hevers, 281, 2; subject of the ser- mons, ib.; the living temple, 282, 3 Bone's rules of an institution called Tranquillity, 599; see Savings' Banks. Brande, on some new electro-chemical phenomena, 359
Bride, mode of introducing her to her lus-
band at Tangiers, 526
British dominion in India beneficial to the natives, 457
British Nation, inquiry into the true sources of its greatnesss, 211, et seq.; its glory chiefly owing to the indivi- duality of the character of the peo- ple, 218
British, their negligence as a nation in propagating their religious faith, 227; their great zeal as private Christians, ib.
Britton's Cathedral Antiquities of Eng- land, 450, et seq.; antiquarianism, its present prevalence very extensive, b.; author's qualifications, ib. et seq.; execution of the work, ib.; his statement of his rules and mode of working, 453, 4; confused state of the early cathedral service, 454; power of Bishop Erghum, ib.; most noted occupants of this see, 455; author's notice of Bishop Jewel, ib.; description of the Cathedral as exhi- bited in plate 2, ib.; nature of the true merits of the architects, 456; author's opinion in regard to the spire, ib; allar tomb of Charles, Lord Stourton, who was executed at Salisbury, 457; great merit of the plates, &c, ib.;
Brodie's experiments and observations
on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair on the secretions of the stomach, 505 Brownists, rise of, 402
Brown's propagation of Christianity
among the heathen, &c. 223, et seq.; introductory reflections, ib.; first re- ception of the Gospel by the Greenlanders, 224,5; encouragement to the prose- cution of missionary exertions, ib.; zeal of Papists and Mahometans greater than that of Protestants, 226; the British, as a nation, more negli- gent than other Protestants in estab- lishing their religion in their colonies, ib.; their great exertions as private Christians, ib.; contents of the pre- sent work, ib. et seq.; conduct of the Portuguese and Dutch in the island of Ceylon, 228; objectionable conduct of the British, 228, 9; schools restored by Sir A. Johnstone, ib.; English and Dutch East India Company con-
trasted, ib.; Anglo-American missions among the Indians, 229; character of Eliot, ib.; his intrepid behaviour when among the irritated and inimical Indians, 230; his labours and succes- sors, &c. ib.; Danish missions, 231; praiseworthy conduct of the Danish government, ib.; Moravian missions, ib.; effect of Christianity, as exhibited in the conduct of the Greenlanders, 232; attempts to couvert the heathen should precede attempts to humanize them, 233; failure of the Moravians on pursuing a contrary mode, ib.; Methodist missions in the West In- dies, 234; their conversion of a Budha priest in the island of Ceylon, ib.; the Baptist mission, ib.; London missionary society, ib.; cause of their difficulties at the commencement of their operations, 235; their influence in giving energy to the Christian world stated, ib.; contents of the concluding chapter, ib.
Budha priest, a convert to the Method- ists in the island of Ceylon, 234 Buffaloes, Indian mode of procuring a large supply of them, 123; fre- quently carried down the Missouri, 126
Bugg's spiritual regeneration not neces- sarily connected with baptism, 429 Byron's poems, 595, et seq.; reason for supposing the poem written for the public, 596; character of the 'Sketch 'from Private Life,' ib.; Fare thee 'Well,' 596; the sentiment of pathos may exist where there is no moral feeling, 596, 7; lines to his lordship's sister, 598
Byron's Siege of Corinth, 269, et seq.; Parisina, 273, et seq.; his poems merely sketches of character, 274
Calla-baugh, its remarkable situation, 467 Calmucs, their religion, &c, 332; Kürdä, or prayer machine, ib. Calvin on the Sacraments, 445 Canound, its sandy plains, 464 Caricature, a French one, 71 Carlisle's account of a family having hands and feet with supernumerary fingers and toes, 504
Carlo Emanuel, duke of Savoy, some ac- count of, 501
Carlyle's examination of the arguments for the pre-eminency of the Roman Catholic episcopacy, 313; inquiry into alleged prelensions to religious au- thority, 319; Mr. Ryan's collective in- fallibility examined and exposed, 322, 3;
substantial reasons of the Romish clergy for deriving their succession from the priests, rather than from the prophets, 323; reply to Mr. Ryan's remark con-, cerning the reveries of Joanna South- cott, 326; remarks on a penny-a-week purgatorian society, 326 Cathedral Antiquities of England, 450; see Britton's, &c.
