plan stated, 111; high merit of the prefatory essays, 112; his arrange- ment of the functions, ib.; azote necessary to deriving nutriment from aliment, ib.; importance of Mr. Ma- jendie's recent experiments, ib.; or- gans connected with the digestive process in animals of the most perfect order, ib. ; their more immediate func- tions totally unknown, 113; the Au- thor an enemy to equivocal or spon- taneous generation, 114; on respiratory function in the different classes of animals, ib. ; the perfection of the voice regulated by the per- fection of the larynx, ib.; remarks on ventriloquism, 115; on inspiration, ib.; the change in the colour and pro- perties of the blood, &c. 115, 16; diminished credit of the hypothesis of Dr. Crawford and M. Lavoisier re- specting the colour of the blood, and the source of animal heat, 116; the primary cause of the colour of the blood and of animal heat still un- known, 116, 17; on the diseases of the sanguineous functions, 210; the discovery of the circulation of the blood wholly due to Harvey, ib.; the transmission of the blood through the pulmonary organs, pointed out by Servetus, ib. ; the proportionate parts that the heart, the arteries, and the veins take in the office of circu- lation still a subject of controversy, 211; remarks on this subject, ib.; John Hunter's stimulus of necessity, 212; of the blood, its colour, &c. ib.; Brande on the red particles of the blood, ib.; the average quantity of blood in the human body, ib.; on the difference between human blood and that of quadrupeds, and between the blood of different species of ani- mals, 213; on the transfusion of blood, &c. ib.; the blood the most im- portant fluid in the animal system, ib. ; is the source of health and of disease, ib.; fever a disorder of the san- guineous function, 214; variety of opinions among the ancients and the moderns respecting fever, ib.; the Author's views on the doctrine of febrile excitation, 216, 17; on inflammation, 217; on the nervous faculty, 218; its threefold division, ib.; on the configurations and parts of the brain, ib.; the size and nerves of the brain of man, and of other animals, 219; inquiry into the particular mode of
nervous agency, 220; the Author's remarks on the subject of mind, 221; on hereditary transmission and taint, 222, 3; remarks on the excernent function, 223, et seq.
Medicine, theoretical and practical, Uwins's compendium of, &c, 320, et
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II., 75, et seq. Metternich, prince, portrait of, 245, 6. M'Gavin's protestant reformation vin- dicated from the aspersions, &c. of Cobbett, 367, et seq.; nature and ten- dency of the aid afforded to any cause by Cobbett, 367; specimen of the au- thor's severe retaliation upon Cobbett, 368, 9.
Milner's, the late Rev. Joseph, practical sermons, 51, et seq.; remarks of the editor, the Rev. Mr. Fawcett, concerning the present volume, 51; on the happiness of those who trust in the Lord, 53, 4; the kingdom of Christ not of this world, 55, 6; reflections on a death-bed, 58, et seq.; support in death, 59, 60. Missionaries after the apostolic school,
Irving's orations for, 343, et seq. Missions, protestant, in the Bengal pre- sidency, queries and replies respect- ing the present state of, 482, et seq. Mississippi, Schoolcraft's travels in the central portions of the valley of, 473, et seq.
Mollien's, M., travels in the republic of Columbia, in the years 1822 and 1823, 27; see Columbia.
Monk, General, his proceedings in reference to the restoration, 79, et seq. Moore, Sir John, ode on the burial of, written by the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, 118, 19.
Mortality, table of the law of, at two different periods, 101, note,
Moscow, its repeated conflagrations, 533.
Mouravier's voyage en Turcomanie, 418, et seq.
Napier's memoir on the roads of Cefa- lonia, 294, et seq.; state of the island, 294; the want of roads an insurmountable bar to the general improvement of the island, and of the people, 294, 5; wretched state of the country seals, ib,; fine view from the black mountain, 295; valley of Heraclea, 295, 6; danger from exposure to the heat of the sun without using ex- ercise, 297.
Newman's, Dr., manual for church members, 550, et seq.; unbaptized christians not to be admitted to church fellowship, 551; remarks on this posi- tion, ib.; the question whether female members have a vote at the church meetings considered, 551, 2. Nishapore, its various vicissitudes and present state, 433. Nonconformity, congregational, Fletch- er's discourse on the principles and tendencies of, 363, et seq.
Norfolk Sound, on the N. W. coast of North America; school for the ua- tives founded by the Russians, 184.
Odessa, its population, trade, &c., 548. Orkneys, South, explored by Captain Weddell, 270.
Orme's expostulary letter to the Rev. Edward Irving, 343, et seq.
Oxus, the river, M. Mouravier's account of the dry channel of it, 438, 9.
Paradise Lost, Martin's illustrations of, 519, et seq.
