accomplishment of them, 4, 5; the obvious duty of British Christians, in the present day, 5, 6; remarks as to the probable mode of benefiting the really pious in France, 6, 7; duty of the agents of British religious socie- ties, in their intercourse with the pious agents of foreign societies, a- mong the Romanists, 7, 8; timidity of the author in his mode of treating his subject, 10, 11 ; his objection to one of the fundamental regulations of the Bible Society, 12, 13 ; plan recommended by the author, in distributing the Sacred Scriptures, 13; a sect in France who follow the opinions of Mad. de Stael, 14; opinions of this sect, ib; pro- bable advantages that would result from disseminating a concise history of the church in that country, during the last seven centuries, 16. Cottle's strictures on the Plymouth An- tinomians; see Antinomians. Cromwell, Godwin's remarks on his charac- ter, 204, 5.
Crowther's critical dissertation on Acts xvii. 30. 452, et seq.; the author's opi- nion of the meaning of the passage, 452; his inference, 452, 3; the tendency of the passage a plea for Christian mis- sions, 453.
Cunningham's sermons, 154, et seq. Customs, female, in India, of colouring their nails, teeth, &c. 557.
Dale's tragedies of Sophocles, translated
into English verse, 289, et seq.; Æs- chylus the father of Greek tragedy, 289; character of his genius and composition, 290; contrast between Eschylus and Sophocles, 290, 1 ; origin &c. of Sophocles, 292; character of his plays, ib.; the translator's prefatory remarks on the Edipus Tyrannus, 293, 4; improbability in the plot of this piece, not noticed by the translator, 295; monostrophies of this piece, ib. et seq.; the translator's criticism on the Edipus Colonens, 299, 300; account of the death of Edipus, 300; choral odes of the Coloneus, 301, 2; translator's prefa- tory remarks to the Electra, 302, 3; plot of the Choephora of Eschylus, 304; fatalism the moral sentiment of the Greek tragedies, 305; the doctrine of Dicé, or the retaliation of punishment for crime, another character of the Greek tragedies, ib.; invocation of E- lectra, 306, 7; her remonstrance to her sister, 307,8; character of the Ajax,
308; genuineness of the Trachinia doubtful, ib.; Philoctetes the most perfect of the author's tragedies, ib. ; circumstances of the pieces, and er- tracts, 308, et seq.
Daniell's meteorological essays and ob- servations, 133, et seq.; prognostics of Theophrastus, 133, 4; meteorology assumes the character of a science by the labours of Saussure, De Luc, &c. 134; important atmospheric observa. tion of Pliny, ib.; author's experiments to elucidate the relation of air to vapour, ib.; apparatus used for ob- taining with accuracy the dew point, 135; description of the author's hygro- meter, 135, 6; mode of using it, 136; its application to the purposes of a weather- glass, 137, 8; best hours for making diurnal observations, 139; other sub- jects treated of by the author, ib. Dartmouth's Lord, notes, on Burnet's his- tory of his own time, 489. 491.
Dekhan, new arrangements of its terri- tories, after the late war, 356, see
Dibdin's library companion, 417, et seq.; his statements of the merits of his own book, 417; anecdote of Mr. Up- cott and the Evelyn letters, 418. 9.; Evelyn's Kalendarium discovered, 419; author's remarks on Robert Hall, and the Eclectic Review, 419, 20; his high eulogy of Hyde, lord Clarendon, 421; proofs of the talent of his lordship for ready invention, 422; the author's esti- mate of Chamberlaine's portraits from Holbein, 422; reason for supposing that some of them are faithless, 423. Drawing-room of the Brazilian court, description of one, 404. Dubois, the Abbé, Townley's answer, Hough's reply to his letters, 61, et seq.; remarks on his position that God bas predestinated the Hindoos to eter- nal reprobation, 62; native missi- onary society at Serampore, 63; Hindoo literary society at Calcutta, 63, 4; proofs that the influence of the Brah- mins over the minds of the Hindoos is diminishing, 64, 5; religious preju- dices of the Hindoos shown to be not insurmountable, 65; female infanti- cide abolished without producing any dangerous commotion, ib.; Hindoo de- votees forbidden to drown themselves, ib. ; Brahmins executed by the British magis- tracy, for exciting disturbance, 65, 6; Brahmins and Pariahs stand in the line and march together, 66; two instances
of widows saved from burning by British interference, 66, 7: account of some further innovations upon ancient usages, 68, 9; excellent anecdote of Swartz, 73; proceedings of the Roman Catholic missionaries, ib. and note; Hindoo system admits of bloody sacrifices, 71; specimen of a translation of the bible, according to the taste of the Abbé Dubois,72, et seq.; further exposure of the Abbe's calumnies, 74; state of the schools for Hindoos, ib; the propagation of Christianity in British India, an impe- rative duty on the East India Company, 75, et seq.; testimony of the author in reference to the practicability of the conversion of the Hindoos, in op- position to the opinion of the Abbé Dubois, 78.
