Beckford's Excursion to Alcobaça, &c.
See Recollections. Blackburn's Salvation of Britain intro-
ductory to the conversion of the world, 237; our duty to seek the conversion of our countrymen for the sake of the
world, 238-241. Black's Church its own Enemy, being an
answer to the pamphlets of the rev. dr. Chalmers, 84 ; a triumphant expo- sure of the doctor's blunders, ib.; er-
tract, 84, 5, Boothroyd's Holy Bible, 332 ; is at once
critical and popular, 337. Broadhurst's letter to lord Melbourne
on the Irish Church and Irish tithes, 151 ; tithe in Ireland is collected for a Church alien to the people, ib. ; extract, 152, 3; our author's suggestion that the Irish Catholic Church be endowed, 153, 4; Dissenterism and the endowed
Church, 155, 6. Brougham's (lord) discourse of Natural
Theology, 165 ; the best description of natural theology is furnished by the pen of inspiration, ib.; lord Bacon's dis- tinction between Revelation and natural religion, 166; cannot Revelation be established by any evidence, without proving natural religion? 167; author's statement on the subject, 167-9; more ingenious than accurate, 169; the light of reason never conducted men to right reasoning, 170; the utility of the ser- vices of natural religion as subsidiary to the great help of Revelation is unde- niable, 171 ; beyond the fact of the divine existence, Revelation is the source of the only certain knowledge which natural theology comprehends, 172; natural theology far above all other sciences, 173-75; the present vo- lume reflects honour on the author, 176; its contents, ib. ; reproof of the perverse- ness of scientific infidelity, 176, 7; Ray, Derham, and Paley, 177 ; author at- tempts to shew the unsoundness of the argumentum à priori, 178-80; all rea- soning must assume something that is known, 181; the ancient theists, 182, 83; the deontological or ethical branch of natural theology, 183; contents of the Notes' appended to present volume, 184; altogether it presents indications of a sincere desire to promote the best
interests of humanity, 184. Brockedon's road book from London to
Naples, 231; an indispensable compa- nion for travellers to Naples, ib.; and a most complete road-book, 232; speci- men of the work-the road from Spoleto to Rome, 232-36.
Chaloner's grounds of the Catholic doc.
trine, 11. See Mendham. Church, the; a dialogue between John Brown and William Mason, 157.
rates, law and practice of, 519. Clement of Alexandria, some account of
the writings and opinions of, by the bishop of Lincoln, 307; extract, 308, 9; birth-place of Clement doubtful, 310; probably at Athens, 311 ; extract from Clement's · Hortatory Address to the Greeks, 312; his · Pædagogue,' 313; his beau ideal of the Christ- ian profession, 314; the hypotyposes,' 315; was Clement really its author ?
ib. Coleridge's Table Talk, see Specimens. Colton's tour of the American Lakes,
&c., 257; not the appropriate name for the volume, 279 ; which is a memorial disclosing the character and prospects of the Indian race, ib. ; and which does
credit to the author's principles, 281. Commemoration of the Reformation. See
Horne's protestant memorial. Condensed commentary and family expo-
sition of the Holy Bible, 332 ; speci-
men, 336, 37. Conder's Dictionary of Geography, 217;
a work of extensive and original re- search, 218; extract, 218, 19; admi- rable summary of the leading facts con- nected with climatology, 219, 20; ar- ticle • Turk, combining historical with geographical matter, 220, 21; claims of the work to public patronage, 221.
Italy, 221; an extensive library might be formed out of merely the mo- dern works that have been written about Italy, 222 ; excellence of present work as a skilful abridgment, as well as a ju- dicious selection, 223; combined with considerable originality, ib. ; extract from the preface, 223, 24; an example of the composition and concentration of the work, 224, 25; contents of first volume, 225; the Vall Ombrosa, 225, 6; Rome, 226-31; value of present work to the traveller, and the instructor
of youth, 231. Coverdale's English translation of the Bible, specimens of, 338-40.
Dick's dissertation on Church Polity, 157;
contents, ib. ; extracts, 158-60. Delamotte's characters of trees, 304; va.
lue of the work, 306.
