James's Christian father's present to his children, 446, et seq.; reflections on the occasional meetings of a dispersed family, 447; evils of the stage, 448; caution to Christian parents, ib. Jews, three celebrated literary ones, account of, 513. Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples, &c. historical life of, 385, et seq.; her early marriage with her cousin An- drew, king of Hungary, 386; its fatal consequences, ib.; is styled the Pandora of her country, ib.; accused of having caused her husband to be strangled, ib.; flees to Provence with her second husband, ib. ; is acquitted of the murder by Cleinent VI. ib.; v'e- covers her throne and reigus thirty years, ib.; is dethroned and smothered by order of her presumptive heir, i5. ;' remarks on the defence set up in favour of Joanna and of Mary Stuart, 387; introductory topics of the present work, ib.; account of Provençal litera- ture, 388; similarity between the' Knight and the Troubadour, ib.; vanity of the Troubadour Pierre de Corbian, 389; qualifications and musical powers of the Jongleurs, the attendants of the Trou- badours, 390; character, &c. of Pierre Vidal, ib.; account of Brunetto Latini, preceptor of Dante, 391; education of Dante, ib.; his disappointment and un- happy marriage, 392; his personal ap- pearance, ib.; birth of the. Princess Jóanna, 392, 3; desciption of the deco- rations, &c. of the rooms appropriated to. the princess and her infunt, 393, 4; cere- mony, &c. of the baptism, 394, 5; death of the duke and of the dutchess of Ca- ! labria, 395; early nuptials of Joanna and Andrew, ib. ; Petrarch's character of friar Robert, tutor of Joanna, ib.; the former obtains the laurel crown from the Roman senale, by the influence of Robert, 396; anecdotes of Petrarch, 396, 7; magnificence of the palaces of the Neapolitan nobles, 399; their cos- tume, ib.; personal character and appear ance of Joanna, 400, 1; detail of the violent death of her husband, 402, 3; opinion of the author, on the cause of the murder, 403, 4; testimony of Pe- trarch and Boccaccio in favour of the innocence of Joanna, 404; adverse testimony of Muratori, ib.; her mar- riage with Louis of Tarento, ib. ; re- gret of her subjects, on her quitting Naples, 404, 5; death of the treache rous Durazzo, 406; the queen justifies
herself before Pope Clement VI., and is declared above suspicion, ib.; she recovers her throne, and is crowned queen of Naples, 407; death of the king, ib. is advised by her council to marry a third time, ib. ; receives a present of two vanquished knights, ib.; her generosity to them, 408; character of Charles of Durazzo, 409; the queen marries ber fourth husband, 410; op- poses the elevation of Pope Urban VI., ib.; he declares the deposition of the queen, and transfers her crown to Durazzo, ib. ; capture and imprison- ment of the queen, 411; her conduct during her captivity, ib. ; is strangled by order of Durazzo, ib. Jones's Greek and English lexicon, 532, et seq.; the author's reasons for attempt- ing to explain the Scriptures, 533; ex- tract from a laudatory letter from Dr. Parr, ib.