-Carraccioli, his execution on board Lord Nelson's ship attended by Lady Hamilton, 288
Cast Steel, mode of making it according to
Mr. Parkes, 260; a corrected state- ment of its manufacture, ib. Cataracts of the Missouri, 121, et seq. Caubul, Elphinstone's account of the kingdom of, 471, et seq., 556, et seq. Caucasus, Klaproth's travels in, 328,
et seq. Caufiristan, supposed to be inhabited by
the descendants of the Greeks, settled there in the time of Alexander, 564 Ceylon, propagation of religion by the Por- tuguese and Dutch, 228; evil conse quences occasioned by its capture by the English, ib.; schools restored by Sir A. Johnstone, 230
Chalmers's state of the United Kingdom
at the peace of Paris, &c. 417, et seq. Character seldom understood by estimating the qualities of the mind, 81
Charles 11. his meanness in borrowing money from his subjects, 407; accepts of £10,000. from Mr. W. Kiffin, a Baptist minister, ib.
Chateaubriand's recollections of Italy,
England, and America, 45, et seq; beauties of the Roman horizon, 46; re- flections on mountain scenery, 47; dan- gerous adventure at the falls of Niagara, 48; author's plan for exploring North America, 49; reflections on the charac- ter of St. Peter, 51; on men of letters,
b. et seq. Chemical Essays, by S. Parkes, 255, et seq.; see Parkes.
Christabel, a poem, by S. T. Coleridge,
565, et seq.; extracts, 566, et seq. Christian's plan for a county provident bank, 599, et seq.
Christian's, the, tranquillity of mind at the
close of life, its great enjoyment, 89 Christian triumph, a sermon, by Mr. Snelgar on the death of Mr. Wraith, 593 Church government the chief difference between the establishment and the dissenters, 544
Church of Rome, its present state not an object of indifference to Protestants, 345
Circassians, their religion, &c. 338, et
Citric acid, remarks on the mode of obtaining it, its use, &c. 266 Clare, lord chancellor, severe indirect attack upon him by Mr. Curran, 166
Clarke and Lewis's travels to the source of the Missouri river, 105, et seq.; see Missouri
Classification of patients in lunatic hos- pitals, 302
Claude's defence of the reformation, 313, 327; Bayle's high estimation of it, ib.;
Clerical faith, its origin and nature, 199, et seq.
Colburn, Abiah, remarkable for his powers of calculation by memory ; singularities in the anatomical struc- ture of most of his family, 504 Coleridge's Christabel, a poem, 565, et seq.; its unfinished state, ib.; its cha- racter, 566; extracts, ib. et seq.; Kubla Khan, 571
Columbia Oregan, or river of the West, 130
Commerce, the real foundation of the
greatness of the British empire, 212; incompatible with despotism, 214 Confirmation not a sacrament in the English church since the discontinu- ance of the unction, 542; design of the rite, ib.; to be administered by a bishop only, 543
Considerations sur Genéve, par M. Sis- mondi, 94, et seq.; see Sismondi. Controversy with the Bible Society rests wholly with members of the establish- ment, 54
Conversion and unconversion of minis- ters of the church, Wilks's essay ou, 538, et seq.