Ellis's Christian Keepsake for 1836, 340;
its illustrations, ib.; poetical extracts, 341-44 ; recollections of Wilberforce, 344-46; the shepherd's vigil, 346, 47.
land owes to the art of printing, at least the permanence of her political and re- ligious reformation, 212; the greatest boon bestowed upon the church since the apostolic age, 213; but the full benefit of this discovery has never been reaped till now, 213, 14; the translation of the scriptures was the principle of the first reformation, their being printed was the second, and the diffusion of the printed scriptures in all languages, is a
Third reformation, 215; extract, 216, 17. Hoskins's travels in Ethiopia, 509; our
author possesses many essential requisites for a traveller, 509; his companion, 510, 1l; the banks of the Nile, 511; a land storm, 512; 'the site of the ancient capital of Ethiopia,' 513; some question- able hypotheses of our author, 514-16; ruins of Solib, 517; anecdote, 518,
19. Howard's remarks the
tionists themselves mainiy the cause of the degradation of the free blacks, 440-42; case of miss Crandall, 442-44 ; series of facts proving the free people of colour to be citizens, 444-46 ; attempt to make out that the colonization society has the same object as the anti-slavery society, 446; flattering description of Liberia, 447; tells against the coloniza- tionist, as much as for him, 448; hard- ships of American slavery, 449-55; laws against the free blacks, 455, 6; original slow progress in this country of anti-slavery opinions, 457; the church of England, till lately, a slave-holder, 455; slavery the fruitful source of all the na- tional difficulties in America, 459, 60.
Karens, the, of India, supposed to be an
aboriginal race of mountaineers, 61; and see North American review, art. Boardman.
Lardner's cabinet cyclopædia, 473; has
not hitherto been subjected to competent critical notice, ib. ; some errors in the distribution of its subjects, 475; extract from Swainson on zoology, 475-77; dr. Dunham's Germanic empire, 477 ; openly assails the protestant reformation, 478 ; charges Luther with duplicity, in- temperance, and other vices, 478, 9; the author's character of Calvin, 480; and of John Huss, 482 ; Stebbing's church history, 181; an incomplete fragment, ib. ; account of the martyrdom of Huss, 483-87; contents of the biographical cabinet, 487; and see lives of the most
eniinent literary and scientific men, &c. Latrobe's rambles in North America,
1832, 33, p. 257; the present aspect of the federal republic seems almost to menace the breaking up of the social system, ib.; the existing disorders, how- ever, are not directed against the govern- ment, 258 ; nor are they indicative of any weakness in the governing power, 259; it is slavery that menaces the peace of America, 260; our author's route, 269 ; description of the neighbour- hood of Baltimore, 270, 7l; the white mountains of New Hampshire, 271, 72; the scenery of the United States, though often sublime, is rarely picturesque, 273; our author most at home in his descrip- tion of animate and inanimate nature, 275; sensitiveness of the Americans, ib.; character of the New Englander, 277, 78; our author avers that the holders of slaves, rather than the negroes, are subjects of pity, 278; and betrays other marks of prejudice, 280;
see also New England and her institu-
tionis. Lawrance's geology in 1835, 74; a pre-
liminary essay on the phenomena of geological science, 75; specimen of the
author's style, 75, 6. Leifchild's memoir of the late rev. Joseph
Hughes, A.M., 31; mr. Hughes's birth, and childhood, 32; loses his father in his tenth year, 33; his youth, 34; his ingenuous confession concerning this period of his life, 35; portrait of dr. Stennett, 36,7; mr. Hughes joins the baptist academy at Broadmead, Bristol, 37; and subsequently enters King's College, Aberdeen, 38; forms a Sunday- school in Aberdeen, 39; is tutor to the Broadmead academy, and assistant mi- nister of the church, 40; is displaced from both offices, ib.; Foster's criticism on his style of preaching, 40, 1 ; be. comes minister of a chapel at Battersea; his labours there, 42; origin of the British and foreign bible society, 43; its first public meeting, 44; mr. Hughes's noble appropriation of the salary attached to the secretaryship, 45; his death,
46, 47. Lewis's sketches and drawings of the Al-
hambra, 140; a splendid work, ib. ; con-
tents, 141. Lindley's and Hutton's fossil flora of
Great Britain, 76 ; extract, 77. Literary intelligence, 87, 164, 254, 348,
527. Lives of the most eminent literary and
scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Por- tugal, Vols. I. and II., 473; contents, 487; life of Dante by Montgomery, ib.; remarks upon the genius of Dante, 488, 89; extract from the life of Ariosto, 490; altogether, two delightful volumes,
ib. Loudon's Arboretum Britannicum, or the
hardy trees of Britain, &c., 304; full of valuable information, 306.
