restore a mutilated piece of statuary, ib.; Black Castle of Opium, 114; Boursa, the ancient Prusa, 115; mi- serable state of the author, 115, 6; his return to Pera, 116; renews his jour ney, in company with Mr. Chavasse, 223; visits Terekli or Heraclea, 224; crosses the Kizil Ermak, or Halys, 225 6; Trebisond, 228; Mr. K.'s life -threatened by his Greek servant, ib.; the party cross the Armenian mountains, 228,9; and the Euphrates, 229; plain of Erzeroum, ib. ; interest of the na- tives in the fate of Bonaparte, ib.; city of Erzeroum, 230; the river Mo- rad or water of desire, ib; visit an en- campment of Koords, ib. ; hostile visit from the Lesgæ, 230, 1; Betlis, 232; the Beg or governor, ib. ; curious account of a transmutation of four leaden bullets into gold, by a persecuted Arabian philoso- pher, 233, 4; alarming illness of Mr. Chavasse, 235; harassing difficulties of their journey to Mousul, 237, et seq.; the Zezidees, ib.; death of Mr. Chavasse, 238; Mr. K. enters Bagdad, ib.; Bussorah, 239; arrives at Bom- bay, ib.
Kirby and Spence's introduction to En- tomology, 116, et seq.; subjects of the present volume, 117; perfect and im- perfect societies of insects, ib.: ex- amples of each, ib. et seq.; first esta- blishment of a colony of Termites, 118, 9; courage and battles of ants, 120; three materials collected by bees, 121, 2; longue of the bee, ib.; the propolis, 123; the bee's faculty of finding the hive, 123, 4; bees made use of to disperse a mob, ib.; remarkable propensity of an idiot boy to bees, 125; on the motions of insects, ib.; gossamer webs, 126; great height at which they are found, 127; ordinary rate of the flight of house flies, ib.; in- sects have no voices, 128; noises of in- sects, 128, 9; the death watch, ib.; grasshoppers kept by the Greeks in cages for their song, 129 Koordistan, see Kinneir's journey
Lambe, Dr., his violent death, 592, 3 Latakia, its remarkable ruin, 109 Latrobe's visit to South Africa, 401, et seq.; great importance of the Cape as a settlement, 402; success of the Moravian missionaries, 402, 3; their judgement in selecting missionary sta❤ tions, 403; cause of Mr. Latrobe's visit to Africa, 404; his arrival at Groenekloof, 406; its population, &c. ib.; Hottentot's mode of celebrating the author's birthday, 407; proceeds to
Gnadenthal, ib.; visited by a Christian Caffre woman, 408, 9; character of the boors, 409; execution of five rebel boors, 410, 11; strength of the iron wood, 412; defile of Trekata'kou, ib.; composition of the rock, ib.; Mr. Fereira's danger- ous encounter with a tiger, 413; ac- count of an extremely large Hottentot wo- man, 414, 15; new missionary station chosen, 415; battle between two parties of baboons, 417; various noises on ship- board, 418
Lava, extensive streams of, see Hender- son's Iceland
Law and gospel, Colquhoun's essay on, 30, et seq.
Lectures on scripture doctrines, by W. B. Collyer, D.D. 151, et seq. Leprosy, its prevalence in some parts of Iceland, 185
Lesgæ, a people of Armenia, 230, 1 Letter to an English nobleman, 271, et seq.; remarks on emancipation, 272; opinion of Lord Grenville on the ca- tholic claims, 273; claims of the pro- testant dissenters, ib.; temporal power of the church of Rome, 274; concessions justly demanded from the Roman catholics, 274, 5
Lexicon, Greek, of primitive words, 469, 70
Lord's supper, Brown's discourses on the dispensation of, 584, 5
M'William on the origin, operation, and prevention or cure of the dry rot, 71, et seq.; opposes the principles of Mr. Knight and Sir H. Davy in regard to a supposed effect of light on wood, 72; differs also from the latter on the tex- ture of oak, ib.; fungi, the effect as well as the causes of the dry rot, 73; means by which the disease is con- veyed into buildings, ships, &c., 73; modes of prevention and cure, 73, 4; on obtaining a uniform circulation of air, 74; apparatus for that purpose to be used on shipboard, ib. ; annual va- lue of timber cut down in the United Kingdoms, 75; excessive importation of timber, 76; on planting the waste lands, ib.
