Spain considered, 311, et seq.; differ- ence between the French Troubadour and the Castilian poetry, 313; Provence pro- bably the nursery of the infant literature, 313, 14; the birth-place of the Provençal
muses the country of the Albigenses, 314; the revival of literature in Europe not to be attributed to the Crusades, 314, 15; inquiry into the causes which oc- casioned Provence to become the nursery of freedom and letters, ib. et seq.; extracts from the lays of the Min- nesingers, 318, et seq.
Mitchell's translation of David's gram-
matical parallel of the ancient and modern Greek languages, 90, et seq.; qualifications of the author and of the translator, 91.
Molech, a sacred drama, 564, et seq. Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 167, et seq.; remarks on the Rev. Charles Wesley, as a hymn writer, 168, 9; Mo- ravian hymn, 169, 70; hymn by the com- piler of the work, 170, 1; subjects of the collection, 171. Montulé's voyage en Angleterre et en
Russie, 18, et seq.; the author's remarks on the English inns, roads, &c. 21; admits the superiority of London over Paris, 22; his opinion of Regent-street, ib.; and of St. Paul's, 23; thinks Bath like Genoa, ib.; finds out that the English are a thinking people, ib. Moore's life of the Rev. J. Wesley, &c. 142, et seq.; remarks on Dr. White- head's life of J. Wesley, 142, 3; the author's detail of the history of Dr. White- head's life, &c. 143, 4; remarks upon his statement, 144; estimate of the present work, ib.
Morgan's emigrant's note book and guide, 244, et seq.
Morning meditations, 88, et seq.; extract from the first meditation, 89. Mouna Roa, in Owhyhee, its great height, 457.
Musquito, in Canada, its attacks constant for four months in the year, 247; the black fly, ib.
Nations, northern, popular tales and romances of, 229, et seq.
Nautchanees, or dancing girls of India, 53, 4, Naval records, 172, et seq. Nicholson's practice of drawing and painting landscapes from nature in water colours, 333, et seq.; important hints to teachers, ib; remarks on the author's mode of treating on per- spective, 335; on light and shade, ib. ; beauties of the lanscapes of Rubens, Poussin, Claude, &c. 336; illustra- tive references to some large prints, engraved by Baudet, from the elder Poussin, 337, et seq.
Nicol's essay on the nature and design of Scripture sacrifices, &c. 392 et seq.; the author a minister of the church of Scotland, 392; the design of the present work the subversion of the principles to which he had sub- scribed, 393; had contemplated quit- ting the established church, ib..; blames Dr. Priestley for speaking doubtfully of the inspiration of the scriptures, ib. ; and Mr. Taylor for his explanation of the doctrine of ori- giual sin, ib. ; his opinion of the great hinderance to the complete re- ception of the truth, ib. : subjects of the first two sections, 393, 4; incon- sistency of the author's remarks con- cerning the Jews, and the Jewish dis- pensation, 394; subject of the third section, the court and tabernacle of the Jews, 395; the court of the taber- nacle stated to be intended to represent the church of God, from the call of Abraham till the giving of the law, 396; objec- tions to the author's explications, 396, 7; his fourth section, on the meaning and import of sacrifices, 397, 8; he claims the merit of novel- ty, 398; denies the vicarious charac- ter of sacrifice, ib.; his account of the design and use of sacrifices, 399; sacri- fices not original appointments in the legation of Moses, ib.; the burnt- offering shewn to have a reference to sin, 400; the author states the burnt- offering and the sin-offering to be es- sentially different, 401; denies the sin-offering to be piacular, ib. ; incon- sistency of the author's system, 402; his remarks on the reality of Christ's sacrifice, 402, 3; objections to the author's observations, 403, 4, Noble's plenary inspiration of the scrip tures asserted, 222 et seq.
Note, in reply to Mr. Gorham, on the Apocrypha question, 383, 4.
Oases between Fezzan and Bornou, 408. Opinions of an old gentleman, on seve- ral moral and religious subjects, 476, 7; extract, ib.
Orme's ordinance of the Lord's supper illustrated, 570 et seq.; arrangement of the contents, 570; the ordinance a solemn act of worship to Christ himself, 571; and a memorial to God the Father, ib. remarks on the ordinance as it corresponds to the nature of the pass- over, 572; extract, ib.; it is a social, not a private feast, 573; remarks on this point, 574.
Page from the book of the world: see, Is this religion.'
Persia, provinces of, on the south bank of the Caspian sea, Fraser's travels in, 530 et seq.; the present work a sup- plement to a former one, 530; palace and gardens of Shah Abbas, at Ashruff, their desolate state, 531; Saree, capital of Mazunderan, 532; specimen of Persian comfort, in a visit at the prince's mansion, ib.; the author's reception at court, 533 Ferrabbad, its situation, trade, &c. ib.; Bal-· froosh, its flourishing state, 534; the author's arrival at Resht, capital of Gheelan, 534; he incurs the suspi- cion of the government, 535; is ar- rested, 536; his subsequent ill-treat- ment, ib. et seq.; his liberation and arrival at Tabreez, 540; race of Christians inhabiting the mountain- ous regions at the source of the Ti- gris, 542.
Philosophy, moral, and Christian ethics, Dewar's elements of, 508 et seq. Poem, Frovençal, the earliest era of it, 315.
Poetry, Castilian, different from the French Troubadour poetry, 313.
