ib.; their early painters and sculp- tors were slaves, ib.; slow progress of the art among the Romans, 454; a correct conception of the Roman painting afforded by the discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii, and the baths of Titus, ib.; their beauty and defects, 454, 5; the Romans igno- rant of landscape painting, ib. ; their arabesques not most probably their first order of painting, ib.; degeneracy of the art from the fifth century, 456; extract, ib.; author's remarks on mosaic painting, 457, 8; lasting advantages secured to the Italian school, by the Greek statues which abounded in Italy, 458; restoration of the art, ib.; Florentine school, 459; Raffaelle, ab.; his second style, ib. ; his school of Athens, ib. ; vision of Heliodorus, 460; victory of the Christians at the port of Ostia, ib.; third era of the Roman school, 460, I; decay of the art in Italy, 461; Bolognese school, &c. ib.; Titian, his manner, ib.; Rey- nolds's remarks on Titian, 461, 2; the harmony of colours not well under- stood in the Venetian School, 462; present state of the art in Italy, ib.; Cammucinia, ib.; Landi, ib.; Agri- cola, 463.
Orontes, beautiful appearance of its banks,
Oryctology, outlines of, see Parkinson,
Palmyra, ruins and tombs of, 19, 20. Papists, their active zeal in the present day, 411.
Parkinson's outlines of oryctology, 44, et seq.; two modes adopted by natu- ralists, of cousidering the remains of a former order of things, 45; mode followed by the author, 46; first stage ofvegetable mineralization called bituminous, how produced, ib.; Bovey- coal and Suturbrand of Ireland, ib.; the passing of fossil wood into jet, 46, 7; petrifaction of vegetable sub- stances, 47; nature of the stony ma- terials, ib.; mode of its forma- tion, ib.; calcareous petrifactions, 48; formation of, ib.; incrustations at Matlock bath, Tivoli, and Peru, ib.; mineralization of vegetable sub- stances by metals, 49; pyrites, ib. ; why so called, ib.; pyritical wood, up- pearance of, ib.; wood tin, in Mexico, ib.; curious fact in regard to vegetable remains, 50; zoophytes in rocks, ib. ;
spunge, the least perfect of the zoo- phytes, ib. fossil tubiporæ, 51; madreporites, ib.; encrinites and pentacrinites, 52; lily encrinite, ib. ; its great number of bones, 51,2; fos- sil human skeletons from Guadaloupe, 53; pious reflections of the author, 54. Parmegiano, sketch of the life of, 216, et seq.; see Correggio. Peninsula, recollections of the, 146, el seq.; author's object, 146, 7; high excitement of a campaign, 147; the alleviations attendant on the soldier's sick bed, ib.; lively description of a bivouac, 148; battle of Albuera, 155. Petra, Necropolis of, 26; valley of, 27. Philo, island of, 5.
Phillips's Sylva Florifera, 175, et seq. ; subjects of the present work, 175, 177; history of the elm, ib.; the elm probably not indigenous to Eng- land, ib.; cultivated as a support to the vine, 178; a monumental tree, ib. introduced into Spain from Eng- land, ib.; description of Queen Eliza- beth's elm, formerly at Chelsea, ib.; dif- ferent species of the elm, 179; va- rious uses to which the ash is ap- plied, 130; the manna of the pharma- copeia produced by two varieties of this iree, ib.; large ash in Lochaber church yard, 181; fructification of the ash, ib.
Popery, altered feeling of the public in regard to it, 408, 9; probable causes of it, 409, 10.
Popery, its revival on the continent ac- companied with all its former folly, 470. Portuguese, decay of their language and influence in India, 436.
Prayer, an encouragement to, from a con· sideration of the intercession of Christ, 226.
Prayer, new guide to, 265, et seq. Preaching, expository, remarks on, 183, et seq.
Pringle's account of the present state of the English settlers in Albany, South Africa, 571, et seq.; the author se- cretary to the society at Cape Town, for the relief of distressed settlers, 571; emigration to Algoa Bay hurriedly concerted, ib,; mistakes of Mr. Barrow, 572; elephants nume- Tous in the colony and very large, 572, 3; prevalence of the vegetable- distemper called rust, 573; extract, ib.; dispersion of the colonists, ib. wretched state of those who remained at the settlement, 574.
Prisons in France, present state of, 392. Prone, by a poet. 284; et seq.; subjects
of the work, 285; the moon and stars, 285, 6.
Protestantism, continental, an English cler gyman's description of it, 473. Pyrites, why so called, 49; pyritical
wood, appearance of, ib.
Quakers begin to bury in gardens,
orchards, &c. 128. Quin's translation of the memoirs of Ferdinand VII. of Spain, 355, et seq.
visit to Spain in the years 1822 and 1823, 70, et seq.; author's re- marks on the Spanish constitution, 72.&c. clergy and grandees hostile to it, ib. ; character of the ex-ministers, ib.
Rajah of Tanjore, the present, educated by Swartz, 248; his muniticence to the mission there, ib.
Relics exhibited at Courtray and Brussels, &c. by the popish priests, 486, &c. Romans, ancient, had no school of painting, 453; ignorant of landscape painting, 455.
Roughley's Jamaica planter's guide, &c.