Maid, the young, and her mother's bible, 389, see Lucy Smith
Maintenance, separate, of the children of the poor, 426, et seq.
Manson, Madame, memoirs of, written by herself, 59, et seq.; murder of M. Fualdes, 59; author's knowledge of the facts attending his violent death, 60 Mearns's principles of Christian evidence 305, et seq.; origin of the present work,
507; assertion of Dr. Chalmers that the existence of the Deity cannot be ascertained independently of revela tion, ib.; consequences of the Doctor's reasoning, 508; true effect of the his- torical evidence of Christianity, ib.; legitimate deductions of reason from a consideration of supernatural phenomena, 509; loose reasoning of Dr. C. in re- gard to the Atheist, 509, 10; the Atheist not to be convinced by the ostensible agent's explanation of miraculous phenomena, 511; the conversion of the Atheist, who sees no design in nature, not to be effected by miracles, ib.; Dr. C.'s different mode of reasoning in his discourses on the modern astronomy, 514; fatal conse- quence of admitting experience to be the only source of human knowledge, 515; attributes of causes legitimately deduced from the character of known effects, ib.; application of this principle to the existence, &c. of a Deity, 516: fur- ther objection to Dr. C.'s principle of reasoning, 516, 17; the internal evi- dence of Christianity the most effica- cious in producing a conviction of its Divine origin, ib.
Memoirs of Fawcett, 240, et seq. Mendicants, called Tom o' Bedlams, 596; song of one, 596, 7
Mice of Iceland, curious account of their nautical expeditions, 257
Minutes of evidence taken before the committee appointed to consider the petitions relating to ribbon weavers, 202, et seq.
Modern Greece, a poem, 598, et seq. Moir's inquiry into some interesting sub- jects of history, &c. 585, et seq.; origin of the titles among the Saxons, 586, 7 Moon, mountains of, uncertainty in re- gard to their existence, 430 Moral state of Iceland, 21, 176 Moravian missionaries, their great suc- cess, 406
Morea, exiles of, 598, 9
Morris, the Rev. Richard, Godwin's life of, 160, et seq.; his severe military per- secutions on account of his religious conduct, ib; see Godwin's life, &c. Moss-troopers, summary mode of punishing them, 319
Mythology, its true use in modern poetry, 488
Nawarth castle, 320; its dungeon, ib. Neapolitan nobleman, wretched state of one in slavery at Algiers, 478 Nepheliads, a song, 491, 2
Nobleman, English, a letter to, in refer- ence to the Catholic question, 271
Observations on the circumstances which influence the condition of the labour- ing classes of society, 202, et sig. Ocean, apostrophe to, by Lord Byron, 53, 4 Off-islands of Scilly, report of the mi- series of, 493, et seq. Opium, Black Castle of, 114 Oraefa, Yokul, the highest mountain of Iceland, 181,
Origin of titles among the Saxons, 586 Ottoman dominions of Asia Minor, wretched state of their government, 98,9
Outram's dissertations on sacrifices, 550, et seq.; author's opinion of the origin of sacrifices, 350, 1; nature and design of the temple, 351; ministers of the oblations among the Jews, 332; cor- ban, a term designating all the things offered to God before the altar, 352; animals offered in sacrifice by the Jews, 353; the four animal sacrifices, ib.; stated sacrifices of the Jews, 354, 5; types, 355; typical relation of the sacrifices, 356; on the sacrifice of Christ, ib.; his priesthood, ib; on the sacrificial work of Christ as effecting the salvation of man, 357
Pananti's narrative of a residence in Algiers, 472; et seq.; degraded state of Italy, ib.; misery of the Chris- tian slaves in Barbary, 473; cause of Signor Pananti's captivity by the Algerines, ib; conduct of the Bar- barians to the captives, 474; their cru- elty to a Captain of a Tunisian cor- vette, 475; melancholy fate of a young lady, one of the captives, ib; appearance of the captives before the re- gency, 475, 6; humane conduct of the English Consul, 476; condemnation and imprisonment of the author and his fellow- sufferers, ib; wretchedness of a Neapo litan nobleman, a captive at Algiers, 478 ; liberation of the author, with the total loss of his property, 478, 9; treatment of the Christian captives at Algiers, 479, 80; liberation of all the captives in consequence of Lord Exinouth's suc cessful attack on the city, 481 Patriots, South American, Hackett's
narrative of an expedition that sailed to join them, 575; et seq. Paul's school, St. account of its foun-
ders, foundation, and scholars, &c. See Dr. Carlisle on endowed grammar schools, &c.
