Such are all moments of emotion: the judgment is no more; and a pleasure like that of dreams is experienced, when that which is ex- traordinary appears possible, and the chains which bounded the reigu of existence are rent asunder. In the tumult and rapid succession of sensations, which seize a soul that is vehemently stimulated, danger, even without an object, becomes a pleasure. In calmer states of mind, apprehension seems a painful feeling: but at play, at the instant of great decisions, it enhances the glow of delight. This wound-up state becomes so necessary to those who have experienced it, that sailors, when they have been long settled on shore, will go to sea again in order to experience it. It is difficult to play at the great game of glory, and therefore a green cloth and a pack of cards supply its place. The agitation of the soul is that treacherous want to which most men will deliver themselves up, without thinking of the consequences of this intellectual intemperance. They will ha zard the fortune which maintains them, dare the battle which maims them, or invite the martyrdom which awaits them, in order to acquire those moments of strong present impression-free alike from recol- lection and from foresight-which give a sort of instantaneity to ex- istence, and of omnipresence to life.'
P. 316. Study, far from depriving life of the interest which it needs, has all the characters of passion, except that which consti- tutes its misfortune-dependence on fortune and on man. Study offers an end which is accessible in proportion to the effort made; and fowards which progress is certain, and subject neither to vicissitude nor to disappointment. Study has new objects perpetually to present, and events to produce which are sufficient for thought. Days which are similar by continuity of misfortune, or by sameness of vacuity, are transformed by study into amusive and varied epochas. At one period, comes the solution of a lang investigated problem; at another time, a new beauty starts, like a nymph of Armida, from beneath the mossy rind of an antient author. Every day adds a new province to the em- pire of thought; and the Student can never weep because there are no more worlds to invade and to conquer. Instruction is but the mid- wife to curiosity. Every attainment creates a new ambition. The ascent of each fresh hill on his progress exhibits prospects of a wider range, and excites him to wander through the new vales of idea which are expanded before his efforts and his hopes.'
Many of the Baroness's observations respecting conjugal fe- licity deserve notice: but her remarks concerning children are. less novel and forcible. Is she without a family? The gene- ral tenor of her instructions, however, which are designed to recommend a purity of domestic morals that is more common in Switzerland, in Geneva, and in England, than in the Catholic countries, cannot but operate favourably on the females in Paris, and may one day place her, like the Theano of Pytha goras, among the models of an improving sex.
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume. N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
Alumine from Schemnitz, exami- nation of, 577. Alum, natural, from Miseno, ac- count of, 580. America, North, antient Indians of. See Indians. See also Unit- ed States. See Washington.
South. See Surinam. Andrews, Mr. James Petit, con- tinues Mr. Henry's history of Great Britain, 241. Apology for the Bible, by the bishop of Landaff, examined, 303. Objections brought for- wards, 305.
Apples all derived from the Crab.
293. Arabians, their poetry consider.
ed, 43. Specimens of, 45. Aramic language, essay on, 6. Arms, heraldic, established in fa- milies long before the Norman conquest of England, 259. Armorial bearings hereditary in this country before the time of the Crusades, 261. Coat of arms given to Capt. Cook, in 1785, 264. Atmosphere, reflections on the composition and decomposi- tion of, 7.
Aklus Gellius translated, 449. Aylmer, bishop of London, a good cudgell-man, 244
Ball, Mr. his method of cultivat-
ing and preparing opium from English poppies, 139. Barking of trees. See Re barking. Barn-floor, moveable, new inven-
tion of, 141. See also Upton. Belsham, Mr. censured for his unfavourable account of the government of India, under Mr. Hastings, 193. Benevolence, &c. essay on, as op- posed to principle, 6. Book, a poem from the works of the Rev. S. Bishop, 381. Botany. See Withering. Botany Bay Eclogue, 299.
Hardships in a voy- age to, by Palmer, Skirving, &c. 236. Bucknall, Mr. his system of orch- arding, 138. Of re-barking trees that have been peeled by sheep, ib.
