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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

India.

and

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,

84.

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.

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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,

370;

374; upon stereotype and machine

printing, 375.

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

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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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