Peculiarity, remarkable, of the Icelanders, in providing for decayed families, 177 Persecution, the subjects of, 483; the nature of, ib.
Pike's consolations of gospel truth, 173 Pleasures, domestic, by F. B. Vaux, 61-2 Pocklington school, statement of the perver- sion of its revenues, 362
Poor laws, pamphlets on, 201, et seq.; poverty and its causes, 202, 3; pau- perism not dependent on population and provision, 203; labour and capi- tal necessary to the production of any kind of commodity, 204; the labourer has no right to enforce employment, 204, 5; is entitled to a just remune- ration for his service, ib.; injustice of the capitalist in reducing wages below the means of subsistence, 206; inju. rious consequence of parish relief, 208; poverty of the ribbon weavers of Co- ventry, and its consequences, 208, 9; Mr. Hale's report of the state of Spital- fields, 210; poor laws not the primary cause of poverty, 214; Mr. Courte- nay's three considerations prior to abolishing the code of poor laws, ib.; statute right of the poor to claim sustenance of the parish, 215; origi- nal pretence for appropriating livings to religious houses, ib.; mendicity an attendant on superstition, ib; acts against vagrants, ib; begging by licence allowed, 216; origin of the poor laws, ib; Mr. Nicolls's remarks on the poor laws, ib, et seq. ; prevalence of mendicity in the Italian states, 218; note; claim of discharged seamen to legal provision, 218; folly and danger of leaving the maintenance of the poor to private benevolence, 219, 20; consequences of the subscriptions for the Spital-fields weavers, 221; singu lar remarks of Mr. Jerram on the poor laws, 222
Poor laws, third report from the select committee on, 420 et seq.; contents of the report, ib.; projects for removing the radical evils of the system, 421; evil consequence of mixing relief with wages, 422; two modes of obviating it considered, 422, 3; proposition of enacting local bills, 424; obstacles to such a regulation, 425; separate maintenance of the children of the
poor, 426; its necessarily heavy ex- pense, 426, 7; objections of Mr. Nicolls, to a separate maintenance of the children of the poor, 428, 9; further objections stated, 431; tendency of schools to perpetuate the existing evils, 433; suggestion for combining the higher and middling class in the exe- cution of the poor laws, 434; select vestries not analogous to kirk sessions, 435; election and duties of the elders, under the session, ib.; management of their parochial poor's fund, 436; change to be made in general vestries, accord- ing to Mr. Sturges Bourne's bill, 436, 7; proposal for returning to the old law, with regard to settlements, 437; Messrs. Nicoll and Courtenay's objections to parochial benefit societies, 437, 8; Mr. Courtenay's proposition for encouraging friendly societies, 440, 1; on the poor of the dissenters, 442; great relief afforded to parishes by dissenting places of worship, 443; evil tendency on the feelings, of ab- stract speculations on the state of the poor, 443
Popery, Ward's sermon on the reforma- tion from, 275, et seq.
Porden's, Miss, Arctic expeditions, a
poem, 601, et seq.; anticipatious of the Quarterly Reviewers, 603; done into verse by the present writer, 602, 3; further extracts, 603, 4 Port Praya, capital of the Cape Verde islands, 454
Posts and posting in the Turkish empire, stale of, 101
Princess Charlotte of Wales, Lord Byron's lines on her death, 51, 2 Principia Hebraica, 471, 2
Prison discipline, Buxton on the effects of, 82, et seq.