Duncan's Travels through part of the United States and Canada, in 1818, and 1819, 79, et seq.; result of his ob. servations, 79; the two most formidable evils with which America has to contend, 80; demoralizing influence of the slave system, on the whole population among which it prevails, 80, 1; evil of universal suffrage, 81; author's opinion of the cause of the general inferiority of Ame- rican literatare, &c. 82; character of the North American review, and of the sci- entific journal, 83; American univer sities successful rivals of the Scotch, ib.; rare instances of despatch in printing,
Earth, the new, Dr. Chalmers on the mate-
rialism of it, 166, et seq. Egyptians, ancient, their hieroglyphic system, &c. 330, et seq.; see Cham- pollion, &c.
Erastianism, remarks on, 202, et seq. Expenditure, rural, Slaney's essay on the beneficial direction of, 464, et seq.
Fairfax, Lord, Godwin's character of, 204, 5.
Footpaths, evils felt by the poor, from the bad state of them, 467; footpaths should be made on the north or the east side of the road, 468. Forest, Brazilian, description of one, 391; the animal population of it, 392.
Gambold's works, with introductory essay by Thomas Erskine, 541. Garden, the peasant's excellent hint con- cerning it, 472.
Godwin's history of the common-wealth
of England, &c. 193, et seq,; cha-
racter of the common-wealth's-men, 194, 5; Sir Edward Coke, 195, 6; flippancy of Mr. Hume's remarks on Hampden, Pym, &c. 196, 7; his charge against the parliamentary preachers disproved, 197; character of Hampden, ib.; baseness and impolicy of Charles's abandon. ment of Strafford, 198; Mr. Fox's re- marks on Strafford, ib.; author's opinion of Archbishop Laud, 199; author's account of the independents, 200; on the different forms of church government, 201, 2; further account of the independents, ib.; on Erastianism, 202, et seq.; characters of Fairfax and Cromwell, 204, 5.
Government, Church, Godwin's remarks on different kinds of, 201, 2.
Graham's, Maria, journal of a Voyage to Brazil, 385, et seq.
Greece in 1823 and 1824, by Col. L. Stan- hope, 475, et seq.; the author goes to Greece as agent of the Greek com- mittee, 475; state of parties in Greece, 476; leaders of the three parties, and their characters, ib. ; account of the exe- cutive body, 477; the legislative body, ib. ; prefects, ib. ; primates, 478; state of the Greek church, ib. ; the author's remarks on the Greek navy, 478. Guttemburgh, junior, the inventor of printing, 368.
senior, produced the first printed book, 368.
Hall's extracts from a journal written on the coast of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the years 1820, 21, 22, 40, et seq.; object of the voyage, 41; appearance of Cape Horn, ib.; Bay of Valparaiso, ib.; state of political feeling among the lower orders of the Chilians, 42, &c. ex- pedition from Buenos Ayres against the royalists of Peru, 44; character of San Martin, 44, 5; battle of Maypo, and restoration of independence to Chili, 45; San Martin appointed to com- mand the liberating army of Peru, ib. Lord Cochrane appointed to the com- mand of the Chilian navy, 46; ad- mirable intrepidity of some British seamen under his lordship, in the port of Callao, 46, 7; description of a bull-fight, at Lima, 47, 8; anecdote illustrative of the progress of education in this country, 48; slight sketch of the character and conduct of Iturbide, 49.