Rousseau, singular circumstance in his early life, 317.
Scenes and impressions in Egypt and Italy, 548, et seq.; wretched state of the Turkish government, 548; true character of the Turks, ib.; remarks on the death of Lord Byron, 549; his later writings, 549. 50; sketch of a Greek schooner and of the caplain, 550; author's character of the Greek, 551; of the Turk, ib.; the Turkish soldiery, 551,
rocks of pale red coral visible below the surface of the sen, 552; description of the desert, ib.; the importance of the camel among the Arabs, 552,5; descrip- tion of Thebes, 553, el seq.; Siout, the ancient Lycopolis, 555; emir of the Druses of Mount Lebanon soliciting pardon at Cairo, 555, 6; interview with the Pasha, 556; the Pasha's real motives for protecting European travellers, ib. ; influence of our consul-general with him, 556, 7; author leaves Egypt, 557; visits St. Peter's, ib. ; Schooner, Greek, sketch of, 550. Sea, Dead, bitterness and buoyaney of its waters, 23.
Sermon of a converted Budhu priest, ex- tract from it, 443, et seq.
Sheppard's thoughts preparative to pri-
vate devotion, 224, et seq.; subjects of the essays, 225; omnipresence of the Deity, 225, 6; encouragement to prayer, from the intercession of Christ, 226, 7.
Simond's Switzerland, journal of a resi- dence there, in the years 1817, 18,
19, 306, et seq. the history of Swit- zerland barren of events, 308, 9; its liberty never of a popular nature, ib. ; extract, ib.; Berne the purest model of the Swiss aristocracies, 309; state of its government at different periods, 309, 10; no middle class of people in Switzerland, 311; causes that hastened the downfal of the Bernese aristocra- cy, 313; noble but unsuccessful defence of the Sviss at Nilwalden, against the French under general Schauenburg, 313, 14; Pestalozzi collects and provides for the orphans, after the battle, ib.; de- scription of the city and inhabitants of Berne, 314, 15; state of the women, 315; amount of the capital condemnations in the Canton of Berne for the last seven- teen years, ib. note; Bernese morals, 315, 16; corrupt state of Genevese mo- rals at the era of the reformation, 324; author's estimate of the character of Cal- vin, 324, 5; Calvin's last illness, &c. 325; author's representation of the Eng- lish absentees at Geneva, 325, et seq. Singhalese adults, their excessive stu- pidity, 438.
Siout, the ancient Lycopolis, 556. Skeletons, fossil, two human ones found at Guadaloupe, 49.
Small's interesting Roman antiquities recently discovered in Fife, &c. 527, et seq.; general design of the work, 527; difference of natural taste in different persons, ib. ; high importance attached by the author to the dis- covery of the site of the battle be- tween Galgacus and Agricola, 528; diversity of opinion respecting the spot, ib. Tacitus's notice of the Grampian bilis, ib.; author's reasons for deciding that it took place in Fife- shire, ib.; accuses Tacitus of wilful misrepresentation, 529; Agricola's march from east Blair to Strathearn, ib. ; sile of the field of battle, 529, 30. Societes des Dimanches, 319, 20. Stanzas to a butterfly resting on a skull, 88. Stewart's view of the island of Jamaica, 97, el seq.
Strutt's Sylva Britannica, 175, et seq.; subjects of the numbers already published, 175, 6; plan and execution of the
Iral tendency of the system injurious to the divinity student, 135, 6, see note; advantageous result of his settle- ment at Kellering, 138; noble disin- terestedness of the author, 140; on the distinction between the church and the congregation, 141, 2; remarks of Mr. Hall, on the same subject, ib.; the author's sudden illness and death, 142; Mr. Hall's contrast of Mr. Fuller and Mr. Toller, 143; remarks on Chris- tian candour, ib.; conversion of an aged couple by means of a sermon on a recent marriage, ib. ; extracts from the sermon, 144, 5.
Toulouse, murderous battle of, 156, 7. Tract Magazine or Christian Miscellany, 476; objection to its style, 478; ex- tract, ib.
Tracts, penny, 476, et seq.; objections to a late measure of the tract society, 477.
Travancore, prosperous state of the cen- tral Tamul School at Nagracoil in that country, 252.
Trial by jury, how conducted in France, 35.
Turk, character of the, 551.
Verdict of the jury in France, mode by which it is determined, 404.
Walker's supplementary annotations on Livy, &c. 230, et seq.; author's con- scientious rejection of ecclsiastical immunities and honours, 250; de- cline of classical learning in this country, ib.; his opinion of the causes of it, 251,2; and that the two universities should be open to dissenters, 233; insufficiency of his proposed remedies, ib.; reasons shewing that a dissenting university in this country is an impracticable measure, 234, 5; the highest education not required for dissenting ministers, 235; advantages of a university residence at Oxford or Cambridge not to be equalled by any new institution for dissenters, 236, 7; the author's edition of Livy little known in England, 237; cause of it, ib. 5 his qualifications as an annotator, 238; specimen of the author's anno- tations, with critical remarks, &c. 239, et seq. Warreniana, 475.
Watts's, Alaric, poetical sketches, 83, et seq.
Wrhárees, or Budhu temples, 441. Wood tin, occurring in Mexico, 49.
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