Provençal, on the origin of, 311. Popery, the poor man's preservative against, by the Rev. J. B. White, 177 et seq.
Preacher, the domestic, &c. 477, 8; character of the work, 478; extract, ib. Principia Hebraica, Keyworth's analy- tical part of, 439 et seq.
Prophecies, the, Davison's discourses on, 25 et seq.
Provence, the nursery of letters and freedom, inquiry into the causes of it, 313.
Psalmist, Christian, or hymns selected and original, by J. Montgomery, 167
et seq. Puhonua, a remarkable institution in Owhyhee, 464.
Raffles's, Sir Thos. S, mission to Siam, from the journal of the late Mr. Fin- layson, 482 et seq. Recollections of foreign travel, on life, &c. by Sir Egerton Brydges, 339 et seq. Records, naval, part I, 172 et seq.; ob- ject of the work, 173; explanation illustrative of the name of the Armada, 74 guns, 173, 4; history of the Canada, 74 guns, 174, 5. Religion, Dick's philosophy of, 562 ··et seq•
-4 Cher great suurimusins, éði, £; zerrie SH. TESTERET The Birman empire, #Šė; Dri- of the line war with the Burmese, 4 weir restless disposition, 482, $; 2 onim satire of their wars, 453; che- racier of their government, and of the peale, 36; desunited state of the EmpIE, B54; Lieut. Cal. Stewart's „Ãe question to the dismemberment a the
Burman emnire consideret.. #54, 5; "pony, proximation of the British and Burmese empires by the inde cessible,
Patch in Antigua, the Bahamas, and Barbadoes, 105, 6; outrageous pro- ceedings, and demolition of the Method- ist chapel at Bridge-town, in Barbadoes, 106,7; effects of the despatch in the various other colonies, 107 et seq.; extent of colonial influence in the commercial world, and even in the Cabinet, 108, 9; caution of Mr. Can- sing against suffering slave-masters to Legislate for slaves, 109, 10; pledge of Mr. Brougham to bring forward certain objects, 110; Quarterly Reviewer's remarks on them examined, 110, 11; call upon the electors of the United Kingdom at the ensuing election, 112, 13, 14.
Slavery, colonial, Dr. Chalmers's few thoughts on the abolition of, 549 et seq.
Sonnets and other poems, by D. L. Richardson, 280 el seq.
Specimens of the German Troubadour poetry, 318 et seq. Stephen's England enslaved by her own slave colonies, 97 et seq.
slavery of the British West India colonies delineated, &c. 97 et seq. Stewart's Lieut. Col. considerations ou the policy of the government of India, in reference to the Burmese war, 482 et seq. Stories, English, by Maria Hack, third series, 70 et seq.
German popular, 229 et seq. Grecian, by Maria Hack, 70
et seq. Subjects, moral and religious, opinions of an old gentleman on several, 476,7. Sumner's translation of Milton's treatise on Christian doctrine, &c. 1, 114. Supper, the Lord's, Orme's ordinance
Talbot's five years' residence in the Canadas, &c. 244 et seq. Tales, Hebrew, by Hyman Hurwitz, 267 el seg.
popular, and romances of the northern nations, 229 et seq; im- 2 moral complexion of the tales of the East,230; character of the modern school of the German novelists, 231; the Magic Ring' of the Baron Fouqué, ib,; the Baron a good story Leller, 232; a conjuration scene, 232,3; Peter Schlemihl's sale of his shadow, 234 el seq.; extract, ib. et seq.; short notice of other tales, 236.
Taylor's memoirs and poetical remains of the late Jane Taylor, 145, el. seg.; short account of the early years of Miss Taylor, 146; her diffidence of her mental powers, ib.; her religious character slowly developed by reason of X her constitutional timidity, 147; extracts from her letters illustrative of her reli- gious views and feelings at this period, 147, et seq.; her opinion on epistolary composition, 149; character of her letters, and extracts, ib. et seq. ; extractsi from her poetical compositions, 153, el seq.; remarks on some particular ex- pressions occurring in the memoir, 158, et seq.; the author's observations on the nature, &c. of the doubts that occa- sionally distressed her mind, 161; her total release from unreal fears, 162; state of her mind and feelings imme- diately prior to her decease, ib. Tchad, great lake of, in central Africa, 408.
Tell, William, a drama, by Frederic Schiller, 564, et seq.
Terms, geographical and hydrographi cal, Evans's explanation of, 546, et
Tombs of the Theban kings the model of the caves of Elora, 67. Travels in England and Russia, by E. de Montulé, 18, et seq. Trinidad, Indians of, their character, 284; baptism of the negroes by the bishop of Barbadoes, curious account of it, 285. Tripoli, Bashaw of, cause of the great influ- ence gained by the British consul over him, 404, 5. Troubadours, German, of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, lays of the, 308, et seq.
Verses, devotional, by Bernard Barton, 236, et seq.
Waddington's visit to Greece in 1823 and 1824, 193, et seq. Waugh's sermons, &c. 423, el seq.; on the appropriate style of pulpit com- positions, 424; perverse taste preva- lent in the present day among the hearers of the gospel, 425; character of the present sermons, 425, 6; sub- jects treated, 427; extracts,428, et seg. Wesley, the Rev. Charles, his excellence as a hymn 'maker, 168, 9.
John, Moore's life of, 142,
White's, the Rev. Joseph Blanco, poor
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