Hampden, his character, 197. Harris's natural history of the bible, &c. 454, et seq.; remark on the arrangement
of the work, 456; on Adam's naming the animals, 456, 7; difficulties on this subject examined, ib. ; on the Mosaical distinction of animals into clean and unclean, 459; the author's opinion of the immediate and primary intention of the law, ib. et seq. ; metrical catalogue of the birds forbidden to be eaten, 462; diet of John the Baptist, 463; author's mistake respecting the dromedary, ib. Heber's whole works and life of Jeremy Taylor, 17, et seq.; arrangement, &c. of the present work, 18; some re- marks on the Rev. H. K. Bonney's life of Jeremy Taylor, 18, 19; cha- racter of Dr. Rowland Taylor, the martyr, 20, 21; Jeremy Taylor enters as a college sizar, 21; great change that has taken place in respect to the intervals between the domestics and the other members of a family, 21; author's remarks on some questions connected with the dissenting controversy, 22, et seq.; objections to his statements, 24, 5; letter of Jeremy Taylor to Evelyn, on the death of two children, 25, 6; on Jeremy Taylor as a writer, 26; objections to the pre- sent arrangement of his works, 26, 7; character of his life of Christ, 27; proved not to be a translation of a foreign work, ib,; his quaint description of the journey of the Virgin Mary to see her cousin Elizabeth, 28; on the names of Jesus, 28, 9; his work en- titled, Christian Consolations, 29, 30; character of his sermons, 30; author's remarks on the style of preaching ut, and prior to the time of Taylor, 30, 1; Tay- lor's sermons deficient in regard to clear views of evangelical doctrine, 31; extract illustrative of his wild, excur- sive style, 31, 2; just sarcasm of Dr. South on his style, 32, 3; literary character of South, 33; Taylor's ex- ordium to his sermon on the validity of a death-bed repentance, 33, 4; contro- versy between Taylor and Jeanes, 35; his casuistical writings, ib.; abuse of auricular confession, 36; character and style of his casuistical writings, 37, et seq.; his remarks on probable arguments,' 38; author's opinion of his 'Ductor dubitantium,' 39. Hervey's Australia, &c. 567, et seq.; extract, 568,9; the serenade, ib. Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, see Cham- pollion, &c.
Hill's, Rev. Noah, sermons, 154, el seq.; the author's remarks on preaching, 170; subjects of the present series of discourses,
171; concluding appeal in a sermon on a general fast, ib. et seq.; on the man who hath not made God his strength, 173, et seq.; extract from a sermon on an "old disciple," 175, 6.
Hinton's biographical portraiture of the late Rev. J. Hinton, 266, et seq.; local peculiarities attaching to Oxford, as the station of a dissenting church, 267; state of the church when Mr. H. under- took the charge, ib. ; his statement of the result of his practical labours after a ministry of thirty-six years, 268; une- quivocal indications of his genuine spirituality, 269; difficulties occa- sioned by the constitution of the church as being composed of persons differing on the subject of baptism, 270, 71; remarks on the subject of strict communion, 272, 3; hostility from persons inimical to evangelical re- ligion, 273, 4; courage of Mr. Hinton in a case of imminent danger, 274, 5. Historyes of Troye,' the first book printed in the English language, 370. Holbein, Chamberlain's portraits from, rea- son for supposing that some of them are faithless, 422, 3.
Horn, Cape, its appearance, 41. Hough's reply to the letters of the Abbé Dubois, &c. 61, et seq.
How it strikes a stranger,' 440, et seq. Hyde, Lord Clarendon, proofs of his talent for ready invention, 421.
Independents, Godwin's remarks on them, 201, 2.
