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epistles, ib.; the gospel as a scheme of
morals, 412; doctrine of the cross, its
tendency to raise the tone of moral obliga-
tion, 443; obedience requires not only
motives, but inclination and power, 443;
Paul took no ecclesiastical dignity, ib.;
philosophy hostile to Christian toleration,
444; somnolence of character, its
evils, 445; remarks on the German
school, ib.; St. Paul's heavenly minded-
ness, 600; on the love of money, de-
ceptive nature of the principle, ib.;
God the fountain of our mercies and vir-
tues, ib.; on prayer, 604; character of
the work, 607

Peace, song of, in the mask, 517; see

Hunt's Descent of Liberty
Penn's prophecy of Ezekiel concerning
Gogue, 91, et seq.; prophecy become
more clear as its accomplishment ap-
proaches, 62; permanent peace for
Europe not yet to be expected, 93;
Gog, and the land of Magog, 95;
Author's application of these names,
96; design of the work, 97; inquiry
into the title of the prophecy, 98;
nations signified by its names, ib.; in-
vading army, its native regions, 99;
Gogue, its particular application,
101; prophetic signification of Jeru-
salem and Israel, 103; declaration of
the prophets, considered as threefold, after
St. Augustine, 104; geography of the
prophecy, 106; extract, ib.; objec-
tions to the Author's system, 106-7;
general remarks, 108

Penry, John, his persecution and execu-
tion in the reign of Elizabeth, 274
Periodical Accounts of the Moravians,
extracts from', 157, et seq.
Personality, its import as applied to a dis-
tinction in the Divine essence considered,
243; scriptures assert the fact, without
explaining the mode, ib.

Phillips on the veins of Cornwall, 361
Phillips's description of the oxyd of tin;

of the primitive crystal and its modi-
fications; including an attempt to
ascertain with precision the admea-
surement of the angles, &c. 571
Philosophical poem on man, nature,
and society; see Wordsworth's Ex-
cursion

Philosophical transactions of the Royal

Society of London, for 1813, Part I.,
253, et seq.; on a new detonating com-
pound, ib.; observations relative to
the near and distant sight of differ-
ent persons, 255; Bakerian lecture;
on the elementary particles of certain
crystals, 256; on a substance from

the elm tree called ulmin, 257; on a
method of freezing at a distance, 258;
description of the solvent glands and
gizzards of the Ardea Argula, the
Cassuarius Emu, and the long legged
Cassowary, 259; on the state in
which Alcohol exists in fermented
liquors, ib.; on a new variety in the
breeds of sheep, 261; experiments to
ascertain the coagulating power of
the secretion of the gastric glands,
261; Blagden's appendix to Mr.
Ware's paper on vision, 262; method
of drawing extremely fine wires, 263;
description of a single lens microme-
ter, ib.; on the tusks of the Narwhale,
264

Philosophy, Christian, principles of, 505;
Christian philosopher, qualifications
requisite to form one, 506; inquiry
into the principles that form the sci-
ence of Christian philosophy, 507;
differs from the philosophy of the hea-
thens, 508; in regard to its extensive
knowledge, ib.; and its morality, 510;
heathen morality exemplified in their
practice, 511; practice of Christian
morality requires a change of nature,
512; Christian philosophy differs
from modern philosophy, 513; reflec-
tions on the value and swiftness of time,
514-5

Philosophy, its hostility to Christian tolera-
tion, 444

Philosophy of the human mind, by pro-
fessor Stewart, 130, et seq.; see Stew-

art

Pilgrims of the Sun, a poem, by Mr
Hogg, 280; el seq.

Pius V., his opinion of what are called rea-
sons of slate, 495

Playfair's outlines of natural philoso-
phy, 480, et seq.; contents of vol. 1,
481; Dynamics, ib; its subdivisions,
482; advantages of the science of Natural
Philosophy, 483; vol. 2, devoted to
astronomy, 483, et seq.; physical as-
tronomy, 484; on the gravitation of
bodies, 485; on the disturbing forces of
the planets, 487; gravitation a proof of
the original existence and continual super-
intendence of a Designing Agent, 488;
on the variation of the obliquity of the
ecliptic, ib.; theorem of Laplace, 489;
vacillation of astronomers on this
subject, ib.; probability of the existence
of a more general principle than the law
of gravitation, 490

Poaching, caution against abetting it
by purchasing game, 499; evils of it,
500

Poems by Leftley, 623, et seq.