Propolis of bees, its use, 123
Psyche, or the soul; a poem, 263, 4
Rowlatt's sermons on the doctrines, evi- dences, and duties of Christianity, 245, et seq.; modern fashionable ser- mons, 245, 6; author's remarks on hu- man depravity, 248; on the degree and extent of man's apostasy, 248, 9; on the Divine influences, 249; justification, 250; his definition of faith, 250; ex- tract, 251; his speedy mode for acquiring saving faith, 251; ignorant charge against Calvinism, 252; unjust censure of Calvin, ib.
Russian prisons of Petersburgh and Mos- cow visited by Mr. Venning, by per- mission of the Emperor Alexander, 90, 1
Sacrifices, Dr. Outram's dissertations on, 350, et seq.
Sacrifices, origin of, 350, 1
Saxons, origin of titles among them, 586, 7 Scandaroon, its ruinous state, 107, 8 Scholars in St. Paul's school, origin of the
number, as determined by the founder, 531 Scilly islands, report of the miseries of, 494, et seq.; unproductive nature of the islands, 494, 5; male inhabitants chiefly pilots, 495; widows be- come so generally by their husbands being drowned, ib.; their unprovided- for state, ib. ; miseries of the inhabit- ants chiefly occasioned by the rigorous enforcement of the preventive sys- tem, ib.; detail of various cases of ex- treme wretchedness, 498
Scott's, Walter, Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, 305, et seq.; character of the work, 307; funeral monuments of the Celtic tribes, 308; locality and extent of the border country, ib,; the ramparts and wall between the two kingdoms, ib.; cir- cumstances that tended to determine the present boundaries of the two kingdoms, 309; clanship of Scotland not de- stroyed by the feudal system, 310; benefits occasioned by the founding of abbeys on the borders, ib.; ruinous consequences of Edward the First's usur- pation of the Scottish crown, 311; defen- sive system adopted by the Scots, 312; devastating inroads of the Earls of Essex and Hertford, 313; character, &c. of the borderers, 314; their women, 315; prisoners, ib.; religion, 316; anecdote of Cameron, 317; duties of the wardens, ib.; oath of purgation, 318; punishment of the moss troopers, 319; dungeon of Bothwell castle, ib.; Nawarth castle, 320; its dungeon, ib.; anecdote of Sir Gideon Murray of Elibank tower,
321; admirable intrepidity of Black Ag nes of Dunbar castle, 322
Selkirk, Alexander, Steele's account of him, 595
Sermons on Popery, by the Rev. W. Borrows, 482, 3
Shires or counties before the time of Alfred,
Simons's, the Rev. John, letter, Snow's reply to, 242, et seq.
Sinclair's, Miss Hannah, letter on the principles of the Christian faith, 77, 8; sanctification a progressive work, 78; state of the young convert, ib.
Skaftar Yokul, its tremendous explosion in 1783, 184; its present appearance, ib.