India and the Malwa, &c. 115, et seq.; remarks on the two different systems of administration, lately in operation in British India, 115; hasty sketch of the Brit sh wars in India, 116, 17; description of the Thugs, a predatory people of central India, 118; provinces de- scribed by the author, 119; extent of Malwa proper, ib. ; its history and ge- ography, &c. 120; singular history of Madhajee Sindia, ib., et seq.; Dowlet Row Sindia, 122; family of Holkar, 122, 3; admirable administration of Ahalya Baée, a female, 123, et seq.; account of Jeswunt Row Holkar, 125, the period of trouble, 127; Ameer Khan, leader of the Pindarries, 127, 8; tragi- cal death of the beautiful princess of Odeypoor, 128, 9; administration and death of Toolsah Baée, 129; short ac- count of the Puar family, 130; origin and history of the rajahs of Bhopal, ib. el seq.; Zalim Singh, regent of Kotak, 132,3; texture of the Anglo-Indian go-
vernment in India, 342; circumstances that have tended to produce the pre- sent enlarged state of British India, ib.; its late dangerous state from the Pindarries, ib.; military force of these freebooters, ib.; place of their resi- dence, ib. ; their irruption into Guzerat and Bengal, ib.; native powers in sub- sidiary alliance with the British, 344; provisions of this alliance, 345; in- sincerity of the Peishwah, ib.; dis- position of other princes protected but not subsidized, towards the British, ib.; states not connected by alliance with the British, ib.; disposition of their chiefs, ib.; instructions to expel the Pindarries from Malwa, 346; neces- sity of a controlling power in central In- dia, ib.; measures pursued by the Mar- quess Hastings, 347; he advances to Scindiah's capital, ib.; dissolution of the Pindarree force, 348; revolt of the Peishwa and defection of the Nag- poor Rajah, ib. hostile proceedings of the Poonah Mahrattas, 348, 9; situation of Poonah, 349; engagement near Kirkee, 349, 50; retreat of the Peishwa and surrender of Poonah, 351; hostile conduct of the Nagpoor Rajah, ib.; situation of the residency, ib.; commencement of hostilities, 352; dangerous state of the company's forces, 352, 3; successful gallantry of the troops under Capt. Fitzgerald, ib. ; surrender and deposition of the Rajah, 354; remarks on the correctness of their proceedings against the Peishwa and the Rajah, ib.; defeat of Holkar at Meheidpoor, 355; utter destruc- tion of the Pindarrees, 356; new ar- rangement of the territories of the deposed chiefs, ib.; remarks on the justice and policy of them, 357; the present general reflections on state of India, 358; battle of Meheid- poor, as described by Mr. Wallace, 529; ils success owing to the bravery of Sir John Malcolm, ib.; capture of the fort of Talnier by Sir Thomas Hislop, 530, 31; execution of the Killedar, 531; no adequate justification of this tragi- cal event as yet given, ib. ; question relative to the mode of government to be adopted in the present enlarged state of our Indian empire, ib.; Lord Wellesley's plan of subsidiary al- liances, ih.; remarks of Sir John Mal- colm on our present condition, 532; the rising formidable opposition to the efforts of Christian Missionaries, 533;
plan of Mr. Wallace to locate the converted Hindoos on the waste lands, ib.; instances of the bravery of the Por- tuguese in India, 534, 5; M. Say's re- marks on the erroneous opinions pre- valent respecting India, 535; stability of the British power in India, against any European invader, 536; his opinion of the probable permanency of British supremacy in India, 537; monument erected to the memory of Mr. Cleveland, by the governor general and council of Bengal, 538.
Indian, American, character of, 395, 6; their general habits, ib.
Innes's Christian ministry, 538, et seq.; author's design in the present work, 539; extract from Baxter, 440. Institution, African, eighteenth report of the directors of it, 275, et seq.; progress of the schools at Cape Coast, 276; improvement of the colony at Sierra Leone, ib.; remarks on the unhealthiness of the climate, 277; increase of trade with the interior, ib. ; lucrative trade in gold, ib.; improvement of the colony since the abolition of the slave trade, ib.; horrible details of the slave trade, as still connived at by France, Spain, and Portugal, 278; combination a- mong them to put to death every Eng- lish officer belonging to the navy who might fall into their hands, 279; course of the Barneel, or Bahr-al-Nil, 280.
Jeanes, Henry, his controversy with Jeremy Taylor, &c. 35.
Jews, their strong attachment to the land of their fathers, 239; obstacles to their conversion diminished, 241; estimate of their number in different countries, 260, et seq.: none in Cy- prus; reason of it, 264; See Wolf's missionary journal.
