Abbey, Westminster, Mr. Burke's reflec- tions on first visiting it, 317; his remarks on Lady Nightingale's monument, ib. Adam, remarks on his naming of the ani- mals, 456, 7; difficulties of the sub- ject considered, ib.
Amazon river, Spix and Martius's voyage along the banks of it, 390; see Brazil. Amusements for the poor, 470. Antinomianism, modern, 508, et seq.; misapplication of the term, 509; consequences of it, ib.; Flavel's creed of the Antinomians exhibited in ten articles, 509, 10; the two main arti- cles of the system, ib.; the vicar of Charles and his relative, the avowed champions of Antinomianism, ib. ; progressive sanctification asserted to be no where inculcated in the Scriptures, ib. ; extract from a tract of Dr. Hawker's, called no yea and nay gospel,' 511,12; further extracts from the Dr.'s tracts, &c. ib. et seq.; his explanation of what grace is, 515; Mr. Babb's declaration that sin is good for a Christian, ib. note; other similar statements of Mr. B., 516; Dr. H.'s opinion that the bible society is the devil's society, ib.; sentences exhibiting the peculiar phraseology of Mr. Vaughan, ib. ; extract from Mr. Vaughan's sermon, shewing the evil principles of antinamianism, 518; ex- tract from Dr. Hawker's sermon, before the London Missionary Society, 519; the apostasy of the preacher a gra- dual deterioration, 520; the four causes of antinomiauism, 521; the autinomian teacher's mode of pro- ceeding, ib.; extract from Andrew Fuller, on the origin of antinomianism in the individual, 522; different effects of antinomian preaching upon minds of different stamps, 523; important caution of Mr. Cooper, in regard to making a full exposition of the doc- trines of grace, 524 ; further remarks
ou the ill effects of not preaching fully the doctrine of justification by faith only, ib.; on that style of preach- ing called high calvinism, 525; the distinguishing feature of antinomia- nism pronounced by Mr. Fuller to be selfishness, 526; illustrative extract from a sermon of Mr. Fuller's, 526, 7. Aurora-Borealis, Capt. Parry's fine de-
scription of it in the northern regions, 103, 4.
Australia, and other poems, 567, et seq.
Bal-costume, description of one for chil- dren in Paris, 448.
Barneel, Bahr-al-Nil, course of this river, 280.
Barry, the painter, Mr. Burke's con-
stant friendship for him, 324, et seq. Barton's poetic vigils, 49, el seq.; ex- tract from an ode to the owl, 51, 2; sabbath days, 53; Dives and Lazarus, 54, 5; memorial of James Nayler, 56, et seq.; home, 59, 60; prefatory son- net, 60
Bath of Montesuma, 146, 7. Beauchamp on the independence of Bra-
zil, 286, et seq.; Brazil, the safeguard of old Europe and of the new hemisphere, 286; extent, population, &c. of the empire, &c. 287.
Bible, Harris's natural history of, 454, et seq.
Bingley's biography of celebrated Ro- man characters, 84, et seq.; names of those Romans whose lives are treated of in the present work, 84; remarks on the former publications of the author, 85.
Birds forbidden to be eaten by the Mosaical
law, metrical catalogue of them, 462. Birt on the moral government of God, in the dispensation of the gospel, vindicated, 508, et seq.
Blacker's, lieut. col. memoir of the ope- rations of the British Army in ludia,
he late Mahratta war, 528, see India.
Cactica Sacra, 359, et seq. ; de-
of the present work, 359; advice the author to his readers, 360; his hief object, ib.; Bishop Lowth's opinion of the origin of the parallel- isms of the Scriptures, 360; and of their great importance, 361; his de- finition of parallelism, ib.; the three classes of them, ib.; examples of each, 361, et seq. ; example of the introverted parallelism, 363; parallel- ism not a peculiarity of Hebrew poe- try, 364; considered by the author as the key to the arrangement of the Apostle's writings, ib.; illustration, ib.; the author's high opinion of the results to be expected from an at- tention to the parallelisms of Scrip- ture, 365, 6.
Brahmins, their influence over the minds of the Hindoos is diminishing, 64, 5.