Linley, 627, et seq.

Poems by Susannah Wilson, 501, et seq.;
her origin and station of life, 502; ex-
tracts, ib. et seq.

Pope, the personal infallibility of, indig-
nantly disclaimed, by M. Gregoire,
547

Pope's supremacy taught in the first chapter
of Genesis, 86

Portugal, evils in regard to the slave trade
arising from the treaty with it, 310
Portuguese, extent of their jurisdiction on
the east coast of Africa, 226
Potter's essays, moral and religious,
516

Precession, mode of deducing it, 389
Pretenders to madness, on the detection
of, 53-4; extract, ib.

Priestley, Dr., indebted to his education
among Calvinists for some of his best
principles, note, 237; acknowledges
that Calvinism is favourable to devo-
tion, 2, ib.

Primary visitation sermon by Dr. Whi-
taker, 336, et seq.; polemical rancour,
inquiry into its causes, 337; Dr. Hors-
ley's advice to the opponents of Calvinism,
339; peculiarities of Calvin's system,
given by Dr. W. ib.; his remarks on
them illogical, ib. et seq.; his canou of
criticism exposed, 340, et seq.; his
statement of Calvin's tenets inaccu-
rate, 342; his opinions respecting
the human will examined, 345; he
cautions against preaching Calvin's pecu-
liar doctrines and thereby raising the
'demon of assurance,' 347; see Whi
taker

Protestantism in France, its progress incon-
siderable, 78

Pulo Penang, its great beauty, 453;
danger from the Malays, 454
Puritans, Brooks' lives of, 113, et seq.

their rise, 269; separate from
the national church, 270
Pyrenees, Ramond's travels in, 211, et
seq.

Ramond's travels in the Pyrenees, 211,
et seq.; Mont Perdu, the highest emi-
nence of the chain, 212; reflections on
the desolate appearance from Maladetta,
212; picture of Marboré, 213; Come-
lie, ib., et seq.; Breche de Roland,
line of separation between France and
Spain, 214

Reason the standard of revelation, con-
sequences of admitting it, 370
Reasons of State, Pope Pius 5th's illustra-
tion of them, 459

Recherches experimentales sur l'eau et
le vent, 298
Reflections, religious and moral, 399, et
seq.
Religious instruction, whether it should
be provided by civil governors, 126;
and by Christian magistrates, 128
Religious liberty in England, its origin
and progress, 266, el seq.

Reynard's geometria legitima, 174-7,
et seq.

Roderick, a poem by Southey, 352, et
seq.; estimate of Mr. Southey's poems,
353 Southey's poems less popular
than Scott's, causes of it, 354; in.
terest of the poem weakened by ac-
cidental circumstances, 356; sketch
of the fable, 357, et seq.; extracts, ib.;
see Southey

Roman Pontiffs, declarations of two,
against the slave trade, 495

Romans ix. and 5., Wardiaw's remarks
on, 251

Rooms, objections against the English
mode of warming them, 194
Russian campaign, Labaume's narrative
of, 628, et seq.

Russians, manners and habits of the
lower classes, contrasted with English
habits, 191

Sacred Dramas, by Miss Hannah More,
404

Salter's Angler's Guide, 616, et seq.; de-

fence of angling, 617; character of
the work, &c. 618

Salt's voyage to Abyssinia, 218, et seq.;

Bruce, estimate of his merits and
failures in regard to his description of
this country, 218, and extract; his
fame still almost unrivalled, 220;
Mr. S.'s dedication to the REGENT, 221;
Elephant point, 222; whales numerous
in Sofala bay, 223; Mosambique, ib.;
manufactory for manioca at Mesuril,
224; slave trade at Mosambique, ib.;
extract, 225; reflections on Mr. S.'s
remarks, ib.; extent of the Portuguese
jurisdiction on this coast, 226; the Ma-
hooa, 227; Malumpava or Elephant
tree, ib.; fish used to catch turtle, ib.;
Marati pirates, ib.; immense shoal of
dead fish, 229; remarkable appearance
of the sun, occasioned by refraction,
229; Aden, ib.; the Dumhoeta, their
manners, &c., 231-2; moving sands,
233; meets Mr. Pearce at Massowa,
234; Bruce's caves of the Troglodi.
tes imaginary, ib.; interesting scene
(at Dixan) in the interior of Africa,
235; Galla oxen, their enormous horns,