Johnson's printer's instructer, &c. 366, et seq.; book madness, 367; account of the Author, 368; Guttemburgh, junior, the inventor of printing, Gut- temburgh, senior, produced the first printed book, ib.; reflections on the art of printing, 868, 9; caution of the first printers, 369; policy of the priests, ib. ; Caxton the first printer in England, 'The Historyes of Troye,' the the first book printed in English, ib. ; printer's instructions in regard to points, 372,3; Dr. Hunter's remarks upon the punctuation of copy for the press, 373; remarks upon casting off copy, ib.; on unintelligible writing, 374; correcting,
374; upon stereotype and machine
Johnson's sketches of Indian field 'sports, 555, et seq.; disingenuous quotation from Sir Wm. Jones, in- tended to shew the inexpediency of sending missions to India, 554: the field sports of India, practised by the Mahommedan natives, 555; Shecarries, a low Hindoo caste, live by catching birds, hares, &c. ib.: mode of taking them, 356; description of the Pariahs, ib.; female customs of colouring their hands, nails, eye brows, and teeth, 557. John the baptist, remarks on his diet, 463.
Jones's charge delivered to the clergy
of the archdeaconry of Merioneth, 190.
Judaism, said to be the most rarely ab- jured of all religions, 240.
Kalendarium, Evelyn's, discovered by Mr. Upcott, 419.
Keith's sketch of the evidence of pro- phecy, 185, et seq.; great importance of the evidence of Christianity sup- plied by prophecy, 185; prophecy equivalent to a miracle, 186; subjects of the prophecies treated of in this work, 186.
Kempis's, Thomas à, imitation of Christ, translated by Payne, and in- troductory essay by Dr. Chalmers, 541, et seq.
Literature, American, cause of its general inferiority, &c. 82.
Loans, small, to the poor, great importance of them, 469.
London, impressions of Mr. Burke on his first visiting it, 317.
London and Paris, 417, et seq.; design
of the work, ib.; description of a chil- drens' bal costumé,' 448; mode of con- ducting the Parisian soirees,' 449, 50; general effect of Parisian society on the English, 451.
Lowth, Dr. on the origin of scripture parallelisms, 360.
Lyon's private journal of the Heckla, during the recent voyage of discovery, 98, et seq.
Malcolm's memoir of central India, in- cluding Malwa and the adjoining pro- vinces, 115, et seq.
Malwa, proper, its extent, 119, et seq. Manual, the bible teacher's, Part III. by
Mrs. Sherwood, 376, et seq. Marsh's, Dr. course of lectures, &c.
Parts V. VI. VII. 206, et seq.; lite- rary qualifications of the author, 207; on the term authentic,' ib. ; the au- thor's mode of treating the subject of authenticity, in reference to the sa- cred writings, 208; his reasons for adopting this mode, 208, 9; the his- torical evidence for the authenticity, &c. 209; credibility of the New Testament, 210; the books that we now possess as the works of the evan- gelists and apostles, were actually composed by them, ib; the correct notion of integrity, as related to credi- bility, ib.; remarks on 1 John 5,7; high qualifications of the writers of the new testament, 211; the actions ascribed to our Saviour could not have been recorded, if they had not been true, 212, 13; question of miracles considered, 213; definitions of a miracle, ib.; character of the miracles of the new testament, 513, 14; Hume's argu- ment against miracles, 214; Bishop Marsh's reply, 214, 15; reply of Pa- ley, 215; the term authentic not applicable to all the books of the old testament, 216; all the Hebrew scrip- tures as they existed in the time of our Saviour, received the sanction of his authority, ib.; the Jews did not corrupt the old testament writings, ib.; remaining subjects to be treated by the bishop, 217.
Martin, San, his character, 44, 5; re- stores independence to Chili, 45; appointed to command the liberating army of Peru, ib.
Martius's travels in Brazil, 385, et seq.; see Brazil.
Martyn's, Henry, twenty sermons, 154, et seq.
Matthewes's last military operations of
General Riego, &c. 381, et seq.; ac- count of the final defeat of Riego's forces, 382; capture and death of the Gene- ral, ib. Maximilian's, Prince, travels in Brazil, 388, et seq.
Meheidpoor, battle of, as described by Mr. Wallace, 355, 529; see India. Ministry, Christian, by W. Innes, 538, et seq.
Miracles, question of, considered, 213; definition of a miracle, ib.; Hume's argument against, 214; reply to it, 214, 15. Montpensier, memoir of the duke of, written by himseif, 427, et seq.; part- ing scene between the author and his late father, the duke of Orleans, 427; their
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