Conversion in regard to persons baptized, declared to be a thing unheard of in the gospel, 541
Conversion, tracts on, 538, el seg.; the nature and influence of error, ib.; Christian ministry considered as a ministry of initiation, 540; as a priesthood analogous to the Jewish economy, ib.; Romish church com- prehends both views of the subject, b.; faith the gift of the Romish church, 541; conversion in regard to persons who have been baptized, declared to be an unheard of thing in the gospel, 541; confirmation not a sacrament in the English church since the dis- continuance of the unction, 542; de- sign of this rite, ib.; to be adminis-
tered only by the bishop, 543; the principle on which the sacraments in the English church are administered not essentially different from that of the Romish, 544; Mr. Biddulph's manly statement that the real point of difference between the established church and the dissenters is in regard to church government, ib.; two modes only of deciding the point, ib.; the apostolical commission and the sanction of the state deemed by the evangelical clergy a stronger bond than acknowledging the same head, and preaching the same gospel, ib.; Mr. Bugg's opinion that Mr. Cun- ningham's conciliatory promise is erroneous and inefficient, 546; (note) Mr. C.'s proposition to consider re generation in two different senses, ib.; the term conversion, objected to by Dr. Mant, ib.; Mr. Wilks's character of the converted minister, 547, et seq.; differs essentially from the unconverted minister, ib.; remarkable admissions of Dr. Mant, 551, et seq; his inconsistency, 552; Dr. Paley on the necessity of preaching conversion, 553; objection- able nature of a passage in the pre- face of Mr. Wilks's essay, 554, and extract; Mr. Wilks's remarks on the use of technical terms in divinity, 555; on the ministerial character, 556 Converted minister of the church, his charac-
ter, 548; mode of preaching, ib.; con- trasted with the unconverted minister, 549 Cookery, specimen of Highland, 246, 7 Corinth, Lord Byron's Siege of, 269,
et seq; estimate of the poem, ib.; extracts, &c. ib. et seq.; destruction of the city, 272; Lord Byron's poems merely sketches of character, 274 County establishments for insanity, great call for them, 305; hints in re- gard to their erection, ib. Covenant, the new, translated into the
Hebrew for the Jews, 343, et seq. Craniologists, a choice morceau for them, 71 Cunningham's, Rev. J. W. conciliatory
project, stated by Mr. Bugg to be erroneous and insufficient, (note) 546; his proposition to consider regenera- tion in two different senses, ib. Curran, the right honourable J. P. his speeches, 162, et seq.; just claims of the community upon the extraordi- nary talents of its members, 163: versatility of his oratorical powers, 164; his singular talent at cross examina- tion, 165; his galling attack upon Lord Chancellor Clare, 166
Danish government, its laudable zeal in disseminating Christian principles, &c. through its colonies, 231 Danish missions, Dr. Brown's account of, 231
Davis's friendly advice to industrious and frugal persons, &c. 599, 611; see Savings' banks.
Davy's account of some new experi- ments on the fluoric compounds, 360, et seq.; new experiments and obser- vations on a new substance which be comes a violet-coloured gas by heat, 362; its discovery by M. Courtois, 363; various experiments, 363, et seq.; proposed nomenclature of this substance, and of its combinations, 369
Davy's experiments on the combustion of the diamond and other carbona- ceous substances, 513; further ex- periments and observations on iodine, 507, et seq.; account of some ex- periments on animal heat, 516 Death of Christ, provision made by it of two kinds, 485
Deserted Village restored, a poem, by A. Parsey, 398, 9
Disciples had sufficient evidence of the resurrection of Christ, 185, et seq.; hardness of heart the cause of their unbelief, 187
Discours sur la philosophie de l'histoire, 94, 99; see Sismondi. Dissent, its fundamental principles the
same as those of the protest against the church of Rome, 325; duty of ministers to state their reasons for it, ib. Dissenters, advice to the clergy how to put them down, 57 Dissenting churches, Wilson's history and antiquities of, 401, et seq.; 585, et seq. Dissenting ministers, extracts from their resolutions in regard to the persecu. tion of the French Protestants, 177, et seq.; see French Protestants. Distressed state of the United Kingdom, 417, et seq.; opinion of Mr. Chalmers that the nation was never more flou- rishing, ib.; general consent as to the distressed state of the nation, 419; remarks on the distress of the agricul- tural interest, ib.; dubious nature of the late attempt to obviate them, ib.; inquiry into the distresses of the far. mers, 420; true nature of the case, 421; object of the landlords, ib, et seq.; Mr. Western's late propositions, 422; nature of the relief wanted by
the farmers, 423; the agriculturist not the only sufferer of the country, ib.; mercantile distress, ib.; the pre- sent distress is common to all the in- dustrious part of the natiou, 424; poverty the source of this general distress, 425; causes of this poverty, ib.; remedy, 426; remarks on the conduct of government in regard to its expenditure, 427
Dooraunee monarchy in Caubul, ac- count of its establishment, 460 Druids' circle at Stonehenge, poetical des- cription of, 474, 5
Duncan's essay on the nature of parish banks, &c. 509, 609, et seq. Durant's sermon on the best mode of preaching Christ, 174, et seq.; state- ment of facts (in preaching) should be full and unequivocal, 174, 5. Durie, Mr. a native of Bengal, remark- able account of him, 563, el seq.