Pascal's thoughts on religion, &c. trans- lated by the Rev. E. Craig, 528, et seq. Patriotism, lines on, by the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, 124, et seq.
Peak-scenery, Rhodes's, 88, et seq.; Dove Dale, a favourite resort of Rous- seau, 89; remarks on the conduct and character of Rousseau, ib. et sèq. Pepys, Samuel, memoirs of, 75, et seq.; notice of the work by the brother of Lord Braybrooke, the editor, sketch of the life, &c. of Mr. Pepys, 77; extracts from his journal, 78; anecdote respecting Lord G. Cromwell's dissolving the house, 78, 9; proceeding of General Monk, 79, et seq.; death of Sir Henry Vane, 81,2; remarks on the conduct of the new king and queen, 82; farewell sermons of the presbyterians, Dr. Bates and Parson Herring, 82, 3; unhappy state of affairs, 83, 4; popular opinion of the clergy of that period, 84, 5; Charles the First confesses himself convinced in his judgement against the bishops, 85; Sir William Penn, 86. Poetry, national, its character peculiarly irreligious since the restoration, 122.
- popular religious, remarks on the composition of, by the late Rev. C. Wolfe, 120, et seq.
sacred, 354, et seq.; improving state of the standard of taste, in what is called the religious world, 354; change in the character of the poetry
in periodical publications, 355; Ken- nedy's remarks on the great import- ance of sacred poetry as a medium of popular instruction, 356; critique on some late selections of sacred poe- try, 358, et seq.; Moore's poem on the destruction of Jerusalem, 362.
Poetry, select, chiefly on subjects con- nected with religion, 354, et seq.; arrangements of the poems, 358 ; exe- cution of the work, ib.; see Sacred Poetry.
Poets, Latin, selections from the works of, 370.
Popery, Groser's six lectures on, 322, et
Rameses; an Egyptian tale, 337, et seq.; Egypt probably indebted to the obscu- rity of her history for much of her fame, 338; magnitude and complica- tion the chief features of her architec- ture, 338; remarks on her sculpture and painting, &c. ib. ; a view in Egypt during an inundation of the Nile, 339; detail of the leading circumstances of the tale, 340, et seq.; description of the palace of Medinet Habû, 342, 3. Reformation, protestant, vindicated from the misrepresentations, &c. of Cob- bett, 367, et seq.
Remains of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, 117, et seq.
Remembrancer, the Christian, or the Amulet, 552, et seq.
Rhodes's Peak-scenery, 88, et seq. Rivers of England, by Turner and Gir- tin, 519, et seq.
Russia, travels in, 532, et seq.; insigni- ficance of Russia, as a European state during its early history, 532; repeated conflagrations of the city of Moscow, 533; rapid increase of the extent and population of the Russian
empire, ib.; the various tribes of peo- ple that compose the population of the British and the Russian empires, 533, 4; remarkable features attach- ing to the circumstances that have contributed to the present aggran- dizement of Russia, 534; character of its people, religion, commerce, go- vernment, &c., ib.; change in the po- litical situation of France and of Rus- sia, in regard to England, 535; posi- tion of Russia in a military point of view, ib.; the question whether Rus- sia can ever become formidable by conquest considered, 536; remarks of Mr. Douglas, on the influence, &c. of Britain, in the balance of the affairs of Europe, 537; despotic kings her natural enemies, ib.; present state of Russia, in reference to the prospects of Greece, 538, 9; Dr. Lyall's charge of misre- presentation against Dr. E. Clarke examined, 539, et seq.; Dr. Lyall's ⚫ character of the Russians' disgust- ingly offensive, 541; evil occasioned by the publication of Dr. Lyall's work, 542; singular and enterprising journey of Lieut. Holman, being stone blind, across Siberia, 542, et seq. ; is arrested by order of the Russian government and compelled to return to Europe, ib.; Mr. Holman's explanation of his own feelings and motives in visiting foreign countries, 545, 6; his remarks on the commerce of Russia, 546, et seq.; imperial ukase, compelling the Jews, not physicians or merchants, to become agricultu- rists, 548; Odessa, its population, trade, &c., ib.; Dr. Lyall's visits to the Sultan Kalli-gherry, 549; present state of the Krimea, ib.; the Scotch missio- nary colony at Karass, 550; passage of the Caucasus to Tiflis, ib. Russell's tour in Germany and the Aus- trian empire, 227, et seq. Ryland, Dr. Hall's sermon on the death of, 511, et seq.