Burke, Mr. his late political writ
ings criticised, 334-336. Burrow, Mr. Reuben, his ob- servations, &c. relative to the measurement of a degree of longitude in the East Indies, 105.
с Casar, (Julius,) his death, &c, from Thomson's translation of Suetonius, 309. Camps, useful remarks relative to the arrangements of, 98. Carlsbad, chemical inquiry inta
the mineral springs there, 581. Carthage and Great Britain com- pared, 542.
Cat's eye, inquiry into the nature of this mineral, 574. Chambonas, M. his Letter to
Louis XVI. giving an account of the last agonies of a go- vernment supported by cor- ruption, 276.
Chevalier, M. his description of the Plain of Troy controvert- ed, 142.
Christianity, the downfall of, predicted, 545: Chryso-beryl, analysis of, 574. Chrysolite, analysis of this gem, 574. See also Olivine.
Cicero, account of, from Sueto-
Cicisbeo, female, that character delineated, 280. Cimolite, chemical account of this species of clay, 579. Cold, the influence of, on the health of the inhabitants of London, 408.
Convention, national, of France, the principles of its admini- stration developed, by Mr. Necker, 539. Cook, Captain, coat of arms given to him in 1785, 264. Copper-mines at Fosse du Sapin described, 553. Corday, Charlotte, anecdotes and character of, 279. Corn, new method of preserving in the ricks from rats, 455. CORRESPONDENCE with the Re- viewers, p. 119. Col. Ferrier, on Dr. Stahl's pretended suf- ferings in the inquisition at Goa, 119. R. G. T. con- cerning Mr. Ruggles's history of the poor, 238. W. R. re- lating to the occasional con- formity of the clergy, 239. B. Jones, relating to the pi- racy of the magazines which copy articles from the M.R.240. Mr. Capel Lofft, relative to his edition of Gilbert's Law of Evidence, 360. Dr. Aikin, relating to the Description of Manchester, 479. W. A. re- lating to a calculation in his
Injuries of the Public, the cause of Famine,' ib. P. H. concerning the iniquity of Banking, 480. Others of less note, ib.
Cotton-Mills in Lancashire, &c.
Debt, national, plan for the pay. ment of, 104. Derbyshire, pleasing general view of, 136.
Devonshire, remarkable British monuments in, 2.
Directory, Executive, of France, characters of each of the five members of, 320.
Distilleries defended, in regard to their effects on health, mo- rals, &c. 464. Dutens, M. his enlargement of his 66 Origin of the Disco- veries attributed to the Mo- derns," but which have mostly been known to the sages of antiquity, 410.
Eager, M. his method of reliev
ing cattle that have over-eaten themselves, on clover, &c. 139. Eagle, the assumption of, in the
arms of the German govern- ment, explained, 258. Earthquake. See Gray. Eden, Sir Frederic Morton, his State of the poor announced, 361.
Electricity, animal, (or relating to muscular motion,) disco- veries in, 47. Observations relating to the theory of ani- mal excitement, ib. Electric . doubler, 49. Multiplier of elec- tricity, 50. Experiments on metallic substances, 51. Divers configurations, how produced, 52. Effects produced by elec- tricity on permanently elastic. fluids, 53. Extraordinary ef-- fects of thunder-storms, 54. Action of electricity on the -vegetable kingdom, 55.
England, the proper constitu- tional defence of, against the enemies of the country, foreign or domestic, pointed out, 68. Erskine, Mr. his sentiments on the state of Ireland, 198. On the origin of the French war, 200. On Mr. Burke's late writings, 202. Exeter, literary society formed there, 1. Essays by the mem- bers of, published, ib. Eyes of birds, remarkable in stance of their quickness of discernment at an immense distance, 407.
Falconry, antiquity of that amuse-
Fame, literary, essay on, 5. Farms, large ones recommended, 456.