Brazil, Beauchamp on the independence of, 286, et seq.
travels in, 385, et seq.; era of the first settlement on the Brazil coast, 387; progressive improvement of the colony, ib.; causes of its late rapid advance, ib. ; route of Prince Maxi- milian, 389; route of Von Spix and Martius, 389; voyage along the banks of the Amazon, 390; settlements on the river, ib.; Rio Negro, ib.; extent of their voyage up the river, ib.; descrip- tion of a Brazilian forest, 391; animal population of the forest, 392, et seq. ; a plain in the province of Minas Geraes described, with its various animals, 394; Mawe's character of the Indian, 395; his general habits, ib.; description and habits of the Paries, 397, et seq.; their arms and huts, &c. ib.; prevalence of cannibalism among them, 399; cha- racter of the Botucadoes, 399, 400; their general appearance, ib. ; further proofs of the existence of cannibalism among them, 401; remarks on the various mutilations practised by the savage tribes, 401, 2; the botoque, ib.; con- tents of Mrs. Graham's journal, 403; her description of a Brazilian court draw- ing room, 404.
Brown's exercises for the young, on im- portant subjects in religion, 87. Bryant, his opinion of alphabetical writ- ing, 339; of the literature of the Egyptians, ib.
Bull-fight, description of one at Lima, 47,
Bullock's six months' residence and tra- vels in Mexico, 140, et seq.; descrip- tion of Vera Cruz, 140, 1; Xalapa, 141, 2; volcanic soil near Xalapa, 142, 5; Puebla de los Angeles, 143; splendour of the high altar in the cathe- dral, 143, 4; approach to, and des- cription of Mexico, 144, 5; cast taken of a colossal statue of the chief deity of the Mexicans, 145, 6; bath of Monte- zuma, 146, 7; pyramids of the sun and moon, 147, et seq.; tête in the Indian village of Tilotepic, 149.
Burnet's, Bishop, history of his own time, 481, et seq.; history of the notes ap- pended to the present volume, ib.; periods at which the bishop finished the different parts of his history, 482; remarks respecting the suppressed passages, and inquiry into the cause of their suppression, 482, 3; charac- ter of Charles I. as given in a restored passage, 484; its perfect consistency with other passages in the printed volumes, 485; change in Burnet's political principles at a later period of his life, ib. ; inquiry into the his- torical veracity of Burnet, 487; his conduct in the attainder of Sir John Fenwick considered, 488; his total silence respecting Locke, ib.; in- creasing merit and value of the bp.'s history, 489; note of Lord Dartmouth on the character of Burnet, ib. ; the pre- sent editors' remarks on his lordship's charge against the bishop's veracity, 490; excellent character of Burnet as a bishop and as a man of benevolence, ib.; specimens of the Dartmouth notes on Mary, daughter of Cromwell, 491; on Burnet, ib. ; on precedent, ib. ; church property, 491, 2; archbishop Tennison, 492; creation of peers, ib.; bishop Al- terbury, 492, 3; conclusion of the editors' preface, 493; two notes of Speaker Ons- low on Burnet's preaching, ib.; charac- ter of Swift's notes, 494, 5; specimens of them, 495; Speaker Onslow's charac- ter of Swift, 497.
Cannibalism, its prevalence among the Botucudoes, in Brazil, 399, et seq. Cape Coast, progress of the schools at that place, 276.
Caraites, account of them, 262. Cary's birds of Aristophanes, 217, et seq.; great difficulties attending the translation of Aristophanes, 218, 19; character of his comedies, 219; p'an of the Clouds,' 221; magnificence of the Athenian theatrical spectacles,
221; materials of the modern drama, 222; peculiarities of the ancient drama of Athens, 223; character of the author's translation, 224; Massin- ger, a model of comic versification, 225; difficulty of translating the jeux d' esprit, &c. of Aristophanes, 226, et seq.; the 'Clouds' not written to defame Socrates, 228; reasons for excluding Aristophanes's writings from our seats of literature, 228, 9; remarks on his licentiousness, 229; secluded life of the Athenian ladies, ib.; Schlegel's character and outline of the Birds,' 230, et seq.; analysis of scene the fourth, act the first, 232, 3; objection to the substitution of English analo- gies for certain peculiar Greek words, 233; extracts from the Birds,' 234, &c.