Kinghorn's considerations addressed to the Eclectic reviewer, in defence of those who maintain that baptism should precede communion, 431, et seq.; conduct pursued by the Eclectic review, on the subject, &c. of baptism, prior to the publication of Mr. Hall's
Terms of Communion,' 431; line of conduct adopted by the E. R. upon the appearance of that work, justified by Mr. Hall's own statements, 432; fundamental principle of Mr. H. in regard to terms of communion, ib. .; argument of Mr. Kinghorn in reply, 433, 4; statement of Mr. Jerram that Mr. Hall makes an exception in favour of the established church considered, ib.; Mr. Hall's own words on this point, 434, 5; Mr. Howe's defence of occa- sional communion with the church of England, 436; his reasons for the dis- senter's not constantly communing with it, 436, 7; the reasoning and the practice of churchmen, in regard to communicating, &c. inconsistent, 437; the Eclectic Reviewer's reasons for not going to the establishment, in reply to Mr. Kinghorn's question, 437, 8; the Puritans and the ejected mi- nisters held the lawfulness of commu-
nion with the church which was perse- cuting them, 438; Mr. Kinghorn's quotation from Dean Stilling fleet on the insufficiency of the causes of separation, 440; the Dean's remarks controverted by Howe and Owen, 440, 1; the grand argument for lay-nonconformity, 441; remark of Dr. Doddridge on the im- portance of an evangelical ministry to the continuance of dissent, 442; reasons for the dissenter not going to the church when the preacher is evan- gelical, 442, 3; tendency of the prin- ciple of strict communion to lead the pædobaptist to the church, 442; re- marks on the author's quotations from Wall and Baxter, in proof that un- baptized persons should not partake of the communion, 544, 5; opinion of Hooker, ib.; cautious reasoning of Baxter, 546; arguments of Danvers, and other strict baptists in the days of John Bunyan, 547, 8; a moral dis.. qualification, &c. shewn to be the principle on which all communities have excluded from communion, 548;. the professed design of all Christian communion has been to separate be. tween the Church and the world, 549; the principle of strict communion is to exclude 'not the unworthy,' but only the unqualified,' ib.; remark of the late Mr. Ward, of Serampore, on this subject, 551; unfair attempt of Mr. Kinghorn to confound the abroga- tion of baptism as an institute, with the abrogation of baptism as a term of communion, 552; concession of the author that the word of God contains no direction that the unbaptized should not partake of the Lord's Sup- per, 553; arguments of John Bun yan, that the Church should receive whom God and Christ have received, 554, et seq.; proof that the spirit of the strict-communionist is an intole rant and a malignant spirit, 556, et seq.; reasoning of Mr. M'Lean, that the order of the words is a demonstra- tion that baptism is an indispensable prerequisite to communion, examined and exposed, 558, 9; remarks on 'expediency,' as the 'grand practical 'argument for mixed communion,' 560, et seq.; the real state of the question is-What is the law of Christ, 562,3.
Knight and Troubadour, similarity be- tween them, 388.
Landor's imaginary conversations of li-
terary men, &c. 211, et seq.; the au- thor remarkable for his singularity of opinion, 211; portrays Tiberius as an excellent prince, 212; denounces Zaïre as a wretched imitation of Shakspeare, ib.; his spleen against every thing that is French, 213; his language profane and indelicate, 213, 14; his conversation between Cicero and his brother Quinctus, on the character of Caesar, 215, 16; Cicero talks of the laws of perspective, 217; beautiful dialogue between Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Gray, 217, 18; conversation between Lord Bacon and Hooker, 219, et seq; Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sydney, 221, et seq.
Languages, European, Murray's history of, 360, et seq.
Latin the origin of all the southern dia- lects of Europe, 194.
Lavater, remarkable correspondence be-
tween him and Moses Mendelsohn, the great Jewish philosopher, 520. Lawrence's, Mr., proposition that insanity springs from disease of the brain, ex- amined and exposed by Dr. Dawson, 459,
Leighton, Archbishop, Wilson's selec- tions from his works, 382. Letters, chiefly practical and consola. tory, by David Russell, 469, ét seq. Letter-writing, familiar, specimens of,
not to be found before the fifteenth century, 126.
L'Etrangére, par le Vicompte D'Arlin- court, 412, et seq.
Lexicon, Greek and English, by Dr. Parr, 532, et seq.
Life, historical, of Joanna, queen of Naples, &c. 385, et seq.
Literature, provençal, account of, 388, et seq.
Macchiavelli, M. Sismondi's remarks on his life and writings, 323, 4. Malmesbury, William of, the modern history of, translated by the Rev. J. Sharpe, 54, et seq.
Mant's book of pslams, in an English metrical version, 1, el seq. Massillon's thoughts on different moral and religious subjects, &c. 454; com- parative merits of Bourdalone, Bos- suet, and Massillon, 454; reflections on the swiftness of time, 454, 5. Memoirs, &c. by Miss Hawkins, 164, et seq. Mendelsohn, Moses, Samuels's memoirs of, 512, et seq.