East India Company, contrast of the conduct of the Dutch and the British, in regard to the propagation of re- ligion, 229
Edgeworth's, Sneyd, memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth, 173, 4 Egede, Mr. the Danish missionary, ac- count of his labours among the Green- landers, 233
Elbrus, a Caucasian mountain, its great height, 339; superstitions notions of the natives concerning it, 340 Eliot, his intrepidity and firmness in preaching among hostile Indians, 229, et seq.; his labours in translating the scriptures, 230; account of his successors, ib.
Elphinstone's account of the kingdom
of Caubul, 457, et seq.; British domi- nion in Asia beneficial to the na- tives, ib.; arrangements of the ob- jects of inquiry, ib.; divisions of sub- jects treated of in the work, 460; ac- count of the establishment of the Dooraanee monarchy in Caubul, ib. et seq.; their invasion of Persia, ib.; successful enterprises of Ahmed Shah, 461; intrigues of Futteh Khan, 462; origin of the mission, 463; its equip- ment, ib.; sands of Canound, 464; Singuana, &c. described, ib.; hills of shifting sand, b; distress of the party, 465; Bikaneer, ib.; character of its prince, ib.; Pocggul, 466; a mirage, b; Moultan, ib.; Soliman's throne, ib; eredulity of the natives, ib.; Calla-baugh, its remarkable situation, 467; Peshawer, 468; ridiculous cere- monies attending presentations to the
king, 469; audience given to the em bassy, ib.; magnificent appearance of the prince, 470; the monarchy in a declining state, ib.; Caubul seized by Shah Mahmood and Fatteh Khan, ib.; dangerous predicament of the embassy, ib.; perverse adherence of the natives to old habits, 471; recal of the embassy, ib.; total defeat of the king, ib.; return of the party, b; description of the Punjnub, 472; geo- graphy of Caubul, 556; population, 557; greatest height of the Hindoo Coosh chain, b.: triple chain of Soli- maun, ib.; description of the country round Peshawer, ib.; of the inhabitants, 558; tradition that the Afghauns are the descendants of the ten tribes, 559; extract, ib.; internal regulations of the Afghauns, 561; their manners, ib.; literary pursuits, ib.; poets, 562; religion, b; trade, ib.; agriculture, ib.; government, ib.; remarkable ac- count of Mr. Durie, 563; Caufiris tan, inhabited by the supposent des- cendants of the Greeks left there by Alexander the Great, 564
Embassy to Caubul, ceremonies attend ing its presentation to the king; 469," et seq.
English historical writers, neither of the three, strictly speaking, an English- man, 18; their excellence in the art of writing history originated probably in a mixture of French vivacity and British gravity, 19
Entomology, Kirby and Spence's intro- duction to, 572. et seq.; prejudice against this and other similar studies, ib.; government alarmed in regard to the Hessian fly, 573, (note) study not to be confined exclusively to par ticular objects, 574, et seq.; some ac count of the authors, 576; contents of the work, 576; arrangements of subjects injudicious, ib.; transforma- * tions of insects, 577; their enormous increase, ib.; destructive nature of some insects, 578; formica saccharivora, 579; flight of locusts, ib.; benefit derived from insects, 580; instances of it, 581; utility of insects as food, ib. et seq.5 anecdote of James 1st. 583; appara- tus of the spiner for spinning described, 584
Erghum, bishop, his great power, 454 Error, its nature and influence; 538, 9 Established church, solid grounds on which it may apprehend danger, 58; declared by one of the clergy to berdi- vided into the orthodox and the evangeli- cal parties, 607
Evangelical and orthodox clergymen, their points of difference, 545 Evidence of a fact is either defective,
sufficient, or compelling, 184, et seq. the disciples had sufficient evidence of the resurrection, 185; inquiry into what constitutes sufficient evidence of a fact, 186; self-love or self-interest oppose the due impression of just evi- dence, 186
Exercise, Mr. Finch's estimate of its im- portance to insune patients, 300
Faith has for its object always some fact; 182; inquiry how this faith becomes praiseworthy, or the contrary, 183, et seq.; illustrated in the conduct of the disciples in regard to the resurrec- tion of Christ, 184; the truth and the belief of a fact different, ib.; evi- dence of a fact either defective, suffi- cient, or compelling, ib.; the disciples had sufficient evidence of the resurrec. tion, 185
Faith, Mr. A. Fuller on the nature of,
481, et seq.; various controversies oc- casioned by Mr. F.'s strictures on it, 482, el seq.