Fire. See System. Fire-stone, analysis of, 573. Forms, prescribed for religious worship, utility of, 317. Pro- gressive formation of those of our liturgy, 318. Observa- tions on, 319.
Fox, Mr. his Ovidian Latin verses, from the Muse Etonen- ses, 21-22.
France, publications relating to the revolution in, 195, 224, 276,293, 320, 404, 465, 537, 540, 555.
French, change of manners in that people, in consequence of the revolution, 277. Their
calendar disapproved, Account of the bulletines of the Convention, 281. Le- cointre's character, ib. That of Lanjuinais, &c. ib. & seq. Frend, Mr. his plan for an im- proved school for arithmetic, algebra, &c. 440. Fuseli, Mr. lines addressed to him on his gallery of Milton, 387. G. George, Mr. his hymn on the pu- rification, &c. 19. Gessner, Solomon, the poet, his
Gold, native, accounts of the late discovery of, in Ireland. See Lloyd. See Mills. Government, civil, its proper
ends, 25-36. Notions of, as entertained by the Ame- rican Indians, when first vi- sited by Europeans, 26. Dr. Robertson's notions of,contra- verted, 27. That of Kings, merely of civil appointment, 30. Political resistance of the Subject discussed, 33. Oppo- sition to rightful government distinguished from resistance, 24. Imperfections in the British constitution pointed out, 72. Formsof government classified, 163. Antient forms of, among the American Indians, ib. Forms and customs of, among the Greeks and other antient nations, 164. The constitu- tion of England detailed from the year 1547, to the time of Edward VI. 242. Democracy investigated and condemned, 396.
Hanno, the Carthaginian, his fa- mous voyage on discovery, compared
compared with that of Capt. Cook, 541. Hastings, Mr. his government of India defended, 193. Hatchet, Mr. his experiments on the Corinthian molybdate of lead, &c. 408. Reberden, Dr. his account of the influence of cold on the Lon- doners, in the winters of 1795 and 1796, 408. Hebrides, savage manners of the inhabitants of those islands, in the time of James VI. 245. Hereford, the cathedral there de- scribed, 73. Sketches towards a topographical history of the county, 292. Herodotus, his testimony relating to the prodigious host brought by Xerxes against the Greeks, defended, 503.
Home, Everard, his Croonian Jectore on muscular motion, 406. His observations on the changes which blood under- goes when extravasated into the urinary bladder, 410. Homer's Iliad, Wolt's edition of, completed, 523.
Hook, Major. See Adultery. Hep-plant, when first introduced
into England, 292. Remarks on the culture of, 293. Horses, instructions for fasting, as food for man, 256. Our prejudices against eating horse- flesh encountered, 257. Hunter, Dr. his new method of raising wheat by transplanta-
Husbandry, remarks on the drill
system, 393. Difference be- tween that and the Tullian method, 394. Conjectures on the possible use of the latter, in future time, 395. Hyacinth, inquiry into the pro- perties of this precious stone,
India, poems on the gods of, 4. See also Hindostan, Hastings, Belsham.
Indians of America, their notions of religion before their inva- sion by the Europeans. See Government.
Indies, East, publications relative to, 108, 176, 193. Inoculation, of the small-pox, observations relative to, by Mr. D. Sutton, 98. Inquisition, holy, at Goa, its abo- lition, 119.
Invasion, plan for the defence of this country against, 338. Essay on the defence of the coasts, 458.
John I. ch. v. ver. 7. critical ex- aminations relative to, 493- 'I he text rejected, 497. Ireland, country of, its evil state in the time of Queen Eliza- beth, 244. Observations on the present state of, 339. Prince of Wales proposed as governor of that island, ib. Accounts of the native gold found in Ireland, 407. Ireland, Mr. his publication of manuscripts forged under the sanction of Shakspeare's name, explained, 111. His vindica- tion of his conduct, 238.
jun. his confession of the fraud, &c. 4. Iris, of the eye, essay on, 3.
Inge, apology for that character, Labourers, in husbandry, in-
quiry into the state of, 37. Expences
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