Methodists, the Quarterly Reviewer's
detail of their 'great evils and griev-
Mexico, 289, et seq.; progress of the late revolution, 290; abdication and departure of Iturbidé to Europe, 291; various conjectures respecting his re- turn to Mexico in 1824, ib.; detail of his landing, capture and execution, 293; the Mexican congress grant a pension to his widow, 294; character of Iturbide, while Emperor, by Mr. Poinsett, ib.; character of Guadalupe Victoria, the present president of Mexico, 295; he takes up arms in the patriotic cause, ib.; his brave ex- ploits, his privations and sufferings, 296, 7; is proscribed by the Spanish vice- roy and conceals himself, ib.; ap- pears again in arms with Iturbidé, 297; opposes Iturbidé, and is im- prisoned, 298; escapes, and again conceals himself, 299; Santana appears in arms against Iturbidé, ib. ; is joined by Victoria, 300; abdication of the Em- peror, ib.; Mexico declares itself a federal republic, 301; General Vic- toria chosen president, ib.; testimo- nies to his excellent character by Mr. Bullock and Mr. Poinsett, ib.; some remarks of a Quarterly reviewer ex- amined and exposed, 302; Guatemala declared an independent federal re- public, under the title of The Con- 'federated States of the Centre of 'America,' ib.; extract from the ' Mo- 'dern Traveller, on the state of society in Mexico, 303; Humboldt's remarks on the population of New Spain, and of the capital, 304; the rank of the individual in Mexico determined by the whiteness of his skin, 304, 5; few negroes in Mexico, ib.; statement of the ranks and orders in the Mexican society, 305; the Mexican clergy, 306; exposition of some in- accuracies in Mill's history of Mexi- co, 306, 7; Juarros's history of Gu- atemala, 307; contents of the work, 308; the author's attempt to prove that Guatemala was never subject to the Mex- ican empire, 309, 10; remarks on his * statements, 310, 11; the topography of Mexico and Guatemala little known till the visit of Humboldt, 312; the errors and ignorance of for- mer writers exposed, 313; the mines of Mexico, 313, 14.
Miller's lectures on the philosophy of bistory, 139, et seq.
Mill's history of Mexico, &c. 289, et seq.
Mina, General, short extract of the life of, published by himself, 181. Mines of Mexico, 313, 14.
Miracles asserted by Mendelsohn not to be a distinctive mark of truth, 521. Modern Traveller, Farts XI. and XII., 289, et seq. see Mexico.
Morison's fashionable amusements, the bane of youth, 182, et seq.
Morris's translation of Massillon's thoughts on different moral and reli- gious subjects, 454, et seq. Munro's plea for the christian education of youth, 98, et seq.
Murray's historical account of voyages and travels in Asia, &c., 22, et seq.
history of the European lan- guages, &c., 360, et seq.; the author's explication of the nine words, which are the foundations of language, &c., 360, 1; his singular account of the forma- tion of language by man, 362; in- quiry into the prime source of the diversity of language, 363, et seq.; the Mexican MSS. the oldest method of writing, 364; its progressive state, ib.; the first alphabet the parent of the others, ib.; inconsistency of the author in his attempt to prove it to be of Phenician origin, 364, 5; the language of Noah probably extant in the names of places, in the country where the ark rested, 366;' the five primary tribes of the European na- tions, 366; the Teutonic spoken at Babel, and was the language of para- dise, ib.; different opinions respect- ing the primary languages of Europe, 367; admirable simplicity of Dr. Mur- ray's system, 367.
Onamese, character of them, 91; descrip- tion of their persons, ib., et seq. Orme's Bibliotheca Biblica, 528, et seq.; design and plan of the work, 528, 9; list of omissions and inaccuracies, 529, et seq.
Owen's, R. Dale, outline of the system' of education at New Lanark, 98, et seq.
Painting, Buchanan's memoirs of, &c. 276, et seq.
Pantaloon, Harlequin, and Columbine, invention of the masks of, 325. Papers, Stuart, history of them, 138, 9. Pentateuch, admirable translation of, by
Moses Mendelsohn, 526. Petrarch, anecdotes of, &c., 395.
Petrarch, M. Sismondi's remarks on his
Physic, Dawson's nosological practice of, 458, et seq.
Pinery, death of a gardener occasioned
by sleeping in one, 82. Piracies, on the coast of Cuba, countenanced by the authorities of the island, 566. Plague, a disease sui generis, 538. Plants, odoriferous, danger from keeping them in bed chambers, 82. Poetry, Provençal; see Sismondi's his- torical sketch.