405; Mr. S.'s reception at the court
of Chelicut, 406; bravery and skill of
Ras Welled, 407; his noble conduct,
ib.; present subdivisions of Abyssinia,
409-10; excursion to the mountains
of Samen, 412; attempts to shoot the
Hippopotamus, 413-4; history of
Pearce, 415-6; Abyssinian custom of
culling the flesh from living oxen, 417-8;
Bruce's grossly false statement,ib.; ele-
phant hunt, 419; rigour of an Abys
sinian lent, 420; prevalence of super-
stition, 421; Abyssinian baptism,
422; obelisk at Axum, 423; return of
Mr. S. 424; interesting character of
Yasons, 425; Abyssinians success-
fully oppose popery and mahomme-
danism, 426

Scene in the interior of Africa, account of a
very interesting one, 235
Scott's Lord of the Isles, 469, et seq.;
comparative estimate of Scott's pro-
ductions, 470; sketch of the poem,
ib. et seq.; objection to the poem on
the charge of incongruity, 472, et seq.;
extracts, ib.; Lord Ronald's fleet, 475-
6; descriptive piece, ib.; death of Allan,
477; farther extracts 478, et seq.
Scripture, its language extravagant, on
the hypothesis of the simple huma-
nity of Jesus Christ, 249

Scriptures, form in which they existed
previously to the invention of print-
ing, 80

Secretaries of the geological society, on

some vitreous tubes found near Drigg
in Cumberland, 576
Sermon occasioned by the execution of
some criminals at Bishops Stortford,
498; the case stated, ib.; heads of the
discourse, 449; purchasing game un-
justifiable, ib.; evils occasioned by
poaching, 500

Sermons by the Rev. J. Venn, 577; on
the happiness of the saints in heaven, 580,
et seq.; on communion with angels, 583;
on consistency in religion, 584; reflec
tions on eternity, 585
Sermons on particular occasions by Ar-
chibald Alison, LL.B. 55; defective
in regard to doctrine, 59, et seq.
Sensation not explainable by words,
133

Shepherd's Paris in 1802 and 1814,

72; sensations naturally excited by
contemplating Paris, 73; its deep in-
terest to the man of taste, ib.; cause
of a demoiselle's detestation of Buo-
naparte, ib,

Sick Man's Friend, by the Rev. J. Fry,
20

Sismondi, de l'interêt de la France à l'e-
gard de la traite des Nègres, 65, et
seq.; folly and wickedness of any attempt
to revive the trade, 67; war of extermi.
nation the only means of success, 68;
author's leading arguments, ib; at-
tempt, its cost to France, 69; greater
advantage of employing free slaves as
farmers, 70

Slate's select nonconformist's remains,
87, et seq.; character of the sermons,
88; Oliver Heywood, some account
of him, 89; mode of passing his time in
York Castle, ib.

Slave trade abolished by the national
congress of Chili, 314

Slave trade, and slavery of blacks and
whites, 490; et seq.; see Gregoire
Slave trade, Wilberforce's letter to Prince
Talleyrand de Perigord on it, 65,
71

Sleep, state of the mind in it, 144
Smeaton's miscellaneous papers, 298,

et seq.; titles of the papers, 299
Smedley's Jephthah, a poem, 205, et
seq.; disadvantage attending the com-
position of university prize poems,
205; sketch and extracts, ib. et seq.
Smithson on a substance from the elm
tree, called ulmin, 257

Socinian controversy, see Wardlaw
Socinians, their glaring want of candour in
rejecting the greater part of the first two
chapters of Matthew and Luke, 372, et
seq.