Slaves, sale of, at Norfolk in Virginia, 35 Slavery, its baneful influence on Ameri-
Smith, Lucy, a tale, 389, et seq.; a thor's explanatory preface, 390; the story, 391, et seq.; evident design and tendency of the work, 392 Smith's illustrations of the Divine go- vernment, 336, et seq.; on carrying speculative opinions beyond their cir- cumscribed limits, 337; caution in regard to the management of opinions of a speculative nature, ib.; dangerous consequences of a licentious specula- tion on the doctrine of Divine punish- ment, ib.; author's mode of treating his subject, 338; real question, whe- ther there is in the gospel any pro- visional promise for the finally impe- nitent, 339; the gospel statement of the doctrine, 340, 1; heavy responsi- bility of those who preach a final state of happiness to the unrepentant, 341, 2; a second pretence urged for preaching this supplementary gospel, 342; the legitimate authority of the Christian minister, 343; on the doc- trine of final restitution, as connected with the plea of benevolence, 344, et seq; prevalence of a spurious benevo- lence, ib.; inquiry if the doctrine was preached to the faith of the primitive believers, 346, 7; remarks on the al- leged superior humanity of the abet- tors of the system, 348; indefinite ex- pectations of happiness indulged by sceptics of contemplative habits, 349; the author's argument from the infinite wisdom and benevolence of the Deity exa- mined and exposed, 540; difference in the distribution of favours by the Deity improperly called partiality, 542, 3; man declared to be wholly the creature of cir- cumstance, 544; on punishment, ib.; all
punishment not corrective, 545, 6; author's reasoning from the supposition of a gradation of desert in good and in wicked men, 547, 8, 9; his definition of Divine justice, 550; on the doctrine of election, 551, et seq.; suggestions to those who waver in their belief of uni- versal restoration, 553, 4; indefensi- ble treatment of the language of Scrip- ture by theorists, 555, et seq. ; certain Scripture terms examined, with re- marks on the plain meaning of Scrip- tural statements, ib.; on the words hell and Satan, 562; the doctrine of universal restoration irreconcilable with even the indirect intimations of Scripture in regard to future punish- ment, ib.
Smoke, valley of, in Iceland, 256 Snorro Sturluston's hot baths, 255, 6 Snow's reply to the Rev. J. Simons, 243, et seq.; his reasons for recommending a perusal of Mr. Simons's letter, 243; on the union between Christ and his Church, 244; on justification and sancti- fication, &c. ib.
Societies, friendly, Mr. Courtenay's propo sition for the encouragement of, 440 Sonio people, account of them, 457 Soorajees, Turkish post boys, their rapid mode of travelling, 101, 2 South Africa, Latrobe's missionary visit to, 401, et seq.
Spence's introduction to Entomology, see Kirby
Stanzas on a sick child, 485 Subjects, interesting, Campbell's ser- mons on, 70, 1
Sulphur mountain in Iceland described, 178, 9
Summary view of the report and evidence relative to the poor laws, published by order of the House of Commons, 202,
Tiger, Mr. Fereira's dangerous encoun- ter with one at the Cape, 413 Timber, McWilliam's essay on the dry rot in, 71, et seq.
Timber, annual value of, cut down in the United Kingdom, 75
Timber of the American back-settle- ments, 42
Titchbourne, Chidiock, his address to the populace, prior to his execution, 588, 9; verses written in the Tower the night be- fore he suffered, ib.
Tongue of the bee described, 122, 3 Typical relation of the sacrifices, 356
Vaux's domestic pleasures, 61, 2 Vaux's life of Anthony Benezet, 367, et seq. Benezet's thoughts on education, 368, on the intellectual powers of the Blacks, 369, 70; mis-statement in re- gard to the aid derived from Benezet by Mr. Clarkson, in his efforts to pro- cure the abolition of the slave trade, 370; his benevolence to a poor widow in America during the war, 372
Venning's, Mr. visit to the Russian prisons of Petersburgh and Moscow, 90, Versions, Cherpilloud's book of, 61, 2 Vestries, select, 435, et seq.
Virginian slave, contrasted with the English labourer, 35, 6
Ward's reformation from popery comme- morated, 275, et seq.; Mr. Eustace's real opinion of the Italians unfavourable, 278; author's exhibition of the principles of the Reformation, ib.; serious reflec- tions on the changes connected with the ensuing century, 279
Watson's dissertations, 458, et seq.; au
thor's definition of true and false religion, 461; his remarks on faith, as essential to salvation, 462, 3; on the inutility of preaching dark doctrines, 463, 4; his in- consistency, 464, 5; sudden conversion declared to be a gross imposition, 465; his opinion of worldly amusements, 465, 6; estimate of the author's religious opi- nions, 467
Wilson on the person of Christ, 373, et seq.; religious opinion sometimes founded upon defective evidence, 374; defects in the writer's reasoning, 375; on the testimony of the New Testament to the person of Christ, 376; subjects of the present work, 377; Unitarian hypothesis of the poverty of Jesus Christ examined and exposed, 377, 8
Woodland life, its physical effects exhibited
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