Mandeville's, viscount, Horæ Hebraicæ,
405 ; erudite and ingenious, ib. ; found- ed on the supra-lapsarian scheme, 406 ; extracts, 407-409; the work contains
much labour expended in vain, 411. Matthews's practical guide to executors
and administrators, &c., 199; written in
a plain and luminous style, 203. Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin, 86. Memoir of the life and public services of
sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, by his widow, 189; a book of uncommon in- terest, 190; extracts from a memoir on the Malay states, 191-93; several islands of the Malay archipelago inhabited by
his health, 69; he visits the Karens, 69, 70; his domestic afflictions, 70, 71; and increasing disease, 72, 3; his death, 74.
Oriental Annual, 491; contents, 498;
extract, 499, 500.
Christians, 194; the discernment and heroic perseverance of sir Stamford Raf- fles, 195 ; extracts, 195-197; sir Stam- ford Raffles and the East India Com-
pany, 198. Mendham's memoirs of the council of
Trent, 1; dedicated to the pope, ib.; manifesto of Gregory XVI., 2-5; ex- hibits the Roman Catholic faith as neither changed nor improved, 5; but yet the English Catholic has always differed from the genuine Roman Catholic, 6, 7; how unfair would it be to charge to the belief of every churchman, all contained in the 39 articles, the rubric, the canons ecclesiastical, &c., 7; there would be similar unfairness in treating thus mem- bers of the church of Rome, 8; besides, exaggerations and misrepresentations re- coil on the Protestant cause, 9; Romish ingenuity in defence of popish tenets, 11; extracts from Gother's Papist mis- represented and represented, 12-17; ex- tracts from Dr. Challoner's grounds of the catholic doctrine, 17-20; uniform conduct of all church and state reli. gionists, 21; why should popery be more angrily encountered than Mohamme- dism? 22; origin of the council of Trent, 23; extract, 23-25; Paul III. issues a commission to examine into the abuses of the papal court, 25 ; obstruc- tions to its meeting, ib.; the council meels in Dece 1545, 26; extracts, 26, 7; after making every due allow- ance, much still remains in the Roinish church, for our uncompromising opposi- tion, 28, 9.
Parsons's memoirs of American Mission-
aries, 57; contents, 58. Penitentiaries (United States). Report
of William Crawford, esq., on the, 89.
And see Abdy. Picture of the new town of Herne Bay,
by a lady, 254. Popery, modern. See Mendham's me-
moirs of the council of Trent. Posthumous letters of the rev. Rabshakeh
Gathercoal, 157; extract, 161-63.
Natural Theology; see Brougham's dis-
New England and her Institutions. By
one of her sons, 257; the opinion in New Englandt regarding slavery, 260- 62; present volume gives a complete insight into New England character, 262; its contents, 263 ; the efficiency of the voluntary principle, 263-65; religious statistical information regard- ing New England, 265 : extract, 267, 8.
And see Latrobe's rambles. North American Review, No. 87, Art.
Life of G. D. Boardman, 57; early history of Boardman, 58 ; his thoughts are directed to the Burmese mission, ib.; arrives, with his wife, in India, 59; their imminent danger, 60, 61; inter- esting particulars of the Karens, 61-64 ; Mr. Boardman's success with them, 65; they urge him to come and visit them, 66; anecdote, 66, 67; mr. Boardman's labours in Tavoy, 68; seriously affect
Raffles, sir Thomas Stamford. See me-
moir of the life, &c. Retzsch’s outlines to Shakspeare, second
series, 48; no comparison can be made between Retzsch and Flaxman, 49, 50; Retzsch successful while illustrating the poets of his own country, 50-53; but he has failed in the present work, 53; his · Hamlet,' 54 ; • Macbeth,' 55, 56.
Umrisse zu Schiller's Lied von der Glocke. Outlines to Schiller's song of the bell, 48; beautiful illustra- tions of the poem, 53.