·Sofala bay, abundant in whales, 223
Somerville on the Edinburgh Review in
regard to the doctrine of Hume on
miracles, 611, et seq.; illogical rea-
soning of Laplace, ib. et seq.; Reviewer
confutes himself, 613; remarks on his
silence in regard to Mr. S.'s paper,
614; caution to English dissenters,
against sending their sons to Univer-
sities suspected of containing infidel
professors, 615

Somnambulist, a remarkable instance of
one, 461

Somnolence of character, ils evil tendency,
445

Southey on pulmonary consumption,
181, et seq.; division of the work, 182;
symptoms of a tendency to scrophula, 183;
objections, ib.; other symptoms, ib, et
seq.; remarks on tubercles as con-
nected with consumption, 185; pre-
disposing and existing causes of con-
sumption, 187; extracts, ib. et seq.;
dry-grinding, its fatal consequences,
189; on the contagious nature of
consumption, ib.; preyentive treat-

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ment, 190; some countries colder
than Great Britain less liable to con-
sumption, ib.; manners, &c., of the
lower classes of Russia,' 191; their
results, contrary to English prejudi-
ces, 192; partial exposure, its dan-
ger, 193; objections against the
English modes of heating rooms, 194;
remedies, 195-6; futility of sending
sending consumptive patients abroad,
196; Dr. Sutton on consumption, ib.;
his objections controverted, 199; de-
bility the chief cause of these dis-
eases, 200; improper diet in regard
to young persons, 201; instances, ib.;
cautions to parents, 204

Southey's Roderick, 352, et seq.; esti-
mate of his poems, 353; an heroic
poem, to be successful, must be na-
tional, 354; Seott's poems more po-
pular than Southey's, the reasons of
it, ib. et seq.; causes operating to
weaken the interest of the poem, 356;
the fable, ib. et seq.; author's success
in managing the fable 357; achieve-
ments and flight of Roderick, 358; re-
flections on the religious character of
Roderick as portrayed by the author,
360; caution requisite in introducing
sacred subjects into works of fancy,
361; fable continued, 361; charac-
ter of Pelayo, 365, and extract; Count
Julian, 364; Florinda, and extract, ib.;
beautiful description of moon-light, 365;
death of Count Julian, 366, et seq.
Spangenberg's account of the mission
of the united brethren, extracts from,'
4 et seq.: 9 et seq.
Spiritual comfort, Colquhoun's treatise
on, 294, et seq.; object of the treatise,
296

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Spiritual life, causes of its decay, 375
Spotted spider of the isle of Elba, 304
Spurzheim's craniology, 321, et seq.;

outline of Dr. Gall's system, 322; ob-
jections in regard to plurality of or-
gans, 323; from the consideration of
the general uniformity of the brain
through life, ib.; that all the organs
cannot be equally superficial, 324;
the inexplicability of sudden conver-
sion of character, on this theory, ib.;
its assimilation with the doctrine
of necessity, ib.; Dr. S.'s notions
concerning the nervous origin pecu-
liar, 325, et seq.; innateness of facul-
ties, 326; instinct of animal sa law of
nature, 327; determinate faculties not
produced by external instruments, ib.;
extracts, ib.; separate organization for
separate faculties considered, 328;

Dr. S.'s opinion that election is the con
sequence of superior organs and faculties,
329; objectious, ib. et seq.; dangerous
position of the author, 330; incon-
sistency of the Edinburgh Review,
(note) ib.; organization, author's no-
tions of, erroneous, 332; brain asserted.
to be the seat and organ of conscious-
ness, ib.; duplicity of the brainular
system, ib.; alleged instances, ib. ; ob-
-jections, 333; faculties of the mind
not proportionate to the size of the
brain, 334; facial angle of Camper,
335; remarks on the understanding
as dependent on the relative size of
the face to the head, ib.; plurality in
organs, 459; on the supposed renova-
tion of the attention by a change of
study, ib.; somnambulism, 460; in-
stance of a somnambulist, 461; on the
particular organs, with observations,
464, et seq.; passion of a Dutch priest
for seeing animals killed, 466; instances
of a strong instinctive disposition to steal,
ib.; general objections to the system,
467; organs, with their situations and
external marks, 468-9

Steinhauer's notice relative to the geo-

logy of the coast of Labrador, 575
Stewart's philosophy of the human
mind, 130, et seq.; metaphysical sci-
ence still in its infancy, ib.; capable
of practical purposes, 131; theory
of ideas, without foundation, 132; sen-
sation not explainable by words, 133;
qualities producing sensations, ib.;
sensation does not imply perception,
134; perceptions arising from dif-
ferent senses, contradictory, 135; fale
lacies considered, ib.; memory and at-
tention, 137; absence of mind, 138;
inquiry if habits become anatomical,
139; association of ideas and memo-
ry, 140; a bad memory and its cau-
ses, 142; technical memory, 144;
state of the mind in sleep, 144; on
dreams, 145; cause of the inaccu-
rate estimate of time in dreams, 147
Sthenia and Asthenia, see Hill's essay on
insanity