Poinsett's notes on Mexico, 289, el seq. Popery in 1824, &c., 177, et seq.; the present pope formerly notorious in Rome for his gallantries, 177; ex- tracts from the pope's bull of jubilee," 178, et seq.; grant of a plenary indulgence, ib.; its conditions, 179; his holiness de- nounces the bible society, 180, 1. Population, Asiatic, its multiplied va-
rieties as contrasted with Africa and America, 23.
Portraits, contemporary, 152, et seq. Portugal, language and literature of, 500.
Power, ecclesiastical, an engine of mis-
chief, 66; not acknowledged by the English constitution, ib.
Present for a Sunday School, 191. Progress of dissent, by a Nonconformist, 371, et seq.
Psalms, the book of, in an English me- trical version, by Dr. Mant, 1, et seq.; different opinions held by the Fathers respecting the psalms, their author, sense, titles, &c., 2; double sense of the psalms, ib.; opinion of Dr. Hors- ley, ib.; of Calvin, 2, 3; Dr. Horsley ill-qualified to appreciate justly the devotional beauty of the psalms, 3; Dr. Watts's metrical version the most instructive commentary on them, 4; his version not mentioned by Dr. Horne, ib.; remarks on the psalms as a formulary of public devotion, 4, 5; division of the psalms into five books, with remarks on the contents of each, the author, &c., 5, 6; songs of degrees, their design, 6; the three classes of David's poetical composi- tions, 7; the author's version of the se- cond psalm, 8; superiority of Dr. Watts's version of the seventeenth psalm, 9; different versions of vari- ous psalms, 10, et seq.
Rainbow, stanzas to, by Campbell, 118, 9. Religion, H. F. Burder's lectures on the essentials of, 455.
Review, Quarterly, a nonconformist's observations on some remarkable pas. sages in an article on dissent, in the sixty-first number of it, 371, et seq. Rome, church of, Hamilton's tracts upon
some leading errors of it, 286, et seq. Roubiliac, his excellence as an artist, 164; striking instance of his ingenu- ousness, ib.
Russell's letters, chiefly practical and consolatory, &c., 469, et seq.; diffi- culties supposed to attach to the act of coming to Christ, 470, et seq. Russia and Siberian Tartary, &c., Coch- rane's narrative of a pedestrian jour- ney through, 227, et seq.; the politi- cal and the private character of Alex- ander at variance, 227; his peculiarly difficult situation, 227, 8; his late conduct influenced probably by impe- rious circumstances, 228; liberal con- duct of the Russian administration to the author, 228; example of Russian inhospitality, 229, 30; curious adven- ture, 230; the author is plundered, 231; and beaten by a mob of women, ib.; situation, &c. of Tobolsk, ib.; he visits the fortress built by Yermak, 232; death of Yermak, 233; his plans counteracted, 234; marries a lady in Kamtchatka, 235; illiberal conduct of the royal society, ib. Russians, their recent attempt to dis cover a north east passage from Beer- ing's straits, 273; their discoveries in the southern ocean, ib. Ryan's time's telescope, 82, et seq.
Samuel's memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, 512, et seq.; his birth-place, &c., 512; acquires great fame from his transla- tion of Plato's Phædo into German, ib.; his account of the three celebrated jews, Manasseh ben Israel, Benedict Spinoza, and Orobio, 513; appearance of Mendelsohn, ib.; Spinoza main- tained atheistic principles, 514; had abjured judaism and embraced chris- tianity in early life, ib. ; dissimula- tion of Orobio, ib.; he suffers a three years' imprisonment in the inquisition, ib.; professes himself a jew, ib.; re- ligious opinions of Mendelsohn, ib.; his early education, 516; his ardent love of literature the ruin of his health, ib.; his rapid progress in literature, and rise to independence, ib.; fate of his first publication, the moral preacher,' 518, 9; writes philosophical essays and dialogues, 519; his marriage,
his daughters and grandsons stated by Mr. Wolf to be true chris- tians, 519, 20; remarkable corres- pondence between Lavater and Men- delsohn, 520; injudicious conduct of Lavater, ib.; reply of Mendelsohn, with his opinion that mirucles are not a dis- tinctive mark of truth, 521, 2; affirms the miracles of Moses to have been superfluous, 523, 4; importance of this correspondence in two respects, 524, 5; other works published by this writer, 526; account of his admirable translation of the Pentateuch, ib. Sandemanianism, Fuller's letters character and merits of, 508. Scenes, foreign, and travelling recrea- tions, by J. Howison, 562, et seq. Sharpe's translation of the history of the kings of England, and the mo- dern history of William of Malmes- bury, 54, et seq.