Catton's eternity of divine mercy esta- blished, and unconditional reproba- tion discarded, 558, et seq.; remarks on Dr. Clarke's position that mercy was not an attribute of the Deity be- fore the fall of man, 558; the doctrine of unconditional reprobation held only by the antinomians in the present day, 559; the author's reasons for discarding this doctrine, ib.
Caxton, the first printer in England, 370.
Chalmers's sermons, preached in St.
John's, Glasgow, 154, et seq.; cha- racter of Dr. Chalmers's sermons, 156; remarks on the appropriate style for sermons, 156, 7; topics of Dr. C.'s present series of discourses, 159; introductory remarks to a sermon on pre- 'destination, 159, 60; on the sin a- gainst the Holy Spirit, 162, 3; remarks on Dr. C.'s mode of treating this sub- ject, 163, 4; exordium to the discourse on the reasonableness of faith, 153, et seq. the materialism of the new earth, 165, et seq.
Champollion's hieroglyphic system of the ancient Egyptians, 330, et seq.; design of the author, 330; examina- tion of his mode of applying his alpha- bet, ib.; objections to it, 331, 2; his alphabet applied to the cartouches, 332, 3; his formation of the word Psam mus, 333; Ramses the Great, 334; the author's system a true one, 335; real cause of his failure, ib.; Persian epoch of hieroglyphics, ib.; the al- phabet, 336; author's superior quali- fications in regard to hieroglyphical learning, ib.; the monuments of the
Pharaohs, 337; those of the Greek and Roman epoch, ib.; the author's opi- nion of the African origin of the lite- rature and the religion of the Egyp- tians, ib. et seq.; monuments of Nubia, 337; of Ethiopia, ib.; probability of the Asiatic origin of the Egyptian literature, &c. 338; Egypt peopled from Arabia, ib.; the Pyramids free from hieroglyphics, probable reason of it, ib.; first Hebrew letters probably formed by Moses, from Egyptian signs, 339; Bryant's opinion of al- phabetic writing, ib.; and of the lite- rature of the Egyptians, ib. Characters, Roman, Bingley's biography of, 84, et seq.
Charles I., character of, as exhibited in a restored passage of Burnet's 'times,' 484.
Church, Greek, state of it, 478. Cleveland, Mr., monument raised to his memory by the governor general and coun- cil of Bengal, 538.
Cochrane, Lord, appointed to the com- mand of the Chilian navy, 46 ; admi- rable instance of his intrepidity at the head of some British seamen, in the port of Callao, 46, 7.
Coke, Sir Edward, his character, 195, 6. Cole's philosophical remarks on the the- ory of comets, 423, el seq.; great un- certainty in regard to the accuracy of astronomical calculations, 424; re- marks on the danger apprehended by some astronomers, from the expected near approach of one of the comets to the earth, ib. ; author's opinion that comets make the whole range of the universe, 425; accounts of some comets, ib.; calculations tending to shew that they move in hyperbolas and not in ellipses, 426; the author's remarks on light considered, ib.
Comets, Cole's philosophical remarks on the theory of, 423, et seq. Companion, library, by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, 417, et seq.
Conti, character, &c. of the prince of, 428,
Coquerel's tableaux de l'histoire philo- sophique du Christianisme, ou études de philosophie Religieuse, 1, et seq. ; comparison between the present age and that which preceded the Refor- mation, 2, 3; Europe not more effec- tively christianised than Asia, 3, 4; great moral changes among mankind have not been produced by human agencies designedly directed to the
accomplishment of them, 4, 3; 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 Coloneus, 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 Chöephora 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 Trachiniæ 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 India.
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, and Hough's reply to his letters, 61, et seq.; remarks on his position that God has 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 Abbé'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, el 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 literalare, &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,
Fairfax, Lord, Godwin's character of, 204, 5.
Footpaths, evils fell 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; slate 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 coin- 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, el seq.; remark on the arrangement
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