Storer's history of British cathedrals,

378, et seq.; the dark ages the era of
their exertion, ib.; surprising ingenui-
ty and skill of the architects un-
taught by science, 379; contents and
execution of the work, ib.; biographi-
cal sketch of Theodore, the eighth arch-
bishop of Canterbury, 380, et seq.
Sutton's letters to the Duke of Kent, on
consumption, 181, 198, et seq.

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Velvet Cushion, new covering to, 595,
et seq.; character, tale, and remarks,
596, et seq.; Vicar's death, 599
Venn's sermons, 577, et seq.; sketch of
his life, ib.; character of his sermons
and object of his preaching, 579; on
the happiness of the saints in heaven, 580,
·et seq.; on communion with angels, 583;
on consistency in religion, 584; reflec-
tions on eternity, 585

Venus, table of her transits, 392
Vestments in the church, disputes con-
cerning them, 267

Vitrified forts in Scotland, 562

Waldenses, brief memoirs of, 398; re-
cent persecutions of the Vaudois,
399; origin of the MS. from which
the memoirs are taken, ib.; profit of
the memoirs to be distributed to the
Vaudois, ib.
Wardlaw on the Socinian controversy,
236, et seq.; inquiry into the causes
that tend to protract the existence of
the Socinian controversy, 237; first,
its retention of some portion of scrip-
tural truth, ib.; Dr. Priestly indebted
to his education among Calvinists
for some of his best principles, (note)
ib.; second cause, the logical dex-
terity of its defenders, 238; thirdly,
accordance of Socinianism with phi-
losophic prejudices, &c. 239, et seq.;

principal points of the controversy
should be considered as determined,
241; some writers injudicious in their
mode of defending scripture truths, 242;
personality, its import not defined in scrip-
ture, 243; unity of God, ib.; apostolic
benediction of Paul, remarks on, ib.; su-
preme Divinity of Jesus Christ, 245;
vast importance of the doctrine, ib.; re-
marks on 1 John, v and 20, and nole,
247-8; inferiority of Jesus to the Fa-
ther considered, 248; language of scrip.
ture extravagant on the hypothesis of
the simple humanity of Jesus Christ,
249; remarks on Romans ix. and 5, 251,
et seq.; on the test of truth,' 369;
reasonableness of the Gospel not ne-
cessarily the ground of its authority,
370; result of reason being admitted
as the standard of revelation, 370;
the proper province of reason, 371-2;
on the use of evidence, ib; observa
tions on the right mode of conducting in-
quiries into the meaning of the sacred vo-
lume, 372; uncandid conduct of the So-
cinians in rejecting the first chapters of
Matthew and Luke's Gospels, ib.; Dr.
Lawrence on the supposed testimony
of Epiphanius and Jerome in regard
to the first chapter of Matthew, (note)
ib.; remarks on decay in the spiritual
life, 375; defect in Mr. Wardlaw's
statement, 376; Christian experience,
its estimation in the views of Socinia-
nism, 376; on Christian character,
377; general estimate of the work, ib.
Ware's observations relative to the near
and distant sight of different persons,
255

Wathen's voyage to Madras and China,
447, et seq.: crimps, ib.; Conjeveram, 449;
temple of Vishnou, ib.; of Seeva, 451; his
carriages, 452; two Brahmins recover
caste, by hanging on a hook, 453;
Pulo Penang, ib.; author threatened by
a Malay, 454; visit to a Chinese temple,
455; sty of holy pigs, ib.; extraordinary
specimen of candour, 456; Chinese es-
timate of British integrity, 457; au-
thor's preference of his own country,
458

Webster on some new varieties of fossil
alcyonia, 572

Webster on the fresh water formations
in the Isle of Wight, and on the
strata over the chalk in the south-east
of England, 561
Whitaker's primary visitation sermon.
336, et seq.; inquiry into the cause of
the rancour exhibited by Christian po-
lemics, 337, et seq.; Bishop Horsley's

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