Farmers, inquiry into their present dis- tressed state, 420, et seq. Fecundity of insects, 577
Fez, description of, population, &c. 528; its mosques very numerous, 529; place in one of them for the wo- men to attend at public prayers, ib. Fortifications, ancient American, des- cribed, 115; their extensive magni. tude, 116; one mound covered with cotton trees, ib.; France, deplorable state of its present
moral condition, 210; was never really a commercial country, 214 Freedom of the press, its tendency to preserve true patriotism, 215 French mobs, their rate of hire, 70 French patriotisin prior to the revolu- tion, its nature, 215; English patri- otism contrasted with it, ib. French Protestants resolutions, &c. re- lative to the persecution of, extracted from the proceedings of the Protes tant dissenting ministers, 177, et seq.; the details not of doubtful authority, ib.; conduct of the dissenting minis. ters on the first rumour of the perse- cution, 178; letters purporting to have been written by the French cler- gy to the English dissenting ministers, written merely to allay the suspicions of the French police, ib. insuperable difficulty of forming a just estimate of the internal state of France, 179-
Fuller, Andrew, Morris's memoirs of the life and writings of, 478, el seq.; early years of Mr. Fuller, ib.; his settlement at Soham, 479; change in his religious views, ib.; removes to Kettering, ib.; becomes secretary to the baptist mission, ib.; arduous na- ture of his labours in that office, ib.; statement of his last moments, 480; controversy on faith, 482; crude objections of Mr. Button and Mr. Martin, ib.: faith and repentance the gift of God but the duty of man, ib.; objections of Mr. Dan. Taylor, ib. et seq.; Mr. F. a firm believer in the doctrine of personal election, ib.; the provision made by the death of Christ, of two kinds, 485; Mr. D. Tay- lor's system inefficient, ib.; objection of Mr. A. Mc Lean; ib.; its nature, ib.; second objection of Mr. A. Mc Lean, 487; controversy on the Sys- 'tems compared,' ib.; some objec- tions against it examined and refuted, 488; Mr. Hall's remarks on the manners and character of Mr Fuller, 489; Mr. Morris's sketch of his minis- terial talents, 490; concluding re- marks, ib.; et seq.
Gandshuhr, or miraculous pillar of re- ligion, 334
Gardanne, general, his embassy to the court of Persia, 463
Gass, Patrick, his unsatisfactory narra-
tion of the expedition to the source of the Missouri, 106 Gates of the rocky mountain, Captain Lewis and Clarke's passage up the Missouri, through them, 127 Geneva, Sismondi's considerations on, 94, et seq.; probable evil that would arise from its annexation to the Hel- vetic league, 95; its importance as an enlightened Protestant continental state, 96; belongs morally to England, ib. Georgia, Klaproth's travels in, 328, et seq.
Geography of Caubul, 556 Gibbon's miscellaneous works, 1, et seq.; character and estimate of the author's letters, 3; Gibbon less irreligious than Hume, 4; the subject of his history possesses advantages superior to those of his two competitors, ib. et seq.; his long hesitation in regard to the choice of his subject, 6; great ad- vantage possessed by the historian of his own times over other historical writers, 7; nature of Voltaire's, &e. historical attempts, ib.; other advan
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