Saide, present state of, 312. Schiller, Friedrich, the life of, 248, et seq.; scene of the early years of Schil- ler, 248; anecdote of Schiller and Dr. Elwert, when boys, 249; he unwillingly enrols himself in the Würtemburgh col- lege, 250; publishes his Rubbers, 251; gives offence to the Grisons, and is reprimanded by the grand duke, 251, 2; character of the "Rob. bers," 252; soliloquy of the Robber, 252,3; of the Moor, 253; the author's
remarks on his juvenile production, ib. ; he secretly withdraws from Stuttgard, and becomes the poet of the Manheim theatre, 254; removes to Leipzig and then to Dresden, where he completes Don Carlos, 254; visits Weimar, and meets Herder and Wieland, 254, 5; his intercourse with Göethe, 255; pub- lishes his history of the thirty years' war, ib.; visits his parents in Swabia, 256; general habits of his life, 256, 7; his last illness and death, 259; his lite- rary character, ib.; inferior to Shak- speare in fancy, &c., ib. Schoolcraft's travels in the central por-
tions of the Mississippi valley, 473, el seq.; object of the present journey to purchase lands from the Indians, for the United States, 474; quality of the newly explored lands, ib. ; striking illus- trations of the blessings of civiliza- tion, 475; route chosen by the party, by way of the rivers, ib.; Indian school, near Fort Wayne, under the tuition of Mr. M'Coy, a baptist mis- sionary, 476; Indian breakfast, ib.; the party arrive at Harmony, the late purchase of Mr. Owen, of Lanark, 476, 7; description of the town, 477; the laying out of the fields, ib.; granaries, barns, &c. ib.; the various daily labours made individual, 477, 8; remarks on the nature and tendency of Mr. Owen's system, 478, 9; striking in- stance of affectionate feeling in a For Indian, 479; conference between the party and the Indians respecting the purchase of the lands, 480: recrimi- natory remarks of the author on the Bri- tish mode of taking possession of territory in Canada, and in Hindoostan, ib.; · locality of the purchase, its climate, fertility, natural produce, &c., 481, 2. Sermons, practical, by the late Rev. Joseph Milner, 51, et seq.
Simeon's Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth in vindication of the British and Foreign Bible Society, &c. 185, et seq.
Society for the propagation of the gos- pel in foreign parts, &c. by the Bishop of Gloucester, &c. 577, et seq. Songs of a Stranger, by Louisa Stuart Costello, 168, et seq.
b. et seq.; effect of the small-pox among the American Indians, 330,1; the birth and childhood of the Indian's first-born, 332; death of the father, 333; attach- ment of human nature to life, ib.; death of Monnema and Mooma, 334; reflections of Yeruli on the death of his mother and sister, 335; his own baptism and death, 336; close of the author's dedication of the poem to his daughter, 336, 7.
South Pole, Capt. Weddell's Voyage towards it, &c. 369, et seq.
Spain, Bowring's ancient poetry and ro- mances of, 259, et seq.
Steam-boats established on the Orinoko, 30.
Steele's husbandman's calling, &c. 470; the author the father of Sir Richard Steele, ib.
Stowell on the Ten Commandments,
270, et seq; the author's reasons for the present course, 270, 1; on legal preaching, ib.; remarks on the vague notion that the decalogue is not bind- ing on Christians, 272; cases in which the Lord's name may be taken in vain in worship, 272, 3; in writings, &c., 274. Strauss's Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusa- lem, 153, et seq.
Studies of figures, by the late Thomas
Gainsborough, 519, et seq..
Syria, Jowett's Christian researches in, &c. 298, et seq.
Szalt, description of the town of, 140;
its population, &c. ib. ; service at the Greek church, priest's dress, &c. 141, 2.
Tale of Paraguay, by Dr. Southey, 328,
Taylor's, Mrs., Itinerary of a traveller
in the wilderness, 60, et seq.; design and contents of the work, ib. ; the introduction, ib. ; meditation on the death of the first-born in Egypt, 62, 3; personal application of the subject, 63,4; concluding remarks of the writer, 64. Ten Commandments, the, illustrated and enforced on Christian Principles, by W. H. Stowell, 270, et seq. Traveller in the wilderness, Mrs. Tay- tor's Itinerary of, 60, et seq. Traveller, tales of a, by Geoffrey Cray- on, 65, et seq.
Turner's and Girtin's rivers of England,
Vane, Sir Henry, his death, 812. Venn's remarks on the propriety of applying the funds of the Bible So- ciety to the circulation of such foreign versions as contain the Apocrypha, &c. 185, et seq. Ventriloquism, remarks on, 115. Versification, Latin, simplified, by Dr. Carey, 470.
Vienna, its moral and political degrada tion, 241, et seq.
Views in Provence and on the Rhone, 519, et seq.
Village, the rising, a poem, by Oliver Goldsmith, 268, et seq.
Vindication of the proceedings of the Edinburgh Bible Society relative to the Apocrypha, &c. 377, et seq. Volney, inaccuracy of his topographical descriptions, 152.