Sismondi's historical view of the litera-
ture of the south of Europe, trans- lated by Mr. Roscoe, 193, et seq.; subjects treated of in the present vo⚫ lume, 193; Latin the origin of all the southern dialects of Europe, 194; gradual corruption of that language, and cause of it, ib.; the author's re- marks on the sudden rise and sudden ex- tinction of the Provençal language, 195; the Provençal poetry not coeval with the language, 196; chivalry and the Provençal poetry rose at the same period, 196, 7; essential character of chivalry, ib.; new character assumed by love in the middle ages, 197; chivalry a poetic invention, 198; must be assigned to a period antecedent to authentic his- tory, ib.; the compositions of the Troubadours entirely lyrical, ib.; the author's remarks on the influence of Arabian poetry and eastern manners, 198, 9; the Arabian literature the true parentage of the Provençal poe- try, 199; M. Sismondi's remarks on the laws and composition of poetry, 199, 200; specimen of Troubadour poetry, 200, 1; real grounds of the fame of the Troubadours, 201; its merits ex- amined, 201, 2; literature of Italy, 202; author's remarks on Dante, 203, 4; probable origin of the Inferno, ib. ; remarks on the purgatory, 205; M. Ginguene's criticism on the paradise, ib.; narrative of Count Ugolino, versified by Mr. Roscoe, 206, 7; Dante the crea- tor of his own language, 208; Pe- trarch, ib.; true basis of his reputation,
ib.; observations on the two mea- sures adopted by Petrarch, 209; lead- ing characteristics of his sonnets, 210; extracts, 210, 11; the strong attach- ment of some of our best poets to the sonnet, 314, 15; cause of the low es- timation of the sonnet in the present day, 315; true description of the sonnet, ib.; claim of Boccaccio, as a reviver of ancient learning, 316; M. Sismondi's remarks on the Decameron, 316, 7; striking coincidence between the literary fortunes of Petrarch and Boccaccio, 318; poems of Uberti and Frezzi, ib.; of Pulci and Boiardo, 319; the author's observations on the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, 219, 20; on the Jerusalem of Tasso, 320, et seq. ; on Francesco Berni, and his new style of poetry, 322, 3; life of Macchiavelli, 323; his is principe,' 324; the discour- ses on Livy his best work, ib. ; inven tion of the masks of pantaloon, harle quin, and Columbine, 325; character of Guarini's Pastor Fido, ib. ; Filacaia, 326; his sonnets addressed to Italy and to fortune, ib.: Alfieri, 327; remarks on his dramatic writings, ib.; objections to his excellence as a dramatist, 328, 9; critical remarks on his Philip II., 330, et seq. the improvvisatori, 482; not exclusively Italian, ib.; the art confined to poetry, ib.; Biondi and Syricci, the heads of their profession, ib.; the improvvisatoré's mode of pro- ceeding, ib. et seq.; they do not all sing, ib.; the more celebrated can conform to the most rigid laws of versification, 483; great powers of Gianni, ib.; Corilla, and La Bandettini, ib.; superior quali- fications of Mad. Mazzei, ib. ; on the language and literature of Spain, 484; origin of the language, ib. ; antiquity, versification, &c. of the poem of the Cid, ib. ; character of the poetry of Spain, up to the reign of Charles V., 485, 6; the reign of Charles V. fatal to Spain, 487; sonnets of La Vega, 487, 8; extract, 488; Cervan- tes, ib.; the most striking feature in the composition of Don Quixote, 488, 9; the design and success of the work, 489; Cervantes, the progenitor of the Spa- nish drama, 490; his two extant dramas, the tragedy of Numantia and Life in Algiers; account of the Numan- tia, 491; notice of Alonzo de Er- cilla, 492; dramas of Lope Felix de Vega, 492, 3; his great fame, &c. ib. ; intrigue the character of his plays,
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