Retzsch's outlines to Shakspeare. Recollections of an excursion to the mon.
asteries of Alcobaça and Batalha, by the author of Vathek, 127; our author's companions, ib.; their arrangements for the excursion, 128; extracts, 128-30; beautiful description of scenery, 131-33; further extract, 135. Riland's Antichrist; Papal, Protestant,
and Infidel, 318; Dissenters accused of making common cause with the Papists, 319; this has not the shadow of evi- dence to rest upon, 320; extract, 321,22; dissenters quite ready to join in combat- ting the errors of popery, 322 ; were all evangelical clergymen such as our au- thor, a re-union of protestants would no
longer be chimerical, 324. Ritchie's journey to St. Petersburgh and
Moscow, 491; description of St. Peters- burgh, 492, 93; its population seem scarcely to belong to the place, 493 ; extract, 493-95; anecdotes of the em-
peror Nicholas, 495-97. Roberts's, miss, scenes and characteristics
of Hindoostan, 414; character of the work, 415; the apparent indifference of the public mind respecting India, .415- 16; of great importance, that it should
be taught to take an interest in the subject, 417; description of the Government house, Calcutta, 418-20; etiquelle, 421, 22; Patna, 422–25; ancient city of Gour, 425-27; Mandoo, 427, 28; Bejapoor, 428-30 ; a night in the jun
gles, 430, 31. Roscoe's tourist in Spain, 491; account
of Cadiz, 497, 98. Rudiments of Trees, from nature, 304; a
clever series, 306.
Sacred Classics. Vol. XIX. Knox's
Christian philosophy. Vol. XX. Selections from rev. John Howe's works,
241; extracts, 241-46. Saffery's poems on Sacred Subjects, 247;
many of them of the highest order of excellence, 248; the walk to Emmaus,' 248-50 ; ' Hagur in the desert,' 250, 51; apostrophe to Jeremiah,' 251-53; fur
ther extract, 253, 54. Scriptural unity of the Protestant Churches
exhibited in their published confessions,
78; contents, 82; extract, 82, 3. Second address of the Annual Assembly
of the congregational union of England and Wales, 78; its main topic, a faithful administration of scriptural discipline,
ib.; ertract, 78-81. Silver's memorial to his Majesty's govern
ment on the danger of intermeddling with church-rates, 519; a literary curiosity, 520; extructs, 520-24; author's opinions on registration, 524; and on
marriage, 525. Specimens of the table-talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 135; the general effect of these specimens' is liable to hurt the memory of their subject, 136; extracts, 137; Coleridge's critical discussions of the highest value, 138; sir James Mackintosh, 139; Can
ning, 140. Statement relative to church accommoda
tion in Scotland, 84; extract, 85, 86. Styles's, Dr., ministerial solicitude and
fidelity, 434 ; extracts, 434-36. Styles's R., poems, 411; stanzas,' 411,
12.
Taylor, the whole works of the right rev.
Jeremy, 358; the reviving partiality for our older writers, ib.; how is it that the older writers manifest such a splendour of genius? 359; was there not eminent intellectual character formed in the time of the Stuarts ? 361; peculiarities of that character, 362; Jeremy Taylor, and Milton, 363, 64; the imagination of Taylor, his pre-eminent endowment, 365; Milton's language poetic, not his style of thinking, 366; Taylor's political opinions accounted for, 367; he was more pedantic than Milton, 368; his qualifications as a preach
er, 369-74. Temperance societies, claims of the; see
abstract of evidence before the select committee.
Tracts, British and Foreign, 283. Testamentary counsels and hints to Christ
ians on the right distribution of their property by will, 199; contents, 200; much litigation occasioned by men making their own wills, 201; the provision to be made for widows,' ib.; author's ideas on primogeniture, 202 ; 'on the claims of the Redeemer's cause,' 202, 3; present volume may be cordially recom
mended to the Christian reader, 203. Thomas Johnson's reasons for Dissenting
from the Established Church, 157. Treasury Bible, 332 ; its motto, ib.; ex
tracts, 334, 35; larger edition of the same bible, 336.
Williams's memoirs of the life, character,
and writings of sir Matthew Hale, knt., 185; the subject of present volume one of the most instructive characters of the British Nepos, ib.; particulars of his life, 185, 86 ; extract, 187; comparison
of Coke and Hale, 188, 89. Winkles's cathedrals, 317; character of
the work, 317, 18. Works recently published, 88, 164, 256,
348, 436, 528.
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