Wales, Dr. Jones's history of, 90, et seq.; curious information by the author, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, 91; Judas Iscariot the only Jew among the twelve disciples, ib.; his account of the introduction of Christianity into Britain, ib.: the religious denominations and principles of the Welsh, as detailed by this writer, 92, 3; his description of the Welsh character, 93, 4.
Wardlaw's sermons on Man responsible for his beliefs, 566; occasion of the sermon, ib.;
Walladmor, 13. et seq.; remarks on the school of Scottish novels, 13, 14; causes of its popularity, 14; Mr. Galt's fictions of Scottish life, 15; origin of the present work, 16; ex- tracts, 16, et seq. Warwickshire, graphic illustrations of, 519, et seq.
Weddell's voyage towards the South Pole, &c. 369, et seq.; Capt. Cooke's most southern latitude, 369; Russian expedition stopped in latitude 69° S. ib.; discovery of the South Shetland islands, 368, 9; departure of Capt. W.'s expedition for the south, 370; falls in with a Portuguese slave-ship, ib.; puts into Port St. Elena, ib.; ex- plores the South Orkneys, ib.; his most southern latitude, ib. ; anchors at South Georgia, 271; remarks a most sin- gular internal agitation of the ground,
ib.; trade to South Georgia and the island of Desolation' for furs and oil, ib.; he accomplishes some hydro- graphical corrections, ib.; seeks in vain for the Aurora islands, 371, 2; the seals, &c. of these seas nearly exterminated by the avaricious hun- ters, 372; atrocious conduct of some wrecked English sailors, towards an American Captain who relieved them, 373; second voyage of Capt. W., 374..
Wieland, notice of, 230, 1.
Weimar, description of it, 229, et seq. West's journal during a residence at the Red River colony, British North America, &c. 181, et seq.; description of the colony, its population, &c. 182; their travelling dogs, ib.; the author opposed by the Canadian priests, in his attempts to circulate the Scrip- tures, 182, 3; refusal of the priests to marry Catholics to Protestants, 183; admission of a priest, that the Scriptures say nothing af bodily penance, ib.; a Christian church and Sunday school first founded in these wilds, 184; Russians have founded a school at Norfolk Sound for the natives, ib. Williams, Dr. Edward, Gilbert's me- moir of the life and writings of, 281, et seq.
Williams's select views in Greece, 519,
et seq. Wiffen's translation of Tasso's Jerusalem
delivered, &c. 456, et seq.; remarks on the two different styles of poetry; viz. the romantic and the classical, ib.; the romantic poetry paramount in Italy in the sixteenth century, 457; different opinions of the origin of ro- mantic poetry, ib.; opinion of Schle- gel, 457, 8; character of Pindar's poetry, ib.; Schlegel on the Greek tragedy, 459; objections to his theory, ib. ; influence of Scandinavian fictions on the poetry of the romantic writers, 460; Schlegel on the three unities of the French critics, ib.; and on the mythological heroes of the French poets, 460, 1; the attempt to make modern poetry classical injudicious, 461; remarks on the objections a- gainst Tasso's love scenes, ib.; and
his marvels, 462; his defence of the machinery of his Jerusalem, ib.; the objection against his poem on account - of its false views of the achievements celebrated, considered, ib.; character of Carew's translation of the first five books of the Jerusalem, 463; Fair- fax's Godfrey of Bouillon, Hook's first canto, and Hoole's version, ib.; Cary's masterly translation of Dante, and Rose's Ariosto, ib.; merits of the present version, 464; objectionable renderings, ib. ; topography of Jerusalem, 465; portrait of Armida, 466; epi- sode of Sophronia and Olindo, ib. et seq. Wolfe, the late Rev. Charles, remains of, 117, et seq.; the author first known publicly as the writer of the ode on the burial of Sir John Moore, 117; copy of the ode, 118, 19; song, 119; letter of the author in reference to the composi- tion of popular religious poetry, 120, et seq.; character of our national poetry since the restoration pecu- liarly irreligious, 122,; profane ten- dency arising from accommodating sacred words to popular national airs, ib.; some instances given, 123; lines on patriotism, 124, et seq.; the au- thor's character as a preacher, 127; exordium to the first sermon, ib.; his impressive appeal to his hearers, 128, 9; difference of feeling occasioned by the disease of the body and that of the soul, 129, 30; the various excuses made by men, for temptation, reducible to two classes, 131; first, that our particular temptations differ from those of other men, ib.; secondly, that all men do the same, ib,; observations and reflections on the above positions, ib. et seq.; biographical notice of the author, 134, et seq.; he is removed, when under two severe afflictions, to a remote cu- racy in the north of Ireland, 135; his religious and pastoral character, and arduous duties, 135, 6; causes of the decline of his health, 136; his ha- bits, and increase of his illness, and death, 137.
Worship, public, different ways in which the name of the Lord may be taken in vain, during the performance of it, 273,
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